AndyJD

[Glen Murray @Glen4Climate]

Dear @ScottJenningsKY
Let's talk cows.
Canada’s dairy system is not simply a tariff wall designed to keep American milk out. It is a supply-management system designed to keep production roughly aligned with demand, stabilize farm income and preserve a viable network of family-owned farms. Imports are allowed in significant negotiated quantities at low or zero tariffs; the very high tariffs people hear about generally apply only after those agreed import quotas have been filled.

The United States protects its farmers too, often much more extensively, but it uses different mechanisms. American taxpayers support agriculture through crop insurance subsidies, income and price-support programs, disaster payments, commodity programs and direct government payments. Dairy farmers have access to federally supported margin-protection and insurance programs. The U.S. also restricts imports in sensitive sectors. Sugar is an especially obvious example: the United States uses tariff-rate quotas that limit how much foreign sugar can enter at low tariffs, precisely to protect domestic producers and prices. USDA explicitly describes this system.

So there is a real hypocrisy in attacking Canada as a protectionist outlier. Canada essentially says to its dairy farmers: we will control production and imports so you can earn a reasonably predictable income from the market. The United States more often says to its farmers: we will expose you more directly to the market, but protect your income through subsidies, federally supported insurance, price and commodity programs, and, where politically important, import restrictions. In 2026 alone, USDA forecasts federal Dairy Margin Coverage payments, while its broader farm programs continue to provide income, commodity and insurance support.

Both countries protect agriculture. They just write the cheque differently.

And that matters to the family farm. Canada’s system was designed in part to prevent the boom-and-bust cycle in which oversupply collapses milk prices, smaller farmers fail, and increasingly large operations buy them out. Supply management gives a farmer greater certainty that producing milk efficiently can provide a viable living without having to become an enormous industrial-scale operation merely to survive the next price collapse.

That does not make Canada’s system perfect. Quota is expensive and can make it difficult for new farmers to enter. But portraying Canadian dairy protection as some extraordinary trade offence while the United States protects its own farmers with quotas, tariffs, subsidies, insurance and government support is fundamentally misleading.

Canada protects a relatively small number of agricultural sectors openly through supply management. The United States protects agriculture through an enormous, less visible architecture of federal programs and selective trade barriers. Calling one “protectionism” while pretending the other is “free trade” is the hypocrisy.
Hope next time you will fact check yourself.

Sincerely
Glen

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

14 year old hears the world for the first time with a cochlear implant

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Climate change.

Canada’s boreal forest is far north.

Most parts of it only reach 64F (18C) averages in the heat of the summer.

Its density and climate also means it gets very little evaporation compared to its rainfall, and is subject to frost 9 months of the year, and heavy fog the rest of the time.

This kept this biome very humid, kept soil damp, and left most of the low level foliage coated in dew all day long.

Some parts of the forest even had thick levels of permafrost beneath the topsoil that on rare hot days would seep water back into the ecosystem.

Just as many wildfires started by lightning strike in previous decades as now.

The difference is they struggled to catch and spread in this damp environment.

Now extreme dry weather, record breaking heat, northern thaw, erode that protective moisture barrier, leaving the boreal forest vulnerable especially in the more southern parts.

Boreal forests previously went through this process naturally when an over density caused a drier environment you’d get high-intensity crown fires that were cyclical. Every 50-200 years depending on region.

Now we get them annually.

Boreal forest fires are much more severe than others too. The long history of cyclical burns means the soil contains charcoal, the thick multi-layer foliage adds fodder and causes the fire to spread quickly, and pine, spruce, and aspens are all some of the trees with both the most density and the best for wood burning.

It results in towering forest fires of immense heat and rapid spread.

These forests are denser than anything else in North America or Europe, and the current fire in Ontario alone, is the same square mileage as the entire state of Delaware.

From the time it ignited, to covering that size, took less than 20 hours.

While some in the US still think climate change is a hoax, we are all going to deal with the consequences of it, as we’ve turned the largest forest in the world into a tinder box, and fires in less than 0.01% of it drowns the entire continent in smoke.

[Mugi @reMugi3]

Erling Haaland just gave a kid advice that most adults still haven't figured out:

"You can't control what people think of you."

pause at 0:52 - that's the second he drops the line that reframes the whole question

"Be good to the people around you. That's what you can actually do something about."

"Worrying about strangers is just unnecessary stress in your own head."

save this, then watch full. FOLLOW for more

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

Sometimes all it takes is someone who cares. A motorcyclist stops after noticing an upset man walking down the street. ❤️

[604RAW @604RAW]

Canada is officially exactly 159 years old today, marking its Confederation on July 1, 1867 🇨🇦🍁

[Made In Canada @MadelnCanada]

Happy birthday to Canada! The most beautiful country on earth ❤️🇨🇦

[CANMNT @CANMNT_Official]

RT if your country has won a Round-of-32 match at the FIFA World Cup 👀

[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

Funny how the loudest “Canada is broken” voices keep coming from the provinces with the worst premiers running the show.

Here’s the part people skip: your daily life is run by your province, not Ottawa. Healthcare, schools, hospitals, highways, policing, housing approvals, electricity rates. All provincial jurisdiction. The premier you voted for controls almost everything that actually touches your day to day.

Alberta’s economy gets mismanaged by Smith, healthcare gets gutted, and somehow it’s Ottawa’s fault. Saskatchewan posts some of the worst outcomes on healthcare wait times and education funding in the country, then blames “the Laurentian elite.”

These are the same people who vote for cuts, then complain when the cuts hurt. Vote for underfunded hospitals, then post about ER wait times like it’s a national betrayal. Vote against federal transfers and equalization fixes, then act shocked when their own province can’t deliver services.

If your premier controls your hospital wait time, your kid’s classroom size, and your power bill, and all three are getting worse, that’s not a “Canada is broken” problem. That’s a “you elected this” problem.

The data is right there. Most of the “Canada is failing” energy isn’t coming from a place of national decline. It’s coming from provincial governance failures, dressed up as a federal crisis.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

"Stare at the dot for any length of time and then try to convince yourself that God created the whole Universe for one of the 10 million or so species of life that inhabit that speck of dust. Now imagine that everything was made just for a single shade of that species, or gender, or ethnic or religious subdivision.

If this doesn't strike you as unlikely, pick another dot. Imagine it to be inhabited by a different form of intelligent life. They, too, cherish the notion of a God who has created everything for their benefit. How seriously do you take their claim?"

— Carl Sagan

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Emotional intelligence is 🔥🔥🔥
This guy gets a podcast‼️

[꧁Bobbi꧂ @SaltyBitch_52]

This is the world we deserve. Not the one that the media and politicians use to divide us.

Maybe the most powerful thing about the World Cup isn’t who wins the trophy. It’s millions of people discovering that the stranger they were taught to fear turns out to be a friend they just hadn’t met yet. That’s the kind of thing that restores faith in humanity. ❤️🌎⚽

[Ada Cotugno @ada_cotugno]

I giocatori dell'Inghilterra vanno a salutare i tifosi e loro rispondono cantando Wonderwall. Sono tutti emozionati, ma Bellingham è proprio su un altro pianeta

[Cabbie Richards @Cabbie]

🫡 to the iconic Hockey Night In Canada 🇨🇦

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Blue bags up.

Japan 2, Netherlands 2 — an absolute thriller in Arlington. And then the real show started.

The Japanese end pulls out thousands of bright blue bags. First they wave them like flags, bouncing and chanting until the whole section is one giant wall of blue. Then — same bags, new mission. They fan out across the stands and scoop up every bottle, wrapper and cup till the seats look brand new.

And who's right in the middle of it, grinning with a bag in his hand? Jameis Winston. Giants QB. Heisman winner. Out there cleaning up with the Samurai Blue like it's the best gig of his summer.

No chore. No lecture. Just a party that cleans up after itself.

Best fans on the planet. 🇯🇵💙

[سلطان @_su6an]

شاهدوا ذكاء لاعبين اليابان 😰😰

لاعب اليابان دفع فان دايك وأبعده عن منطقة الكرة عند تنفيذ الركنية بحكم أنه قائد الدفاع وأطول لاعب في هولندا

بسبب ذلك جاء الهدف.. اليابان يدرسون كرة القدم ما يلعبونها فقط!!!

[Made In Canada @MadelnCanada]

Canadian fans high-fiving Bosnia supporters stuck in the home crowd before their World Cup match.

Classic Canadian kindness, polite, friendly, and genuinely welcoming even on game day. 🇨🇦🤝🇧🇦

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

Mexicans dancing and singing GANGNAM STYLE with the Koreans in Mexico after South Korea's World Cup win 😭

[Mother Of Eagles 🦅 @CCknockout]

The Iranians made a song about Mark Carney 🥹

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

Golden retriever puppy heals rescued kitten in just three days..🐕🐾🐈😊