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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— Karen J Watson 🇨🇦 (@watsonkaren.bsky.social) December 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
“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:
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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