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Just a friendly local Edmonton-based photo/video, guitar, film, comics and bikes guy hoping we finally do something about helping our neighbours and saving the Earth.
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Just a brutal typo on Ash Wednesday šŸ˜‚

šŸ”„ šŸ”„ BOSTONā€™s @mayorwu.boston.gov takes Rep. Gosar to school

Would be the first time a Republican hit the Capital Police. #jan6

You've been asking yourself "where is the Canadian guy"? But you knew he would show up just when we needed him. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb...

jesus fucking christ, man, it gets really tired noting this kind of thing, but "[veterans] aren't fit to have a job or aren't willing to come to work" is the kind of headline that should absolutely destroy a fucking administration and would, if that administration were led by a democrat

Former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney posted this on Twitter / X this afternoon: "To the very online MAGA North crowd: stop embarrassing yourselves by defending this lunacy."

96% of Albertans want American booze gone from Alberta liquor store shelves. Send that message to Danielle Smith and UCP caucus members.

šŸ‘€ The Times published a cartoon titled "General Address to Congress."

Military aid to Ukraine has always been a bargain for the U.S. We degraded Russiaā€™s armed forces and replaced our own stockpiles with brand new weapons, all while brave Ukrainiansā€” not Americansā€”fought the Russians off. Halting that aid is not only morally repulsive, itā€™s plain stupid.

Canada: "We're building a uranium enrichment facility" US: "Cool but I thought the whole point of CANDU was you don't need enriched uranium, what's it for" Canada: "Don't worry about it"

The British tabloidsā€™ response to JD Vanceā€™s disrespectful comments about the British military.

Danielle Smith,ā€¬ā© you would think that there would be a rule against uncle Horner lobbying little minister Horner on behalf of the Alberta Surgical Group, do you know, the skybox Tylenol people.

via Jyoti Gondek on Twitter: "U.S. tariffs are an economic threat to Alberta. Iā€™ve called on the Premier to take action, using the $4B contingency to protect local businesses & workers. Other provinces are stepping up ā€” itā€™s time for Alberta to do the same." x.com/JyotiGondek/... #Calgary #abpoli

President Trump says Canada and Mexico are allowing fentanyl to come into the U.S. at ā€œlevels never seen before.ā€ However, U.S. Customs data shows almost none of the fentanyl intercepted at American borders comes from Canada.

51% of Canadians believe the government should approach the United States as a threat or as an enemy. Far fewer now see it as a friend or ally. Canadians have a less favourable view of the US than India, a country which murdered Canadian citizens on Canadian soil.

The largest purchaser of wine is the Liquor Control Board of Ontario. The shelves of Kentucky whiskey, American beer and California wine are now empty. The LCOBO was doing a brisk business - good news for Canadian, French, Spanish, Australian, Chilean. Sucks for Kentucky and California.

A frozen Niagara Falls around 1905. šŸ“ø credit: Edwin Haynes #NiagraFalls #Ontario #Canada šŸ‡ØšŸ‡¦

(WSJ) - The world economy could face a crash similar to the Great Depression of the 1930s unless the U.S. rows back on its plans to impose steep tariffs on imports, a senior official at the International Chamber of Commerce warned. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

The stock market is tanking so badly it almost feels like we are being governed by someone who went bankrupt six timā€” oh.

Iā€™m headed to a corn and soybean farm in Cannon Falls to hear about the impact of Trumpā€™s tariffs on Minnesota farmers. Ā  Farming is a tough job, and it certainly isnā€™t made any easier by two out-of-touch billionaires cutting off economic opportunities.

And yet here we are, plunging cartoonishly downward already.

Trudeau is on fire today. Iā€™m glad heā€™s already led us through a pandemic and the economic calamity that that was. Stable leadership and teamwork across our country is how we get through this. Itā€™s time that we speak about a military draft and upgrading our anti-tank and air space denial weapons.

Investors are firmly rejecting Trumpā€™s contention that tariffs are a smart move for the US economy. The stock market just lost $3.4 trillion ā€” trillion ā€” in value.

Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.

Apparently Putin should stay in office indefinitely but Zelenskyy should resign - is the entire US government now on fentanyl? Itā€™s going to be a very brief rest of the human race under these rules. Bizarre.

The same week that Elon Musk baselessly called Social Security a "Ponzi scheme," his co-president Donald Trump announced that he wants to create a national crypto reserve. This could result in taxpayer dollars being used to prop up an actual Ponzi scheme. Hello?

It's not even clear what Trump's ask is. Going by his statements, he's demanding Canada & Mexico move all their factories and productive land here. If leaders there try to placate him, he just changes his numbers again. It's like negotiating a car lease with a dog. "Monthly payment?" "Woof! Rrrrr."

Canadaā€™s Doug Ford is not messing around. Says politicians in my home state of Kentucky are saying to him, ā€œDonā€™t touch our Bourbon!ā€ Hereā€™s his answer:

Ok, Canadians. You know what to do. Tighten our belts. Strengthen our resolve. Show our unity. Demonstrate our national pride. Support our real allies. Put Canada first forever and always.

We had Russia on the ropes. They were crippled by sanctions. They had made minimal headway into Ukraine. Putin had to survive a military uprising within his own ranks. He was down to pleading for conscripts from North Korea. Then he played his ace in the hole. Donald Motherfucking Trump.

This is criminal

Political opponents in Ukraine, and those abroad, will be exerting pressure on president Zelenskyy to step down. Doing so, would be a win for Putin and an ego boost for Trump. Zelenskyy is still best positioned to lead #Ukraine. #cdnpoly #cdnpolitics

Canadians understand that this is what Poilievre would look like sitting in a room with Trump, right?

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

In January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt answered the "America First" of his day - and foresaw the "America First" of ours: "We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests."

There has been a lot of chatter today about Zelenskyy's meeting with Trump, some regarding this moment when White House correspondent Brian Glenn asked if the Ukrainian president plans to wear a suit. I want to address idea in this thread. šŸ§µ

"Ukraine brought on the invasion themselves by trying to join an alliance that would protect them from an invasion" is some next level gaslighting.

The Trump right hates Zelenskyy because he exemplifies integrity and courage, and the price of following Trump is to abjure those qualities forever.

This was the only person speaking in the Oval Office today who placed America's long-standing interests ahead of getting some cheap attaboys from Internet trolls.

Sometimes it feels like Iā€™m going crazy, because there is something that is right in front of our faces, has been for years, and nobody of consequence ever says it: Donald Trump works for Vladimir Putin. How much more proof does anyone need? And what is anybody going to do about it?

This isn't about Zelenskyy, a patriot and hero. This is about an American administration penetrated and compromised by America's enemies.

Dusting off my old Oxford English Dictionary and consulting carefully, I could not find "attack friends and submit to enemies" as a definition of the word "strength."

i'm stealing this from someone on twitter but the difference in body language here is due to the fact that both of these men are condemned to eternal damnation in the deepest circle of Hell but only Rubio realizes it

Key points and statements from President Zelenskyy's interview to Fox News: ā—¾ļøUkrainians want peace more than anyone. ā—¾ļøUkrainians need peace through strength, with security guarantees, not just a ceasefire that Putin will violate like he already has done with numerous earlier ceasefires.

"History will remember this dayā€” when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."