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Today in “Christ, what an asshole!” – Poilievre, Tech Bros, and our potash industry

Posted December 9, 2025 by Anonymous

Poilievre’s big idea – lets play “gotcha!”

So Poilievre thinks he can fiddle while Canada fights for its life against Trump. What an asshole.

As Dale Smith commented on Saturday:
Because Pierre Poilievre thinks he’s a tactical genius, he has announce…

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Sunday Funday: TrumpWorld is falling apart, Canada is OK, Winter is coming, Random funny stuff, TrumpWatch, and Animal Crackers

Posted November 16, 2025 by Anonymous

Here is my usual Sunday collection of random pieces plus some funny stuff. Enjoy!TrumpWorld is falling apart
Rogan and Musk decide Trump’s “assassination attempt” in Butler PA in July was staged:
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America is running away from…

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The Carney-Smith energy & pipeline MOU – is Carney crazy like a fox?

Posted November 28, 2025 by Anonymous

From Victoria Times-Colonist newspaper

Lots of opinions tonight, pro and con, about the Carney-Smith energy and pipeline MOU and the subsequent resignation from Cabinet of Carney’s Quebec lieutenant and official languages minister Steven Guilbeault.
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Another Sideshow Bob moment for Poilievre. Another “bite me!” moment for Carney.

Posted December 10, 2025 by Anonymous

Today was the day that Parliament voted on the Conservatives Gotcha! motion about the Canada-Alberta pipeline MOU.
Poilievre stepped on a rake while Carney skated through it. In The Globe and Mail, Stephanie Levitz writes:

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Saskatchewan Roughriders Win!

Posted November 17, 2025 by Anonymous

I usually don’t do a post on Sunday nights, but today was so great I just had to put this one together.
Earlier today our son said that after the year we had — Canada didn’t win the Stanley Cup nor did we win the World Series — he was trying to prepa…

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Today’s News: Fed up with awful news

Posted November 29, 2025 by Anonymous

Maybe I just felt grumpy because it’s snowing, but today I saw so many news stories that really pissed me off. First, an incredibly disrespectful and dismissive remark from Natural Resources minister Tim Hodgson:Does Tim Hodgson understand how …

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Things that make me go hummm…. a Russian plot, a tanker hijacking, old man goes crazy and takes America with him. And the world won’t forget it.

Posted December 11, 2025 by Anonymous

Today I seemed to see a lot of stuff that was just crazy, so I thought, hey, lets share it!
First, what?

Wow — Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/…[image or embed]— Aaro…

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Today’s News: Whew!

Posted November 18, 2025 by Anonymous

Had our Covid and flu shots today so I’m not feeling energetic right now. So here’s a few items I found about Monday’s budget news:

Artwork by Dave Davies

#CanadaBudgetVote Thanks to these five MPs, Canada won’t be having a Christmas elect…

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Sunday Funday: Brittlestar, The Beaverton, I know you are but what am I, Amazing stuff, Comments on the passing scene, TrumpWatch, and Animal Crackers

Posted November 30, 2025 by Anonymous

Hey, I’m in a better mood tonight — it was a beautiful sunny day here today, so that was great!
Anyway, here’s some funny stuff and interesting stuff I found this week.Brittlestar to start things off:
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Things that make me cheer out loud – Canada grows, and Trump declines

Posted December 12, 2025 by Anonymous

So after yesterday’s gloomy post, I found some good stuff to share tonight:

First, Carney keeps growing that Liberal caucus!

Ontario MP Michael Ma crosses floor to Liberals. One short of a majority. 😬

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— Holly Jolly Hoye 🎄 🇨🇦 (@hollyhoye.bsky.social) December 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM

Carney just needs one more now. Who’s next?

Live shot of Pierre Poilievre at the Liberal Xmas Party:

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— Edge O. Erin (@edgeoerin.com) December 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM

Canada is quickly implementing an enormous but manageable expansion to its armed forces:

CBC: The Canadian military is planning to put together a force of “100,000 reserve soldiers and an additional 300,000 citizen soldiers in a supplementary reserve, should the need arise”. This makes sense to me. There are so many threats to our country from climate change to our neighbours doing something unthinkable.

Organizing and training citizens allows communities to help themselves and each other when emergencies arise. Far too many of us just expect the government will swoop in and save us in a crisis. We’re not a bunch of helpless victims, or we shouldn’t be. This is Canada for goodness sake. We need to get back to knowing we can take care of ourselves.

When I was a kid we lived a long drive from grocery stores or a hospital. Our freezer and cupboards were always stocked. We had a garden and a pantry full of preserves. We had a wood stove and lanterns.

When the power went out we knew it probably going to be off for a while. When snow shut everything down we knew it might be days before we could get out again. We weren’t in a panic because we were prepared. We checked on our neighbours and counted on our neighbours to work together and just deal with it as best we could. Sounds like our government is planning to help us get back to taking care of ourselves and each other. That’s a plan I can get behind.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/army-mobilization-canada-troops-9.7009323

– Karen Bringleson

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I did not realize our Arctic communications systems would be so complicated to build, but the Canadian governments are putting it in place:

A Quick FYI: Canada’s Long Road to Better Arctic Communications

If you missed it, Ottawa’s new Defence Investment Agency just made its first move: a small ($3M) early-phase contract with Telesat and MDA Space to design new satellite communications for the Arctic.

Nothing flashy yet — this is still the planning stage — but it’s part of a much bigger, much older project called the Enhanced Satellite Communications Project – Polar (ESCP-P). And that’s where the story really gets interesting.

1. This work didn’t start this year — it started in 2017.

The first federal documents for ESCP-P went out eight years ago. Since then, the project has rolled through feasibility studies, consultations, and technical pre-work. It’s one of the quiet, long-haul files that rarely makes headlines but matters hugely to sovereignty.

2. And it won’t finish quickly either — we’re talking about a 2041 horizon.

Full operational capability isn’t expected until the late 2030s or even 2041. That’s not government foot-dragging; it’s the reality of building secure satellite systems for one of the harshest regions on Earth.

3. The goal is simple: keep Canada connected where it matters most.

Reliable Arctic communications aren’t just a military wish-list item. They’re the backbone for:

Search-and-rescue

NORAD operations

Local sovereignty patrols

Monitoring shipping and climate shifts

Responding quickly to emergencies

In the Arctic, distance and weather erase the usual options. Satellites aren’t a luxury — they’re the only real line of communication.

4. The big signal here: Canada has been working on this… and we can’t slow down now.

The 2017–2041 timeline tells two truths at the same time:

a) This isn’t a new concern. Successive governments have understood that the North is becoming more contested — by climate change, by global shipping, and by foreign powers testing boundaries.

b) We don’t have the luxury of pausing. If anything, we’re playing catch-up. The Arctic is changing faster than our timelines, and Canada’s communications, surveillance, and response capacity need to keep pace.

5. For now, this first contract is tiny — but symbolically important.

It shows the new procurement agency is active, and it marks a shift toward treating Arctic security as a long-term, industrial-scale project involving Canadian companies.

It’s the start of a long relay — one we absolutely can’t drop the baton on.https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/economy/article-ottawas-defence-investment-agency-completes-first-procurement-aims-to/

– Leni Spooner

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Our agriculture production is finding markets worldwide – I’m not sure who’s post Ward is quoting from here, but this is well said:

From the post … “Trump believed that the rest of the world would obediently go along and pay the gangster administration whatever Trump demanded.

That isn’t happening.

Countries like Canada, Brazil, Australia, and Mexico are moving into markets that were previously dominated by the American brand. Our allies know longer see the United States as a reliable partner.

This has resulted in real benefits for Canada.

We are witnessing a huge increase in corn exports – particularly to Europe, the UK, Spain, Portugal, and Ireland. An RBC report (https://www.rbc.com/en/thought-leadership/the-trade-hub/food-first-how-agriculture-can-lead-a-new-era-for-canadian-exports/ states Canada could increase global sales by 30% with the key element being to diversify from the American market.

At the same time, there has been a huge uptake in domestic production as Canadian farmers and entrepreneurs move into areas once dominated by the U.S. Domestic food security must be considered a vital strategic goal because, as economic losses mount south of the border, Trump will start to play hardball.

The only way we get through to the other side of this dark time is to diversify, hold the line and deny victories to an increasingly desperate MAGA machine. In the fight against the 1930 gangster revival, Canada must last one day longer and be one day stronger than Trump.

We’ve got this.”

– Anne Ward

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#ElbowsUp is making Canada stronger:

“Canada’s GDP grew in Q3” because #CanadaStrong #UnCanadaFort 🇨🇦 #ElbowsUp #ViveLeCanada 🇨🇦 #BuyCanadian #MaîtresChezNous #CanadianStaycation

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“Canada’s new government is investing big to attract world-class talent in science and technology — and become an innovation powerhouse.”

— Mark Carney
Canada’s Prime Minister 🇨🇦

PM Carney and his team are working hard for Canada while PoiLIEvre hang by a thread 🪡

❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️

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— 🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 (@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social) December 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM

Meanwhile, it is gratifying to see how the Trump administration is getting pulled up short on its cruelty to immigrants:

BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from immigration detention after a federal judge’s order Thursday, his attorney’s office says.

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— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) December 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM

Churches are speaking out:

Faith leaders across Minnesota are coming together in solidarity with their Somali neighbors!

Rev. Paul Graham with St. Ansgar’s Lutheran Church in Cannon delivered a #CupOfJoe w/ a message of #LoveThyNeighbor.

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— TizzyWoman (@tizzywoman.bsky.social) December 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM

I don’t know what city this was, but this teacher telling ICE to get out of her school is wonderful:

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America is organizing to fight back:

@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is training thousands of New Yorkers on how to protect their neighbors from ICE. Today, they are currently running two trainings in Brooklyn and the Bronx, both of which hit capacity because interest was so high.

This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.

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— 50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 (@50501movement.bsky.social) December 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM

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— JeffTrnka (@jefftrnka.bsky.social) December 6, 2025 at 5:42 AM

Trump still yells at clouds but they’re not listening:

More of this, please!

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/us/indiana-senate-redistricting-republicans.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

– Canada Resists

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And apparently the MAGA faithful aren’t listening to President Whine anymore either:

Aw, I love that for Grampy Piss-Pants. A nice tiny crowd to match his dick.

Hopefully, he freaks out enough to stroke out over it.

– The Mouthy Renegade Writer

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Finally, even typefaces are choosing the right side:

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Today on “Christ, what an asshole!”: Danielle Smith, Poilievre, Trump, Epstein, and the ICE gestapo guys

Posted November 19, 2025 by Anonymous

I haven’t done a “Christ what an asshole!” roundup for a while. So I thought I would do one tonight, just to keep up with all the assholes we’ve been seeing lately.

First up, Alberta premier Danielle Smith is using the Notwithstanding clause to disc…

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Cue another Poilievre re-brand “The key to success is sincerity. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made”

Posted December 2, 2025 by Anonymous

At the Parliamentary press gallery dinner this weekend, Pierre Poilievre actually made fun of himself:

Right wing journalists were ecstatic. “Poilievre steals the show at parliamentary press gallery dinner” posted Rebel News.

Pierre Poilievre’s…

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Today’s commentary: the F-35 v Gripen decision, and Carney’s role in the world now

Posted November 20, 2025 by Anonymous

First up tonight, the fighter jet decision – F-35 v. Gripen – has become a Canadian loyalty test and rightfully so. The idea of spending our millions on American jets right now just sticks in Canada’s craw.Sweden’s Gripen is a mostly-viable alternati…

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Today’s Commentary about Carney, about Ukraine, about Trump, about Venezuela, plus our “Mostly Harmless” B-Ark

Posted December 3, 2025 by Anonymous

I found some good commentaries to share tonight, plus a bit about the B-Ark.Commentary about Carney’s progress: Wayne Horton has started a fascinating series called The Carney Letters – an unauthorized series by Wayne Horton. Here is how he explai…

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The stupid, it burns!

Posted November 21, 2025 by Anonymous

I try not to pay attention all the time to the crazy stuff happening in the US, but some days…..

Well, you missed that the US tried to invade Mexico

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Today’s News: “this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans”

Posted December 4, 2025 by Anonymous

Of all the things Trump has destroyed that America used to be proud of – charity, fairness, openness, diplomacy, rule of law – it turns out to be the war crimes that are angering Americans the most. They used to take such pride in their military – …

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Russia-Ukraine War update: the world is hoping that Ukraine can still fight on

Posted November 22, 2025 by Anonymous

Didn’t we always think it would come to this?To his everlasting shame, Trump is turning tail and getting ready to pull America out of supporting Ukraine in the war with Russia. What a gutless coward. Ukraine is grappling with despair:
President Ze…

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About Conspiracy Theories : “grime building up on the window until you can see only the outlines of shadowy figures”

Posted December 5, 2025 by Anonymous

I’m seeing posts recently about conspiracy theories, and related events — mainly, how crazy they are and how they’re going to get people killed! Then today I found a couple of great charts that show all of the recent conspiracy theories and pa…

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Sunday Funday: Good Cartoons, Canada stuff, US stumbles, Funny comments and posts; TrumpWatch, Animal Crackers

Posted November 23, 2025 by Anonymous

Here are some good cartoons that I enjoyed

Here’s some good stuff about Canada

Elizabeth May lays it DOWN!
Elizabeth May is our old school common sense voice of reason in a world that is quicky (and wrongly) coming to belie…

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A Thumbnail Roundup: America’s new National Security Strategy tells Europe and Asia to pound sand. But they still think they run the Western Hemisphere.

Posted December 6, 2025 by Anonymous

Tonight I saw great posts and commentaries on today’s news. Warning: some of these are lengthy reads.America has released a new National Security Strategy (pdf link) – which is telling Europe and Asia they’re on their own, while vowing to interfere wit…

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OMG and its only Tuesday! The weekend news roundup – Carney’s “Who Cares?” riposte, Why a new pipeline? Why war with Venezuela? What if AI is just a house of cards? And Dutch Strong!

Posted November 25, 2025 by Anonymous

So its only Monday but it seems like its already been a busy week. Carney’s “Who Cares?” riposte
and cue the Poilievre hissy fit tempest in a teapot. Here’s the story that Canadian Press reported:

…While taking questions from reporters in Johan…

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Sunday Funday: Posts about Oh Canada, Trump Stupid, Wasted Raccoon, and the Passing Scene, plus TrumpWatch and Animal Crackers

Posted December 7, 2025 by Anonymous

Oh Canada! View on Threads

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@minibubbly.bsky.social @maej43.bsky.social @anniegirl.bsky.social @luciecatnip.bsky.social @univrsle.bsky.social @merlinofcanada.bsky.social @sask…

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Updates: “Who cares?” is trending, Mamdani v Trump shows us ‘this is the way’, and some good news from xkcd

Posted November 26, 2025 by Anonymous

Seems like a lot of the news today was really just an update of the news from the weekend. So here’s some good commentary and update posts: “Who cares?” is trending

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Funday weekend addendum: Everybody has fun mocking Trump’s FIFA Peace Prize

Posted December 8, 2025 by Anonymous

I usually don’t post on Sundays, but tonight I’m seeing so many great “prize” posts I have to share them:

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Today’s News: Cartoons on parade!

Posted November 27, 2025 by Anonymous

Today I’m seeing so many great political cartoons and comments about daily news I just want to share a few of them.

First up, Carney and SmithI don’t know enough about pipelines and oil production to say anything sensible about what Carney is trying …

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Today in “Christ, what an asshole!” – Poilievre, Tech Bros, and our potash industry

Sunday Funday: TrumpWorld is falling apart, Canada is OK, Winter is coming, Random funny stuff, TrumpWatch, and Animal Crackers

The Carney-Smith energy & pipeline MOU – is Carney crazy like a fox?

Another Sideshow Bob moment for Poilievre. Another “bite me!” moment for Carney.

Saskatchewan Roughriders Win!

Today’s News: Fed up with awful news

Things that make me go hummm…. a Russian plot, a tanker hijacking, old man goes crazy and takes America with him. And the world won’t forget it.

Today’s News: Whew!

Sunday Funday: Brittlestar, The Beaverton, I know you are but what am I, Amazing stuff, Comments on the passing scene, TrumpWatch, and Animal Crackers

Things that make me cheer out loud – Canada grows, and Trump declines

Today on “Christ, what an asshole!”: Danielle Smith, Poilievre, Trump, Epstein, and the ICE gestapo guys

Cue another Poilievre re-brand “The key to success is sincerity. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made”

Today’s commentary: the F-35 v Gripen decision, and Carney’s role in the world now

Today’s Commentary about Carney, about Ukraine, about Trump, about Venezuela, plus our “Mostly Harmless” B-Ark

The stupid, it burns!

Today’s News: “this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans”

Russia-Ukraine War update: the world is hoping that Ukraine can still fight on

About Conspiracy Theories : “grime building up on the window until you can see only the outlines of shadowy figures”

Sunday Funday: Good Cartoons, Canada stuff, US stumbles, Funny comments and posts; TrumpWatch, Animal Crackers

A Thumbnail Roundup: America’s new National Security Strategy tells Europe and Asia to pound sand. But they still think they run the Western Hemisphere.

OMG and its only Tuesday! The weekend news roundup – Carney’s “Who Cares?” riposte, Why a new pipeline? Why war with Venezuela? What if AI is just a house of cards? And Dutch Strong!

Sunday Funday: Posts about Oh Canada, Trump Stupid, Wasted Raccoon, and the Passing Scene, plus TrumpWatch and Animal Crackers

Updates: “Who cares?” is trending, Mamdani v Trump shows us ‘this is the way’, and some good news from xkcd

Funday weekend addendum: Everybody has fun mocking Trump’s FIFA Peace Prize

Today’s News: Cartoons on parade!

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