Calls of fake news are not hurting the press, it is stronger than that. Maybe my definition of news is different than most. I prefer facts over speculation. I think some commentators and pundits are seen to show their bias and that can make some question them. Personally there are some in "MSM" and "Conservative media" that I trust to give unbiased new others just make me roll my eyes.

I will concede trade disputes can be costly and if mishandled can affect economies for a longer period of time. Maybe it is the devil in me that thinks a American trade dispute with China can better Canada's trade with China. 

Both parties in the US need to get some limits on those Executive orders, those are the real dangers. They take away the power of working towards a compromise. Some of what Trump reversed would not be possible if it was not put in place with Obama's Executive order. 

I ask because you seem to come at this question as someone who has some intimate knowledge of the situation, someone who deals with Trump on a day-to-day basis like we Americans do. As if sharing a boarder with us gives you a unique insight into who we are.  Anecdote:  I had a Canadian friend tell me after 9/11 that America was going to descend into anarchy based on nothing but those attacks and Bush who, as we all have come to learn, is not Trump.  But he was certain of it all the same because...why? He didn't live here. I countered that we wouldn't devolve into anarchy because of who we were.  I was right, we didn't, but I can't say the same now based on living here in nearly the same situation.  Why?  Because I, like every American, live it every day.  

But I get the sneaking suspicion that you're someone who assumes the best, doesn't like the worst, but at the end of the day says it's all good and things will work out because you don't live here.  Right? I mean, I wouldn't try to speak to the politics of Canada even though as a Minnesotan I knew a whole lot more about them than the majority of Americans simply because I lived in a state on the border. I wouldn't insert myself into French politics, as nutty as they are, simply because I can, nor would I tell someone from England that their entire system is FUBAR simply because it's different from mine.  Opinion guys, not fact...but it's true!  ;)

Huh?  WTF does this mean?  And the assumption is that what Obama did had to be reversed by Trump because it was "wrong"?  As a Canadian, tell me how what Obama wrote as an Executive Order was bad for the US.  

Waiting...

I hope this madness has some end in sight, but it is hard to have hope. I have nothing but sympathy for my friends in US who are living this. 

RT

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Sorry, not buying that... after the election, people did change. The multiple marches around the country (and in some cases, around the world) spoke volumes. Others chose NOT to be so 'shy' about their bigotry and views on immigrants.

It's been a long time since people have been so politically motivated.

-C!

Let me understand, I can not have an informed opinion on anything in America because I do not live there? I do not have access to the same public information? You honestly think Canadians know less about America because there is an imaginary line. That line does not cut off information. Many Americans would not know there was a Quebec because Canadian news is not international news. You have your personal knowledge of you interactions, the rest of your information is "(at best) second hand accounts" and comes from the same news sources we Canadians get. 

I can have all the facts at my fingertips about France, Belgium, Germany, Mexico and, yes, Canada but that still doesn't mean I understand what it is to grow up and live in those countries.  I just don't.  To say that a litany of facts from internet research, news and broadcasts that cross boarders means that you are as informed about living as an American as I am is, I'm sorry, ludicrous. 

Much of your commentary here and in other threads speaks as if you know the American experience and then what do you tell us to do?  Eh.  Doesn't matter.  No new wars are being fought.  The press is still free.  Don't worry about it.  Said from a comfortable chair at a computer in another country.  So, yeah, sorry but I'll take my experience and those of others living in this society over someone who does armchair research and says it's the same thing.  I'd never in a million years presume to tell a Canadian how they should feel about their government or tell an Englishman that everything will be hunky dory amidst their own internal struggle with many of the same issues we're facing in the US.  I just wouldn't.  But feel free to share your opinion however you see fit.  I just find it odd especially in the way you choose to couch it.  

I watch. Fair amount of CNN & they seem to go for Fart a lot. But where is the political traction that says ‘We know what this guy is doing & we have to stop it’? Has there ever been a president before who has been so blatant in his business dealings driving his presidential decisions?

& I’m not talking about Bush & what happened after Iraq. I think that pales in to insignificance compared to what Fart is doing. This guy would start world war 3 if he could get a profit. In fact, I’m not sure that isn’t his plan