Canada

The limits of U.S. President Donald Trump's brand of extremely personalized, belligerent diplomacy have never been more apparent than with the negligible outcomes this week involving two of the world's deadliest ongoing conflicts.

In Gaza, Israel's military shattered the tenuous ceasefire on Tuesday by inflicting the largest number of deaths in a single day on Palestinians since the war started in October 2023.

And after Trump's phone call with Vladimir Putin on Ukraine, any hope that the Russian president was prepared to roll back or significantly restrain his ongoing three-year assault on the country also proved largely illusory.

Both results were easily predictable, say veteran diplomats, given Trump's almost single-minded focus on scoring quick wins at the expense of the harder work of dogged diplomacy resulting in lasting gains.

In the spirit of rapprochement with Europe and reorientation away from the United States, it's time to complete the Metrication process in Canada that was stopped prematurely by the Mulroney government.

We have yet another example of the conservatives having only short term gain and quick profits on their mind. Turner and the liberals were right when they said that we have been building this country east to west for a century plus, and that we should have continued doing so. And now we are seeing Turner's predictions coming true, and a conservative sold us the fuck out and took the easy way Instead of nation building.

The riding has been held by Liberal MP Chandra Arya since 2015, but the 62-year-old learned Thursday that the party had removed him as their candidate.

For anyone out of the loop certain people have latched onto this thing about Carney's possible PAST assets that isn't a standard for anyone else. What I'd like to bring up one of the people pushing this stuff out is CBC.

This is the same thing we've seen Americans news outlets do where as Trump style politics has completely overtaken the right wing politics and the Traditional Media has been trying make things look fair and balanced by artificially making the insane look sane while the anyone else is held to a increasingly high standard.

Current day mainstream media is already heavily right wing dominated.

Going back to CBC I don't understand what they're doing because the right wing thinks they're propaganda while the left has to watch them put out straight up hit pieces while begging to be saved.

I already brought this up leading up to the BC election when CBC had no real substance on a story and essentially just brought in random people to shit on the BC NDP.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-assets-questions-1.7486242

Carney announced last week that he has put his financial assets into a blind trust to shield himself from any conflicts of interest.

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A blind trust means Carney's financial assets are handled by a trustee who has the legal authority to manage them but who is barred from seeking his input. Carney wouldn't know what is in his blind trust portfolio, but would know what those assets were before they were divested.

Under the current government ethics rules meant to guard against conflicts of interest, Carney had 60 days to disclose his assets to the ethics commissioner upon being sworn in and another 60 days before that information goes public.

Asked Monday if he should disclose what financial holdings he had before they were put into the blind trust, Carney said he has exceeded the expectations of the current rules and is being held to a different standard.

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"Your line of questioning is trying to invent new rules. I'm complying with the rules that Parliament has laid out and… I will continue to comply with those rules," he said.

Also whatever this is :

Prime Minister Mark Carney pushed back on reporter questions about his financial holdings during a news conference on Monday.

The unnamed reported in question is Rosemary Barton - Chief Political Correspondent for CBC the same news network he works for.

I find it very strange that Canadians are not being warned about the risk of imprisonment when visiting our greatest and best and safest neighbour.

We have evidence from a pretty good source that Canadians will be imprisoned for having the audacity to visit the states. There's no reason to think it's just a one-off since people from other countries are being imprisoned also.

How is it appropriate for our government to recommend "Taking similar precautions to those you would take in Canada.", when our lawyers say it's not safe to travel as we did in the past?

I sincerely hope you'll join me in contacting the Ministry of Travel to have this changed to yellow for caution:

Exercise a high degree of caution

There are certain safety and security concerns or the situation could change quickly. Be very cautious at all times, monitor local media and follow the instructions of local authorities.

Canada’s largest newspaper chain, Postmedia, is owned by an American hedge fund headed up by a wealthy donor to Donald Trump.

As a Canadian federal election approaches, Johnstone and other advocates are planning a feisty grassroots campaign to push back against misinformation and hate.

“Drag the Vote is a campaign created by our team here at Queer Momentum, supporting grassroots organizers, activists, parents and families to speak up in response to anti-2SLGBTQ+ hate and to encourage Canadians to speak up with us for freedom, equality, and human rights,” Johnstone said.

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Trans and queer people have faced a sharp rise in intolerance and hate over the past few years. There have been violent threats against drag performances and large protests that featured homophobic and transphobic language. Old tropes like claiming that queer people are a threat to children have once again become common.

Canada has launched initiatives to shift its traditional defense links with the United States toward Europe and other regions in response to threats from the Trump administration. Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly confirmed Wednesday that Canada is in advanced negotiations with European officials about a joint defense alliance including procurement projects.

https://www.desmog.com/canada-proud/

"Canada Proud is part of a network of conservative groups and social media pages initially founded by conservative activist Jeff Ballingall"

Anyone who follows these pages on social medias should know. They are literally propaganda pages, and are loaded with disinformation and misinformation. And if you know people who uses social medias, they should know.

some exemples of sheer lies, source here https://www.desmog.com/canada-proud/

"In 2020, PressProgress reported that Canada Proud was falsely claiming that the federal government had banned Remembrance Day ceremonies.

In 2021, PressProgress reported of Canada Proud claimed that COVID-19 vaccines were being distributed according to “skin colour.”