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Why is Poilievre following Trump's playbook?

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Toxicologist: The LD50 test is helpful for assessing acute toxicity but it fails to capture the complexity of chemical toxicity, especially chronic health effects like cancer, reproductive toxicity, & ecological impacts. DDT (113 mg/kg), Caffeine (150 mg/kg), Both class 3 (toxic) - similar? - no

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Canada should keep its tariffs intact--we can't dance at the end of his rope.

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The episode has been damaging to US credibility, predictability of supply chains and yes corruption/and power concentration (whose lobbying works). Plus in short term one month reprieve only increases effort to maximize imports in short-term widening trade deficit

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Loosening tariffs on automotive opens up to our fiscal capacity to go after our main goal: punishing Maine in particular.

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Didn't take long. There's a tariff/cryptocurrency scam going round. open.substack.com/pub/ftoninde...

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This from China. Shit is getting real. Remember: it's not just Canada in this fight. We have powerful global allies. Politics make strange bedfellows.

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture must temporarily reinstate more than 5,000 probationary employees fired since Feb. 13, according to a ruling by the Merit Systems Protection Board.

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Stop looking for logic in Trump's actions. Or coherence. Even with regard to Russia or trade. We know his broad instincts. But we also know he'll abandon almost anything if there's some upside for him.

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I hate these guys so much, Donald Trump gets to insult Trudeau literally every time he mentions him and drop a tariff Nuke on Canada but Trudeau is the problem if he ever says a word to Trump that isn’t pure praise

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If the US had continued to support Ukraine, we may have been months away from the end of the war. The Russians would not have been able to continue to fight for much longer. They were making almost no progress, taking huge casualties.

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Worried about young children travelling alone? No need. Simply drop them off at our chaperone service and we'll do the rest.

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Time for a trade, then. Alberta for California.

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#NewBio Peter Martin (fl. 1753–1802) was an enslaved Black man who gained his freedom after serving in the American Revolutionary War. Although he was a free man in Upper Canada, his family remained in bondage to his former enslaver. www.biographi.ca/en/bio/marti...

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Have Canadian media investigated this? Nazi racist reported to be employee of Trinity Western University, Langley BC; his dad is President of same uni.

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Europeans are mystified, disappointed and frightened by a country they thought they knew www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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The United States has launched an economic war on Canada, an EU ally, which the 🇨🇦 prime minister says is with the intention of a forced annexation. Are European leaders going to acknowledge that at some point?

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Britain needs to tell the US to get fucked

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This is especially frustrating because the denominator is the bigger story-the actual number of police killings is far lower than you think it is. BLS numbers show that landscaping is a more dangerous profession. And most of those on the job police killings? Traffic accidents. Not homicides.

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An Israeli social media trend shows people prank-calling family members, pretending to seek donations for Palestinian children, to mock their suffering in Gaza.

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"US Marshals have warned federal judges of unusually high threat levels as tech billionaire Elon Musk & other Trump admin allies ramp up efforts to discredit judges who stand in the way of White House efforts..." reuters.com/world/us/judges-face-rise-threats-musk-blasts-them-over-rulings-2025-03-05/

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StatsCan reports a big jump in productivity in Q4, and the revised data for over the past year puts productivity in the positive after years of gloomy data. This is going to shock/thrill @kevincarmichael.bsky.social.

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Stay strong, Canada and Mexico 🙏🏽❤️

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This was a major theme of the debates over pandemic protocols. People who opposed vaccine and mask mandates simply didn't fucking care about other people, and they projected accusations of fascism on those who did.

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I agree with all of this. For starters. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

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Great creativity on show in today’s The Intelligence pod from The Economist as the correspondent marshals his thesaurus to find ways to describe Trump’s address without using the words ‘lying’ or ‘mad’.

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This is good news, and all the more reason to continue to make it easier to build new housing to keep the construction momentum going. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Businesses and consumers across New England rely heavily on Canadian imports, raising fears about the trickle down costs of President Trump’s imposition of a 25% tariff. In Massachusetts, Canadian imports were valued at around $10.6 billion last year.

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Patrick Keliher is worried that between rising costs and falling catches hundreds of people will go out of business. (via Maine Public)

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"In an unprecedented move to funnel more public tax dollars toward groups that oppose abortion, Republican lawmakers in Missouri are advancing a plan to allow residents to donate to pregnancy resource centers instead of paying any state income taxes..." www.propublica.org/article/miss...

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Small modular reactors, known as SMRs, can be a gamechanger for nuclear energy They can be quicker to build with greater scope for cost reductions, driven by innovation By 2050, over 1,000 SMRs could start operating with a combined capacity of 120 GW ➡️ iea.li/3XlG9im

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Following the reactivation of its Psychological Defence Agency, every Swedish household now receives a booklet titled “If Crisis or War Comes,” outlining what to do in an emergency. Canada should be doing the same, writes Peter MacLeod.

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Not that you need or should be listening to this garbage, but to any Canadians who are listening: Notice how little the trade battle, or any foreign policy matter, plays into any of this. Whatever comes next, our plight will never be top of mind in America. We cannot count on that.

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So far it’s impossible to comment on Trump’s Address to Congress because it’s like a toddler given a microphone to repeat stuff they’ve half-heard their parents saying.

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The US Congress is applauding Trump for withdrawing from the fricking World Health Organization. We live in Idiocracy.

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Remind me: Who emboldened that very online MAGA North crowd because he was angry that someone else got a turn to govern in Alberta? Oh, right. Jason Kenney, who gathered up all of the swivel-eyed loons, empowered them, and then was shocked when they turned on him.

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The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. My Dad reminding me he had a similar idea… 11 years ago! Though his involved shifting the TMX terminal to the ferries site (next to Robert’s Bank coal port) and creating an air/sea hub at YVR island. Same same (similar) www.policynote.ca/time-for-a-d...

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Good lord. “We have to post on X because that’s the platform with the greatest reach” no longer holds when a) continuing to do so amounts to complicity with a vector for anti-democratic extremism, b) its owner advocates the end of Canadian sovereignty, and c) a ready alternative exists.

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Yeah, Chevron was at that dinner where Trump "asked" for $1b from Big Oil to help get him elected

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Ottawa files notice to intervene in Supreme Court hearing on Quebec secularism law https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/provincial-news/article792863.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky

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Idea for whoever is in charge of planning 🇨🇦Canada Day🇨🇦 celebrations across the country this year: Call all Canadian🇨🇦 bands home for a cross-Canada concert for the ages. Summer of ‘69? How about Summer of ‘25! Bring it. #ElbowsUp #PartyOnWayne #PartyOnGarth

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Hello Canucks crafting policy responses to Trump's March Madness. Even if he walks back the tariffs, we need EI reform. The share of the unemployed receiving regular jobless benefits was 34% in June, the LOWEST RATE IN HISTORY. www.thestar.com/business/opi... Same in December, pre-Trump. Let's go!

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