Marc D. Froese

338Canada | Nanos Research federal poll, September 2025

📊Preferred 🇨🇦 PM, Nanos tracker (Aug.15-Sept.5, 2025):

🔴50% Mark Carney (-2)
🔵28% Pierre Poilievre (+4)

(Compared to previous 4-week sample)

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Canadians Cooling on the U.S., Softening on China New polling shows a sharp rise in support for closer economic ties with China as frustration with U.S. trade tensions grows.

🍁New polling shows a sharp rise in support for closer economic ties with China as frustration with U.S. trade tensions grows.

📊Canadians Cooling on the U.S., Softening on China, the latest from @canadianpolling.bsky.social for 338

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YouTube video by Auter's Corner Werner Herzog - "There is no harmony in the universe we have to get acquainted to this idea" -

I don't think I have ever seen a more fitting clip to describe a faculty meeting since the MBA's took over everywhere

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How does lava sound when it comes to the surface of the Earth? Listen to a lava flow oozing out of its effusive vent high on the southwestern side of #Etna, 28 August 2025. That day no visits by tourists were allowed on the site, which permitted this (relatively) clean recording

Statement by President Higgins following declaration of Famine in Gaza City and surrounding areas | President of Ireland Welcome to the website of the President of Ireland.

It is the moral responsibility of Irish ppl, & 100m ppl of Irish heritage, to demand the starvation of the children of Gaza, & their families, ends.

This crime equals the Holocaust; to knowingly starve babes in the womb, children & adults to death. Ireland knows brutal famine. It must end:

Carney’s “nation-building” is nothing but a blast from the past Mark Carney promised bold change. But Canada needs more than old ideas to face global disruption and build a resilient future.

I'd have more confidence in Carney's US strategy if his domestic policies were at all up to the task of safeguarding Canadian independence. Taken together, they're bad news.
A government that's cutting state capacity in a crisis isn't serious about nation building. We need more government, not less.

This is an important antidote to our anger with the American administration. I'm pessimistic about America's democratic future but I'm always pulling for the American people. Every country is vastly complex and more than the sum of its worst actors.

YouTube video by Channel 4 News Ukraine war: will Trump’s threats really scare Putin? | Anne Applebaum

Has Trump truly reversed his policy in Ukraine? Lyndsey Hilsum and I think not. Also with Matt Frei @channel4news.bsky.social
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The lying is absolutely breathtaking.

"The Terms are that Vietnam will pay the United States a 20% Tariff on any and all goods sent into our Territory"

It made me wonder if this is part of the reason Only Fans makes such a big deal about how they are for fans of lots of stuff.

Live Updates: Supreme Court Limits Nationwide Injunctions in Birthright Citizenship Case

Serious question. Would this ruling not clog the federal courts with complainants seeking relief on similar questions with the chaitic potential for different federal judges to decide the question in different ways? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Are we witnessing the death of international law? The long read: A growing number of scholars and lawyers are losing faith in the current system. Others say the law is not to blame, but the states that are supposed to uphold it

Glad to talk with Linda Kinstler for this @theguardian.com long read.

The situation may not be quite as dire as the title suggests, but the challenges are very very real. It's time for creative thinking about what comes next.

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun...

Every modern democracy understands that legitimate law enforcement requires uniformed professionals who are accountable to the public.

it is inevitable that there will be a shootout. It will be filmed and it will look like a gunfight between rival gangs. And things will deteriorate from there.

I think this is my favourite of Trump's performances so far. He was worried that bombing Iran might end his quest for a Nobel Peace Prize. But then he saw a way forward.

FIRST PERSON | I'm choosing to leave for the U.S. for a unicorn job. Does that make me a traitor to Canada? | CBC News Alice Nelson has a tenured job at an Ontario university. But seeing the impact of tuition freezes and the cap on international students on postsecondary education, she decided it was time for a change...

Well, this is different these days. I wonder how many tenured folks here in Ontario would consider a move to Texas now? One that requires being separate from their partner? Oof.

Tenured professor in Canada accepts new job at UT Arlington.

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this is gold 🤣. the political clarity is unmatched. i need the daily digest.

Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux Before the Danish government announced its move, Denmark's largest cities, Copenhagen and Aarhus, had already announced plans to phase out Microsoft software and cloud services. Here's why.

Canada needs to move in this direction too.

www.zdnet.com/article/why-...

Anyone taking bets on whether this thing will devolve into an ICE raid on the Musk compound?

Treasury secretary Scott Bessent insists US will ‘never default’ on its debt Trump administration official seeks to assuage growing investor concern over the country’s public finances

Two problems with this message:

1. If it has to be said it's already on the mind of investors. Bit of a worrying sign for Tariff Man.

2. The guy Bessent works for has a long history of welching on debts. So his word is not exactly rock solid on this issue.

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Stunning details now emerging: this was an operation planned a year and a half in advance, involved smuggling drones into Russia, placing them in containers on top of trucks, arranging for them all to open simultaneously and to strike.

Donald Trump says he will double steel and aluminium tariffs to 50% US president escalates global trade war two days after a court ruled against the legality of his levies

Trump trying to show the world he's not a chicken - on.ft.com/4js5Sh4 via @FT

I'm going to Ireland for a conference and someone asked me if I would see the Book of Kells. I said, "is it a novel because if so it's right off the list. And if anyone starts up about James Joyce I shan't be held responsible."

Court tariffs bombshell should inspire trading partners to defy Trump [FREE TO READ] The EU must stand up to the US president’s bullying for the sake of the world trading system

My take on today's US court tariff ruling. This is an excellent opportunity for the EU and other trading partners to quit preparing packages of concessions, tell Trump to shove it and get on with trading without the US.

First 300 clicks free. It being 3.42am here in London, I am now going to bed.

Canada Wants to Kill 400 Ostriches. Kennedy and Dr. Oz Want to Save Them.

No there is no great debate in Canada over the fate of ostriches exposed to H5N1. The only people who care are the nutty fringe who believe bird flu is a hoax.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/w...

Poll finds Albertans' attachment to Canada has grown as support for separatism has hardened | CBC News Support for separation remains steady at about 30 per cent, according to a new poll, but among that group, separatist sentiment has grown more intense. Meanwhile, the number of Albertans who feel more...

“So, I think we're seeing polarization on both ends," said pollster Janet Brown, who conducted the public-opinion research for CBC News.

“The more we talk about separation, the more people are saying that they feel attached to Canada."

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Medicare for All isn't radical.

What's radical is that we are the only major country not to guarantee health care as a human right.

Don’t believe me?

Listen to what these nurses have say:

Not so far fetched.

Trump is conflating the Continental Army of the American Revolution which was created on June 14, 1775, with the US Army created on June 3, 1784. Interesting that American .mil websites now all trace the founding of the US Army to the earlier date. Helps that June 14 is his birthday.

Worth noting that both Trudeau and now Carney have spent the past half-year enabling/pandering to Trump's lies about Canada and fentanyl. And it's gotten Canada less than nothing.
Flattering the autocrat is not a viable survival strategy. Maybe Canada should try something else?

Hasn't he always had a role as the sympathetic outsider who has come through the side door to offer the movement a different vision of itself? I think if he continues to evolve he may become whatever the next gen of never-Trump types call themselves.