Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump for the first time this morning.
Carney’s office says the leaders agreed to begin “comprehensive negotiations” to be led by Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
In the meantime, Carney will get back on the campaign trail, his office says.
Carney has a news conference scheduled for 3:30 p.m. ET, after he meets with provincial and territorial leaders.
In a social media post, Trump said the two “agree on many things.”
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is still in B.C., where he pitched life sentences for fentanyl traffickers and gunrunners.-
A friendly reminder for my neighbours up north: it’s not just the people down here who are bombarded by misinformation and conservatism. A friend linked me to a video equivalent of this news, and the comments were a complete cesspool:
I wish I could say that I cherry-picked a small sample of the comments, but that was 70% of them at the time screenshot. For the sake of all that is democracy, please keep doing your best to educate fellow voters. Don’t let Trump get the politician he wants.
We know Cons have paid troll farms. And are being supported by India China and Russia who brought their own cheap troll farms.
Best of luck to you, friend. I’m hoping you guys will succeed at not succumbing to their disinformation like we did.
That’s pretty much the exact same propaganda that’s been getting fomented for the past two years already. There’s a certain percentage of Canada that’s deep in this pipeline which starts with “shared” commiseration. And there’s a much larger percentage that was casually and uncritically going with the flow until all the events of this year prompted them to wake the fuck up.
Before, you could look at the comment section of any news video on YouTube and see thousands of comments from amateur pundits regurgitating in poetic detail how the world was ending – and pity the poor soul who dare push back even a little. Yanking the focal point of their blame-seeking made them falter. Then, mid-stumble, the sudden prospect of real hardship powerfully re-contextualized their exaggerated woes.
Now, the same news channels still have endless right-wing talking points in the comments. But the messaging is shorter with less substance, and it’s getting challenged more with weaker response to the challenges. On top of that, the percentage of participating accounts that are a few months old or less is substantially higher. I believe what’s happening is long-running destabilization ops are, if anything, redoubling their efforts. It isn’t enough to replace the decimated magnification by useful idiots.
I’ve paid considerably less attention to comment sections of mainstream news sites, but at first blush the pattern there seems less pronounced but similar, if there’s enough volume to even sample.
I don’t have the capacity to do large-scale traffic analysis across many platforms and communities, so this is pretty much all loose anecdotal evidence. Since social friction still naturally pushes the majority of people to wherever their views are shared, not even flipping a quarter of the nation’s views is enough to visibly collapse or transform the nature of individual internet silos. They are, after all, still shaped by the loudest and generally stupidest voices that often aren’t even human let alone authentic.
TLDR: What RandAlThor said so much more succinctly. 😏
This is why we can’t give boomers and kids full access to the internet. They see this shit, and even though a good chunk are likely Russian bots, they adopt it as reality and bring it into the real world.
it’s well established that Russian bots run /drive most of the content on r/Canada on reddit.