I can’t be the only one who can’t help thinking of the rumored Trump golden shower tapes every time he talks about the golden dome. It’s what I imagine he’s dreaming of, but on a continental scale.

Puts in context all the fear mongering about China’s military buildup while they’re sitting at 1.7% of GDP.

Fleeing the US to Canada feels a bit like fleeing Nazi Germany to Poland in the early 1930’s. I hope it doesn’t end up that way.

My preference would be for active nonalignment in the China-US rivalry while broadening relations with other stable nations looking to similarly ride those waves.

I really, really hope we do not fall in line with the US. A window has been opened for us by Trump, but the little I’ve heard from Ray and Carney regarding China makes me worry we will align with the US after all in what is the world’s principal rivalry.

What a completely tactless piece of trash thing to say.

It’s definitely not good for students. It might be what a student ends up eating because of lack of resources needed to eat better, but anyone who is engaged in learning and needs their brain to perform well isn’t going to get what they need from this.

I wonder, what would the consequences have been for Ukraine if Russia had first built an air defence system that extended across all of Ukraine’s airspace? I’m sure nothing bad could have come from that for Ukraine… right?

I would like to think this is more than performative, but given the history of inaction I won’t be holding my breath as a wait to see something more than threats and condemnation.

This actually made me lol

This was entirely predictable and is quite gratifying.

Not really sure how any US diplomat can be taken seriously in their public statements when sycophancy for a completely dishonest and untrustworthy leader is a requirement for keeping their job.

I would rather they be sanctioned.

Better late than never.

“There is no public uproar and little clamour from within the institutions; … Resistance must come from outside the institutions”

Pretty revealing take. “Resistance”

Alberta 2025 = Crimea 2013

Moderate conservatives and far-right secessionist conservatives don’t agree on secession, but if she doesn’t do what the far-right conservatives want, she might lose political power, so she’s happy to support the people threatening to tear the country apart because it serves her personal interests.

Take off the CPC-tinted glasses. There was nothing comparable to Biden there. Carney handled that meeting very, very well.

Keep in mind, our neighbor to the south is the world’s leading expert in regime change with a long track record of causing civil unrest and undermining the social and democratic systems of democratic allies.

We are far from out of the woods on dealing with the rising far right movement. We need to see other parties divide the moderate conservatives from the far right conservatives on wedge issues like Alberta separatism and other crazier stuff from the far right.

At the same time, the Liberals and the NDP need to work on winning over the moderate voters who went with the CPC because of the economic & labour pains they’ve felt in recent years.

Also, killing off X in Canada would be great, but much more contentious.

Maybe you’re confused about what I mean by CPC caucus? Those are the elected MPs in the Conservative party. They ultimately vote on who is the leader of the party, but that’s something they do outside of parliament. They just do it in their own party organization. That’s what I mean about holding him accountable, because they can choose to replace him with another leader, or they can choose to keep him as leader even after losing the election and losing his own seat.