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Glen Drobot ๐จ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฆ
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Traveller. Music lover. Gardener. Superman stan. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ (he/him)
Winnipeg, Manitoba Bergabung Kasฤฑm 2013
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Below average temperatures trending for southern Manitoba for the next little while. I don't know about you, but I'm done with it! #mbwx


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@CatLover56577 @grok Damn. Only available to premium!
Does anyone know?
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Magnificent photo taken on the Ukrainian front. ๐บ๐ฆ
This soldier, still very young, appears exhausted. The cat, for its part, seems undoubtedly terrified.
This is probably one of the most striking photos of this year 2025, regardless of how anyone views this war.
And yet, in this embrace, it is difficult to say who is comforting the other.
This image was not generated by artificial intelligence, nor was it a montage.
It simply restores a little faith in humanity. Just a little. And that's already immenseโฆ

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which pollster is this?
macmike086 โค๏ธ ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ฑ ๐ฉ๐ฐ@macmike086
It's PoiliOver folks. ๐ฌ๐ง๐
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The World's Dumbest Tariff Has Been Revealed
โTrumpโs 50% tariff and removal of an exemption for Canada drove producers there to send US-bound shipments to Europe instead. In just a few months, Aluminerie Alouette โ North America's largest smelter โ saw its European sales rise from 4% of production to 57%. Rio Tinto Plc largely stopped shipping Canadian aluminum to the US, and even Alcoa diverted around 100,000 metric tons to non-US destinations.โ
bloomberg.com/opinion/articlโฆ

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Liberals ahead by 16; Approval of Carney government hits 68%. Liberals lead everywhere except Saskatchewan and Alberta and the gap has closed there, via @spark_advocacy's @bruceanderson bruce728.substack.com/p/liberals-aheโฆ
Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

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BREAKING: Zelensky just landed in the UAE and signed a defence cooperation agreement with President MBZ.
The deal on the table changes everything about this war. Ukraine is offering Gulf states 1,000 drone interceptors per day. Each Sting interceptor costs $2,100. Each Patriot missile it replaces costs $3.9 million. In exchange, Ukraine wants the Patriot missiles the Gulf states are burning through, because Kyiv cannot get enough of them to stop Russian missiles.
Read that again. The country America refused to arm fast enough is now arming Americaโs allies with a weapon that costs 1,857 times less than the one America cannot produce fast enough.
The National reported on March 27 that Zelensky told reporters: โWeโd like to quietly receive the Patriot missiles we have a deficit of, and give them a corresponding number of interceptors.โ AFP confirmed the UAE agreement on March 28. Eleven countries have formally requested Ukraineโs drone defence expertise per Zelenskyโs own count. Over 200 Ukrainian military specialists are already deployed across the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Jordan.
Here is the arithmetic that should terrify every Pentagon procurement officer on earth.
The United States fired 943 Patriot interceptors in the first four days of the Iran war per a US Congressional study cited by the Jerusalem Post. That is eighteen months of Lockheed Martinโs annual production consumed in 96 hours. Each of those 943 shots cost $3.9 million. Total expenditure: $3.68 billion in four days on defensive interceptions alone. Iran produces 10,000 Shahed drones per month per Reuters. Each drone costs $20,000 to $50,000. The cost exchange ratio is 114 to 1 in Iranโs favour per Military Times.
Ukraineโs Sting interceptor inverts this arithmetic entirely. At $2,100, the cost ratio flips from 114-to-1 against America to roughly 10-to-1 against Iran. Ukraine can supply 1,000 per day. That is 30,000 per month against Iranโs 10,000 Shaheds per month. For the first time in this war, the defenderโs production rate exceeds the attackerโs production rate at a fraction of the cost.
And the country that built this weapon is the same country that Trump publicly rejected. โNo, they are not helping. We do not need their help. We know more about drones than anyone elseโ per Fox News. He doubled down: โThe last person we need help from is Zelensky.โ Meanwhile the Pentagon notified Congress of plans to redirect $750 million in Ukraine-bound Patriot missiles to Gulf states per House of Saud reporting. America is simultaneously refusing Ukraineโs cheap solution and cannibalising Ukraineโs expensive one.
Zelensky framed this explicitly. He told The National: โNo matter how many Patriots, THAADs, or other air-defence systems are in the Middle East, that alone is not enough for fully effective air defence.โ He told the UK Parliament: โWhen it comes to shooting down massive Shahed attacks, only Ukrainian experience can really help with this today.โ
The Pentagon is spending $3.9 million per interception, raiding Swiss fighter jet accounts to cover shortfalls, and diverting Ukraineโs own Patriot supply to the Gulf. Zelensky is offering the same result for $2,100 and producing 1,000 units per day. The market has a word for this kind of disruption.
The $2,100 drone is the most important weapon in this war. And the country that built it is the one America said it did not need.
Full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaansโฆ
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@AC360 He should never be allowed to drive a motorized vehicle again, anywhere in the US or the world.
He needs to get help for his alcohol-use disorder.
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Ontario doctor stripped of licence after allegedly issuing 1,400 COVID-19 exemption letters โfor profitโ ctvnews.ca/toronto/articlโฆ
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@bruce_arthur So I typed in Google "how many car..." and it completed with "accidents has Tiger Woods been in"
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@NoLore For the NDP, or a more left-of-centre Liberal party in a few years?
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The Acadians in Nova Scotia sure appreciate it. New Brunswick is the only fully bilingual province and has a thriving French language. There's French all over Canada. So yeah, I think you're wrong. French culture and history is Canadian culture and history.
Cole Hogan@colewhogan
I speak for myself. Am I wrong? Official bilingualism was enacted to address national unity. Has it? Does an Ontario Liberal want to offer lectures on winning?
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@mikethenavyguy They may end up being a provincial party only.
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He's gonna kill the party if he wins.
Scott Robertson@sarobertsonca
Avi Lewis on moving away from fossil fuels: โNo one ever bombed a factory full of sunlight, JP. No oneโs ever gone to war over the wind.โ
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@coreylee_9 Feeling flu-y and definitely so tired
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