Sophie L

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

- The US Department of Agriculture correctly says on its website that "almost all" US agricultural exports to Canada face no tariffs at all
- The super-high Canadian dairy tariffs Trump often talks about are *over-quota* tariffs...tariffs that apply only after certain negotiated quantities of zero-tariff exports are met...and those quotas are rarely hit, often not even approached
- Most Canadian exports go to the US, but it's not close to "95%"; it was about 72% of goods exports in 2025, down from 76% in 2024
- The US goods-trade deficit with Canada has sometimes been $60 billion but often been much smaller, and it overwhelmingly exists for one reason: the US imports a lot of cheap Canadian oil

[Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer @EvanKirstel]

@GavinNewsom

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Thanks to Trump this is what people from around the World think of the American people now & it’s really eye opening. We’re seen to the World as no better than Russia or China especially after the way we treated Canada & Greenland. They don’t understand why we’re not fighting.

[Sophie L @soplap]

Touché!

[David Frum @davidfrum]

"Cet animal est tres mechant, quand on l'attaque, il se defend." - Jean de La Fontaine

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I watched Trump’s speech at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night.
It’s hard to articulate how sad it made me.

Sad and embarrassed and exhausted.

Here is the thing about a man who is a joke. He can’t tell one.

People think humor is a talent. It isn’t. It’s a capacity. To make someone laugh you have to be able to laugh at yourself, and to laugh at yourself you have to step outside of yourself and see what everyone else sees. For one second you have to be just another person in the room.

Most people can do this by the time they are nine years old.

He has never once managed it. Not in fifty years of cameras. Not for a second.

That is not a quirk. It is a symptom. The muscle that lets you tell a joke is the same one that lets you feel what another person feels. A man who cannot survive being laughed at cannot imagine being anyone but himself. He will only ever be generous when it is photographed. He will only ever be kind when it is filmed.

There is a name for it.

So he stood up there and did what he always does. He hit down. He made jokes about people’s weight. He made jokes about their intelligence. He made jokes about how women look. He read out the names of people he doesn’t like, and mocked them. Always mocking. And when no one laughed he blamed his speech writers.

The cruelty dressed as humor has worn so thin.

And for the 30% of you still in the cult who will inevitably call me a crackhead and blame it all on my Dad, all I can say is please, for the love of God, open your eyes. Wake the fuck up. Have some dignity. Have some pride.

Joe Biden wasn’t standing at that podium last night. Donald Trump was.

And at the end of it he put on a red hat that said Trump 2028 and told the room he was running again. No one laughed because everyone knows he has no intention of leaving.

Just another joke at our expense.

[Dimitris Soudas 🇨🇦⚜️🇬🇷☦️ 13.12.1943 @DimitrisSoudas]

Mr. President,

Wildfires do not recognize international borders. Smoke crosses borders just as hurricanes, floods, droughts, and pollution do. Canada has never blamed the United States for the smoke from California, Oregon, or Washington, just as we would not expect Americans to be blamed for hurricanes that cross into Canadian waters.

The reality is that Canada’s forests cover nearly 350 million hectares, roughly 9% of the world’s forests, much of it remote wilderness where fire has been a natural part of the ecosystem for thousands of years. No country on Earth has the capacity to remove every tree, every branch, or every piece of combustible material across landscapes of that scale.

Canada invests billions of dollars annually in wildfire prevention, forest management, firefighting, and emergency response. Thousands of Canadian firefighters, military personnel, Indigenous fire crews, and volunteers risk their lives every summer protecting communities, often alongside American firefighters under long-standing mutual aid agreements.

In return, Canada has repeatedly sent aircraft, personnel, and equipment to help fight devastating wildfires in the United States whenever called upon. That is what neighbours do.

Climate conditions, prolonged drought, lightning strikes, insect infestations, and extreme weather have all contributed to longer and more severe wildfire seasons across North America. This is a shared continental challenge, not a uniquely Canadian one.

Rather than assigning blame, Canada and the United States should continue strengthening cooperation on wildfire prevention, forest management, scientific research, firefighting capacity, and emergency preparedness.

Our two countries have always been strongest when we confront common challenges together, not when we look for someone to blame.

We thank you for your attention to this matter. Sir.

[Dimitris Soudas 🇨🇦⚜️🇬🇷☦️ 13.12.1943 @DimitrisSoudas]

Classy.

[Sophie L @soplap]

@SenatorSlotkin Agreed

[Sophie L @soplap]

Go Habs Go!

[Made In Canada @MadelnCanada]

Canada’s Team for the playoffs 💪🇨🇦

[Sophie L @soplap]

Touché 😆

[Acyn @Acyn]

A lot of jokes from King Charles tonight.

“You recently commented, Mr. President, that if it were not for the United States, European countries would be speaking German. Dare I say that if it wasn't for us, you'd be speaking French”

[Sophie L @soplap]

@KeithGrossman Montreal bagels, the best!

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

LUTNICK: It is outrageous that Canada will not put US spirits on the shelf. It is insulting and disrespectful to America

SHAHEEN: They won't do it because of the insults from this president and comments like yours

[Sophie L @soplap]

😆

[Joseph Nolla, SJ @josephnollasj]

The American most likely to earn a Nobel Peace Prize

[Jeremy @ManaByte]

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

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Space news is way better than Earth news.

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

Boils my fcking blood!!!

[Gérard Deltell @gerarddeltell]

Pour la première fois de l’histoire, notre langue, la langue française, fut exprimée en chemin vers la Lune.
Jamais le français fut parlé d’aussi loin.
Et c’est un Canadien qui l’a fait!
Bravo Jeremy Hansen, nous sommes tous fiers de vous!
Merci de nous rendre si fiers d’être Canadiens et de parler si bien la langue de Champlain.

[Sophie L @soplap]

@DahliaKurtz Piece of 💩