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[Kevin Pacey]

Stock markets drop on fresh US-China trade war tensions:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49234068

[Kevin Pacey]

theglobeandmail.com/world/article: If US deploys missiles in Asia, China vows they will not stand idly by:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/worl...ot-stand-idly/

[Kevin Pacey]

The ugly Chateau Laurier addition that was rammed through Ottawa city hall... is now going to be challenged with the help of lawyers:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottaw...yers-1.5230097

ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news: Should the Chateau Laurier be nationalized?:

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local...e-nationalized

[Kevin Pacey]

The machinations re: Ottawa city hall, SNC-Lavalin and Ottawa's LRT project (this time for phase 2 - approved even before phase 1 is proven up, running and reliable) continue:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottaw...core-1.5234767

cbc.ca/news/Canada/Ottawa: Was Ottawa city council lied to about process that awarded LRT2 contract to SNC-Lavalin?:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottaw...tawa-1.5236520

ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnist Adam: Ottawa's Lrt Trillium line is another governance failure for council:

https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/co...re-for-council

Note that the legal advice to the city of Ottawa, re: LRT2, referred to in the last link came from Norton Rose Fulbright, a law firm that has also represented SNC-Lavalin in the past [from Google: On July 3, 2017, SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. ... Norton Rose Fulbright acted as counsel to SNC-Lavalin through its offices in Montréal, Toronto, Washington, London and New York.].

[Kevin Pacey]

theguardian.com/world/2019/Aug/04: Iran seizes oil tanker in Gulf 'smuggling fuel' to Arab states:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...to-arab-states

thehill.com/opinion/international: Iran's grand strategy: Gulf crisis keeps US from helping Israel in a two front war:

https://thehill.com/opinion/internat...srael-in-a-two

[Kevin Pacey]

cbc.ca/news/Canada/Ottawa: Was Ottawa city council lied to about process that awarded LRT2 contract to SNC-Lavalin?:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottaw...tawa-1.5236520

ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnist Adam: Ottawa's Lrt Trillium line is another governance failure for council:

https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/co...re-for-council

Note that the legal advice to the city of Ottawa, re: LRT2, referred to in the last link came from Norton Rose Fulbright, a law firm that has also represented SNC-Lavalin in the past [from Google: On July 3, 2017, SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. ... Norton Rose Fulbright acted as counsel to SNC-Lavalin through its offices in Montréal, Toronto, Washington, London and New York.].

cbc.ca/news/Canada/Ottawa: SNC-Lavalin fails technical score twice (i.e. did so previously, and failed completely, in 2018):

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottaw...wice-1.5237774

[Vladimir Drkulec]

ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news: Should the Chateau Laurier be nationalized?:

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local...e-nationalized

No, there is no reason to nationalize the Chateau Laurier.

[Kevin Pacey]

Colourful Boris Johnson will be the British Prime Minister now; it'll be interesting to see how Brexit and the crisis with Iran, alone, play out in the days ahead:

https://globalnews.ca/news/5671166/b...controversies/

Brexit: No 10 rejects EU's view of talks:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49240809

[Kevin Pacey]

Fwiw, here's the wiki re: Brexit (what a mess, meaning the topic at hand):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit

Canada could get better trade deal with U.K. post-Brexit, says Rona Ambrose:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/can...exit-1.5226954

[Kevin Pacey]

Colourful Boris Johnson will be the British Prime Minister now; it'll be interesting to see how Brexit and the crisis with Iran, alone, play out in the days ahead:

https://globalnews.ca/news/5671166/b...controversies/

dw.com/en/opinion: Boris Johnson turns his back on the EU during Iran crisis:

https://www.dw.com/en/opinion-boris-...sis/a-49918634