Claire Trottier 🇨🇦

Raise Taxes on the Rich? These Rich New Yorkers Are All for It.

Some fellow members of Patriotic Millionaires in the New York Times today 🔥

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/n...

Our members inspire us every single day with their commitment to seeing through that we build a rich, stable, and free country with an economy that ensures it.

They also make us laugh when they say things like this:

Pew Research graph just published that shows 53% of Americans think Americans are not moral while only 7% of Canadians think Canadians are not moral, and 92% of Canadians judge their fellow Canadians to be moral people, as against only 47% of Americans who judge Americans to be a moral people.

This chart. A measure of what different countries think of their own people. Top of the chart, 53% of Americans think their fellow Americans are bad people, immoral. In Canada, the very opposite, where 92% believe other Canadians are good people. Tell me that 49th parallel doesn't mean something. 🧵

The only thing it feels worthwhile for me to say right now is pay attention to whether your feelings & the information you’re absorbing are paralyzing you or prompting you to meaningful action, whatever that is. Paralysis helps no one but the enemy.

I don’t even know anymore. War, the senseless murder of civilians, pedophiles in power, just a whole lot of fuckshit.

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis.

Hmmmmmm.

The Ellisons are gobbling up the media ecosystem to please Trump. Oligarchy in service of authoritarianism.

It is already very late, folks. 🇺🇸

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

These results tell me everything about the electorate in many western nations
People want change from the status quo system they’re falling behind in, one that uses them as serfs for wealth extraction by the upper classes
Labour has spent years gutting their party of its progressive wing

Disgusted by this government

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports

Is Carney Still Serious about Promoting Economic Equality? | The Tyee He once argued that narrowing the wealth gap is key to a prosperous nation. Now he controls the levers.

If we aren't tackling growing economic inequality, our economy will continue to undeperform.

Growth vs. equality is a false choice. It is framing that is inconsistent with the evidence.

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5% — its lowest on record.

Meanwhile, Meta is pumping $65 million into elections this year to boost AI friendly candidates.

Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax, it's corrosive to democracy.

Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.

Why prices won't drop after the Trump tariff ruling, according to economists The Supreme Court struck down President Trump's signature tariffs. But the president has other tariff tools, and consumers shouldn't expect cheaper prices anytime soon, economists say.

NPR tells us what we already know. Price Stickiness is a real thing. The Republican Party has pushed the price up of everything from a pickup truck to an avocado sky-high. Those prices aren't going down ever.

The Golden Age for the rich has arrived.

www.npr.org/2026/02/25/n...

Omg 😍😍😍😍

4 Minnesota guys

Writing today in @thetyee.ca, Richard and I introduce the idea of "civic challenges" and discuss how governments can mobilize the talents and capabilities of their publics.

We Can't Wait for War to Mobilize the Public thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Sam Altman’s anti-human worldview OpenAI CEO downgrades humanity in pursuit of goal to merge with computers

OpenAI is a menace. Two recent stories make that clearer than ever.

One day you have Sam Altman denigrating humanity to defend AI. The next, WSJ reveals OpenAI could have alerted Canadian police of a potential mass shooter, but refused pressure from employees. That person went on to kill 8 people.

L’essor de la misogynie, de l’homophobie et de la transphobie à l’école inquiète les enseignants «Ces situations ne sont pas isolées ni marginales», d’après une étude sur ces gestes, leurs auteurs et leurs effets.

«[...] les garçons qui expriment le plus à l’école leur intolérance à la diversité sexuelle sont les joueurs de hockey, les adeptes d’influences masculinistes, de même que les amateurs du nazisme… et du président américain, Donald Trump.»

www.ledevoir.com/actualites/e...

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

Nigeria and Kenya lead Africa’s push for electric vans assembled from Chinese EV kits E-mobility companies in Africa are beginning local assembly of electric vans and taxis using Chinese-made kits and innovative financing to spread use of electric public transport across the continent.

“This feat is a clear signal that electric mobility in Nigeria is practical, scalable and ready for adoption,” Falaye said.

It is simple economics....

"EV charging costs average about $3 for up to 200 kilometers (123 miles), compared with more than $15 in petrol costs for similar distances."

Little-known international rule that teams can play 6 guys against Canada only, as a little treat

Unbelievable

Could somebody please teach the IIHF how many players are supposed to be on the ice

Canada vs Hellebuyck

E is classic

An absolute must-listen discussion about wealth inequality and wealth taxes in Canada

Thank you for this excellent conversation!

Doing things the "right" way, burning out and then realizing there is another option, coming back and winning it all with no fucks given? Yes please tell me that story forever.