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Carney’s new advisers may turn to issue of Chinese ‘spy machines on wheels’ - National | Globalnews.ca A new trade advisory committee on Canada-US relations may have to confront a Canada-China EV deal that threatens to drive a wedge between Ottawa and Washington.

If you've travelled anywhere in the world, the North American discourse on Chinese EVs seems so odd. They're like, 20-40% of all the cars you see in other countries

Not saying they aren't 'spy machines on wheels'. Just that the conversation in North America is unique

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The elbows-up sovereignty case is certainly there.

Not sure the business case is solid yet. (Why pay more for launch in Canada when one can pay less at sites closer to the equator?)

Book cover green with white lettering. Tidal times and transformation, then 1921 Canadian general election. Barbara j. Messamore

There's a new collection of essays on prime minister WLM King.

Happy to see it! Asa McKercher's review in the Literary Review of Canada suggests a good fit between authors and topics

A weird omission, the 1921 election, King's first as Liberal leader

There's a new book on it by Barbara Messamore

Ford fed into the “cash grab” narrative, which was covered by media, despite having this report’s words of caution three years earlier. “So to hear a premier just keep repeating that misnomer again and again is beyond disappointing.”

Ah the smell of woodsmoke on a brisk fall day. I should pick up a pumpkin.

A Life Hack for the Ultra-Wealthy Is Going Mainstream More families who can afford it are hiring a house manager, a kind of “chief of staff for the home.” By Nancy Walecki

Not a single shred of evidence in the article that this is an actual trend.
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Almost daily. And that was 8 years ago...

Drake is like the OpenAI of the entertainment industry.

- Core product is extremely weak

- Mainly propelled by hype, and a manufactured sense of inevitably

- Harmful to young people

This is, I believe, the dumbest thing I have ever seen with my own two eyes.

Dear Men, We Only Have Men to Blame From what I understand of certain narratives our there, the decline of men in the workplace is because of the rise of women and immigrants…

I went on a bit of an unhinged rant. It's been brewing for a while, and I had to get it out of my system.

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I see two neighbouring highrises in the photo of this Beer Store.

Ugh. Drake’s latest stunt only managed to attract more traffic in my neighbourhood and get at least a dozen cops to watch over his ice pile.

Person hit by train in Guelph A person has been hit by a train at Guelph Central GO.

Person hit by train in Guelph

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"I am not going to spend the last productive years of my working life watching this government fragment the national pension system into a provincial experiment run by the same ideological bench that gave us the firewall letter."
#AbLeg

The more I think about this the funnier it is...

The Big Bang. 😉

How much food price inflation is a result of shortages, and how much of those shortages have environmental causes, like flood or drought?

Yes. Yes and yes.

That's not how that works... Like, at all.

This is proposed by someone wanting to intrusively track employees, or by someone that doesn't understand how user interfaces on PCs actually works...

Or both. And I'm willing to bet on both.

That’s a new excuse for invasive employee surveillance 🙄

Even if Mexico were getting a new trade deal with the USA (big freaking "IF!") what it means is that it shows how little the current US Administration wants one with Canada.

It's still about them, not us. The USA cannot be trusted.

To really lean into this, Doug Ford really is showing us that he doesn't believe he has to justify his decisions to anyone, certainly not us voters.

He makes a decision, it's a "no-brainer" therefore it should be done.

One final point here for members of the PC caucus at Queen’s Park to consider: they are being asked this week to vote to make it easier for the premier to make decisions behind closed doors, and to lock those doors even more firmly. Government House Leader Steve Clark has presented a motion to whip the budget measures bill through the legislature without committee hearings, including the section that will eviscerate Ontario’s freedom of information laws. Many in this government find journalists and their insistence on factual answers annoying, fine. But the events of the last few days are a reminder that a culture of insularity and secrecy is bad for governments, and Tories might want to ask whether leaning into that dysfunction is really what they need right now.

New from me at TVO, on the whole jet thing: www.tvo.org/article/anal...

The one true CPAC is Canada's Cable Public Affairs Channel and we're taking the acryonym back.

Some real chowerheads in Canada have been spreading the idea that Mexico is on the cusp of getting some mythical tariff-free side deal with Trump, insisting that Ottawa needs to go cap-in-hand to avoid getting left out.

Meanwhile:

*SNORT*

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Me upon learning that Erin O'Toole has more credibility with Mark Carney than Pierre Poilievre.

My guess, for the same reason he doesn't want to be Poilievre's friend.

😬

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