Baseball trade deadeline > hockey trade deadline and it's not even close.
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Booked a flight to Saskatchewan on Porter from St. Hubert on the faint hope that competition might do what it’s supposed to do.
“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
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ERI’s second act: What happens next?
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This is the last photo I took of Montreal #jazz icon #OliverJones. The 91 year old’s death was announced Wednesday night. Jones grew up in Little Burgundy. Oscar Peterson’s sister, Daisy Peterson Sweeney was Jones’ tutor. Rest in peace, Mr. Jones. You were one of the sweetest persons I ever met.
In this week's column, I agree that Canada needs to weild more economic weight with one objective in mind: Beating Trump. (Featuring a @jamellebouie.net shout-out) Gift link in next skeet. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Justin Ling: To hit back at Trump, Canada needs to supercharge its boycott of American goods
The federal government should encourage all Canadians to wield their purchasing power against the U.S. president.
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Le pays qui veut qu'on contrôle nos feux de forêts est même pas capable de laver sa salade comme du monde.
Not a single word about how these tariffs violate both our WTO & USCMA obligations. Every time Trump does this, the NYT & other outlets simply write as if we live in an international vacuum, where the US has no obligations under signed, ratified international treaties. It's journalistic malpractice.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w agoPresident Trump signed an order imposing a 50% tariff on a wide range of goods from Canada, including hockey sticks, wine and cement.
An interesting analysis by Lisa Maureen Birch and Benjamin Carignan on how the CAQ actually managed to keep most of its promises while still disappointing voters in an exceptional manner. policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/07/decl...
Why did the CAQ experience a decline in popular support?
The CAQ kept a large part of its promises, but its popularity collapsed. Why did Quebecers lose confidence?
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When I was a kid, we worried about “acid rain.” Then a few adults in the room decided to address the problem. policyoptions.irpp.org/2012/04/acid...
Acid rain: A case study in Canada-US relations
On March 11, 1981, when Ronald Reagan visited Ottawa for the first time as president of the United States, he was greeted by thousands of protesters on Parliament Hill. They shouted and held placards ...
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Kim McCauley@kimischilling.bsky.social · 3w agoI am not a climate scientist but when I was a kid the number of times we couldn’t go outside because of Canadian wildfire smoke was zero times
I remember it happening in southern Saskatchewan but it was rare enough to be memorable. We also had occasional episodes of 1930s-style dustbowls in the 1980s before zero-tillage took over.
Kim McCauley@kimischilling.bsky.social · 3w agoI am not a climate scientist but when I was a kid the number of times we couldn’t go outside because of Canadian wildfire smoke was zero times
Sink some more cost? Why not. L’intérieur du Stade olympique sera rénové lp.ca/ztqQD1?shari...
L’intérieur du Stade olympique sera rénové
L’intérieur du Stade olympique sera finalement rénové.
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These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...
Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w agoThese photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...
Remember when some were saying that if Trump abandons Ukraine, Ukr would obviously need to surrender, that Europe couldn't possibly replace US assistance because it's divided, tired, and incapable, and Canada is irrelevant because it underspends on defense? All of this was unnecessary dooming.
Meduza in English@meduza.io · 4w agoEurope and Canada now fund the bulk of security assistance to Ukraine, through bilateral and multilateral channels. Allies used this week's NATO summit to stress that this support must be distributed fairly and stay predictable and sustainable long-term. meduza.io/en/news/2026...
I gather our problem is we need 12 chances to create a goal and we’ve only got 9. Meanwhile SA will score if they ever get one.
The Moroccans are getting better shots in with their yellow cards. Need to hockey up here.
Every time the United States blows up another campaign finance law, I think of the Supreme Court of Canada's ruling in Harper v. Canada. decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-...
Canada v. Morocco is going to be quite the competition in Montreal.
The only thing the Canadian men's soccer team used to do was lose in CONCACAF Gold Cup games to small Caribbean & Central American nations, in games that always seemed to be played in the rain at midnight, featuring several attempted murders on the field
Canada being among the final 16 teams in contention for the actual honest-to-god World Cup is a lot more insane if you remember the days when this team was just Craig Forrest and ten plumbers from Woodbridge being featured in grainy footage at the end of the TSN highlights losing to Guadeloupe
I gather our problem is we need 12 chances to create a goal and we’ve only got 9. Meanwhile SA will score if they ever get one.
I don’t understand the soccer. The officiating, yes, but also how the announcers keep saying South Africa is stronger when Canada has all the chances.
Kevin G. Lynch and Jim Mitchell: Carney’s new federal agencies won’t fix old delivery problems policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/06/carn... @policyoptions.irpp.org
Carney’s new federal agencies won’t fix old delivery problems
New agencies may promise speed, but Canada’s deeper delivery problem is the machinery of government they are designed to bypass and reform.
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I want to apologize to all of Canada for tuning in to watch the second half of this match.
I don’t know if anyone here needs this but there’s no way to be sure from videos who shot the poor bystander. It could be one of several people with guns including the gunman off camera with line of sight and apparent indifference to human life. This is a dark time for the information ecosystem.
