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Whether you think he would have made a great PM or not, it's notable that far more Canadians know who Tommy Douglas was than know who about 3/4 of our former PMs were. Maybe it's so in most countries, but Canada has had a significant share of benchwarmers in its highest office.
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This is a great illustration of a thing that political campaigns understand that popular narratives about election campaigns often miss: swing voters tend to matter less to outcomes than motivation
The @Conservative_BC actually received 50,000 fewer votes than in 2024 (but won 20 more seats) because the @bcndp vote dropped by 275.000 (29%) while the @BCGreens got 23,000 more votes than last time (+13%) - still some ballots to be counted.
The battle Carney is referring to, Queenston Heights, is one of the most insane episodes in Canadian history. Among other things: 1. Half the U.S. force refused to cross the Niagara to take part, and the boatmen eventually stranded their own commander on the U.S. side.
4. When the U.S. troops surrendered, a whole bunch of their fellow soldiers who had apparently been hiding in the woods/underbrush this whole time, suddenly emerged from concealment to surrender, too
This is literally the only good tweet about the TO mayoral race so far. Where's @shawnmicallef impersonating William Lyon Mackenzie when you need him?
Doug Ford: Who wants to bet I can pull the plug on my own government with a year and four months left to go in my mandate, blame it on vaguely Trump-related reasons, and pay no political price?
David Eby: Hold my beer.
In the Skin of a Lion. Set in the 1910s to 1930s, written in the 1980s, but describes a Toronto that feels pretty much exactly the same today, where immigration and construction are the perpetual defining features.
Canada-U.S. trade talks have collapsed tonight. Donald Trump's latest round of tariffs will come into effect at 12.01 am. Mark Carney says he will retaliate "dollar-for-dollar." If he does that, a U.S. official says Trump will be presented with options for more retaliation.
Canada is suspending negotiations. Carney says the U.S. asked for "last-minute changes" that were "unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal."
If you want some idea of what today/tonight's deadline negotiating could look like, here's an anecdote from Bob Lighthizer about admonishing Justin Trudeau's advisors for "sneaky" changes to the wording of USMCA in the final hours of talks in 2018 theglobeandmail.com/world/us…
In those talks, Lighthizer held out on Canada's redline demand, preserving a specific type of dispute resolution, until the final day. Conceding it closed the deal. To be seen if something similar happens on autos today, on either side. theglobeandmail.com/business…
Less than 48 hours from Trump's latest tariffs on Canada, sources point to two holdups in talks: autos, with disagreement over tariff level and whether only U.S. or all USMCA content is exempted; and lumber, which the U.S. wants excluded from this deal
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I'm also told that critical minerals, oil and gas, Golden Dome and F-35s are a bigger factor in the talks than Canada is letting on theglobeandmail.com/world/us…
