Parvinder

Congrats!

Well, this #BlueJays loss stings. But it’s also giving me 2013 Spurs vibes: good fundamentals, team ball, beaten by a star-studded squad that caught some lucky breaks. 2014 Spurs came back with a vengeance and steamrolled everyone, as we know. These Jays will too. Proud of them. Go Jays Go!

So proud of this Jays group! Thank you for giving us a great season. Let’s run it back next year! #GoJaysGo #BlueJays

Sports, man, it’s something.

Again, whatever happens, sports at this level is about living in the moment and feeling the emotions, which you do not get to choose

ONE. WIN. AWAY.

The Blue Jays take Game 5 in L.A. and head back to Toronto with the chance to claim their first World Series title since 1993.

This has been such an incredible, fun team! #BlueJays #WorldSeries

Wrap on the 2025 race season.

a graph of G7 GDP growth, as described in the tweet

US & EU GDP data are now in, which means another update to my G7 GDP chart

Here's each country's cumulative increase in real GDP, since just before the pandemic:

🇺🇸 +12.9%
🇨🇦 +8.7% (thru Q4)
🇮🇹 +5.9%
🇫🇷 +3.7%
🇬🇧 +3.4% (thru Q4)
🇯🇵 +0.9% (thru Q4)
🇩🇪 +0.0%

Corporate leaders are obsessing over GDP per capita.

But, if you look at just about any number that would meaningfully tell you how well our economy is doing, Canada does better than the U.S.

@mendelmatt.bsky.social @jimstanford.bsky.social #alwayscanada #never51 #gdp #cdnpoli #cdnecon

EVERYONE SHOULD BE FORCED TO WATCH THIS. bsky.app/profile/scpa...

YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT Gretzky Chose Trump and Kash Patel over Canada | PTFO

The new PTFO, with @brucearthur.bsky.social, was inspired by a bizarre photo — and a question:

Why was FBI director Kash Patel with The Great One when Ovechkin broke the record?

The answer involves Gretzky; a hockey team named "The Dons"; and a couple anonymous sources: youtu.be/vmZgAVoS-cQ?...

No, just vibes.

sharp decline in airline bookings from canada to the usa

One of my favourite times of the year! #BM100

Share widely with Americans who foolishly think there's any interest in this idea, or that our minds will change as pressure increases. angusreid.org/wp-content/u...

Four ways to keep Canadian businesses in Canadian hands | Social Capital Partners Despite the fact that governments, business leaders, workers and Canadians all say they want to be less economically vulnerable, there is a real risk that, two years from now, even more of our busines...

Right now, there are American investors, PE firms and hedge funds getting ready to buy up Canadian assets. This will make us more vulnerable to Trump's attacks.

Here are some practical ideas on how to maintain Canadian economic sovereignty.

socialcapitalpartners.ca/four-ways-to...

French Senator Claude Malhuret:

"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

Good.

Hold the line. Elbows up.

YouTube video by Average Joes We are Canadian.

This is good. Real good eh
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lzh...

Ottawa moves to block ‘predatory’ investments as tariff war continues OTTAWA - Canada's industry minister is looking to block what he calls "predatory investment behaviour" as a trade war with the United States continues.

Great to see this move forward. The details and execution will be hard. But we can do this. #never51 #alwayscanada #elbowsup

www.thestar.com/business/ott...

Front page of today’s Globe and Mail carries only five lines of black text on white background, with “STRONG AND FREE” in block letters on top half.

This feels like the sort of front page published during wartime.

Bruce Arthur: Canadians are realizing what it is that unites us. Now we must decide what happens next Canadians need to decide how much we take care of one another, how ambitiously we rewire Canada for a harsher future.

Wrote this a month ago. It's still true. Canada is worth fighting for, and we will have to fight. www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

This.

In game theory, a smaller player can win against a bigger adversary, but only if the smaller player is more committed to imposing costs and is willing to bear pain.

Trump Hates Canada for its Decency The president lacks basic decency, and loathes people who do

Trump Hates Canada for its Decency
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

I'll say this: Akim is far from alone in this assessment.

But amid the working out of MAGA hatred of white lab coats - what happened to all those Republicans who just yesterday wanted cures for diseases? They've flipped from pro-trade to anti-trade, from pro-NATO to anti-NATO. But who flips from anti-cancer to pro-cancer? END

Polish fm on Trump

The Polish foreign minister understands Trump better than 90% of D.C. Democrats.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.