“We must stop the invasion!*”
*Or at the very least use Parkland as leverage as we negotiate a new USMCA, or whatever the heck 🍊wants to call it this time.
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Is it Canada Strong to let Parkland be acquired by a non-Canadian company?
Note: The orange background is not meant to conjure thoughts of the political organization that lost official party status last week, it’s meant to conjure thoughts of the chief executive full of hostile anti-Canadian rhetoric.
In stark contrast to the prior two posts, the diametrically opposed end of the spectrum is revealing something quite different, reports of rampant Adult Swim viewing and massive amounts of Doritos consumption all over Ottawa.
Could we be witnessing the early signs of another October 17, 2018?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/magic-mushrooms-ottawa-1.7401890
Ottawa magic mushroom shops keep a low profile as police crack down in other cities | CBC News
Ottawa magic mushroom shops openly selling the illegal drug say they're hoping police have more pressing matters than cracking down on their stores, as retailers in other municipalities are raided and shut down.
I’ve never liked the phrase “toxic drugs”, implying the pure varieties are all kosher. As this recent CBC report about increasing deaths in New Foundland and Labrador remind us, certain street drugs in their purest of forms cause deaths, no “toxic” fentanyl required. And beyond “toxicity”, certain substances have a tendency to increase crime as this report reminds us. Hopefully the American Border patrol can mitigate the flow of these drugs northward.
The NYTime’s 10 May ‘25 Canada Letter https://tinyurl.com/eah4dhmy is a troubling reminder of the low security sea ports in Vancouver. Per a ‘23 report commissioned by Delta’s mayor https://tinyurl.com/t5fn74v4 it’s “believed that less than two percent [of cargo containers] are scanned and less than one percent are physically searched.” In this moment of mercurial orange and a new PM, maybe the Mayor can finally get the focus needed to improve security. Is it time to bring back dedicated port police?
I love when free stuff works and, as far as I can tell, not full of malware.
[Placeholder for Google Gemini and ChatGPT Research reports on whether SCOTUS would think USMCA withdrawal by POTUS without Congress is Constitutional - I need to make a blog entry and put stuff into Google Docs, blech, give me a minute]
Who knew Article 34.6 would be the it topic at dinner parties?
Coming soon to a United States Supreme Court near you, can a President withdraw from a treaty without Congress?
USMCA Article 34.6 permits unilateral withdrawal by a party with 6 months written notice. BUT, according to a Google AI report, "the [US] Constitution remains silent on the specific procedures for terminating treaties. This ... silence forms a central point of contention in the debate over unilateral presidential withdrawal ... from the USMCA without Congressional involvement .. [Its] a complex legal issue with no definitive answer provided by existing Supreme Court precedent." ChatGPT concurs.