One Story to Read Today highlights a single newly published—or newly relevant—Atlantic story that’s worth your time. “Last week in Calgary, some ominous graffiti showed up on the Centre Street Bridge,” Chris Jones writes. “‘There is no enemy like a friend betrayed,’ it read beside a crossed-out image of an American flag.” |
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| Since 2018, Doug Ford has been the unlikely premier of the province of Ontario, a close equivalent to the governor of a U.S. state, if more governors looked like longshoremen and gave out their personal-cellphone number to anyone who asked for it. (I didn’t ask Ford for his, but he volunteered it to me anyway when he found out I was a local. “Text twice if it’s important,” he told me. He had 4,616 messages waiting for him.) An old-school retail politician with more than 16 million constituents, Ford is the pugnacious, barrel-shaped leader of a near-trillion-dollar economy at an especially tender time: President Donald Trump has been threatening to bankrupt it, waging a trade war until Ontario and the rest of Canada capitulate and become “the 51st state.” Many of those 4,616 messages were from Canadians scared out of their mind. | |
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