Unpublished Newswire

Good morning. It’s that time of year again: The Globe comes out with its giant crossword. More on the magic behind the puzzle below, along with a TikTok sale and weight-loss drug deal. But first:Today’s headlinesCarney says a U.S.-Canada trade deal is unlikely to happen in the near futureCAF espionage case is linked to an allegation that a Postmedia journalist has ties to Russia Putin signals no compromise to end the war in Ukraine at his annual press conference

The core assumption behind Canada’s China policy was simple: trade and politics could be kept in separate lanes. But China’s tariffs on Canadian canola, imposed earlier this year, show how that separation is collapsing. Markets are being used as instruments of intimidation, leaving middle-sized economies, like ours, to discover just how exposed they really are. Few people grasp that shift more viscerally than Michael Kovrig. The former diplomat, who spent nearly three years detained in China, has since emerged as one of the sharpest critics of how Beijing uses economic leverage to shape...