Some surprise about the Canadian decision to ban the entry of all foreigners *except* Americans. I think there are a few reasons for this, and I think it's temporary 1/ First, the govt is right - banning travel from US involves an entirely different set of considerations than any other country. The two countries are socially and economically integrated. Cutting ties overnight would create massive chaos. 2/

I wrote this column today about Trump, and Tehran, and the butterfly effect. A few people have reached out with kudos and it’s going viral on the Macleans site. But, after some thought I think I regret writing it for a couple reasons. 1/ macleans.ca/opinion/donald… First, there’s an important conversation to be had about the unintended consequences of the Trump presidency. He has been such a black swan, so energetically an unexpectedly erratic, that we’re going to spend literally generations measuring his legacy. 2/

This may turn out to be the key paragraph in the entire Mueller investigation. After having already broken in to the DNC computers, and after making contact with Trump campaign, the Russians break in one more time. Why? To get the party’s voter analytics. 1/ It is unlikely there would be anyone in the GRU, or even in all of Russia, who would know how to interpret and leverage that type of granular data. It’s only useful to a small number of people. People like Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, or Roger Stone 2/