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This article appeared in the March 21, 2025 edition of the Monitor Daily.

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Red maple leafs are everywhere, and it’s not even autumn

Mark Sappenfield
Senior global correspondent

Canada, by its own proud admission, is a rather friendly place. It is also, by its own proud admission, not the United States. (No offense meant, of course.) So this whole bother about it becoming the 51st U.S. state presents rather a conundrum. What does “nice nationalism” look like? Our Canada correspondent, Sara Miller Llana, offers a glimpse in a bonus story. Please read it here.

This article appeared in the March 21, 2025 edition of the Monitor Daily.

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