Claire Trottier 🇨🇦
@doctrott.bsky.social
🗒️Chair of Euphrosine Foundation, chair of @patmillscanada.bsky.social , co-founder of @wecobien.bsky.social, Board of Trottier Family Foundation
📚 Co-owner of @joiedelivresmtl.bsky.social
📢 Views are my own
📚 Co-owner of @joiedelivresmtl.bsky.social
📢 Views are my own
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Trump’s love of ‘broligarchs’ is seeping into Canada. Do our leaders have the courage to take on the ultra-rich?
Delay in capital gains tax reform is a capitulation to the wealthy, writes Claire Trottier. Do we really want to live in a country where the monied get preferential treatment
www.thestar.com
My oped in @thestar.com today:
Do we want a Canada where tech billionaires sell out their country for a tax break, or one where our government fights back against the oligarchy with creative ideas to tax extreme wealth?
www.thestar.com/business/opi...
Do we want a Canada where tech billionaires sell out their country for a tax break, or one where our government fights back against the oligarchy with creative ideas to tax extreme wealth?
www.thestar.com/business/opi...
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we’ve been over this
we just did this in Massachusetts
they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving
we just did this in Massachusetts
they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving
Billionaires are considering cutting or reducing their ties to California by the end of the year because of a proposed ballot measure that could tax the state’s wealthiest residents.
A Wealth Tax Floated in California Has Billionaires Thinking of Leaving
It’s uncertain whether the proposal will reach the statewide ballot in November, but some billionaires like Peter Thiel and Larry Page may be unwilling to take the risk.
nyti.ms
December 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
we’ve been over this
we just did this in Massachusetts
they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving
we just did this in Massachusetts
they’re not gonna leave, they’ll whine and bitch and moan and eventually this will raise more money than expected because nowhere they go is actually like the place they’re leaving
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So after finishing Heated Rivalry last night it’s clear we need a full resurgence of actually soft romantic films and tv shows with people who can actually act. The whole cast was great but Connor and Hudson just did an excellent job.
December 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
So after finishing Heated Rivalry last night it’s clear we need a full resurgence of actually soft romantic films and tv shows with people who can actually act. The whole cast was great but Connor and Hudson just did an excellent job.
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I'm so appreciative that Jacob Tierney took the time to chat with me a few days before the #HeatedRivalry finale about finding the right cottage, those new end credits, his broad ideas for Season 2, and more:
'Heated Rivalry' Creator Reveals the Finale's Biggest Changes From the Book and the Status of Season 2
Heated Rivalry creator Jacob Tierney discusses the finale's biggest changes from the book, those new end credits, the status of Season 2, and more.
collider.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:28 AM
I'm so appreciative that Jacob Tierney took the time to chat with me a few days before the #HeatedRivalry finale about finding the right cottage, those new end credits, his broad ideas for Season 2, and more:
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The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts | CNN
Actor Michael Sheen has bought $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts and written them off using $129,000 of his own money.
www.cnn.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
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If I could time-travel I would not go back in time to see dinosaurs or kill Hitler, I would go back in time to watch Heated Rivalry episode 5 at this bar
December 21, 2025 at 5:13 AM
If I could time-travel I would not go back in time to see dinosaurs or kill Hitler, I would go back in time to watch Heated Rivalry episode 5 at this bar
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Canadian economy rallies as #1 export now Heated Rivalry
Canadian economy rallies as #1 export now Heated Rivalry
OTTAWA - Canada's economy, which has spent the year reeling due to American tariffs, is finishing the year strong thanks to the country's new chief export, the gay hockey-romance drama Heated Rivalry.
www.thebeaverton.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Canadian economy rallies as #1 export now Heated Rivalry
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I honestly feel
Bad for people
That don’t read romance. They have no idea that they could feel this way ALL THE TIME.
Bad for people
That don’t read romance. They have no idea that they could feel this way ALL THE TIME.
December 19, 2025 at 5:58 AM
I honestly feel
Bad for people
That don’t read romance. They have no idea that they could feel this way ALL THE TIME.
Bad for people
That don’t read romance. They have no idea that they could feel this way ALL THE TIME.
MITT ROMNEY is arguing in favour of taxing the rich.
December 20, 2025 at 1:12 AM
MITT ROMNEY is arguing in favour of taxing the rich.
I am quoted in the New York Times today talking about Heated Rivalry, my favourite that has been adapted into a smash hit TV show. It’s within a glowing profile of @rachelreidwrites.bsky.social , who deserves all the flowers
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/b...
She Put the Heat in ‘Heated Rivalry’
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I am quoted in the New York Times today talking about Heated Rivalry, my favourite that has been adapted into a smash hit TV show. It’s within a glowing profile of @rachelreidwrites.bsky.social , who deserves all the flowers
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/b...
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With a backroom deal, Carney has bulldozed Canada’s remaining #climate policies and ignited a firestorm among #Indigenous communities across the country.
It is a betrayal, for which future generations will pay.
@richardbrooks.bsky.social at @stand.earth:
ricochet.media/climate/the-...
#Alberta
It is a betrayal, for which future generations will pay.
@richardbrooks.bsky.social at @stand.earth:
ricochet.media/climate/the-...
#Alberta
The Carney-Smith ‘grand bargain’ is a fire sale of our future
The former UN climate envoy is trading Indigenous rights and Canada’s climate legacy for a financially toxic tar sands pipeline deal with Alberta
ricochet.media
December 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
With a backroom deal, Carney has bulldozed Canada’s remaining #climate policies and ignited a firestorm among #Indigenous communities across the country.
It is a betrayal, for which future generations will pay.
@richardbrooks.bsky.social at @stand.earth:
ricochet.media/climate/the-...
#Alberta
It is a betrayal, for which future generations will pay.
@richardbrooks.bsky.social at @stand.earth:
ricochet.media/climate/the-...
#Alberta
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Another good reason for Mark Carney to open up the market to affordable European and Chinese electric vehicles. The United States is going backward and Canada does not have to follow its lead.
Ford to take $19.5bn hit as US carmaker overhauls EV strategy
Group scraps plans for flagship all-electric pick-up truck on Trump regulatory changes and tepid demand
www.ft.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Another good reason for Mark Carney to open up the market to affordable European and Chinese electric vehicles. The United States is going backward and Canada does not have to follow its lead.
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
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What a world to go to bed thinking about one mass shooting and wake up to news of another, a targeted hate crime, at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. And also in the video where an actual hero, Ahmed al Ahmed chooses not to kill one of the terrorists.
December 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
What a world to go to bed thinking about one mass shooting and wake up to news of another, a targeted hate crime, at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney. And also in the video where an actual hero, Ahmed al Ahmed chooses not to kill one of the terrorists.
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Ever wonder how some billionaires can get away with paying such low tax rates compared to working class Americans? Here’s their secret playbook and what we can do about it.
December 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Ever wonder how some billionaires can get away with paying such low tax rates compared to working class Americans? Here’s their secret playbook and what we can do about it.
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Chronique | Nooran, bien sûr, aurait pu être mon fils: ✱ Ça pourrait très bien arriver à mes ados aussi.
Chronique | Nooran, bien sûr, aurait pu être mon fils
✱ Ça pourrait très bien arriver à mes ados aussi.
www.ledevoir.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Chronique | Nooran, bien sûr, aurait pu être mon fils: ✱ Ça pourrait très bien arriver à mes ados aussi.
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Look: it’s all anyone’s talking about, it’s certainly all I’m thinking about, so now is as good a time as any to remind everyone that I wrote about Heated Rivalry over 5 years ago (!) on my blog:
closereadingromance.com/2020/04/17/f...
closereadingromance.com/2020/04/17/f...
Friday Feature: Favorite Words I Read this Week
Photo by Chris Liverani on Unsplash These last few weeks, I have done a lot of re-reading. It’s familiar and comforting, and has managed to kickstart my reading mojo a bit, to the point where…
closereadingromance.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Look: it’s all anyone’s talking about, it’s certainly all I’m thinking about, so now is as good a time as any to remind everyone that I wrote about Heated Rivalry over 5 years ago (!) on my blog:
closereadingromance.com/2020/04/17/f...
closereadingromance.com/2020/04/17/f...
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The coming years are going to reveal a lot more waste on 'AI' like this by our governments, to the tune of 10s of billions squandered on appalling nonsense, all to make rich Tech Bros richer.
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) paid $18 million for a chatbot named Charlie, which the auditor general reported gave her team the wrong answer 66% of the time.
The chatbot's responses were found to be brief and lacking context, with only 2 out of 6 questions answered accurately.
The chatbot's responses were found to be brief and lacking context, with only 2 out of 6 questions answered accurately.
The CRA spent $18M on 'Charlie,' a new tax information chatbot that is wrong most of the time
The Canada Revenue Agency paid $18 million for a chatbot the auditor general says give her team the wrong answer 66 per cent of the time.
nationalpost.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The coming years are going to reveal a lot more waste on 'AI' like this by our governments, to the tune of 10s of billions squandered on appalling nonsense, all to make rich Tech Bros richer.
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Gabriel Zucman, the “Billionaire Buster,” is honoured as one of Europe’s 28 most powerful political figures shaping 2026!
We’re happy to see our work recognised! 👏 #POLITICO28
We’re happy to see our work recognised! 👏 #POLITICO28
A minimum tax on the EU's richest individuals will not discourage innovators and start-up founders from investing in the bloc, prominent economist Gabriel Zucman argued at our #POLITICO28 Gala.
Billionaire tax won’t stop innovation in EU, insists economist Zucman
Critics of his controversial tax proposal warn about the risk of scaring off investors.
www.politico.eu
December 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Gabriel Zucman, the “Billionaire Buster,” is honoured as one of Europe’s 28 most powerful political figures shaping 2026!
We’re happy to see our work recognised! 👏 #POLITICO28
We’re happy to see our work recognised! 👏 #POLITICO28
Tax the rich
December 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Tax the rich
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NEW: It’s not just readers that suffer due to Harlequin’s mismanagement of the' Heated Rivalry' books. Reid misses out on royalties, & booksellers miss out on commissions—which is especially painful during the holiday season when many small businesses make the bulk of their money.
was ‘heated rivalry’ failed by its publisher?
everyone's devouring the new TV series, so why can't people buy a copy of the book the show is based on?
www.thefrankiedlc.news
December 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
NEW: It’s not just readers that suffer due to Harlequin’s mismanagement of the' Heated Rivalry' books. Reid misses out on royalties, & booksellers miss out on commissions—which is especially painful during the holiday season when many small businesses make the bulk of their money.
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Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
December 10, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
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Human rights groups are sounding the alarm on Bill C-12, the government's border and immigration bill - calling it straight out of the Trump playbook
"Canada should not be violating migrants’ rights, especially those of women and children”
"Canada should not be violating migrants’ rights, especially those of women and children”
(1/2) Today I joined MP Jenny Kwan and representatives of Fédération des femmes du Québec, Amnesty International, Centre des travailleurs et travailleuses immigrants, Action Réfugiés Montréal, and the Canadian Council for Refugees, telling the government we refuse
December 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Human rights groups are sounding the alarm on Bill C-12, the government's border and immigration bill - calling it straight out of the Trump playbook
"Canada should not be violating migrants’ rights, especially those of women and children”
"Canada should not be violating migrants’ rights, especially those of women and children”
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Very cool job opportunity, with the very cool @hscoffield.bsky.social at the newly formed Canadian Tax Observatory.
canadiantaxobservatory.ca/now-hiring-s...
canadiantaxobservatory.ca/now-hiring-s...
December 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Very cool job opportunity, with the very cool @hscoffield.bsky.social at the newly formed Canadian Tax Observatory.
canadiantaxobservatory.ca/now-hiring-s...
canadiantaxobservatory.ca/now-hiring-s...
Tax the rich
About 56,000 people control three times as much wealth as HALF OF HUMANITY. Barely enough to fill an average night of the Eras tour. Nothing to see here!
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
‘The 0.001%’: a quick visual breakdown of the world’s wealthiest people
About 56,000 people control three times as much wealth as half of humanity. Here’s one way to illustrate that
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Tax the rich
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Rachel Gilmore on the anti-DEI movement: "I think that to attack these notions is a dog whistle to the worst elements of society that are seeing a slide towards a more fascistic world. And every politician who engages in that should be ashamed of themselves."
December 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Rachel Gilmore on the anti-DEI movement: "I think that to attack these notions is a dog whistle to the worst elements of society that are seeing a slide towards a more fascistic world. And every politician who engages in that should be ashamed of themselves."