The year of living dangerously: it’s here

For those who think it is over the top to even imagine that the U.S. might reduce Canada to a vassal state the way it has done to Venezuela, consider the words of Bob Rae, Canada’s former UN ambassador, who says that this country faces an existential challenge from Donald Trump’s klepto-imperialism.

U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Oval Office on May 6, 2025. This is the year that Trump and the GOP face a reckoning—the November mid-term elections. After a year of chaotic and calamitous governing, judgment day is fast approaching, writes Michael Harris. Photograph courtesy of the White House/photographer Daniel Torok

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

January 12, 2026

HALIFAX—Twenty twenty-six will be the year of living dangerously.

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