Chris Ives

Jays and Cowboys win!!

BREAKING NEWS: Poilievre Stunned in Alberta Byelection as Protest Ballot Uprising Topples Tory Leader The Prairie Sentinel | August 18, 2025 | BATTLE RIVER—CROWFOOT, ALBERTA

"a bitter pill for a leader whose stark future relies on a a party now questioning whether populism has plowed its last prairie furrow."

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Breaking News: Cabinet Invokes 25th Amendment in Unprecedented “MAGA Mutiny” The Capitol Chronicle | December 15, 2025 | WASHINGTON D.C.

Could this White House chaos actually have a happy ending? 🎭

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Red States Are Failing Their Children On Purpose How red states buy voter ignorance

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Tariffs. Retaliation. Collateral Damage. Repeat. Tariffs are not really a new problem

Tariffs. Retaliation. Collateral Damage. Repeat.
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Canada's Free Trade Bargain Turns Sour Under Trump The trillion-dollar trade system that built Canada’s wealth is now its greatest risk

Canada’s free trade gamble with the U.S. paid off for decades, until Trump turned our dependency into a weapon. With CUSMA rulings ignored and tariff threats looming, the system that built our prosperity now risks becoming our biggest vulnerability

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Turns out the best way to negotiate with a human tornado isn’t to shout louder, it’s to document the storm. Carney’s genius move is treating Trump’s inconsistency as a feature rather than a bug. The ultimate power move is knowing unpredictability is predictable.

Why Does the Right Hate Immigrants So Much? The Pledge, The Turn, and The Prestige Behind Political Scapegoating

The greatest magic trick that works every time...

“Owner responsibility” …

What the actual F.
MAGA is without morals
Dems need a plan

No lies told here.

No Holiday for Breaking News Three Stories That Won’t Take a Day Off. Even If You Did

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Nuclear capabilities destroyed ❌
Ceasefire successfully negotiated ❌

At least we got our first Presidential F Bomb

Mmmmm. Yum

So much for 2 weeks

How Jacinda Ardern Won the Pandemic and Lost Her Country Competent leadership shouldn’t be this fragile. But in an age of disinformation and division, it is and Canada isn’t immune.

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Her downfall wasn't due to policy failure; it was a victim of the right-wing playbook: exploit hardship, amplify division, weaponize disinformation, and attack competence as elitism. Carney, the ultimate global technocrat, is a prime target.

Bizarre. Is not the right word. Alarming is underwhelming. Unframeable.

For one from the west to see people living and loving life while rockets fly overhead.

The Partisan Poison Spreading Through Democracy And Canada's (Struggling) Antidote Western democracies are losing their guardrails but Canada is holding on, for now.

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It’s getting real .. can Canada survive partisanship?

The 30% of Albertans who support separation is about the same % it’s always been.

I’d bet 30 / 100 people in Nova Scotia or Quebec or Ontario would vote that way as well.

The only difference is that Smith is the PM and fanning the flames.

Carney’s Defence Gambit: Can Canada Finally Fix It's Broken Military? A promise of a spending shockwave, a divorce from U.S. arms deals, and a brutal admission of decay. Why this gamble could redefine or ruin Canadian defence

After decades of rust & procurement disasters, Carney promises to hit NATO’s 2%, dump 75% US defence spending, and buy EU jets. Canada’s gamble for sovereignty. Game-changer or grave risk?

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The Poilievre Paradox Four weeks in, the Conservative leader’s numbers are bad. Is his party looking for an exit?

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Carney’s Early Report Card Just weeks into his tenure leading a Liberal minority, Mark Carney has kept pundits engaged, Pierre Poilievre’s opposition rhetoric consistent, and the hopes of many Canadians alive.

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Is Dougie trying to Trade Ontario's Future for the Ring of Fire? As Trump’s tariffs loom and Ottawa watches closely, Bill 5 forces the question: Can Ontario win without sacrificing its soul?

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Is the Ring Of Fire worth it?

Conservative pundits on day one of Parliament;

Poilievre had a good day, evolving…

Carney needs to hurry up…

Attack …

They have literally learned nothing.

Poilievre's Alberta Bailout: A Leader Digging His Own Grave? What happens when a rejected leader tries to shortcut his way back to power? Alberta Conservatives might just help him to find out

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57 Votes: A Whisper Away from Majority How paper-thin margins in three ridings and Pierre Poilievre's stunning defeat wrote the history of Election 2025

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History may judge this as Carney’s miracle or Poilievre’s miscalculation. But Canada remains a country where elections aren’t won in rallies, but in quiet spaces. The Liberals of 2025 proved democracy holds its breath, then exhales one vote at a time.

#DarkestTimes #CultOfTrump

Can’t seem to find the rage posts about election fraud after the official calls for Terra and Windsor. Hmmm

Canada Post Is Dying. The Union Must Choose: Adapt or Let It Collapse Can labour and management strike a deal before it’s too late? And can the government stay out of it?

🔥 Canada Post is bleeding and its own union might finish the job. Can CUPE save the postal service, or will it cling to demands that destroy it? #cdnpoli #canadapost

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The Unfinished Business of Canadian Prime Ministers Why this PM's plans face tougher tests than Trudeau's optimism or Harper's austerity ever did

The Unfinished Business of Canadian Prime Ministers
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