Shannon Gormley
@shannongormley.bsky.social
Journalist, dingo-attendant.
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So apparently this is fine but Canadian governments using advertising to share views with Americans about trade is completely inappropriate.
Got it.
Got it.
November 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
So apparently this is fine but Canadian governments using advertising to share views with Americans about trade is completely inappropriate.
Got it.
Got it.
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Attn: Toronto/GTA folks - please share. 🐶
This adorable retriever mix — this brave, good-natured glutton for love — entered our lives on the streets of Tbilisi, Georgia. We found him half dead from a broken hip and a mangled paw, but now look at him: full of life and ready to play at a moment's notice, still very much a pup at 2½ ... /1
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Attn: Toronto/GTA folks - please share. 🐶
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This adorable retriever mix — this brave, good-natured glutton for love — entered our lives on the streets of Tbilisi, Georgia. We found him half dead from a broken hip and a mangled paw, but now look at him: full of life and ready to play at a moment's notice, still very much a pup at 2½ ... /1
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This adorable retriever mix — this brave, good-natured glutton for love — entered our lives on the streets of Tbilisi, Georgia. We found him half dead from a broken hip and a mangled paw, but now look at him: full of life and ready to play at a moment's notice, still very much a pup at 2½ ... /1
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No ‘official’ portrait could capture Donald Trump’s presidency like this one does
#Opinion from @shannongormley.bsky.social
#Opinion from @shannongormley.bsky.social
Shannon Gormley: No ‘official’ portrait could capture Donald Trump’s presidency like this one does
Next to the scene of collapse around him, the President of the United States cuts a solitary and disdainful figure.
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November 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
No ‘official’ portrait could capture Donald Trump’s presidency like this one does
#Opinion from @shannongormley.bsky.social
#Opinion from @shannongormley.bsky.social
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My travel destinations will now be based off this photo
February 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
My travel destinations will now be based off this photo
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Caption this photo?
I'll start:
Knights of the Round Table in Kyiv.
Your captions ⤵️
I'll start:
Knights of the Round Table in Kyiv.
Your captions ⤵️
February 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Caption this photo?
I'll start:
Knights of the Round Table in Kyiv.
Your captions ⤵️
I'll start:
Knights of the Round Table in Kyiv.
Your captions ⤵️
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Canada should join the UK in committing forces to Ukraine, but our Latvia mission is barely sustainable as it is.
And if we decide to add thousands of troops along the US border? Forget it.
And if we decide to add thousands of troops along the US border? Forget it.
February 17, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Canada should join the UK in committing forces to Ukraine, but our Latvia mission is barely sustainable as it is.
And if we decide to add thousands of troops along the US border? Forget it.
And if we decide to add thousands of troops along the US border? Forget it.
"What if Trump insisted the tariffs are to take effect unless Canada listed water as a tradable good?... Nice little economy you have there, Canada; shame that your refusal to turn on the faucet could wreck it." @ereguly.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
Opinion: Trump’s possible not-so-secret agenda: Canadian water exports and lots of them
Water may be the real reason, or one of the top reasons, propelling Trump’s desire to turn Canada into Minnesota North
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February 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"What if Trump insisted the tariffs are to take effect unless Canada listed water as a tradable good?... Nice little economy you have there, Canada; shame that your refusal to turn on the faucet could wreck it." @ereguly.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
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I can. In fact, the Canadian version is so great, I can't think of an American equivalent. 🧵
February 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I can. In fact, the Canadian version is so great, I can't think of an American equivalent. 🧵
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In a TV panel on Tuesday, and I joked that Canada's promised "24/7 eyes on the border" should be some hockey sticks with googly eyes jammed in a snowbank.
Aaron and his mom KJ, in Winnipeg, liked the idea, so they made us some truly amazing border sentries. I hope Mr. Trump feels more secure now.
Aaron and his mom KJ, in Winnipeg, liked the idea, so they made us some truly amazing border sentries. I hope Mr. Trump feels more secure now.
February 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
In a TV panel on Tuesday, and I joked that Canada's promised "24/7 eyes on the border" should be some hockey sticks with googly eyes jammed in a snowbank.
Aaron and his mom KJ, in Winnipeg, liked the idea, so they made us some truly amazing border sentries. I hope Mr. Trump feels more secure now.
Aaron and his mom KJ, in Winnipeg, liked the idea, so they made us some truly amazing border sentries. I hope Mr. Trump feels more secure now.
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I think something broke in Canadians this weekend. Everyone has had enough - but will it be enough for us to finally get our act together on defence, foreign affairs, and finally nixing internal trade barriers?
February 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I think something broke in Canadians this weekend. Everyone has had enough - but will it be enough for us to finally get our act together on defence, foreign affairs, and finally nixing internal trade barriers?
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If Trump keeps up this 51st state shit, I think Canada should ask its other NATO allies to station *their* troops along our border.
February 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
If Trump keeps up this 51st state shit, I think Canada should ask its other NATO allies to station *their* troops along our border.
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I believe it says explicitly in the treaty text that this is not an "EU border". We'd have to change the text of the treaty, but that's very doable....
Canada and Denmark share a 1.2 km long land border on Hans Island since we ended the Whisky War in 2022.
So technically we could join the European Union.
So technically we could join the European Union.
February 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I believe it says explicitly in the treaty text that this is not an "EU border". We'd have to change the text of the treaty, but that's very doable....
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We don't even have to complete shut off the taps to start with. Just throttle back supply, and watch prices rise. We can hurt them AND keep our own economy turning over, and leave something in the tank (ha) to demonstrate measured resolve.
Just because Trump lowered the oil tariff to 10% and appears to have exempted electricity doesn't mean Canada can't use oil, gas, and power to retaliate.
Given how much the US relies on those imports, maybe that should be our first strike?
Sorry Chicago, Detroit, but not sorry.
Given how much the US relies on those imports, maybe that should be our first strike?
Sorry Chicago, Detroit, but not sorry.
February 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
We don't even have to complete shut off the taps to start with. Just throttle back supply, and watch prices rise. We can hurt them AND keep our own economy turning over, and leave something in the tank (ha) to demonstrate measured resolve.
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never have i felt so seen by a 50-year-old book
February 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
never have i felt so seen by a 50-year-old book
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I think the worst thing Canada can do right now is be complacent. Continue to plan for the worst case scenario. Remove interprovincial trade barriers. Broaden our export markets. Support Canadian business and each other. LFG.
We have 30 days, should we calm down, or not?
I'm ready to be livid for the foreseeable future.
I'm ready to be livid for the foreseeable future.
February 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I think the worst thing Canada can do right now is be complacent. Continue to plan for the worst case scenario. Remove interprovincial trade barriers. Broaden our export markets. Support Canadian business and each other. LFG.
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This is very funny, but I’ve always thought Canada isn’t as friendly and polite as we seem, more repressed. Which means when you push the wrong button, it’s like in A Christmas Story when Ralphie loses it and beats the absolute snot out of Scut Farkus. Somebody better hold onto our glasses.
do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you
February 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This is very funny, but I’ve always thought Canada isn’t as friendly and polite as we seem, more repressed. Which means when you push the wrong button, it’s like in A Christmas Story when Ralphie loses it and beats the absolute snot out of Scut Farkus. Somebody better hold onto our glasses.
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For Americans, it was one of 100 shocking headlines during Trump's first 15 days of office. For Canadians, it was a nation-transforming event of historic proportions
A huge relief that the tariff war has been pushed back by at least 30 days. At least now there is space for a rational resolution of this dispute. But Canadians have just been through the equivalent of a hostage taking, and won’t forget the experience anytime soon.
February 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM
For Americans, it was one of 100 shocking headlines during Trump's first 15 days of office. For Canadians, it was a nation-transforming event of historic proportions
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I’m being so serious, this is a great chance for countries to do their own brain drain visas, especially in western countries that are struggling with birth rates
February 2, 2025 at 3:43 AM
I’m being so serious, this is a great chance for countries to do their own brain drain visas, especially in western countries that are struggling with birth rates
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Economic nationalism has never been good for Canada. But for the moment some of it is necessary
February 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Economic nationalism has never been good for Canada. But for the moment some of it is necessary
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No they don’t. Canada and Mexico want none of this. They want the president of the United States to respect and abide by the trade treaty he negotiated with them - and not make up bogus pretexts for plunging us all into a gratuitous no win economic debacle.
February 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
No they don’t. Canada and Mexico want none of this. They want the president of the United States to respect and abide by the trade treaty he negotiated with them - and not make up bogus pretexts for plunging us all into a gratuitous no win economic debacle.
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Looks like this is happening.
This great perfidy from our longstanding and close ally and friend is immensely saddening and maddening.
But it also makes me resolute to defend our country. We should and must retaliate.
A thread about what I'll be looking for in our retaliation measures....
This great perfidy from our longstanding and close ally and friend is immensely saddening and maddening.
But it also makes me resolute to defend our country. We should and must retaliate.
A thread about what I'll be looking for in our retaliation measures....
Canada has been officially told that President Trump will impose tariffs today. Timing and specific details unknown. But it will be today. We will have extensive coverage on CBC News Network.
February 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Looks like this is happening.
This great perfidy from our longstanding and close ally and friend is immensely saddening and maddening.
But it also makes me resolute to defend our country. We should and must retaliate.
A thread about what I'll be looking for in our retaliation measures....
This great perfidy from our longstanding and close ally and friend is immensely saddening and maddening.
But it also makes me resolute to defend our country. We should and must retaliate.
A thread about what I'll be looking for in our retaliation measures....
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My piece from yesterday: surviving in a world in which America recognizes no friends, and doesn't care about credibility.
open.substack.com/pub/stewartp...
open.substack.com/pub/stewartp...
Five Principles for Surviving Our Predictably Uncertain Future
How can Canada (or anyone else) survive in a world without trust?
open.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
My piece from yesterday: surviving in a world in which America recognizes no friends, and doesn't care about credibility.
open.substack.com/pub/stewartp...
open.substack.com/pub/stewartp...