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Not far down the road sits Brampton, Ontario, another community tied to the auto sector.
But in Brampton, they are already living the nightmare. Their mayor, a well-known and sometimes controversial figure in Canadian politics, Patrick Brown, wrote this opinion piece for iPolitics:
Canada’s auto sector is under attack. If we don’t fight back now, it will be gone — not just in Brampton but across Canada
Meanwhile, Mark Carney and Donald Trump playfully pointed fingers at each other in South Korea this week while having dinner.
That might have been cute, but it accomplished nothing in the trade talks between the two men – they are dead in the water. Instead, both men are chasing China, trying to cut big deals, while here at home, the government is days away from a budget that could topple Carney’s minority government. A few weeks ago, that didn’t seem like a real possibility, now though, it does. Especially to some, like Conservative veteran strategist, Fred DeLorey, who wrote this on his Substack:
We’re headed to an election. Stop pretending we’re not.
Good Talk’s Bruce Anderson has a good Substack of his own on the same subject.
Check it out here:
This isn’t complicated. If an election happens, it will be because the opposition parties decided to cause one.
How bad are things between the United States and Canada?
Bad. Real bad. When the US Ambassador in Canada uses F bombs to attack Canada while he’s IN Canada, you know things can’t get much worse. Pete Hoekstra is known as the “call it as you see it” guy, but F bombs in a public space to a Canadian official? Somebody needs to take this guy aside and teach him some basic diplomacy – someone like Fen Hampson, who wrote this piece in Policy:
Our Hoekstra Response Should be a Lesson in Diplomacy
I loved this piece by Shannon Proudfoot in The Globe.
It’s yet another take on Doug Ford’s Ronald Reagan ad that so upset the wannabe king. Somehow, she managed to compare Barbara Streisand to Donald Trump:
🔒 What really enrages Donald Trump in that Ronald Reagan ad he doesn’t want anyone to see
Are you one of those people who keep waiting to see whether anyone in Washington, especially Republicans, is ever going to stand up to Donald Trump?
Well, there have been a few signs lately that some Republicans are getting restless and are speaking out, and even voting out. Have a look at this opinion piece in the Washington Post written by Senator Tim Kaine… yes, he’s a Democrat, but he’s not standing alone:
🔒 Why we’re forcing Senate votes on Trump’s tariffs
There’s lots more on all of this in two of our podcasts this week. Yesterday’s YouTube version of Good Talk with Chantal Hebert and Bruce Anderson can be found here.
And Tuesday’s Moore-Butts Conversation #26 has its audio version right here.
There’s more discussion about the so-called Golden Dome plan that Donald Trump has.
That’s the plan that will be designed to blanket the U.S. to protect it from missiles, a blanket Canada has suggested it might like to cuddle up under as well. Is the Golden Dome a real possibility or just a fantasy? Check this out:
Inside Trump’s Golden Dome: High-stakes debate over missile-defense shield
I assume you’ve heard all the talk about how the Trump family has been packing away the millions through their connections to the crypto currency business.
But what do you really know about that? Reuters did some deep research:
Inside the Trump family’s global crypto cash machine
More talk about the possibility of an AI bubble, and this time it’s coming from someone who was right in the middle of the last big bubble.
Bill Gates didn’t get hurt, but he sure watched a lot of others suffer. He’s worried about what might happen today:
Bill Gates says we're in an AI bubble similar to the dot-com bubble
While I’ve done a lot of flying around the country and around the world this year, I’ve only been in the US once.
And even then, I used a burner phone and a clean laptop because I’m just not interested in having things scanned at the border. Now, US officials are suggesting they’ll be taking pictures of all Canadians coming into the country, which sounds bad, but quite frankly, most countries are already doing that. But every month, there seem to be new methods US officials are introducing to tighten border security. Here’s another example:
Airport phone searches hit record high amid Trump traveler crackdown
When was the last time you went to see a movie at a theatre?
Probably not for a while if the latest numbers are any indication. It’s bad times in the movie business if theatre-going is a marker for gauging good times or not. The Hollywood Reporter keeps track of these things:
