Let’s go Blue Jays , 19 games left. Just gotta get into the playoffs ,then anything goes
— Jared Benson (@jb-rider-fan.bsky.social) September 5, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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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...
— tolkadot.bsky.social (@tolkadot.bsky.social) September 3, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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Well said #cdnpoli #Canada
— Scott Tribe -A proud "Ketchup Chip Nationalist" member (@stribeprogblog.bsky.social) September 2, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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Hegseth punching down because he is a douchebro and a bully
— Steve Saideman (@smsaideman.bsky.social) September 1, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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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.
— Jeff Rudd 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 (@jeffrudd.bsky.social) August 31, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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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...
— The Globe and Mail (@theglobeandmail.com) August 29, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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More Canadian small businesses hit by American tariffs that YOU can support! #BuyCanadian
— Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 (@todmaffin.com) August 28, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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...When your back is against the wall, it tends to stiffen the spine. Perhaps Mr. Trump expected Canada to fold like the others, but the extravagance of the U.S. demands made that impossible. It is difficult to see how any government, of whatever party, could have accepted the terms presented to us, not least because there was no guarantee we would receive anything in return: as it has since been reported, the U.S. reserved the right to raise tariffs in future to whatever level they please, notwithstanding anything in the deal. So we are headed for heavy weather. It is highly unlikely that Canada will give in, no matter what punishment is meted out to us. And yet it is hard to see how the Trump administration could yield, either, precisely because of the admiring notice we have been getting elsewhere. It is true what they say: In defying Mr. Trump, we are setting an example for the rest of the world. Therefore it is likely he will try to make an example out of us. This is about much more than trade, in other words, more even than our existence as a sovereign state. Fate has assigned us the role, as it has other nations from time to time, of a kind of Horatius at the Gate, the one who “keeps the bridge” when all the rest have fled. Our fight, it is no exaggeration to say, is the civilized world’s fight. It is a fight for reason and comity in the affairs of nations, against an administration whose worldview, and behaviour, is increasingly that of an aggressive dictatorship, in all its crudeness and its thuggery...
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...The “Naked Man” was first formally introduced on November 24, 2008, in Season Four, Episode Nine of How I Met Your Mother. But like many important developments in American foreign policy, nobody understood its significance at the time...Thus, in mid-July Trump suddenly threatens Canada with 50 per cent tariffs, and for the rest of the summer that's the only thing Canada is talking about. Other CUSMA issues fade into the background as Canada sends a team to Washington for negotiations and the media breathlessly report on every scrum.
...if a date is going badly and [Mitch] suspects there is very little chance of sex, he waits until the woman leaves the room. Then he removes all his clothes.
Naturally, Ted asks the only reasonable question: Does that actually work?
According to Mitch, “two out of three times.”
To be clear, the Naked Man is not a pickup line. There is no seduction involved. Mitch simply eliminates several intermediate stages of human courtship and confronts his date with a radically altered set of facts. And nudity....
Mitch’s war/love strategy depends entirely upon scrambling the normal sequences of human interaction. Five minutes earlier, Robin was trying to decide whether she even liked Mitch. Now Robin must decide what to do about the naked man on her couch. Thus, Mitch’s brazenness collapses the normal sequence of female decision-making. Or so his theory goes.
And, stripped of the testicles, there is an actual theory of power buried in there. Mitch has created a new reality and left everyone else to respond to it...
Political scientists have a more respectable term for this: a fait accompli.
I prefer Naked Man.
Because once you recognize the maneuver, Donald Trump starts looking less like a deal maker and more like a man who has spent eighteen years taking foreign-policy advice from CBS reruns....
Action first.
Authority later.
Never ask permission.
This is an old philosophy wearing a very long red tie.
....But Naked Man Doctrine is not only a joke about impulsivity. It is power exercised through presumption.
The ballroom: I have already demolished it.
Venezuela: We have already bombed them.
Greenland: The equipment is already here.
The boundary has not technically disappeared. It has simply become everyone else’s responsibility to enforce it. And enforcement is tiring. It requires lawsuits, coalitions, votes, sanctions, diplomatic confrontations, and sometimes throwing a drink in a creepy naked man’s face...
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...As always with high stakes talks, especially where few official details are provided, there will be leakers lurking. The media love them, but rarely question their motives...
The leaks may not be necessarily true or even very definitive, but leakers will hope, or perhaps have been authorized to hope, that they might push the negotiation in some favourable direction. Leakers are not white knights.
They are definitely not to be trusted, even if you are reading this stuff over breakfast (does any Canadian demographic still do that?). I have no idea where the leaks come from, or what authenticity they have, or what the leak story might be tomorrow.
But consider that there are certainly elements within the Canadian defence establishment who would love to see the Carney government forced to relinquish its Canada-first defence industrial strategy, its skepticism about the F-35 purchase, its reluctance to go all in on Trump’s fabulist Golden Dome missile system, or even its determination to buy radar planes with significant Canadian elements (the Saab Golden Eye, based on a Bombardier commercial jet), in favour of the latest U.S. product from Boeing. That’s leak as putsch pressure.
And there are certainly Americans who might well imagine that they can bully Canada into making grand concessions in defence and economic security—really concessions of national sovereignty-- in order to avoid more tariff pain and try to get the Canada-US trading relationship back on some steady plane.
And a further thought, in a different direction. Maybe there are even, among these three Canadian leakers, some motive to try to raise public resistance to any such defence and economic security give-away so that the Carney team can simply say—our public won’t go there, sorry Donald....
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Prime Minister Mark Carney has been consistent since he arrived on the scene: no deal is better than a bad deal.
But with an approaching deadline, Canada is fast becoming the hand-wringing capital of the world.
What if Trump won’t sign? What if we do and it’s not perfect?
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Prime Minister Mark Carney says "you've got to believe" the Toronto Blue Jays can still make the playoffs. But can they, really?Yeah, well, not so much lately, buddy!
...According to Elias Sports Bureau, the official statistician of Major League Baseball (MLB), there are just two teams that have stood at 58-63 through 121 games — the same record the Jays have right now — that went on to make the playoffs in the wild-card era: The 2024 Detroit Tigers and the 2009 Minnesota Twins.
Randy Robles of Elias Sports Bureau believes "there's some hope" for the Jays, noting that if there ever was a year for a struggling team to still have a chance, it would be this one, when so many American League teams have been playing so poorly.
Toronto has begun to claw its way to a better record, claiming series wins against the Washington Nationals, the St. Louis Cardinals, the Houston Astros and the Philadelphia Phillies in the past couple of weeks.
That winning trend has to continue for the team to have a shot at the post-season: "They gotta get to .500," Robles told CBC News, referring to the point when a team has won as many games as it has lost.
The Texas Rangers, the team currently sitting in the third wild-card spot the Jays are vying for, was only one game above the .500 mark prior to Tuesday's matchups.
All the teams seeking to take the Rangers' spot — Toronto included — currently have losing records.
Summing up the challenge the Blue Jays face in climbing the standings, Toronto Star baseball columnist Mike Wilner saw a certain parity in the teams involved in the wild-card fight.
"Every team in front of the Blue Jays kind of stinks," Wilner told CBC News. "The problem is, the Blue Jays kind of stink, too."...
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