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The elephant in the room

Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province. Behind the cross-border effort to sway Alberta’s secession vote

The elephant in the roomhttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/648d866926019f7ec097ab9d60f6cc089afc1019381678b535266be96e5a9339/WNKMWCY55VAD5J6YR2QDXFDVYY/Open linkView original on lemmy.ca
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U.S. Pentagon defends Pete Hegseth's post about Canada's cadet program

B.C. Premier David Eby said Hegseth's post and the Pentagon's defence of it were an embarrassment.

"It tells you everything you need to know about the amateur-hour, distracted, bizarre leadership that Americans are being subjected to," Eby said.

What a bunch of dicks!

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The whole world is watching as Canada stands up to Trump

Our fight, it is no exaggeration to say, is the civilized world’s fight. It is a fight for reason and comity in the affairs of nations, against an administration whose worldview, and behaviour, is increasingly that of an aggressive dictatorship, in all its crudeness and its thuggery.

Mr. Trump, as the Prime Minister has said, aims to “break us,” a phrase with historic echoes. He has to now, or others will follow our lead. If he succeeds, then the world will be governed by nothing but force in the end, in trade as in other matters. But if we prevail, then “broad and sunlit uplands” must surely await.

The whole world is watching as Canada stands up to Trumphttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/648d866926019f7ec097ab9d60f6cc089afc1019381678b535266be96e5a9339/V5S3MKRY4BFNDBW3F7TNPAUGT4/Open linkView original on lemmy.ca
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A schoolyard tip for fighting tariff bullying

For example, the decision of most provinces to remove U.S. wine, beer and spirits from store shelves is a major irritant south of the border. A California senator recently pleaded with Canadians to reconsider and a New York state representative threatened retaliation over the bans. Why would Canadians reverse such a tactic without getting something real in return? And something real has to mean more than just a rollback to the tariff policy of last week. Similarly, giving up Canadian tariffs on U.S. vehicles – imposed in response to American tariffs on our own exports – in return for nothing would be surrender, not negotiation

A schoolyard tip for fighting tariff bullyinghttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/648d866926019f7ec097ab9d60f6cc089afc1019381678b535266be96e5a9339/MLVCICEQ5ZEWDEC62RVNQAPOKQ/Open linkView original on lemmy.ca
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There is no appeasing Donald Trump, or deterring him

It isn’t just that he has no understanding of policy, nor any knowledge of history to guide him; or that he conforms to none of the norms of custom, morality or law. It is that, even understood as a wholly self-involved, self-serving bundle of id, one whose only motive is self-aggrandizement and self-enrichment, Mr. Trump is incomprehensible. His actions make no sense even in terms of rational self-interest. It’s all just random impulses, fleeting grudges, synaptic burps, based on who spoke to him last, what he saw on TV or what he had for breakfast, for all I know.

But there’s an upside to all this. If there’s nothing we can do – if we lose no matter what – then we might as well do what we want. When nothing you can do will improve your fortunes, when the outcome is the same regardless of which option you choose, the stakes converge on zero.

The President will do what he will do. Nothing we can do will change that. So we might as well not try. There’s liberation in that

There is no appeasing Donald Trump, or deterring himhttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/648d866926019f7ec097ab9d60f6cc089afc1019381678b535266be96e5a9339/4WX2HQOFT5HSLJXINTWOP7IKN4/Open linkView original on lemmy.ca
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Warner Archive Announces June Releases

Warner Archive has announced its June batch of releases. They are: Last Summer (1969), Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971), Start the Revolution Without Me (1970), Come Live with Me (1941), Night and Day (1946), Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944), Strange Cargo (1940), Rose-Marie (1936), Letty Lynton (1932), and Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines: The Complete Series (1969-1970).

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Alberta government rejects commission’s proposed changes to province’s electoral map

This would upend Alberta’s long-standing way of updating the boundaries of its constituencies for provincial elections. The shift drew condemnation from the leader of the Alberta New Democratic Party, who said the ruling United Conservative Party’s attempt to seize control of the process was an assault on democracy.

Alberta government rejects commission’s proposed changes to province’s electoral maphttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-alberta-government-rejects-commissions-proposed-changes-to-provinces/Open linkView original on lemmy.ca
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Scream Factory and Shout Factory Announce June Releases

Scream Factory and Shout Factory have announced their June batch of releases. Amongst them are: Day of the Dead (1985), The Burbs (1989), The Money Pit (1986), Them! (1954), What Dreams May Come (1998), Bowfinger (1999), Slither (2006), The Flintstones (1994), and Arcane: League of Legends Season Two (2022-2023).

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Criterion Announces June Releases

The Criterion Collection has announced its June batch of releases. They are: Charade (1963), Five Easy Pieces (1970), High Art (1998), Desperate Living (1977), Hairspray (1988), West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty (1979), It Was Just an Accident (2025), Magellan (2025), and Eclipse Series 6: Carlos Saura's Flamenco Trilogy (1981-1986).

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Trump’s DHS Nominee Made Profitable Stock Purchases Days Before US Military Strikes

Five days before the U.S. military invaded Venezuela, deposing its leader, Nicolás Maduro, from his office without congressional approval, Mullin purchased stock in RTX Corp., a defense contract company, as well as in oil companies Chevron and ConocoPhillips.

Those three companies have seen their stock prices increase since that time, going up following that military action in Venezuela and rising more after Trump launched an unauthorized war in Iran. As of Monday, Conoco’s stock was up by 30 percent, Chevron’s by 26 percent, RTX’s by around 15 percent, since the time Mullin made his stock purchases.

Trump’s DHS Nominee Made Profitable Stock Purchases Days Before US Military Strikeshttps://truthout.org/articles/markwayne-mullin-made-profitable-stock-purchases-days-before-us-military-strikes/Open linkView original on lemmy.ca
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Tonight's feature: "Castle Freak" (101 Films)

From Wiki: "Castle Freak is a 1995 direct-to-video horror film directed by Stuart Gordon. The film stars Jeffrey Combs as John Reilly, an American recovering alcoholic who inherits an Italian castle when a distant relative passes away. John stays at the castle with his estranged wife Susan (Barbara Crampton) and blind daughter Rebecca (Jessica Dollarhide), but a freakish monster locked away in the basement (Jonathan Fuller) escapes and commits a series of murders."

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