Today's News: A round-up with some good news videos; an update on inter-provincial trade deals; Poilievre is playing stupid about the Convoy; and finally a few comments about fascism

Today, just a roundup of interesting news: 

Good news videos from YouTube:

Piston Pundit: the new Canada-Mexico trade corridor  

MeidasTouch: Ben Meiselas reports  

Top 10list: Top 10 American Companies Quietly Relocating to Canada in 2025

Speaking of Canadian trade deals:

First, I cannot think of any Canadian politician who could have achieved so much, so soon as Chrystia Freeland, the Minister of Transport and Internal Trade. Her years of experience negotiating CUSMA made her the most knowledgeable person in Canada about how our inter-provincial and national trade systems could function better, and she is using all of that knowledge for negotiations about internal trade deals.

This is my count on how many provinces have made deals in just the last three weeks:
- Ottawa has now removed all 53 federal exemptions in the Canada Free Trade Agreement that would inhibit interprovincial
- trade deals have now been agreed between:
- Ontario with Saskatchewan, Alberta, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Manitoba, British Columbia, Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
- Nova Scotia with Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Prince Edward Island
- Saskatchewan with Manitoba and Prince Edward Island

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BC is knocking down trade barriers with both Provinces and Territories. Yesterday we made a trade deal with Ontario, today it was Manitoba and The Yukon. This will help create a path for interprovincial trade, while ensuring our workers are protected. @davidebybc.bsky.social

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— Jennifer Blatherwick, MLA (@j-blatherwick-mla.bsky.social) July 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM

About Poilievre and the so-called Freedom Convoy:
Dougald Lamont's Substack

Pierre Poilievre Wants an Explanation for Why Convicted Criminal Convoy Leaders Getting Years in Jail is "Justice". Here it is.
Law and order used to be a core Conservative value. Now playing stupid is.

 
...This statement shows that if Pierre Poilievre is not the most wilfully ignorant politicians of his generation, he must be one of the stupidest and most dishonest. He is defending convicted criminals who were responsible for an illegal occupation protest that led to many criminal charges and convictions. In addition to mischief, which is illegally damaging or blocking access to property, there were also charges of obstructing police, disobeying court orders, intimidation, and weapons-related charges.

Poilievre is either playing dumb, or being dumb about the real meanings of “peace” and “mischief” in a legal context, which are significantly different than the words’ everyday use...
...Poilievre is quite literally supporting and defending convicted criminals. It’s shameful for anyone to suggest that there is anything political about holding people to account for crimes they knowingly and deliberately committed and that have been proved beyond a reasonable doubt....

It wasn't "peaceful", either:

Despite efforts by their propagandists and apologists to revise history and reimagine the Freedom Convoy as a "peaceful protest," there were in fact numerous incidents of violence and harassment documented on the streets of Ottawa

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— Luke LeBrun (@lukelebrun.ca) July 23, 2025 at 7:42 AM

Finally, some useful comments about fascism.

Noah Berlatsky

it's a real problem that people think this. fascism is not the result of, like, two sides getting more and more extreme. that is not what it is. fascism is dedicated to murder, and it wins when people treat it like a regular political movement that needs to be compromised with and normalized.

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— Noah Berlatsky (@nberlat.bsky.social) July 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM

it's this idea that the problem is too much partisanship. our problem is not partisanship. our problem is fascism. and to the extent that people are not willing to fight fascism, the problem is actually *too little partisanship.*

— Noah Berlatsky (@nberlat.bsky.social) July 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM

response from Matthew Prorok

It is so frustrating to see people not understand that what we are facing is not normal political opposition, where we all agree that the end goal is a better life for everyone, we just disagree on how to get there. We are dealing with fascists, whose ideology is inevitably eliminationist.

— Matthew Prorok (@mattprorok.bsky.social) July 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM

They are not trying to make a better world for everyone, but coming at it from a conservative lens. They are trying to wipe out everyone who does not agree with them. The central tenet of fascism is that people who don't agree with you don't deserve to exist. It's about destroying everyone else.

— Matthew Prorok (@mattprorok.bsky.social) July 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM