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More than 40 countries - Canada and its allies - have sanctions against Belarus for supporting war criminal Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Buying blood potash from Belarus is supporting Russian aggression. It’s wrong and it doesn’t make sense. All of that potash has to be shipped first through Russia, then across the ocean, then across the US to mid-western farmers. Does anyone believe Belarusian blood potash shipped through Russia is going to be more affordable, more sustainable or more ethical than potash shipped from Saskatchewan - right here in North America?

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Why does America buy toilet paper from Canada? For exactly the same reason Canada buys thousands of things from the United States that we could theoretically make ourselves. For decades, we built an integrated North American free-trade economy. Canada buys things Americans can make better or more cheaply because of their resources, scale, expertise and supply chains. Americans buy things Canadians can make more efficiently for exactly the same reasons. Paper is a great example. Canada has enormous forest resources and a highly efficient pulp-and-paper industry. We export pulp, tissue, newsprint, packaging and finished paper products to the U.S. But Canada also imports billions of dollars' worth of paper, packaging and finished paper products from the United States. Why? Because neither country needs to manufacture every variety of every product. Our mills specialize. Raw materials, intermediate products and finished products move back and forth across the border as part of one highly integrated continental industry. That's not Canada "taking advantage" of America. That's free trade. And now you've put a 50% tariff on Canadian toilet paper. A tariff isn't a bill Canada pays to the U.S. government. The American importer pays it. A $100 shipment subject to a 50% tariff now costs the importer $150 before transportation, distribution and retail markups. So Americans asking, "Why are we buying toilet paper from Canada?" are asking the wrong question. The question is: Why would you deliberately put a 50% tax on a product you've spent decades buying tariff-free from one of your closest trading partners? You don't instantly recreate Canadian forests, pulp mills, specialized production capacity and established supply chains in the United States because somebody imposed a tariff. You get higher costs, disrupted supply chains and pressure on consumer prices while businesses scramble to adjust. For more than 35 years, Canada and the United States have been building one enormous continental marketplace. Bigger markets create economies of scale, lower costs, greater investment and more competitive businesses on BOTH sides of the border. Reverse that process and the economics reverse too: markets shrink, costs rise, investment becomes less efficient, supply chains are disrupted and jobs become vulnerable. You don't make America richer by making Canada poorer. You make both countries poorer by putting a 50% wall through the middle of an economy we spent generations building together.

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I can't believe the #Cubs never called up Brett Bateman once to the majors. I can't believe they traded him without seeing him play a big league game. I think he's going to be the #Jays starting CF for a while. Great defense, hits, steals, smart fundamentals. #ThanksCubs

The #Rays are 25 games over .500, have the best record in the AL, facing the #Jays, a division rival in late August and this was the crowd yesterday at the Trop in the 3rd inning... Pffffftttt. #BlueJays50 Bring back the #Expos

It didn't have quite the same significance as the last time the #Jays won a #Schlittler vs their Bullpen game to close out the #ALDS... but another big win #BlueJays50 #KeepRollin

I think there just might be some interest in the #Croatia vs #Portugal knockout round game in Toronto on Thursday night...👀. Ronaldo and Modric playing a #WorldCup knockout game in Toronto I think they'll be just a few people out in Toronto that day. Yikes 😬

19° this morning and the @GOtransit train I'm on is almost full and it's absolutely boiling hot inside. It's going to get much hotter the next few weeks with #Jays and #WorldCup fans about to crowd the trains. Really need to figure out better AC. Ridiculous & embarrassing.

Exactly... Hear, hear!!

Thankful that Mark Carney is our PM right now!

Holy cow did @AveryChenier call this last August! Epic foresight...lol!

#Toronto is 100% getting the OR matchups listed here for every game.

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Thanks @GrimaldiLines for the amazing sunset view experience from our balcony cabin this evening!

"Have you ever seen somebody so disappointed to win the world championships?! She's stone cold." THIS is how close Summer McIntosh came to breaking a 16-year-old world record in the 200m butterfly 👀 More: cbc.ca/1.7597567

Kevin Gausman twirled an absolute GEM 💎 tonight for the red hot Blue Jays He went toe to toe with Skubal tonight and laid down a stupid line 6 IP | 1 H | 0 R | 1 BB | 10 K 🎥: @PitchingNinja

3 Years ago today! #Jays