If Carney doesn’t act quickly to reinforce & isolate Canada’s regulatory regime (starting by reversing his Canada-harming job cuts), Canadians will lose faith in our regulatory agencies. Decisions like this, made under duress with little explanation, are how Trump’s corruption will spread to Canada.

The FAA of 2026 is not the same as it was even two years ago. Trump has corrupted it. The Carney government’s utter refusal to even acknowledge the collapse of the US regulatory system is a sign that despite Carney’s talk, he has no intention of reducing Canada’s deep integration with the US.

This event is disturbing for two reasons. First, we have no idea if Canada is making this decision in the safety interests of Canadians or to appease a wannabe tyrant. Second, the minister is acting in 2026 as if it’s business as usual w/r/t regulatory cooperation. It’s not.

75. Do not put appeasement of Trump above the safety of Canadians. Do not trust American public safety, health, or environment agencies. Strengthen rather than weaken our own regulatory capabilities (start by reversing the cuts to federal agencies). www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

“There's a question as to the proceeds of tolls." This is just a straight up shakedown for payments. There are no deals to be had with people like this; they will only be broken and leveraged into the next attempt at extortion.

Fully agree. You don't make concessions to proven liars who serially break deals--even their own deals!

When the return to the office mandate is driven by downtown business and real estate interests, it ignores reality www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Way to go, @brucefanjoy.bsky.social ! In light of the transit issues, and concerns about adequate office space, the return-to-office mandate deserves reconsideration. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

Missed this on Friday. Bloomberg: Canada Eyes Joint Venture to Build Chinese EVs for Global Export Melanie Joly says @MagnaInt, @LinamarCorp, @MartinreaInt could build an assembly plan in ON. I suggested the same strategy in a Sunday essay. markhamhislop.substack.com/p/a-modest-p...

Also, chatbots should be regulated as medical devices. If they’re not fit for purpose, they should be removed from the market. Unless our government simply doesn’t care about actually doing their job. Which increasingly seems to be the case.

It behooves us to assume that Schumer is not just cowardly or incompetent, he simply does not want to abolish lCE because he thinks they're good and necessary

I’ve been saying for months that how the Carney government jumps on the F-35 will tell us a great deal about whether they truly intend to distance Canada from the US. Carney is still moving Canada toward deeper US integration. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Vermont US Representative Becca Balint being interviewed by Drop Site News shortly after reviewing more, unreleased Epstein files saying "They're all a bunch of sick fucks"

Thank you to MP @brucefanjoy.bsky.social for this statement on @mark-carney.bsky.social rigid Return to Office Policy RTO costs employers money, increases attrition with no gain in productivity, drives mothers, disabled & racialized folks out of the workforce

Liberal MP Bruce Fanjoy from the Ottawa-area riding or Carleton is breaking ranks with the Carney government on its Return to Office policy for public servants: “There is little to no evidence that a one-size-fits-all RTO policy will improve productivity or service to Canadians”

And DND still tries to maintain the "plug-and-play" approach with the US, insisting on purchasing US F-35 fighters beyond the ones we're stuck with... Our senior officers all served with US forces in the "good old days" and seem unable to appreciate the new context, which requires a new strategy.

The Canadian government agreed to pay for and operate the Gordie Howe international bridge in 2012 — Michigan Republicans opposed funding it. At last report, construction costs had reached $6.4 billion. But the bridge is jointly owned by Canada and Michigan. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

They're doing it to force people out the door. They want to minimize what the collective agreements say they'll have to pay the 40,000 public service workers they want to lay off. They're already pushing out people on accommodations. Now they'll force people back to the office full time.

"Bruce Fanjoy, the Liberal MP for Carleton, has broken ranks with his party to criticize the federal government's latest return-to-office (RTO) mandate" ... "There is little to no evidence that a one-size-fits-all RTO policy will improve productivity or service to Canadians," he wrote.

We need this everywhere in Ontario. Let’s do this!

I've been thinking about Carney's argument that only countries with a strong economy can afford a "principled" foreign policy. I think the reason why it's bugging me is that it presumes a whole bunch of things about economics and how countries accrue influence and power that are simply wrong.

Or... hear me out!-- We nationalize the groceries stores and stop feeding the robber barons.

1. People struggle to reconcile Keir Starmer’s ruthless ambition, Machiavellian manoeuvres, breaking of promises, collaboration in genocide, bans on protest, aid cuts, benefit cuts and war on nature with his history as a human rights lawyer. But perhaps there is no contradiction. Read on.🧵

See also Carney as a supposed climate champion (within the context of being a banker and make-the-rich-richer-er).

The government takes all its cues from private sector. We've been indoctrinated to believe government is inherently inefficient, but all of its worst qualities are from douchebag CEOs with MBAs.

access to PCR testing, paid sick time, free vaccines, and well written respiratory protection policies and procedures (see CSA Z94.4:2026 coming soon),

If, a really big if, their offices have 15 liters/person/second air changes with HEPA filtered air, upper room germicidal ultraviolet lights installed, and access to free N95 respirators with qualified occupational health experts in indoor air quality and respiratory protection on hand,

What this article does not talk about is the certainty of severe harm to government of Canada workers by forcing them back into their offices. The COVID pandemic is not over. COVID is actively circulating and spreading 52 weeks of the year.

Today I had to explain to a surgeon why it's important to wear respirator style masks around vulnerable patients. I am tired

Canadian federal workers being forced to go back into the office four days a week simply means they will spend four days a week on Zoom/Team meetings with the people sitting in the same office space.

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PEDO Bowl. Where billionaires cheer, victims are ignored & the files stay sealed Sickening the PEDO Bowl gets wall-to-wall coverage, but accountability for child predators gets buried Sponsored by silence, settlements, and sealed records #ReleaseTheTrumpEpsteinFiles #SheShed #DefendersOfDemocracy

Two things I’m not sure is widely understood: 1. Many public servants no longer have their own desks and work in transient government co-working spaces 2. Many describe a Kafkaesque existence of going to physical offices only to spend their time on video calls with the people sitting next to them

This man didn’t believe in the Covid epidemic because he didn’t see that many ill people in his ER. Source? His podcast. Where he had panels w/ friends who thought similar. He also sold merch. Don’t trust everything a “doctor” says.

4D musical chairs! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

$6 billion. That’s what remote work could save taxpayers. Carney’s government knows it. Their own research shows it. So why force workers back into overcrowded offices? Stop the waste. Join the fight to protect remote work. ForYouCanada.ca

6 milliards. C’est ce que le télétravail pourrait faire économiser aux contribuables. Ottawa le sait – sa propre analyse le montre. Alors pourquoi entasser les fonctionnaires dans des bureaux vétustes? Luttons pour protéger le télétravail. onlefaitpourvous.ca

Alberta Separatism: Americans Living in the Wrong Country "Grievances" with Ottawa don't explain why a quarter of Albertans support secession. Does that make AB especially vulnerable to political interference by Trump and MAGA? #cdnpoli #abpoli markhamhislop.substack.com/p/alberta-se...

important nuclear thread

In a lot of ways the United States only has one party with two branches. One branch kills people slower than the other.

What’s also great is reading the dialogue with Claude where it stops and says “I need to stop and be honest with you about something important” and reveals it deleted every single photo. Software built for dunces

Imposer la présence au bureau en pleine négociation : c’est inapproprié et insultant. Le gouvernement n’est pas au-dessus des lois. On va riposter. Et on va gagner.

Unwavering solidarity to @psac-afpc.bsky.social, @pipsc-ipfpc.bsky.social, and all workers impacted by this callous decision!

Let's be clear about who @mark-carney.bsky.social's government is harming with this policy - Women & mothers: flexible remote work ⬆️ retention - Disabled & immunocompromised - remote work is a core accommodation -BIPOC workers: remote/hybrid ⬇️ bias www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Another year, another record high for Canadian oil & gas production. Record shows the federal Liberals have actually been good for Alberta's oil sands industry. Good to disabuse people in Alberta of this myth. But also, hardly a compliment of the Liberals. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/06/o...

PSAC has filed an unfair labour practice complaint with the Federal Public Service Labour Relations and Employment Board in response to the government’s new in-office mandate. We are fighting this every step of the way. Nothing is off the table.

Quatre jours obligatoires au bureau : en réaction à la décision soudaine du gouvernement, l’AFPC a déposé une plainte pour pratique déloyale de travail auprès de la Commission des relations de travail et de l’emploi dans le secteur public fédéral. On va se battre jusqu’au bout.

the idea that there’s something you can do - some level of performance you can achieve - that makes you safe from the whims of execs is something they want to avoid they want you to fear for your job, they want you to feel unsafe and unable to speak out that, above all else, is the message

Federal workers - like all workers - deserve to be treated with respect. That’s why our Dignified Work plan defends remote work arrangements for federal employees who deliver our essential public services each and every day.