M. Wornell

Husband, father, friend, neighbour, and retired educator. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[M. Wornell @mwornell]

@CTVNews Two possibilities: (1) He has no idea how currency valuations are made. (2) He knows how these things work and is just trying to rile up his support base by not telling them why the exchange rate is the way it is. Either way, it isn’t a good look.

[M. Wornell @mwornell]

@Trevorhorne6 @TheMaineWonk @jamesbowenjr @mainelobstermen Only if we buy it. Which we won’t.

[M. Wornell @mwornell]

@MarkJCarney 👍 Thank you for your leadership in these difficult times. We Canadians will stand side by side in support of a trade deal that respects our sovereignty and protects our economic interests. 🇨🇦

[M. Wornell @mwornell]

CBC’s reairing of The Tragically Hip’s final show tonight serendipitously unites us once more as we face an uncertain economic future with our neighbours to the south @thehipofficial @CBC #CanadaStrong

[Glen Murray @Glen4Climate]

Dear @ScottJenningsKY
Let's talk cows.
Canada’s dairy system is not simply a tariff wall designed to keep American milk out. It is a supply-management system designed to keep production roughly aligned with demand, stabilize farm income and preserve a viable network of family-owned farms. Imports are allowed in significant negotiated quantities at low or zero tariffs; the very high tariffs people hear about generally apply only after those agreed import quotas have been filled.

The United States protects its farmers too, often much more extensively, but it uses different mechanisms. American taxpayers support agriculture through crop insurance subsidies, income and price-support programs, disaster payments, commodity programs and direct government payments. Dairy farmers have access to federally supported margin-protection and insurance programs. The U.S. also restricts imports in sensitive sectors. Sugar is an especially obvious example: the United States uses tariff-rate quotas that limit how much foreign sugar can enter at low tariffs, precisely to protect domestic producers and prices. USDA explicitly describes this system.

So there is a real hypocrisy in attacking Canada as a protectionist outlier. Canada essentially says to its dairy farmers: we will control production and imports so you can earn a reasonably predictable income from the market. The United States more often says to its farmers: we will expose you more directly to the market, but protect your income through subsidies, federally supported insurance, price and commodity programs, and, where politically important, import restrictions. In 2026 alone, USDA forecasts federal Dairy Margin Coverage payments, while its broader farm programs continue to provide income, commodity and insurance support.

Both countries protect agriculture. They just write the cheque differently.

And that matters to the family farm. Canada’s system was designed in part to prevent the boom-and-bust cycle in which oversupply collapses milk prices, smaller farmers fail, and increasingly large operations buy them out. Supply management gives a farmer greater certainty that producing milk efficiently can provide a viable living without having to become an enormous industrial-scale operation merely to survive the next price collapse.

That does not make Canada’s system perfect. Quota is expensive and can make it difficult for new farmers to enter. But portraying Canadian dairy protection as some extraordinary trade offence while the United States protects its own farmers with quotas, tariffs, subsidies, insurance and government support is fundamentally misleading.

Canada protects a relatively small number of agricultural sectors openly through supply management. The United States protects agriculture through an enormous, less visible architecture of federal programs and selective trade barriers. Calling one “protectionism” while pretending the other is “free trade” is the hypocrisy.
Hope next time you will fact check yourself.

Sincerely
Glen

[M. Wornell @mwornell]

Fake half time show? AI at work? #FIFA #worldcup2026

[M. Wornell @mwornell]

The American anthem. Why? The FIFA anthem. Why? Tom Cruise. Seriously? How about the game? #FIFA #WorldCupFinal

[M. Wornell @mwornell]

Miller out! It’s about time!!#CANMNT

[M. Wornell @mwornell]

This ref is shite. #CANMNT

[M. Wornell @mwornell]

@FreddyLA7 From Toronto, why not head to Ottawa, Montreal, and Quebec City before heading south into Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts? For that matter, from Montreal you could head south into upstate New York and pick up on the route you posted.

[Will Dunn - WD Photography 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @WDPhotography3]

My god TSN, absolute perfection 🤯🤯🤯

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[Cristiano Ronaldo @Cristiano]

RIP THE SCRIPT @Nike

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[Stephen M. D. Kafeero @sdkafeero]

This piece by @guardian is a masterclass in why old-school journalism will never die. You could easily lose 3 hours in this and still want more. https://t.co/P6xxOOo518

[Martín del Palacio @martindelp]

Aquí el anuncio entero de Nike para el Mundial. Es una absoluta locura. Seguramente el mejor comercial de futbol de todos los tiempos. Vale cada segundo.

[Rick Golfs @Top100Rick]

“I don’t really think it’s my job to be ten minutes early.”

Multi millionaire is shocked he’s expected to show up on time.

Garrick Higgo is representing Gen Z absolutely perfectly. Zero accountability and zero care. Nothing is his fault.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Back to books - Sweden's schools give up digital learning https://t.co/rnb51C6dQ0

[Heather Peske @HeatherPeske]

Many teachers pursue master's degrees because their districts position them as the clearest path to earn a higher salary. @NCTQ found 90% of large districts still incentivize teachers to earn master’s degrees despite research showing they don’t make teachers more effective. We shouldn’t be encouraging teachers to take on debt for credentials that aren’t guaranteed to make them better at teaching in the first place.

[M. Wornell @mwornell]

@KeruboSk You booked a trip before your PTO was approved?