Category: The Libranos

Things You’re Gonna See On The CBC

Juno News:

CBC reversed its 9/11 language guidance Friday, allowing journalists to describe the attacks as terrorism without attribution after the leaked directive sparked widespread backlash.

The change came amid criticism from FBI Director Kash Patel, who threatened ties with Canadian agencies that refused to reject the policy, while Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre demanded CBC retract it and apologize.

CBC said the change applies specifically to 9/11, while its broader attribution policy for other acts of politically or ideologically motivated violence remains intact.

This is the state broadcaster. Patel should follow through.

Cultural Imperialism

Were the latest CRTC mandates, and justifiable American opposition to them, the excuse for claiming a supposed threat to Quebecois culture and ending the trade talks? None of that would surprise me. In any case, it’s an incredibly stupid hill to die on and it sickens me that Canadians seem happy to go along with that.

Prime Minister Mark Carney has said the U.S. put pressure on Canada to adjust its position on rules around discoverability of content online, and that U.S. demands would have affected Canada’s ability to protect its culture, including the French language.

American Style Elbows

Why is an American Democratic campaign veteran running the PMO’s operations and U.S. strategy while trade and security tensions escalate?

Johnson is a US citizen. She directed scheduling for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, worked at Michael Bloomberg’s Hawkfish, provided strategic consulting to the Biden campaign in 2020, and has deep Bloomberg network ties. As a non-Canadian, she is barred from Top Secret clearance — yet she is now Carney’s top deputy with unclear access to sensitive material. There was no official announcement on the PMO website

Her path to Ottawa runs through the climate-finance web Carney co-chaired (GFANZ with Bloomberg), Gerald Butts (now advising alongside Carney’s wife at Eurasia Group), John Podesta, and recent private gatherings involving Barack Obama, Alex Soros, Huma Abedin, and senior Canadian officials. These are the same networks that have long treated Canada as a friendly base for opposing a Republican White House

More at Breitbart.

h/t Victor

I Want A New Country

You only think you hate the Carney Liberals enough. You’re wrong.

Fever Pitching

Given what I know about the Canadian political classes, I didn’t expect any of them to call out Blubber Dougie on his renewed advocacy of economic suicide for Canada. But who put duct tape over the mouths of our captains of industry? Any miner that shut off legally contracted mineral exports to the US would be successfully sued in a matter of hours and go bankrupt within days.

“He underestimates Canada. We’re all in,” Ford said. “Up here, we’re at a fever pitch, everyone’s in for an economic war. They know they’re going to have to sacrifice.”

Ford said “everything is on the table” if the dispute worsens, including cutting off electricity and critical minerals from Ontario. He also called for Canada to consider using oil and potash as leverage.

“I’ll cut them off,” Ford said of critical minerals. “You won’t get a grain of sand out of Ontario.”

 

This is What America is Up Against

Note: It’s not clear whether this particular account is a rage farming parody. Regardless, I do believe this mentality perfectly encapsulates the mentality of the older Liberal Party supporters.

Canadian Boomer on Display

From April 28, 2025:

More about this interview.

I so would have loved to have been able to ask this woman some follow-up questions, starting with, “Why shouldn’t Donald Trump be the U.S. President today?”

Incidentally, the short interview clip appeared in this video today.

Online News Act Reported Dead

Justin Ling hardest hit.

In the name of placating President Donald Trump and his band of oligarchs, the Canadian government may be getting set to kill its last-remaining bit of Big Tech regulation.

I’m told, by sources not authorized to speak on the record, that Ottawa has told publishers to be ready for the death of the Online News Act. It would be just one concession offered up to alleviate — but not end — Trump’s punitive, illegal trade war.

Such a retreat wouldn’t just be bad policy. It would be a surrendering of our sovereignty.

Oh noes! Not our sovereignty! Think of the sovereignty!

The Online News Act requires that major social media, search and advertising technology companies compensate Canadian news outlets for lost advertising revenue. That law has only applied, thus far, to Google and Meta — and the latter hates it so much that they have blocked Canadians’ access to news on Facebook and Instagram for the past three years.

I can’t imagine why anyone would go to the trouble, but whole silly thing is archived here.

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