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“In a social media post on Thursday, Poilievre highlighted comments the prime minister made on Sept. 13 on home soil, when he said Canada is ‘not looking to become a member of the European Union.’

Alongside those remarks, Poilievre contrasted comments Carney made on Thursday in Europe, when he told the European Parliament that Canada ‘welcomes’ the ambition to become the European Union’s first associate member.

‘How can Canadians trust Prime Minister Mark Carney when he says one thing in Canada and the opposite in Europe?’ Poilievre wrote.”

For someone who hopes to be prime minister someday, he should look up the difference between ‘member’ and ‘associate member.’

As a member of the EU Canada would be subject to EU regulations and taxation. As an associate member it will not, but will be able to avail itself of negotiated benefits by aligning with the EU.

Of course PP is just engaging in his usual rage farming.

#canpoli #cdapoli #EU #PierrePoilevre #NeverVoteConservative

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So Canada can drop the F35 from its procurement?

#canpoli #cdapoli #uspoli

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I’ll bet she still believes in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.

#abpoli #DanielleSmith #AlbertaReferendum

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“Others are prepared to vote for Option 2 when they don't even support independence. And that's why I have some optimism we're going to win on Oct. 19.”

That’s one way that the Brexit referendum was won — with polls showing Remain leading many people voted Leave ‘to send David Cameron a message.’

#abpoli #AlbertaReferendum

“U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that Canada-based airplane maker Bombardier would no longer be allowed to sell in the United States unless ​it started manufacturing in the states.”

Trump has a hate for Europe so will Airbus get a similar threat? Same for Brazil so will Embraer need to manufacture in the US?

Boeing doesn’t build anything smaller than the 737 so I can just imagine the American airlines are thrilled with Trump’s latest brain fart.

#DonaldTrump #Tariffs #AnotherDayOfStupid

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/trump-bombardier-truth-social-post-9.7335014

<< Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc is hinting that a mutually beneficial trade agreement with our southern neighbours may still be possible after the U.S. rolled back its position on culture and the French language.

"Canada welcomes that the U.S. is now withdrawing its positions on discoverability and labelling and is confirming that measures to promote French language and Canadian culture will not be subject to future U.S. trade actions," LeBlanc said in a statement posted on X. >>

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/dominic-leblanc-greer-culture-language-9.7322393

Did Trump lie, again?

#TradeTalks #CUSMA #USMCA

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library has provided children in Canada with 5 million books over 20 years.

There’s a donate button on the website. Giving even a little will help carry on her legacy as a kind and generous human being.

Update: the payment process is experiencing problems, of the good kind. It may take several tries to complete.

#RIPDollyParton #DollyPartonImaginationLibrary

https://imaginationlibrary.com/ca/

“During the Klondike Gold Rush, Donald Trump's grandfather Frederick operated a tent restaurant that sold horse meat along Dead Horse Trail.”

Now we know where Donald Trump got the inspiration to import cheap ground “beef”.

https://www.threads.com/@cdnhistoryehx/post/Dcd14EXkeR3

“Let’s be clear about what Smith, Carney and the oilsands companies really are saying with their latest MOU. They are embracing a dubious, dangerous technology because it helps them pretend they are tackling the climate crisis that poses an existential threat to coming generations.

Isn’t it time to call their bluff?”

#canpoli #cdapoli #FossilFuels #ClimateChange

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/07/27/Calling-Carney-Carbon-Capture-Bluff/

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@thetyee/116977537582139180

“‘Remember,’ Doctorow warns, ‘seven giant AI companies account for 35 per cent of the U.S. stock market. Amputating 35 per cent of the market is going to destroy a ton of innocent bystanders, including people whose retirement savings are invested in index funds considered the safest of all safe bets. We’re talking about a crash that will put 2008 in the shade and meet or exceed the pandemic sell-off.’”

Admittedly there are times AI has its uses…

“Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives Jack Bergman, John James, Lisa McClain and John Moolenaar penned a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, and reportedly sent it on Wednesday ‘demanding immediate action from the Canadian government,’ a press release said.

‘American lungs are paying the price for Canadian inaction, year after year,’ the letter said.

‘Sovereignty comes with responsibility, and the responsibility to prevent a foreseeable disaster from crossing into another country’s airspace has not been met.’”

https://globalnews.ca/news/11968608/wildfires-united-states-canada/

Perhaps the United States could stop sending its world leading CO₂ emissions into other countries’ airspace as a show of good faith and reciprocity.

#uspoli #CarbonEmissions #ClimateChange

“Like Donald Trump, Mr. Poilievre appears to own a mirror that tells him every day he is the fairest leader of them all.

It is inevitable, however, that one day he will have to come face-to-face with an unpleasant reality: He’s not the person who should be leading the federal Conservatives.”

#PierrePoilievre #NeverVoteConservative

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-help-wanted-the-federal-conservatives-are-in-need-of-an-adult/

https://archive.ph/izysq

“Oh, god, am I ever going to get mail for this one.”

No shit…

https://www.davidmoscrop.com/p/the-case-for-stornoway-in-defence

Doug Ford shooting off his mouth again:

“Let me cut to the chase here, the previous federal government, not this one, the previous federal government treated Alberta like garbage, like terrible. I’ve never seen anything as bad as that.”

I seem to recall a pipeline was bought and an expansion built by the previous federal government that we paid for, not the oil companies. Funny how so many Conservatives choose to ignore that and the fact the Harper Government™ didn’t get one built for Alberta.

#DougFord #NeverVoteConservative

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/premier-ford-says-former-federal-govt-treated-alberta-like-garbage/

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Those Albertans who wonder why Quebec gets so much in equalization payments only need to look at what the talk of separation and the election of a separatist government caused to Quebec’s economy when many businesses and company head offices relocated which is still being felt today.

Then there’s 10 years of Brexit, as reported recently by the BBC:

“Brexit cost 6% of UK economy, Bank of England company data suggests”

#abpoli #AlbertaSeparatists

“Jen Gerson, a political columnist based in Calgary, said ‘this all feels like an episode of Veep: that sense of surreality and disconnection from reality. The problem is, you’ve got a political class here in Alberta that’s tactically really smart, but strategically idiotic.’”

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“‘The separatist people have no genuine plan for what happens on day two. They have no plan for what happens if they get a 50/50 vote. It’s that dog that chases the car – and what happens when it finally catches it?’ said Gerson. ‘We’ll get yet another tactically brilliant, strategically idiotic move to further this crisis even more.’”

#abpoli #DanielleSmith #UCP

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/24/alberta-separation-referendum-canada

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@globalnews/116535262712614984

When will Pierre Poilievre get his clearance for CSIS briefings?

#PierrePoilievre #NeverVoteConservative

Non-religious Danielle Smith was one of the draws to the Alberta Christian Leadership Summit held Monday.

“Attendees expressed appreciation for Smith’s fulfilment of a Christian agenda, despite her own lack of faith.

‘She's not religious yet, and that's what we noticed very much in her speech, even today,’ one attendee who declined to provide his name said of Smith.”

She’s more like Trump every day, and it appears she’s more than ready to turn Alberta into a Christian theocracy.

#abpoli #DanielleSmith

https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/05/06/I-Was-Barred-Smith-Christian-Summit/

Doug Ford is rapidly turning into Donald Trump.

“Ontario’s opposition parties are calling on Premier Doug Ford to apologize for a personal insult he hurled — and repeated — at a [female] Liberal member of provincial parliament.”

#onpoli #DougFord #NeverVoteConservative

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/politics/queens-park/article/ford-urged-to-apologize-for-personal-insults-hurled-in-the-legislature/