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Hey, lots of news since Saturday!
Gordie Howe Bridge update
CTV reports:
Prime Minister Mark Carney is defending the deal brokered between Canada and the United States to open the delayed Gordie Howe International Bridge and insists the profits split with the Americans will be minimal.
“The word ‘net’ does a lot of work in this. We are sharing after Canada is paid back,” Carney said in an interview with CTV Calgary’s Tara Nelson at the Calgary Stampede on Sunday when asked about the agreement.
“We get the revenues. Then the servicing of the costs of the bridge and paying the debt of the bridge, and then what’s left over, there’s a split of that for 15 years,” he said.
“There’s not going to be a lot of net to split,” the prime minister later added.
According to a senior government source, Canada will get 50 per cent of the bridge’s toll profits in the first 15 years, with the other 50 per cent going into an economic development fund.
The source also tells CTV News that the U.S. will need to agree if Canada wants to increase bridge tolls by more than 10 per cent or lower them below compared regional averages….
I suspect the idea behind the bridge toll “regional average” agreement is to protect the Maroun family so the new bridge won’t be allowed to charge less than they are already charging for their Ambassador Bridge.
“They’re eating the manufacturers!” KPMG report
Canada is panicking about that new KPMG report saying our country is going to lose 4 in 10 manufacturers to the United States.
Cheering the Maple Leaf
in Calgary
The way the crowd cheered when the maple leaf showed up 🍁
From the drone show at the Calgary Stampede tonight.#Calgary #CalgaryStampede #Canada pic.twitter.com/2hAua6IQx7
— cm (@cmcalgary) July 12, 2026
in Paris
Praise for PM Carney
From academic Way Yuhl at Cultural Perspective
From Edmonton technology entrepreneur Chris LaBossiere
Ukraine War update
Finally, just way too much Trump news today
it is so simple to take apart his bugfuck insane rants and outright lies and yet people still want to humor him instead of calling him out i just don’t fuckin get it
— darth™️ (@darthbluesky.bsky.social) July 13, 2026 at 10:06 PM
– Trump has lost his mind about losing 2020
Here’s some background – these are excerpts from a longer thread, but again, its well worth reading them all:
– Trump’s greed and corruption are epic
I just don’t get it
This nepo baby who has never done a selfless act in his entire miserable pathetic life, is amassing as much money as he can w both hands using the considerable powers of the presidency before he’s dead, because…
…why?
He’ll forever be the most hated piece of shit on the planet
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— Pat Bagley (@bagleycartoons.bsky.social) July 13, 2026 at 8:48 PM
– Can we call the Iran War “Trump’s Quagmire” now?
Because he has no idea how to get out.
I guess they’ll just never quite say “Trump demonstrates yet again that he’s an untrustworthy person who got himself into this mess and has no idea how to get out of it”, but this is refreshingly almost direct language from Peter Baker.
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— Jacob Wolman (@wolmania.com) July 13, 2026 at 6:17 PM
the phantom tollbooth
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— Philip Gourevitch (@pgourevitch.bsky.social) July 13, 2026 at 9:21 PM
– Trump’s ICE Gestapo keep killing people
Another one in Maine today. And last week in Houston.
The reason why ICE agents continue to shoot people is because nothing ever happens to them when they do. They essentially have been granted full immunity for whatever they choose to do to people by a lawless regime of thugs.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) July 13, 2026 at 6:02 PM
These are just the ones we know about. What goes on in their “detention centre concentration camps” is unknown, as is the fate of the thousands already flown in chains to despotic countries in Africa and South America.
Ana Navarro: Let’s remember that lCE has kiIIed before, just kiIIed again today. A lot of times has lied about it, has explained it in a way that does not fit the video that we see and, testimony from people on the ground. Over 52 people have died in lCE custody.
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— Vince D. Monroy (@vincedmonroy.bsky.social) July 13, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Yeah…sure
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
Whistleblowers inside ICE have informed that internal memos have been sent out from ERO FODs (Field Office
Directors) ordering ICE to cease making vehicle stops until further notice. “No more vehicle stops, effective immediately.”— Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) July 13, 2026 at 7:13 PM
– Trump wants to get rid of the ICC
I guess Trump is expecting to be charged in the International Criminal Court someday. As I recall, at one point George Bush was afraid of that too.
– Trump’s clumsy corruption attempts keep getting thrown out of court
And you know someday this will go to SCOTUS and they will vote 7-2 against him
NEW: Federal judge bench slaps Trump, his fail-sons, & their lawyers for their collusive lawsuit against the IRS & the Treasury Dept.
The lawsuit was fraud against the court, there’s no “settlement”, & the judge refers the lawyers, incl. Todd Blanche, for discipline.
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— Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) July 13, 2026 at 4:09 PM
On a side note, here is Mitch McConnell’s most recent Proof of Life…
World Cup stories
Welcoming Norway home
And in other sports stories today
Gaby Dabrowski played well but didn’t win the Wimbledon Ladies Doubles championship. Here is a great interview with CBC on Gaby’s tournament and her discussion with the Princess of Wales on cancer recovery.
Some good news here:
