Candis Sabean

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Charlie Angus: This past week the ambassador of a foreign country, Pete Hoekstra, publicly stated that Canada's sovereignty would be a great discussion in the upcoming trade negotiations with the Trump administration ... we must take these threats very seriously.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

"Imagine China or Iran inviting Canadian citizens to top-level meetings in national capitals with a plan to break up our country. They'd be charged with treason."

Charlie Angus on Alberta separatists meeting with US officials.

[🇨🇦 Jamie Carroll 🇨🇦 @jec79]

So… deals are meaningless. Got it.

[James Rosen-Birch ⚖️🕊️ @provisionalidea]

man, you know it's bad when the ailing world hegemon has to rely on the consular services of the middle power neighbour it's threatening to annex in order to protect its own citizens from the war it started

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Pete Hoekstra is the United States Ambassador to Canada. A man appointed specifically to understand Canada. Whose entire job, when distilled to its essence, is to comprehend why Canadians feel the way they do about the country directly to their south – the country that just slapped tariffs on their exports, questioned their sovereignty, and suggested they might want to consider becoming the 51st state.

And when a journalist asks him, with admirable patience, whether he understands where that frustration is coming from, he doesn’t say “it’s complicated.” He doesn’t say “we have work to do.” He says, with the serene confidence of a man who has never once been troubled by self-awareness: “Absolutely, no.”

Absolutely. No.

Not just no. He reached into the English language and found the one adverb that makes the answer worse.

This is a diplomat. This is America’s official representative to a nation of 40 million people who are currently being economically strong-armed by his boss. His job – his only job – is to understand Canadians. And he has looked that job squarely in the face and said: not today.

You genuinely could not find a better summary of current American foreign policy if you wrote it yourself.

[Orla Joelsen @OJoelsen]

On Thursday, Malene Vahl Rasmussen, mayor of Kujalleq — Greenland’s southernmost municipality with 6,000 inhabitants — delivered a letter of protest to U.S. Ambassador Kenneth A. Howery.

She says that the municipality’s citizens are still affected by the aggressive American statements regarding Greenland.

Malene Vahl Rasmussen explains that she had not previously had the opportunity to deliver the protest letter — but now she has.

“I represent the citizens of the municipality, but I also represent my country, and I will do everything I can to protect it.”

Q: Do you still feel that your country is in danger?

“Yes,” replies a visibly emotional and crying Malene Vahl Rasmussen.

“It’s damn unacceptable. That is not how you treat your allies,” she says about the American government’s way of acting.

—TV2

[TheGlobalFaultlines @GlobalFaults]

The insult didn't start in a Canadian liquor store. It started at a podium in Washington.

It is insulting to call one of the oldest allies, a country that sent soldiers to Normandy, Korea, Afghanistan, a state of the Union that should be absorbed.

It is insulting to threaten economic warfare against a neighbour whose economic integration with America runs so deep.

It is insulting to interfere in the internal politics of a sovereign ally - funding preferred candidates, amplifying separatist movements, treating a democratic election as an opportunity for destabilisation.

It is insulting to stop traffic at the Friendship Bridge, a structure Canada literally built and named after the relationship being dismantled by the people now calling it insulting.

It is insulting to charge entry fees to citizens of a country that shares the world's longest undefended border, a border that has been a symbol of peaceful coexistence for two centuries.

It is insulting to revoke Canada's invitation to the Board of Peace for the crime of defending its own sovereignty at Davos.

Canada didn't remove American spirits from shelves unprovoked. It removed them after the US spent eighteen months removing every assumption of mutual respect that made the relationship worth maintaining.

#Canada #Trump

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

NATO turned its back? The United States spent the last year threatening to annex Canada and seize Greenland. Both NATO members. Both allies who have sent their soldiers to fight and die alongside Americans for decades.

You do not get to spend a year threatening to absorb two allies and then express disappointment when the alliance feels a little strained. That is not NATO turning its back. That is NATO processing a very large and very public middle finger to Washington.

[Mardroid 🇱🇧 @Mardroid]

If 300+ people died and 1,000+ got injured in any place in the world.

London, NYC, Dubai, Toronto, Paris or any "major city" everyone would be screaming TERRORISM.

But when that HAPPENS within 10 minutes in an afternoon in Beirut, Lebanon by Israel suddenly the world switches up.

Disgusting.

[Orla Joelsen @OJoelsen]

Greenland 🇬🇱 is not “a poorly run piece of ice.”

Greenland 🇬🇱 is far more than ice — it is a democratic society with free elections, rule of law, and a people who determine their own future.

We are not a talking point in someone else’s rhetoric — we are a people with dignity, history, and self-government under the Kingdom of Denmark.

[Joe Barnard 🚀 @joebarnard]

Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot - Carl Sagan

[Jeremy @ManaByte]

This is one of the greatest photos ever taken by a human…so far.

[Marni Panas 🇨🇦 @marnipanas]

My taxes pay for roads I'll never drive, hospitals I'll never use, child care I no longer need, universities I'll never attend, social programs I'll never use. And I'm MORE than OK with that and the privilege I have living in a democratic society that cares about each other.

[artsartsarts @_artsartsarts]

i can’t get over seeing a braid in space … the simplicity & humanity of it … i could cry … we started in caves and now we’re all the way up there
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[scha·den·freu·de  @BlisterPearl]

We're terrible neighbors right now, and it hurts to keep caring. Care anyway. You are needed.

[Embassy of Japan in Canada @JapaninCanada]

We enjoyed our roundtable discussion with executives from @altotrain, Cadence, and JR Central🚄 at ALTO's headquarter in Montreal. We hope that Japan's high-speed rail experience and technology can contribute to a better Canada 🇨🇦.

[Hans von der Burchard @vonderburchard]

Fierce rebuke to Trump by Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen: “The pressure on us is unacceptable”

Even with Russia and China, Greenlanders “never felt threatened. First time they felt unsafe for real was when an ally talked about acquiring them. It’s outrageous.“

[Kirsten Hillman @KirstenHillmanA]

Today marks the close of a significant chapter in my life – my final day as Ambassador of Canada to the United States. It has been the privilege of a lifetime, and I am so deeply honoured to have had the opportunity to represent Canada and Canadians here in the U.S.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Burney on CUSMA and negotiating with the US: "No deal is better than a bad deal ...why would you negotiate a new agreement with a country that's already broken the one we've got. We should have learned the lesson that they can't be trusted. This administration cannot be trusted."

[ProudCanRobz 🇨🇦 @RMapleCan]

Mr Bessent, enough with the gaslighting and hypocrisy!!
Carney came in with an”anti American” agenda??
Your boss has called our PM Governor, threatened to make us the 51st state, posted a map of Canada with the US flag, called us a failed nation, with fake borders, and said he needs nothing from Canada.
Carney is not anti American, we’re all anti bullies! So GFY
https://t.co/fzD0Do5fhV