First, about those damned tariffs
but.... but.... I thought it was about the wind, and how it was carrying the smoke over the *gasp* border. So, Chrystia Freeland told the little creep to f'off, did she? Of course he'd say what he said. Wimpy criminal that he is. Oh, and Canada screwing the States? .... read on... ⬇️ #cdnpoli
— Augustina (@augustina.bsky.social) July 22, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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A very effective piece of writing from Dean Blundell
He begins with this anecdote:
Scott Galloway told a story recently that every Canadian should tattoo somewhere visible.Blundell goes on to recount Canada's role in the Iran Hostage Crisis of 1979, and other significant joint efforts between Canada and America. He makes this point at the close:
A woman — a descendant of Holocaust survivors — once asked Warren Buffett how she could tell who her real friends were. Buffett’s answer was a single question: Would they hide me?
Galloway, an American, then asked his audience: Do you know who hid us?
“Canada. Fucking Canada.”
I still believe in the Better America. The one full of Scott Galloways, standing on stages telling their own countrymen the truth about who hid them. The one Gander fed. The one whose six terrified diplomats knocked on Canadian doors in Tehran and were pulled inside without a second’s hesitation. That America exists. It’s real. It’s in there somewhere — held hostage by the Trump regime, the sycophants, the enablers, the Epstein Class — the same way those Americans were held in that embassy: alive, but invisible, waiting for rescue.In The Toronto Star, Susanne Delacourt talks about Canadian retaliation against Trump. It may not be an option for governments, but for individuals that's another story:
But here’s what punishment does that tariffs alone never could. Tariffs cost money. Punishment costs love. Every gratuitous cruelty — every wildfire threat, every pocketed concession, every “hold them accountable” — isn’t just a line item on an invoice. It’s a Canadian somewhere quietly deciding that the country they grew up loving doesn’t exist anymore. It’s teaching an entire nation, one humiliation at a time, that the friendship was only ever real on our end. You can rebuild a trade relationship with a signature. You cannot un-teach 40 million people what you showed them when you had power over them and chose, again and again, to use it to hurt.
And the teaching is working. A majority of Canadians now say the United States cannot be depended on in a crisis. Nearly half of us now call America a greater threat to world peace than Russia — Russia — and more Canadians now name the United States as our country’s greatest threat than name it our greatest ally. Three years ago, three-quarters of us called America a friend. That number is gone, and it is not coming back on any timeline this regime can imagine.
Eighty years of trust. Torched in three. For nothing but the pleasure of the torching.
Buffett’s question was would they hide me? In 1979, Canada answered with forged passports, borrowed bedrooms, and our necks on the line — and we’d have done it a hundred times over, because that’s what you do for family.
Now the question comes back across the border, inverted, hanging in the smoke they want to sanction us for. And for the first time in my life — maybe in any Canadian’s life — I genuinely don’t know how we’d answer.
I hope, when the mist finally lifts, we can still make out the Scott Galloways standing there, waiting for us, arms open.
I just can’t promise it anymore. And that — more than any tariff — is what they’ve taken from all of us.
I’m not sure if we’d hide you anymore. And that, is heartbreaking.
...Brian Clow [former deputy chief of staff for Justin Trudeau]...said the difference now in dealing with Trump is that there seems to be no suggestion that the Americans will offer concessions in return for what they’re demanding from Canada.
“They continue to pressure us to make a whole series of painful concessions, and they just don’t seem to be willing to let up at all,” he said.
Clow believes the situation this week rivals the low point when Trump first came to office and, bleak as it sounds, that Carney doesn’t have a whole lot of win-wins available to him.
“The set of choices facing the Carney government right now are all very challenging — and, in some respects, all negative choices,” he said.
As for retaliation, Clow warns, “It’s not so simple to say, ‘Well, let’s just retaliate across the board because it worked before,’ because I think the pain we would suffer in return from the United States would be really significant.”
It is worth pointing out, however, that if an escalation in retaliation is not an option available to governments in Canada at this point, it does remain a choice for individual Canadians. The frustration that Trump and his circle have been expressing toward Canadian retaliation fails to take into account that citizens have been doing their own form of punching back as well, rolling back their travel to the U.S. or their purchases of American-made goods.
Even if American booze did return to Canadian store shelves, how many of us would want to buy it?
That’s where Trump made a strategic mistake on Tuesday, when he said again that Canada’s survival hinges on the United States. When the president made similar remarks in Davos, Switzerland, after Carney’s memorable speech there, he didn’t get the gratitude he said he was demanding from this country — he got a backlash.
Trump may not care whether Ford thinks he’s a bully and wants to punch back. But he should care about how many Canadians agree with him.
The Trump administration has mishandled the investigation into the cyclosporiasis outbreak - and now that political bribery has apparently been allowed to overturn science, the credibility of all such investigations in the future has been destroyed.
NEW: As cyclosporiasis cases jumped, the company linked to the outbreak - Taylor Farms - effectively delayed a recall that mounted in consumer confusion. Gift link for @business www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
— Jessica Nix (@jessicanix.bsky.social) July 21, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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— Molly Knight (@mollyknight.bsky.social) July 21, 2026 at 11:18 AMAnd on a side note, I think People Magazine has now joined The Resistance.
The whole world saw Trump trying to horn in on Spain's World Cup celebration.
He can't actually read
Today's Wildfire Update
From Canadian Wildland Fire Information
Some help on the way
El Nino will likely make a difference - next year
Major wildfires now in Spain and France too.
And he had a rally today at a high school in Georgia. It didn't go well....Donald Trump is so monumentally stupid, when he heard that the CHIPS Act helps companies making transistors, he thought it was all about trans people. And when he heard refugees were in need of asylum, he thought they had all been freed from insane asylums. #StupidestPresidentEver
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) July 21, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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Some help on the way
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— Unofficial CBC News Mirror (@cbcnews-mirror.bsky.social) July 22, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Fire behaviour increased 'rapidly' as smoke cleared over Boston Bar area wildfires Wednesday evening #Kamloops
— Castanet.net (@castanet.net) July 22, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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El Nino will likely make a difference - next year
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Major wildfires now in Spain and France too.
Spain and France continue to battle wildfires as intense heat grips Southern Europe ->The Japan Times | More on "European wildfires amid extreme heat" at BigEarthData.ai | #Forest #Climate #Wildfire
— Climate, Ecology, War & More - Dr Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai (@bigearthdata.ai) July 23, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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Astonished beachgoers at the Lac de Sainte Croix film five French Canadair CL-415 firefighting planes scooping up water in quick succession to fight the wildfires in southern France [📹 Cyril Talbot] Original post
— Massimo (mirror) (@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social) July 22, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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