Chrystia Freeland: Expect NAFTA Negotiations to Get Messy. Here’s What We’re Reading
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. Chrystia Freeland: Expect NAFTA negotiations to get messy
“Now, on the eve of formal talks, the Liberals say they will seek a “progressive” deal, one that focuses not only on labour safeguards, gender equality and Indigenous interests, but also environmental concerns like climate change.
“Such values will likely sound good to Liberal voters, and good intentions might be worth something, but it could also prove a lot to ask of a trade deal involving Donald Trump.”
– CBC News
+1: 9 terms you’ll need to know as NAFTA negotiations start Wednesday – Toronto Star
2. Trump campaign emails show aide’s repeated efforts to set up Russia meetings
“Three days after Donald Trump named his campaign foreign policy team in March 2016, the youngest of the new advisers sent an email to seven campaign officials with the subject line: ‘Meeting with Russian Leadership – Including Putin.'”
“The adviser, George Papadopoulos, offered to set up “a meeting between us and the Russian leadership to discuss US-Russia ties under President Trump,” telling them his Russian contacts welcomed the opportunity, according to internal campaign emails read to The Washington Post.”
+1: Paul Manafort sought $850 million deal with Putin ally and alleged gangster – The Daily Beast
3. The far right plans its next moves with new energy
“The white supremacists and right-wing extremists who came together over the weekend in Charlottesville, Va., are now headed home, many of them ready and energized, they said, to set their sights on bigger prizes.
“Some were making arrangements to appear at future marches. Some were planning to run for public office. Others, taking a cue from the Charlottesville event — a protest, nominally, of the removal of a Confederate-era statue — were organizing efforts to preserve what they referred to as “white heritage” symbols in their home regions.”
+1: Trump blames “Alt-Left” for Charlottesville violence – Politico
+1: Rebuffed by Google, GoDaddy and Tucows, The Daily Stormer goes back to the Dark Web – Vice News
+1: Jimmy Fallon still doesn’t understand how to talk about Donald Trump – GQ
+1: Do Alt-Right racists have Macklemore haircuts? The rapper responds to the allegations. – Exclaim
4. Has Netflix rescued or ruined Hollywood?
“These days, where there’s smoke or fire in the media business, there’s usually one revolutionary holding the match. At the center of most industry angst — or, often, bewilderment and excitement — is Ted Sarandos, [the Netflix executive] who engineered the company’s stunning transformation from a mail-order DVD-rental company in the early aughts to a full-fledged studio that is competing dollar for dollar with a crowded field of rivals for Hollywood’s top stars, directors, showrunners and writers.”
– Variety
5. The ‘socially liberal, fiscally conservative’ internet
“In the wake of Charlottesville and a resurgence of white supremacy, tech companies’ complex political positioning is getting harder to maintain.”
