Last 14 months of Biden's term:
+1.74m jobs
First 14 months of Trump's term:
150,000 jobs
(total! for the whole 14 months!)
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
At least 111 substances of unknown safety have been added to foods, drinks and supplements sold in the United States without alerting the US Food and Drug Administration, a new investigation found.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/03/h...
Friday Bonus Cartoon!
"Danielle Smith's government is acting as an embassy for the worst we've seen from south of the border, and it's time to say no.”
The Assembly of Treaty Chiefs has passed a unanimous vote of non-confidence in the UCP government.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
So I just got a statement from California AG Bonta's office:
"Paramount/Warner Bros is not a done deal. These two Hollywood titans have not cleared regulatory scrutiny — the California Department of Justice has an open investigation, and we intend to be vigorous in our review"
Then to top it all off, her caring "family" puts her on public display in front of millions and allows the president to lie about everything that has happened to her. That poor soul.
Very dystopian stuff:
Canadian political candidates are getting pitched on signing up their supporters for apps that scan social media for negative comments about them, use AI to come up with counternarratives then post AI-generated comments defending them from their real human supporters’ accounts
I felt for Sage. No matter what her truth is, her parent's decision to expose her to a public spectacle was awful. Hope she's okay.
The first is that the Liberal government screwed the pooch on immigration; this is now a fairly consensus opinion — and one we’ve talked about at some length here at The Line. It’s no particular mystery to us why the longstanding pan-partisan consensus on immigration is breaking. In short, we’ve taken on far too many, especially temporary foreign workers and questionable international “students,” without any real plan for how to improve basic infrastructure or social services to compensate. The problem, here, is a real one. And all of the provinces — not just Alberta — are struggling to keep up. That acknowledged, it is nothing short of appalling for a government to blame immigration for its own fiscal mismanagement especially when that same government has been welcoming and even demanding that immigration until all of five seconds ago.
I'm getting very tired of this framing. The only reason there is "consensus" that the Liberals screwed up immigration is because we are allergic to holding any premier to account for a) demanding more immigration; b) doing fuck all about housing and healthcare; and c) let scam colleges run amok. 1/
For Canadians in Mexico:
The Emergency Watch & Response Centre is available 24/7:
+1 613-996-8885 (collect calls accepted)
e-mail: sos@international.gc.ca
Anyone needing consular assistance can contact the Embassy of Canada to Mexico at +52 55-5724-7900; email at mxicocs@international.gc.ca.
If this is an impression, it's the best I've ever heard.
What motivation do you attribute to detaining a 65yo UK citizen with no history of criminality & a valid visitor's visa then? She & her husband were leaving the US & only lacked the proper paperwork for the rental car. Him maybe (expired visa). But her? Why? I hope you're right but I doubt it.
Another poll lauding the PM - Canada Pulse online poll of 1510 Cdns, margin of error +/- 2.5% 19 times out of 20
The poll shows 67% of those asked agree the PM is doing a good job of diversifying & building Canada’s economy.
toronto.citynews.ca/2026/02/20/p...
NEW: Natasha Korecki at NBC reports that in light of the SCOTUS tariff ruling, Gov. Pritzker sent President Donald Trump an invoice of $8.6 billion.
From Afterthought to Imperative www.ekospolitics.com/index.php/20...
This is so invisible. So important
www.canada.ca/en/departmen...
A LOT of joining defence partnerships #Canada. Let’s hope nuclear deterrence is in the talks with France
A Roadmap toward a strategic partnership between 🇨🇦 and France, designed to deliver concrete, actionable outcomes across areas of shared interest
Proposed Quebec constitution 'not written by a proud and confident people,' Cree Grand Chief says montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...
Bruce Fanjoy has launched a petition to require all federal party leaders to obtain and maintain top security clearance.
It's open for a couple of months.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star
Shorter Raitt: "How dare they judge us based on our behaviour!?"
Mark Carney's speech in Davos. A must-read for anyone hoping to go back.
"We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy, but we believe that from the fracture we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just."
globalnews.ca/news/1162087...
Please see my statement on the situation in Venezuela:
A citizen e-petition has been launched in the House of Commons calling on the Federal Government to use its disallowance power to override Alberta and Saskatchewan’s use of the notwithstanding clause to violate the human rights of trans Canadians.
Sign here: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
🇨🇦💰🔌 ICYMI, charging provider SWTCH has launched a new Canadian program that hooks homeowners up with a free Level 2 charger and pays them to charge their EVs.
Learn more here👇 #cdnpoli
Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star
