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Olivia Marie Gagnon

Olivia Marie Gagnon is a third-year BGInS student at Carleton University, specializing in Global Politics. Bilingual and policy-driven, she explores the intersection of human rights and international security. Currently preparing for a semester in Geneva, Olivia aims to leverage her diplomatic research into a career with the World Economic Forum.

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September 9, 2026

Is North American Trade at a Breaking Point?

For more than three decades, North American economic integration has rested on a remarkably durable assumption: whatever political disagreements might arise between the United States, Canada and Mexico, the economic logic binding
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August 28, 2026

Allies in Theory, Alone in Practice

Mark Carney called for pro-trade democracies to resist great-power coercion together. Seven months later, he is largely fighting Trump alone. In January at Davos, Mark Carney offered the most bracing account yet

A Tariff War With Canada Is No Victory

By letting its hurried trade arrangement with Canada collapse, the Trump administration has chosen escalation over certainty — and a political spectacle over a durable North American economic strategy. At midnight Friday,
August 22, 2026
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A Tariff that Taxes Trust

On Monday, President Trump signed three proclamations imposing 50 percent tariffs on a wide swath of Canadian goods — wine, hockey sticks, cement, electrical equipment, machinery, and more — under Section 338
July 21, 2026
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A Different Canada Took the Pitch

There is something happening on Canadian soccer fields this summer that hockey rinks and baseball diamonds have never quite managed to produce: a national team that looks like the country actually filling
July 8, 2026
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