Canada needs some more Forward Guidance now. Plus, today's Pride Update

It feels like we're in a tangled ball of string right now, doesn't it.

While the CUSMA trade discussions are getting underway, we're also hearing about the "recession" data figures plus a revival of Trump's "51st State!" talk while the US economy is likely going to spiral downward as the pointless Iran War and Hormuz closure affects stock markets and world trade. Not to mention the atrocities in the Ukraine Russia War, and the Gaza and Lebanon Wars, and the ICE Gestapo in US cities. And of course the separation referendums in Alberta and Quebec, plus doom and gloom about this summer's fire season and supercharged El Nino weather and horrible heat waves in India and ...
Oh, its all just too much to keep track of. 

I think Canada need another Carney Forward Guidance video right quick, just to get through the summer.

At Routine Proceedings, journalist Dale Smith is concerned that Carney is ceding too much of the "recession narrative" to Poilievre:

....prime minister Mark Carney has been wholly silent on it since the data were released on Friday morning. He made two separate media appearances yesterday but took no questions at either one, and he has avoided Question Period yesterday and he’s avoiding it today, and it really starts to look like he’s ceding the ground to Poilievre, who keeps bellowing his ridiculous narratives while Carney, who is supposed to have the economic gravitas as a former central bank governor, remains absent. And there are important things we should probably be talking about with this data, such as the fact that in periods of slow growth, these indicators dipping below zero are less important than the overall picture, and that overreacting and panicking can lead to greater problems or damage in the longer term. But we’re not having this conversation because, again, Carney is ceding the field, and given that Poilievre seems to enjoy this unearned economic credibility, it’s frankly arrogant to think that his bogus narratives can’t gain traction because they absolutely can, and that will spell trouble overall.

Carney actually did respond to questions today:

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And Carney responded today to the 51st State posts:

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I thought this was a useful perspective:

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Canadians are being poorly served by Poilievre's gleeful pounce on the recession issue.

🔴 This one 👇🏻, U.S. Ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, has all the diplomacy of a rattlesnake ... and, like Donald Trump, the maturity of a wombat. My other observation is that Poilievre and his co-leaders in the clueless Conservative Party are gleefully celebrating news of a possible "technical recession" in Canada ... right along with Trump and his MAGA administration. 🤔 The VERY American miscreants who have caused this potential recession through their relentless year and a half-long attack on our economy, in order to destroy jobs, crush our way of life, and try to force us to become a U.S. State. The very fact that Poilievre is celebrating this news and twisting it and trying to make hay from it, shows you how LOW, lost and pathetic the CPC has become. To root against your own CANADA, in hopes of political gain?? Poilievre will never be PM of Canada. Just like we will NEVER, EVER be a U.S. State. 🙄

- Fun Tom

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Vassy and absurd anti-Canada CTV News tonight was so proud and so very very happy to push a crackpot Nanos poll claiming 60% of Canadians want some kind of privatized healthcare. Well, BULLSHIT. CTV gleefully pushes American bullshit into Canada, declaring a recession when technically it's not.

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— FranklyMyDear (@frank-lee.bsky.social) June 2, 2026 at 9:02 PM

I thought Annie Koshy makes an interesting point about the news coverage Poilievre gets with every utterance:

...Poilievre has a documented and sustained pattern of making claims that do not hold up to scrutiny, and those claims are being amplified by a media environment that lacks either the resources or the institutional will to interrogate them in real time.
The record from recent weeks alone is worth examining clearly. He called Canada’s 0.1 percent GDP contraction a Liberal recession, a characterisation that four major bank economists, the Bank of Canada itself and the Canadian Federation of Independent Business attributed primarily to American tariff pressure and external economic shocks rather than to domestic policy failure. He repeated the claim that Prime Minister Carney refuses to pay his taxes in Canada, a statement contradicted by the documented fact that Prime Minister Carney is a Canadian resident who files and pays Canadian taxes, with his assets in a blind trust independently controlled and approved by the federal Ethics Commissioner. He continued to describe Brookfield as Prime Minister Carney’s company while his own financial disclosures confirm he holds investments in a Vanguard ETF whose top holdings include both Brookfield Asset Management and Brookfield Corporation. He stated on Joe Rogan’s podcast that Canada admits one million immigrants per year, a figure no government data supports. He falsely characterised a sentencing outcome in the Holocaust monument vandalism case to more than half a million social media followers, claiming no real jail time was served when the offender had in fact spent months in custody at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre before being released on strict bail terms after pleading guilty.
Each of these claims was repeated, amplified or left unchallenged in coverage that framed them as legitimate political discourse rather than what several of them demonstrably are, false statements made by the Leader of the Official Opposition to a national audience.
The consequences of this failure are not theoretical. When Trump posted 51st State yesterday, he was using the Liberal recession framing that Poilievre had been feeding into Canadian and American media for days as his justification. The Leader of the Official Opposition’s economic narrative was picked up, amplified, carried across the border and deployed by a foreign head of state as an argument for annexing Canada. That is the concrete and documented consequence of treating Poilievre’s claims as news without interrogating their accuracy. ....
... A media environment that produces story after story built around what Poilievre says, demands, wants, accuses, blames, calls for and challenges, without systematically asking whether those statements are accurate, is not serving Canadian democracy. It is laundering political messaging as news. The Canadians trying to understand their country and their economy during one of the most consequential periods in this country’s history deserve better than that. So does the country whose sovereignty is now being challenged by a foreign president using domestic misinformation as his evidence.
Trump posted 51st State yesterday. The dominant Canadian political story of the day was what Poilievre said about it.

And there is more fuckery afoot now too:

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The US economy might be the one we need to be more concerned about:

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Meanwhile, in Washington, apparently Trump has disappeared again.

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Trump will now be weaponizing the CIA and the national security apparatus against Democrats and protestors -- he has appointed a real creep to be his National Intelligence Director:

the current director of national intelligence is a guy who two years ago received a trophy declaring he “Fucks Only The Young” at an (oddly dildo focused) event he organized dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed Bath and Beyond never actually went bankrupt

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— paris martineau (@paris.nyc) June 2, 2026 at 11:43 AM

And the mess he is making of everything is increasingly awful.

If Big Brother doesn’t like your science topic you won’t be funded and if Big Brother doesn’t like your results you will be defunded. A recipe for backwardness that seems to be designed by people who want America to humiliate itself and collapse. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

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— Timothy Snyder (@timothysnyder.bsky.social) June 2, 2026 at 10:40 AM

It's crazy how we have both the World Cup and America 250 this year, and almost no one cares about them because this regime has wholly sucked the joy out of even momentous national events.

— 4fuxake (@blueheartedly1.bsky.social) May 30, 2026 at 1:58 PM

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This is so on-brand:

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Today's Pride Update: - I'm seeing some good posts about Pride events and commentary so I'm going to post them regularly this month.

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