Gregg Birnbaum took a sip of his beer and shrugged when I asked him about U.S. President Donald Trump and his apparent enmity towards Canada.

“I wish I had the answers,” Birnbaum said.

Birnbaum was, for years, the astute political editor of the New York Post — a devout centrist overseeing the political coverage of a conservative newspaper in a very liberal city.

That takes talent and open-mindedness, rare in today’s media landscape, which makes Birnbaum an ideal subject for interrogation on the machinations of the orange man in the White House.

We were colleagues on the Post, and we caught up at a Toronto watering hole to talk Trump, newspapers, the media, the state of the planet, and, as Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “how the weather was.”

“His numbers have gone down since he took the

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