Lives lost to opioids and stimulants have fallen for a sixth consecutive quarter up to June 30 Drug deaths are now down 44% from the crisis peak Still, nearly 2,000 died between April 1 and June 30, about 22 people a day https://t.co/XsIs1laufM

Isn’t Crown Royal a Canadian product distilled by Manitoba workers using ingredients grown by Manitoba and Saskatchewan farmers?

From Trump’s new National Security Strategy. For racist reasons he thinks NATO will soon have outlived its purpose and believes Europe should pay for its own defence. So maybe an attack on Greenland is duel-purpose: to break up NATO and seize a strategic access point to Europe

Once again, Ford took something that wasn't broken and broke it.

More astonishing public comments from the Danish PM on Greenland. “I believe one should take the American president seriously when he says that he wants Greenland. But I will also make it clear that if the US chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything

How can Chrystia Freeland be an advisor to a foreign country while serving in Canada’s parliament and acting as our envoy to that country? Did she even check with the conflicts commissioner? She is now also the CEO of a British organization How many paycheques does she need?

Thirty-two Cubans, likely part of the Venezuelan president’s security staff, were killed by Trump military forces in his abduction of Maduro

But Ford says he’ll keep spending your money on his high-paid lawyers in another legal appeal

December polls show Liberals and Conservatives down with smaller parties rising. But there was no election, was there? So are their notional gains actually bankable? https://t.co/zKKGJSbzSY

All the natural resources of the Americas belong to the United States — this is now the official, documented doctrine of Donald Trump’s thug government Justifying Trump’s doctrine of pillage anywhere is emboldening his attack on resources, jobs and wealth here in Canada

Yet not Canada, also in NATO and an immediate neighbour to Greenland

Happy New Year indeed Hard-hitting video from Rob that tags Avi as a risk to fragile party unity and therefore helpful to Ford, Moe and Smith while, by omitting Heather, suggests it’s now a two-candidate leadership race Curious to watch this duel play out

MAGA is saying it out loud. They want to annex Alberta for oil, natural gas, minerals and water as well as better access to the arctic. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Globe editorial links attacks on Venezuela to those on Canada through Trump’s Monroe Doctrine revival I could quibble with some points, but they’re details, not the main thrust: we must defend Canada and reduce Trump’s leverage over us

Trump says he’s running the country and seizing its oil fields But in this report, defence and interior ministers and new leader Delcy Rodriguez make strongly anti-Trump statements Trump’s statements appear to be completely false

They abducted Maduro, but left the rest of his government in place with Maduro’s VP now as president, apparently believing the opposition could not control the military Yet Trump claims he will run the country and seize its oil fields More to come…

Delay logs for 6 Finch West show that by far the majority of problems lie with vehicles and infrastructure that are Metrolinx' responsibility, not the TTC's.

What it means for Venezuelans, who own the resource, is not discussed in this republished CNN report Will the Venezuelan people have any say while state-owned oil explorer, producer, refiner PDVSA gets carved up by Trump?

18 hours later PM Carney summons the courage to say his Liberals “welcome the opportunity” of Donald Trump’s unilateral and illegal military action

Carneyization