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For starters, Trump appears aware that he’s become a factor in the Canadian election, and that he may have contributed to the Liberal Party’s extraordinary rebound. He, and people close to him, have made statements showing some awareness of those dynamics.

Another reason? Carney is not Trudeau. Trump spoke with unique disdain for the former PM, something his former aide John Bolton said Trump also did in private.

Carney also surprised some Americans with his comments yesterday about the rupture in Canada-U.S. relations, getting lots of attention in Washington.

Washington-based Canada-U.S. trade consultant Eric Miller said it has begun to dawn on people here that there could be long-term damage to a close relationship, one that benefits the U.S.

“They [realize the] need to moderate their rhetoric and keep the relationship going in a historically positive direction,” Miller said.

And finally, Americans don’t want a fight with Canada. Poll after poll shows that tariffs on Canada are unpopular, as is the 51st-state talk.

Consumer sentiment is plunging and inflation fears are at a decades-long high, so Trump has some incentives to patch things up.

“Of course, it’s one statement, one call,” Miller added. “[Trump] changes just like the weather.”

Hey, y'all, I want to help us to be on guard for Canada, and I was thinking I should learn how to fly drones.

I have started looking at schools and at the Transport Canada website. I'd like to hear from those who know more about drone flight schools and fly drones themselves.

I've never flown one myself, even if I do find them rather cool. I'm too old and creaky (and too averse to hierarchy) to join the military, but I can make myself useful in other ways.

Should I get a small drone (below 250 g) and practice?

Are there virtual tools I could practice with? I wouldn't want to crash an expensive piece of gear while I'm learning to pilot it.

Please chime in with your advice.

For those unfamiliar, please see this post: https://lemmy.ca/post/40262691

In total we received 20 nominations for the English category, 5 for the French category, and 1 for the Inuk category. We will be submitting 3 songs, one from each category.

Voting will be open from now until March 30th, 11:59 PM Pacific Time.

You can rank up to 5 songs in each category:

• The top song you select will receive 5 points
• The second song will receive 4 points
• The third song will receive 3 points
• The fourth song will receive 2 points
• The fifth song will receive 1 point

It is possible to select less than 5 songs, but the remaining points will not be applied to anything.

Nominated Songs

Below you can find a list of all the songs nominated, along with links to listen to them.

You can listen to most of the songs with this playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzfFY_h7_GnZuMMcz4JlUDwmhiErYF47k

• It has all the songs, except for The Arrogant Worms - Canadian Famous, which is only available on the website link below
• Thank you to @hoserhobbes@lemmy.ca for putting it together 😊

See the end of this post for links to the voting form.

English:

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| | Palaye Royale | Dark Side of the Silver Spoon | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | fanclubwallet | Band Like That | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Seven Graylands | Robotic Cicada | song.link | YouTube | | | Liminal Shroud | Nocturnal Phosphorescence | song.link | YouTube | | | Dan Mangan | Call Me Up High | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | The Blue Stones | Come Apart | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Corb Lund | When the Game Gets Hot | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Chromeo | Words With You | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | The Arrogant Worms | Canadian Famous | website link | | | | Billie du Page | Fake Friends (english list) | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Eva Shaw, DijahSB | RVPTVRE | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Men I Trust | Husk | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God | Give in to you | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Akintoye | Raw | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Emma Alves | Bare Minimum | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Mustafa | Imaan | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Deer Fang | Low Tide | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | DYLYN | Change Me | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | PUP | Hallways | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Spiritbox | Deep End | song.link | YouTube | Spotify |

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| | P'tit Belliveau | Ring ring | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Billie du Page | Fake Friends (liste française) | song.link | YouTube | | | Dominique Fils-Aimé | Moi je t'aime | song.link | YouTube | Spotify | | Autre Part | Le monde à l’envers | song.link | YouTube | | | Mange la machine | Mange la machine | song.link | YouTube | |

Inuktitut

Since there was 1 nomination in the Inuk category, we will be submitting the song by Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ)!

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| | Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) | Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) | song.link | YouTube | Spotify |

Voting Form

The voting form website has instructions in both English and French. You only need to fill in the form once, and it will include songs from all categories. For convenience, you can find direct links below:

English: https://survey.fedecan.ca/lemmyvision-2025-en

Français: https://survey.fedecan.ca/lemmyvision-2025-fr

Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump for the first time this morning.

Carney’s office says the leaders agreed to begin “comprehensive negotiations” to be led by Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

In the meantime, Carney will get back on the campaign trail, his office says.

Carney has a news conference scheduled for 3:30 p.m. ET, after he meets with provincial and territorial leaders.

In a social media post, Trump said the two “agree on many things.”

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is still in B.C., where he pitched life sentences for fentanyl traffickers and gunrunners.-

Prof. Jason Stanley made decision after policy changes at Columbia University

A Yale University professor is leaving the U.S. and taking a position at the University of Toronto (U of T) due to what he says is a "far-right regime" under President Donald Trump.

"The United States is in the process of an autocratic takeover and it's directed by a regime that I don't think will want to leave power," said Jason Stanley, a professor of philosophy.

"Its not just Donald Trump. It's the machine behind Donald Trump."

Stanley, whose books include How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, said he was considering joining U of T's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy for over a year. But he decided to move after Columbia University made sweeping changes to its policies last week under pressure from the U.S. government.

Xatśūll First Nation asked B.C. to order an environmental assessment of the Gibraltar mine’s expansion plans. The provincial government declined

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Philosophy professor Jason Stanley announced this week that he will leave Yale, while history professors Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore, who are married, decided to leave around the November elections. The three professors will work at Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.

You should have your product available to us mere consumers...after all it's buy Canadian products

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Now signals of cuts across departments seem, if anything, inevitable. There are overt promises to trim back the public service to pay for income tax cuts as frontrunners Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre vie for voters' trust at a time of economic insecurity.

Nate Prier, the president of CAPE, argues that now is not the time for cuts, particularly for IRCC, pointing to geopolitical instability and the hardline immigration policies of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration. He questions whether Canada is ready to handle an influx of claimants after IRCC workers survive the wave of cuts to their teams and salaries.

“When America starts vomiting up its refugees, like it is right now, when they drive more wars to create more refugees, when we need to delink from the American economy, and we’re going to need skilled workers from around the world to help build the next chapter for Canada, that is a terrible time to start gutting the federal public sector, and especially people that you’ve already trained,” Prier said.

A 78-year-old woman in Quebec's Eastern Townships was found in "unlivable" conditions and sleeping on the floor after her ex-partner allegedly controlled her life for 27 years, according to police.

At the end of February, Memphrémagog police found the woman in her home, which belonged to her and her ex-partner in Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley municipality.

Police initially entered to assist Quebec's society for the protection of animals in the removal of 13 cats, which were described as sick and dehydrated.

Although the woman's ex had not lived in the home for 27 years, police say he exercised financial and psychological control over the victim — isolating her from the outside world.

"The investigation revealed that the suspect took control of pretty much all aspects of her life and wouldn't provide her with the tools she needs to have a decent life," said Pépin.

Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump for the first time this morning.

Carney’s office says the leaders agreed to begin “comprehensive negotiations” to be led by Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

In the meantime, Carney will get back on the campaign trail, his office says.

Carney has a news conference scheduled for 3:30 p.m. ET, after he meets with provincial and territorial leaders.

In a social media post, Trump said the two “agree on many things.”

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is still in B.C., where he pitched life sentences for fentanyl traffickers and gunrunners.-

The whole article is worth reading but I'd like to highlight a few paragraphs in particular:

For over two years, the Tory leader has travelled across the country, galvanizing voters around three devastating words: Canada is broken. In one video streamed on his Facebook page, Poilievre lined up with voters outside a passport office in Ottawa, making a show of solidarity to the people stuck waiting six hours just to drop off an application. In another, he stands near a homeless encampment in British Columbia, detailing the human suffering he’s witnessed.

For those of us old enough to remember Poilievre as the most vicious of Stephen Harper’s boys-in-short-pants, it was jarring to see him dominate the political discourse with such ease.

Because no matter how many million of dollars the Liberals spent on some version of “Yes, we’re bad but have you seen how fucking crazy this guy is?”, they had no answer to his message. The Canada we were promised — the one where you’ll get ahead if you just play by the rules and work hard — no longer exists.

Roughly half of Canadians report living from paycheque to paycheque, with that number jumping to 57 per cent for those aged 35 to 54, according to a Léger study published in October. Meanwhile, a generation of homebuyers has been priced out of the market and those who can afford a mortgage are being crushed under a mountain of debt.

Canada’s household debt to disposable income ratio is 180 per cent. That’s the highest of any G7 country. For every dollar Canadians earn, on average, they owe $1.80 in the form of mortgage payments, car loans and credit card fees. In the United States, by contrast, that ratio is 100 per cent.

Over 2 million Canadians turn to a food bank every month just to keep from going hungry. That’s a 90 per cent increase from 2019 numbers.

As rental prices across the country have nearly doubled in the past decade, homeless encampments are now a fixture of life in every major Canadian city. In some pilot programs, provincial governments have outsourced the lodging of homeless people to private condo developers.

Universal public healthcare, the crown jewel of this federation, is coming under attack in provinces across the country. Half of our healthcare system is funded by Ottawa, and the federal government has done little to discourage the provinces’ slide towards privatization.

I don’t think Poilievre will fix any of this but he sees it. And because he sees it, he can turn it into anger, political donations and to a victory on April 28.