#canpol — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #canpol, aggregated by home.social.
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@OrionKidder
This is a good one, from the #GlobeAndMail: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-us-canada-trade-tariffs-trump-mark-carney-august-23/#NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/world/canada/trump-carney-trade-war-tariffs.html
#CBC: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-trump-trade-talks-broke-down-9.7318903
That one has a helpful rundown on what we accepted in the Tuesday deal, as well as opposition to it within our side.The G&M and NY Times articles are serious reporting about the negotiations; most articles are essentially repeating points from them or providing analysis.
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@SCampbell
4. That said, I don't fully trust our government either. Based on the reporting I've read, I think that the feds agreed to a deal in principle last week, had second thoughts about it, then looked for an excuse to back out. It's possible that this week they're misleading the public about what they agreed to in principle, and maybe even exaggerating last minute US demands.2/2
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The idea that the economic future of Canada may depend upon #DougFord is, somehow, not particularly reassuring.
On the other hand, he was opposed to last week's deal with the US before #MarkCarney was...
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"Trump is an easy target, a man who is little more than a cartoon villain. The tougher task for Ford is getting super-popular Carney to stand up for Ontario. Carney is being hailed as a hero for not giving the Americans everything they want, but the deal he was reportedly prepared to accept would have been a serious blow to Canada’s largest province."
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#onpoli #DougFord
#CanPol #cdnpoli #TrumpTariffs
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Canadian governments ought to replace MS Office by #LibreOffice.
(This is one of those actions that cause pain in the US, but benefit Canadians; governments should have done it long ago.)
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#canpol #uspol #cdnpoli #LakeOntario #GulfOfMexico
OK folks, it's time to stop calling OfAmericans the A word. It was a dumb, lazy bit of verbiage that the world allowed to seep in to the vernacular, but it's time to place a new moniker on the people from the United States.
They can be "OfAmericans", "Statespeople", or "North Peruvians", but when we see people referring to people them as the A word, we should now clarify: "Oh, from Brazil?"
Fuck all of this nonsense. This toddler show wanting to rename things as "X of America" must, going forward, mean "of all of North and South America" (if anything), because those are the only Americas.
And a country deciding to refer to themselves as America is as dumb as all of the rest of this. Not sure why the rest of us played along with such obvious wrongness.
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On Tuesday last week, #MarkCarney was Lord Halifax; Saturday morning he posed as Winston Churchill. I hope the latter persists.
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Even this article is a fascinating look at how antisemitism in Canada is presented:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/antisemitism-report-university-college-campus-9.7297176
The headline is the government report about antisemitism at universities, but as you read the story, you don't hear about Jewish students. You do see in the middle of the story:
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Muslim community unites after suspected hate-motivated attack on Winnipeg mosqueWinnipeg's Muslim community shaken after shots fired at mosque with people inside, leaders say
Montreal police investigate hate crime outside Verdun Islamic Centre
"and then the article ends with a discussion about Jews moving to Tulsa, Arizona and how "Most of the Canadians able to make such a move either qualify for a visa under the North American trade agreement CUSMA or are eligible for American citizenship through family or marriage ties, Roberts said."
And the photo is framing this as entirely about pro-Palestine vs Pro-Israel.
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Some documents supporting my previous post:
https://www.canadianaffairs.news/2026/01/16/does-the-cbcs-israel-hamas-coverage-favour-palestinians/
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/cbc-staff-9-1-1-terroris-terrorist-attack
https://www.ottawalife.com/article/cbcs-anti-semitic-and-anti-israel-bias-to-be-put-to-crtc/
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I've listened to the CBC since I was 18 years old, which is now 30 years, even when I was living in the US without any intention of moving to Canada. Even at 18, I understood the CBC had a perspective and a viewpoint that it wanted to project that was clear in its reporting.
The latest coverage about the CBC is that its policy is to not use the word terrorist even for actions like the 9/11 attacks. The CBC defends this as neutrality in its reporting as if that's journalistic integrity.
But the CBC's coverage of events is not neutral, and we see that its coverage of both the situation in Israel, as well as the situation with domestic antisemitism, is highly biased.
This was clear in this report, and in the way that Marie-Philippe Bouchard (the head of the CBC) refused to address bias concerns when she appeared in front of parliament.
I'm not a "let's defund the CBC" person. But the CBC is in deep need of reform.
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@ChrisCorrigan
I care because #MarkCarney misled us about the #GordieHoweBridge deal; I want to know that he's telling the truth now. And I want to know what he found acceptable in the deal from last Tuesday, and what he found unacceptable in the deal from Friday.I know how I feel about the Trump Administration and what I heard about the deal last week. But I want to know facts; I don't want to have to trust my leaders blindly.
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From a CNN column debunking the orangutan's lies about Canada... well, debunking a few of his lies. Well, a few of his lies from Monday. Well, a few of his lies from a couple of Truth Social "truths" he made on Monday.
(I'll come in again.)
> There’s no doubt that the #Canadian economy is heavily reliant on the US, but there’s
> no apparent basis for Trump’s “95%” figure. In 2025, about 72% of Canadian
> merchandise exports went to the US – down from about 76% in 2024 and the
> lowest percentage since the early 1980s. Even 72% is a very large number, of
> course, but it’s far from the one Trump used. And the percentage fell below
> 70% in the first half of 2026.Get that?
In 2024, Canada's trade had 76% of our exports going to the USA.
Trump came to power again in January, 2025.
In 2025, Canada's trade had 72% of our #exports going to the USA.
In 2026 so far, less than 70% of Canada's exports went to the #USA. It will be lower by the end of the year.
Do you have any idea at just how bad things have to be, and just how much work has to be expended, to change the course of an #economy the size of Canada's in 18 months?
People - well, people in the USA, no one else thinks it - who think everything is going to go back to "normal" after the moron leaves office - are deluding themselves. This is a deliberate, determined, pricy-but-worth-it change from your neighbour to the north.
There's no going back.
#USPol #CanPol #TradeWar #tariff #Trump #moron #Canada #IYKYK
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@alessandro
"The Carney government frames the issue in terms of last-minute additions to the American position. But the agreement that was being talked about publicly before then was already unacceptable in its own right. And it prepared the ground for even worse deals to come." -
A propos of nothing, here you can see me swimming in Lake ONTARIO on Thanksgiving Day 2024.
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@elasticsoul #JenGerson ! She's great.
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@mtlgazette/117156551605476381
Well, that's an unexpected twist. Here's a link to Pres. Trump's post: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117155941181023687
(For what it's worth, based on #GlobeAndMail reporting, there's confusion on what the Americans demanded — not an end to bilingual packaging, but a limit on Canada's ability to direct businesses like Netflix to promote French content.)
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@ChrisCorrigan Most recently: https://xcancel.com/PremierScottMoe/status/2091240015984836675#m
I think Saskatchewan should remove US alcohol from their stores, but in general, among conservative premiers, I'd say Premier Moe has done a reasonable job in finding a middle path between Premiers Ford and Smith, neither backing down nor provoking a fight.
Outside of premiers, I think the new #CPC Canada-US relations critic, Shuv Majumdar, has been doing a good job.
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'Lake Epstein' you mean?
Never sign a deal with the United States, they are unserious and depraved.
#Trump #ElbowsUp #LakeEpstein #USpol #USPolitics #CdnPoli #CanPol
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Looking forward to another indie ski season in BC! 🇨🇦
Supporting Canada via tourism is a form of protest. Especially against Project 2025 states like my neighbor, Idaho. I miss skiing and hiking Idaho, but you chose cruelty.
Canada isn’t cruel: they won’t fuck with your food or vehicle, have been generous hosts. And they understand a lot of us have cross-border families.
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Up here in #Canada, we're not a bunch of #assholes that won't keep our word. It's not like we'd do something as #stupid and #repugnant and self-destructive and immoral and unethical like demanding someone sign a deal with us, then immediately turn around and violate the terms of that deal, or #abrogate the deal entirely. What kind of #demented #goldfish-brained cognitively-impaired #drooling #moron would do that?
So if we've agreed to sell the US things, we're not going to just cut them off in violation of existing #treaties and #deals and #contracts. We're not like that.
But we don't want to be #boring, either. So we'll mix it up for anything destined for a Washington D.C. address. Every third package will contain a #surprise - angry wasp nest, unredacted box of #Trumpstein files, a loaded bear-trap, landmine, something along those lines.
If it turns out to be popular, we can expand the program to cover all the #MAGA states. It'll be fun!
#USPol #CanPol #idiot #Trump #MangoMussolini #TradeWar #honour #wasps #Epstein #JeffreyEpstein #EpsteinFiles #PedoPresident #PedophilePresident #BearTrap #landmine
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@tryangregory.bsky.social "A Liberal government can do no wrong" is a major element of Canadian political opinion, and yet there are few such partisans on Mastodon. It's a shame.
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@evan Very funny.
You realise, don't you, that Mr. Poilievre supported the decision to walk away from the negotiations, and has criticised the government for having made too many concessions? (E.g., on the Gordie Howe Bridge https://youtu.be/WkAIlg9kA8U?si=Hyx5GttuRDyVAaEA )
Regardless of what one may think of Mr. Poilievre, Canada has a parliamentary system of government: the PM and his ministry have a duty to inform #Parliament on the grave matters facing the nation.
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"And if that was the [conclusion] the Americans had drawn about us — and, accordingly, that was certainly the belief held by senior administration figures like J.D. Vance — then capitulation was only ever going to be met with ever more and increasingly onerous demands."
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"We have already made too many concessions to the U.S., and we have seen, time and time again, that they neither respect these gestures, nor can be trusted to adhere to any agreement that more concessions might buy us. Worse, we were signalling weakness. We were demonstrating that our national appetite for resistance was confined to the symbolic and the costless."
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À Mathieu Bock-Côté...
#DimitrisSoudas 🇨🇦⚜️🇬🇷☦️ 13.12.1943: "Mon ami de Paris, vous transformez absolument tout en preuve contre Ottawa : s’il ne défend pas le français, il veut l’effacer; s’il le défend contre Trump, il veut encore l’effacer. Ce n’est plus une analyse, c’est une conclusion écrite d’avance. Et j’ai bien hâte de voir comment elle survivra à l’annonce de demain." | nitter
https://nitter.net/DimitrisSoudas/status/2091610678687867256#m -
"The American president clearly did not know whom he was dealing with. He is following in the grand tradition of American leaders starting wars with people they don’t understand, then wondering what went wrong."
Solidarity with my neighbors up north! ✊️
