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This cartoon is an oldie but a goodie — hope you are also enjoying just kicking back and swatting those annoying mosquitos!
Brittlestar explains Canada Day to Americans:
I feel like Canada has survived a frightening year, and now we have to gear up for another one.
On his substack, pollster David Coletto reports on what Canadians are feeling this Canada Day:
… Today, 77% of Canadians say they are proud to be Canadian. That’s up from 68% a year ago and 65% two years ago.
I don’t think this means Canadians suddenly believe everything is going well.
The rest of our polling tells us exactly the opposite.
Confidence remains fragile. Affordability dominates people’s worries. Younger Canadians remain far less optimistic than older generations about their future. Many think it’s becoming harder and not easier to build a good life here.
So why is pride increasing?
I’ve been wondering whether uncertainty itself has reminded Canadians what they value.
When the world feels less predictable, you pay more attention to what you already have.
When politics elsewhere becomes more polarized, more chaotic, and more performative, Canada’s quieter strengths become easier to appreciate.
When questions about sovereignty, trade, and our relationship with the United States dominate the news, being Canadian becomes something people think about more consciously.
That’s exactly what I think this survey seems to capture.
When we asked Canadians what makes them proud, the answers weren’t surprising: our natural beauty, our peaceful society, universal healthcare, and our reputation for tolerance and inclusion all ranked near the top. Increasingly, people also pointed to Canada’s ability to stand apart from the United States and defend its own interests.
What struck me most wasn’t the pride itself. It was who is feeling it.
The biggest increases came from younger and middle-aged Canadians.
These are the same Canadians who tell us they’re struggling the most with affordability and opportunity.
That tells me pride and optimism aren’t the same thing.
You can worry about the future while still loving your country.
You can believe Canada needs to do better because you believe it can.
As Canada Day approaches, I find that reassuring….
Here’s some more interesting posts relating to Canada Day:
Today we got another great Forward Guidance video from PM Carney. This one is about developing energy – he addresses Canadian unity and environmentalism too.
Every time Carney speaks, I get smarter:
(except for those drapes!)
And I hadn’t realized that our national parks had a monument paying tribute to Canadian veterans – very cool.
Here’s one from Riding Mountain in Manitoba:
In his substack, Paul Wells writes:
…Here’s where Carney’s argument gets tricky, if not potentially Sorcerer’s-Apprentice-y. He’s still all for the “energy transition,” the term for the shift from a high-carbon economy to a low-carbon economy. Canada can “thrive in both eras,” he insists. But Justin Trudeau thought the advent of low-carbon could drive the disappearance of high-carbon: that the more wind and solar we had, the less oil and gas we’d need. Carney wants them to overlap — to make more of both kinds of energy, on the way to an Adam Beck future. And if a central Liberal shibboleth of the last decade has to be sacrificed, he’s just the man to do it.
“We can’t afford to restrain the growth of an important part of our energy mix, oil and gas, to meet a short-term goal,” he says.
“I want to be clear on this point. The changes we have made will mean that our emissions will be higher in the next few years than they were projected to be under the previous government’s plan. But in my judgment, that plan was not sustainable over the long term. It would have been too expensive for Canadians…. It would have let down our partners…. And it would have been too divisive for our country.” Care to lay it on even thicker, big guy? You bet: in a world of Trump II, a belligerent Russia and a half-blocked Strait of Hormuz, a policy of driving carbon prices up and driving carbon exports down would have been “an open opportunity for those people who wish to pull Canada apart, both at home and from abroad.”
…Any prime minister needs some kind of energy policy, and as Justin Trudeau used to say, “No country would find 173 billion barrels of oil in the ground and just leave them there.” Indeed, while Trudeau was prime minister, Canada didn’t. As Carney said in today’s video: “Canada is producing far more oil than we ever have. In fact, only two countries have increased oil production more than we have this century: the United States and Russia.”
The elements of Carney’s message are real. There’s going to be an energy transition no matter who’s in charge. And smart people often say they’d rather have Canadian oil and gas than almost anyone’s. But navigating those two currents will take immense skill and even more luck. There was once another prime minister who wanted to combine two potent forces, Quebec nationalism and western regionalism, to repair the errors of an earlier Trudeau. His name was Mulroney, and I bet he’d be fascinated to watch this year’s politics play out.
So July 1 is also the deadline for something something with the CUSMA.
Meh!
Remember a year ago, when Carney was asked if he was talking to Trump and he replied “who cares?” Well, all of Canada echoes that now.
World Cup Stories
Other than the games themselves, I didn’t see much relating to the World Cup today. Except that Cristiano Ronoldo will be playing in Toronto on Thursday when Portugal meets Croatia.
Today’s Pride Update
It was terribly disheartening to see that awful SCOTUS decision allowing politically-motivated genital inspections to frighten children away from playing sports (yeah, I know that’s not exactly what it said, but that’s what it will mean) instead of each sport making its own determinations on how to maintain gender fairness.
if you don’t think some asshole softball dad will humiliate a cisgender girl for hitting an oppo bomb off their daughter by challenging their gender you have never met a youth sports parent in your life.
— not an art thief (@famousartthief.bsky.social) June 30, 2026 at 11:24 AM
But here’s one piece of good news today:
“Some have asked if this means a transgender woman can join DAR or if this means that DAR chapters have previously welcomed transgender women. The answer to both questions is, yes.”
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— MisterJayEm (@misterjayem.bsky.social) June 29, 2026 at 6:50 PM
I am texting with my chapter head right now and APPARENTLY the delegates had to hold the floor for TWELVE HOURS without a PEE BREAK to keep the TERFs—who showed up WEARING DEPENDS—from pulling a sneak vote
Y’ALL
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— 🌈Dr. Frizzle (@swilua.bsky.social) June 30, 2026 at 4:43 PM
