Matina Stevis-Gridneff
@MatinaStevis
Canada Bureau Chief @NYTimes. Previously NYT Brussels. Past lives East Africa, Europe @WSJ. Greek-Greek https://www.nytimes.com/tips 💌[email protected]
Me every day since I moved to Canada. (📸Sean Kilpatrick of The Canadian Press)
Great @IlyaGridneff story in the pink one today. 👇🏽
“The strategy is not easily delivered. Canada is a top five global producer of both natural gas and oil but successive governments have failed to build enough infrastructure to enable companies to export hydrocarbons to the world” on.ft.com/4kiQWm9
Can confirm. It’s been brutal.
Greece swelters under another heatwave x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Trump raises $50 bln through his tariffs as the world largely chickens out & fails to coordinate retaliation. Valuable reporting here by @FT team incl @IlyaGridneff reporting from one of the two places that did retaliate: Canada. on.ft.com/4lsHmOL
Trump’s fight against America’s academic elite -especially Harvard- is rippling through the world. I contributed from Canada to this wide-ranging examination of ramifications of this massive battle. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Trump’s Seesawing on Tariffs Gives the World Whiplash by @jeannasmialek nytimes.com/2025/07/11/wor…
Chaos and threats are standard Trump tactics. Canada needs to stay focused, stand our ground, and proceed one step at a time. And our long-term strategy must be to never again to leave ourselves so vulnerable to the whims of one man or one nation. nytimes.com/2025/07/11/wor…
Trump disabused any Canadian officials of the notion that their talks may be somehow special. Good vibes aren't getting Canada much in tariff talks. I wonder if the latest twist will spur Carney to reconsider his stance. nytimes.com/2025/07/11/wor…
Mr. Trump disabused any Canadian officials of the notion that their talks may be somehow special, using boilerplate language similar to letters sent to other nations. “These Tariffs may be modified, upward or downward, depending on our relationship with your Country,” he wrote.
Good Vibes in Trump Trade Talks Haven’t Shielded Canada From Chaos My analysis this morning nytimes.com/2025/07/11/wor…
Good Vibes in Trump Trade Talks Haven’t Shielded Canada From Chaos My analysis this morning nytimes.com/2025/07/11/wor…
I'm glad I raised the question Wednesday nytimes.com/2025/07/09/wor… Only to see it answered Thursday nytimes.com/2025/07/10/us/… The 21/07 deadline was of course not real; there's no whispering to Trump, however cordial the vibes are Buckle up, we're still in the beginning.
Quite
Mark Carney claims he had expected to dump Canada’s digital-services tax as part of a larger deal with Donald Trump. But he surely counted on leveraging it to eliminate tariffs, not merely to keep negotiations going economist.com/the-americas/2…
Canada’s bid to become an energy superpower on.ft.com/4nydSR6 via @financialtimes @JamieSmythF
One of my most memorable, logistically challenging reporting trips was to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Will never forget it, and will never forget Ato Semegnew, the engineer behind it, found mysteriously shot dead in his car in Addis in 2018. wsj.com/articles/engin…
Ethiopia inviting Egypt to the formal inauguration of the GERD in September feels like a big🖕 thereporterethiopia.com/45870/
. @lithub has @helendewitt & @IlyaGridneff upcoming book Your Name here on its Most Anticipated list 🥹 lithub.com/lit-hubs-most-… Pre-order from @Dalkey_Archive in the US dalkeyarchive.store/products/your-… Canadians, you can pre-order from Indigo indigo.ca/en-ca/your-nam… or Amazon Canada
Dangerous Heat Grips Much of Europe, With More to Come nytimes.com/2025/06/30/wor… via @NYTimes My colleague Betta “reporting from a very hot Rome” 🥵 Top tourust tip: if the locals are staying in, so should you
Happy Canada Day! What an amazing country 🇨🇦
Did Carney “cave,” or did he make a tactical retreat, giving up bad policy he didn’t choose & would only raise modest revenues, to buy some good will with Trump at a critical moment? Analysis today: nytimes.com/2025/06/30/wor…
