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🇨🇦 North America edition: @leylandcecco.bsky.social on Carney, Canada and Trump

🇮🇳🇵🇰 All other regions: Hannah Ellis-Petersen and @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social on the India-Pakistan crisis over Kashmir

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Oh, Canada! Can Trump just take it? Politics Weekly America · Episode

Latest Politics Weekly America is a conversation with the Guardian's Canada correspondent @leylandcecco.bsky.social on whether Donald Trump really could make the US's northern neighbour its 51st state - and how the move might already be backfiring open.spotify.com/episode/7rj3...

Oh, Canada! Can Trump just take it? – podcast Jonathan Freedland speaks to the reporter Leyland Cecco in Toronto about the possibility of the two North American allies merging, what Canadians think about it, and why the existential threat from Tr...

Donald Trump keeps saying that he thinks Canada should become America's 51st state. Could this actually happen?
And how is the threat to sovereignty influencing Canadian politics?

@jonathanfreedland.bsky.social speaks with @leylandcecco.bsky.social

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‘Most at risk on the planet’: Polar heritage sites are slipping into the sea but can one island live forever online? On Qikiqtaruk, off Canada’s Yukon coast, scientists are wielding virtual-reality cameras, 3D models and digital archives to protect the island’s history and culture before it disappears

The thorny question of do we save crumbling heritage from the rising seas and if so how? @leylandcecco.bsky.social on a remote Arctic island finds out what researchers there are planning

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V kind of you to say! An incredibly heartbreaking and confounding story

‘The land is tearing itself apart’: life on a collapsing Arctic isle On Qikiqtaruk, off Canada, researchers at the frontier of climate change are seeing its rich ecology slide into the sea as the melting permafrost leaves little behind

“As they race to understand what those changes might mean, a combination of rising seas, landslides and flooding mean the landscape is literally collapsing around them, making it harder to study an island that reflects the tumultuous future of the western Arctic.”
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Bikes v cars: backlash after Ontario premier threatens to tear up cycling lanes in Toronto Doug Ford plans to rip out bike lanes on busy streets, citing ‘insanity’ of gridlock he says they contribute to

“The move, seen as a dramatic moment of government overreach, has provoked a fierce backlash from cyclists and city officials, and raised broader question about the future of cars – and bicycles – in large urban centres.”

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New Brunswick premier calls on Canadian government to investigate mysterious brain illness Previous provincial government said most patients were misdiagnosed and instead had dementia or cancer

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