Once neighbours bound by friendship and sport, Canada and the US now stand divided on and off the field. The baseball World Series concluded with the LA Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays witnessing another standoff. From baseball boos to political jabs, the rivalry is heating up just as both nations prepare to co-host the FIFA World Cup. Can the two countries set aside their growing animosity in time for the world’s biggest sporting event? Or will politics and pride overshadow football’s biggest stage? Rupha Ramani unpacks how one baseball game revealed a much deeper fracture between two powerful sporting nations.