- When the stock market is plummeting, as it has been for the last while, the bond market usually does well as investors rush to safety. Not this time, though; US government bonds have been taking a beating in the markets. Gold, on the other hand, is doing well, topping $3,000/oz t on Wednesday afternoon. Then when Trump announced that most of the tariffs he had imposed would be deferred for 90 days, it caused the stock market to spike. Some are speculating that this was engineered to allow insiders to profit, especially since he told his followers on Truth Social that it was a good time to invest mere hours before the tariff deferral.
- Pierre Poilievre returned to the old tactic of taking jabs at Mark Carney's haircut, which he called a "banker's haircut". Because that worked so well the last time the Cons tried that angle.
- A biologist studying wildlife in Colombia was killed and cut into pieces by person or persons unknown. I'm guessing he must have stumbled across something related to one of the cartels.
- A bodyguard for US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was arrested in Brussels, where his boss was attending a NATO conference, after allegedly becoming aggressive with hotel staff when they refused to reopen the bar after hours.
- Apparently a lot of people who voted for Trump are now getting some belated buyer's remorse as the tariffs threaten their livelihood. One response, from someone whose social media handle is redacted in the article, actually came out and said this:
I voted for Trump because I thought it would be funny to see liberals growl like dogs.
I wanted affordable groceries, but the tariffs are going to make everything worse and my life savings will be gone.
I can't afford to spend $100 on groceries. I didn't vote for this.
I can't say I feel too sorry for this person. Oh, so you only wanted to make other people suffer and are mad because you're suffering too? PFO.
- Dr. Jen Gunter, a Winnipeg-born physician who has worked in the US for 30 years, is moving back to Canada, unable to tolerate the degeneracy of American political culture any longer. She's not moving to Winnipeg though; she's moving to BC where her American husband will be able to tolerate the winters.
- Christopher Griffin, who has been serving as artist-in-residence at the University of Prince Edward Island's veterinary school, has quit his position after being told to remove one of his paintings. The work is a parody of Emanuel Leutze's "Washington Crossing the Delaware" depicting a boat full of lemmings carrying a faded American flag across the river.
- Robert Morris, a former pastor at a Texas megachurch who once served as a "spiritual adviser" to Donald Trump, has been indicted for the sexual abuse of a 12 year old girl. Because conservative Republicans are all about protecting the kids, right?
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