🌞Good morning Canada. Weekend thoughts. There was a time when the internet felt trivial in the best possible way. We collectively obsessed over the rice saga, a cat giving birth under someone’s bed, the Toronto raccoon funeral, or The Dress. None of it mattered, and that was the point. ✨️Platforms could concentrate the attention of millions on a single, harmless absurdity. ✨️What changed wasn’t our behaviour. It was the business model. Elon Musk didn’t just buy a social media company; he bought an attention‑allocation machine. And he understood something fundamental: ✨️attention is political power. Outrage is profitable. Engagement is revenue. The same systems that once amplified silliness now amplify conflict because conflict keeps people scrolling. That raises a question Canada has barely begun to confront. ✨️When a trillionaire(?) owns a communications platform, controls its incentives, shapes what is amplified, and openly participates in politics, at what point does platform ownership become a political contribution? Canadian election law regulates donations, third‑party advertisers, and in‑kind contributions. If a corporation handed a political party millions of dollars’ worth of advertising, targeting, or preferential access, regulators would intervene. So why don’t we apply the same scrutiny to influencer ecosystems, partisan podcasts, recommendation algorithms, and social media platforms that function as de facto political broadcasters? This isn’t about alleging wrongdoing. ✨️It’s about acknowledging that our laws were written for a world where political influence flowed through money, not metrics. If influence can now be purchased through attention rather than donations, and delivered through algorithms rather than campaign offices, then we have to ask whether we’re regulating the right thing. The old internet monetized curiosity. ✨️The new internet monetizes political engagement. Democracy may need to catch up. You get your coffee ☕️ or tea 🍵 I'm getting a glass of wine 🍷 #cdnpoli

Pensive Owls Inspect Lanterns In Evening Valleys Ripple Endlessly In Silence Alone Leaves Oscillate Softly Echoing Regrets. If you get it, you get ut 😊

Charlie Angus: It's been amazing since we started the MeidasCanada Network. Nobody ever really noticed anybody from Canada, unless we were Neil Young or Mike Myers. But I think there's a real searching right now as we are in such uncertain times and people are watching Canada and people are listening to what's happening. So the MeidasCanada viewership has developed a strong hold around the world. What we're trying to do is build that conversation — a conversation across borders, across the United States, across Europe, across Asia — about democracy. And Canada, I think right now, plays a role in it in a very significant way.

Excellent news

Mexican fans booed very loudly at the USA flag and cheered for Canadian flag. This is all trump’s doing

I love that a Black woman is responsible for this. 😂 Shout out to @RepBeatty for filing the lawsuit to get Trump‘s name removed from the Kennedy Center

Huh! @PierrePoilievre's favourability around the same. Hey @chriswarkentin, keep following the rabbit hole.

🌞Bonjour from France. Time to grow-up past the imbecilic, juvenile and stupid phase. That's so 2016. Trump-era us coming to a close.

It's gone 🎊

Funfacts 👇🤪

I stand with Premier Eby. Voted for him and will again despite being a Federal Liberal. Premier Eby is a good man who cares deeply about his family and our beautiful province. Not loud and obnoxious like Ford, or devious Smith, Eby wants BC to thrive.

This is exasperating. I provided a link to the Harvard school of public health. x.com/stphnmaher/status/2065…

Can you explain why @CPC_HQ @PierrePoilievre?

Restaurant inside a butcher shop. First come. First served. No reservations. aubongroin.com/

Feeling Canadian 🇨🇦 with 41.472 million others 🤭

You’re an immigrant to Canada who is filled with venomous hate and poison towards black and brown migrants and multiculturalism. So maybe you don’t belong in multicultural, pro-migrant Canada. (See how this works?)

👋 Welcome to Ireland to the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney! A warm welcome to Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney and the delegation from Canada as they arrive in Dublin Airport. Taoiseach Micheál Martin greeted them on arrival ahead of a full programme of engagements.

Alanis Morissette and Michael Bublé help kick off World Cup 2026 in Canada, with Ryan Reynolds among the stars in attendance. bit.ly/4gjjxZX

Ryan Reynolds & Mike Myers are in attendance in Toronto for the FIFA World Cup game between Canada and Bosnia and Herzegovina. 🇨🇦