Today's News: Mboko wins, South Park wins, Carney carries on, Conservatives panic, and Trump trashes Washington

Congrats to Victoria Mboko, winning the National Bank Open in Montreal tonight - outstanding, gutsy:  

Enfant Mboko et une jeune Andrescu. Deux Canadiennes 🇨🇦 à avoir gagné le Tournoi 🇨🇦 🎾🏟️ dans les 50 dernières années. Mboko est un bel exemple de persévérance et de discipline pour le parcours de sa jeune carrière et pour sa performance today. 😉👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 #VickyMboko #Mboko #WTA #Montreal #Championne 🇨🇦🎾🏆✨✨✨

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— TiCoq-Rouge Hendy (@ticoqrouge.bsky.social) August 8, 2025 at 12:37 AM

And by the way, I also found a good YouTube channel for discussion about South Park, which was again outstanding this week:

 

Wait, so we ARE relevant?#eatabagofdicks https://t.co/HeQSMU86Da

— South Park (@SouthPark) August 5, 2025

In other news, Carney keeps calm and carries on even though its sounding like our "retaliatory tariffs" aren't doing the job we wanted:

Listening to Min Fin and my bet is the feds are 100% gonna’ drop the retaliatory tariffs. What matters is whether they get in to WH with a proposal that also *gets* something from the US for this (which, on its own won’t be enough).

— Jennifer Robson 🇨🇦 (@jrobson.bsky.social) August 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM

The Conservatives are trying to create a "the sky is falling" panic about this -- as Dale Smith observed tonight:

...the Conservatives have decided to go full-bore on the notion that Carney has broken his signature campaign promise because he has not only failed to reach a deal with Trump, but that tariffs have increased since then. Of course, this is premised on the completely false notion that Trump is a rational actor, but pretty much the entire Conservative caucus was tweeting variations of this very thing all day, because absolutely everything they do has to be about social media posts...

But in this clip, Katie Simpson asks twice "what exactly would Conservatives do differently" and gets no anwer:

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Here's some good news:

Métis leaders left a meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday saying they're confident they will be included in talks about major projects Ottawa hopes to use to bolster the economy in the face of a trade war with the United States.

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— CHEK News (@cheknews.ca) August 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM

And here's some more good news:

🍁How Economically Patriotic Are You? 📊My latest for 338, with data from @pallasdata.bsky.social → www.338canada.ca/p/how-econom...

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— Philippe J. Fournier (@338canada.bsky.social) August 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM

And don't miss this great piece on a topic that I have been wondering about myself:

History does not always arrive with marching boots and blaring horns. Sometimes it seeps through the cracks, subtle, quiet, almost invisible until the flood breaks. For many of us watching events unfold south of the border, the question is no longer if the United States could collapse into authoritarianism, but how bad it would have to get before the rest of the world, including Canada, takes notice. In the face of such uncertainty, one pressing and profoundly human question arises: if ordinary Americans began fleeing tyranny, would Canada open its doors?

- Canadian Returnee

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I think the first group of refugee Americans arriving in our country will be the Obama and Biden White House staff who are now being targeted by the FBI and the Department of Justice for doing their jobs.

I really hope Canada would refuse to arrest them and send them back to deal with Trump's fury.

Next up, a batch of stories about how Trump is trashing Washington: 

Oops! 

Last week Americans were outraged when a description of Trump's two impeachments disappeared from the Smithsonian. Then the Smithsonian tried to say it had just been an unfortunate accident.

BREAKING: The Smithsonian museum is putting Trump’s two impeachments back in its presidential history exhibit after quietly removing them under pressure from the White House.

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— Republicans Against Trumpism (@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social) August 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM

Double Oops! 

Yesterday, Americans were outraged when the Constitution on the Library of Congress website was missing key sections about habeus corpus and the powers of congress. Oh

They got caught and walked it back.

- Kathleen Terry

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And if anyone ever needs a definition of "cheap"....

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Trump’s Oval Office looks like the ghost of Liberace jizzed all over it. 🤢

- JoJoFromJerz

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