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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

With it being called a technical briefing, it's probably pretty benign. But...maybe it isn't?

 

Government of Canada representatives from the Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections (SITE) Task Force will provide a technical briefing to media, to update on the general election 45.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Liberals will boot this man from the party if what he did was actually bad and deserves a punishment.(which in this case it certainly was)

He made the comments in January. He apologized on Friday. It's now Sunday, and not a word from the party...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Sure, why not? It wasn't too long ago that Eccleston doing the audio dramas would have been considered a pipe dream.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That'd be a steep hill to climb, considering "sack Russell T Davies" was one of Eccleston's conditions to returning to DW on TV as recently as 2023...

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

Yet another source said the campaign has a "weird fixation" with relatively minor issues, like how the media is reporting Poilievre's rally crowd sizes. This Conservative said this should not be a concern for senior leaders like Byrne, given other issues they are grappling with.

You cannot make this up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I have to admit, as time passes I tend to forget just how good Eccleston was in his brief run. It's good to see RTD acknowledging it, even though Eccleston seemingly wants absolutely nothing to do with him.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, I just couldn't find a Canadian news source that had run with a description of the call yet, so I figured I'd go looking for the PMO press release.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Connecting to the Trans Canada Trail should be helpful, too - I have no idea how many people set out to travel the whole thing, but it's a fun project.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

The leaders agreed to begin comprehensive negotiations about a new economic and security relationship immediately following the election. In the interim, the leaders agreed that conversations between the Minister of International Trade and Intergovernmental Affairs and President of the King’s Privy Council for Canada, Dominic LeBlanc, and the United States Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, will intensify to address immediate concerns.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's worth noting that in his statement on Truth Social, Trump dropped the "Governor" BS and called Carney the Prime Minister.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

We should never go back

I agree...but at some point, there will have to be normalization. Whatever that new normal ends up being.

 

For starters, Trump appears aware that he’s become a factor in the Canadian election, and that he may have contributed to the Liberal Party’s extraordinary rebound. He, and people close to him, have made statements showing some awareness of those dynamics.

Another reason? Carney is not Trudeau. Trump spoke with unique disdain for the former PM, something his former aide John Bolton said Trump also did in private.

Carney also surprised some Americans with his comments yesterday about the rupture in Canada-U.S. relations, getting lots of attention in Washington.

Washington-based Canada-U.S. trade consultant Eric Miller said it has begun to dawn on people here that there could be long-term damage to a close relationship, one that benefits the U.S.

“They [realize the] need to moderate their rhetoric and keep the relationship going in a historically positive direction,” Miller said.

And finally, Americans don’t want a fight with Canada. Poll after poll shows that tariffs on Canada are unpopular, as is the 51st-state talk.

Consumer sentiment is plunging and inflation fears are at a decades-long high, so Trump has some incentives to patch things up.

“Of course, it’s one statement, one call,” Miller added. “[Trump] changes just like the weather.”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't know if the message was that identity twists are "bad," so much as a bit of a deconstruction of what "importance" is.

And in all fairness, the Mrs. Flood mystery was very present even at that time.

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