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Writer, communications consultant, legal gadfly, velvet jacket enthusiast. Big believer in the rule of law. Desperately trying to remain optimistic against all the odds. Posts are clearly my own.
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Canada has accepted that there is no negotiating with a madman. #cdnpoli #USpoli

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That's what happens when you order your tux off Amazon.

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Trump: "They (Canada) have charged our Farmers as much as 400% Tariffs, for years, on Dairy Products" Fact check: ❌ FALSE High dairy tariffs kick in if a maximum tier (Tariff Rate Quota) is reached but in reality it's never been reached, so U.S. dairy exports to Canada have remained tariff-free.

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Once again, Futurama nailed it. #USpoli

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Wait until they find out that Pornhub is a Canadian company, and the ruling means Canadians will be collecting the personal information of hordes of horny Americans. #cdnpoli #USpoli

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It's almost like Conservatives don't want us to have any "made in Canada" policies, but simply be a lesser US vassal state. #cdnpoli #ONpoli #USpoli

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Who?

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This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country. "This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law." – Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

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Beware Yankee washing. A lot of grocery chains make this "mistake" to move produce Canadians won't touch. #cdnpoli

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It has become pretty obvious that tech giants and "disrupters" like Amazon, Uber, Google, and Meta, became fabulously wealthy by exploiting people and not paying taxes. #DST #cdnpoli #USpoli #digitalservicestax

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In case Americans are wondering, AOC and Zohran Mamdani would be considered pretty mainstream in most of Canada. #cdnpoli #USpoli

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NYC Comptroller Brad Lander: "I don't think the line for the [Democratic] party right now is between progressives and moderates; I think it's between fighters and folders."

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Trump to Canada: "I'm not talking to you." Canada: "Thank God. Now off to enjoy the Canada Day weekend in peace." #cdnpoli #USpoli

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The 2024 Digital Services Tax Act imposes a 3% tax on revenue from large (over $20 million/yr) companies from online marketing and advertising to Canadians. That means Facebook, Twitter & Google among others, who book revenue in other countries to avoid taxes. It will raise $1.5B a year. #cdnpoli

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American extraterritoriality. Trump can't accept that other countries have their own policies and priorities, and want to protect their own domestic industries. #cdnpoli #uspoli

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And there is the problem with the Trump tariffs in a nutshell - you just can't make some things affordably in North America.

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Nothing to see here. Just letting the planet burn.

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June 25, 2025 - NEW PODCAST! Stephen & Steven talk about Trump deciding to drop his big boy bombs on Iran, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, geopolitics of the region, and how the expanding war is cover for weak politicians looking to hang onto power. #cdnpoli #uspoli www.podbean.com/media/share/...

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Niagara Falls Holiday Inn?

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In other news I was interviewed by two giggly Chinese women on the street for Chinese TikTok on the very incorrect subject of rating the attractiveness of PRC celebrities.

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Good morning. So much for Trump "manifesting" peace.

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I'm just surprised that Fox News considers the man in the stock photo to be white.

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I hate going to bed not knowing whether peace is real or fake.

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This isn't faith - it's mental illness.

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@timothysnyder.bsky.social wants you to remember these five things about war:

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Tennessee banned Calvin and Hobbes??? #USpoli pen.org/magic-tree-h...

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As the US girds for possible Iranian terrorist attacks, this is the person Trump put in charge of terrorism prevention. 22 years old. Recent work experience: landscaping/grocery clerk. Never worked a day in counter-terrorism. But he’s a BIG Trump fan. So he got the job. #cdnpoli

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Just a reminder, all under Fed Liberal and provincial NDP. boereport.com/2025/06/22/l...

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When US Republicans need to terminate their own pregnancy, magically they no longer consider it an abortion. And somehow it is the fault of "the Left" that we do.

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When Trump says "Make Iran Great Again", I'm pretty sure this is what he is thinking about. #uspoli #Xerxes

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Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸

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