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Canada, May I Introduce You to Ukraine?

I had a conversation last week with a Canadian journalist about the culture war on American campuses. After we finished talking about that, she had one final question for me.

“What the hell is Trump thinking about Canada?”

She wasn’t just asking about President Trump’s tariff threats. She was also asking about Trump’s obsession with referring to Canada as the 51st state. The tariffs were somewhat understandable, even if terribly misguided. They are, after all, one of Trump’s few consistent policy obsessions. He likes tariffs perhaps even more than he likes walls.

The New York Times David French is very very high.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

What’s the German word for Schadenfreude? Toronto Tesla owners grapple with politics of Musk and Trump amid thorny trade war

When Deborah Wilson first bought her Tesla Model Y in 2022, she loved it.

A resident of Toronto’s Beaches neighbourhood and a busy mother of two, she found it nimble and fun to drive. Plus, it was an environmentally sound purchase and saved her money on gas at a time when every trip to the pump was pricey.

But since then, she’s become increasingly self-conscious driving it around town amid U.S. President Donald Trump‘s threat of annexation and close relationship with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has stirred up significant controversy of his own.

People are at risk of mockery on the school run!

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, WTF?

Carney Calls Election April 28

Carney Calls Election April 28

Canada election: Carney expected to trigger snap federal vote

Abacus Data Poll: As the Election Kicks Off, the Conservatives lead the Liberals by 3 as the NDP sinks further

Carney Advisor – Wisemans’s swift firing from BlackRock shows the days of giving executives an ethical pass are over

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

‘No Canadian dream’: Meet some who want to join a 51st U.S. state

EDMONTON – Jordon Kosikowie has been thinking a lot about what would happen if Alberta joined the United States.

The 35-year-old works in the oil and gas industry in the Edmonton area and says life has been hard in recent years. So he’s open to the idea if it brings more prosperity.

“If there’s an opportunity for me to put more money into my pocket, why not converse about it?” said Kosikowie, who runs a Facebook group for Albertans who want to be a part of a 51st U.S. state. The group has grown to 1,000 members since it was created a few months ago.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

Gen Z consumers say Buy Canadian movement is unaffordable

Gen Z Shopping in the Buy Canadian era

Like many postsecondary students, Charlotte Fowler is careful about how she spends her money.

Her books and clothes are bought locally, often from thrift stores. She takes a pass on the $6 baskets of blueberries. And as much as she’d like to get behind the Buy Local movement and avoid anything from the United States, she said spending extra isn’t something she can afford.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA, WTF?

GOLDSTEIN: Carney’s theft of Poilievre’s platform has turned into a farce

If Mark Carney and the Liberals are best equipped to take on U.S. President Donald Trump in a tariff war, why have they stolen their election platform from Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives?

This ongoing theft has reached farcical levels, given that the Liberals’ economic record of their 10 years in power, as well as Carney’s own statements before entering politics, indicate they don’t believe in what they’re promising and will abandon most if not all of it if re-elected.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Conservative Party, Election 2025

King Charles Is Rooting For Canada. You Just Didn’t Notice.

The King of Canada wants President Trump to back off. Just don’t expect him to actually say that publicly.

Britain’s King Charles III, who is also Canada’s head of state, is wrestling with an unprecedented diplomatic headache. The monarch wants to stand up for the largest country in his realm as

Trump talks about turning it into the 51st U.S. state. At the same time he has to honor the British government’s desire that he keep Trump, who deeply admires the royal family, sweet.

The result has been a master class in passive-aggressive pageantry from Buckingham Palace.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, USA

10 reasons fewer newcomers are becoming Canadian citizens

Douglas Todd: How do we explain the 40 per cent drop in permanent residents choosing to move onto citizenship? COVID-19, the devaluing of Canada and grim economics are among the factors.

Canada is witnessing a dramatic drop in newcomers choosing to become citizens.

There has been a 40 per cent decline in the past 25 years in the proportion of recent immigrants choosing to move on to citizenship, according to Statistics Canada’s Feng Hou and Garnett Picot.

Only 46 per cent of recent immigrants to Canada are applying for citizenship, say the researchers. That compares with 74 per cent in 1996. Most of the drop took place between 2016 and 2021.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration is Class War", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada

Doug Ford says his ‘absolutely swamped’ MPPs won’t have time to campaign for Pierre Poilievre

Premier Doug Ford is reminding Progressive Conservative cabinet ministers and MPPs they will be too “swamped” with their day jobs to help Pierre Poilievre in the federal election campaign.

Asked at the first ministers’ meeting in Ottawa on Friday if he would “let your MPPs campaign with Mr. Poilievre,” Ford did not mince words.

“I want to make sure our MPPs are fulfilling our mandate. We are going to be absolutely swamped,” said the premier, whose Tories were re-elected Feb. 27.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Election 2025, WTF?

WARMINGTON: Oilers may never shake ‘Carney Curse’ as injuries mount post PM photo op

Just call it the Carney Curse!

And you better believe that will be the last time No. 24 Mark Carney will be back on the ice with the Edmonton Oilers.

While Carney, who turned 60 last Sunday, teased on X he “always knew I would make it to the show,” there’s probably just too much carnage left behind to give him another shift.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Jesse Kline: For the love of peat — how Liberals let moss block development of the ‘oilsands of Ontario’

A video posted by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on Wednesday highlights one of Canada’s enduring problems: our chronic inability to get anything done and, by extension, our propensity to handicap our own economic prosperity.

In the video, and at a pre-campaign stop in Sudbury, Ont., Poilievre highlighted a story that should have sparked a modern-day gold rush. In 2007, prospectors found vast deposits of critical minerals — including chromite, which is used to produce stainless steel, cobalt, nickel, copper and platinum — in a remote part of northern Ontario, about 500 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, that came to be known as the “Ring of Fire.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, WTF?

Think tank warns federal subsidies turning MSM into government arm

Expanding subsidies risk transforming Canada’s mainstream media into a government-controlled entity, an Ottawa think tank warned Thursday.

Blacklock’s Reporter says the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, in a report by former Calgary Herald publisher Peter Menzies, argued that growing reliance on federal funding is damaging journalism’s credibility and independence.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Government Owned News Media