Donald Trump wants to end freedom of speech and make it illegal to criticize him or his regime.

The high cost of Trump's insanity.

It is very funny that at this point the main thing preventing however many years of Labour hegemony is Blue Labour psychosis based around wanting their voters to be people who have not existed since the 1970s

If you had told me a year ago that Mark Carney would get Scott Moe to say these exact words I’d have asked you what drugs you were taking and if I needed to call you a doctor.

I think most people here don't understand or don't communicate the enormous threat climate change poses to us this century.

there is in fact no constitutional or legal mechanism for anything like what we would call martial law in the united states

"When your movement’s willingness to defend your country is lower than the willingness from supporters of a literal separatist party, you don’t get to claim the mantle of patriotism and national pride."

Disregulated... but otherwise yes.

the main reason for this is because the contemporary Canadian CPC genuinely does not have the ability to keep Ontario liberal conservatives from the Progressive Conservative wing and the Albertan NatCons from the Reform wing together

The MN GOP is going to be running this lady and the MyPillow guy in an already unfavorable national political climate and in a state that is boiling mad about federal occupation. I don’t think it’s going to work.

Catholic Relief Services may have been devastated, Catholic Charities may have been forced to lay off workers, Catholic migrants may have been abused and denied Communion, a Catholic country may have had its leader kidnapped, but I am so grateful to the President for talking about religious liberty.

Mark Carney's next step should be a visit to Japan to ask Nissan, Mitsubishi, Honda, and Toyota to sell their kei-EVs in Canada as soon as we can reform our road regulations to make them street legal. Also Honda's, Suzuki's, and Kawasaki's electric motorcycles. There's an e-Ninja, you know.

Why would you say this? It's not true!

Minnesota's Republican House Speaker Lisa Demuth made a Facebook post critical of an anti-ICE protest at a church, and got ratioed by her own daughter in the comments www.facebook.com/LisaforMN/po...

I can fault many liberals for their policy competence, they however are all fucking soldiers for the cause, which is probably the primary thing other center left parties should take away from Canada's political example.

Justin Trudeau got such venomous hate from the conservative media ecosystem because he always refused to treat the reactionary right as special little boys and girls, and that was by far his most admirable quality

Pivot…back to the Middle East! In a recent podcast appearance I scoffed at the notion of a “Donroe Doctrine” because of the scattershot manner in which this administration uses military force. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

We already know for a fact that they're talking to Washington. And most of them basically want to be absorbed by the US the day after (this is why it's quantitatively different from Quebec separatism, which primarily has other triggers.) nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

The thing is that separatism, both in QC and AB, isn't that popular: however, given that the US has territorial designs for the Western hemisphere and the global culture war.... it's not hard to realize how things can go off the rails.

People try and reassure me it won’t crack 30%, but this does not reassure me because A. I remember Brexit, 2016 and even 2024 and how polling struggles to capture the true strength of these movements, especially with plentiful US propaganda and B. I think 30-35% is enough for him to lie about fraud.

Yes. Me and @bordenstan.bsky.social talk about this often and if things go to shit, that's the most likely flashpoint for US-Canada relations

We cannot normalize this federal occupation of Minneapolis. It is not normal to watch people abducted in front of our eyes—dragged from car windows, pulled from their homes, and children left without parents. This is not about immigration. It’s about unchecked cruelty.

love to see it

someone should make a bot that literally replies to every rip-and-aggregate feed poster, with links to the original source. they'd probably get immediately detached, muted, or blocked by OPs for doing so, because it doesn't help farm engagement / authoritativeness, but a girl can dream.

the same thing is true of that fucking fintwitter account: 99% of what they post *is* accurate, just doesn't originate with them, but you have to go digging for the source, and I worry for the 1% case where it's wrong, retracted, or if one day potentially flat out fabricated :/

I hate how Olga Nesterova shares screenshots or text summaries of news that she didn't personally report out, without linking original source. She's good about alt text, but it'd feel much better to repost her if she actually linked to where you could verify the news that she's aggregating :/

I think a bit of mourning is appropriate. The liberal international order got a lot of flack, it was hard to explain (was it even real?), US hypocrisy, etc. But frankly it is the best global order that ever existed. The goal should be to salvage as much as possible. The alternative is so much worse.

Comparing American hegemony to warsaw pact life under Soviet rule is an amazing step. Carney really is punching (rhetorically) as hard as one can. The China move was a real policy change that follows from this attitude. What's next? CAF in Greenland? That he did this before Trump speaks? Wow.

The fact that the CAF are in Greenland at the moment with the US as part of a NORAD exercise, while also contemplating joining the Denmark-led NATO exercise, captures Canada's defence dilemma quite well. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Canadians should be asking questions about how deeply our military has been collaborating with American ops of questionable legality. ((From my first email on Jan. 12 to now I have requested answers or a statement from the DND - ‘we’re still working on this’ will probably go on my tombstone))

Ottawa won’t answer, even if it exonerates our involvement by “caveating” CAF on exchange. Regular channels of communication and trusted sources have fallen silent; “no one wants to touch this.”

OSINT and military sources have raised troubling questions: Have CAF been involved in flying deportees to CECOT in El Salvador? What about providing intelligence or support for Op. Southern Spear?

"Publicly available information suggests that several [Canadian soldiers] are deployed within units that have been carrying out some of Mr Trump’s most controversial orders." So that's great. And unsurprising. And something that should've been addressed months ago. Go along to get along, indeed.

I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

Counterpoint to the speech today.

The Norwegian government is staying fairly quiet for now, but as a sign of the shifting vibe here the former head of Norway’s armed forces has come out and called the US a “neo-fascist banana republic” and a “hostile great power without norms”. www.dn.no/politikk/tid...

The global north's obsession with being tough on immigration is viewed extremely poorly in Africa. Unfair human mobility policies, like visa fees that act as reverse remittances, are a huge issue for African govts www.theafricareport.com/400620/how-t...

This was my thought too. Nodding furiously at the philosophical articulation of the world we face. Then the nodding stopped when I got to the “and that’s why my government has….” part

Mark Carney may have delivered quite the speech, but neither he, the EU, or NATO have done a damn thing to make Trump's plans to acquire Greenland more costly or less likely. The longer we wait, the harder he will be to stop. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Western diplomats called the Trump-led process "directionless" and "a disaster", with no significant increase in humanitarian aid entering Gaza, and no sense that it'll generate political change. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

I worry this ‘ad hoc, pragmatic, issues-based coalition’ approach to international relations, plus declaring the rules-based international order dead, is a serious blow to the United Nations and to agreed norms and modalities we use to conduct ourselves

The one line in Carney’s speech I disagree with: “Countries earn the right to principled stands by reducing their vulnerability to retaliation” You don’t earn the right. You don’t earn rights. And if you’re only willing to take a principled stand when it costs you nothing, it’s not really a stand

“There is a strong tendency for countries to go along to get along. To accommodate. To avoid trouble. To hope that compliance will buy safety. It won’t.” I hope this finally marks a pivot in Canada’s approach, mirroring the hardening in Europe www.policymagazine.ca/the-old-orde...

Safe Parkside is reporting another high speed crash today. Doug Ford’s Ontario &, apparently, the one Ontario voters want. Tho Toronto not off hook here - city & local councillor did nothing long before Ford’s meddling despite pleas for them to act.

I always like to point out Montreal holds their Nuit Blanche in February. Hard core. Though I walked 3 km along bloor this afternoon in windy -13C and there were a ton of people out, and bike lanes not empty. You live out in public in a real city, whatever the weather.

"Some senior bankers and executives in Davos, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said they saw the response from European leaders to Trump's moves as emotional rather than pragmatic." Idiots.

Congrats to the guy who helped Russia invade Ukraine. A real feather in the cap.

If we had a halfway decent opposition party in Canada, they’d endorse the words Carney used today, and then hammer him relentlessly on implementation or lack thereof.

The thing that's struck me about the first few weeks of Zohran's mayoralty is how he's really effectively capturing what used to be the GOP's bread and butter moves - cutting regulation on small businesses and free enterprise - as a socialist