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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I dunno. Looks like that shrub is chugging that bag of chips (maybe it's related to that old tree in the Peanuts comics that keeps eating Charlie Brown's kites).

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Charlie Brown vs. The Kite-Eating Tree

ALT: Charlie Brown vs. The Kite-Eating Tree

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If AI was going to make a mistake like that, it should have posted Aomori cat ('nyan' for meow) and apple ('ringo' in Japanese) amalgam mascot Nyango Star instead! bsky.app/profile/luke...

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Point's clear but re the graphic showing the East Coast connection between Canada, SE Asia & India? That marine route has been disrupted since the Middle East conflict erupted in 2023 Q4, diverting much of that trade to the West Coast. US/Israel conflict with Iran has extended that disruption.

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So how is Mark Carney’s attempt to bolster Canada’s economic resilience playing out? I talked to some Canadians to find out! danieldrezner.substack.com/p/worthwhile...

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Worthwhile Canadian Initiative?

How Mark Carney’s bid for economic and strategic resilience is playing out.

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Often it's not a matter of common sense as it is thinking from a narrow perspective. It may make sense to yourself if you're thinking just about the personal convenience of driving. It's also common sense if you're someone who considers the impact to everyone else in your decisions.

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In music, as in politics, people have become so silo'ed that @alyankovic.bsky.social has mostly stopped doing new parody covers because "pop"ular music isn't as commonly shared anymore. His parodies relied on the general public being familiar enough with the original songs he was having fun with.

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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Trump, "We don't need Canada!" =======================

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Part of the brilliance of Harvest Moon is how everything about it transports you to Grandpa Grunge's back porch in the country including the slow slide of the broom keeping rhythm throughout the song.

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Science World has gone bald! It was only a week ago I saw it developed a bald spot. #Vancouver

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Unfortunately, there's this too. bsky.app/profile/dbcu...

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not just about the vote. Democracies rely on their institutions to keep the power of their leaders & government responsible & constrained. Failing to do so for such a corrupt & inept administration gives noone outside the US confidence this carnage will not happen again no matter who is President.

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And where have we heard that argument for the past several decades? www.newsherald.com/story/opinio...

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

How I found that out in a movie theatre over 35 years ago: Sally Albright: And it's not the same for men. Charlie Chaplin had babies when he was 73. Harry Burns: Yeah, but he was too old to pick them up.

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Forgot about one other key item that was removed from the US tariff list on Canada (priorities!). Why ban exports of energy or potash when this may get more reaction from Americans? bsky.app/profile/carl...

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

US response "More showmanship than escalation" largely because an almost equivalent value of goods like cement were removed from the tariff list at the same time. Trump & company is trying to provoke us but calm & measured is still the best course. #cdnpoli

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

These are very greedy people but as Drezner noted, they're also "so lazy that they keep self-sabotaging." Part of the self interest mantra allure is it's the easier & more personally rewarding route. It also has them relying on raw power rather than make an effort to come up with a viable strategy

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is the real contrast against US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent calling #Canada a yippy dog yesterday. That leadership wants to put down people to elevate their own status. Our leaders recognize Canadians want to help everyone rise above the challenges we are all facing. #cdnpoli

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

MORGAN FREEMAN recites Nelson Mandela’s favourite poem — ‘Invictus’ by William Ernest Henley — in 2010.

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I have my biases & the author shows some in this piece, but it's built around a great core theme using an African proverb that especially fits the party currently in charge of the US government: “When elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers.” #cdnecon #cdnpoli cnaps.org/u-s-canada-t...

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The U.S.–Canada tariff war – When the elites fight, we all pay: Jamie Tronnes | CNAPS.org

By Jamie Tronnes September 2, 2026 There’s an African proverb — “When elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers.” That is the case in the U.S.–Can ...

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The idea that America faced towering tariff walls abroad isn't supported by the numbers. Before the trade war, most of our trading partners already had tariffs near zero. Canada, Mexico, even China, averaged 2-4%. newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It's not the title of the song that hits. It's the "🎵 And another one's gone, and another one's gone 🎵" part that seems to better fit what's going on. (and how you could just repeat that line over and over in anticipation of more resignations).

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Absent current state of rel'ns, cooperation makes sense but each has to trust the other backs them, especially when following their lead. Pre Trump 2.0, Canada paid a heavy price twice. In 2017 when at US's request, arrested Huawei's CFO & 2024 when, like the US, we put 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs.

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Nicely structured analysis that explains how Carney's trade war strategy is a global call to arms that has shifted a prisoner's dilemma situation into a middle power stag hunt. #cdnecon #cdnpoli takujiokubo.substack.com/p/mark-carne...

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Mark Carney's Stag Hunt

Canada cannot win a trade war against the US solo, and Carney knows it. In this article, I explain the global trade war through a game theory lens, and show how Carney is aiming to win.

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Mona Paulsen @monapaulsen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Are we all too often ready to hurl criticisms when problems arises, but all too silent to praise when none do? Stability is hard fought and all too easily lost.

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Patrick Leblond (he/il) @prleblond.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The Trump administration’s worldview in a nutshell! This means there’s no point in going back to the negotiating table. The US will continue asking for more than Canada is willing to give. They will keep piling on the pressure until Carney folds because he won’t have a choice, they believe.

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I imagine the author @chadpbown.com would be happy to hear that. Fits considering the book he & @soumayakeynes.ft.com released a few months ago. bsky.app/profile/wall...

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Sabrina McDaniel 🌊💙 @sabrina-mcdaniel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

` 60+ Cherry Trees were cut down in DC to make way for a golf course for Trump. This act violated a court order. They did it anyway because the law doesn’t apply to this administration. These trees were gifted to the American people by Japan in 1912. More destruction by a criminal government.

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Deep dive into the Canadian forest product industry on which the US attack is just the latest in the last 40 plus years. #cdnpoli #cdnecon

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clnzjay 🌱 🐶 🇨🇦 @clnz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My favourite take on the Lake Ontario renaming nonsense is from @raskin.house.gov, who referred to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as the “Strait of Warm Ooze”! 😂

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Everything about this post in these absurd times fit the closing line that this may oddly be "truly a movie of its moment." #CoyoteVsAcme

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Good leaders are also measured by who they work for just as good economics can be based on how much everyone benefits. On that, the Lake and Gulf renaming accomplishes nothing other than one side's petty but still meaningless self-satisfaction. bsky.app/profile/wall...

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Focus on the core leadership difference in government. The White House treats everything as a conflict it will manipulate to win to satisfy its leaders. Our PM & team is working in everyone's best interest. It's why Canadians are much more united behind our leaders than the Americans. #cdnpoli

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Thanks for the feedback. Wasn't intending to link the AU situation to Canada's that closely (and I think neither did Dr. Bown) other than the similarity in our country's sizes and economies. Yes, gravity is a major force to consider either way for any middle power depending on location.

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

@kevinmilligan.bsky.social has posted several times about that whenever the subject comes up but here's a nice quick summary from over a year ago. bsky.app/profile/kevi...

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Appreciate your including a recap of what happened to Australia after it's auto industry closed in 2017 given the risk to Canada's in this conflict.

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Take note #Canada '(P)ower is a “coordination game,” in which everything depends on what the public believes & does together..' Stay #CanadaTogether & #CanadaStrong #cdnpoli #cdnecon

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Craig 🌎 🛩️ 💙🇨🇦 @bigdaddykreativ.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Canada's largest ice cream company used to source its fruits and nuts from U.S. suppliers — some for over 30 YEARS. Then, Trump imposed a 25% tariff on Canadian products. So, what did Chapman's do? They called Italy. They called Spain. They signed multi-year contracts with European suppliers.

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Thanks! The tariffs look fit for both objectives. Thoughts: Import substitution - requires more east-west supply chain support given our big country (e.g. recent new shipping subsidies to get Ontario steel to Western Canada) Trade diversification: West leans further to Asia while East to Europe.

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

“When a #war breaks out, people say: “It’s too stupid; it can’t last long.” But though the war may well be “too stupid,” that doesn’t prevent its lasting. #Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.” - #AlbertCamus

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Coyne: "We're already winning the PR war in the States..." (on retaliatory tariffs): "It's to show we cannot be coerced .. to show we're willing to endure the pain in this fight in a way that Americans really aren't. Nobody signed up for this in the US whereas everybody has ..in this country."

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I'm fine, thank you and not a combative person but mood: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaU0... (and thanks for your Toronto Star piece Saturday) www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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Be My Enemy (2004 Remaster)

YouTube video by The Waterboys - Topic

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Regarding the last sentence below in @stephenmarche.bsky.social's piece. #Canada's endurance fits for this battle with the White House, but this is also about trade. On that, it's our reliability & pursuit of mutually beneficial outcomes that matters to the rest of the world. #cdnpoli #cdnecon

While the prime minister’s approach is certainly new, it emerges from deep reservoirs of the Canadian spirit. For nearly a decade, I was a columnist at Esquire magazine. During that time, one of the greatest discrepancies I noticed between Canadians and Americans — and Canadian and American men in particular — was in their basic idea of what earned respect. For Americans, the capacity to project power, the ability to make things happen, to win, are the primary virtues. In Canada, the defining virtue is toughness, the capacity to endure.

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Wallace Oyama 🇨🇦 🍁 @wallylms.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It's also not about how much hurt you're inflicting. It's about if you're giving them more pain than they can bear than you can bear yourself. That & our response will be just the latest in a myriad of problems this White House still has to answer to the American people. bsky.app/profile/wall...

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