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As Mark Carney’s foreign investment summit approaches, Bay Street buzz has been mounting - but so has pressure for the government to show results in proving Canada is open for business. What sort of sales pitch will that lead to? My column: www.thestar.com/business/opi...

Adam Radwanski: Will Mark Carney put our airports on the block? PM likely to signal which Canadian assets are for sale at summitCanada’s Investment Summit next month is shaping up as a high-stakes test of Mark Carney’s nation-building agenda as the prime minister courts leaders of sovereign wealth funds, pension giants and inv...www.thestar.com

One of the things that I think sometimes got lost in the Billy Bishop discourse was that many people who like using that airport (and I put myself in this category) don’t actually want it to be some kind of mini-Pearson on the waterfront

Worth remembering: The feds were initially more favourable than not toward some manner of Billy Bishop expansion, but then left it to Doug Ford to make the case, and…here we are.

Some of what they’re calling for is valid. But the lack of any fresh commitments, direction or self-reflection at the provincial level - with literally every policy section segueing from patting themselves on the back to demanding something from Ottawa - verges on self-parody.

My case for keeping our cool the next month. www.thestar.com/business/opi...

Adam Radwanski: Donald Trump is betting on our weakness. We can’t afford to prove him rightThe next month will be about proving him wrong. And so far, we're not off to a half-bad start, writes Adam Radwanski.www.thestar.com

Seems as good a time as any to repeat this. (And, yes, it's obviously many provinces' bans, not just Ontario's.) Glad to see the premiers mostly holding firm so far, because we shouldn't now move the goalposts in terms of what's needed for those bans to be lifted. www.thestar.com/business/opi...

How Doug Ford's U.S. booze ban may end up being a winning card against Trump's stacked trade deckMore than just about anything else Canada has done in the past 18 months, writes Adam Radwanski, the LCBO U.S. booze ban by Doug Ford has gotten under Americans' skins.www.thestar.com

There will always be some stupid reason Trump is imposing tariffs or threatening to impose tariffs on us. All that Ottawa can really do is navigate them one at a time and not kid itself that there’s any sort of lasting peace to be had.

Not the kind of climate change column I’ve normally written, or want to write, but I felt I had to. www.thestar.com/business/opi...

I've covered climate policy for years. The haze over Toronto finally shattered my optimismThe wildfire smoke has choked my faith in Canada's climate future, writes Adam Radwanski. We used to at least be trying. Now we're betting against energy transition.www.thestar.com

We seem to be moving to the Stop Crying Your Heart Out stage of the Oasis World Cup soundtrack.

I’m enjoying all of the new Stones album, the second great one in a row, which feels like a gift. But I’d defy any rock fan to listen to its first six songs in particular (play it loud), and not be blown away by the wildly energized tour de force of various sounds that made living legends of them.

Trying to exploit a horrific event to make Torontonians more scared of their city than they should be, so you can try to make up a point or two in the polls, is pretty gross. www.thestar.com/news/gta/bra...

Brad Bradford blasts Toronto police for ‘tone deaf’ comments about Salsa on St. Clair shootingBrad Bradford, the city councillor who is running for mayor of Toronto, said Tuesday that the Salsa on St. Clair shooting has shaken the sense of safety and security of Torontonians.www.thestar.com

I’m always reluctant to directly attribute any one weather event to climate change. But Canada’s current fossil-fuel boosterism does hit a bit harder while considering whether we have to keep our 6-year-old home from the baseball camp he’s been excited about, because of potential record heat.

The shrunken emissions-reduction targets might get the most attention here. But what jumps out at me on first glance is the weirdness of giving oil sands companies a break on industrial carbon pricing stringency if they make (government-subsidized) CCUS investments. www.canada.ca/en/one-canad...

Eventually we’ll achieve the dream of every single GTA municipality being led by an unsuccessful provincial opposition leader. www.thestar.com/news/gta/bon...

Bonnie Crombie announces she will run for mayor of MississaugaThe ex-Liberal leader is going to try to win back her old jobwww.thestar.com

It can be instructive to imagine the reaction if Justin Trudeau (or most PMs before him) were announcing huge spending commitments with as little explanation and as much just-trust-me attitude as Mark Carney is doing. My weekend column: www.thestar.com/business/hey...

Adam Radwanski: Hey, big spender: Why we need to start giving Carney a bit less benefit of the doubtCanadians must demand better justification from Mark Carney, and question his “just-trust-me” style of committing billions in public funds without adequate transparency, writes Adam Radwanski.www.thestar.com

What better way to nation-build for the future than burning some more fossil fuels to attract Mark Zuckerberg? www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Meta to spend $13-billion to build AI data centre in AlbertaTo meet the facility’s electricity needs, a $4.6-billion natural gas plant will be built in Sturgeon Countywww.theglobeandmail.com

The (at least partial) reversal of Trudeau's approach to the Senate strikes me as a good example of a fairly common phenomenon, in which politicians make governance reforms which prove to have little political benefit, because we're reluctant to give politicians credit for that kind of thing.

A stray thought: Toronto should act like it’s a World Cup host city again in four years, even with no matches here.

I wasn’t always a Raptors diehard. But I’ve been one for the last 13 years or so, and Kyle Lowry was more responsible for that than anyone else - and probably for my passing that fandom on to my kids as well. Thanks, 7.

I would’ve loved Canada to advance and I would’ve liked Mexico to do so, but I’ll settle for the U.S. making a worse account of itself than either.