MP @juliedzerowicz.bsky.social is out with a newsletter discussing the new deal with China. She notes that the EVs in question do not compete with current Canadian production, and that the federal government is anticipating "significant" Chinese investment in the Canadian auto sector.

I am extremely grateful that we have allies like Denmark.

The media is chock full of people who a) allegedly share the left's broad goals, and b) are distressed that the left is Doing It Wrong, pursuing its goals in some misguided way, but puzzlingly c) do not put their superior wisdom to work accomplishing those goals in a better way!

Wait Sally Jenkins is a former sports columnist who also co-wrote a book with Lance Armstrong defending his doping? Why should I care what she thinks, especially about editorial standards?!

I think it is a bad thing that an an enormous number of people in Ontario’s livelihood depends on an industry that is self-evidently dying. When it goes it’s going to be like when the cod fishery shut down but with a much larger and more politically influential demographic that’s upset.

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

Quisling chart

The bit about discussions they’re claiming they’re having with the US state department here is a thing I want to highlight.

this is fucking incredible

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide. He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

This is the kind of cringe I want from my politicians tbh.

the rather obvious fucking difference, you moron, is that Ukraine is /not/ in NATO and does not in fact enjoy treaty obligations for its defence

If the figures we're getting out of Iran are in the right league, this weekend was, I think, one of the bloodiest state crackdowns of all time. People are talking 12,000-20,000 dead; for comparison Hungary in 1956 was about 2,500, Tiananmen - across country, in multiple cities - probably 1000+

Perhaps if they double down on giant gasoline trucks!

The Greenland thing feels like a big escalation from an already murderous, horrible regime. They’re threatening to invade a sovereign country that’s never been anything but a friend to them. There’s not even really much of an attempt at a pretext beyond just wanting it.

I think the disconnect between Atlantic elites is that Americans think Donald Trump is a kid getting to drive a monster truck for Make A Wish and Europeans and Canadians think Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

Poland does not want to sell its territory. But for an art student turned chancellor, the land of pierogis may be irresistible.

I am committing to Childcare By Right. We will make childcare a permitted use in every residential and commercial zone. If you pass your safety and provincial licensing checks, you open. No hearings and no neighbor vetoes. We are building a city where families actually belong.

The Narwhal Is Suing the RCMP. Stakes Are High for Journalism, by @tyolsen.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2026/01...

I’m glad anything at all was done but postmedia is just incredibly out of touch and they love hiring evil little cretins like this. Not surprising they are losing money despite millions in taxpayer subsidies.

A UCP Energy Insider's Warnings for Alberta via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

If Canada ends up dramatically lowering or dropping tariffs on Chinese EVs in part to protect Canadian ag exports and is made easier as a result of US actions I can't begin to imagine how much of an impact this will make on EV sales here www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Love this public art by Ken Lum that the city put up on a bus stop.

This is a very kind wish. But I'd also like to ask you to follow other Canadian senators who are already here, and who haven't been as lucky as I have in connecting with an audience. I convinced a fair few Senate friends to give this platform a try, but many didn't feel it worked for them. #cdnpoli

“Eventually, we will piss the Trump administration off. Eventually, they will want us to do something, and when that time comes others will remember the stances we took, and this administration will remember what we allowed them to get away with.”

This was genuinely very moving. There are decent people everywhere.

I've seen a lot of comparisons between the US slide into Fascism and Germany in the 30s, and while I don't think they're entirely off base, there's one strategic direction I think is very different.

Modal expectation is that the Greenland thing doesn’t wind up happening, but “bluster they never intended to act on” nothing is way different from “they get backed down by credible threats of enormous sanctions from Europe” nothing.

I am actually not a giant pessimist. I think the US successfully taking Greenland is not super likely. If they do though it won’t stop there, at that point we are in a very bad spot.

This is a great interview in general, but the doomscrolling section cracked me up.

Remember when protesters in Minneapolis burned down a police station and not only did it not result in an immediate civil war or whatever, it had majority public support?

Come on, reading that, we all thought it.

"They shot my dog. I say my dog because this experience taught me something about fascists: if you don't admit to owning the world's stray dogs, they'll shoot them. And one day they'll be back. For you. With the boxcars." -William Gibson

They hate us for our freedom.

There honestly cannot be a satire cutting enough to make fun of Americans. What the fuck do you mean the highest colonial ideal you could imagine was a parking lot with McDonald's on both sides

America wants to force Canadians to buy their dairy products

This particular brand of American smugness really is irritating, but it’s ultimately a form of American exceptionalism. There always has to be a reason why another country is “just as bad” as America. There’s always a reason to lecture us about why we shouldn’t criticize your empire.

“They hate us for our freedom” is something I’ve found myself muttering a lot in response to current events.

it is just what it looks like. there’s no hidden complexity here. this was an innocent woman, murdered by a trigger-happy future family annihalator on ICE’s payroll.

www.whitecapsfc.com/news/priso-b... Priso jumping into centre back due to other defenders being injured and then just being awesome at it was one of my favourite stories of the season. Happy to see he got a call up for the national team.

As someone who rides the millennium line at rush hour pretty regularly this map is sort of shocking because it feels really crowded.

IMO the best way to prevent this kind of a scenario is to actually enforce the law on far right and separatist groups and, if they are receiving foreign money, make that very public.

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I promise you, you'll never guess which "politics" they're referring to

Grim Fandango

An official NYT response means this is clearly a sore spot for them and people should keep hitting the target

The thing about Stancil is if I agree with him publicly about something I get the worst people on this website yelling at me and if I disagree with him I get the worst people on this website agreeing with me and either way I lose so I can’t really engage with his posts anymore.