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This is painful, and saddening, and embarrassing. I feel like we're losing a member of the family - and for no good reason other than that some Americans wanted another season of the worst reality TV show in history.

submitted 2 days ago • 849 comments

Trump’s folks first tried to deflect, then lied about it under oath, and then — when The Atlantic called their bluff and published the detailed Houthi attack plans — fell back on risible semantic excuses open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Learn more about the library that sits on the USA-Canada border

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

When these institutions — big law firms, Ivy League universities —bow to Trump rather than fighting what appear to be illegal orders, do they think he’ll just be satisfied and stop? Do they just expect others to fight where they won’t?

submitted 8 days ago • 34 comments

At what point does Global Affairs Canada issue a travel warning to Canadians heading to the US? Because I think we're thoroughly at the point at which this is necessary.

submitted 8 days ago • 61 comments

This is aboot dignity! This is aboot respect!

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

You know Canadians are mad when they start using salty language like "get stuffed."

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

People are changing the labels on Wayne G's wine: "a merlot that is sad and 2 faced" "as weak as the name-sakes moral fibre." There is a reason why Canadians dominate comedy - we are wickedly funny. And when push comes to shove we play for keeps (ie. Kharmalov's ankle). Sucks to be you Wayne.

submitted 18 days ago • 347 comments

TRUMP TARIFF CHESS Feb 1: announces tariffs on 🇨🇦🇲🇽 Feb 3: pauses tariffs on 🇨🇦🇲🇽 Feb 27: announces tariffs on 🇨🇦🇲🇽 Mar 4: imposes tariffs on 🇨🇦🇲🇽 Mar 5: delays 🇨🇦🇲🇽 car tariffs Mar 6: pauses tariffs on USMCA-compliant 🇨🇦🇲🇽 goods Mar 7: threatens tariffs on 🇨🇦 dairy (250%) and lumber

submitted 22 days ago • 733 comments

I’d like to announce my forthcoming US history book, covering a decisive but tumultuous era in that country’s history, titled “The trade policies of the United States: 10:30 am to 1:30 pm on Friday, March 7, 2025” It will be 400 pages.

submitted 22 days ago • 276 comments

If Russian troops went back to Russia the war would be over

submitted 23 days ago • 50 comments

A reporter asks Trudeau about Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly’s characterization of the current U.S. situation which she called a "psychodrama." "How would you characterize it?" Trudeau, speaking for a weary nation, “Thursday."

submitted 23 days ago • 180 comments

Tariffs didn’t make Canada the 45th state, and they won’t make us the 51st. 🇨🇦

submitted 24 days ago • 12 comments

25 years later. Remember Joe? He’s actually CBC colleague Jeff Douglas. He’s back with an updated Canadian rant. “MY NAME IS JEFF AND WE ARE CANADIAN” youtu.be/1LzhCLzfJFg?...

submitted 24 days ago • 10 comments

Just what we all needed...thanks Jeff😍

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us. That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.

submitted 25 days ago • 370 comments

open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Vance blew up that meeting on purpose

submitted 29 days ago • 594 comments

Trump and Vance’s meeting with Zelensky in the Oval Office today “gave the lie to any claim that this administration’s policy is driven by any strategic effort to advance the interests of the United States, however misguided,” @davidfrum.bsky.social writes. Read more: theatln.tc/SowY3Uin

submitted 29 days ago • 96 comments