Fred DeLorey: It's problematic when you choose to go down that road that Poilievre has chosen to go down so aggressively, almost like he's rooting for a recession. I'm a tribal conservative. I want to win the next election ... screaming that the sky is falling every week is not how you do it.
Caught up with former #BlueJays, Chris Bassitt, and asked him about his video tribute. Said he got choked up watching it:
“This whole place is too emotional for me… This place will always be the most special place for me… My son is Canadian!..there are so many different ties”
Mark Carney, "We welcome the people of the world"
"In all their diversity, in all that splendour"
"We don't welcome the world's hatreds"
"When you come to Canada you bring your faith, your tradition, your language, your story"
"You leave behind your animosities"
Keir Starmer talks about island of strangers
Kemi Badenoch says we should not be a multi cultural country
Mark Carney shows how it's done 👏
Marie-Philip Poulin: "To see you on the ice with the Ottawa Charge, with the prime minister of Finland, was unbelievable. We know we have you behind us, to support us, and it was unbelievable."
🚨BREAKING: MAGA is losing their minds over this AI video showing a construction crew forcibly removing Trump’s name from the outside of the Kennedy Center.
Share it everywhere just to annoy them. This will soon be a reality.
Jared McCain reveals that Shai Gilgeous-Alexander took him shopping during the team’s trip to New York
"Little things like that mean so much to a young player."
(Via @BrandonRahbar )
Mark Daigneault on Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and what he appreciates most about him.
“He' s a brilliant player, and I've said this many times. I just said it about the team. That's what you do, and what he does is he scores 31 a game efficiently, and he is a great playmaker. He plays both ends of the floor. He's a great on-court leader. He delivers under pressure. That's what he does. That's why he won MVP. His team wins. But it's how he does it that is most impressive to me, the way he operates. The consistency with which he operates, the responsibility he takes for his performance, the way he invests back into the team. The dignity he treats everybody with, the class he displays in all situations, that's what is remarkable to me about him and what I appreciate most about him.”
To our incredible Paralympians and Olympians: each of you reminds us that, as Canadians, we are all part of something bigger.
Thank you for inspiring a nation.
Canada’s Aluminium Is Going to Europe. Brilliant Work, Donald.
A 50% tariff on Canadian aluminium, the one country on Earth that was happily selling the stuff at sensible prices, right next door, through an integrated supply chain that took decades to build. And now that aluminium is sailing across the Atlantic to Europe instead.
Canadian exports to the EU went from near zero to between 6% and 40% of monthly totals in the space of a year. Just vanished eastward. Extraordinary result.
US consumers are now paying $6,200 a ton for aluminium. Europeans are paying $4,300.  American manufacturers taxed nearly two thousand dollars a ton more than their competitors. For beer cans. And car parts. And buildings. Tremendous. Nobody could have seen that coming, except everyone.
Meanwhile Europe, which was already scrambling after losing its Middle Eastern supply to the Iran war, now faces a 5.6 million-ton aluminium deficit in 2026. And Canada just filled it. With metal that used to go to America.
The head of the Aluminium Association of Canada put it with admirable restraint: the EU option “remains attractive,” adding pressure on the US market. What he meant was: Washington handed Europe a competitive advantage in manufacturing while American industry pays the bill.
This is what happens when a trade guru who has spent his career slapping his name on buildings in gold letters decides he understands global commodity flows. No leverage materialises. Just an empty dock in Ohio and a very pleased purchasing manager in Rotterdam.
Well done, Donald.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
Every generation of hockey players has its heroes. For many Canadians, Claude Lemieux was one of them.
21 seasons. Four Stanley Cups. A remarkable career and a legacy that will endure.
Thank you for everything, Claude.