We asked Canada's premiers if they fly private. Here's what they said | CBC News Ontario Premier Doug Ford has reversed course on the purchase of a $28.9-million private jet for his travel — a controversy that has raised questions about how often Canada's leaders fly on private ai...

Nice try whining Doug. All the preniers fly commercial
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Yes, Doug Ford, Quebec bought private jets — but not for the premier's travels | CBC News Last week, Ontario’s premier pointed to a fleet of Quebec government-owned planes as justification for having his own private aircraft. But Quebec’s premier has no such private plane. We got to the bo...

Doug Ford can't even get his facts right when he whines about his I'll treatment.
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It must be Tuesday.

Unitended consequences of shutting down the internet,

You know how the 🇺🇸USA has been bragging to the rest of us for, like, generations about what geniuses their Founding Fathers were in designing their sacred Constitution?
How they’d done away with tyranny thanks to all those fancy checks and balances?
Well …
🤷🙄🤷

Waiting for an MRI in Ontario can take anywhere up to eight months and Doug Ford spent 29 MRI machines on a jet so he could be more comfy on his one-hour flight to Ottawa once a year.

Carney says close ties to U.S. have become ‘weaknesses’ that must be corrected Prime Minister promised regular updates about what the government is doing and said he will not ‘sugar-coat’ challenges

“There are some who… believe we should wait it out in the hope that the United States will return to normal, that the good old days will come back. But hope isn’t a plan, and nostalgia is not the strategy.”

U.S. negotiators would do well to read some Iranian poetry. It matters, greatly Iranians have a deep sense of their long history and complex culture, the kind of things that can’t be destroyed by bombs

Poetry is revered and recited in Iran by everyone from taxi drivers to nuclear scientists, schoolchildren and carpet weavers.
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/fdde9ed...

Power & Politics plays a clip of Doug Ford saying he's "the only premier in history that refuses to use the premier's plane."

Poutine?
www.wikiwand.com/en/Poutine

@mayoroliviachow.bsky.social A great idea! Hire him for Toronto

Humanoid robot chases wild boars off the streets of Warsaw Video of Rolex-wearing robot goes viral as it becomes Poland’s first robotic influencer on social media

Humanoid robot chases wild boars off the streets of Warsaw www.ft.com/content/6973...

A Canada Strong for All • Un Canada fort pour tous YouTube video by Mark Carney

At #LIB2026, I shared our plan to build Canada Strong for all. 🇨🇦

Watch the full speech:
youtu.be/59RLATwGghY

Thanks. I was there!

Go on patrol with the Canadian Rangers across the frozen Arctic The BBC rode along with the Rangers on the last leg of a historic trek as they assert their presence in Canada's far north.

The BBC covers the epic Canadian Rangers 5,200 kilometre trek across the Arctic. Canadian media largely ignored it.
www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

(1/3) Spotted in the new mouth of the Don River: blobs! These jelly‑like blobs are bryozoans, and seeing not just one but lots of them is a great sign that we’ve built first‑class aquatic habitat.

AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Bruce Schneier Large language models aren’t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our own

Fascinating @adapalmer.bsky.social “Statistically, we’ve been led to believe ancient Romans cared deeply about their republic, but 10% of all surviving Latin was written by one man, Cicero, whose work contains 70% of all surviving Roman uses of the word republic.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Saadi Shirazi Persian poet (1210–c.1291). From the BBC series 'Art of Persia'

Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau at Coachella

Orbán Viktor @PM_ViktorOrban Had a great meeting today with @IDUAlliance Chairman @stephenharper. International cooperation between right-wing, conservative parties is more important than ever. Chairman Harper is a great ally in this respect. Thank you for your support, Mr. Chairman! Orbán Viktor

It's kinda interesting to think about how differently Justin Trudeau and Stephen Harper have spent their retirement years

2 requirements
1. Have a brain
2. Use that brain

The ghost of Fred Gardiner is smiling and nods his approval.

Much better with onion and Sriracha

10/10. No notes.

There’s always a Looney Tunes cartoon for every geopolitical event 🎯

Emma Pennell is Opera Canada's artist of the week.
operacanada.ca/artist-of-th...
Come see her at Against The Grain Theatre's production of Canuck Cantatas.
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Mexico’s monarch butterfly population jumps 64%, offering hope for at-risk species The insects covered its largest area since 2018, despite threats from habitat loss, climate crisis and pesticides

Mexico’s overwintering monarch population grew 64% this winter, with butterflies covering their largest area of forest since 2018. The recovery remains fragile, but suggests there’s been a positive impact from conservation efforts in the butterflies’ core habitat. buff.ly/XoPKQ9d
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Vive Le Canada Libre!

US media is afraid. The Financial Times quotes him in full