By: @royaards@newsie.social

I'm old.

If you're not, listen to this.

Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.

Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.

It's literally never been more important.

Angus: Canadians need to be really ready. We are upping our investment in military spending significantly. We are now procuring from the Europeans—whereas before, we would have just gone to the United States as usual to buy gear. We’re not buying gear from the United States.

Two jars side be side - one with a few coins in it, one filled to the brim with coins. Captioned, respectively, swear jar and "adding "lol" to the end of messages so people don't take it the wrong way" jar

It's me lol

Shows sweet video demonstrating sweet deck, says don't play 😭

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative.

A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

Great pic!

Jeremy, Canada is in a housing crisis. It’s time to urgently build more homes that Canadians can afford – and that’s going to take all of us working together. That’s why I’m calling on all candidates in Calgary Confederation to support the Housing Accelerator Fund so we can build more homes for the families in our community. On November 14th 2023, the Government of Canada reached a $228 million agreement with the City of Calgary to remove barriers to build more homes, faster. It’s exactly the kind of partnership we need. I support it. Prime Minister Carney supports it. But Pierre Poilievre says he wants to cut it. I have always believed that candidates should be representatives for their communities in Ottawa, rather than the other way around. That’s why I’m calling on you to stand up to Pierre Poilievre and support this much-needed housing funding. In November, Pierre Poilievre silenced 16 Conservative candidates who had expressed support for Housing Accelerator Fund investments in their communities. It is time for you to be clear and tell the people of Calgary Confederation: will you join these other candidates and support investments from the Housing Accelerator Fund in our community? Or will you be silent and help Pierre Poilievre cut the $228 million of housing funding our community needs? Sincerely, Corey Hogan

Pierre Poilievre silenced 16 Conservative candidates who supported the Housing Accelerator Fund.

He'd rather see house prices rise than admit a Liberal plan works. He'd cut money coming to our city.

What say you Jeremy Nixon - will you support HAF & building homes in Calgary?

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

Email from Team Pierre, with the subject line "they don't want this public" reads: "Hey Friend, this is NOT a conspiracy theory. This is Mark Carney’s REAL agenda. They don’t want you to know this. But we’re giving you an unfiltered truth bomb. Mark Wiseman, co-founder of the Century Initiative, is also an advisor to Mark Carney. The Century Initiative is a radical and DANGEROUS idea for Canada. Mark Carney’s advisor is openly pushing to increase Canada’s population to 100 million people. Here’s the truth that we uncovered for you: This radical idea will lead to a crippling doctor shortage, devastating housing and food shortages, and will massively strain Canada’s infrastructure and social services. It will be worse than anything we’ve ever seen before."

Fact check: The new fundraising email from Pierre Poilievre is, in fact, a conspiracy theory.

While it's true that Mark Carney adviser Mark Wiseman backs this initiative, it is NOT Mark Carney's "real agenda."

He has promised to keep immigration caps in place.

Elbows up, Canada.

One of my Radical Leftist opinions is the government shouldn't be able to deprive anyone of life, liberty, or property without due process of law

Underappreciated what an advantage this is for Carney/how much this puts Poilievre at a disadvantage during a campaign.

spot on, Shaggy

#RealMonsters

#MonstersInc

It has been 39 days. It's very hard to believe America as we've know it survives the next 1422 days of this.

America, you can't feel good about today.

*taps calculator*
Yeah, you've definitely got 22 Absorbing Man boosters right there

Dear manager, this week I acheived these goals.

1: I wrote a bullet point.

2: I wrote a second, equally clever bullet point.

3: Building on prior successful bullet points, I developed and implemented a third bullet point.

4: I drafted, edited and published a 4th bullet.

5: Egged a cybertruck

Mr negative with Zola? No task/sage? What are you rockin Mr? 🫣

Government isn't a startup Government is insurance

Elon Musk and DOGE are in the news again for trying to undo firings of USDA staff who were working on the H5N1 avian flu outbreak.

Firing people working on a current crisis is visibly stupid. But firing people working on preventing or responding to the next crisis should be seen just as dimly. 👇

You guys have fucked up so bad you made Quebec patriotic

You know you're sinking hard in the polls and no one gives a flying fuck about you anymore when you start having to insult the Mark Carney because of his shoes.

Pierre is such a fucking knob.

having a pet is so fucking stupid. you're just pre-purchasing yourself the worst pain you'll ever feel in your life and we just keep doing it, like idiots, because the only thing worse than losing them is never having them at all

Trump: "I'm going to use economic force to conquer Canada."

Trump: "The Canada-U.S. border is an artificially drawn line."

Trump: "What I'd like to see is Canada become our 51st state."

Poilievre: "I think he just wants us to take border security more seriously guys."

A good friend in Ontario who works in a trade-exposed industry summed up how wild this whole ride has been pretty succinctly:

"It’s just crazy to me that a guy who ran on tariffs is pausing them because we appeased him on a problem that doesn’t exist"

How does any business make sense of this?

🤔