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R. Scott Pert<p>Canadians in several cities join 'Tesla Takedown' protests against Musk, Trump</p><p>&gt; Canadians in several cities, including Ottawa and Vancouver have joined a wave of "Tesla Takedown" protests to denounce CEO <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> and his role advising U.S. President <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://www.moosejawtoday.com/national-news/canadians-in-several-cities-join-tesla-takedown-protests-against-musk-trump-10383519" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">moosejawtoday.com/national-new</span><span class="invisible">s/canadians-in-several-cities-join-tesla-takedown-protests-against-musk-trump-10383519</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tesla</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/CDNpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDNpoli</span></a></p>
Robert Sanscartier<p>Les produits de consommation courante ne seront toutefois visés qu’en 2027, le temps d’établir clairement l’inventaire des produits qui devront faire l’objet de restrictions ou d’interdictions.</p><p>Ces mesures entreront ensuite en vigueur deux ans plus tard. Elles devraient aider les consommateurs à faire des choix plus éclairés</p><p><a href="https://ici.radio-canada.ca/info/long-format/2147729/polluants-toxique-pfas-environnement-guilbeault" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ici.radio-canada.ca/info/long-</span><span class="invisible">format/2147729/polluants-toxique-pfas-environnement-guilbeault</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sant%C3%A9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>santé</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChangementClimatique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChangementClimatique</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/R%C3%A9chauffementClimatique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RéchauffementClimatique</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SurchauffeIrr%C3%A9versible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SurchauffeIrréversible</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/%C3%A9cologie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>écologie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/environnement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environnement</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Climat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climat</span></a></p>
R. Scott Pert<p>Traditional friends: Threatened by US, Canada hugs France and Britain close</p><p>&gt; "Canada was built upon a union of peoples –- indigenous, French, and British," Carney said, in a statement released before he set off from Ottawa on Sunday, two days after he was sworn in, replacing 10-year veteran prime minister Justin Trudeau as leader of the G7, NATO and Commonwealth power. <a href="https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/2285965.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/2285</span><span class="invisible">965.html</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/CDNpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDNpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/Britain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Britain</span></a></p>
R. Scott Pert<p>Cuba, <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a>, and the second Trump administration</p><p>&gt; the second Trump administration looms over Latin America. During his first term, Trump snapped Obama’s olive branch and imposed&nbsp;243 new sanctions&nbsp;on <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/Cuba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cuba</span></a>, limited remittances from families living abroad, and&nbsp;added Cuba&nbsp;to the State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT) list. These impositions, [..] have contributed to worsening shortages of food and fuel, a massive decrease in purchasing power, and increased inflation<br> <a href="https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/cuba-canada-and-the-second-trump-administration" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">canadiandimension.com/articles</span><span class="invisible">/view/cuba-canada-and-the-second-trump-administration</span></a></p>
Stephen Elliott~Buckley<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@Strandjunker" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Strandjunker</span></a></span> </p><p>25% wealth tax/year, dropping to 5% when they're down to $78m</p><p>Just in the first year, those 3 alone would pay us$100b</p><p>That is a lottttt of cheese</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oligarchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oligarchs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/broligarchs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>broligarchs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ikea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ikea</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/guillotine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guillotine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mexico</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antifa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/elbowsup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elbowsup</span></a></p>
AnnaAnthro<p>Bob Rae, former Premier of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ontario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ontario</span></a> and now Canada’s UN ambassador on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> annexation of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greenland</span></a>.</p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TradeWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TradeWar</span></a> Retaliation Will Hit <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> Voters Hardest</p><p>As Trump imposes <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> on products from countries around the world, foreign govts are answering back w/tariffs of their own.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> has targeted corn farmers &amp; carmakers. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> has put tariffs on poultry plants &amp; A/C manufacturers, while <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> will hit American steel mills &amp; slaughter houses.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/business/economy/tariffs-trump-maps-voters.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=p&amp;pvid=8B150285-9181-4370-B044-3C628C7B26D9" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/interactive/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">3/15/business/economy/tariffs-trump-maps-voters.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=p&amp;pvid=8B150285-9181-4370-B044-3C628C7B26D9</span></a></p>
GeriAQuin<p>🇨🇦 <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a></p>
maeve harris<p><a href="https://girlcock.club/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> makes a strong unified response to <a href="https://girlcock.club/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s disorganized, on and off <a href="https://girlcock.club/tags/tariff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariff</span></a> regime. US liquor industry hit hard, snowbird travel falling <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/16/see-you-in-four-years-canada-flexes-economic-muscle-as-tariff-negotiations-continue.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cnbc.com/2025/03/16/see-you-in</span><span class="invisible">-four-years-canada-flexes-economic-muscle-as-tariff-negotiations-continue.html</span></a></p>
Kim<p>This is the bit about AUKUS nobody talks about.</p><p>Phase one sees US nuclear powered and nuclear armed subs based in Australia. Partially crewed and supported by Australia but under US command.</p><p>The US nuclear armed subs get a strategic base on the Indian Ocean rim, which we pay to build and run, and we also pay the US on top of that to do it. It was meant to be a stop-gap until we got our own boats, but a deal this bad for Australia incentivises Trump to not supply them. And we even gave them a clause that lets them do that.</p><p>This is the worst deal in the history of deals. It's all sunk costs. Get out now and ask the French if we can restart the original deal as a co-project with Canada. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Aukus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aukus</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Auspol</span></a></p><p>US starts to build submarine presence on strategic Australian coast under AUKUS - CNA<br><a href="https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/us-starts-build-submarine-presence-strategic-australian-coast-under-aukus-5004096" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">channelnewsasia.com/asia/us-st</span><span class="invisible">arts-build-submarine-presence-strategic-australian-coast-under-aukus-5004096</span></a></p>
Snowshadow 🇨🇦<p>'The trust is gone': Ontario business and labour look for new partners as U.S. trade war continues</p><p>'We have to start thinking about how to go east-west again,' says CEO of Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Canpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tariff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tariff</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpoli</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/business-concerns-us-trade-1.7483636" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/bus</span><span class="invisible">iness-concerns-us-trade-1.7483636</span></a></p>
🇺🇦 Je me souviens 🇨🇦<p>As we used to say... "they can't even find their backside using a map."</p><p>Looks like that's a broad consensus opinion. Looks like fascism is here to stay.</p><p>"'Horrific numbers': Harry Enten on voters' approval levels of Democrats in Congress "</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NAFTA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NAFTA</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TradeWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TradeWar</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NATO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NATO</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/15/politics/video/democrats-approval-congress-poll-voters-harry-enten-nr-digvid" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cnn.com/2025/03/15/politics/vi</span><span class="invisible">deo/democrats-approval-congress-poll-voters-harry-enten-nr-digvid</span></a></p>
Francisca Sinn<p>“The imperialist rhetoric has to be seen for what it is, which is preparation not just for trade war but for war itself.” - Timothy Snyder</p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-absurdity-is-the-point?r=2m1hl&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=false" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p</span><span class="invisible">/the-absurdity-is-the-point?r=2m1hl&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=false</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ElbowsUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElbowsUp</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Never51" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Never51</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TrumpWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpWar</span></a></p>
Francisca Sinn<p>“The tariff policy and the fentanyl fantasy both come from another place: the desire to annex Canada.</p><p>The fentanyl propaganda is most likely designed to prepare Americans to see Canada as an enemy. The only way for the United States to achieve such a territorial aggrandizement would be threats intending to make Canadians surrender, or an actual invasion of <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a>. In such a pursuit, associating Canada with our addiction crisis is useful propaganda.”</p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/the-absurdity-is-the-point?r=2m1hl&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=false" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p</span><span class="invisible">/the-absurdity-is-the-point?r=2m1hl&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=false</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/ElbowsUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElbowsUp</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Never51" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Never51</span></a></p>
Thomas D. Embree 🇨🇦<p><a href="https://me.dm/tags/FuckTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FuckTrump</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/ElbowsUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElbowsUp</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/TradeWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TradeWar</span></a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a></p>
Francisca Sinn<p>“The Trump regime is using the dictator’s playbook against what was once its closest ally.</p><p>This increasingly looks like a destabilization campaign aimed at annexing Canada. It would be foolish to believe this will be limited to the economic realm. If America is intent on annexing Canada, the CIA will be kicking into overdrive.”</p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/palecek/p/its-not-a-trade-war-it-is-a-destabilization?r=2m1hl&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=false" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/palecek/</span><span class="invisible">p/its-not-a-trade-war-it-is-a-destabilization?r=2m1hl&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=false</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ElbowsUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElbowsUp</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Never51" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Never51</span></a></p>
Paul Turnbull 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇵🇸<p>I’m thinking of setting up a small static website and am looking for Canadian hosting (servers in Canada) but haven’t managed to find anything. Canadian web hosts exist but they all seem to be CMS driven. :/</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/hosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hosting</span></a></p>
AnarchoNinaAnalyzes<p>I don't want to go *too* far in praising this article, because there are still a large number of problems with the way it minimizes the danger of Trump literally annexing Canada, but its existence demonstrates that at least one US media outlet (NBC) understands that Trump is not joking, or playing the angles here, and is in fact dead serious about taking over Canada:</p><p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-quest-conquer-canada-confusing-everyone-rcna195657" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/politics/donald-tr</span><span class="invisible">ump/trump-quest-conquer-canada-confusing-everyone-rcna195657</span></a></p><p>Trump's quest to conquer Canada is confusing everyone</p><p>"Speaking with reporters in the Oval Office, Trump first mentioned his love for Canadians, including his “many friends” like hockey legend Wayne Gretzky. Then he riffed about how Canada shouldn’t exist as a sovereign country before getting to what has increasingly become a fixation: wholesale annexation of Canada as a U.S. state.</p><p>"Canada only works as a state," Trump said Thursday. "We don’t need anything they have. As a state, it would be one of the great states anywhere. This would be the most incredible country, visually. If you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right through it, between Canada and the U.S. Just a straight, artificial line. Somebody did it a long time ago, many many decades ago. Makes no sense. It’s so perfect as a great and cherished state."</p><p>"But why should we subsidize another country for $200 billion?" Trump continued, adding, "And again, we don’t need their lumber, we don’t need their energy. We have more than they do. We don’t need anything. We don’t need their cars. I’d much rather make the cars here. And there’s not a thing that we need. Now, there will be a little disruption, but it won’t be very long. But they need us. We really don’t need them. And we have to do this. I’m sorry."</p><p>As I said at the top of this post, this is by no means a perfect article; NBC spends far too much ink focusing on Trump's personal animus towards Justin Trudeau (who is no longer even the Canadian Prime Minister) and allowing named GOP officials to pretend they're confused by Trump's annexation plan even as they enact his orders to try and make that plan a reality. Crucially however, this report *does* make it abundantly clear that Trump is dead serious and his minions know full well that he's not joking:</p><p>"Trump has been unapologetic in his quest to conquer the Canadians — an effort he said in January would be conducted by “economic force.” The result has been a disintegration of the relationship between the U.S. and one of its closest allies, and a stock market plunge over fears of ever-increasing escalation of a trade war. Both Canadian officials and Republicans initially thought the president was merely joking, ribbing Trudeau — a longtime foil — after they met at Mar-a-Lago in November. It was after that visit that Trump first publicly floated the notion of absorbing Canada. Few think he’s joking now, and the Canadians have stopped laughing.</p><p>A source with direct knowledge of the discussions told NBC News that Trump is heavily focused on Canada in conversations with aides, who believe he is completely serious about making the country the 51st state — even with Trudeau out of power and a new prime minister in place."</p><p>Unfortunately, and despite this refreshing frankness, I have some problems with the sloppy journalism and credulous naivety with which NBC states that nobody knows where Trump is getting the idea to annex Canada from, including Republicans in his government. The fact is that MAGA-connected fascist propagandists like Candice Owens (and others) have been advocating for taking over, or even invading Canada since at least 2021-2022 for a variety of reasons; including natural resources, water rights, climate imperialism (although they don't use that term,) and even to protect their ideological brethren in the larger Canadian fascist movement from legal repercussions for their own slow-moving coup attempt in Canada, the so-called "Trucker Convoy." I genuinely have no idea if US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has any clue what Trump is thinking, but fascist media personalities in Trump's orbit certainly do, and this regime has already shown a willingness to outsource official policy from raving nazi dipshits on YouTube, so I don't think "where Trump is getting this idea from" is the kind of puzzle you need Scotland Yard's finest detectives to solve.</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Annexation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Annexation</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/TradeWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TradeWar</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/ClimateImperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateImperialism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/WaterRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterRights</span></a></p>
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸<p>In today’s update, Zelenskyy mentions that he spoke to Prime Minister Mark Carney. 🇨🇦 They talked about actions against Russia’s shadow tanker fleet, banks, and the outcome of the G7.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/SlavaUkraini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SlavaUkraini</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/canpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>canpoli</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/114174105578168990" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mstdn.social/@Free_Press/11417</span><span class="invisible">4105578168990</span></a></p>
GG<p>💥<br>"PM Mark Carney &amp; his government are preparing for war. <br> Mr <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Poilievre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poilievre</span></a> isn’t even prepared to hear national security intelligence." </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/PPStillHasNoSecurityClearance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PPStillHasNoSecurityClearance</span></a> @RyanWright.bsky</p>