Seems like a lot of the news today was really just an update of the news from the weekend.
So here's some good commentary and update posts:
"Who cares?" is trending
Mamdani v Trump shows us 'this is the way'
Here's the complete meeting video between Mamdani and Trump:
and here is a fascinating analysis written by business analyst Bruce Fanger.
"Who cares?" is trending on social media across the country:View on Threads
Canadians don't care about Carney's "Who cares?" (to the CPC's irritation) for a simple reason. We're sick of Trump--sick of hearing him & about him, of his existence. Unlike those in Canada's tiny far-right treehouse, we're not fascinated by Trump & don't care if he likes us..,
— James Christian Parsons (@Dred_Tory) November 25, 2025
Do the Cons actually think that even if PM Carney aimed the “who cares” at Trump that Canadians would care? He could have said, “F*ck him,” and this country would have shaken from joyful cheering because we can’t stand Trump.
— Stephano🍁Barberis (@HelloStephano) November 25, 2025
However, he meant “who cares” about the question.
PM Carney almost appologized in the House today for having said "who cares" which he called "a poor choice of words". Meanwhile, the rest of Canada is getting ready to print it on T shirts and mugs. Many seem happy that he said it in the 1st place. I guess he'll have some 'splainin to do to DT.
— EarthOx (@earthox.bsky.social) November 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The Planet Democracy: Unfiltered North / SubstackIn Tribute to Mark Carney I add WHO CARES! He might not say it but Canadians do. Who cares! We have moved on.
— gruffy.bsky.social (@gruffy.bsky.social) November 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The “Who Cares?” Doctrine: Canada Finally Dumped Its Toxic Ex
Prime Minister Carney’s dismissal of Donald Trump wasn’t a gaffe—it was a strategy. And while Pierre Poilievre screams in Parliament, Canada is quietly building the leverage to walk away.
It was the shrug heard around the world. When a reporter asked Prime Minister Mark Carney when he last spoke to Donald Trump, he didn’t give the usual trembling, diplomatic non-answer. He didn’t look like a hostage reading a proof-of-life script. He just sighed and dropped the most beautiful two words in Canadian political history:
“Who cares?”
He followed it up with the ultimate power move: “I look forward to speaking with the president soon, but I don’t have a burning issue to speak with the president about right now”.
Let’s be real: that is the Prime Ministerial equivalent of leaving a toxic ex on ‘read.’ For nine years, we’ve tiptoed around the White House like we were trying not to wake a cranky toddler with a nuclear button. Carney just decided to change the damn locks.
It wasn’t rude; it was a reality check. We are busy building a country; Trump is busy boycotting the G20 because he thinks South Africa is being mean to white farmers—a conspiracy theory ripped straight from the darker corners of the internet. One man is posting “tick tock” apocalypse memes on Truth Social; the other is running the free world.
....Here is the part the opposition refuses to understand: saying “Who cares?” creates more leverage than a thousand desperate phone calls. We are heading into the CUSMA review in 2026, and the Americans are already trying to weaponize it. They think they hold all the cards. They assume we are terrified. They assume we have nowhere else to go.
Carney just proved them wrong. By casually noting he has “no burning issue” to discuss, he signaled that Canada finally has a Plan B, a Plan C, and a Plan D. And for the first time in years, those options are real.
The China Thaw: We are seeing a path to negotiate with China on tariffs again, thawing a relationship that has been frozen for seven years. Trump’s entire strategy relies on isolating China; if Canada engages Beijing, we suddenly become a lot more valuable to Washington. Trump hates that. Good.
The India Pivot: Remember the diplomatic ice age? It’s over. Carney met Modi twice at the G20, launched negotiations for a deal that could double our trade, and got our ambassadors back to work. We aren’t sweeping the past under the rug—we can demand accountability and do business. We are recognizing that a 21st-century economy can’t ignore the world’s fifth-largest economy just to please Washington.
Mexico & Energy: We are deepening energy and investment ties with Mexico, turning North America into a partnership where two of the “Three Amigos” can survive without the third if they have to. The more we build with Mexico, the less we have to tiptoe around American chaos.
When we walk into those CUSMA talks next year, we won’t be the desperate partner clutching a binder and a prayer. We will be the country with a VIP pass to Europe’s $173 billion defense market and a rebooted trade pipeline with India. That is called leverage.
...Canadians are realizing that dignity is worth more than cheap milk. We are done walking on eggshells. We are done apologizing for our own sovereignty. And we are definitely done with politicians like Poilievre who think our national strategy should be “grovel harder.”
We used to ask, “What will America think?” Now the answer is: Who cares?
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Mamdani v Trump shows us 'this is the way'
Here's the complete meeting video between Mamdani and Trump:
and here is a fascinating analysis written by business analyst Bruce Fanger.
TLDR from Joe is Wypoxic:
Trump is a bully and Mamdani didn’t give Trump any opportunity to be THE BULLY. Since bullies are fundamentally cowards, Trump didn’t know how to deal with Mamdani, so he defaulted to fawning and trying to hone in on Mamdani’s zeitgeist (i.e., he likes to take credit for shit he had nothing to do with because he ALWAYS needs to be the center of attention).
I think anyone who is trying to negotiate with Trump should be reading this analysis. And it struck me that Carney is very calm, cool and collected whenever he is sitting beside Trump in the Oval Office - maybe Carney also knows 'this is the way'.
Good news from xkcd
Finally, I don't know how many people follow the comic xkcd but it was 15 years ago that Munroe started writing occasionally about his wife's battle with cancer and his support for her. His post yesterday covers their whole journey and it is extraordinary:
Finally, I don't know how many people follow the comic xkcd but it was 15 years ago that Munroe started writing occasionally about his wife's battle with cancer and his support for her. His post yesterday covers their whole journey and it is extraordinary:
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Gawd, I hope Canadians can get over their Carney-swoon soon enough to prevent the pipeline-to-everywhere coupled with austerity madness from a complete takeover.
Who cares? Harper and Bay Street care.
And from a very different pov, I care too.
Agree to disagree? I like what Carney is doing in general - I don't think a new pipeline will ever happen but if Alberta goes along for a while that's good too.
I agree with NPoV, pipelines are lunacy, both for the environment and as business ventures.
Consider the business side. China installed 12.6 gigawatts of solar capacity in October. That's over 3 GW per week, which is enough to power 1.2 million average American homes for a year. In other words, every two weeks, China brings on enough new solar capacity to power all the homes in Toronto (StatsCan: 2.3m private dwellings). At the same time, 10 million electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles were sold in China last year, accounting for 60% of global EV sales. Meanwhile, in neighbouring Pakistan, rooftop solar generation will exceed power demand on the national electric grid during daytime hours next year. Pakistan is expected to pay a penalty to get out of its LNG contract with Qatar. Is anyone going to be buying what we're selling by the time the pipelines are built?
Building new pipelines is like opening new typewriter factories in the 1980s. In fact, it's worse since pipelines take years to build and 40 to 50 years to recoup the investment. That's why the private sector isn't jumping in. Carney knows all this - he wrote a book on the subject. The only explanation that I can think of for his conduct is trying to keep Alberta from separating. Nothing else makes any sense.
It occurred to me as well that Carney may be playing for time to protect the Canadian banks that foolishly continue to invest in oil and gas. As the global shift to renewables gathers speed, the oil companies are going to be left with billions in stranded assets on their books in a few years, and there may be a bloodbath among Canadian banks.
That still doesn't explain why Carney isn't doing what sensible leaders are doing and moving us quickly towards renewable energy. I fear we're going to be left behind with the other delightful petrostates - the US, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela...
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