i think the puerto ricans would have something to say about canada being the 51st state.

that's twice, donald.

you got one more strike, and you don't want to know what happens when you strike out on puerto rico.

it would be terrible for canada, and the best thing that could happen to the united states, as the republicans would never get those electoral votes, ever.

the liberals should not pick a female right now and especially not a young one. maybe later.

the best way to deal with donald trump is to send an older white male down there, like a ralph goodale or a marc garneau. unfortunately, the liberal party has purged itself of older white people recently, in the dumbest destruction of talent this side of the russian revolution.

trump will not like polievre either. 

the liberals actually have a chance to one up the opposition by putting an older person in power, but i don't expect that they will.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/5-things-we-learned-about-melanie-joly-in-nyt-profile-that-declares-her-top-contender-to-replace-trudeau

in order to meet our nato funding requirements and chase off the mob tactics that come in the protection racket we're stuck in, we should spend the money on nato flak jackets for the polar bears and train them to attack russians on command.

the russians may laugh at us.

"you think russia don't know bear? aaaaahahahaha."

but it's the best possible defense. truly.

now, if we can teach the polar bears taekwondo on top of it, putin would be completely fucked.

we'd have to fly in some grizzlies and black and brown bears to meet diversity requirements and stop the polar bears from becoming a nazi paramilitary, which is what is going to happen with climate change anyways, they'll all back-cross to whence they came, and we'll have a race of hybrid bears ready to bite.

as the bears move in to russia, they'll need to capture the young russian bears to train them, in a janissery-like tactic, to turn the russian bear against itself.

canada doesn't have a migrant issue because swimming across the arctic ocean is too hard. you've got the cold, the polar bears - it might be a fun adventure if disneyfied, but for most it's way too hard when you could just get to brazil first, or if you're already in latin america to start (as most are).

however, what canada does have is a lax visa issue. it is too easy to legally enter canada, so that the actual bad guys that have a few brains tend to use it is a backdoor.

we consequently don't have caravans of desperate people looking to eat, but we do have terrorists and other criminals using canada as a way to sneak in. that's not what trump said, and there's little evidence he even really cares (he seems to actually legitimately want the tariffs. this isn't a bluff. he just wants tariffs because he thinks they'll bring back jobs and this is how he bypasses congress to do it.), but we need to do this for ourselves, anyways.

canada is currently changing it's policy on immigration due to realizing we're dealing with the effects of overpopulation in the cities. some kind of policy to incentivize people to settle in smaller towns should be tried to try to get people to spread out more. we also need to realize that we let a lot of bad people in because we're not checking because we think it's racist and we need to re-evaluate that position. it's not racist to ask if a person's religious views may lead them to uncanadian beliefs or activities that may pose a threat to the people around them.

https://san.com/cc/suspected-terrorist-arrested-by-federal-agents-at-northern-us-border/

looks pretty similar to last year, if you ask me; statistically, within the margin of error.

where i am, in windsor, you never see freezing overnight lows in february and rarely see them beyond the first week of january. we get a week, at most, of what canadians would call winter, right during the last week of december.

we skipped it last year and it's looking like we're going to skip it this year, too.

the shift in energy northwards means that if you're north of sudbury, or even north of barrie, i'd get a shovel, but you probably already have one.

i'm also putting down a warning for ottawa: you may not get to skate again at all this year, and this spring is going to be brutal. get your sandbags down now.

https://weather.com/en-CA/weather/tenday/l/Windsor+Ontario?canonicalCityId=76c141061d15e7f8d2c987004795c229983119d19f53c3ee179e9983c2afbffa