“Poilievre copies Trump’s ungoverning strategy. Expertise becomes suspect. Institutions become obstacles. The point is not to improve decision-making but to erode the legitimacy of those who do it. This leads to hollowed-out agencies, politicized analysis, impulsive policy swings”

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“there is very clearly an American-led attempt to normalize and amplify the idea of Alberta becoming the 51st state of the U.S. annexation. And the co-ordination effort is so obvious”

“Carney’s investment summit is framed as a bold effort to attract global capital into strategic sectors. The logic is old hat: government sets the table, reduces risk, and waits for private investors to decide what gets built. That treats the state as a facilitator rather than a driver.”

“without teaching the next generation discernment, without all of us asking these questions, we are likely to drown under the vast and never-ending weight of content or be mown down by the AI juggernaut heading towards us.”

There is a global boycott underway against Chat GPT. Open AI is working with the Pentagon and ICE. They have donated $25 million to Trump. They are working for the authoritarians. People have the power to resist and send a message to the toxic tech bros. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Announcement: Free Trade Deal Coming for Canada and India Economist Werner Antweiler, @UBC discussed today's announcement by PM Mark Carney of a new trade deal with India. Energy will be a big part of the final agreement. #cdnpoli youtu.be/FUk90CHEUCA

“The culture wars are a smokescreen because the real fight isn’t left vs right it’s top vs bottom” - James Talarico

The Save America Movement ad campaign includes one for Canada: “Ambassador Pete Hoekstra’s threats against Canada disgrace every American. His disrespect shames and embarrasses us.The American people stand with the people of Canada. We will defend your sovereignty as fiercely as we defend our own.”

“Farmers lured north by free land. Oil executives in Calgary but rooted in Houston. Religious groups influenced by American evangelicals. Their cultural home is the US. This explains the separation movement far better than the tired old list of supposed “grievances” with the Canadian government.”

“Threats of annexation, repeated and uncorrected, are not jokes. Diplomatic contempt, delivered casually and publicly, is not personality. Quiet engagement with provincial separatists is not curiosity.These are tools of pressure used by authoritarian governments that view sovereignty as conditional”

“What people most admire in Canada is the capacity to endure, no doubt a product of the brutality of the landscape…Terry Fox ran a marathon a day for 143 days on a single leg to raise money for cancer. The idols of our national sport spit out their teeth and get back in the game.”

“The love for Canadians is palpable”

Coyne: “Maybe this will force Canadians to confront the basic illegitimacy of the separatist movements. This is a free country. You can always leave the country if you want to. You can’t take a piece of it with you.”

This time last year, we'd be freaking out. But this is a paper tiger and after his Davos disaster, and his complete climbdown on Greenland, no one takes him seriously on any of this crap. His administration's days are numbered. Stinks of death throes.

“The US can no longer be trusted. We need to chart our own course.”

Buckle Up: MAGA Disinformation Targets Alberta Separatism Prof @duanebratt.bsky.social says that Alberta will probably be flooded with Brexit-like propaganda from the United States. #cdnpoli #ableg #abpoli youtu.be/9aX6Hl3Y28Q

“You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination”

Independent Canadian media 💯

“In the early days, I saw posts about Canadians helping Americans stranded during 9/11 or how we helped hide hostages in Iran. We wanted to remind Americans that we were friendly neighbours. But Trump wasn’t kidding around. And we knew these threats were for real. And then everything changed.”

UNLOCKED | Michael Harris: One of the best things about Canada is we’ll never elect a Donald Trump www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

“What would it mean for Canada to walk away from 80 years of multilateral engagement? We would be weaker. Isolated. Left on our own in an age of kleptocrats and gangsters. That’s what Trump and Putin want. The question Canadians need to ask is: Is this what the Conservative Party of Canada wants?”

Gonna check in on Canada, where politics is more normal... I see there is a convoy headed to Ottawa to avenge a flock of dead ostriches

JD Vance blaming immigrants for Canada’s housing crisis is peak hypocrisy. The U.S. GOP broke its own housing market w/ 50-yr mortgages & Wall St landlords — now he’s importing MAGA scapegoating north while smearing CBC for telling the truth. 🔗 r.pebmac.ca/https://www.... #SaveTheCBC #MAGAexport

What the world thinks of Canada…

“Canadians do not need a lecture about decency from a man who as ambassador to the Netherlands claimed that Muslims were lighting politicians on fire. Hoekstra was born there, a country that Canadian soldiers liberated, where 7,600 of them were killed. So with all due respect — shut the fuck up.”

“There are plenty of political voices and Facebook group members telling you this country is broken. But the actual numbers say something very different.”

“Canadians are not well informed about energy investment choices because our energy conversations are dominated by oil and pipeline companies, banks, mining companies… our national conversation about energy is warped”

We need regulation on data centres. They are an environmental nightmare. We can use renewable energy, not fossil fuels, protect millions of litres of water, and rising energy costs for Canadians. @mark-carney.bsky.social @ndp.ca #cdnpoli macleans.ca/technology-3...

“CBC says we are witnessing the emergence of a new ‘counterculture.’ Woah. Stop there. Calling for the forcible deportation of 8 million people does not represent a countercultural movement. It is a hate agenda.”

“There’s a global conflict, run by gangsters: Putin, Trump, Netanyahu. They look at a nation that believes in rule of law, with immense resources, that believes in decency. You don’t think that if they send the army against Portland they won’t target us? The line Canadians are holding matters!!”

Please sign. “We call upon Parliament to pass legislation requiring majority Canadian ownership and control of print, digital and other non-audio-visual news media, to protect Canadian sovereignty, ensure journalism integrity, and guarantee that our media reflects Canadian priorities and values.”

“Time for Canadians to unite and HIT BACK HARD. The USA wants to destroy our auto industry. We can crush theirs EASILY. Just like we crushed their tourism and wine industries.”

“MAPLE MAGA are setting the stage for a political play that has proven devastatingly effective in Europe/United States. So-called populists always blame outsiders.The groundwork has been underway for months with BOTS and dark actors creating fears of Canada being overwhelmed by immigration.”

“Perhaps our leaders still think of buy local/buy Canadian as an emotional fad. They are wrong. It can serve as a basis for a vision of economic independence. Canadians have shown the power of the people in charting economic independence. The question is, where are the political leaders?”

No thanks. “OpenAI is building a global network of data centres to store the massive amounts of information collected by its services, including ChatGPT — and Canada's cheap energy could help with that.”

Très inquiétant…

This is extremely bad. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Yeah right… 🫠 “Mount Royal prof Sundberg said it is unlikely that Canada would agree to U.S. officers operating without Canadian colleagues. ‘I’m not worried about that. I don’t think that either country wants to engage in an international incident or to question sovereignty,’ he said.”

“Chief Justice Wagner told dignitaries that the country's legal community is united in a deep conviction that the rule of law and judicial independence are not abstract concepts. ‘They are the best defence against tyranny and autocracy,’ Wagner said.”

“Canada will not tolerate anyone being made to feel afraid because of who they are, how they worship, or where they gather.”