Amanda Rose

“Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban.” - George Orwell, 1945, The Freedom of the Press

@jedgar @MarkJCarney I’d settle for trains that actually run. I travelled Kitchener → Montreal on Saturday and the first leg was a bus, adding 2–3 uncomfortable hours. Hard to even get to the point of working productively on the train when basic reliability isn’t there.

@MarkJCarney big bro can you magic up some American style executive order to force VIA and Metrolinx to put high quality working satellite internet on the trains? Personally, I don't even need TOR<>MTL to be high speed rail if I can actually work from it, same with TOR<>Waterloo, but currently it's not actually possible to use the train as a working office, and frankly, that's a travesty. There are all these little productivity situations buried around that slow things down, every day things are slow is a day the GDP flattens.

@lucyhargreaves4 Hard to take tough anti-fraud proposals seriously when the same administration has let countless fraud offenders off through pardons. x.com/propublica/sta…

we should do this in canada

@skanwar So good.

Built by Canada. For the world. 🇨🇦🗽 x.com/i/status/20371…

@zandertoo @build_canada @brendan_samek Kudos, Brendan! Question, I was trying to get an AI assistant to view a commitment to learn more and it got blocked by an egress proxy. Is that intentional or do you want to make it more open for AI to read public pages?

@amanda @build_canada Thank you, Amanda! It's aaall @brendan_samek 💪

Transparent governance builds better government. As we approach the one-year anniversary of the 45th Parliament of Canada, we're launching our Outcomes Tracker. View the status of 603 commitments made by the federal government at a glance at buildcanada.com/tracker 📊

@SimonTheWang @jedgar The link in your bio is broken, I think it's missing an s.

thank you for supporting the ecosystem 🥹 @jedgar

@Khelsilem I think it's great. Also, the website for this project is stunning.

It follows the Squamish Nation's bylaws for building heights since it's within the Squamish Nation's jurisdiction. But also: • Matches heights for dozens of buildings within 2 km • Vancouver eliminated all minimum parking requirements city-wide as of June 30, 2024.

@EricDLombardi You might find the new the Netflix documentary about plastics interesting as they talk about how it's impacted fertility. nytimes.com/2026/03/16/wel…

Civic leaders are not curious enough regarding why our fertility rate has dropped to 1.2 children per woman. Any conversation about the long term growth rate of this country has to contend with the reality that it’s too hard for young people to start families earlier in life.

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@JJ_McCullough @rupasubramanya Running against the monarchy is a strategic mistake. It’s not going anywhere, it’s not a voter priority or a unifying issue, and it distracts from what people actually care about.

@rupasubramanya As I said, most Canadians, and most conservative Canadians in particular, do not like or care about the monarchy.

Canada's links to the British monarchy are not popular with Canadians, and polls show conservatives in particular don't like it. When Carney constantly bows and scrapes before King Charles, it turns many off. Conservatives should run against the monarchy, it's a good issue.

Tonight, we cry tears of joy. 🥹 Congratulations to Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, and to everyone behind THE GIRL WHO CRIED PEARLS, for bringing home the #Oscar for Best Animated Short! 🏆🇨🇦✨ Stream it for free → bit.ly/CriedPearlsNFB @TheAcademy #StreamCanadian #Oscars2026

@HassanRIsmail I commented because I genuinely couldn’t understand the point of your post. Work ethic has nothing to do with sitting in a coworking space. It reads like a lot of broad assumptions. You don’t have to build from Canada, but there’s no reason to dismiss those of us who chose to.

@amanda Sure?

a very interesting and telling phenomena: people do not work weekends in toronto. It is basically a taboo. contrast this with SF or NYC; where offices are almost always bustling; even late saturday nights. I tend towards the latter; so I always feel out of place here.

@HassanRIsmail Can I be honest?

@amanda I had worried in writing the post people would interpret it as trying to push 9-9-6 hustle culture grift vs an honest thought (it was the latter) What does feel hypocritical though, is the ‘elbows up build Canada’ bullshit that gets peddled; without the work ethic to back it up.

@sethbannon Makes me think of the "Scully Effect"

The Social Network inspired a generation to become entrepreneurs. Jurassic Park inspired a generation to become synthetic biologists. The West Wing inspired a generation to enter politics. Star Trek inspired a generation to become engineers and astronauts. What else?

@TimHoustonNS cc @build_canada

Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Spencer and the team at Dartmouth General Hospital. A medical device developed right here in Nova Scotia by Ring Rescue Inc. will be featured on HBO Max’s The Pitt this week. What started as a practical solution for emergency rooms is now being used across North America—and even making its way onto television. Great to see Nova Scotia innovation getting the recognition it deserves. 👏

This has to be one of the best/coolest sports quotes ever. Incredible player.

What else can be done to protect Jews in Canada? I’m not a security expert. Here are 6 ideas. (Yes, AI assisted) Others will have better. Before something very bad happens - let’s try our best. 1.Publicly fund the model that already exists. UJA launched Toronto’s Jewish Security Network in 2024: threat monitoring, volunteer training, and a Security Operations Centre. The UK and Australia both publicly fund Jewish community security at meaningful scale. Canada could too. 2.Stop working in silos. TPS has a Hate Crime Unit. Ontario has a Hate Crime and Extremism Unit. Federal agencies have related mandates. Toronto City Council has already called for a joint RCMP/CSIS/OPP/TPS task force focused on antisemitic hate and terror. Approve it. 3.Make threat briefings flow both ways. Community security groups already share what they see with police. Good. But institutions also need fast warning when police or intelligence services identify a credible threat. Share it. 4.Fix the grants. Ontario has invested more than $98M since 2021 in security for faith and cultural communities. Good. But the process is too slow and the grants are often too small. Fast-track approvals. Create bridge support. Prioritize high-risk periods. 5.Finish the training rollout. Every synagogue, school, JCC, and camp should have funded active-threat training, clear protocols, and regular drills on a deadline. 6.Treat this as infrastructure. Jewish security cannot depend on private fundraising after each incident. It needs stable public funding and standing coordination with government. I’m sure there are other better ideas out there. But we have to move beyond empty platitudes if we actually mean what we say.

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@alanfryermedia A ridiculous statement because they have had no coherent message or strategy on Iran, let alone most things. They are all winging it and Trump has contradicted almost all of Rubio's statements. It's so bad it has literally become a meme.

Dear Canadians. You may not agree with what he’s saying, and fair enough. But the difference between American and Canadian politicians is you understand what the Yanks are actually saying and where they actually stand.