NATO Met Today to Listen to a Very Patronizing Donald Trump Speech
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. Trump scolds NATO, while Trudeau stands firm
“President Trump exported the confrontational, nationalist rhetoric of his campaign across the Atlantic on Thursday, shaming European leaders for not footing more of the bill for their own defenses and lecturing them to stop taking advantage of U.S. taxpayers.
“Speaking in front of a twisted shard of the World Trade Center at NATO’s gleaming new headquarters in Brussels, Trump upbraided America’s longtime allies for ‘not paying what they should be paying.’ He used a ceremony to dedicate the memorial to NATO’s resolve in the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States as a platform from which to exhort leaders to ‘focus on terrorism and immigration’ to ensure their security.”
+1: “Trudeau came to Brussels armed with a ready response to Mr. Trump’s call for more money and troops, promising to unveil a new defence policy on June 7. He argued Canada does more than its fair share, even though military spending accounts for only 1 per cent of GDP.” – The Globe and Mail
+1: Liberals fork over another $30 million to keep Canada at F-35 table – CBC News
+1: Appeals court rules against Trump’s revised travel ban – New York Times
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2. The road to radicalization
“The hunt for Abedi’s collaborators has thrown up links to other extremists active in the south Manchester area, which has produced at least 16 other terrorists in recent years. These include Raphael Hostey, a prolific ISIS recruiter who was reportedly a friend of Abedi’s and worshipped at the Didsbury mosque, believed to have been killed in a drone strike in Syria last year. Another is Abdal Raouf Abdallah, a fellow member of Manchester’s Libyan community who was jailed for nine and a half years in 2016 after being convicted of funding and preparing acts of terrorism.”
+1: UK police not sharing information with United States – BBC
3. Maxime Bernier’s health-care plan may be electoral poison
“Are Canadians ready for a conversation about health care? If Maxime Bernier wins the Conservative leadership, we’ll be having one anyway.”
– Macleans
4. Wynne defends 25% hydro rate cut: ‘All of those costs were on the shoulders of people today’
“Premier Kathleen Wynne is making no apologies for the Liberals’ 25 per cent hydro rate cuts that a legislative watchdog warns will cost at least $21 billion over the next three decades.”
5. Harvard’s student paper is drunk and taking potshots at Mark Zuckerberg
“Today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg returned to the venerable Ivy League institution he famously dropped out of, revisiting his old dorm room and giving a commencement speech to the graduating class of 2017. To commemorate the social networking titan’s return to his alma mater, the website of Harvard’s 144-year-old newspaper (or whomever gained control of it) ran as its frontpage story: ‘MARK ZOINKERBURG AT IT AGAIN.'”
– Gizmodo
