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[Graydon Smith @Graydonthempp]

That progress is happening right here in Parry Sound–Muskoka. Global Battery Materials Corp. (GBM) is working to restart the Kearney Mine. This brings new investment, jobs, and economic opportunities to our region.
@fordnation @Sflecce

[Graydon Smith @Graydonthempp]

In the face of U.S. tariffs, Ontario is moving faster to build mines, create good jobs &strengthen our economy.
Under Premier Ford, faster approvals, stronger supply chains & a skilled workforce are helping make Ontario one of the best places in the world to build &operate mines.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.

[Flavio Volpe, C.M. @FlavioVolpe1]

Here’s why auto parts tariffs on Canada will shut down the US auto sector. My piece in today’s @TorontoStar:

“We know what we are worth and we won’t discount the price under threats. Don’t be mistaken, what we make is for sale. Who we are is not.”

https://t.co/XzPxi1AwJl

[Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon]

With Iran defeated, Taiwan secure, and a just peace forged in Ukraine, the American President could focus on his country’s real enemy…

[The Northern Miner @northernminer]

Gen Z warms to mining as labour crunch looms

Canada’s mining industry is attracting more young people just as it faces a much bigger problem: finding enough workers to staff a new generation of mines.

“There’s a very acute shortage of talent in the industry and it’s a function of two factors,” @McEwenInc Chairman and chief owner @RobMcEwenMUX said.
https://t.co/rKi5ezSGOK

[Matina Stevis-Gridneff @MatinaStevis]

ANALYSIS: Carney Stands Up to Trump in Trade War Despite the Risks

On Friday night, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada did something that few other world leaders before him have dared to do.

Gift link -->

https://t.co/ubZpAW3AAI

Off to bed, at last.

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

How much is Canada responsible for the wildfire smoke reaching the U.S.?

Right now, nearly 900 wildfires are burning across Canada. Last week, Toronto's air quality was the worst of any major city in the world. But as the smoke spread south to the U.S., many politicians began blaming Canada for poor forest management.

It's true that local and regional forestry practices matter. Leafy deciduous trees hold moisture and can act as natural fire breaks; so clearing them for conifer monocultures can leave forests at higher risk to burn. But fire suppression, a big issue in the dry forests of the western U.S. where putting out frequent fires let fuel pile up, isn't a major factor here. Canada's remote boreal forests already burn naturally, in less frequent but higher-intensity fires.

The single biggest reason for the record-breaking *increases* in the area burned by wildfires that are causing all this smoke isn't land management. It's human-caused climate change.

As the world warms, winters are no longer cold enough to kill off tree-eating beetles. Their populations explode, leaving millions of acres of dead trees ready to burn. Warmer winters also mean less snowpack, so soil dries out earlier and the fire season runs longer. And climate change has more than doubled the frequency of hotter, drier fire weather across Canada and increased the frequency of the lightning strikes that spark most fires in northern Alberta and BC.

Every one of those four dials is being turned in the same direction by the same thing: the heat-trapping gas emissions from burning fossil fuels. And that's where the numbers start to tell a different picture.

The United States has emitted more carbon than any country in history: around 435 billion tonnes since the 1800s. That's close to a quarter of all the carbon humans have ever put into the air, 12 times Canada's total and still 50% more than China's 285 billion tonnes.

Look at it by company instead of by country, and 88 of the world's largest fossil fuel producers are responsible for the emissions that led to more than a third of the forest area burned across western North America since 1986. At the top of that list is Saudi Aramco, followed by US companies Chevron and ExxonMobil. The first Canadian company, Suncor, doesn't appear until number 76 ... but that could change, as Canada is building more pipelines!

Bottom line? If politicians want to clear the smoke from our skies, tell them the most effective place to start is by cutting the emissions that are driving these fires - no matter which side of the border we're on.

Sources, I'm a scientist so you know I have them: Doubled fire weather risk (World Weather Attribution, 2023). Fire suppression near communities (Parisien et al. 2020, Nature Communications). Climate-beetle-fire connections (e.g. Woo et al. 2024, Ecosphere). Climate-driven lightning increases in northwestern Canada (Burrows et al. 2024, Atmosphere-Ocean). Cumulative CO₂ by country (Our World in Data). 88 producers behind 1/3+ of western N. American area burned (Dahl et al. 2023, Environmental Research Letters). Company ranking (Carbon Majors). And for an exhaustive review of how we know human emissions are driving climate change, see the next post in this thread.

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[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

I have criticized conservatives who blame Canada or the Carney government for Donald Trump’s erratic, bad faith attacks on our economy & sovereignty.

It’s even more absurd to blame a provincial government, as the NDP does below.

Canada is not to blame.

Neither are our provinces or their governments.

We have been good neighbours & great trading partners.

When called upon, we have been reliable allies, as in the global war on terrorism in Afghanistan.

Are we perfect? Of course not.

But for every reasonable trade grievance the United States has with us, we have many more with them (tariffs on softwood lumber, steel & aluminum, etc., ag import quotas, Buy America provisions, etc.) That’s what trade negotiations & agreements are designed to balance. The last time we signed a comprehensive trade agreement with the United States, Donald Trump call it “the best trade deal ever.”

Does the US have some legitimate national security concerns with Canada? Yes, but they pale in comparison to the massive northward flow of illegal drugs and firearms (up to 90% of gun crimes committed in Canada involve smuggled US firearms.) Allies & neighbours work through those issues, as we did in the post 9/11 period with major legislative & operational changes to improve continental security.

Have our political leaders provoked these constant, irrational attacks, like the latest 50% tariff threats? Of course not. If anything, they have been restrained and diplomatic in the face of constant threats to our sovereignty, and attacks on our economy. (Recall that on January 7, 2025 Trump said he would use “economic force” to annex Canada.)

Is it legitimate to criticize how Canadian leaders are dealing with the constant threats from Washington? Of course, we’re a democracy. But it is absurd to blame Canada or Canadian governments for the constant lies, disparagement, attacks, and threats.

Opposition parties have a right & responsibility to offer constructive criticism on how governments are managing this crisis, but within a broader context of national unity that transcends brain dead partisanship.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

I’m no fan of supply management, Brad.

But:

- the last Trump administration accepted Canadian supply management in “the best trade agreement ever,” with subsequent US dairy exports to Canada remaining well below the quotas laid out in CUSMA;

- the US does not approach this issue with clean hands. Free market think tanks estimate that US government provides over $20 billion in direct & indirect subsidies to US big dairy. Ever hear of “government cheese?”

- the US has a far broader range of policies protecting their ag sector than Canada does, including rigid quotas for export of corn & sugar to the US that are embedded in CUSMA. Not to mention all the ancillary issues, e.g. prejudicial tariffs on our softwood, steel, aluminum, etc.

- USTR Jameson Grier has been clear that whatever ad hoc concessions Canada makes (eg repealing the Digital Services Tax, certain retaliatory tariffs, etc.) get zero credit in CUSMA renewal negotiations;

The notion that Canada should respond to every provocation with panicked concessions without reciprocity from the US is, to be polite, counter productive.

If the Trump administration wants to revisit the supply management quotas it accepted eight years ago, fair ball. Then we get to discuss that in the context of their dairy subsidies, their import quotas on ag products, their other tariffs, etc..

If they want guaranteed access to the Canadian liquor market, fine. But then we get to negotiate that while demanding guaranteed access to US government procurement, contra Buy America provisions; or guaranteed access to their beef market contra COOL, etc.

All of this belongs at the negotiating table, rather than Canada pathetically capitulating to the latest US threats and demands.

That’s even more clearly the case when dealing with a counter party who has said that his strategy is to “use economic force” to annex Canada.

[Alexander Panetta @Alex_Panetta]

@DimitrisSoudas Yes - in most families

[mr_eggs 🇵🇸 @scrumble_eggs]

“Why don’t you just rake the forest floor?”

[Greg MacEachern @gmacofglebe]

“…city staff decided not to inform the public of the display” of an 11pm fireworks show.

City of Ottawa: is it working for you?

[Andrew Leach 🇨🇦 @andrew_leach]

I mean, if you can't expect the leader of the NDP to be able to win in the Beaches, in Vancouver, or in Montreal...

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Mark Rutte

"You sit next to Donald Trump at moments when he talks about conquering Greenland, talks about lashing out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"

[Ottawa Senators @Senators]

Giroux appears to be heading back to Palladium Drive, per literally us

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

sepp blatter, concerned about fifa corruption.

[Rep. Jack Kimble @RepJackKimble]

To everyone characterizing this as corruption, I’d like to remind you that each FIFA Peace Prize comes with a Get Out of Red Card Free.

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

You all laughed at me