{"id":11806,"date":"2026-08-31T12:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/?p=11806"},"modified":"2026-08-31T13:40:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:40:32","slug":"20260831","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/2026\/08\/31\/20260831\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday\u2019s News 2026-08-31"},"content":{"rendered":"

curated news excerpts & citations
\n… trying to ‘unbury the lede’<\/h4>\n

Timothy Snyder<\/small>:
\nOur Trade War Against Ourselves<\/a><\/h2>\n

Treating Canada as an Enemy Leaves us Weaker in Every Way<\/em>
\n\"M\u00e9lanie<\/a><\/p>\n

Dean Blundell<\/small>:
\nCanada Just Robbed Harvard, MIT and the NIH in Broad Daylight<\/a><\/h2>\n

Here\u2019s a number Donald Trump will never say out loud: 48. That\u2019s how many of America\u2019s top researchers quietly walked out of Harvard, MIT, Yale, Carnegie Mellon, UCSF, the University of Michigan and the National Institutes of Health this summer, and walked into Canadian universities with a cheque from Ottawa in their hand and a look on their face like someone who just got out of a bad marriage.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, M\u00e9lanie Joly stood up at UBC in Vancouver and announced the first 64 Eddie Goldenberg Research Chairs of Canada. Three quarters of them came from the United States. All four of the top-tier, highest-paid distinguished chairs came from the US. The federal government is putting $504 million behind them over eight years, plus another $37 million to recruit 63 younger researchers over the next year, all of it under a $1.7 billion talent program Carney\u2019s government launched in December while everybody was watching the tariff fight.<\/p>\n

The announcement was already in the works. It just happened to land less than a week after trade talks with Washington collapsed and Canada got shoved into a full-blown trade war with a country that used to be our friend. So yes, the timing was a gift, and Joly took the gift. She called it a hinge moment in Canadian history and said Canada is doubling down on science while other countries walk away from it.
\n(Dean Blundell   more…)<\/small><\/small><\/a>
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