Paul Brasseur

[David Ljunggren @reutersLjungg]

WARSAW, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Polish state-owned defence group PGZ is in government-level talks on a project to begin Canadian production of trinitrotoluene, or TNT, an explosive used in bombs and artillery shells, a PGZ executive said on Friday

[John Ivison @IvisonJ]

I’m surprised, and not a little disheartened, that this is not the dominant topic of conversation in Canada today. We have troops in Latvia. If this all kicks off - and the Russians are said to be building military hospitals - we are at war.

[Roland Paris @rolandparis]

Watch this space.

[Lambert Pasterkamp @L_Pasterkamp]

Macron roept morgen Franse veiligheidsraad bijeen. Poolse premier Tusk zegt landgenoten op alles voorbereid te zijn. Duitse regering idem en stuurt troepen naar Baltische staten.

Er is beweging achter de schermen en die stemt niet vrolijk.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🇵🇱 JUST IN: Poland is preparing for war with Putin. “We know he is plotting something”

The most important task now is to prepare the country for various scenarios, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.

“Poland and the Polish people cannot, under any circumstances, afford to be naïve or engage in wishful thinking. We must base our actions on facts, and those facts are unequivocal,” the politician stressed.

[Roy Norton @RoyNorton1]

Basically, what Canadians have heard from President Trump (and his Cabinet) since January 2025 is the following: “you are the equivalent of a piece of s**t. We don’t need you; you are nothing without us. We will use economic pressure to force you into submission. It doesn’t matter that we have a free trade agreement between us, setting out the rules. It doesn’t matter that that agreement was my idea. It doesn’t matter that I praised the agreement as being “the best one ever.” No matter what those rules say, I’ll do whatever I want to you whenever I feel the urge to do so. It kind of gives me pleasure to hurt you economically; I especially enjoy humiliating you. You should sit back and welcome that. You absolutely shouldn’t complain about it. If you dare hit back, I’ll strike you even harder. We can retaliate; you cannot! And don’t even think about looking for any new relationships. If you try that, I’ll scorch the earth under you – and I’ll make any country entering into agreements with you regret doing so.”

This meets the classic definition of an abusive relationship. It still shocks us that the U.S. now behaves this way. Canadian businesses and individuals treasure the connections we have to Americans. These bonds have been formed over centuries and have greatly benefitted both Americans and Canadians. We wish more Americans were acting to stop their Administration from destroying what we’ve built together.

Sadly, the only predictability – for the time being – is more of the same from the Trump Administration. All threats, all the time. Our government understands that Canadians, overwhelmingly, see no plus sides in succumbing to this grotesque harassment. We can’t have confidence that this menacing behavior will stop anytime soon; we know, based on common understandings of how bullies behave, that ignoring or tolerating such abuse simply invites more of it.

In recent times, albeit in different ways, Russia & China have been the most consistent big power “aggressors” in international relations. Under President Trump, the U.S. has chosen to join that group. Canadians are coming to understand the costs we’re likely to bear from preserving our self-respect and our sovereign rights as a country to pursue our collective interest. It’s all very unfortunate (to put it mildly). Weaning ourselves from disproportionate dependence on buying from and selling to Americans will be hard. But our leaders have been left with few options. Mercifully, there are still many jurisdictions in this world that behave ‘normally’. That aren’t predators. That are interested in partnership, not dominance. We need to deepen our relations with as many of those as we possibly can.

Who knows what “Associate Membership” in the EU will mean, if it ever comes to pass. Canada isn’t interested in being governed by Brussels any more than we’re interested in being governed by Washington. So, this may lead only to deepened trade relationships, maybe only in certain sectors. If so, that’s still better than being so heavily exposed to the whims of an ever-more-hostile U.S. Administration.

[Valérie Hayer @ValerieHayer]

Monsieur le Premier ministre @MarkJCarney, vous avez montré ce qu’il fallait faire face à Trump : refuser la compromission, riposter, protéger vos intérêts. Parler le langage de la puissance.

Sachez que le Canada est le bienvenu dans l’Union européenne.

Parce que nous partageons les mêmes valeurs et que nos intérêts sont convergents.

[Frances Horodelski @fhoro]

#Canada

[David Bateman @davidbateman]

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means the sun is about to set ~ Lin Yutang

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Canada strong is not just about withstanding a crisis. It’s about coming out of it stronger.

Watch the new edition of Forward Guidance: https://t.co/75rhccwqIC

[Dean Blundell🇨🇦 @ItsDeanBlundell]

Brass Canadian Balls.
Must watch.

[Paul Brasseur @JPBrasseur]

https://t.co/WpJbBIsNBA

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

This is real. It’s so sad that the President of the United States has to post things like this to feel like a real man.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

A heart attack leaves a scar the body cannot fix. Dead muscle turns to stiff connective tissue, and that scar slowly drags patients toward heart failure or a transplant list. Medicine restores blood flow and manages symptoms, but regeneration has remained out of reach.

Enter Pilar Ferrer, a 25-year-old Argentinian biologist. Her doctoral work at Universidad Favaloro asked a simple question: could amniotic membrane, a placental tissue already prized for healing burns, do the same for hearts?

Working with Argentina’s amniotic tissue bank, she turned it into an injectable, cell-free gel, and when public funding dried up she founded the startup Amnova Biotech to keep going.

Injected into the damaged zone, the gel acts as a scaffold coaxing healthy cells to rebuild. In sheep it shrank the infarct and improved pumping within a month. Human trials are slated for around 2028.

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[Paul Brasseur @JPBrasseur]

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[Paul Brasseur @JPBrasseur]

https://t.co/4sB1rexShF

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

The president of the United States of America, everyone.

[🇨🇦🍁SillyRabbitFaFo🍁🇨🇦 @sillyrabbitfafo]

Dear United States. You are being lied to. #Canada #TariffWar

[Paul Brasseur @JPBrasseur]

https://t.co/owE0LX7cxY

[Theo Moudakis @TheoMoudakis]

Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's @TorontoStar