Doug Sombke, a fourth-generation farmer in South Dakota, says that local farmers are suddenly paying more for Canadian supplies. They weren't ready for this much pain, this soon.
Donald Trump promised Americans a better economic future, but so far he’s inflicted nothing but pain: stalled auto manufacturing, shrinking retirement funds and the prospect of bare shelves during the holiday shopping season. Will right-leaning Americans continue to support Trump despite the chaos and broken promises? |
Doug Sombke, a fourth-generation farmer who leads the South Dakota Farmers Union, says Trump voters in his community are mad. These farmers have long-standing, mutually beneficial relationships with Canadian suppliers. Now they’re suddenly paying more for Canadian fertilizer and having a hard time affording tractors, combines and steel parts. The Canadian companies that make these goods are so shaken by the prospect of tariffs they’ve jacked up their prices—or stopped exporting their products altogether. In a Q&A for Maclean’s, Sombke says many of his constituents believed that Trump would be better for farmers than Kamala Harris. “Now they see we got sold a bill of goods,” he explains. “Trump keeps leading them on, saying, ‘There’s gonna be some pain.’ I don’t think anybody was ready for this much pain, this soon.” Visit macleans.ca for more coverage of everything that matters in Canada, and subscribe to the magazine here. —Sarah Fulford, editor-in-chief, Maclean’s |
In the space of two weeks, Richard Kelly Kemick’s partner came out as gay and told him she was pregnant. They ended up sticking together in the same apartment—and what could have been the end of their family turned into a new beginning. “I used to think it was a case of cosmic bad luck that Litia discovered she was pregnant after we’d broken up,” Kemick writes in this feature for Maclean’s. “Now I see how lucky we were.” |
In 2021, Robin Stevenson released Pride Puppy, a children’s book that follows a family as they attend a Pride celebration and temporarily lose their dog in the parade. Now, a group of Maryland parents are demanding a warning before books like Pride Puppy are used in school curricula—and Stevenson’s work has been pulled into their lawsuit. |
Poor Mr. Boddy has been found dead again. This time, as ever before, one of six murder suspects killed the dinner party’s host. But who? And where? And with what? This screwball whodunnit—a stage production based on the 1985 film based on the 1949 Hasbro board game—comes from director Casey Hushion, the same brain behind the musical take on Mystic Pizza. It features Jeff Skowron as Wadsworth the butler and John Shartzer dodging the falling chandelier. The real star of the show might be set designer Lee Savage, whose ingenious design, as fans of the film will know all too well, takes audiences from dining room to billiard room to conservatory and back again at lightning speed. —Rosemary Counter |
|
|
Copyright © 2025 All rights reserved SJC Media, 15 Benton Road, Toronto, ON M6M 3G2 You are receiving this message from St. Joseph Communications because you have given us permission to send you editorial features Unsubscribe
Safe Online Sharing |
|
|
|
