Today's News: "And those winds sure can blow cold way out there"

Hey, I'm not talking about Saskatchewan - our weather this week is great right now. But starting this weekend, its going to be 15 to 20 below (C) in Minneapolis, and the cold snap will last for the next two weeks.

For once, Minnesotans are looking forward to it:

Just saying....

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— Sister Golden Bear (@sistergoldenbear.bsky.social) January 13, 2026 at 7:49 PM

post text: "To any ICE agents reading this who are from down south — you have never experienced anything like this cold. Our European climate equivalent is literally Stalingrad. It will hurt to breathe. You will be outside in it. So will we, but we are used to it. Next week is what will break you."

ICE Gestapo have been slipping and falling on icy Minneapolis streets:

Ice vs ICE. I know what side I’m on. Rhymes with “falling bad.”

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— Helen Kennedy (@helenkennedy.bsky.social) January 13, 2026 at 6:25 PM

And now its a meme:

[Tuba plays a sad ditty]

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— John Cutting (@fortunasaga.com) January 13, 2026 at 4:39 PM

Moving on, Carney is travelling to China to talk trade. I hope he gets rid of the EV tarrifs, though I am not hopeful. But at least Scott Moe is going with him so maybe our canola will get sold.

Saskatchewan farmers optimistic for Premier Scott Moe joining China trip

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— Medias 🇨🇦 (@mediasca.skyfleet.blue) January 13, 2026 at 6:29 PM

Though Ford is terrified:

Doug Ford is ‘100% dead against’ lifting tariffs on Chinese EVs https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/doug-ford-says-hes-100-dead-against-lifting-canadian-tariffs-on-chinese-evs/article_7b64a21d-0fab-49b3-9808-b5896b0b6678.html https://archive.is/aic3o

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— Ron Dyck (@dyckron.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy) January 13, 2026 at 9:40 PM

But today Trump said he didn't need Canada anyway

“Canada would love it. They want it. They need it.” U.S. President Farty-7 said that CUSMA is "irrelevant" to him. Ok Jen. I guess we’ll see about that.

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— 🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 (@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social) January 13, 2026 at 10:02 PM

But I expect Carney will know Trump's pattern, that he always insults anyone he is threatened by or losing to:

Don't panic, Canada! Whenever someone is winning against him, Trump starts talking about how they really don't matter anyway. Its a 'tell' that he knows he is losing. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

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— Cathie from Canada🍁 (@cathiecanada.bsky.social) January 14, 2026 at 12:07 AM

Trump found out today that not all the guys on the assembly line think he's great:

Bravo to the Ford employee who shouted "pedophile protector" at the Chief Pedophile Protector of the United States, Donald Trump 👏👏👏👏👏

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— George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 (@gtconway.bsky.social) January 13, 2026 at 7:45 PM

At The Bulwark, Andrew Egger writes The Only Language They Understand

....some congressional Republicans—one year into Trump 2.0—are starting to reconsider the question of whether their bodies contain spines. Five Senate Republicans voted last week to advance a joint resolution to limit Trump’s ability to conduct further military actions within Venezuela. A similar vote is likely to take place soon regarding Greenland, which Trump has continued to threaten—or, as Pirro might put it, suggest ‘military process’ against. Pockets of GOP resistance have cropped up outside D.C., too, as when Indiana Republicans spurned Trump’s attempts to pressure them into a mid-cycle gerrymander.
All this is to the good. But blunting Trump’s momentum will require more than just resistance from the political class. He and his political operation style themselves an unstoppable juggernaut, but in reality they’re frequently seeking the path of least resistance, looking for strategies that titillate their base’s power fantasies without eliciting too much pushback from the public at large.
And there are growing signs the public at large is getting pretty sick of a lot of it. Trump’s approval rating is in the basement, Republicans are losing off-cycle elections one after another, and protests against the administration’s lawlessness have smashed all records for size and scope. Efforts to focus that opposition more effectively are underway as well. To take just one small private-sector example: Senior executives at major tech companies including Meta, Google, Amazon, OpenAI, TikTok, Spotify, and Salesforce have been circulating a letter this week calling on their companies to break ties with the White House’s immigration enforcement. The Bulwark has learned that the letter has garnered more than 150 signatures in the days after Renee Good’s shooting.
The midterms are ten months away. For now, speaking out and pushing back is all any of us can do. But as Jerome Powell discovered this week, it works more often than you might think....

Oh, and some dingbat Florida Republican congressman wants to pass a Greenland Annexation act and this is what Malcolm Nance replied to him:

It occurred to me today that Trump's motivations for both domestic and foreign policies are all based on whether Trump can make money at it, or that one of his dumbass assistants scammed him into doing it.

The first one explains the attempts to muscle Ukraine, Gaza, Greenland, Canada, Venezuela for their oil and mineral wealth, the Trump-Kennedy Centre, the tariff fiascos etc. The second one explains the Miller-Noem ICE Gestapo, the mid-term election tinkering, the upcoming Cuba sortie, innumerable other stuff big and small.

Finally, in other news, while he was on his way to China, Carney also visited Prince Rupert to talk about pipelines:

PM Carney is in Prince Rupert BC today talking to First Nations about tanker/pipeline "opportunities". Gitga'at First Nation spokesperson Art Sterritt: "We are not an impoverished group of people. It's not like we need a job. And the other thing is, there are no jobs in pipelines or tankers."

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— Alison Creekside (@alisoncreekside.bsky.social) January 13, 2026 at 1:34 PM

Coastal First Nations hold firm on opposition to bitumen pipeline during meeting with Carney theprovince.com/business/loc...

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— The Province (@theprovince.com) January 14, 2026 at 12:30 AM

But you know, as difficult as it is for Canada to deal with the Carney-Smith pipeline MOU, he is at least listening to what Canadians are saying - unlike this guy:

Quite the concern troll given that Poilievre has flat-out said he'll build pipelines regardless of First Nations' objections.

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— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) January 13, 2026 at 9:20 AM