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Well there's not many polls and the only easy way to get to them is by car...

Donald Trump has a very strange theory about exercise | CNN Politics President Donald Trump has a number of unorthodox theories about politics. But his theory of why exercise is bad for you is the strangest I’ve heard yet.

Maybe, but he's never cared before either. In fact, he has really weird ideas about it. www.cnn.com/2017/05/15/p...

He likely was told but does not care. His health isn't important to him.

The CEOs didn't do anything at all for that money either. Burgers still sell themselves.

They pushed out all the tech companies that the ndp had gotten excited about Calgary..

Nice to see a liberal who hasn't forgotten his "values".

I'm not sure helping an American company get oil out of our country counts as independence. Can't we just work on a national energy grid first? We literally couldn't keep the lights on without the US right now.

Yeah I have no doubt that the provinces are happy to forget about pharmacare too.

And what's happening at Canada Post is awful too. Just not happy with anything this government is doing.

Is pharmacare on ice? Health minister says no new deals with provinces in the works | CBC News Canada’s public drug insurance program appears to be in limbo, with the Carney government failing to earmark any new money to expand coverage to the rest of the country.

They aren't working on pharmacare. Further expansion wasn't in the budget either. They aren't trying to sign deals. I wonder if that's the same plan for killing childcare. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Carney's sweeping public service cuts reflect a troubling legacy The last time the government laid off a substantial percentage of the public service and attempted to replace them with new technology, it went poorly, leading to a debacle that the federal government...

15% cuts are huge, and particularly ambitious when many departments still haven't recovered from the Harper-era austerity. We've got money for Trump's 5% GDP target though, which is higher than the US spending. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/24/a...

Now that he's signed up to subsidize an oil pipeline, what's even left to differentiate him from Polievre?

DOGE north - doing it
Pipelines
Pharmacare canned
Trump asskisser

All he's got is a slightly better personality.

It's more likely he just hates women.

He's bad. Justin was better.

The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.

Makes sense since half of their voters are cheering for him

That's the way governments in Canada work. They shred the experts stuff and then do what the corporate lobbyists or expensive American consulting firm recommends.

Why don't people ever suggest an Alberta to Manitoba pipeline and a new port in Churchill?

It's expensive to save money.

Great too see politicians defending 🇨🇦 healthcare.

Repeat after me: we just need to fund the public system

Hard to believe ignoring an issue made the issue worse. I mean when has that ever happened?

I wish we could just pretend AI doesn't exist the way we pretend covid doesn't.

Article from The Economist Governments should stop raising the minimum wage There are better ways to help low earners

This is a deeply sexist take, given that ~2/3 of minimum wage workers in the US are women.

People really can't imagine the government simply building homes and politicians keep proposing even more outlandish schemes that won't make a difference.

Western governments are not interested in helping their citizens and the thought of having the government directly solve problems is mostly unthinkable. In Canada, we've been trying to improve the housing market for 20 years without having to build houses.

Americans wouldn't be Americans without the gas-lighting.

Hopefully they are prosecuted for spreading false information. It's on the books as a crime. All you need is a government that cares to enforce the law against these frauds. Ideally their credentials would be pulled as well. It doesn't seem like the college is willing to stand up for what's right.

Fun fact. Pigs are mandated to get clean air in Canada, while Canadian children are not.

Is this the moment Canada gets serious about science and the economy? The federal budget includes $1.7-billion to attract international researchers and support Canadian R&D and IP protections

Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.
Fund the scientists who are already here. Fund basic science.

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