"If passed, they would be some of the most extreme anti-trans and anti-2SLGBTQ policies, not only in Canada, but in the world." trib.al/ejMPa0p

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"[F]rom the beaches of Normandy to the mountains of the Korean Peninsula, from the fields of Flanders to the streets of Kandahar, we have fought and died alongside you during your darkest hours during the Iranian hostage crisis, those 444 days, we worked around the clock from our

American friends, please watch PM Trudeau’s speech, he is speaking to you youtube.com/watch?v=PnvyrK…

Trump is such a good negotiator he got Trudeau to commit to things he had already committed to previously!

You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game.

Not only one of my favourite movies, but excellent overview of the trouble with tariff wars.

An Economist’s Lament for the Death of the British Columbia Carbon Tax medium.com/@joelwwood/an-…

"The elegance of a carbon tax is that it solves a regulatory information problem. It provides a signal to everyone who burns fossil fuels that there are additional social costs to burning fossil fuels. Individuals can then decide how to respond to this signal." #bcpoli #carbontax

The S&P 500 has lost 10.5% of its value in two days. Since 1980, we've only seen larger declines three other times: the '87 crash, Nov 2008, and Mar 2020. And those weren't due to policy choices. This may be the largest self-imposed destruction of wealth ever.

Poilievre's bus arrived and reporters were told to go stand 50 feet away. When they refused, a CPC staffer attempted to block their way. He raised his arms and pushed one photographer back, and was about to grab the photographer when others intervened. canadianjournalist.ca/poilievre-camp…

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I just heard Andrew Scheer on CBC Radio claiming that Canada’s industrial carbon pricing leads to an INCREASE in global emissions. 100%+ emissions leakage? I have never seen any modelling suggesting leakage would be anywhere near that high.

Trump’s Canadian bullshit is costing my home state of Maine millions in Canadian tourist dollars. Thanks, asshole.

Canadian aviation has high prices and crappy service If we allowed foreign competition, at least the prices would come down