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Remember when Americans got all pissy about Canada making a deal with China? Good times. 🤣

@KeruboSk Makes me think of the Mitch Albom quote: "Strangers are just family that you have yet to come to know,"

I missed the last train in Seoul once. Phone at 3%. Didn’t speak Korean. It was raining, freezing, and I had no idea where I was supposed to go. I tried calling an Uber but my card kept failing because of my bank fraud protection. Perfect timing. I was standing outside the station looking completely defeated when this older woman walked up to me and started speaking Korean. I told her I didn’t understand. She pulled out her phone translator and typed:“You are lost?” I nodded. She asked where I was staying, looked at the address, then motioned for me to follow her. This woman walked me almost 15 minutes through side streets, holding her umbrella over both of us while I apologized every thirty seconds. When we got to my hotel, I tried offering her cash for helping me. She looked genuinely offended. Typed into the translator again:“If my son was lost somewhere, I hope someone helps him too.” Then she bowed and walked away in the rain before I could even process what happened. Some places still treat strangers like human beings first.

Robert Fife on Pierre Poilievre claiming he can get a tariff-free deal with Trump: "[He] can't keep his caucus together. So how can he expect to negotiate with the Trump administration?"

PM Carney on the Americans calling the alcohol ban an irritant: "You know what's an irritant? 50% tariffs on steel. 50% tariffs on aluminum. 25% tariffs on automobiles. All the tariffs on forest products. Those are more than irritants, those are violations of our trade deal."

Bob Rae on US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's comments about Canada trading with China: "The United States trades with China. That's a fact. They invest in China way more than we do ... we're not a colony of the United States."

@Vybrance I think of Canada cool rather than hot.

Canada is the hot lady up the street that everyone has a crush on and the USA is the creepy dude she won't talk to anymore so he lights her house on fire.

@FurkanGozukara Yeah, we call him Prime Minister.

A prominent Canadian official announces a massive strategic shift. He confirms a forty billion dollar military investment to defend the Arctic and deter new threats. Canada explicitly declares it will no longer rely on foreign powers for its security and economic survival.

@kim_gaetz Rebel "news" is a misnomer.

The Liberal association in Melissa Lantsman riding was holding their AGM at a community center , Conservative supporters and Rebel news showed up and harassed them with signs & slurs, There were seniors and kids present as it was a community center. Conservatives are greasy !

@World_Affairs11 Speaking of trade with China, look which country is Number 1.

BREAKING: President Trump threatens Canada with 100% tariffs, if it does not end trade treaties with China.

@greenrose351 @petermansbridge @bruceanderson @ChantalHbert @CanadaTalks167 I never understood why the Carlton riding continued to reelect him. Never made sense to me.

@petermansbridge @bruceanderson @ChantalHbert @CanadaTalks167 He was my MP for 8 years, will never believe he turned a corner. He’s the same guy who joined the convoy & still refuses to get security clearance. The same obnoxious bully who did nothing for the riding. We finally voted him out, best thing we ever did.

Almost two months ago Pierre Poilievre seemed to turn a corner. Well, those days are gone, and this week the ‘attack dog’ politician seemed to be back. @bruceanderson & @ChantalHbert discuss. 🔊 on @CanadaTalks167, podcast platforms. 📺 on YouTube: youtu.be/vsCtiwzYai8

@morgfair As a Canadian, being sneered at by the MAGA crowd tells me we're doing something right.

Oh, that’s just great! What is wrong with these people?

@RickH84746443 @Globalstats11 Almost all of Canada is habitable. Ask the indigenous who have lived here for thousands of years.

@Globalstats11 Now do the inhabitable area.

The True Size of Canada 🇨🇦

Chantal Hébert: I fail to see how someone who was rejected for PM called Andrew Scheer should be the regular points person [for the Conservative Party]. Bruce Anderson: It's the single worst choice that [Pierre Poilievre] makes every day is to have Andrew Scheer out there.

Althia Raj says Pierre Poilievre's remarks about Mark Carney's knowledge of the economy "resembled US Vice President J.D. Vance's comments that the Pope should be careful about weighing in on theology."

@DrNeilStone Fantastic news!!!

ZERO cases of cervical cancer diagnosed in women under age 25 in Australia 🇦🇺 None . Nada . Zip. For the first time since records began! How did this happen? One word VACCINES!!!!!

@aakashgupta Unfortunately, this has made him more famous and while he does 6 months of hard labour, his YouTube videos will be making him money.

Johnny Somali's entire career was jurisdictional arbitrage. Do things that would get you arrested in Tokyo, Seoul, or Jerusalem but not in Phoenix. Stream the outrage in real time. Let YouTube ads print money on the reaction cycle. Fly home before the local system catches up. The business model worked for three years. Japan 2023. Israel 2024. Then Korea, where they indicted him in 2024 and took his passport. His defense in court was the business model spoken aloud. He told the judge that having grown up in America, he did not realize his conduct would be illegal in Korea. The argument was that his product mix should not generate prison time in any rational system. He pleaded guilty to the public disturbance counts, the obstruction-of-business counts, and the statue desecration. He apologized for those. The charge he fought was the sexual deepfake distribution. Korea prosecutes that under the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment of Sexual Crimes. He lost on every count. Prosecution asked for three years hard labor. The judge handed down six months hard labor, 20 days additional detention, a five-year ban from any institution working with minors or the disabled, offender registration, and phone confiscation for the duration of the sentence. The judge's sentencing statement is the part to actually read. He said Somali had repeatedly committed crimes against the public to generate YouTube profits, distributing the content in disregard of Korean law. The court prosecuted the business model as the offense. The crimes were the content. The content was the revenue. The revenue was the motive. Every element chained back to running provocation streams as a commercial product, and the court said so on the record. This is the first major test of what happens when nuisance streaming meets a criminal system that treats the stream itself as an aggravating factor. Every creator whose monetization depends on filmed confrontations in public just watched a country confiscate the phone and mark the streamer as a convict.

@MrJoKeR604 I block them all, and feel a lot less stressed.

@turkhafiza2 Zs should have stayed home.