Sunday Funday: Documenting the Decline and Fall, plus Interesting Posts, Funny Posts, Getting Old(er), Carney Hat-Trick, TrumpWatch, and Animal Crackers

Credit to the great Beetle Moses 

Finally its the weekend after a long week, so its time to relax....Oops, feels like summer's over already

Documenting the Decline and Fall 

People are giving up on the United States now:

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Finishing the week: some bright notes on a sad day, a widening war in the gulf, and today's Trade War Dispatches

Some bright notes on 9/11 

A standing ovation for Chretien

This glorious old man! 92 years old and still on the ramparts for Canada.

- Joanne Pettis 🇨🇦

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Carney's presentation

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Today's News: Canadian military restructure & allies, Poilievre boots it, doom and gloom for America, 9/11 memories, Trade War update, and Trudeau's latest

Here are some of today's news -- this isn't everything, of course, like I'm not including anything on the AI sky-is-falling scare that I don't understand anyway - but I've gathered up some interesting posts.

Canada military restructure and alliances

#Ottawa - The #Canadian military officially restructured a section of the army on Thursday to serve as its main fighting force in a major war, marking the latest in an ongoing drive to prepare for large-scale combat including the defence of #Canada itself 🇨🇦 #Cdnmilitary share.google/NfTvsTEzk6Ty...

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— StacesCases2 🇨🇦 📎 (@stacescases2.bsky.social) September 11, 2026 at 12:07 AM

The CBC reports:

..."This is a big change," Maj.-Gen. Wade Rutland, commander of the new 1st Canadian Division, said in an interview.
"This is not an exercise in restructuring the deck chairs. We're doing this in order to be more agile, more lethal, more relevant to defend Canada."
Rutland said the threat environment has changed and the world is returning to large-scale combat operations with hundreds of thousands of soldiers, like the ones in Ukraine.
"We realized that we needed to stand up what we call a war fighting division, which will bring together thousands of troops able to integrate air, cyber, space effects and actually contribute as a really trusted ally into that likely future fight," he said.
It's part of a series of structural changes ordered by Lt.-Gen. Michael Wright, who laid out his plan to modernize the army in a 2025 document titled Inflection Point.
Alongside the manoeuvre division, the army is setting up a support division, which will be run out of Kingston, Ont.
The army also is standing up a "defence of Canada" division based out of Montreal, to be known as the 2nd Canadian Division. It's made up largely of part-time soldiers and will focus on national emergencies and domestic defence....

I'm looking forward to reporting from Black Cloud Six and Wesley Wark to analyze these changes.

How about some laughs?

I'm out of outrage tonight.
So here are some cartoons and some funny-good posts:

Today's News: "Nobody in this country is in the stands. 40 million of us are on the ice."

graphic by Don DeLeski 

I was hoping PM Carney would give us another Forward Guidance video as Canada fights back against Trump's tariff war, and on Tuesday morning here it was. 

I'm calling it his "Everyone Over The Boards" speech:

Reactions and comments:

Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov on Raging Moderates podcast - "You kind of can't hate Trump enough"

Courage, Canada - "Let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world."

Canada's counter-tariffs are on, and there will not be any turning back. 

In the days to come, when you need some courage:

Remember Jack Layton's last message:

Sunday Funday: Blue Jays make it into the Wild Card! Plus Interesting posts, Funny posts, Getting Old(er), Carney Hat-Trick, TrumpWatch, Animal Crackers

Hooray for the Blue Jays winning their way into the Wild Card!
It was just three weeks ago that we realized it was still possible for the Blue Jays to reach the post-season through a Wild Card spot this year.
On Saturday, they did it!

Let’s go Blue Jays , 19 games left. Just gotta get into the playoffs ,then anything goes

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— Jared Benson (@jb-rider-fan.bsky.social) September 5, 2026 at 9:10 PM

They have to keep on winning to keep their spot.

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Saturday wrap-up: Poof!

Some stories I saw today that wrapped up this week:

First, it looks like the trade talks are dead, at least for now, so our Canadian retaliatory tariffs will be a go on Tuesday

Hooray! 

Canada's retaliatory tariffs take effect Sept 8, and the target list runs through Maine, Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan and Indiana. Every one of those states has a race worth watching. Ottawa isn't hiding the logic. #Tariffs #Canada www.disruptionbanking.com/2026/09/03/t...

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— tolkadot.bsky.social (@tolkadot.bsky.social) September 3, 2026 at 10:02 AM

Canada is getting angry....you won't like us when we're angry

It has been a wild couple of weeks, hasn't it. 

And Canadians are getting feisty:

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Well said #cdnpoli #Canada

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— Scott Tribe -A proud "Ketchup Chip Nationalist" member (@stribeprogblog.bsky.social) September 2, 2026 at 6:29 PM

Mid-Week Break: Good cartoons, good videos, good news

And Star cartoonist Theo Moudakis predicted Lake America a year ago 

Today in "Christ, what an asshole!"

And we all know who today's asshole is.

Hegseth punching down because he is a douchebro and a bully

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— Steve Saideman (@smsaideman.bsky.social) September 1, 2026 at 10:15 AM

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Fighting for Lake Ontario? We don't get to choose the battle; we only get to choose our side

So now we're in a fight for the honour of Lake Ontario. 

Really? 

Once again, this proves what I first wrote 20 years ago and have repeated it several times since - we don't get to choose the battle, we only get to choose our side.

Whether its tyranny or fascism or racism or the patriarchy or corporate greed or environmental degradation (or pick your own adventure), we usually don't have the luxury of waiting for exactly the "right" issue to be upset about. The battle lines are usually drawn long before we get there, over some event or situation or outrage or tragedy.
Usually its something pretty serious - like deciding who can be married, or watching a black man crushed by police, or stopping ICE Gestapo rounding up innocents. But other times the event is sorta trivial, really - like Trump trolling Canada by changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America.
Really, Trump? That's all you've got? Its just so silly stupid dumb.
But we can't just turn away, and think its OK to ignore it, to wait until something more important happens.
While Americans have to shame themselves by bending the knee to Trump's stupidity, we don't. Canada can stand up. We can choose our side. And all across the country, we're doing it.

Dear Mr Rapist, Lake Ontario is named as such in the Treaty of Canandaigua, signed by President George Washington and ratified by Congress in 1795. An executive order can’t override it, you stupid, uneducated arsehole.

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— Jeff Rudd 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 (@jeffrudd.bsky.social) August 31, 2026 at 11:39 PM

Premier Doug Ford unveiled a Lake Ontario sign at a park on the shores of the Great Lake on Saturday, two days after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change its name to Lake America. 🔗 www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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— The Globe and Mail (@theglobeandmail.com) August 29, 2026 at 12:57 PM

Sunday Funday: Cartoons, Interesting Posts, Funny Posts, Getting Old(er), Carney Hat Trick, TrumpWatch, Animal Crackers plus the Jays

So much depressing news this week about war and Nepal so I didn't find as much funny stuff. But enough, I think! Enjoy...

About the CAN-US Trade & Tariff War

Closing out the week: "Buy Canadian, Bye USA", plus some updates on wildfires, Nepal and the Jays

Buy Canadian

It's sweeping the country now.

More Canadian small businesses hit by American tariffs that YOU can support! #BuyCanadian

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— Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 (@todmaffin.com) August 28, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Hee are some good websites:
Reddit Buy Canadian page
Canada Shops, by Canada Post
Made in Canada
Globe and Mail The Big Guide to Canadian Shopping
Canoe News The Ultimate Guide to Buying Canadian: Home, Fashion, Beauty and more local brands. Canoe also has a Buy Canadian page on their website.

And I saw this on Facebook:

A Manitoba commenter noticed they had missed Old Dutch potato chips.

National Dog Day post now updated

Hi all
For some reason, my Thursday post about National Dog Day wasn't visible on tablets or phones.
I changed a couple of settings, and it now works on my tablet, so I hope it works on yours too.
Link here:
Mid-Week Break for National Dog Day!