For my Canadian friends

A new Nanos survey for CTV News found that most Canadians continue supporting boycotts of U.S. travel and products as trade tensions persist. About 82% of respondents said avoiding American goods and travel helps strengthen Canada’s bargaining position, with older Canadians showing the strongest support.

Provinces removing U.S. liquor from shelves have significantly impacted American distilleries, with exports to Canada reportedly dropping 63% in 2025 and nearly 1,000 related jobs lost.

Despite the economic impact, many Canadians interviewed said they plan to continue avoiding U.S. products and travel until trade disputes are resolved, viewing the boycott as important leverage in negotiations.

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And from one Canadian liquor store, after the shelves had been stripped of American booze an employee had placed a single aptly named bottle of wine there ....

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Saturday May 16, 2026:
- tonight -

NHL HOCKEY
Buffalo Sabres at Montreal Canadiens ABC-TV 8PM/ET

Let's Go Buffalo !
 
Canada is decoupling from the miscreant pariah, formerly known as the United States for many reasons but mostly because of the disrespect, condescending rhetoric, lies, and arrogance. Add this to the fact the US is dishonourable, racist, unreliable, insulting and untrustworthy!
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Canada has moved on and the world wants what we have. Prime Minister Dr. Mark Carney has already signed agreements with over 50 countries!

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Canada Is Gone — Carney Just Replaced America With Europe And Trump Can't Stop It Something extraordinary is happening in global politics right now — and according to this analysis, Canada is at the center of it.

The argument is that Prime Minister Mark Carney is no longer simply managing tensions with the United States. He is systematically redesigning Canada’s economic and geopolitical future to reduce dependence on Washington altogether.

After years of tariffs, trade disputes, annexation rhetoric, and political pressure from Donald Trump, Canadians handed Carney a strong electoral mandate built around one central idea: Canada must become more independent and globally diversified.

And Carney appears to be moving with remarkable speed.

In just a few months, Canada has pursued new trade and security relationships across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and South America. Negotiations involving India, ASEAN countries, Mercosur, China, and Qatar are being framed not as isolated trade deals, but as part of a much larger structural shift — one designed to spread Canada’s economic partnerships across multiple continents so that no single country can dominate its future.

The most symbolic move came when Canada joined the European Union’s SAFE defense initiative, becoming the first non-European country ever included in the framework. That decision signaled something deeper than diplomacy: Ottawa no longer sees long-term reliance on Washington as sufficient for Canada’s security and economic future.

Throughout the strategy, Carney’s approach reflects his background as a central banker and technocrat. Rather than responding emotionally to political pressure, he is building systems — trade agreements, investment flows, supply chains, defense partnerships, and infrastructure networks — that become difficult to reverse once established.

The analysis also argues that Trump’s confrontational approach may actually be accelerating Canada’s pivot away from the United States. Every tariff, public insult, or annexation comment gives Carney more domestic political support for diversification and deeper ties with Europe and Asia.

Perhaps the most important point is this: Carney is not trying to “fix” the old relationship with America. He may be trying to build a Canada that no longer depends on that relationship remaining stable at all.

Whether this transformation ultimately succeeds remains uncertain. But one thing is increasingly clear: Canada is attempting one of the most ambitious geopolitical repositionings in its modern history — and the consequences could reshape the future of North America for decades.
 
Shiftless2 said:
"Pentagon walks away ..." CBC
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Clarification & enlightenment are the honored, eternal quest of reputable journalism.
CBC has not lived up to its own reputation in this case.

"Pentagon" is already widely misunderstood. Here CBC compounds this misunderstanding.
Some may imagine the U.S. Pentagon to be overpopulated with blood-thirsty monsters insanely eager to wage Wars, and dismember and kill their fellow man.

CERTAINLY they are capable.
But by Constitutional enumeration they are under the command of the president of the United States, perhaps the most blood-thirsty of them all.

One needn't be a field-grade officer to understand there's safety in numbers, that the U.S. is safer maintaining the longstanding synergistic alliance of stalwart Canada.

President Trump has already demonstrated his school-girl caprice in first unilaterally and substantially groundlessly over-criticizing NATO,
and then whining about NATO reluctance to clean up Trump's Strait of Hormuz mess.

CBC:
"Pentagon" knows better.
Accuse all you like.
Divulge as you wish.

But please, do so with journalistic integrity. In this case "Pentagon" may be as much victim as Canada.
For these masters of warfare are faithful to their oath of fidelity to the Constitution, which obliges them to obey the command of a ruthless, flagrantly destructive tyrant.

And in point of fact, if the Constitution had been obeyed, Trump would not be president right now. Please don't blame / accuse the victims.

Constitution of the United States of America
ARTICLE #14: Ratified July 9, 1868
SECTION 3. No person shall ... hold any office, civil or military, under the United States ... who, having previously taken an oath ... as an officer of the United States ... to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. ..."
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There's a substantially more important story here CBC. You've rather more buried it than exposed it. Enlighten up !
 
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Ready to Govern, Unwilling to Answer

When a candidate seeking to lead a provincial party refuses to answer questions at her own press conference, voters deserve to ask why.

Kerry-Lynne Findlay called a press conference on Monday to address allegations that her 2025 federal campaign broke election funding rules. She travelled from Surrey to Victoria to do it. Then, seven minutes later, she got in a black SUV with tinted windows and left. The Chilliwack Progress put it plainly in their headline: Findlay fled her own press conference.

Reporters pleaded with her to take questions. Her campaign spokesman told them that was all she had time for. The SUV sped away.

What is the distinction between a press conference and a prepared statement? You call a press conference when you want to demonstrate you have nothing to hide, when you’re confident enough in your story to defend it in real time, when you’re willing to ....

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Pierre Poilievre treats reporters just like Trump. Mark Carney is doing great considering USA is trying to destroy the country he’s Prime Minister of

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Pierre Poilievre treats reporters just like Trump. Mark Carney is doing great considering USA is trying to destroy the country he’s Prime Minister of . Follow @nowthatscanadian for more #canada
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These are PP's people (aka Maple MAGA)

Jordan Kealy, MLA for Peace River North, has been charged with sexual assault. He is the second MLA elected under the BC Conservative banner to face criminal charges in recent months. While these cases work through the courts, the movement behind these men keeps pointing at the rainbow community as the threat. I wrote about it. Read, comment and share:

https://queergranddad.substack.com/p/the-irony-is-loud

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Woodhouse Nepinak emphasized that First Nations are foundational partners in the creation of Canada through historic treaties and agreements that cannot simply be ignored because of political disagreements
 
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Ford Avoids Accountability With 5-Month Break
By Steve Ward
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The Ontario Legislature began 2026 with a fourteen-week Winter Break. It then convened for a seven-week Spring Sitting which actually ended two days early. The Legislature is now on a five-month (or 21-week) Summer Break and won’t return until October 27. Ford claimed that a sitting legislature could impact or interfere with this fall’s municipal elections. This reasoning is beyond ridiculous. The truth is that Ford wants a long break to avoid being held accountable for his record by a sitting legislature.

In 2026, Ontario MPPs have spent a grand total of thirty days inside the legislature proposing, debating and passing legislation. In comparison, the House of Commons has sat for fifty-eight days and isn't scheduled to recess for its Summer Break until June 19. MPs will then return thirteen-weeks later on September 21.

Ford is becoming more arrogant and less democratic the longer he remains in power. He is dismissive of the work performed by the legislature. Ford even suggested that “the government is more efficient when the legislature isn't sitting. Committees still sit, government still runs, we still pass things through ministerial orders, rather than sitting here and arguing." Ford wants to avoid the accountability that comes with facing the opposition in the legislature. To him, the process of democracy constitutes “arguing.” The Premier’s arrogance is increasingly on full display for all to see.

Meanwhile, Ontario NDP and Official Opposition Leader Marit Stiles said Ford had a horrible record coming out of the Spring Session. “He bought a luxury private jet, hid his phone records, cut OSAP, made a mess of the books and threw taxpayers to the wolves." Interim Liberal Leader John Fraser noted that Ford “doesn't want to be accountable.” And added that “It's a government whose record is terrible."

The Ford Government is drifting in power, bereft of new ideas, with a leader whose expensive missteps started to add up years ago. Ford chose to avoid the resulting political heat by opting instead for a five-month break in the summer heat.

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Shiftless2 said:
"And then there's a petition
Canadians Against Trump" #534
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I find it quite alarming to imagine there's a Canadian that won't sign it. - although -
Canadians will probably like Trump a whole lot less when (if) Canada becomes the 51st State.
 
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The Wreck of Harper Conservatives​

Read while playing Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. (no disrespect intended to Gordon and his brilliant song)
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The legend lives on from the Hill to the coast
Of the leader they call the contender
The polls, they were high, with a suit and a tie
But the ship was a reckless pretender
With a polish so new, and a glasses-less view
He sailed on the winds of resentment
But deep in the hold, the truth was quite cold
And lacking in true life contentment
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The captain was quick with a verbal-slap trick
When a reporter would ask him a query
With an apple in hand, he’d bark at the land
Till the voters were baffled and weary
He changed up his hair, and he changed what he’d wear
To soften the image of anger
But beneath the display, the far-right held sway
And put all the progress in danger
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In the digital deep, where the algorithm keeps
The rage of the base in a fire
He’d post up a clip, with a curled-up lip
And push the frustration up higher
Not facts for the mind, but the partisan kind
Designed to make logic feel lonely
While he lived quite grand, the elite of the land
Feeding hate to the followers only
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The Conservatives merged, in the chaos they surged
United in name, but divided
The rhetoric grew, as the debt numbers flew
And the paths of the future subsided
He stood on the deck, a political wreck
As the tide of the common sense drifted
He spoke of a hole, of a dark, crushing toll
While the actual numbers were lifted
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In a gaffe that was heard, in every last word
He mourned for a crash that was fleeing
"The jobs are all gone!" he cried till the dawn
Though the stats showed a different being
The recession he sought, was a battle he fought
But the reality wouldn't stop growing
And the song of the ship, with the ice on the tip
Was just where the wind wasn't blowing
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And the wreck of the party, now sailing so hearty
Is haunted by hubris and bluster
The voters, they wait, at the iron-wrought gate
For the wisdom the captain could muster
But the ship sails on, in the dusk and the dawn
To a shore that no polling can capture
While the ghost of the plan, of a desperate man
Is lost in the swell and the rapture.
 
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