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Canada Announces Divorce from America
Bren 🇨🇦
@brenda-j.bsky.social
@charlotteclymer.bsky.social your essay about PM Carney’s uplifting speech made me cry. Just wanted you to know how much it meant to me to hear these thoughts from an American. Many of us are feeling incredibly proud to be a Canadian right now 🇨🇦🍁❤️
Thank you!
11:45 PM · Jan 22, 2026
@brenda-j.bsky.social
@charlotteclymer.bsky.social your essay about PM Carney’s uplifting speech made me cry. Just wanted you to know how much it meant to me to hear these thoughts from an American. Many of us are feeling incredibly proud to be a Canadian right now 🇨🇦🍁❤️
Thank you!
11:45 PM · Jan 22, 2026
@charlotteclymer.bsky.social your essay about PM Carney’s uplifting speech made me cry. Just wanted you to know how much it meant to me to hear these thoughts from an American. Many of us are feeling incredibly proud to be a Canadian right now 🇨🇦ðŸâ¤ï¸
— Bren 🇨🇦 (@brenda-j.bsky.social) 2026-01-23T04:45:57.169Z
Thank you!
Reposted by Charlotte Clymer
https://bsky.app/profile/charlotteclymer.bsky.social
Super Mario 50123
@haironfire247.bsky.social
An excellent summary of PM Carney's speech yesterday, and the monumental shift in global affairs it may signal.
BLUF: a lot is going to change if other middle powers take Canada up on its offer.
Charlotte Clymer
@charlotteclymer.bsky.social
· 1d
If you missed yesterday's incredible speech by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and why everyone's talking about it, I got your explainer right here.
Canada Announces Divorce from America
And rightly so.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
2:27 PM · Jan 21, 2026
@haironfire247.bsky.social
An excellent summary of PM Carney's speech yesterday, and the monumental shift in global affairs it may signal.
BLUF: a lot is going to change if other middle powers take Canada up on its offer.
Charlotte Clymer
@charlotteclymer.bsky.social
· 1d
If you missed yesterday's incredible speech by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and why everyone's talking about it, I got your explainer right here.
Canada Announces Divorce from America
And rightly so.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
2:27 PM · Jan 21, 2026
An excellent summary of PM Carney's speech yesterday, and the monumental shift in global affairs it may signal.
— Super Mario 50123 (@haironfire247.bsky.social) 2026-01-21T19:27:36.623Z
BLUF: a lot is going to change if other middle powers take Canada up on its offer.
Charlotte Clymer
@charlotteclymer.bsky.social
If you missed yesterday's incredible speech by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and why everyone's talking about it, I got your explainer right here.
Canada Announces Divorce from America
And rightly so.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
1:12 PM · Jan 21, 2026
@charlotteclymer.bsky.social
If you missed yesterday's incredible speech by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and why everyone's talking about it, I got your explainer right here.
Canada Announces Divorce from America
And rightly so.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
1:12 PM · Jan 21, 2026
If you missed yesterday's incredible speech by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and why everyone's talking about it, I got your explainer right here.
— Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) 2026-01-21T18:12:17.256Z
Canada Announces Divorce from America
And rightly so.
Charlotte Clymer
Jan 20, 2026
(Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaking today at Davos. Image credit: Harun Ozalp // Anadolu via Getty Images)
[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription, shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com. And if this is too big of a commitment, I’m always thankful for a simple cup of coffee.]
Every January since 1971, thousands of business leaders, politicians, journalists, economists, policy experts, and celebrities have gathered at a mountain resort in Switzerland to discuss the most pressing global issues of the day in hundreds of sessions scheduled over the better part of a week. ... The conference, organized by the World Economic Forum, has come to be nicknamed after its Alpine host town: Davos.
The gathering itself has been criticized in many corners over the years for its exclusive nature, which is somewhat fair and somewhat reductive. ... Progress does emerge from these sessions among the assembled players, but so, too, does the feeling of window-dressing for what is mostly supercharged networking.
This weekend, while talking with friends who have attended in the past, I asked if they had experienced anything extraordinary during the scheduled sessions, or if Davos is more of an opportunity to meet influential people and kibitz about preferred projects?
Well, today could not have delivered more of an empathetic answer to that question. ... Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, gave a magnificently powerful speech before the gathered elites that will be discussed many years from now. Decades, likely. ... It was, essentially, an eloquent and poignant announcement that Canada is divorcing the United States. Over sixteen minutes, Prime Minister Carney called upon the world to recognize that the current global framework in which superpowers run the show is stale, destructive, and unnecessary.
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And rightly so.
Charlotte Clymer
Jan 20, 2026
(Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaking today at Davos. Image credit: Harun Ozalp // Anadolu via Getty Images)
[This blog will always be free to read, but it’s also how I pay my bills. If you have suggestions or feedback on how I can earn your paid subscription, shoot me an email: cmclymer@gmail.com. And if this is too big of a commitment, I’m always thankful for a simple cup of coffee.]
Every January since 1971, thousands of business leaders, politicians, journalists, economists, policy experts, and celebrities have gathered at a mountain resort in Switzerland to discuss the most pressing global issues of the day in hundreds of sessions scheduled over the better part of a week. ... The conference, organized by the World Economic Forum, has come to be nicknamed after its Alpine host town: Davos.
The gathering itself has been criticized in many corners over the years for its exclusive nature, which is somewhat fair and somewhat reductive. ... Progress does emerge from these sessions among the assembled players, but so, too, does the feeling of window-dressing for what is mostly supercharged networking.
This weekend, while talking with friends who have attended in the past, I asked if they had experienced anything extraordinary during the scheduled sessions, or if Davos is more of an opportunity to meet influential people and kibitz about preferred projects?
Well, today could not have delivered more of an empathetic answer to that question. ... Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, gave a magnificently powerful speech before the gathered elites that will be discussed many years from now. Decades, likely. ... It was, essentially, an eloquent and poignant announcement that Canada is divorcing the United States. Over sixteen minutes, Prime Minister Carney called upon the world to recognize that the current global framework in which superpowers run the show is stale, destructive, and unnecessary.
{snip}
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