Stephen Best

We received ours last week, and today the 16th got an Elections Canada 'Guide to the federal election' pamphlet. Are you on the voters list. You might want to check.

People are saying that the only person whom Donald Trump ever hired who was competent to do their job was Stormy Daniels.

Just wondering, but doesn't Trump's plan to seize Palestinian lands and expel every Palestinian from them not make every American a target for every Palestinian resistance/terrorist group?

Indeed, flying a flag upside down is a universal sign for extreme emergency.

Regretfully just stating the obvious, what's happening in the US under Trump is exactly what Americans voted for. Elections have consequences. There's another one happening in less than two years. Again stating the obvious.

These hackers are working with Musk and Trump to steal private information about Americans. The FBI should be investigating as a matter of urgency to stop the crime.

People become entrepreneurs mostly because they have no other option.

YouTube video by Binge Society Chicago: Razzle Dazzle

I the top secret Canadian strategy plan that @JustinTrudeau is using to 'negotiate' with mad President Donald Trump has been leaked.
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TFI: Trade Tariffs Should Exempt Canadian Potash, Other Fertilizers The U.S. relies on imports for over 95% of its potash fertilizer needs, with nearly 90% of that coming from Canada, according to The Fertilizer Institute.

“The U.S. relies on imports for over 95% of its potash fertilizer needs, with nearly 90% of that coming from Canada.

“No substitutes exist for potash as an essential plant nutrient."

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The United States of mad President Trump is ending its relationships with the world's nations. I wish America's people well, of course.

But, it's time we Canadians recognize that our future is one that does not include the United States as an economic, cultural, or political partner.

Americans, you have a mad President. And, you have a Congress and Cabinet filled with people who will enable Trump's dementia and delusions to protect their own careers. It will only get worse.

China arbitrarily imprisons people to put pressure on other countries. I suspect Donald Trump would likely do the same. Irrational, perhaps, but a reason that this Canadian is cancelling unnecessary travel to the US for the foreseeable future.

We have this gizmo that changes our television's channel with the push of a button. Cool, eh? Whenever Scott Jennings appears on @cnn.com we, reflexively, switch to @cbcnews.ca, @bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social, or @aljazeera.com. Crazy, but we tend to avoid listening to serial liars.

The United States of Donald is engaged in an historic experiment: governing an economic and military super power with woefully and wilfully incompetent people.

Donald Trump is withdrawing the security details of those he's deemed are his enemies. What he is, in fact, doing is making a 'hit list' for his 'brown shirts' whom he's made it clear to that he will pardon should they commit crimes on his behalf.

YouTube video by James Gordon Nothing Mattered In The End

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It’s a shakedown, a protection racket.

“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post”

— Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos

Depends entirely on what the kids are hoping to learn. Nor is this an either/or issue. A person can learn a trade and go to college.

German Papers: It's Time For Canada to Join the EU Canada shares the longest undefended border in the world with the United States. Their economies are deeply intertwined with hundreds of billions in trade. But this week's decision by Ottawa to reject...

A decade ago European opinion makers were opining about Canada joining the EU. The 'for' arguments then are even more relevant today with President Trump-Musk.
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Corporate giving to Trump's inauguration is just a shakedown by other means. It's a protection racket.

Opinion | Human Beings Are Not Predators By Nature It’s a source of today’s intense political animosity.

This, in my view, explains a lot about human nature.
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Perhaps Elon Musk might want to look at what happened to almost everyone who ever put their eggs in Trump's basket. Mostly personal disaster.

Government to detail $1.3B border security plan today: LeBlanc | CBC News The federal government says it will unveil details later today about how it intends to spend $1.3 billion to secure the Canada-U.S. border as it tries to allay president-elect Donald Trump’s concerns.

Pure theatre and farce for an audience of one.
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Denmark refuses to extradite whaling activist Paul Watson to Japan, says lawyer US-Canadian founder of Sea Shepherd was arrested in Greenland after Japan issued international warrant

I'm an acquaintance of Paul, so this is good news. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Chrystia Freeland resigns as Minister of Finance Freeland said she resigned after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau informed her on Friday that he no longer wanted her to be his top economic minister

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The prevalence in our political discourse of falsehoods, lies, misinformation, disinformation, slander, and conspiracy theories and how so many politicians have used them to achieve personal success shows just ineffective the 'free press' and journalists are in protecting people from them.

An algorithm was supposed to fix Canada’s food safety system. Instead, it missed a deadly listeria outbreak Five years ago, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency began letting manufacturers increasingly police themselves under a new system of oversight. Now three people are dead and many more have been harmed...

This is what happens when we get rid of 'red tape' like the Right and Conservatives so desperately want. People die.
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