Canada Cheer! Here's some good Canada stuff to help us through the next week.

I know you are worried about what is happening in the United States, and what might happen in Canada as a result. I'm worried too.

I turn on the TV to hear Trump babbling about windmills while Rubio or some foreign leader sits frozen beside him with a "deer in the headlights" stare. Then I see another video of masked ICE Gestapo rounding up brown people to ship to the gulags. Then I read about SCOTUS abusing its shadow docket to manufacture constitutional permissions for fascism. Meanwhile US media owners are knuckling under, as are US universities and US industrial leaders.
It seems like the only effective opposition to Trump now are the commedians.
Its discouraging, disheartening, exhausting.
The gleam of hope I see is here, in Canada -- where hundreds of thousands of us, millions of us, have joined together to declare our love for our country and our determination to keep our own country, our own future, somehow.
So far, at least, all of our politicians are with us.
And Mark Carney is leading the way.
So here are some moments of Canada Cheer:
First, a great article to foward to anyone you know who wants to move out of the United States:

Having a back up exit strategy, even if you never want to use it, is important. View it like insurance. Now is the time to prepare one. Here are 6 actions you can take right now to make such an exit possible later.

- Canada Resists

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And a few facts and figures to back this up:

Canada 🇨🇦 is superior in all ways! ❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️ ❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️

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— 🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 (@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social) July 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM

Next, some updates on the Carney-Trump tariff negotiations:

Canada-U.S. Trade talks: PM Mark Carney calls the negotiations "intense and complex," referencing other global trade deals with the EU, Japan, and Indonesia. He makes it clear: Canada will only sign a deal that works for Canadians. #MarkCarney #cdnpoli #canadanews

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— 🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 (@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social) July 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM

To the pundits and talking heads commenting on the cost of Canada breaking free from the US economy and supply chains. Here’s what I think. For too long, we relied on our trusted, long-standing trade relationship. If there were rubs, sane, deliberate, intelligent people sorted things out. But no more! There’s a madman who occupies the Oval Office. Now, it’s time to stand alone. Break from the US. Withhold the things they want and need from us: fertilizer, potash, softwood lumber, hydro, rare minerals, uranium, aluminum, water, free access to the northern passage… and more! We’ll be just fine! We are a country rich in resources and determination! It may take awhile to build our infrastructure and negotiate new deals with other countries, and there will be a financial cost, but we will do it. Canada 🇨🇦

- Kathleen Terry

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🔴 One of the things I admire the most about Prime Minister Carney is his ability to shut out the noise, and outlandish yappings of negative Chihuahuas - and plough ahead with the PROSPERITY STRATEGY for Canada. 🇨🇦 ✅ He said from day one that the best defence against Trump’s maniacal attack on our way of life, is to develop our OWN economy in ways that have not previously been imagined. 🚀 And from DAY ONE he has been busy laying that foundation, undeterred by the misinformation of naysayers. 🙂 We have at the helm a confident and UNIQUELY experienced leader who, over his term (s), is going to deliver a Canada that is prosperous, economically independent and robust enough to weather ANY future threats on our sovereignty or economy. 👍🏻 This week the Prime Minister met with Inuit leadership in Inuvik, N.W.T. to chart a new path forward and talk about how to work in partnership to build the major projects that will create high-paying careers and long-term prosperity in the North. Exciting times ahead! #CanadaStrong

- Fun Tom

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As much as I disagree myself with the Conservative approach, I can support this wish for cooperation - one of the things that weakened Canada over the last decade was vicious anti-Trudeau partisanship. And by speaking out like this, at this time, Harper is showing Canadian right-wingers that turning MAGA is not a choice they should make.

Good. Let’s work together finding solutions when it comes to the Trump attacks on Canada. Time to park the partisan politics. www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps...

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— Lynda Steele 🇨🇦 (@steeletalks.bsky.social) July 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM

Canada is rapidly improving trading relationships with the rest of the world:

Thank you #CharlieAngus for fighting the good fight. #Canada is with you. Safe travels. #cdnpoli #theResistanceCanada

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— Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 (@spudislander45.bsky.social) July 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM

Trump is making Mexico 🇲🇽 and Canada 🇨🇦 great again? Canada and Mexico are creating a new trade route, the Northern Corridor, that bypasses the United States entirely. This move is projected to cost the U.S. economy $125 billion while adding billions to the economies of Canada and Mexico.

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— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) July 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM

Good morning my Wonderful Bluesky Friends! Expanding the Port of Churchill will be a highly important piece of the puzzle to get Canada away from our reliance on the US. It's past time that we did. Let's Do This! 🇨🇦❤️💙❤️🇨🇦 www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

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— 🇨🇦Truth Matters with Tom from Canada🇨🇦 (@daddo21.bsky.social) July 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM

Canada's trade to countries other than the USA is up dramatically for the 4th month in a row. Source: Statistics Canada

- Proud Canadian In Quebec

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Here's an interesting discussion:
Canadian Returnee

Should Canada Join the EU? A Bridge Too Far or a Vision Worth Pursuing?
Canada isn’t in Europe but could it ever join the EU? Exploring the fantasy, the friction, and the future of deeper ties across the Atlantic.
As global politics shift and old alliances fray, improbable ideas begin to surface in public discourse. One such idea, curious, provocative, even humorous at first glance, is the question of whether Canada could or should join the European Union.... Behind the humour lies a serious undercurrent: a growing discomfort with Canada's reliance on an increasingly volatile United States, and a quiet admiration for European values, particularly when it comes to social protections, environmental standards, and multilateral diplomacy.
....Rather than chasing EU membership, some imagine a broader, more flexible transatlantic alliance, something beyond the old Commonwealth or NAFTA frameworks. A global commonwealth, perhaps, grounded in shared democratic values, sustainable development, and social protections. This wouldn’t require a shared currency or supranational parliament but could create a binding legal framework for climate cooperation, food safety, and labour standards.
Such an arrangement would allow countries like Canada and members of the EU to act in concert without erasing sovereignty. It could also include other democratic partners, Japan, South Korea, and Australia, who face similar pressures from rising authoritarian powers. In this model, Canada wouldn’t have to become European to walk beside Europe.
...The idea of Canada joining the European Union is, for now, a fantasy. It’s unlikely to ever happen, but that doesn’t mean the question isn’t worth asking. The value lies in the thought experiment itself.
It forces Canadians to ask: why do we feel increasingly uneasy with our current alliances? Why do European values seem more attractive than American ones? What does it say about our regulatory standards, environmental protections, and social safety nets that some would rather look 5,000 kilometres across the Atlantic than across our southern border?
The lesson is not that we should become Europeans; it’s that we must decide what kind of country we want to be. ...

I really want to see more of this happening - Canada needs to accept all the US refugees we can now:

Canada begins processing its first US refugees. Refusing to deport those at risk of persecution under Trump’s anti-LGBTQIA agenda.

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— LorennaCleary.bsky.social (@lorennacleary.bsky.social) July 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM

Moving on, this was great - from the Rod Stewart concert in Toronto:

And this - I'm not crying, you're crying!

Be Proud 🇨🇦 You don’t know what you’ve got. Make sure you realize it before it’s all taken away fueled by hate & lies! #BuyCanadian 🇨🇦 #BoycottUSA 🇺🇸

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— ButtigiegDem 🇨🇦 📎 (@buttigiegdem.bsky.social) July 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM