Afternoon front page: The importance of teaching Canadian history; is Trump escalating the trade war?; and more

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It’s Wednesday, September 9. Here are the top stories we’re following today.

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History lessons: Trump’s threats have reignited the debate over what kids learn about Canada’s past

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A 2025 poll showed that “an alarming proportion of (young Canadians) … didn’t see the threat posed by Trump and Manifest Destiny. They had no idea what Manifest Destiny is, so how can you confront it?” says one advocate for increased history education. Many educators agree schools should devote more time to teaching history. But there is disagreement on how much — and whose version of — history to teach.

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Donald Trump’s latest trade actions are ‘not an escalation,’ economist says

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“I think the overall effect might be limited. Adjusting what products are covered by the tariffs isn’t something that should be, in my view, interpreted as escalation,” one economist says of Trump’s latest trade proclamations.

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Canada unveils more sign-based retaliation against the U.S.

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The new signs, with their ‘Never 51st State’ message, are one of several measures that David Eby’s government has taken to signal its displeasure with U.S. policy

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Chris Selley: There are American eggs in our midst!

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There has been much angst in Quebec lately over the discovery that on occasions when demand is too high, eggs from the U.S. are being sold in Canada, Selley writes. He notes that one of the companies doing this regularly lobbies Ottawa to maintain the supply-management system, which is meant to prevent overproduction and underproduction.

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Even this American tariff advocate is urging Canada and the U.S. to drop retaliatory duties

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“We got along extremely well in the latter half of the 19th century and the early 20th century when we both kind of agreed that we don’t want to trade with each other. That was not an antagonistic time. It’s modern global rules-based trade that creates all this antagonism, where people are trained to think of tariffs as a sanction,” says Charles Benoit of Coalition for a Prosperous America.

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