Actual Canadian news and tips on how to be Canadian, plus other funny stuff, Carney Hat Tricks, TrumpWatch and Animal Crackers

First, some Canadian Actual News from Brittlestar:

Next, did you know that the Canadian citizenship rules have now changed, so that people whose grandparent was Canadian can apply for Canadian citizenship now?
We’re getting lots of interest too:

Plus I’m reading about hundreds of health care workers now moving to Canada.

I think that’s great — welcome to all, and hey, I found some good tips on becoming more Canadian:

Canadian Insults #1

Canadian Insults #2

Canadian Insults #3

Some other Canadian funny stuff:

Did you know that Nunavut is the world’s largest electoral district?

Moving on to other funny stuff:

Trump got confused – go figure! – and referred to Gavin Newsom as “president of the United States” – so Newsom immediately issued a post:

I think Newsom could do worse than to run on these promises — Trump has demonstrated quite conclusively that no candidate needs to worry anymore about whether election promises are reasonable or achievable, just whether they’re popular.

Someone in the Trump administration really should read up on how to do a war:

This was driven home for me when I also realised that Sun Tzu was basically writing ancient Chinese listicles for people with poor attention spans. “The Six Types of Terrain”, “Five Factors for Victory.” “The Seven Considerations—#4 Will Shock You!”

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— Rose Judson (@rosejudson.bsky.social) March 16, 2026 at 1:05 PM

Somebody announced that “The Rapture” is March 22 and people on Threads are having too much fun with it:

A great thread about Calvin and Hobbes:

The Lego Titanic problem:

How skydiving is really filmed:

This is actually a buoy named Sue!

Mile 420 is no more:

Its all in how you look at it

This is inspirational:

Music hath charms:

youtube.com/watch?v=tUUS… #YoYoMa will heal your soul. #music😇

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— GhostWarrior ⚔️🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦🇺🇦 (@ghostwarrior.bsky.social) March 18, 2026 at 7:35 PM

Getting Old(er)

Human beings were not meant to have 26 passwords and a two-factor authentication for their electricity. I want to live in a hut and pay my taxes by leaving a basket of turnips outside the king’s house once a year. When you force a person to reset their password for the 10th time they begin to understand why ancient civilizations just burned things down

– Kelly Courtez

Read on Substack

Carney Hat Trick – funny posts about our PM

TrumpWatch – posts about the world’s most anticipated event

And yes, I sure found lots of TrumpWatch this week!

Three act play

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— Matt Grote (@dogthatbecameaguy.bsky.social) March 18, 2026 at 10:59 AM

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

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— WeRateDogs (@weratedogs.com) March 20, 2026 at 8:34 AM

Ingo the Belgian Malinois and his buddy, rescue owl Gandalf.

by photographer Tanja Brandt

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— Luca (@lucagalletti.bsky.social) March 19, 2026 at 8:23 PM

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