Teresa Marrello

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[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

Trump doesn’t want a trade deal with Canada. He wants a transaction.

Give us your critical minerals. Open your dairy market. Gut supply management. Then maybe we’ll talk.

Trump already called CUSMA “transitional” and suggested it may have served its purpose.  That’s not a negotiating partner, it’s someone who wants to tear up the contract and write a new one where he picks the terms.

Canada actually passed legislation in June 2025 blocking the government from increasing dairy quotas or reducing tariffs on dairy, poultry and eggs in future negotiations.  Good. Because the moment supply management goes, Canadian farmers are gone. Flooded out by U.S. industrial dairy that operates on a completely different economic model.

And the minerals angle? Trump sees Canada’s resources as a solution to U.S. dependence on China. His goal is to ensure Canada’s resources benefit the U.S., not China.  Not Canada. The U.S.

So here’s the trap Carney is walking into: agree to minerals concessions and you’ve handed Trump a win while Canadian sovereignty over its own resources slowly erodes. Refuse, and tariffs stay, and the Canadian economy keeps bleeding.

There is no good faith on the other side of this table. There never was.
A fair deal requires a partner who wants one.

[Umpire Auditor @UmpireAuditor]

Umpire Carlos Torres was the day's lowest rated umpire and missed 20 calls in the Braves Blue Jays game.

9 of those calls occurred in the 8th or 9th inning.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

Have you noticed how many stores are quietly refusing physical cash right now? They call it a ‘digital transition.’

It’s not.

The moment paper money is completely erased, the Predatory Class can turn off your ability to buy food with a single keystroke.

[KMB @scarletkate]

Contrast Ontario teachers' salary raises between 2012 and 2026 and those of MPPs and the Premier.
MPP Base Salary: Rose from $116,550 in 2012 to $163,959 by 2026, representing a 40.7% increase. Premier's Salary: Rose from $209,272 in 2012 to $293,978 by 2026, representing a 40.3% increase.

[Amber Kanwar @baystreetamber]

🇨🇦Canada STUNS with 87, 800 new jobs created in May.

That's way more than the 10,000 expected. And higher than every single economist estimate for the month

Meanwhile the unemployment rate PLUNGED to 6.6% from 6.9%

The details are pretty robust:

Full time job growth drove the gains exploding 154,000 while part-time gave back 66,200 jobs

[Yohan @yohaniddawela]

The French hate air conditioning.

So Paris built a 120-kilometre machine under its streets for producing cold.

It’s called Fraîcheur de Paris, and it does for summer heat what district heating did for winter: centralise the problem.

Instead of every museum, office, hotel, hospital and shop bolting its own cooling plant onto the building, Paris moves cold through pipes.

The network sends water chilled to 2 to 4°C through buried supply lines. The water enters a connected building, absorbs heat through an exchange station, then returns at 12 to 14°C to be cooled again.

It essentially functions with two pipes. One carries the cold out, the other carries heat back.

The production plants cool the circuit from 12°C to 4°C. Some sites use the Seine as a heat sink. In colder periods, the system can use the river’s own temperature for free cooling, which means the machines work less and the electricity demand drops. The Seine water doesn’t become the building water. It stays separate, passing temperature across heat exchangers.

The scale is pretty strange when you see it written down though.

It's got 15 production sites, 4 storage sites, 120 km of underground network with 924 subscribers. This has resulted in 7 million square metres cooled, and 493 GWh of cooling sold.

A cold utility running beneath one of the densest cities in Europe.

The Forum des Halles has been cooled this way since 1979. The Louvre since 1986. Galeries Lafayette, Opéra Garnier, Hôtel de Ville, Station F, La Samaritaine and the National Assembly all sit on the same idea. Tourists stand in the Louvre looking at paintings while a municipal cold loop does part of the dull work below ground.

The boring part is the breakthrough.

Cold can be stored at night in chilled water or ice, then used during daytime peaks. The network is monitored from a control room with more than 125,000 control points. A delivery station inside a building takes 5 to 7 times less space than a standalone cooling installation and avoids the roof and façade clutter that turns cities into compressor farms.

That matters because conventional air conditioning solves heat by moving it somewhere nearby. In a dense city, thousands of private machines mean thousands of outdoor units rejecting heat into streets, courtyards and roofs, plus refrigerants, noise, vibration and maintenance spread across every building.

Paris’s public cooling network has a stated coefficient of performance of 4, against 3 for a wet standalone system and 2 for a dry standalone system. Against an equivalent set of autonomous installations, Fraîcheur de Paris says the network gives 100% higher energy efficiency, 35% less electricity use, 90% fewer refrigerant-fluid emissions and 50% lower CO2 emissions.

The climate backdrop is the real reason this exists.

Paris ran a full crisis exercise called “Paris at 50°C” in 2023. Météo-France’s 2050 reference trajectory for France points to heatwave days becoming five times more frequent, hot nights rising sharply in urban centres, and some local extremes around 48°C becoming possible.

The city signed a 20-year concession in 2022 with Fraîcheur de Paris, owned 85% by ENGIE and 15% by RATP. The contract is worth a projected €2.4 billion. The plan is to extend the network by 158 km by 2042, add 20 production plants and 10 storage sites, and reach more than 3,000 subscribers, including hospitals, nurseries, schools and care homes.

This is basically the infrastructure version of admitting that summer is becoming a public systems problem...

[Uzi @UziCryptoo]

In Denmark, McDonalds workers make $25 an hour and, if they are over twenty, the company starts paying into a pension plan for them, and in addition they have a full 6 weeks of paid vacation.

Now how much do you think this costs customers? The Economist looked into this and found out that the Big Mac costs 76 cents less than it does here.

Don't believe the lies that raising the minimum wage would force prices to go up.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Why does it feel like everything comes with a fee now? Driving, parking, paying bills, using your own money, drinking water, getting an education, avoiding ads. We’re being charged just to exist.

[Sola 🇨🇦🇳🇬 @SolaTheAnalyst]

Canada pays you roughly $33,000 to stay home with your newborn for close to a year. 🇨🇦

Your employer holds your job the entire time. By law. Not by choice.

Most countries call that a luxury (including the US 🇺🇸).

Canada calls it standard.

The 55% pay rate is a separate conversation.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

Hot take: Scrap Question Period.

I know. Hear me out.

Every day, the people we elected to run a G7 nation spend 45 minutes screaming rehearsed one-liners at each other while backbenchers bang their desks like it’s a hockey game.

No answers get given. No policy gets made. No problem gets solved.

The minister reads a non-answer from a cue card. The opposition screams. Repeat 35 times. Camera cuts to someone rolling their eyes. Done.

And we wonder why voter turnout keeps dropping.

Foreign observers watching Question Period for the first time genuinely cannot believe this is how a serious democracy operates. It looks like a school cafeteria fight.

The original purpose was accountability. Ministers answering directly to elected representatives. A check on executive power. Legitimate and necessary.

What it became is theater. Purely for clips. Every question is written to go viral, and every answer is written to avoid saying anything. The actual governance happens somewhere else entirely, behind closed doors, away from cameras.

Countries like Germany, Sweden, and New Zealand have structured interpellation systems where written questions require written answers on the record. Documented. Searchable. Accountable.

You know what that produces? Actual information. Actual accountability. A paper trail.

Canada deserves better than a daily episode of Real Housewives with a peace tower in the background.

[alexxstation @alexxstation]

Here's two Toronto police officers on bicycles blowing multiple stop signs.

[Josh Matlow @JoshMatlow]

Access to drinking water, especially when you’re outside in the heat, should be a right no matter where you are in Toronto. The public’s health and safety is simply more important than FIFA restricting fans to buy Coke products. I’ll be asking city hall to push back on this latest greedy and unreasonable FIFA demand.

[Lee Fairclough @LFairclo]

1/ If Doug Ford hadn't called a self-serving snap election in February of 2025, today would have been Election Day in Ontario.

[Toronto Life @torontolife]

Former CityNews reporter Tina Yazdani has launched a $650,000 lawsuit against Rogers
https://t.co/CeFup6kzSb

[Diana Chan McNally @DianaCMcNally]

In 2015, the Liberal Party of Canada — who also formed a majority government at the time — refused to re-open the tripartite agreement and allow the airport expansion.

The federal government did it before, they can do it again.

Call your MP: https://t.co/uMNfZgx7nu

[Sue 🇨🇦 Vive le Canada 🇨🇦 @Sue484474]

A quote from Charlie Angus: “Pete Hoekstra - The Man Who Puts "Ass" in Ambassador”. Yep!

[Theo Moudakis @TheoMoudakis]

Please enjoy my cartoon for Friday's @TorontoStar

[Co-op Tory 🍁 @CoopTory]

One of the costs of not wanting to employ workers or provide competitive pay.