This. Canadians are being walked down the garden path with patriotic rhetoric and fear to motivate us, but it's not leading where we're being promised. People will wake up in ten years and realize we're deeper than ever in the US security architecture and with more foreign ownership in critical industries.

Our AI minister really isn't focused on regulation. He's in the role to be very focused on business, entrepreneurship and investment, none of which are keen on a heavy regulatory hand. The government is doing some decent stuff on the focus they've chosen, but it's not a focus aimed toward safety, and they don't want to scare off investment, talent, or big corporates, so I don't expect much in terms of real accountability.

Concentrated capital rules the world, and it's only getting more concentrated.

The responses of Western leaders broadly have just been trash, not including Sanchez. Anyone can just look at what's coming out of the US and see how dangerous it is. They're literally calling it a holy war against Islam in their military, with Secretary of War who has a crusader's cross tattoo and who has said they don't care about any laws of war and will take no quarter. The president has said it's his great honor to kill Iranians, he's talking about Somalians in his own country as genetically deficient and low-IQ, he's saying he can just take Cuba and do what he wants with it, and so much more. Then there's Israel, with everything that's happened in Gaza and the West Bank and now members of government talking about taking not just Southern Lebanon, but all of Lebanon and even threatening Turkey next.

It's screamingly obvious what we're dealing with, but Western leaders provide access to their bases to support the war, provide diplomatic support, keep arms supplies flowing, and won't speak out against the obvious and obscene statements and actions.

What tf did our grandparents fight for in WW2?

I don't always agree with Gilmore, but I really respect and see value in the work she does on exposing white nationalist networks in Canada and raising awareness about the risks they pose, and she's especially brave doing it as an independent journalist.

Appeasement is not going to work with this guy. It's time for some allies, like Europe, to finally show some backbone and align against the US in a unified front to push back against this. If he can keep picking on one nation at a time while their allies all capitulate to avoid being targeted, everyone will suffer much worse in the end.

This was a profound speech. There was a lot to it. Declaring the death of the liberal international order with less than shining obit being one example. That was a very powerful statement. More than that though, he has been gradually laying down pieces of a framework for working back towards a world order we might want to see. Can we do it without the US smashing it all up first? Very uncertain. Still, can't fault Carney for taking the position he has. He's supposed to be a leader, it's a time when leadership is desperately needed, and he is stepping up as a leader.

Finally posted a response. Weak.

The advert is literally just Reagan's voice from an address he gave against tariffs along with stock video of people and places. That's it.

So, the valedictorian was a good student and learned the lessons of history and the values that we would hope for her to learn. Good for her.

I would have been very disappointed to have a principal under me make a choice like that during my career.

The student should receive a public apology from the principal and be allowed to finish her school year with dignity alongside her classmates.

What the surgeon did was obviously wrong, but a Nazi making homemade pipe bombs is still by far the bigger concern in this story.

Totally support that, and it's a great time for it as Canada's under threat and many Canadians are boycotting US media products.

Personally, since cutting off US media and switching to CBC, I've really enjoyed a lot of Canadian content and I've found myself more appreciative and interested in Canadian cultural products overall.