Christopher Pollon

@MarcNixon24 @joeroganhq It's a great opportunity for #Poilievre to espouse his Maple #MAGA belief system

HOLY SH🔥T IS IT ACTUALLY HAPPENING? Pierre Poilievre going on the Joe Rogan Podcast? He is heading to Austin Texas next week. THIS IS GOING TO BREAK THE INTERNET @joeroganhq

@DiaryofaFixer @globeandmail I like it.

Let me say this about the @globeandmail 's decision to run this lede. What the editors at The Globe and Mail chose to print wasn’t edgy. It wasn’t clever. It wasn’t even sharp. It was lazy, inflammatory, and grotesquely irresponsible. To describe the “state of the union as a zoo” and the U.S. men’s hockey team as “the monkeys” is not satire, it is dehumanization. Full stop. “Monkey” has a long, ugly history as a racialized slur. It has been weaponized to demean, to belittle, and to strip people of their humanity. Any newsroom with even a passing familiarity with language, history, or basic decency knows this. This is not obscure. It is not subtle. It is not debatable. And this wasn’t some rogue tweet fired off at 1am. It was edited. Approved. Published. That means multiple "adults" in a professional newsroom looked at that wording and thought, “Yes, that’s fine.” That failure is institutional. If the paper intended metaphor, they failed. If they intended provocation, they succeeded but at the cost of their own credibility. If they intended humour, they should consider a different line of work. A national newspaper carries influence. It sets tone. It signals standards. When it chooses language that echoes dehumanizing tropes, it lowers the bar not just for itself, but for public discourse more broadly. And at a time when media organizations constantly lecture the public about civility, standards, and responsible speech, the hypocrisy is glaring. Criticism of American politics? Absolutely. But equating human beings with animals — especially in a context loaded with historical baggage is beyond the pale. An apology would be the minimum. A serious internal reckoning about editorial judgment would be wiser. Because if this is what passes for commentary at one of Canada’s flagship publications, then the real circus isn’t on the ice.

I'm a guest on the Reading the Earth #mining podcast, interviewed by @Stantec 's Peter Thibodeau, about #rareearth supply chains, access to #criticalminerals as a major geopolitical issue, and where we go from here. lnkd.in/ghTXAJbN podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rea…

@hockeynight Watching Habs game with volume muted...that's how intolerable Debrusk's over commentary is

Other than industry insiders, who would bother reading a magazine story about #CriticalMinerals ?  Apparently, 150,000 readers in just two days: thewalrus.ca/publishing-can… @thewalrus

Why does Canada not have a single #RareEarth mine in spite of lots of deposits? My latest for Canada's National Observer explores why. nationalobserver.com/2025/10/17/ana…

My latest for @thewalrus ...

The only thing they’re fighting is type 2 diabetes.

@hmd_mhmd9832 .

I'm not exaggerating if I tell you that we are really living the last moments of our lives. If you’re scrolling, PLEASE leave a dot . it's just a dot

How #Canada can diversify trade away from the USA -- by shipping #CriticalMinerals like potash through the Arctic: my latest for Canada's National Observer: nationalobserver.com/2025/08/13/ana…

@webcav1 @SpencerHakimian Hmmmm...most potash is covered by the latest free trade agreement

@SpencerHakimian Farmers who voted for Trump now need to pay 35% more for potash

🚨🚨 *TRUMP RAISES TARIFF ON CANADA TO 35% FROM 25% EFFECTIVE AUG 1 August 1st is in 5 hours from now. This is a completely unserious human.

My latest for @NatObserver explores the trade-offs #Churchill Manitoba must navigate to expand into Canada's only rail-connected Arctic trade corridor -- and an export pathway for #criticalminerals and more, to non-US markets nationalobserver.com/2025/06/24/ana…

96 private jets full of corrupt elites and celebs flying into Venice, a city destroyed by tourism, to celebrate the wedding of the world’s most shameless tax dodger: Jeff Bezos. Well, it's the perfect anecdote for future historians writing about this Second Gilded Age --> 🧵

There's so much hype about #CriticalMinerals -- but how can Canada avoid making taxpayers (and the biosphere) pay for more toxic cleanups? I co-authored this report for the @ClimateInstit #Mining climateinstitute.ca/wp-content/upl…

Donald Trump’s threats to make Canada the fifty-first US state may just be a play for what lies beneath our soil and in our lakes. Journalist @C_Pollon investigates what the US might want, what Canada stands to lose, and why the stakes keep rising: thewalrus.ca/the-us-badly-n…

Will Trump 2.0 push more Canadian shipping through the Arctic? In April I went to #Churchill -- the site of Canada's only deep sea #Arctic port connected to North America by rail, to find out. (It's free to read if you register) @NatObserver nationalobserver.com/2025/06/04/ana…

The trade wars of the future will be battles over access to critical minerals—and Canada is caught in the crosshairs. Journalist @C_Pollon breaks down how resources and geography are turning Canada into both a strategic prize and a potential target. thewalrus.ca/the-us-badly-n…

In my latest for @thewalrus -- I look at how Canadian fresh water and critical minerals could be driving Trump's 51st State annexation rhetoric: thewalrus.ca/the-us-badly-n…

Aging Condos Get Help With Clean Upgrades nationalobserver.com/2025/05/26/ana… @NationalObs

Incredibly powerful investigation in Dutch newspaper NRC: Seven of the world’s leading genocide scholars — including renowned Holocaust experts — describe Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocidal. And according to them, nearly all of their peers agree.