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Canada should step up now! Commit to sending troops to Ukraine as the British have done. Break the piggy banks and increase the deficit to provide the largest commitment of funding support. This is the day, not tomorrow. This is historic #SlavaUkraini @JustinTrudeau @PMcanadien

@RomanFisher__ I have watched it on Parliament Hill & the RCMP headquarters in east Ottawa.

I’d love to see this someday

@AroundBirding Great pic

Kayaker enjoying sunrise

@callmyno1 Sexy!!

Damn my character is sexy. I hope he stars in a movie or series soon. *makes tactical noises*

@annex_girl Instantly thought of my wife & her fights with her undergarments (bra)!

Me: I just want to be comfortable. My Underwire Bra: Fuck you.

@FredFellaIMO Take as much time as you need, but please come back. We need voices like your own to continue the efforts. 🇨🇦❤️🇺🇦

I’ve done some thinking and I will come back. Just going to take some time off. Not sure how long. Thank you to everyone who gave kind words and continues to support Ukraine. Take care. x.com/FredFellaIMO/s…

@JustinTrudeau @EmmanuelMacron Thank you Prime Minister

This Bastille Day, I’m reminded of the incredible bond between Canada and France, forged over years of partnership, unity, and friendship. Last year, I was honoured to be appointed Grand Officier of the Legion of Honour. I’d like to share my most heartfelt thanks to a dear friend, and a steadfast ally of the Canadian people, President @EmmanuelMacron. I am incredibly proud of everything we accomplished, together, for the people of both our nations.  Bonne fête nationale! 🇨🇦🇫🇷

@callmyno1 Too predictable, 3 strikes you’re out. A way to recover a life lost? Or they are out only if they lose the 3 lives in a specific manner?

I need a hook for my story frame, mayhaps they each get three lives and if they lose all three they are out for good? 🧐

@marlene4719 Highest inflation in the G7… winning!!

Trump: “Biden might have been sleepy, but boy he could create inflation like nobody else.” When Trump took over from Biden inflation was 2.9%. It’s 3.5% today.

Trump: "Prices are coming way down and we're doing a great job. Remember that for the midterms. Remember that because nobody else could do it. Prices are way down."

It does not matter whether the man federal immigration agents killed in Maine had work authorization. It does not matter whether he had a social security number. The state killed a man, and the national conversation turned first to his paperwork. That order of priorities is worth sitting with for a moment. The debate underway is whether the victim somehow earned his own death. The question that should be asked, why agents of the state are killing people over immigration status at all, has gone strangely quiet. It deserves saying plainly: this is not a normal practice anywhere. Most authoritarian states, whatever else they do, do not execute people over work permits. Among Western democracies, the number of countries that do this is zero. I say that carefully, and I include the United States in the arithmetic. A country where this happens, and where the response is to audit the victim, has stepped outside that category, whether or not it has noticed yet. Nobody knows where this ends. America will not repeat anyone else's history; it will make its own, and its own history books will one day have to account for this chapter. But the direction of travel is visible from here, and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise. What worries an outside observer most is not any single incident but the paralysis around them. When one side asks the government to stop killing innocent people, the answer is not reflection but reflex: do not listen to them, they are the other side. When even that request has become a partisan position, something essential has already broken. And the pattern from here is familiar. One killing becomes several. Unrest follows, because decent people will try to stop what they cannot accept. And unrest, in turn, becomes the argument for emergency powers, manufactured or real, which enable more of what caused the unrest in the first place. This is not prophecy. It is simply how these sequences have always run. For decades, people asked how ordinary countries slid into darkness. The answer was never a dramatic turning point with sinister music. It was a Tuesday, a news cycle, a paperwork debate over a dead man. Then another one. To my American friends reading this: I know the majority of you want no part of it. But watching from the outside, we notice something your own media seems unwilling to show: one half of your country has effectively been silenced. Not argued down, simply removed from the picture. The cameras point one way now. They find endless airtime for the people explaining why someone had to die, why a mother lunged at twenty-two masked men, why the latest body is somehow its own fault. The people asking why any of this is happening at all do not get a microphone. A majority you can neither see nor hear is still a majority. I have known your country too long to doubt it. So the rest of us will say what your cameras will not: the America worth remembering does not kill people, documented or not, and every single one of you knows exactly why that sentence should never have needed writing. Stay connected, follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

@sophgaston Or he should immediately replace Rutte as Secretary General of NATO.

Sir Keir Starmer should be offered a role as a Special Envoy for European Security, in which he can continue his work on the Coalition of the Willing, build on his relationship with President Zelenksyy, and provide much-needed continuity for Britain's European partners.

@JimmySecUK Congrats!!

Personal news; after over four years working in Ukraine as a freelance journalist and security analyst and working for many different and excellent publications I’m happy to announce I’ve now joined the Kyiv Independent as a special correspondent.

@RonFilipkowski I think the most insane address is still several months ahead of us. This one will be crazy, but not the most insane, IMO.

This will be perhaps the most insane address to the nation that has ever been given by an American president.

A new national survey led by researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) is shedding light on the experiences of Indigenous people during pregnancy and childbirth. cheknews.ca/new-survey-hig…

@JaredDapena We are planning to go to 2030, perfect opportunity to visit Portugal, Spain & watch some great football!

I am now a diehard Norway fan. My top two will always be Spain and Canada…but I’m adding Norway to my VIP list with Iceland.

@hopefulnotsure @coreyhoganyyc I disagree! Rip would back him up!! So would Beth.

@JakeIndigenous @coreyhoganyyc He would have no chance in Yellowstone (Dutton Ranch).

Huge thanks to all 40 of my Liberal MP colleagues who made the trip out to Calgary for the Stampede this year - ten days of breakfasts, receptions, community events, and great conversations with Calgarians and visitors from across the country. The most of us I managed to get in one picture was twenty-five, but couldn't miss the chance to thank everyone who came out: Sima Acan, Rebecca Alty, Kody Blois, Ben Carr, François-Philippe Champagne, Maggie Chi, Leslie Church, Lena Metlege Diab, Terry Duguid, Ali Ehsassi, Jessica Fancy, Peter Fragiskatos, Sean Fraser, Will Greaves, Claude Guay, Lisa Hepfner, Tim Hodgson, Matt Jenereux, Mike Kelloway, Ginette Lavack, Wayne Long, Michael Ma, Heath MacDonald, James Maloney, Marc Miller, Giovanna Mingarelli, Chi Nguyen, Eleanor Olszewski, Tom Osborne, Nathalie Provost, Zoe Royer, Ruby Sahota, Randeep Sarai, Jake Sawatzky, Peter Schiefke, Terry Sheehan, Maninder Sidhu, Evan Solomon, John Zerucelli… and of course, Prime Minister Mark Carney. Thanks for coming out and showing Calgary such great support. Thanks for saying “Yahoo” and not “Yee-Haw”. And thanks for being the best colleagues a guy could ask for. See you all again next year! #CalgaryStampede #YYC

@vlad_rad @pmagn @ShannonODKOMO @MMadryga @judah47 Is there a happy medium? Feels cool right now but no need for a heat dome!

Watching for a potential #Heatwave🥵 building into the #PNW and #BC starting next Friday. @pmagn @ShannonODKOMO @MMadryga @judah47 #BCHeat #BCWx #BCStormWatch #WaWx #Summer

@MMorrillArt Beautiful

Expanding Light 30x60 acrylic on canvas Available at Kube Gallery in Fort Langley, BC

@Maks_NAFO_FELLA I wish that video was taken at the bottom of the sea, although it is nice to see the pressure put on the shadow fleet.

Another video from Russian tanker 🔥🛳️

@annex_girl Enjoy after a very busy weekend!

Husband and I having beers on our beach. Yes, I’m wearing a wide hat.