“Our goal is not just to do reasonably well but to grow stronger than the rest of the G7. And as we work to do so, I want to make this promise to Canadians: I will always be straight about the challenges that we face and the choices that we must make,” says PM Carney.

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Bernie's implication that a veteran is just expected and allowed to be awash with toxic masculinity had me thinking today about the time I read @lorencrowe.bsky.social (one of the gayer men [laudatory] I'm aware of)'s jaw-dropping Silver Star citation.

Exactly what we need at the head of a European country at the moment.

“She also claimed that NATO was partly responsible for the Russian invasion of Ukraine and compared recent German defence spending rises to Nazi rearmament in the 1930s.”

www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...

Lot of conversation about antisemitism this week so just a gentle reminder that we don’t hyphenate the word, because it implies there is such a thing as a “Semitic” race (there isn’t, there’s only Semitic language) - and implying there is a Jewish race is of course deadly for the Jews. More info: