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Today’s News: This is what losing looks like.

Posted March 29, 2025 by Anonymous

Don’t tell Trump that he lost on Friday.
But he did:

Trump defeated again and has caved to Canada as the Prime Minster confirms the old relationship with the US is over.

24 hours later Trump groveled to Canada via a tweet where he stopped calling it…

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Today’s News: Poilievre is crashing while Carney is leading “like Churchill with better lighting”

Posted March 28, 2025 by Anonymous

(Chart from Tom Parkin Data Shows)So I opened my tablet today and this is what I read in the news:

Robert Fife and Laura Stone / The Globe and Mail

Doug Ford’s campaign manager warns Poilievre on track to lose federal election

Ontario Premier Doug F…

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Ok, this is pretty funny some comments that will make you laugh

Posted March 27, 2025 by Anonymous

So here are some funny posts about some maybe-not-so-funny events.  But we do need to laugh sometimes, don’t we:

About the election campaign:

Someone clearly advised Pierre Poilièvre to smile more.He really shouldn’t.— True North Eager Beav…

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Today’s News: Carney knocks it out of the park; Poilievre is stuck in FAFO

Posted March 26, 2025 by Anonymous

First, Carney’s National Corridor for Canada proposal is the kind of big-picture thinking that Liberals seem to do best. Dean Blundell
Canada Just Checked Trump’s Ego: Carney’s Super-Corridor Sets Stage for a Global Power Shift Without America
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Oopsie and Yikes two crazy blunders

Posted March 25, 2025 by Anonymous

Two crazy stories today, but at least in the end they combined into one very good joke:

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Yes, it was a crazy day.
First up, Crazy Blunder #1: Oopsie!
The White House National Security Advisor added an American journalist to a cha…

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Weekend stuff: Carney and Myers; more in Elbows Up!; Poilievre’s problems; some funny posts; and Animal Crackers

Posted March 23, 2025 by Anonymous

Here’s some funny stuff I have collected this week. First, a cartoon — and when you get it, you get it!Next, this great clip has just exploded online:Elbows up, Canada.[image or embed]— Mark Carney (@mark-carney.bsky.social) March 22, 2025 at 4:1…

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“Dear Misinformed Americans…the idea that the US is bankrolling Canada is as fictional as a moose riding a polar bear to work”

Posted March 22, 2025 by Anonymous

picture created by Denis Benoit

Here is a great statement about why Canada doesn’t owe the United States a single damned thing:

Pete Hillier, CD, CISSP
Founder/Systems Security Engineering practitioner/ISO 27001 Auditor/Veteran/Mental Health First Ai…

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The United States is unsafe for travel now

Posted March 21, 2025 by Anonymous

Canadians used to think of travel to the United States as just a normal part of our lives — we made trips for work across the US, for fun in Vegas or Disney World or Nashville or Hawaii, shopping trips to New York, tours to California wineries, sports…

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The latest in “Elbows Up!”

Posted March 20, 2025 by Anonymous

I’ve been collecting more “Elbows Up” posts – Canadians are so inventive, so funny, everyone loved it when Trump said in a recent interview that Canada is “nasty” because it gave us something else to laugh about:
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Oops! Poilievre just shot himself in the foot.

Posted March 19, 2025 by Anonymous

Well now.For the last week, the Conservatives have been trying to gin up a scandal about Carney’s stock portfolio, hoping Canadian media will follow Rosemary Barton’s lead and adopt a hectoring, suspicious “But her emails!” tone about Carney’s blind tr…

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Today’s News: Carney will not put up with disrespect. Not from Trump, and not from Canadian media either!

Posted March 18, 2025 by Anonymous

At a press conference in England, Carney made it clear he isn’t going to put up with disrespect from anyone.Not from Trump:NEW: Canadian PM Mark Carney says Trump has to stop his “51st state” talk before he is willing to sit down with him. He calls Tru…

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Weekend Funnies: some good posts, Craig Baird’s Canadian border history lessons, a bit of staring into the abyss, and of course, Animal Crackers

Posted March 16, 2025 by Anonymous

Well, come to think of it, fuck yeah! View on Threads
Next, if you find this post a little confusing, just remember that March 15 is the Ides of March:
Happy March 15 to the President of the United States and all his team.— Domestic Enemy Hat (@ken…

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Today’s News: Trudeau says farewell; Carney says hello; commentary from Scrimshaw on Gould, and from Mérand and Ling on Europe; and another great Canadian video

Posted March 15, 2025 by Anonymous

It was Pi Day (3.14) and a day of calculated change for Canada – Trudeau resigned, Carney was sworn in:First, Trudeau says goodbye “Justin, we hardly knew ye…”Whoa! This photo is really tugging at the strings today. Phew! 🥺❤️🥺 pic.twitter.com/5e…

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Today’s commentary: fast tweet roundup; Emmett Macfarlane and Dale Smith laugh at Ford; Dan Gardner and David Moscrop think deep thoughts about Canada

Posted March 14, 2025 by Anonymous

There is so much going on right now, its hard to keep track of all of it. I check various opinion columns just about every day and usually I find some interesting ones.
Remembering, of course, this:  things can always get stupider View on…

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Mid-week update: patriotic videos; funny posts and observations; today in the War of 2025

Posted March 13, 2025 by Anonymous

Credit: Brian McFadden, as posted on Daily Kos

I am so impressed that people are making their own patriotic tributes to Canada:

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Preparing for whatever comes

Posted March 12, 2025 by Anonymous

I think the world is already adopting the “Gargle My Balls” slogan in dealing with the United States.Preparations to fight Trump, with his annexation agenda and his pro-dictator policies, now seem to be underway around the world — in Europe, in Asia, …

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Timing is everything

Posted March 11, 2025 by Anonymous

Justin Trudeau always did have great timing.

You know, when you think about it, perhaps one of the greatest services Trudeau ever did for Canada was to resign at exactly the right time. If Trudeau had been trying to save his leadership over th…

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It’s Carney!

Posted March 10, 2025 by Anonymous

Mark Carney is the new Liberal leader and Prime Minister designate – we will find out soon what the schedule will be for Trudeau resigning and Carney being sworn in. 

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Yes, the Annexing Canada talk is serious now. Deadly serious.

Posted March 9, 2025 by Anonymous

People have been chatting about this sotto voce for weeks, but also saying “it’s so paranoid, I don’t really believe it, not really…” We will look back on March 7 as the weekend people finally believed it — that Trump and his crazy administrati…

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Weekend funnies: Jim Cuddy’s song, some funny posts from Mark Hamill, the Beaverton, Trudeau and more; and Animal Crackers

Posted March 9, 2025 by Anonymous

  …Oh no
What went wrongUsed to be the singers in a two part song Guess all good things come to an end But we used to be the best of friends Lately there’s been a storm on high Things got bad and god knows why Give …

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Today’s Memes: Trudeau Take Thursday, Musk Lose Sky, Trump Drop Trou, and today in “Elbows Up”

Posted March 7, 2025 by Anonymous

Following along with the “Trump Take Egg” meme, I think we need to title this one “Trudeau Take Thursday”Q: “The foreign affairs minister called all of this a psychodrama – how do you characterize it?”

TRUDEAU: “Thursday.” 🔥[image or embed]— The Tenne…

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Elbows Up and laughing

Posted March 6, 2025 by Anonymous

Scrolling through social media today, the anger was unrelenting and the patriotism palpable. But nothing can stop Canadians being funny — here’s some good stuff from today: 

First, a word on terminology:
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“We will fight and we will win” Inspiration from Justin Trudeau, comments from Wesley Wark, Charlie Angus, Evan Scrimshaw, Paul Krugman, Jeff Tiedrich. And in late news, US now saying “never mind”?

Posted March 5, 2025 by Anonymous

My illustration today was posted by CdnHistoryEhx – it shows the Battle of Queenston Heights, Oct 13 1812 by John David Kelly. Despite being outnumbered by three to one, the Canadians and the British won against the United States. It seemed approp…

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Elbows Up! Responding to the Trump tariffs

Posted March 4, 2025 by Anonymous

Well, here we go. And Canada is in it to win it:
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Trudeau tried. But Trump is just in love with breaking things. And I think he is tired of Musk getting all the press lately for Making America Great Again so Trump desper…

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“Why is everything so stupid right now?”

Posted March 3, 2025 by Anonymous

Yes, its crazy. 

Just a short one today — a great theory of the stupidity now in the US, a few funny posts, and Mike Myers.Brittlestar My Global Gas Leak Theory Why Everything and Everyone Is So Stupid Right NowAnd I have a theory: t…

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