If you go back through all of human history and plucked out the very best that humanity has to offer, the firefighters of FDNY on 9/11 would be among the very top of the list.
Striking quote from an American hosted in Gander on 9/11.
“So we said, ‘Can we give you some money?’” he recalled. “‘No, no, you would do the same,’ they said. And I thought: Would we?”
Lovely story on the Canadian town that opened its arms 25 years ago.
https://t.co/nxUye63Qag
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.
The New York Times, citing several sources, confirms the Canadian version of why negotiations collapsed:
- Lutnick interfering under pressure from certain US industries to maintain higher tariffs and exclude trucks
- US demanding that Canada applies any US tariffs on other countries regardless of Canada’s trade agreements with them
- US insisted that it would retain all power to change tariff policy against Canada at any time, irrespective of the agreement - hence the pencil signature comment.
https://t.co/3UpqrKnnZq
This might not make me popular but I remain continuously impressed by Carney: to me, one of the few (if not the only) genuine statesman in the West.
It genuinely takes incredible balls and statesmanship - especially for Canada, arguably the western country that's most dependent on the US - to walk away from the table and match Trump's tariffs China-style.
Europe, with far less dependence on the US and considerably more resources than Canada, just pathetically caved and signed on Trump's humiliating terms when in the same situation.
Winnipeg’s Exchange District is experiencing a renaissance, with many new shops, restaurants, and cafés opening up. The area was buzzing last night for First Fridays, where everything stays open late. Exciting to see.
Over in London, England working on a project. Figured I'd pop over to the Canadian bar for pucks in deep. Looks like hundreds had the same idea. Line-up to get in is two city blocks long to get into the Maple Leaf.
WOW!
Les Wexner's attorney to Les Wexner during his deposition to Democrats:
“I will fu--ing kill you if you answer another question with more than five words, ok?”
Enten: "If Canadians really don't like Donald Trump, how do Americans feel about Canada? Well, they actually like Canada! ... even among Republicans, it's +30 ... Canada -- more popular than Donald Trump in Trump's own country"
When a man thinks a fetus grows in a placenta, it’s time to understand that this male non-doctor shouldn’t be making healthcare decisions for *anybody*.