Carole Therrien

U.S. AG Pam Bondi Sold More than $1 Million in Trump Media Stock the Day Trump Announced Sweeping Tariffs Disclosure forms show that Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of shares on April 2. That day, after the market closed, Trump’s “Liberation Day” press conference sent the market tumblin...

Trump's actions seem chaotic until you look more closely at who is winning. www.propublica.org/article/pam-...

Cette lettre ouverte dans Le Devoir m'a touchée. C'est exactement ça la préoccupation de milliers de médecins. Cette patiente et citoyenne l'a parfaitement résumé - et avec raison. #polqc #pl106

The Ultimate Bait and Switch of Trump’s Tariffs How to understand the phony trade deals with Britain and China

Once you correctly recognize Trump's tariffs as a way to fund his intended upper-class tax cut with an immediate tax increase on poor and working Americans ... you can't see the tariffs any other way. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

What Canadians Heard—and Americans Didn’t The Canadian federal election, on Monday, which culminated in Mark Carney’s retention of the Prime Ministership, was won by defying Trumpism.

“Many Americans don’t take Trump’s threats to Canada seriously — or seriously enough — and dismiss them with the same exhausted shrug that too many of Trump’s words inspire…. In Canada, he doesn’t sound like a troll. He sounds like a threat.”

How the climate crisis threatens Indigenous traditions in Canada: ‘It’s not the way it used to be’ Shorter winters and thinning ice are imperiling cultural activities in the north, including hockey, broomball and hunting

How the climate crisis threatens Indigenous traditions in Canada. Shorter winters and thinning ice are imperiling cultural activities in the north, including hockey, broomball and hunting, by @hilarybeaumont.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... via @theguardian.com #ClimateChange

What does the CBC even mean? ...to the price of eggs?

@caroloff.bsky.social writes with both urgency and clarity on the importance of the CBC: "What does the CBC even mean? It means a glimpse into something unknown, a chance to take stock of another Canadian’s struggles, and maybe to care a little bit more."

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The White House Easter Egg Roll is sponsored by Amazon, Google, and Meta — who are all being sued by the federal government for antitrust violations.

It's the first time the event has had corporate sponsors.

Everything is for sale under Trump — and Big Tech wants to cash in.

I don't always release a costed platform, but when I do, it's because even after two years of me campaigning the Liberals beat me to it.

A Wellness Company With False Claims, Global Aims and a Toronto Island (Gift Article) A Times investigation shows Therme, a European firm, exaggerated its track record in securing a deal with Ontario, and government auditors found that the process had been unfair and opaque.

"Therme falsely presented itself as an industry player that operated as many as half a dozen spas in Europe.
In fact, it had built and operated just one, outside Bucharest, Romania. Auditors found Therme was losing money and had less than 1 million euros (about $1.1 million) in equity."

Calls political opponents juvenile names
Brags about crowd sizes
Marginalizes unsupportive media
No real success in the private sector
Sells merch to supporters
Wants to cancel public broadcasting
Exaggerates accomplishments
Supports people who occupy nation's capital
Detests social safety nets

Loves plastics (♥️O&G)
Media's bad, female media's even worse
Accuses others of exactly what he does
Craves power not public service
Decades-old ideas
Promises utopia not practical solutions
Ukraine's not worth supporting
Frightened by pronouns
Sloganeering
Delusions of grandeur
Endorsed by Elon Musk

The Elephant in the Room by Liz Kalaugher review – how we make animals sick From frogs to ferrets, an eye-opening account of the ways we affect the health of other species – and vice versa

The Elephant in the Room by Liz Kalaugher review – how we make animals sick

Fair point.

Leaders’ Debates Commission issues decision on the Green Party of Canada | Leaders' Debates Commission

The Commission has had a busy 24 hours: moving the French debate forward by two hours so that the Habs hockey game broadcast is not impeded, and excluding the Green Party leader(s) from participating.

I agree with both decisions.

www.debates-debats.ca/en/news/2025...

I do love being Canadian. ❤️😘❤️

They're pretty fabulous at pulling out the nuances!

Carney grasps a key point that Poilievre has missed in the trade war

Unlocked | Michael Harris: Carney grasps a key point that Poilievre has missed in the trade war

Historic domes of Hagia Sophia are renovated to protect the landmark from earthquakes Turkey has begun a new phase in sweeping restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on preserving the monument’s historic domes from the threat of earthquakes.

Turkey has begun a new phase in sweeping restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on preserving the monument's historic domes from the threat of earthquakes.

In Canadian election, top Conservative candidate vows to end ‘woke ideology’ in science funding Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party is trying to topple Liberal government in 28 April election

“I think this is the first time a politician in Canada has crossed that line to officially say they want to interfere to control research topics,” says Madeleine Pastinelli, president of the university professors’ union in the province of Quebec.
#cdnpoli www.science.org/content/arti...

The penguins are safe!! Thanks be to jay-sus! 🙄

American YouTuber who left a Diet Coke can for a reclusive tribe on an island is arrested in India Indian police have arrested a 24-year-old American Youtuber who visited an off-limits island in the Indian ocean to try to establish contact with an isolated tribe known for attacking intruders.

Indian police have arrested a 24-year-old American Youtuber who visited an off-limits island in the Indian ocean to try to establish contact with an isolated tribe known for attacking intruders.

Pierre Poilievre's record on Indigenous rights concerns advocates | CBC News Pierre Poilievre's pitch to Indigenous voters has focused on resource development and economic reconciliation but some Indigenous advocates say they are concerned about his record on issues like resid...

"The same day in 2008 that Stephen Harper made a historic apology to former students of the residential school system, Poilievre told an Ottawa talk radio show survivors did not need more compensation but instead required a better work ethic."

Or maybe just give them a deluxe government pension.

It's the weird chaos fire elmo meme

Toronto’s University Health Network launches recruitment campaign for scientists Hospital network will be investing $15-million in recruiting 50 scientists immediately as a part of its ‘Canada Leads 100 Challenge’

Toronto’s University Health Network launches recruitment campaign for scientists. Hospital network will invest $15-million in recruiting 50 scientists as a part of its ‘Canada Leads 100 Challenge,’ by @jenniferyang.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

Yippee!!!!!

Resurrect Al Capone???

AI has me in giggles for the past few days.

Maybe they just have to turn it off, count to ten, and then turn it back on. 👌

A penguin pointing w a stick at a pic sitting on an easel of a Tesla w a pigeon flying over head pooping on it as 3 pigeons look on

🤣

338Canada | Nanos Research federal poll, March 2025

Federal 🇨🇦 voting intentions from Nanos Research:

🔴LPC 42%
🔵CPC 37%
🟠NDP 11%
⚜️BQ 5% (23% in QC)
🟢GPC 3%
🟣PPC 2%

→ 338canada.com/20250328-nan...

[Nanos Research, March 27-29, 2025, n=1,285 (3-day rolling)]

#canpoli