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Champagne on ice
July 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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christyceeck.bsky.social
Exactly. We just get fobbed off with "these are complex negotiations".

I thought this piece was really good at pulling us back and showing us how it looks like Carney is misunderstanding the larger issue.

blaynehaggart.com/2025/06/30/i...
Everything Carney has done indicates that he sees the Trump threat in purely economic terms. Trump, in this view, is dangerous because he’s erratic and has glommed on to an absurd, dangerous economic policy that threatens the viability of the Canadian economy. In such a scenario, the goal is to reduce or eliminate the tariff barriers while seeking to diversify as much as possible the domestic Canadian economy. From this perspective, Carney’s actions make perfect sense. He’s trying to minimize the erratic Trump problem in the hope that economic sanity will one day return to the US, while implementing bog-standard conservative domestic economic policies (lower taxes! Less government! Pipelines! Defence spending! Natural resources!). It’s the kind of analysis you’d expect from someone who had spent their entire lives existing at the very centre of mainstream economic thought and focused only on maximizing or minimizing a few economic variables – inflation, portfolio returns, GDP. It’s true that Trump is erratic and his tariff policies are bananas. But Carney’s mistaken the symptoms for the disease. The real danger to Canada is that Trump is an autocrat, a fascist, who is dragging the United States into despotism. He has shattered North American governance’s underlying foundation. The rule of law no longer holds. Instead, power carries the day. The tariffs are the symptom. That Trump would impose them in the first place: that’s the important change.
June 30, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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mark-ungrin.bsky.social
Naming Dr. Henry to the Order of Canada spits in the face of every serious scientist, healthcare worker, public health practitioner, and victim of COVID.

She botched SARS-CoV-1, botched the Seven Oaks investigation, and botched SARS-CoV-2. She has so much blood on her hands.

This is *vile*.

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mark-ungrin.bsky.social Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · Mar 11
I am hearing credible rumblings that Dr. Henry is currently in France for four months, learning French in order to finally qualify to fail upwards and replace Dr. Tam as Canada's CMOH. One of the few people in the world to have botched two different SARS-CoV outbreaks (plus the Seven Oaks thing).

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frozen.bsky.social Tom Jackman @frozen.bsky.social · Mar 11
On March 11, 2020, when much of the world was screaming for things to be locked down, Dr. Henry, herself no stranger to pandemics, told the country and the world that "we have very low risk."

Time was lost, and because of this so were lives.

There's never been an accounting of these failures.
June 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
melliemal.bsky.social
Suspiciously acquired money
June 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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mark-ungrin.bsky.social
Canada's public health and infection control leaders are not being honest with Canadians, including their fellow healthcare workers, about just how badly they botched the pandemic - here in Canada, and in the same people's roles at WHO.

They made potentially the worst medical error in history.
mark-ungrin.bsky.social Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · May 12
(this very big mistake that killed an enormous number of people, if anyone's looking for the citation)

www.spiegel.de/internationa...
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/epidemiologist-jeremy-farrar-on-the-next-viral-threat-i-fear-we-are-at-the-beginning-of-an-era-of-pandemics-a-564b1dae-1c3d-4eb3-b76f-f3c5da6e8289#:~:text=DER%20SPIEGEL:%20But%20even%20the%20World%20Health%20Organization,enormous%20number%20of%20lives. DER SPIEGEL: But even the World Health Organization didn't take the spread via aerosols seriously and didn’t issue a warning about it until the autumn of 2020 … Farrar: Yes, you are right, that was a very big mistake. We could have prepared better if bigger decisions would have been made around aerosols, around face masks, around the best treatment options, personal protective equipment for nurses, doctors, about the capacity for intensive care units. That would have saved an enormous number of lives.
June 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
melliemal.bsky.social
Nothing will happen. Apathy is winning.
June 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
melliemal.bsky.social
Great hair, no fuss!

It sucked but I loved the smell.
June 24, 2025 at 1:50 AM
melliemal.bsky.social
The only time I have ever considered divorcing my husband he referred to pizza as "za"
June 24, 2025 at 1:40 AM
melliemal.bsky.social
I can't tell if this is real. The cringe is multi-layered.
June 24, 2025 at 1:02 AM
melliemal.bsky.social
This myopia didn't come out of nowhere.
a white cat wearing glasses is looking at the camera
Alt: a white cat wearing glasses is looking at the camera
media.tenor.com
June 24, 2025 at 12:58 AM
melliemal.bsky.social
Trump declared a ceasefire. 🙄
a man in a suit and tie is saying i declare bankruptcy
Alt: Michael Scott from The Office says emphatically, "I declare bankruptcy!"
media.tenor.com
June 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
All that bollocks about will he, won’t he. This was decided weeks ago.

Israel knew. The signals they were sending were clear.
June 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
melliemal.bsky.social
They're all at the protests
June 15, 2025 at 2:20 AM
melliemal.bsky.social
Their 250th birthday bash next year is going to be full-on North Korea.
June 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM