Volodymyr Zelenskyy open his speech to Canada's parliament by asking Trudeau to picture what it would be like if Canada were suddenly attacked at 4 am one day. "Justin, can you imagine?" He asks Canada to imagine the Ottawa airport getting attacked, the CN tower bombed and Vancouver besieged like Mariupol. "Your children are asking you 'what happened?'"

This AP dispatch, filed 156 years ago tonight, is simultaneously amazing for its level of reported detail on deadline, and one of the most egregious possible examples of burying the lede apnews.com/article/91fed0… And I don't think this jarring juxtaposition is coincidental. It's easy to get so immersed in the details ("did you hear the man say anything as he leapt out of the President's box?") you forget to properly structure the story

The last day of impeachment testimony (for now) is about to start. Up today are former NSC staffer Fiona Hill and David Holmes, the diplomat who overheard Trump and Sondland talking about investigations in a Kyiv restaurant.

Livestream it here theglobeandmail.com/world/us-polit… David Holmes says that in March, work at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv suddenly became "overshadowed by a political agenda promoted by" Rudy Giuliani and other people with a direct line to the White House

I spent a few days in Detroit to report on how Dan Gilbert has driven a stunningly rapid urban renaissance in one of America's greatest and most troubled cities, as well as on the class and "corporate welfare" criticisms of the way he's done it theglobeandmail.com/world/us-polit… I was vaguely aware for years of what Gilbert and his companies were doing in Detroit, along with some broad concern at the idea of private business amassing so much influence over a city. But it wasn't until I went there that I understood how striking the juxtapositions were

Donald Trump is giving Conrad Black a full pardon Trump cites Black’s biographies of FDR and Richard Nixon in his statement. What he doesn’t mention is that Black also wrote a book and numerous op-eds lauding Trump over the last two years

Mueller’s findings often read like a spy novel, so I wrote up the start-to-finish narrative of the Russian interference campaign and White House fallout like one theglobeandmail.com/world/us-polit… In case that sounds daunting: I had about 4,000 words, so it’s more of a spy short story, if you’re looking to kill a half hour or so of your Sunday

Earlier this month, I spent a day at a temporary free clinic in Appalachia trying to understand why the U.S. is the only wealthy country in the world without universal healthcare. Photos by @parkermb theglobeandmail.com/world/us-polit… Nearly every patient I spoke with was in favour of universal healthcare, and most were well aware that all of the U.S.'s peer countries have some version of it. But only a handful actually vote for candidates that are trying to make it happen

Robert Lighthizer, Trump's trade chief, tells Senate finance committee that the new NAFTA is "the best trade agreement we've ever negotiated" and he wants to get it to Congress for ratification "as soon as we can." Mid-April is the target date for the deal to be sent to Congress No one will put a firm timeline on actual passage. But I'm told getting the new NAFTA through Congress before the August recess is overly ambitious. So it could be a while

Doug Ford, at a business event in Washington, opens by bashing the Wynne government for high electricity costs and hefty deficits. “They were spending like drunken sailors, and I apologise to any drunken sailors because they spend their own money” Ford talks about Rob Ford, and how good he was at returning phone calls. “He was a rockstar when he walked out to the public.” He then gives out his own mobile number and asks people to text him

I wrote 4,000 words on the trade deal formerly known as NAFTA, coincidentally roughly as long as the agreement itself. By my count, there were five turning points over the last year and a half that shaped the pact we have today. Its all detailed here theglobeandmail.com/business/artic… Credit to illustrator @antonyhare for making a trade negotiation look like a Belle Époque literary salon