Robert Fife

Robert Fife is Ottawa Bureau Chief of the Globe and Mail.

[Robert Fife @RobertFife]

Canadian military intelligence officer allegedly shared classified information with Ukraine https://t.co/UjpNFj83yc

[Davide Mastracci @DavideMastracci]

“Canadaland Inc. and its founder Jesse Brown will pay a total of $885,000 in damages and costs to Theresa Kielburger [...] to settle her defamation lawsuit. [...] Under the settlement terms, Mr. Brown appeared in open court and read a full retraction and apology aloud. The full apology must be posted prominently and permanently on the Canadaland website and across every social media and podcast platform where the episode appears.”

https://t.co/euXdR5m3dc

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

Tina Brown on Scott Pelley: "Sometimes, it’s your ordained role to boil over and lose your shit."
https://t.co/ai0wlZdglJ

[Robert Fife @RobertFife]

In Russia, Rage Is Boiling Over https://t.co/1riBZepqSq via @NYTOpinion

[Robert Fife @RobertFife]

Ottawa to direct CRTC to scrap demands for streamers to fund local news, niche broadcasters https://t.co/9ze0O55AlK

[Robert Fife @RobertFife]

Scott Pelley on the Bari Weiss Era and His Last Days at ‘60 Minutes’ https://t.co/6BqvRSUViN via @NYTimes

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Pay attention to who is willing to break the law for Trump as we head into the midterms—because his end goal is to create a system where others will break the law for him. It's about building a custom where it's normal to break the law for a person. The big case is the military

[Robert Fife @RobertFife]

As Carney faces pressure to deliver, some Liberal MPs question his leadership style https://t.co/LogjWLYaaN

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Pew: Majority of Americans hold unfavorable views of Israel and Netanyahu https://t.co/CVbglbfgkf

[Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot]

A total of 160 rigs were actively drilling for oil and gas across Canada in May, a 45 per cent increase over the same period last year, according to energy technology company Baker Hughes.
It’s the most since 2014.

[Patrick Brethour @PatrickBrethour]

Globe editorial: The missing words in Mark Carney's speech
https://t.co/kRIFkteK0A

[Variety @Variety]

Fired "60 Minutes" journalist Scott Pelley says CBS News boss Bari Weiss is lying when she says there was an effort to "find a way back" for him.

"At no point did anyone in the meeting suggest there could be steps taken by either side that would lead to a resolution. Weiss and Tom Cibrowski were openly hostile from the start. 'Firing' was raised by Cibrowski in the first 15 seconds. No CBS executive, at any time, suggested 'a way back.' To say so now is disingenuous. And they know it. In fact, Weiss, Cibrowski and Nick Bilton refused to answer my questions. I asked Weiss a number of questions about why she fired the entire senior staff of '60 Minutes' a few days before and without cause. 'I'm not answering that question,' she said... These executives cannot gain the trust of the staff with lies. This is antithetical to everything we stand for and reveals contempt for what journalists do."

https://t.co/UNDmIyCPBt

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Scott Pelley, the longtime CBS News journalist, was fired by the network a day after he harshly criticized its leadership in a staff meeting.
https://t.co/rar8LEStHO

[Robert Fife @RobertFife]

Hegseth Strikes Female and Black Navy Officers From Promotion List https://t.co/bguyknVdsb via @NYTimes

[Robert Fife @RobertFife]

Scott Pelley Accuses CBS News Boss of ‘Murdering’ ‘60 Minutes’ https://t.co/CiHvHZtr69 via @NYTimes

[Patrick Brethour @PatrickBrethour]

Globe editorial: Why Chief Justice Richard Wagner should recuse himself
https://t.co/kWqjl457dj

[Normand Smith @smith_normand]

US tariffs on Canadian aluminium are accelerating a broader shift of trade flows toward Europe.Aluminium, LNG to Germany, critical minerals, industrial and defence cooperation: 🇨🇦🇪🇺 ties are strengthening.
CETA may prove more consequential than expected.

https://t.co/kl5jF12ZUQ

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Canada’s Aluminium Is Going to Europe. Brilliant Work, Donald.

A 50% tariff on Canadian aluminium, the one country on Earth that was happily selling the stuff at sensible prices, right next door, through an integrated supply chain that took decades to build. And now that aluminium is sailing across the Atlantic to Europe instead.

Canadian exports to the EU went from near zero to between 6% and 40% of monthly totals in the space of a year. Just vanished eastward. Extraordinary result.

US consumers are now paying $6,200 a ton for aluminium. Europeans are paying $4,300.  American manufacturers taxed nearly two thousand dollars a ton more than their competitors. For beer cans. And car parts. And buildings. Tremendous. Nobody could have seen that coming, except everyone.

Meanwhile Europe, which was already scrambling after losing its Middle Eastern supply to the Iran war, now faces a 5.6 million-ton aluminium deficit in 2026. And Canada just filled it. With metal that used to go to America.

The head of the Aluminium Association of Canada put it with admirable restraint: the EU option “remains attractive,” adding pressure on the US market. What he meant was: Washington handed Europe a competitive advantage in manufacturing while American industry pays the bill.

This is what happens when a trade guru who has spent his career slapping his name on buildings in gold letters decides he understands global commodity flows. No leverage materialises. Just an empty dock in Ohio and a very pleased purchasing manager in Rotterdam.

Well done, Donald.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Robert Fife @RobertFife]

Steven Guilbeault’s resignation from the Liberal caucus and putting water in your climate policy wine https://t.co/i38bzW8Sgw