mike rees

@saskatchewan_in Sorry for your loss Melanie.

When my husband died in late summer last year, my daughter and I didn't just lose him. We lost more than half our household income overnight. Suddenly, every dollar had a job. Every bill became a math problem. Because my income dropped so dramatically, I became eligible for a GST rebate of about $435. To some people, that might sound like a nice little bonus. To people like me, trying to live on less than $27,000 a year, it's not spending money. It's survival money. Where I live, water, garbage, and recycling cost me $520 every three months. Coincidentally, those bills arrive around the same time as the GST rebate. So the GST cheque doesn't buy treats. It doesn't fund vacations. It doesn't even make life easier. It mostly disappears into a utility bill before I can blink. Today I'm sharing screenshots from my CRA account to demonstrate the federal government's latest affordability miracle with their renamed GST benefit masquerading as the Groceries and Essentials Benefit. My GST rebate went up. By six dollars. Not sixty. Not six hundred. Six. Apparently somewhere in Ottawa, somebody looked at the affordability crisis facing Canadians and thought: "Hmm, needs more half sandwich."🤔 What makes this worse is knowing there are millions of Canadians out there who need help just as badly as I do, but don't qualify for a penny of it. People working two jobs. People trying to raise families. Seniors watching every grocery bill climb higher. People doing everything right and still falling behind. So to @MarkJCarney, I have a simple question. Why are you celebrating the existence of a Grocery and Essentials Benefit instead of asking why Canadians need one in the first place? How much did it cost taxpayers for the photo-op? Do you not see the hypocrisy in it? Because that is the part I can't understand. A government should not be standing in a grocery store congratulating itself for handing back a few dollars of taxpayers' own money. A government should be creating the conditions where people can afford groceries without government assistance. The goal should be fewer Canadians needing benefits, not more! I'm not proud to qualify for this. 👉🏻 I don't want to qualify for a government cheque. 👉🏻 I don't want to qualify for a renamed GST rebate. 👉🏻 I don't want my kid to qualify for a school lunch program because parents can no longer afford lunches. I want an economy where ordinary Canadians can stand on their own feet and keep more of what they earn and be proud about it. The fact that Ottawa felt the need to rename the GST rebate to include the words "Groceries and Essentials" should have set off alarm bells in every cabinet office in the country. Because groceries and essentials are not luxuries. If Canadians need government assistance to afford the basics of life, that is not evidence of success. It's evidence that something has gone very badly wrong. What makes it even harder to stomach is watching a government talk about borrowing billions for new projects and sovereign wealth funds while ordinary Canadians are being told to celebrate an extra six dollars. Six dollars! That's not economic leadership. That's a receipt. Perhaps the question Canadians should be asking is this: If #MarkCarney's resume is as impressive as advertised, why do the results look like this? At some point, Canadians stop listening to credentials and start looking at outcomes. And the outcomes are speaking for themselves!

@LichTamara @Kelsisheren Followed.

If you are concerned about the Canadian MAID program, give this woman a follow. @Kelsisheren has been working tirelessly to expose this program for what it is….medical m*rd*r.

@yvan_theriault You're math skills are on the next level.

La police a arrêté deux individus qui avaient cambriolé mon domicile. Quinze jours plus tard, ils étaient déjà remis en liberté… Alors, il y a quelques jours, j’ai pris une décision radicale : j’ai débranché les deux caméras installées sur la façade de ma maison. Dans la foulée, j’ai également coupé mon système d’alarme anti-intrusion et résilié mon abonnement au service de télésurveillance. Résultat : une belle économie à la clé ! Dans le même esprit, je me suis retiré de l’association des « voisins vigilants ». Puis, j’ai poussé le concept encore plus loin : dans mon jardin, j’ai installé une immense table, des banderoles de protestation et j'ai affiché partout des slogans de militants radicaux ultra-écologistes et de zadistes prêts à bloquer toute la région. Je me suis mis à porter des vêtements de combat, à stocker des mégaphones et j'ai tagué sur mon portail : « Zone À Défendre - Prochaine action secrète ici ». Pour parfaire le tableau, j’ai annoncé sur les réseaux sociaux que nous étions des centaines de manifestants extrêmes prêts à occuper le terrain dès demain matin… Depuis ce jour, la gendarmerie, les CRS et les services de renseignement surveillent mon domicile 24 heures sur 24. Des camions de police sont garés au bout de ma rue. Je ne me suis jamais senti aussi en sécurité ! Au moins, maintenant, je sais où passent mes impôts…🤓

@Mori9vanvan90 I always wanted one of those bikes. I rode one years ago and it is the most comfortable trail bike ever.

明日は！ バンバンで！ ナギサナイッ！

@jerico5231 @yonkojohn @AlbertaPatriot2 I wonder how long he would stay on as party leader if that were to happen ?

@yonkojohn @AlbertaPatriot2 Lines up with my prediction for a snap election called for summer or early fall. Carney will have no control of committees and will go for a majority He will be defeated in a shocking turn of events

My source tells me the Federal Liberal Party is in major disarray and the infighting may show no return. It's not about the environment!

🚨 CANADA’S INDUSTRIAL COLLAPSE under @MarkJCarney — With receipts 🧾 📍 Honda Alliston, ON → Cancelled— $15 Billion 📍 Stellantis Brampton, ON → Moved to Illinois — $500 Million in aid pocketed 📍 Stellantis Windsor Battery Plant → Sold stake for — $100 📍 GM CAMI Ingersoll, ON → PERMANENTLY CLOSED — $2 Billion retool gone 📍 GM Oshawa, ON → Production moved to Indiana — $280 Million lost 📍 Ford Oakville, ON → EV production moved to USA — $2.3 Billion gone 📍 Northvolt Quebec → BANKRUPT — $7 Billion evaporated 📍 Invista Kingston, ON → Moving to Texas — 500 jobs gone 📍 Umicore Ontario → Shifting to Poland & South Korea — $260 Million gone 🇨🇦 TOTAL INVESTMENT LOST: 💰Over $50 Billion Ottawa’s response? Press releases. Photo ops. A delusional PM who thinks your gas is cheap. “We are a Energy Superpower 🇨🇦 Clean Energy is needed to build a Sustainable Prosperous Economy ?🤔🙇🏻🚨 This is managed decline with a price tag. 🇨🇦 RT until every Canadian sees this 👇 #CdnPoli #AutoIndustry #Honda #GM #Ford #Stellantis #Ontario #Canada

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

Mr. Carney... I genuinely do not know whether to laugh at this clip or stare at it like I just watched someone walk into their own screen door. Do you hear yourself? You sit there warning people about politicians saying, "Vote for this and it's a free option. Vote for this and we'll strengthen your hand in future negotiation." Then I nearly spit coffee across the room because I thought, hold on... wasn't that your campaign? - Vote for Mark because Trump. - Vote for Mark because crisis. - Vote for Mark because markets. - Vote for Mark because only Mark can steer us through the storm. - Vote for Mark because Mark will strengthen Canada's hand. I'm sitting here blinking at the screen like a confused raccoon beside a highway because you seem to be describing your own sales brochure and then acting shocked that someone else printed it first. Then you call it a "very dangerous bluff." Interesting. Because politicians are not handed crystal balls with the keys to Rideau Cottage. - Nobody can guarantee trade outcomes. - Nobody can guarantee economic outcomes. - Nobody can guarantee what another country does six months from now. But your campaign leaned hard into certainty. Not maybe. Not perhaps. Not here's our best shot. No. Crisis fixer. Strong hand. Trust me. Then you bring out Brexit. "Vote for this, it'll be soft and then we'll negotiate." Now we're into the really strange part because this suddenly stops sounding like a warning about separation and starts sounding like a warning about politics itself. Big changes always sound tidy in campaign language. But real life isn't tidy. You don't walk over to the wall and flip a switch from "United States" to "new economic direction." - Trade relationships take years, even decades. - Supply chains take years to decades. - Investment moves take years, even decades. Supply chains behave like stubborn farm equipment. Once they settle in place they don't politely get up and relocate because somebody held a press conference. Then came the line that made me gasp bwcause I forgot to breathe in my disbelief: People can end up with something they didn't think they were voting for. Exactly! That is EXACTLY what half of us who voted in 2025 are thinking now, about your newly acquired majority. And yes, Guilbeault is leaving but we all know you could run a dead squirrel under the liberal banner in his riding and it would win. Because Canadians did not hand you a majority government. They handed you a minority government. Historically that means compromise. Restraint. Working with Parliament. It does not usually translate into, "Congratulations, here are unlimited renovation permits for the entire country." So people are going to ask: Were Canadians voting only for handling Trump? Or were they also voting for broader economic shifts, industrial frameworks, carbon market changes and wider structural direction changes that may come with it that was never spoken of to the degree with which you've gone since winning your minority government Because if voters heard one message and later feel like they're seeing a larger package unfolding, they're going to ask whether the truck they bought came with fourteen pages of financing terms folded in the glovebox. And here's the part I can't get over. Your warning itself isn't unreasonable. People should be careful. People should read the fine print. People should ask questions. You just accidentally aimed the flashlight at yourself. Smile... we are watching

@cuteonlyvibes HONDA !!

Name one thing Japan gave to the world

@Kshi_nippon The whole world should be like this.

One thing that surprises many foreigners about Japan 🇯🇵 Young children often walk to school by themselves. Wearing little yellow hats, carrying backpacks, quietly walking through neighborhoods together. Not because parents don’t care. But because society is safe enough for children to grow independent. For many Japanese people, this is completely normal.

@jingqiu04 Happy Birthday !!

陌生人 可以祝我生日快乐吗

@s4rah_dev I couldn't remember if it was insulin or penicillin.

@mrees1390 Insulin!!! while we are on the topic.....

@tracbeal75 🇨🇦😀

So apparently saying “Canada” brings the Canadians… so let’s see!! 👋🇨🇦

@NancyPa36563217 🇨🇦

Proudly Canadian ❤️🇨🇦❤️💪🏼. Where are my fellow Canuck’s?! #Canada

@ElenaBee0 Happy Birthday !!

I celebrated my 100th birthday today. My family is not around anymore, so I baked myself a small cake.🎂 It's peaceful... yet I'm still here, still alive, still wishing for a bit of kindness. If you happen to see this, could you wish me a "Happy Birthday"?🎊🎉

@SatoXNana Hi.

single people say hi

@ElenaBee0 Happy Birthday !!

I’m a truck driver 🚛. Today is my birthday 🎉🎂 No party, no cake… just bread. 🍞 Still grateful to be alive and rolling on the road. 🙏✨

@steveMmattison @Supersonic_Red @grok The first car is a '65 Chevelle, I had one. The last car I think is a Camaro. The rims on the Camaro is what I had on my Chevelle. It had a 283ci V8 and a 2 speed powerglide transmission.

@Supersonic_Red @grok, exactly what make & money and year is this vehicle? Only the one entirely seen in this image.

Good morning, Generation Jones. ☕️ Yesterday’s conversation was so much fun that I woke up thinking about all the things only our generation would understand. High school was a blast then. We passed notes instead of texts. Had actual cruising spots. Memorized phone numbers. Listened to the radio waiting for our song to come on. And somehow survived without GPS, Google, or anyone knowing where we were 24/7. 🤣 We really did grow up in two completely different worlds, and I think that’s why so many of us connected yesterday. Now tell me yours. What’s something only Generation Jones understands?