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Enlighten me: in shootouts, why do the Habs, more often than not, insist on trying to deke the goalie instead of using a wrist shot or snap shot?

As voices like Annie Koshy (journalist with an excellent Substack) remind us, our strength comes from opening doors and shaping the future, not shrinking from it.

Le Canada choisit l’ambition et la collaboration pour bâtir l’avenir.

Canada is stepping back onto the world stage with purpose. The new Canada–Australia partnership shows what confident democracies can build together—secure critical minerals, clean energy, AI leadership, and real investment in nation‑building.

L’unité du Canada, c’est notre force. Avançons comme partenaires.

Moins de chicanes, plus de collaboration. Le pays en sort gagnant.

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Canada’s unity is our strength. We move forward together.

Less division, more cooperation. A stronger country for all.

The Multipolar Delusion And the unilateral temptation.

It is time for all the principals to seize the moment, recognize the agenda, and move forward as a united country.
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Link: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

The answer lies with internal truthful communication and cooperation. So far, the provincial leaders are sharing PM Marc Carney’s rhetoric, but some are not yet walking the talk. It is urgent that all provincial barriers be removed.

every dimension: military, economic, diplomatic, and territorial. This isn’t about fear‑mongering; it’s about understanding structural realities of power.

So, how does Canada strengthen unity, institutions, and Indigenous partnerships so that no external actor—friendly or not—can dictate terms?

whose strategic autonomy is strongest when the international system is not dominated by unilateral great‑power competition.

Canada’s UNITY is its greatest strategic asset; a fragmented Canada—whether through Alberta or Quebec secession—would be dramatically more vulnerable in

Other powers may aspire to multipolarity, but none can yet deliver on all the required criteria.

Indirectly. Mohan’s position suggests that Canada fits into this picture in a very specific way: as a country whose security and prosperity depend on a stable, rules‑based order, and

NONE meets the demanding criteria of a true “pole”. This is a political narrative that ironically enables Washington, while holding the commanding heights of global power, to act with fewer self-imposed constraints and less interest in keeping global order.

An indirect warning to Canadians from sea to sea to sea.

In a recent Foreign Affairs article (link below) author Raja Mohan opines directly that although China, Russia, BRICS, and various middle powers, like India, Turkey, Indonesia, Mexico, and Nigeria, have gained influence,

Regime change required

Consequently, the Trump administration feels free to attack any and all that displease them.
That Iran requires a regime change is universally accepted.
So, Trump attacks with this stated purpose. But is there a plan? What's next?

And if the USA requires a regime change, who's going to do it?

The Multipolar Delusion And the unilateral temptation.

In this article, www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

C. Raja Mohan opines: that despite widespread claims that the world has entered a multipolar era, the international system remains fundamentally unipolar, with the United States still the only actor possessing full-spectrum global power.

Why is the U.S. at meetings to discuss peace between Russia and Ukraine?
Russia and the U.S. are allies. It’s 2 vs 1.

One is Canada’s voice.
The other is G7’s voice, with PM Carney at the table.

Both matter — one for domestic clarity, one for global cohesion.

commitments and values.

2- The G7 Leaders’ statement is a collective declaration agreed by all G7 members signaling allied unity. It is a more formal, negotiated language that focuses on shared commitments: sanctions, aid, pressure on Russia.

PM Mark Carney released two statements today about the Ukraine. (Link PMO / Statements)

Why 2?
Because they serve two different audiences and two different diplomatic purposes.

️1- The PM’s own statement ️speaks in moral terms directly to Canadians and Ukrainian‑Canadians to highlight Canada’s

Et pas de crédibilité à l’étranger sans respect des Premiers Peuples ici.
Le monde regarde comment on développe Eeyou Istchee, Nunavik et la Côte‑Nord.

Diversifier là‑bas, c’est renforcer le Québec ici.

Sans diversification, on est vulnérables.
Avec l’Inde, l’Australie et le Japon, on protège nos emplois et nos chaînes d’approvisionnement.

Le Québec n’est pas spectateur du virage indo‑pacifique — il en est le pivot.
Ports, aérospatiale, minéraux critiques, Nord autochtone : tout y passe.

You might include his (their) treatment of Venezuela, Cuba, Iran and the economic actions, threats & interfering in Canada & Greenland.

The U.S. are going for the Olympic record of the sliding downhill event along with its allies Putin, Netanyahu, & Victor Orban amongst other.

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Yes, Rick, life has become VERY affordable for the billionaire owners of the U.S.

They are NOT coming.
They have been here in Mexico for a few years. In fact, Chinese imports into Mexico SURGED last year. Canadian PM Mark Carney agreed to admit a small number of Chinese imports into the country for the first time ever, later this year.

Reading a newspaper article stating that Trump says change in power in Iran 'would be the best thing that could happen'.

That's funny. I was thinking the reverse.

How many people would the U.S. administration have to take out to enforce a regime change in Iran?

Now, reverse the question.

Well now!
She certainly seems smart enough to run for congress.

Nicole, the provinces already mis-spend the funding they receive. Rather than helping patients, the funding seems to go to administrative affairs and infrastructure.

The feds should put patient conditions on transfer funding. Then maybe mental health would be properly examined.

The article sees a secure sphere of influence, the poem sees a people sleepwalking as their freedoms thin.
The contrast is stark: strategic confidence on one side, civic warning on the other, and a reminder that great‑power dominance means little if the nation’s democratic soul is quietly fraying.