Twisted Mittens

💯 THIS
Vance has called his bestie, Jivani, to come to Washington where Trump/Vance will give some kind of concession to Canada (even if only to walk back the 100% tariff Trump threatened), to RELIEVE some of the pressure/tension on them at home and pretend it’s because of Jivani’s intervention. 🙄

It’s not that they don’t understand treaty rights. They don’t care.
ICE has been grabbing Najavo and FN in Minnesota all year

You can only pull that stunt once Dani

All good! 😊
Hope you feel better soon!

France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US European governments are moving away from U.S. tech giants, opting for domestic or open-source alternatives.

Will Canada join France here?

@mark-carney.bsky.social
#CdnPoli #ElbowsUp

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Ursula von der Leyen to travel to Australia to seal EU security, trade deal Canberra and Brussels are reviving trade talks that collapsed at the end of 2023 amid disagreements over quotas of beef and lamb.

Ursula von der Leyen to travel to Australia to seal EU security, trade deal.
#cdnpoli
www.politico.eu/article/ursu...

Anyone who keeps saying how close they are with JD Vance, simply cannot be trusted

She always has really good observations 😊

He is going to get his ass handed to him in DC.

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If we don’t build our own AI and data centres we will not have digital sovereignty from US corporations and propaganda

We are sitting ducks if we don’t build up our military. We are in global shift that is not going back to post WWII world order surrounded by 3 hostile countries: USA, Russia & China

Portfolios under Trudeau - it grew 43% from 2015 to 2024. Carney asked each department to reduce budget by 10%. That isn’t gutting services.

We are no where as lean as in Previous years.

Are We Really Trying to Solve the Housing Crisis? | The Tyee Four reflections on a superheated market as we mark National Housing Day.

The housing crisis is the result of the global shift to Thatcherism in the 1980’s.
ALL parties since then kept status quo.
Carney is bringing housing back to Federal responsibility.
Cons only want to slash regulations and still leave it to municipalities to deal with.

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

It was only 3000 people that voted. You had to fly to Calgary in person and pay $1000 to be there.
Doesn’t sound like it was an accurate display of the whole country

The measure clearly says it’s only going to small and medium sized retailers.
The monopolies we all hate will not be getting any of it

I agree with that point 100%

This is a happening globally. This isn’t just a problem in Canada.
Multiple simultaneous reasons:
* Harper measures to allow grocery monopolies
* climate change weather patterns affecting crops and feed
* global supply chains have not recovered post COVID

France ditches Zoom and Teams for homegrown system amid European digital sovereignty push In France, civil servants will ditch Zoom and Teams for a homegrown video conference system.

France ditches Zoom and Teams for homegrown system amid European digital sovereignty push

www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...

From part 2 of post:

…The government also plans to enhance oversight of food markets to ensure fair competition, which can help keep prices in check.

I agree with you. We need to get our Premiers involved.
Kenew is acting on this for Manitoba

Expose - his whole China bs now runs against what Poilievre said in his speech. PP dreamed of a pipeline to BC coast to sell oil to the Chinese

New measures will allow producers to fully expense new greenhouse buildings, investing in local food production. This could help lower food costs over time.

The government also plans to enhance oversight of food markets to ensure fair competition, which can help keep prices in check.

They are:
The government is allocating $500 million to help food suppliers manage rising costs without passing them on to consumers. This aims to stabilize prices at the grocery store. Plus $150 million to support small & medium-sized food producers, helping them cope with supply chain disruptions.

If they have access to his emails they are going to find A LOT

French police raid Paris offices of X as probe into Grok widens The offices of X in France were searched by French prosecutors as they widened a probe into Grok sexual "deepfakes" and Holocaust denial content.

“French cybercrime authorities searched the offices of Elon Musk's X in Paris on Tuesday as they investigate the company on suspicion of illegal harvesting of data and complicity in the possession or distribution of child pornography.”

Wow. French authorities raided Musk’s X offices in Paris that initially focussed on algorithmic, biases and data manipulation.

The probe has since expanded to include allegations of sex abuse material, holocaust denial, and other related offences.

Musk's X office in France raided by Paris prosecutor The Paris prosecutor says its cyber-crime unit is conducting a search of X's offices.

The raid is part of an ongoing investigation into X's algorithm for potential algorithmic bias. It expanded to include Grok after reports of deepfakes, explicit content, and data issues. X calls it an attack on free speech.

www.bbc.com/news/article...