{"id":1943,"date":"2026-03-13T14:44:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2026-03-13T14:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:44:08","slug":"globe-mail-expert-propaganda-rears-its-dorky-head-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/13\/globe-mail-expert-propaganda-rears-its-dorky-head-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Globe &amp; Mail: &#8220;Expert&#8221; Propaganda Rears its Dorky Head Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"> I love this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"508\" src=\"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screen-Shot-2026-03-13-at-9.01.35-AM-1024x508.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screen-Shot-2026-03-13-at-9.01.35-AM-1024x508.png 1024w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screen-Shot-2026-03-13-at-9.01.35-AM-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screen-Shot-2026-03-13-at-9.01.35-AM-768x381.png 768w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screen-Shot-2026-03-13-at-9.01.35-AM-1536x763.png 1536w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screen-Shot-2026-03-13-at-9.01.35-AM.png 1982w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">That was the smug headline. Where these magical 10,000 jobs would come from is anyone&#8217;s guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And then cue in shoe drop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"454\" src=\"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screen-Shot-2026-03-13-at-9.03.37-AM-1024x454.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1946\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screen-Shot-2026-03-13-at-9.03.37-AM-1024x454.png 1024w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screen-Shot-2026-03-13-at-9.03.37-AM-300x133.png 300w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screen-Shot-2026-03-13-at-9.03.37-AM-768x340.png 768w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screen-Shot-2026-03-13-at-9.03.37-AM-1536x681.png 1536w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screen-Shot-2026-03-13-at-9.03.37-AM.png 2030w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The realistic headline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">There is no way on the face of this Earth that Canada, a country completely dependent on the United States for its existence, could be in a trade war and gain jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">For any &#8220;expert&#8221; who thought otherwise, should get their titles revoked as well as any media outlet who reported it with a straight face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This isn&#8217;t a minor error. The entire reason Donald Trump picked on Canada was because he knew of its utter over-reliance on the US. Canada is in a precarious position, but it&#8217;s not beyond fixing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">But it&#8217;s not actually being fixed. Tariffs were declared illegal, but with the kerfuffle in Iran, gas prices are going to make a bad economy even worse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Bad journalism is not helping things. Neither are pseudo-experts. The ostrich syndrome has gotten this country nowhere, and that won&#8217;t change until facts are presented to the public honestly and without manipulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this. That was the smug headline. Where these magical 10,000 jobs would come from is anyone&#8217;s guess. And then cue in shoe drop. The realistic headline. There is no way on the face of this Earth that Canada, a country completely dependent on the United States for its existence, could be in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49,21,77,51,26,42],"class_list":["post-1943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexandra-kitty","tag-canada","tag-donald-trump","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-mark-carney","tag-propaganda","tag-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1947,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions\/1947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}