@wesyang The last gasp of the boomers combined with a Golden Swan event.
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Staring@theAbyss
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Why is the political party that imposed a decade of economic stagnation, rising crime, spiking housing costs, dysfunction in the healthcare system, overt anti-white discrimination in hiring, a two-tier criminal justice system, the largest wave of mass immigration in the world, and the largest decline in happiness in the world on Canada more popular than ever before?
Daniel Foch@danielfoch
Canada has observed the largest decline in happiness in the world (along with the UK)
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Apparently, Toronto Star columnist Bruce Arthur wrote a piece today about former CBC host Travis Dhanraj and referred to me as an “anti–carbon tax academic.”
For the record, that characterization is inaccurate.
I have never opposed carbon pricing per se. My concern has always been how carbon pricing affects the agri-food sector, which operates under unique economic and supply chain dynamics that make it fundamentally different from most other industries. thestar.com/opinion/star-c…
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@glen_mcgregor Autopact was not free trade. It was managed trade. It might resonate better with the Big Orange One.
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(I’m not clear on how giving Canadian-made vehicles preferential taxation will encourage Trump to de-tariff. Poilievre is supposed to say more about his plan on Sunday.)
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Speaking in Windsor, Ont., today in advance of US trip, CPC leader Pierre Poilievre says he is proposing "a new Auto Pact" that will harmonize rules and regs with the US, remove GST from Canadian-made vehicles. Predicts this will convince Trump to drop tariffs on the sector.
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@stphnmaher So giving them basic equipment is conditional on them overriding PM communications control?
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If we are going to put half a trillion dollars into DND in the next decade, DND needs to communicate with Canadians more effectively. The failure to disclose an attack on Canadians in Kuwait should be a scandal.
Brett Boudreau@WHMTE
@MLB120012 @junonewscom @CherylR09307747 Quite a fair response. At last count, more than 900 positions in the DND public affairs functional authority. There is a BG PAO, three Col-level PAOs, a Company’s worth of senior officer PAOs and 140+ GOFOs - but NOT ONE uniform can be spared to regularly brief the public? Shame!
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@stphnmaher If she negotiated a good deal for her constituents, then the system worked perfectly.
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Everyone complaining about Carney getting a majority through floor crossers is wasting their time. It's how our system works. thestar.com/opinion/contri…
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@bruce_arthur White man criticizing brown man for not playing the role assigned to him. How typically leftist.
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Travis Dhanraj’s testimony was absurd: he misrepresented his time at CBC in multiple ways, and a huge swathe of Canadian conservatives saw what they wanted to believe. Mostly, it was a very instructive example of how Canada’s conservative sausage is made. thestar.com/opinion/star-c…
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@thomasjuneau Canadian foreign policy is simple. Maintain cohesion. Maintain independence. People get bored with that so they add in the environment, gender, poverty, etc. These are important nice to haves, but because they are sexy, they become the priority. Eventually, the tail wags the dog.
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"Canada has long been complacent about foreign policy and national security: it could afford to neglect the pressures and incentives of the realities of power, comfortably sheltered as it was by a mostly benevolent United States."
Thomas Juneau@thomasjuneau
My new op-ed for The Globe and Mail. Canada needs a realist foreign policy, but the government also needs to be coherent and transparent about it. To understand Carney's foreign policy, too many people focus on his words - look at his actions instead. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
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@mmclaren2 @MarkJCarney You were allowed to teach children!?
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As a Canadian, I sincerely apologize to the world for the role that our leaders and our country has assumed in supporting the unprovoked attack by Israel and the United States on Iran.
Facts:
- Iran was not trying to obtain a nuclear weapon.
- It was the US that cancelled the JCPOA in 2015 to which Iran was complying.
- Iran was currently participating in good faith negotiations.
- One of Israel's first strikes on Iran destroyed a girl's school killing over 50.
The only countries on the planet that truly threaten international peace and security are the United States and Israel.
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My statement on Iran-related hostilities in the Middle East:
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@rubysahotalib Canadian Punjabis are so cringe with their terrorist fawning, gangster worshipping, riding-capturing antics.
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@Arturmaks @PatrickWCutler Just admit your are a sore loser and move on.
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@PatrickWCutler Hey bent. We don’t want players who support a pedophile grifter President who wants to tank our economy.
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If I'm an American hockey player, I absolute refuse signing another contract with a Canadian team.
They literally want players BANNED from their teams after losing to USA at the Olympics.
It's the most embarrassing behavior I've ever seen from sports fans in my entire life.
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@sukhdhaliwal Why do terrorist-sympathizers have so much space to operate in Canada. They blow up planes, fund bombings in other countries, and nothing happens.
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I firmly denounce remarks by a government official downplaying India’s transnational repression.
They contradict assessments from the NSIA, the RCMP, and CSIS. This matter must be addressed, and the individual’s conduct and suitability for their role must be reviewed.
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@jmbprime I guess they will be "punished" by being sent to Teams, that might be contenders, in locations with lower taxes, better weather and closer to their families.
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I don't think Auston Matthews will be with the Toronto Maple Leafs next season. Nor do I think Brady Thachuk will be an Ottawa Senator. They have no clue how Canadians feel about Donald Trump.
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@CycleFunMtl @stphnmaher Pro-poor policy that cost families, including low income families $400 extra a year, to aid "small" farmers who on average $250,000 in profit. On average they are worth $5 million. Most of them in Quebec and Ontario, meaning another drain on the West.
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@StaringSad @stphnmaher Canada has pro-rural economy policies (ie Supply Management in the dairy sector) that avoid the rural poverty, small-owner farm bankruptcies, and meth and opiate addiction crises that are endemic throughout rural USA.
Also Canadian dairy sector is unsubsidized, unlike USA.
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Total scumbags. I feel bad that Canadian negotiators have to shake their hands when they meet.
Brendan Fischer@brendan_fischer
Wow. New FEC reports show billionaire Matt Moroun gave Trump’s super PAC $1 million last month. A few weeks later, Moroun met with Trump officials, and the next day, the president came out publicly against a rival bridge project that would cut into Moroun’s profits.
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@DominicCardy The civil service are simply weathervanes. They point in the direction of the wind. Fearless advice is what they cling to so they can maintain some self respect.
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Anyone following the account below - remember he doesn't understand the literal foundations of our system: an impartial civil service, to provide fearless advice and impartial enforcement. We need to reduce partisanship, not make it worse. Lord.
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@SamHersh01 Calling that a battle is an insult to anybody who has been in a battle or suffered the impact of one. It was a much of over-educated and over-paid downtown urbanites having a temper tantrum against the yokels coming into town.
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I was reminded that yesterday was the 4th anniversary of the now-dubbed "Battle of Billings Bridge" when over a thousand of us in Ottawa blockaded convoyers from coming into our city.
With the growing far-right, it's a good reminder of how we can still fight back - and win.
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@robin_j_brooks @chaabanisaid90 Western countries fight to provide aid to India. It is not about helping the poor. It is about channeling resources to their ideological partners.
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@chaabanisaid90 Any western development aid to India should be cut as a result.
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One truly baffling thing since the invasion of Ukraine is how India has stood in solidarity with Russia. What exactly does India hope to get out of this? Putin is totally transactional. He'll drop India like a hot potato if he has to. So naive of India...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/indias-binge…
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@stphnmaher We used to argue against developing countries seeking data sovereignty calling them protectionist. Good to see we finally understand.
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Canada needs digital sovereignty
amandla@tjAmandla
So, @Google handed ICE my credit card and bank account numbers as they attempted to track and detain me. I fled to Switzerland before they could. Now my lawyer at @EFF has written to @Google, @Meta, and other tech companies urging them to resist fulfilling subpoenas.
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@stphnmaher In Canada could you headline a half-time show with a Canadian band?
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The MAGA anger over Bad Bunny is a perfect analogy for rear-guard culture war that put Trump in the White House and gas in the tanks of all the populists in Western countries — a culture of resentment.
Mike Therien@miketherien
Bugs Bunny is American. Should the others on the list have been excluded from the Super Bowl?
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@dhume @somnath1978 India received hard concessions in return for declarative language. Which is more real? The declarative language was a power move to make the deal palatable for the US.
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India showed a capacity to negotiate hard from a position of relative weakness and emerge with a reasonable outcome that places it (marginally) ahead of its competitors in South and Southeast Asia. That’s no small achievement.
Agree with you on the gap between India’s self-image and reality, a problem exacerbated by the sort of nonsensical Vishwaguru rhetoric that pleases the ruling party’s base.
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Nothng to be v "proud" of, it was the fait accompli. But its better Indians are told just how big the gap between our actual leverage and our sense of self-worth is. India shd get to work hard and build those leverages, instead of faux outraging or feeling Vishwaguru grtness..
Sadanand Dhume@dhume
Instead of weaving and dodging and appearing weak, the Indian government should find the courage to state the obvious: 1. India has agreed to reduce Russian oil purchases in return for a removal of punitive U.S. tariffs. 2. This move is entirely rational. India can easily replace Russian oil with oil from other sources. It could not realistically hope to attract sorely needed investment and technology at scale, or be competitive as an exporter, while facing one of the highest U.S. tariff rates in the world. 3. The hard fought U.S.-India trade deal is a diplomatic and economic achievement that Indians should be proud of. No responsible government can afford to wreck the economy just so that leftist op-ed writers get to feel good about themselves.
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