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Canada : No more economic integration with the USA. "They would be our jailers "- Peter Donolo, The Globe and Mail "Our future as a country does not lie inside a North American fortress. Especially one in which those holding the key have proven themselves belligerent, untrustworthy and hopelessly corrupt. They would not be our partners; they would be our jailers." Worst of all, the pressure to harmonize our country’s foreign and domestic policies with the United States in “Fortress North America” would be irresistible – and result in our national self-erasure. "Public health care? Publicly owned utilities? Made-in-Canada environmental, labour or even language laws? Our tight controls on election spending? Our public funding for Canadian arts and culture? All “unfair advantages” or “barriers” that, you can be sure, would be challenged with the maximum power and might of U.S. authorities." "As Mr. Carney said last year: “The Americans want our resources, our water, our land, our country. Think about it. If they succeed they would destroy our way of life.” #cdnpoli #onpoli #polqc

Jeff Stahler #cartoon

Today's cartoon by Drew Sheneman. "This is exhausting, can’t we just skip to the part where this chicken shit backs down?"

Funny how the loudest “Canada is broken” voices keep coming from the provinces with the worst premiers running the show. Here’s the part people skip: your daily life is run by your province, not Ottawa. Healthcare, schools, hospitals, highways, policing, housing approvals, electricity rates. All provincial jurisdiction. The premier you voted for controls almost everything that actually touches your day to day. Alberta’s economy gets mismanaged by Smith, healthcare gets gutted, and somehow it’s Ottawa’s fault. Saskatchewan posts some of the worst outcomes on healthcare wait times and education funding in the country, then blames “the Laurentian elite.” These are the same people who vote for cuts, then complain when the cuts hurt. Vote for underfunded hospitals, then post about ER wait times like it’s a national betrayal. Vote against federal transfers and equalization fixes, then act shocked when their own province can’t deliver services. If your premier controls your hospital wait time, your kid’s classroom size, and your power bill, and all three are getting worse, that’s not a “Canada is broken” problem. That’s a “you elected this” problem. The data is right there. Most of the “Canada is failing” energy isn’t coming from a place of national decline. It’s coming from provincial governance failures, dressed up as a federal crisis.

Please enjoy my cartoon for Friday's @TorontoStar

Cartoon by Dave Granlund

As a Canadian I am fed up with Pierre Poilievre's campaigning outside of an election He is an ego manic wanting to be in people's faces 24 hours a day running down our country. This needs to stop, folks need a break from the constant Conservative rage to enjoy their summers !

Most people who plant flowers for pollinators forget one thing: bees need water. Bees use water for more than drinking. They cool the hive with it. They feed it to larvae. Mason bees need it to make mud to seal their nest chambers. Some species make 80 water trips a day during nest-building. When safe water sources are scarce, bees often drink from pools, roadside puddles, or pesticide-contaminated runoff instead. The pollinator garden you built isn't complete until you give them somewhere safe to drink, and it's dead simple: 1. Grab a shallow dish. I use a terracotta pot basin but a bowl or even a plastic dish is fine. 2. Fill with stones, marbles, or pebbles so the bees have somewhere safe to land and drink. 3. Add water. Tap water is fine. It's okay if a leaf falls into the dish, bees are actually more attracted to slightly "dirty" water than they are perfectly clean water. That's it. Five minutes, a shallow dish, and a handful of rocks can turn a flower patch into a much better habitat for the pollinators you're trying to help.

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Carney: Canada is now creating jobs at twice the rate of the United States. Non-U.S. exports are up sharply, and we're on track to double them over the next decade.

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The Billy Bishop fiasco shows why Mark Carney shouldn’t privatize Canada’s airports thestar.com/opinion/contri… via @TorontoStar

Dave Whamond #cartoon

@SandraRodkey A Federal Maximum Security Prison for sex offenders

Doug Ford spent 112 MILLION TAXPAYER DOLLARS on self-congratulatory ads. WHAT THEY COULD HAVE BOUGHT: · Support for 15,000 SENIORS for a YEAR · 125 MRI scanners · FINANCIAL AID for 31,000 Ontario students thestar.com/opinion/contri… via @TorontoStar

Michelle Ferreri and the host refer to the wonderful people of Peterborough as the "r-word" and arrogant. This is what the RW Influencers and the modern CPC has become. This is absolutely disgusting. If you're a sensible conservative, and there are many, many amazing ones out there, you should stand firmly against this vile bullshit.

Sheila @shelearn

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Here's what Michelle thinks of voters in our Riding of Ptbo, from a podcast appearance 2 weeks ago.

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A single toad in your yard can eat thousands of pest insects over a single summer. One cheap June project gives them a place to hide out over winter. Find a terracotta pot, ideally 12-14 in diameter, remove the drainage plug, and bury it on its side in a shady corner of the yard, flush with the ground. Pack the inside loosely with leaf litter and leave a clear entrance. You've built a toad hibernaculum. Toads need a frost-free place to overwinter underground, and a buried pot gives them exactly that. They find these within a season if toads are anywhere in your neighborhood.

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