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@JasminLaine_ @nationalpost Nevermind, liberals keep pointing at Harper 10+ years later.

@nationalpost Ahhh yes, deflection. He is gone. The problems under his leadership are not—in fact, many of them are far worse. Someone tell statistics Canada to change the data

Anthony Koch: Conservatives must accept that Trudeau is gone nationalpost.com/opinion/anthon…

@JasminLaine_ @AnitaAnandMP Nothing is more important than a good virtue-signal.

@AnitaAnandMP Wish you cared this much about your own country

Canada is gravely concerned by the escalating crisis in Sudan. Starvation is being used as a weapon, civilians are being targeted, and women and girls face widespread violence. Today, we’re announcing over $120 million to deliver urgent, life-saving support to those affected. Humanitarian aid must reach those in need—safely and without obstruction. Canada calls for an immediate ceasefire and a path to lasting peace.

@avilewis Typical communist. Go after profits thinking that prices won't rise as a result.

Striking that the Liberals and Conservatives offer the same response to pain at the pump: siphon money out of the public purse instead of Big Oil’s profits. Oil companies are on track to make tens of billions in windfall profits from Trump’s illegal war in Iran. It’s their profiteering that’s driving up prices. It’s them who should pay. It’s time for price caps on gas to stop oil companies from price-gouging Canadians — and a windfall profits tax on war-time oil revenues, so the government can invest that money in the public interest. cbc.ca/news/politics/…

@LauraBabcock And TRANS THE KIDS! Fuck off.

“Carney won a majority. Hungary turfed Orban. Right wing MAGA ideology is dying. Trump, Vance, Putin and Netanyahu are weak. Let’s end this fucking madness so no more people are killed or starve! Be on side of HUMANITY !” The OShow 🇨🇦 youtu.be/eufaKd66Zqg?si… #Cndpoli #Iran

@Garnet_2203 That's what makes Carney sinister. He knows what he's doing to the country. And he knows how to fix it. Trudeau was honestly ignorant.

Pierre Poilievre said, “The worst thing isn’t being uneducated, it’s being poorly educated.” And he aimed that at Mark Carney… who has a Harvard degree, a PhD from Oxford, and ran the central banks of two countries. Meanwhile, Pierre’s been touring U.S. podcasts trying to rebuild his image while losing three by-elections at home. How do you like them apples? 🍎@CreekInCAN

@msSharanKaur Yep, when you can't attack the message because it's true, you attack the messenger.

Scheer who bravely flirted with becoming an insurance guy before tapping out, is now here to explain how Harper somehow accidentally appointed a wildly underqualified nobody with elite economics degrees to run the Bank of Canada. Tragic. Truly.

@JakeLandauTO Public owned grocery stores are not the answer. The government has a responsibility to protect the public from predatory practices. They have inspectors whose only purpose is to make sure consumers are getting what they are paying for. This happens because the government lets it.

They scam us on bread. They scam us on milk. They scam us on meat. Everyone criticizes Avi Lewis for wanting public owned grocery stores, yet he's the only politician who cares that none of us can afford food!

@Amockx2022 Yeah. Iran always tells the truth.

THIS IS ABSOLUTE CINEMA 🍿 🇺🇸 Trump at 1:10 –– "Iran called me, they want the deal very badly" 🇮🇷 Iran at 1:15 –– 🔥 "Trump is lying. We didn't call him and we aren't desperate for any deal" "He should know that there won't be any deal without including Lebanon and Iran getting control of Strait of Hormuz" 🫡 Trump caught lying 187th time 😭

@Acyn @RonFilipkowski He would have been defended if the Democrats weren't in trouble in California. Him staying in the face would have meant a Republican governor being elected. He is just another sacrifice at the altar of power.

AOC: You see the difference here. We held a member of our own party accountable. Tony Gonzalez has had this issue in the public eye for months. The only reason we’re seeing a resignation today is because the Speaker thinks he can play politics with the vote count. The fact that we have victims of abuse and that these issues are being handled this way is disgusting.

@JasminLaine_ Principled people would resign and sit independent. These floor crossers either have no principles or they abandoned them.

Every single pundit talking about this on the news/social media knows this, yet no one is saying it. Why are these floor crossers different? Because they are changing the outcome of the election result. It’s not just the someone crossed and it’s really of no consequence to anyone but their community who voted for them. This is changing a minority parliament (which Canadians have not voted for since we saw what liberals did with one the last time around), to a majority one. That’s the difference. That’s why this matters so much. So spare me with your “oh it’s legal”, “this happens all the time”, how on earth can this be a “common thing that happens all the time, and everyone should shut up about it” when it’s the FIRST time in HISTORY this has happened in Canadian Democracy. Either admit you don’t care if the election outcome changes against voters wills, and you’d prefer if we had one party rule that voters don’t decide—or stop arguing semantics and pretending everyone else is as stupid as you wish they were.

@ryangerritsen @Harry__Faulkner Agreed. I hit Sam's every time I went to TO. Miss it.

@Harry__Faulkner Excellent work Harry. Toronto was epic in the 80’s and 90’s compared to now.

Toronto 1986 vs. 2026 I recreated every shot. 40 years apart. Modern. Sterile. Soulless.

@DavidColetto @MarkJCarney A classic circular argument.

My best attempt to sum up @MarkJCarney's main argument in his speech yesterday: National sovereignty is the precondition for social progress, and social cohesion is the precondition for national sovereignty.

@ryangerritsen Yeah, go figure.

The Canadian Government wants to ban 16 year olds and under from accessing social media (to keep them safe) but are ok with children being sexualized by their state funded media organization.

@EditorialEddie @ryangerritsen Kinda what I've been thinking. They are trying to destroy the conservatives from the inside-out, why not try their game?

@DutchVader1 @ryangerritsen An interesting angle. Send her in as a double agent, and when votes of confidence arrive, she votes with the Conservatives... That would be far more credible if the Liberals were 1 seat shy of a majority after this week's by-elections and she crossed the floor at that time.

So it’s quite clear after watching this that there is no one the Liberals will refuse as long as it means more power for their party. The Libs want total conformity across party lines. No pushback. Just unabated power to pass whatever they like & claim Canadians want it. It’s frightening to watch how powerful this party is becoming & still no Canadians have benefited from it. Things have only gotten worse.

@DavidColetto The boomer class has never had to experience sacrifice. That came the generations before them. All they know is selfishness.

“This essay is an attempt to explain why. I will try to argue that what happened among Boomers was not primarily ideological conversion. They did not suddenly love the Liberal Party, or forgive it for carbon taxes and or other decisions made during the final years of the Trudeau government. What happened was older and more primal than that. It was a sense of fear. Specifically, fear organized around the logic of loss. And to understand it properly, you have to understand who has something to lose.” My first long read essay for paid subscribers: open.substack.com/pub/davidcolet…

@ryangerritsen If higher returns balance out the higher cost of the ticket, why do anything at all? I smell bullshit.

Lottomax just increased the price and you now choose numbers between 1-52. They added a 4th line of numbers you can pick to “increase” the odds. It added a whopping 1.6% better chance of winning at the cost of an extra dollar.

@DavidColetto Stability anymore is within the realm of managed decline. Managed decline will eventually morph into populism. The further the decline, the more rabid the populism.

The real story isn’t just who won the NDP race. It’s what it says about where politics could go next. “I look around the world and see two paths: stability or populism.” More: youtu.be/_4sHZE7-zN8?si…

@ianmiles EVs have many shortcomings to overcome before they become a viable alternative to ICE.

Elon Musk has been predicting the death of the gas-powered car for over two decades, but his latest reality check for the legacy auto industry is the sharpest one yet. The massive shift to EVs isn't just about saving the environment; it’s about finally acknowledging a vastly superior technology. As he points out, "an electric vehicle is a fundamentally better architecture than a gasoline combustion vehicle." They are simpler, incredibly efficient, whisper-quiet, and entirely eliminate city pollution. Yet, instead of leading the charge, traditional automakers have "strongly resisted electrification," dragging their feet and actively reducing production whenever they aren't being pushed by government regulations. His vision for the future of transportation is absolute and uncompromising. According to Musk, "all ground transport should be electric," and eventually, even ships and planes will follow suit. But making the switch to battery power is only half the battle. The real paradigm shift relies on self-driving capabilities. By resisting this inevitable evolution, traditional car companies are making a massive strategic mistake that threatens their very survival in a rapidly changing technological landscape. The era of manually operating a gas-guzzler is quickly coming to a close, and the transition will be jarring for those who refuse to adapt. Musk puts it in the most relatable terms possible: driving a gasoline-powered car yourself in the near future is "going to be like riding a horse and using a flip phone." Sure, a few people somewhere will still keep them around for nostalgia, but it will be an incredibly rare, niche hobby rather than the standard. As he definitively states, "The future does not contain combustion vehicles." The undeniable reality is a world dominated by autonomous electric vehicles.

@DavidColetto Thanks for clearing that up. Far too often Pierre is held to a higher standard while other leaders are given a pass.

In the piece, I also wrote: “Which raises a question I’d also like to put to Mark Carney and Avi Lewis: what would you actually do?”