Simon Houpt

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Screenshot of NYT headline which reads “Trump to Impose 50% Tariff on Many Canadian Goods.”
Washington Post article headlined “Wildfire smoke from Canada will soon spread across the Midwest and East,” with a map of the U.S. showing the effects.
Photograph of racist demonstrators in Washington, D.C. wearing face-hugging masks that look faintly blue.
Screenshot of a Google search showing that yesterday’s Canada v South Africa match drew 19M viewers across all platforms.
Screenshot of Google Toronto weather forecast shows a steady temperature of (a very moderate!) 17C, and a label underneath that reads “Excessive Heat: Toronto, ON, Canada”
Screenshot of Google Search AI Overview result incorrectly shows Vancouver’s BC Place stadium is going to host the World Cup bronze medal match on July 18. (It is, in fact, being held in Miami.)
Photo of a computer screen showing MS Word with a message at the top of a new document that reads: “Describe what you’d like to draft with Copilot”
Screenshot of email from ChatGPT offering “Easy self-care you can start today”
Screenshot of Cineplex page for Melania “documentary” showing 2 tickets sold so far for today’s 8:45 pm screening at Toronto’s Scotiabank Theatre.
Front page of The Globe and Mail of Oct. 13, 1993, top headline reads “Jays set to defend Series title.” At the bottom of the page, another headline reads: “Palestinians poised for the birth of their nation.”
Screenshot of the Bell Fibe app showing tonight’s Seattle Mariners at Toronto Blue Jays game is on CityTV in Toronto.
Waiting screen for the FIFA World Cup ticket waiting room.
A bedraggled Uncle Sam holds envelope addressed “To America’s Poor” and a letter reading: “FINAL DEMAND - YOU OWE AMERICA’S RICH: Your health cover, your food stamps, plus around $5 trillion in debt. Time to pay up!”
Front page of NYT Feb 16, 2003 features photographs and a lead article about the protests against the looming US invasion of Iraq.
Screenshot of email subject heading: “King Charles opens Canada’s parliament with a commie land acknowledgment.”
Cover of current Harvard Business Review, special issue titled Dealing with Difficult People.
Label for FOLIA greenhouses’ Crunchy Greens lettuce, grown in Canada - which claims it’s “non GMO, no pesticides, needs 99% less water than field crops”
NYT report of a Trump Truth Social post in which he declares the US doesn’t need anything from Canada. “We don’t need their Cars, we don’t need their Energy, we don’t need their Lumber” etc
Screen capture of NYT Opinion piece which reads, in part: “When you hear of an American company making a product abroad for $5, it sounds like America is sending money away and just getting a doodad in return. In reality, that $5 buys us a product plus the fuel to power $20 of domestic economic activity. Because the $20 gap between my manufacturing cost and my sale price flows to Americans, American companies and other American entities.”
Screenshot of NYT home page, with one headline that reads “We Are All Living in George Orwell’s World Now” and another just below it which reads “It’s Gatsby’s World, We Just Live In It.”
Front page of today’s Globe and Mail carries only five lines of black text on white background, with “STRONG AND FREE” in block letters on top half.
Members of Team Canada stand on the ice gazing up at a Canadian flag as "O Canada" plays, after defeating the U.S. in overtime to win the NHL 4 Nations Face-Off championship game Thursday night.