The Trump administration finds every aspect of Canada a trade irritant. Our existence is a trade irritant. I wish more news coverage reflected that reality.

🇨🇦 Meanwhile, In Canada 🇨🇦

“No to war and Free Palestine.” — Javier Bardem while presenting at the #Oscars .

What is Doug Ford trying to hide?

“We’ve all trained ourselves to see car infrastructure as ‘normal’— and therefore its costs as invisible. Roads aren’t expensive, they’re just there. Parking spaces aren’t subsidies, they’re just ‘necessary’.” The “Framing Game” via @katjadiehl.bsky.social.

I am begging my fellow Canadians to take a break for a second from obsessing about American corruption to focus on our home grown versions. Ford is a corrupt crony goon who has done countless shady backroom deals. He wants to remove one of our most powerful tools to hold him accountable. Fuck that!

This is a nuclear bomb to Ontario's democracy. The Ford government wants to obfuscate absolutely everything it does.

This is terrifying. Good work by TheStar bringing this to light. www.thestar.com/news/gta/go-...

Figures like Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon, who has explicitly compared Canada to Ukraine, see Canada as a bastion of decadent liberalism in the West that must be broken and subdued, one way or another. trib.al/Hqq63Z2

Canada would have been better off saying nothing. You can detest the regime in Iran without supporting chaos. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

“Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security.” Well. For those of us wondering if he’d walk the walk of the Davos speech, this is a pretty big answer. Nope.

We condemn Mark Carney's unequivocal support for illegal US-Israeli strikes on Iran, sabotaging negotiations in favour of regime change. A "pre-emptive" strike without an imminent threat is an act of aggression, a violation of the UN Charter, and a major threat to security.

The Trump administration has become the greatest force for the spread of nuclear weapons. Near threshold adversaries now must get them to prevent an attack a la North Korea. America's "allies" need them since the nuclear umbrella is now in tatters.l

This is going to age so poorly, so quickly.

Luckily Toronto sports fans have trained for exactly this scenario.

Who is Gretzky rooting for?

Hockey fans watching the gold medal game in Toronto loudly booing Gretzky whenever he appears on screen is very pleasing to me.

This one hits hard.

U.S. legal scholars baffled as Prince Andrew arrested for Epstein ties, Korean president sentenced for insurrection

Oh no the president is mad at Carney for dealing with China after praising Carney for dealing with China. Who could've foreseen this.

Carney put crybaby Donnie in his feels.

Canada sent so many dedicated young people into the hellfire of Kandahar to help the United States. Now they ridicule us. JD Vance says he is tired of our "sob stories". Trump says they never needed us. Never again, America, Never again.

John Turner correctly warned Canadians about the consequences of free trade with the U.S. #cdnpoli His concerns were rejected by Canadian voters at the time, and his political career never recovered. Turner might be the most vindicated Canadian PM of all time.

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:

The US is collapsing into fascism and going to war with Europe and the opposition party is like “I’m here to talk about the important thing: how your average grocery bill has risen by two dollars over the last year, which I also have no plan or ability to fix”

Just normal breakfast reading…

Folks, the "Minister of AI" has the moral backbone of a sleazy backroom art dealer.

This one is resonating today. #Andor

The top 1% will hate Mamdani, and that's a clear sign he's trying to do good things for Americans. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

Canada: Our Prime Minster studied at Oxford and Harvard, was the Governor of both the Banks of England and Canada, and is recognized as one of the sharpest financial minds around. America: oh yeah? Our guy has to take dementia tests every week.

wow this is almost, like, a platform someone could successfully run on

The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined. 56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people. Read that back.

Area man who lost his riding seat and flew 3000 kms to get back into government says people have to answer to their constituents.

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

To get buy-in from all 10 provinces (which it didn't), Canada's constitution has a clause allowing provinces to override its fundamental rights and freedoms. The framers -- I've spoken to some -- imagined it used in existential-crisis cases. Well, a province just used it to break a teachers' strike

who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

And now we know why Ford made speed cameras illegal.

Still waiting for it to trickle down...

The Ontario premier either doesn't understand that speed cameras save lives, or he doesn't care.

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service. Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... This is straight out of Harper's playbook in 2013. He announced end door-to-door delivery (making Canada the only G7 country without door to door delivery) after strikes/lockouts/disputes with the union during negos from June 2011 to Dec 2012. short 🧵

This is another Doug Ford political stunt & wedge issue, like removing safe & successful bike-infrastructure in Toronto, THAT WILL KILL PEOPLE. He and his Ministers and MPPs will be undeniably responsible for kids, families, people dying. Doug Ford likes to talk tough about Trump, but he IS Trump.

Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]

Canada’s government is focused on what matters: making sure an Irish rap group with a history of controversial commentary can’t play their music in Canada. Meanwhile, our government still refuses to address the actual genocide that band Kneecap has been vocally opposing:

I find it ironic that @vgasparro.bsky.social chose to announce this on the cesspool that is X - in a message that also said: "Our government will not tolerate the advocating of political violence, terrorism or Anti-Semitism and hate more broadly." www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...