One plausible explanation: markets have more confidence in independence of the European Central Bank than the Trump-era Federal Reserve

Americans: Canada getting cozy with China is a fucking national-security crisis. Also America last night: Trump practically dry-humping Xi through a state dinner, military flyover and enough red-carpet foreplay to make Beijing blush. Apparently China is the enemy when Canada talks to them. When Trump does it, somebody dim the lights.

Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, welcomed financial giants from around the world to Toronto for an investment summit. The masters of the universe seemed impressed economist.com/the-americas/2…

"We are all Canadians."

Having grown up in Buffalo, I can directly attest that Canadians aren’t just our neighbors. They are family. I grew up watching CFTO TV and Hockey Night in Canada. Spent more time in Toronto than in any other city. Learned to sing O Canada right alongside the Star Spangled Banner. We have some damage to repair, but our relationship is deeper and stronger than any presidency.

Mark Carney: "We do not seek power to dominate others. On the contrary, we are pursuing resilience so no one, no one can control our open markets, impair our sovereignty, threaten our territorial integrity, or undermine our freedoms, our democracies, our rule of law."

Mark Carney, "In the heart of Germany, above Weimar, there is a wooded ridge called Ettusberg. And for decades, Goethe walked, thought, and wrote there. An oak on that ridge came to bear his name, a living monument to the highest ideals of European culture" "As the 20th century turned dark, that same oak became trapped behind the barbed wire of Buchenwald. A silent witness to humanity's deepest moral failure. Goethe understood that ideals must be fought for, that values do not defend themselves." "Indeed, at the end of Faust, the old man's last vision is of a free people on free ground. Nödvg, Värdjän, Siegfreiheit. Wie das Leben, de taklik si eroban mus" "Freedom and life must be earned every single day" "Every day" "Every day, not once in 1945 or 1956 or 1989. Every day, including this one." My take: 1945, 1956 and 1989 are not distant history lessons: they mark Europe’s liberation from fascism, Hungary’s uprising against Soviet rule, and the fall of the Iron Curtain. Carney’s point is that freedom is never something Europe simply achieved and banked forever - it is a choice, a responsibility and, when necessary, a struggle renewed by every generation.

JD Bellavance: "Donald Trump's reaction is interesting. It just shows that his real intent was to keep Canada under control. Why are you criticizing the right of a sovereign country to sign deals with other countries? It's because you want to keep that state as a vassal state."

Asked who would win in a hypothetical war between Canada and the U.S., @Gladwell tells @JeffreyGoldberg that Canada would prevail “because all of the American troops invade Canada, and then realize that they want to stay.” theatln.tc/65NUk0Q9 #TAF26

Only a lowlife bottom feeder would want to put his name on another man’s memorial.

Some details: Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children

It might be the most unlikely legacy of 9/11, but 25 years later, the musical “Come From Away” continues to enchant audiences with its story about how Canadians opened their homes to their American neighbors, and the world, in the wake of tragedy.

People are beginning to notice who the actual heroes are. Not the ones who flatter, accommodate, and appease. The ones who look America's dangerous lunatic in the eye and refuse to play along. Credit to Irish President Catherine Connolly and Canadian PM Mark Carney.

Trump's trade war strategy against Canada? Troll them into submission

🟥 WOW… Prime Minster Mark Carney’s video today “Forward Guidance”, to rally Canadians, is one of the best addresses by any world leader, ever, to their citizens. 🍁 It is an eloquent and inspiring ‘call to arms’ for our national participation in economic renewal, prosperity building, and sovereignty protection. It is undeniable. We have the right leader, at the right time. 👌🏻 🔳 “Our forebearers understood that building this improbable country in an inhospitable land wouldn't always be easy. But they also knew they could rely on one of Canadian's strongest traits: Resilience. Canada Strong isn't about just withstanding this crisis, it's about coming out of it stronger, more resilient, more independent than when we started. It's about ensuring that no country can hold us hostage. And that we can live how we want to live.”

There’s a strategy behind Trump’s unhinged Truth Social posts: push the boundaries, normalize the degradation, and hope the public eventually shrugs. But democracies don’t survive on numbness. They survive on people refusing to let cruelty become the standard.

Pete Hegseth’s conduct is flat‑out disgraceful and a grotesque collapse of basic decency. If we don’t call this out loudly, we’re telling the world there’s no line left to cross. yahoo.com/news/politics/arti…

16 years ago Google pulled its search engine out of China because they wouldn’t submit to an authoritarian government. Today, they’re renaming lakes to appease one.

Casually conflating a Canada–U.S. trade war with an actual military war is quite insane.

All the money in the world can’t make up for the crippling loss of leadership caused by Hegseth’s purges. Trump and Hegseth may be buying more hardware, but they are endangering the apolitical professionalism — the operating system — that once made the U.S. military the envy of the world. wapo.st/4gFl3Ey