“Canadian road trips to the United States have continued to decline for the seventh month in a row as the country continues its boycott of the U.S. According to Statistics Canada, automobile trips by Canadian residents returning from the U.S. dropped 36.9 percent year-over-year in July, while air travel from the U.S. declined 25.8 percent,” the Daily Beast reports.

“Meanwhile, international trips to other destinations from Canada have risen by 5.9 percent, suggesting Canadians are looking elsewhere for their summer vacations.”

Jonathan Lemire: “Vladimir Putin has had a tough few months. His military’s much-feared summer offensive has made incremental gains in Ukraine but not nearly the advances he had hoped. His economy has sputtered. Donald Trump has grown fed up with Putin’s repeated defiance of his calls for a cease-fire and, for the first time, has targeted the Russian president with consistently harsh rhetoric. Last week, Trump slapped one of Russia’s major trading partners, India, with sanctions.”

“Putin needs to buy time to change the trajectory of the conflict. So the former KGB spymaster has given Trump something that the U.S. president has wanted for months: a one-on-one summit to discuss the end of the conflict. Trump leaped at the chance. But as the two men prepare to meet in Alaska on Friday, foreign-policy experts—and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky—are warning that Trump could be walking into a trap that the Russian leader is setting on American soil.”