The flakey sketchy anon survey monkey (!) the federal government put out on the Island Airport, their "consultation," ends Friday. If you haven't yet be sure to still fill it out. There are places you can add your own thoughts like "this survey is faulty and skews towards done deal" and etc.

Public consultation on the future of Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport

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Key take away: every Canadian can be part of the solution. And always wonder: what if we stopped consuming so much American culture, media & news? Who cares about shows like "CIA" or "Chicago Fire" etc? Why get news from Fox, CNN, MSNBC etc? Buy local applies here too www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

Susan Delacourt: Canadians have more than one way to retaliate against Donald Trump

Citizens have been doing their own form of punching back, Susan Delacourt writes.

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You know who's desperate for the re-negotiation of CUSMA/USMCA? The U.S. The U.S. is getting nervous that its supplicants (Canada and Mexico) won't always need them and bend the knee. That's why THEY keep escalating. Is it time to rip the band-aid off? Does anyone think a deal would be real? Sad.

Trump escalates trade war against Canada with threat to impose 50% tariffs

White House estimates the new levies would affect about 5 per cent of exports to the U.S., with no exemptions for USMCA-compliant goods

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What am I missing? Toronto is still under an orange advisory, but this is what the provincial reading at Air Quality Ontario shows (www.airqualityontario.com/aqhi/today.p...):

Most useful chart I've seen for the air quality. Seems odd however, that today is so much worse than yesterday, when you can see the sun and the clouds today but couldn't see a thing yesterday. What's that about? www.airqualityontario.com/aqhi/today.p...

And, the company getting the port back online to diversify exports: "Arctic Gateway Group is a proudly Indigenous- and community-owned Manitoba company that owns and operates the Port of Churchill."

Winnipeg Free Press@winnipegfreepress.com · 3w ago

Prairie grain will soon ship out of the Port of Churchill for the first time in at least five years.

"Fortress North America would increase that integration, further subordinating Canadian economic, defence and foreign policy to the whims of Washington." www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

Super hope this isn't the latest trend for cool decorative pieces for billionaires to put in one of their mansions. But I mean, who has room for this?

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w ago

Sotheby’s sold a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil, nicknamed Gus, at auction on Tuesday for $50.1 million, with fees, topping records set in recent years amid a surging market for prehistoric specimens.

Ontario getting a lithium mine up and running is good news, but building the refinery is even a better story, imho. Currently, China is the refining powerhouse but each new facility is great news for domestic supply and future battery tech. www.snnewswatch.com/local-news/r...

Rock Tech Lithium sets operation dates for mine, refinery

The chairman of the Canadian-German company told reporters on Friday they plan to have the mine in production in mid-2028 and the refinery fully running by mid-2029.

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Look forward to details about this "deal" to open the Gordie Howe Bridge -- we already had a deal, so hope no one is selling anyone out or extorting anyone. tbd? windsorstar.com/news/local-n... via @TheWindsorStar

Gordie Howe International Bridge to open late July, sources say

The Gordie Howe International Bridge is expected to open this month, U.S. media are reporting.

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“Raise local, finish local, and process local, then you can sell local so that the value chain, right from calf to plate, is all going to be done right here in Algoma.” www.northernontariobusiness.com/industry-new... #foodsovereignty #Canada

Huge land sale in Algoma District could provide food to the North

Entrepreneur Dalton MacFarlane adding acreage to his massive rural holdings for proposed cattle farming operation

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After KPMG report said 4 in 10 Canadian manufacturers eyeing move to the U.S., wondered about what @mark-carney.bsky.social once called "dead money," not being used to grow. Still an issue: "the non-financial corporate sector is sitting on more than $1 trillion of cash." thelogic.co/commentary/k...

Carmichael: Canada’s economy needs a step change. It’s on corporate Canada to step up - The Logic

The country faces a $1.8T investment gap, RBC’s research suggests. But the biggest thing missing is a sense of urgency.

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Time for a jailbreak to push back on U.S. tech giants collecting a 30% tax on Canada's entire mobile digital economy? Cory Doctorow says: "We could be the Disenshittification Nation" betakit.com/digital-elbo... @betakit.com

Digital elbows up | BetaKit

Cory Doctorow argues that the best way to reclaim our digital sovereignty is to jailbreak Canada.

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As #NATO leaders gather & @mark-carney.bsky.social announces a major submarine deal, Canada's military re-build is underway. A few months back, @spaikin.bsky.social spoke to General (Ret'd) Eyre, former diplomat @wendygilmour.bsky.social & RMC prof. Christian Leuprect about what's needed. #cdnpoli

How Should Canada Position its Military in an Uncertain World? | TVO Today Live

YouTube video by TVO Today

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As the U.S. prepares to celebrate its 250th, icymi: @mdrohan.bsky.social tells @spaikin.bsky.social about American founding father Benjamin Franklin's failed attempts to annex Canada. Don't know this story? She says that's because Canadians let the losers write the story: youtu.be/71XcY7OgYe8?...

Madelaine Drohan: Long Before Trump, Franklin Failed to Annex Canada | TVO Today Live

YouTube video by TVO Today

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Stumbled on this old article in @thewalrus.ca -- if you want to jump in a time machine, with some jolting and resonant reminders about the Canada/US relations in early 2000s, this does the job: thewalrus.ca/2005-03-poli...

Maybe I'm missing something but I think the idea here is: because US dairy farmers are overproducing and thus prices are falling, they'd like to break up Canada's supply managment, which was created to protect farmers from over-supply prices swings. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/7f61452...

U.S. dairy wants more access to Canada. These five charts explain why

The supply management system for dairy is a flashpoint in the contentious USMCA

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When I see a story like this, I really do wonder how it's cheaper to hire people from another province to do the work over local people. Makes me feel like I don't understand basic facts about the economy. windsorstar.com/news/local-n...

Windsor unions protest Costco construction, say local workers passed over

Union members protested outside Costco construction site accusing the retailer of overlooking local skilled trades workers.

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Random reminder that Toronto Council timidly suggested once that they might, might trim the police budget and in response the police implemented a decade-long refusal to enforce traffic laws.

Matt Elliott@graphicmatt.com · last mo.

Councillor Burnside, a former cop, says the number of tickets written by police officers declined by 90% over a ten-year period. He says the city needs to "look at strategies" for getting police to do more traffic enforcement.

There's a certain irony to this. America proudly aims to dominate all kinds of sectors, from AI, social media and tech broadly, to defense, cultural industries and manufacturing. The current president brags about countries being dependent on the U.S. So, um. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/b...

As Chinese Tech Pulls Ahead, U.S. Fears It Will Become Dependent

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In just 20 years the height of most vehicles on the road has jumped, in some cases by almost 2 feet. It's a significant change, that's adding danger for those outside the vehicle. If you drive one, extra caution seems warranted: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)

The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.

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Why is health care -- health data -- so central to the new federal #AI strategy? @annfitzgerald.bsky.social from the @balsillieschool.bsky.social gave us some fascinating perspective on TVO Today Live this season: youtu.be/KLxJf1QbBQQ?... #cdnpoli

Can Canada Regain Its Digital Sovereignty? | TVO Today Live

YouTube video by TVO Today

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With #cusma still up in the air, new tarrifs announced and that 51st talk (again, sigh), keep in mind who's keeping us fed. Thanks Farmers Forum for the shoutout. farmersforum.com/ag-town-hall...

AG TOWN HALL: Supply management shielded Canadian consumers from even higher food inflation

Nelson Zandbergen Farmers Forum OTTAWA — Supply management shielded consumers from worst-case food inflation, according to producers at a recent Ontario agricultural town hall. The assertion comes at

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If you're unclear about why it's problematic that "Three U.S. tech giants hold 85% of Canadian cloud market" (www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...) watch this, with @vassb.bsky.social, @mozilla.org's Mark Surman and ThinkOn founder Craig McLellan : youtu.be/KLxJf1QbBQQ?...

Three U.S. tech giants hold 85% of Canadian cloud market, report warns

Ottawa expected to call for building sovereign AI infrastructure in its AI strategy this week

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As PM @mark-carney.bsky.social meets today with China's foreign minister Wang Yi, I'm reminded of the many valuable insights in this TVO Today Live from earlier this season: youtu.be/KZ5YxQLLGpc?...

Should Canada Pivot to China? | TVO Today Live

YouTube video by TVO Today

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A new report from United Way Perth-Huron weighs in against the quick fix promise of tiny/temporary housing. www.stratfordtoday.ca/local-news/r...

Report says tiny shelter communities are not a path to stable housing

A research paper from United Way Perth-Huron’s United Housing initiative warns that municipalities’ growing reliance on non‑permanent shelter systems risks entrenching homelessness rather than resolvi...

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While 'shovels in the ground' is an important metric to guage government effectivness, so is keeping cutting-edge Canadian companies/startups here in Canada. Some clear wins outlined at the @betakit.com town hall this week:

At Most Ambitious: Town Hall, Canadian tech’s future came into sharper focus | BetaKit

Canada’s AI minister, leaders of Waabi and Xanadu spoke to a sold-out crowd at BetaKit’s Toronto Tech Week kickoff event.

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interesting take on Canada's auto sector over time, and the decline of U.S. dominance, from an American pov:

Detroit Once Ruled Canada’s Car Industry. Trump’s Tariffs May End That.

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The U.S. celebrates its 250th this year. Others recall that 1776 was also when those would-be Americans tucked tail & took their would-be conquest of Canada back to the 13 Colonies. @spaikin.bsky.social finds out more from @mdrohan.bsky.social & her book "He Did Not Conquer," tonight on TVO at 7pm.

No irony at all in light of the U.S. strikes on some 59 boats in 2025 killing roughly 190 people in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean at the direction of President Trump.

Toronto Star@thestar.com · 3mo ago

#Breaking: Trump administration indicts former Cuban President Raúl Castro over 1996 downing of planes