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

[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

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Just one Palestinian herding community remains here. Settlers want it erased too | Gideon Levy https://t.co/KAhoHD1RrH

[Robert Fife @RobertFife]

Hey big boy: why don’t you put your real name to your posts like Glen and I. Don’t be a coward & hide behind anonymity. Come forth and let in the sunshine of transparency.

[Chuck Unfiltered @ChuckUnfiltere2]

@glen_mcgregor @RobertFife Media organizations like the Canadian Press? Just oozing with credibility….

[Matina Stevis-Gridneff @MatinaStevis]

The 50 Best Restaurants in North America Are Announced

From @nytimes "Overall, Canada continued to overperform on the list, occupying 14 spots, including five of the top 10."

https://t.co/TYyQWT4DKj

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

CONAN AT HARVARD: “No university in our nation has produced more Nobel laureates or white collar criminals… so whether you choose good or evil, know that you are among the very best.”

[Steven Chase @stevenchase]

BREAKING: Canadian warship transits through Taiwan Strait despite warning from China and just ahead of Chinese foreign minister's visit to Ottawa:

https://t.co/wLqgV7MHUH

[Glen E. McGregor @glen_mcgregor]

Media organizations pay to send reporters on these trips. They are very expensive, often > $10k pp on longer trips. This includes the in-flight catering, which (despite lavish descriptions) is usually just airplane food, the same as any overseas flight on a major airline.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Richard Haass just made a remarkable argument on CNN:

That America now has worse relations with Canada than China because the U.S. has spent years attacking allies with tariffs and political fights instead of building a united front against Beijing.

And honestly, that gets to the heart of one of the biggest foreign policy debates happening right now:

America’s greatest strategic advantage was never just military power.

It was the alliance network.

Dozens of countries aligned economically, militarily, and diplomatically around U.S. leadership.

The argument Haass is making is that Washington has started weakening that advantage itself.

He is correct.

[Semafor @semafor]

🟡 Exclusive: The US relied on a spurned friend during the Iran war: Canada

https://t.co/6gkeFzTjvJ

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

NYT out with a jaw dropping investigative report on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. 60 Minutes reported last Sunday on some of this, too. The NYT report is a must-read, the 60 Minutes report should then be watched. 1/3