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Jul 24 2025

The Roundup: Staying home. RCMP correction. Macron sues.

THU JUL 24 2025
David Akin's Roundup
Staying home. RCMP correction. Macron sues.
Canada
Canadian return trips from the U.S. fell nearly 32% in May: StatCan
Canadian trips to the U.S. fell by almost 32 per cent in May, according to Statistics Canada, which was the fifth straight monthly decline amid the trade war. [Global]
In pictures: Mark Carney returns to his birthplace, Fort Smith
Prime Minister Mark Carney spent Wednesday in Fort Smith, the town in which he lived until the age of six. Here are our best shots from the visit. [Cabin Radio]
The face of Quebec’s sovereignty movement has called a Trump-induced truce. [Maclean's]
Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux’s term is up soon, with no replacement named as a major fall reset is about to unfold. Interesting. [Policy Options]
Sen. Marilou McPhedran lowering the voting age to 16 would be good for democracy and that the only arguments against it are "based on stereotypes." [Global]

Sukhman Gill – a political neophyte – was not supported at the local riding association, but was accepted by the [CPC] national office and went on to win the riding's Conservative nomination on March 8. Further controversy arose during the election campaign, when Gill chose not to participate in candidate debates or media interviews. A petition started by a citizens' group called on the party to either require Gill to participate in public debates and media interviews or disqualify him as the candidate for the riding. [Abbotsford News]
The Provinces
Premiers wrap up meetings on Trump’s tariff threats
Canada's premiers have wrapped up a three-day meeting focused on U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war. Mackenzie Gray explains how leaders of all stripes are uniting to get Canada the best deal possible, and the worries of a future Canada-U.S. trade deal still including tariffs. [Global National]
RCMP commissioner corrects Premier Smith
I asked the RCMP yesterrday if the letter posted by this Threads account was legitimate and a spox says it is indeed a letter Commissioner Duheme sent to Premier Smith on July 16. It's not the first time the RCMP have felt compelled to correct the Premier. It did so as well last September. - DA
Guthrie said he still intends to revive the Progressive Conservative brand, but cited the possibility of a potential spring election for his urgency and collaboration with the Alberta Party. [Edmonton Journal]
Alberta's immigration minister says he understands the importance of reuniting families, but provincial health-care systems don't have the capacity and could be overwhelmed. [Global]
"Part of why I got into politics was to do things differently, and move away from partisan, petty politics to doing the right thing. So we abide by the ruling, we're going to apologize and things like that won't happen again on my watch." Blaney told a hearing last year that she was persona non grata in the province after the firing, could not find another job and was forced to start drawing on her MLA pension at a reduced rate. [CBC]
Aurora
Elsewhere

Trump boasted about deals with Japan and the Philippines in posts on social media Wednesday morning, and claimed he will only consider lowering tariff rates if countries open their markets to the United States. "Another great power of Tariffs. Without them, it would be impossible to get countries to OPEN UP!!! ALWAYS, ZERO TARIFFS TO AMERICA!!!" Trump posted. [CP]
When Justice Department officials reviewed what Attorney General Pam Bondi called a “truckload” of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein earlier this year, they discovered that Donald Trump's name appeared multiple times, according to senior administration officials. [WSJ] 🔐
Ned Price: DNI Tulsi Gabbard's claims about the 2016 election conflate Russian 'hacking' with 'influence' operations, rewriting history while diverting attention from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. [Fox News]
Media
France’s Macron sues U.S. media personality for claiming his wife is a man
The lawsuit claims that Candace Owens' 'far-fetched fictions' included 'that Mrs. Macron was born a man, stole another person’s identity, and transitioned to become Brigitte.' [Global]

SEO experts have disagreed with Google's stance on how AI affects web traffic, and the newly released Pew study backs them up. The Pew Research Center analyzed data from 900 users of the Ipsos KnowledgePanel collected in March 2025. The analysis shows that among the test group, users were much less likely to click on search results when the page included an AI Overview. [Ars Technica]

They share an owner that sometimes gets forgotten — but which dominates much larger peers in web traffic. Here's our first monthly ranking of the top 25 local newspaper websites in the United States.[Nieman Journalism Lab]
Science and Technology
From infrastructure to "ideological bias," the plan details the president's priorities on artificial intelligence. [CNET]
The Calendar
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