‘It’s more shouting’: Finland’s president says he’s not exactly a ‘Trump whisperer’ | CBC News Finnish President Alexander Stubb sat down with CBC News chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton to talk about trade, his relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump and NATO’s role in a shift...

An excellent interview with Alexander Stubb, President of Finland, who is very impressive. He and Mark Carney are close and a formidable tag team.

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Q for any historians out there: Has any previous election (anywhere) seen the White House and Kremlin both meddling on behalf of the same side?

Energy shock talk grabs headlines but the Iran war is also driving the world towards a food crisis | Heather Stewart Growers face soaring fertiliser and fuel costs as shipping choke point of the strait of Hormuz hits supply chains

“As fuel and fertilizer costs rise, Trump’s war appears increasingly likely to have the unconscionable side-effect of amplifying world hunger.”

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If “a picture is worth a thousand words”, a pointed editorial cartoon is worth many times that. From the brilliant hand of Michael de Adder C.M.

PM's office mum on Conservative Order of Canada petition for Don Cherry OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s office wouldn’t weigh in on a push by the federal Conservatives to award the Order of Canada to controversial hockey commentator Don Cherry. Audrey Champoux, a sp...

Anyone can nominate a fellow Canadian for the Order of Canada. There is an online form and an independent panel that decides who deserves one. It isn't up to the Prime Minister or some petition. This is just divisive political grandstanding. #cdnpoli toronto.citynews.ca/2026/03/14/p...

Carney politics vrs Trump politics
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Luckovich is never NOT brilliant.

Dear Team Canada — Day 289 — Will You Please Shut Up? The Carney Letters — an unauthorized series by Wayne Horton

This is superb. Wayne Horton may have invented a new genre of journalism. This is a deeply informed, wonderfully enlightening essay on how to behave in bad faith negotiations, as well as a perfect reading of Carney's manner and thinking, and it's satire. It is explanatory parody. And it's right.

With Trump wildly firing off tariff threats (on Canadian aerospace, Cuba trade, and any other pet peeve), this is a regular reminder that his policies are a self-inflicted wound on US manufacturing. US lost 72K mfg jobs since he started the tariff wars. Canada gained 16K. #cdnecon #canlab

'Do the leg thing,' prime minister asks Heated Rivalry's Hudson Williams Prime Minister Mark Carney and Heated Rivalry star Hudson Williams shared something other than a hug on the Prime Time 2026 red carpet in Ottawa.

Will PM Carney have a cameo role in the sequel of Heated Rivalry??
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There is an old word to describe going to a foreign power and asking for their assistance in breaking up a sovereign country — it’s treason.

Canadians are standing together in defence of this beautiful land. 🇨🇦

In Barry Blitt’s latest Kvetchbook, Donald Trump continues to argue with the Danish.

‘If you haven’t served, respect those who have’: Nato soldiers on Trump’s slurs For those who fought alongside US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, president’s remarks have cut deep

Nobody named Trump was on the frontline with me. And his sons were nowhere to be seen in the Afghan desert”. Retired Canadian corporal Bruce Moncur who was severely injured as a result of American “friendly” fire.

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The forces of American fascism are accelerating their attempts at consolidating tyranny. Beyond the horrors inflicted on peaceful Americans, MAGA will work hard to undermine Canadian unity and peace.

They will flood us with disinformation and hate. Don't fall for it.

We’ve placed the available videos of the shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis today into the same synchronised timeline and are continuing to analyse further.

Stella Carlson said that before the shooting, the man was helping vehicle traffic get around the area where ICE agents and observers had started to gather. "The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. The ICE agents approached us, told us to back up, back up. I'm not even sure why we were helping them, if anything. And I got on the snow bank, and next thing I knew, they shot him," Carlson said.

"The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. ...

"Next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Fact check: The US trades a lot more with China than Canada does - not just in absolute $ but also relative to each country's total trade.

* US trade with China = 10.9% of total US trade

* Canada's trade with China = 7.9% of total Canadian trade

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Canada strikes tariff deal with China as global trade moves further from U.S. | CBC

Eight days ago:

"It's OK. That's what he should be doing. It's a good thing for him to sign a trade deal. If you can get a deal with China, you should do that."

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Trump, once again, shows his true colours: petty, arrogant, vindictive and vituperative. "Elbows Up"!!

“It’s a series of disgraceful statements, shameful untruths from President of USA who is a historical illiterate. It’s not just that 158 Canadians fought and died we led largest battalion-size combat ops on ground in NATO history!” 🇨🇦 Fmr Ambassador to Afghanistan

🔗 youtu.be/MgGKy1gauT8?si… #NATO

O Canada A heartfelt thanks to the truth-telling prime minister to our north.

A heartfelt thanks to the truth-telling prime minister to our north. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/o-canada

Donald Trump would like to accept all the awards! | This Hour Has 22 Minutes YouTube video by 22 Minutes

Mark Critch does a fabulous imitation of Donald Trump. youtu.be/L2c03zWoE4s?...

The Carney doctrine Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech

“The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy.”

As a piece of prose and geopolitical analysis Carney’s Davos speech feels history-making. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...

Mark Carney:
"Stop invoking the “rules-based international order” as though it still functions as advertised. Call the system what it is: a period where the most powerful pursue their interests using economic integration as a weapon of coercion."

The Carney doctrine Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech

Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.

“You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination”. Powerful speech by PM Carney.

Trump's latest Western Hemisphere fixation: Canada The president has intensified his criticism of Canada in private conversations with aides in recent weeks over what he sees as the country's vulnerability to U.S. adversaries in the Arctic.

Trump's latest Western Hemisphere fixation: Canada www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

@evansolomon.bsky.social As the Minister for AI, you should start using this channel to communicate. Like many other Canadians, I have left X.