Cathie from Canada

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Wednesday, May 07, 2025

Carney visits the lion's den - oops, sorry, it was just a paper tiger after all 🐯!

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Today was Carney's day to visit Trump at the White House.  No tariff deal resulted, so then the DOW dropped 500 points. But the 51st Sta...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2025

Canada's Red Dress Day

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May 5 is the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit+ People (MMIWG2S+)  Red River Métis ...
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Sunday, May 04, 2025

May the Fourth be with you, Justin Trudeau

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I will miss the Star Wars socks: Trudeau ran for the leadership at just the right time, in 2013, when the Liberal Party was flailing and fai...

Weekend funny stuff: Let's bring Stanley home! Let's laugh at Trump! Plus some other good posts, and Animal Crackers

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Go, Canada, Go! when it comes to the nhl playoffs i would like to simply say, “play ball” — Jon Bois ( @jonbois.bsky.social ) April 29, 2025...
Saturday, May 03, 2025

Today's News: a random roundup -- Carney's press conference; Smith's carpet; Poilievre's seat; and First Nations nix Wexit

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Basically, it seems we are back to politics-as-normal now -- tonight I have just a random assortment of political news and views tonight, wi...
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Friday, May 02, 2025

Stormy weather over Stornoway

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I keep waiting for wiser heads to prevail - will the Conservative party realize that they don't need Canada's version of the Trumpy ...
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Thursday, May 01, 2025

Post-election News: voting maps, Carney wins, Wexit update, Poilievre sad. Plus, it's always fun to ridicule Trump!

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In Canadian events today, some interesting maps showing how Canadians voted -- much more clearly than just showing big empty blocks of red...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Let's take a break for some funny stuff -- good lines about our election plus other good posts, and of course, Animal Crackers

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I have been seeing some great "takes" on the election results:   View on Threads Great routine from Colbert: View on T...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Whew! Carney and the Liberals did it.

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Whenever I get the Wordle answer on my sixth try, the computer says "Whew!"  That's what I feel tonight.  It was much closer t...
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Monday, April 28, 2025

One more sleep

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Here are some good cartoons that sum up this campaign: S And some final words: View on Threads
Sunday, April 27, 2025

Coming around the clubhouse turn, heading for the tape.....

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It's just too damned hard to act all solemn and serious right now -- I'm laughing on the outside but quivering on the inside, just w...
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Saturday, April 26, 2025

It comes down to this: the banker vs the wanker

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( Illustration from Wayne Horton's substack  ) We're almost at the end now, and the choice comes down to this: Banker or wanker. Yo...
Friday, April 25, 2025

Time to make fun of the Poilievre campaign!

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Three days to go! And I'm feeling deliriously hopeful (with a sliver of dread that Carney won't get the majority government Canada n...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Today's News: He just couldn't help it!

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Five more days.  All Trump needed to do was to keep quiet about Canada for just five more days.  He just couldn't do it. Danielle and P...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Today's News: Just gotta laugh...

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Here's some mid-week humour, as we sit on pins and needles waiting for next Monday.  First, Poilievre finally released his budget p...
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