Ken Murton ☕️

@DebatingChris @jonkay @AdamZivo instagram.com/reel/DWo0U0oE9…

@jonkay @AdamZivo This prank show cost $1.6B Canadian taxpayer dollars? Can you please show me the receipts on that?

It is unacceptable that the CBC is using taxpayer dollars to defraud, harass, and mock conservative Canadian voices. This partisan weaponization of state media is reminiscent of Orbanist Hungary.

Why our campaign appealed the results of the SSW nomination race.

@The_Brian_Life @FoodProfessor @scoopercooper Agreed.. Also gives their MP's a stronger voice as they can 'fire' a sitting PM. No more PMO marching orders.

@FoodProfessor @scoopercooper Canadian PM's exercise a high level of control over the MP's within their caucus that British PM's do not. The British paradigm is much better, actually

While U.K.'s PM Starmer is facing growing pressure to resign amid a sluggish U.K. economy, PM Carney’s popularity is at a record high — despite Canada arguably being in worse shape on several key metrics, including unemployment, productivity, private-sector growth, and food inflation. Wonder why...

@Magnus_Observer @revishvilig @Magnus_Observer Saluti, the unroll you asked for: threadreaderapp.com/thread/2052764… See you soon. 🤖

@revishvilig Thanks for the post 👍🏻

source: theguardian.com/world/2026/may…

Robert Brovdi, Commander of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces: A “symbolic” attack on Red Square would generate headlines around the world but says Ukraine will probably deliver a “slap in the face” where Russia’s air defences are weaker. 1/9

The Pentagon is exploring Ukrainian interceptor drones after concluding that no U.S. manufacturer currently matches their cost, speed, and battlefield-tested reliability, according to Defense One. A UK–Ukraine co-developed drone recently scored 99.3 out of 100 in the Pentagon’s Drone Dominance program, outperforming competitors by a wide margin. Ukraine’s defense industry has expanded from just 7–10 drone manufacturers before the full-scale invasion to more than 500 today. The country now has the capacity to produce around 4 million drones annually, according to Ukrainian officials and multiple international reports. As a result, Ukraine has emerged as a global leader in drone and counter-drone warfare, with its technologies increasingly shaping how modern wars are fought.

@gcca @sarobertsonca Respectfully... What front are you referring to? Maybe the liberal group should start negotiating given that Mexico is well in its way to securing their own deal.

@sarobertsonca Generous and thoughtful comments on an expedition which the Americans will either ignore or use as a cudgel against Canada. Time for CPC MP’s to grow up, realise they lost the election and stand by the Government in a unified front in these negotiations.

PM Carney on delegation of CPC MPs in Washington: "Our interlocutors in the US are generous people, they're generous with their time, and it's good of them to meet a host of Canadians coming down. But in the end, they know and we know that we're the negotiators."

@EliAfriatISR Golda!! The lioness

I will follow back anyone who recognizes her. 💙

🚨 OPERATIONAL UPDATE: ISRAEL U.S. WAR WITH THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC - Reporting Window: Last ~72 Hours ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚓ STRAIT OF HORMUZ: FROM DISRUPTION TO CONTESTED CONTROL Over the last 72 hours, the situation in the Strait of Hormuz has remained in the same deadlock it's been in since the US naval blockade began. It is an actively contested zone, with both sides enforcing their position in real time. The United States has continued its blockade posture, turning back vessels, boarding ships, and maintaining a heavy naval and air presence across the corridor. The US posture hardened slightly as well after Trump ordered U.S. forces to shoot and kill Iranian boats laying mines in the Strait, turning mine warfare from a maritime threat into a direct trigger for U.S. kinetic action. At the same time, Iran has not backed down. Its forces have continued harassment operations and maintained the capability to disrupt traffic using smaller, asymmetric assets that survived earlier strikes. Washington is now preparing options for targeted strikes on Iran’s remaining naval capabilities tied to Hormuz disruption. That includes fast attack craft and mine-laying platforms that allow Iran to exert pressure without conventional naval dominance. This signals that the United States is continuing to prepare for a change from defending access to and from the strait to removing Iran’s ability to contest it. At the same time, Iran has continued to signal defiance, refusing to concede control even as the cost of maintaining that posture rises. The result is a maritime environment that is not stabilizing. It is hardening. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🕊️ ISLAMABAD: TALKS WITHOUT A CORE ISSUE Diplomacy has continued over the last three days, but the structure of those talks has become clearer and more problematic. Iran is now expected to participate in negotiations, but with a critical restriction. Its delegation has been explicitly instructed not to meaningfully engage on the nuclear issue. That is not a procedural limitation. It is a foundational one. The nuclear file is the central issue driving this conflict. Removing it from the negotiating framework does not simplify talks. It hollow them out. Even Iranian officials have reportedly warned that this constraint renders the negotiations effectively pointless. At the same time, the internal structure behind those negotiations further constrains progress. Mojtaba Khamenei remains physically compromised and largely isolated, with decision making increasingly flowing through a small circle of IRGC commanders. Iran is not negotiating from a unified command structure. It is negotiating through a fragmented system where authority is distributed and risk tolerance is uneven. So the talks continue, but they are not converging. They are buying time. The question is for whom. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇺🇸 U.S. POSTURE: PRESSURE AS THE PRIMARY TOOL Across the full 72-hour window, the U.S. posture has remained consistent, and that consistency is the signal. There has been no meaningful move toward de-escalation. The blockade remains in place. Additional forces continue to flow into the region. Strike planning has expanded, not contracted. Washington continues to pursue diplomacy and is maintaining negotiations as a channel, but its actual leverage is being built militarily. The assumption embedded in that approach is clear. If talks fail, escalation will follow quickly, and the groundwork for that escalation is already being laid. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇮🇷 IRAN: PRESSURE IS NOW MULTI-LAYERED Inside Iran, the pressure picture has sharpened over the last three days. Economically, the damage is now being quantified at a scale that is difficult to absorb. Estimates place total war-related losses in the range of hundreds of billions of dollars, translating into a significant per capita burden across the population. At the same time, Iran’s external economic relationships are beginning to fracture. Tensions with key regional partners are rising, and trade channels that once helped cushion sanctions and isolation are now under strain. Politically and structurally, the regime is also under pressure. Leadership is more insulated than at any point in recent memory, access is restricted, and decision making has become more centralized within a smaller and more security-focused inner circle. This combination matters. Iran is not collapsing. But it is operating under a level of sustained pressure that limits flexibility, slows decision making, and increases the risk of miscalculation. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇱🇧 LEBANON: EXTENDED CEASEFIRE, UNCHANGED REALITY The most visible diplomatic development in this window was the extension of the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire by three weeks. But the extension itself revealed the underlying reality almost immediately. Hezbollah violated the ceasefire with rocket fire as talks were underway, and Israeli operations continued in response. At the same time, Israeli strikes and activity in southern Lebanon have not stopped. Artillery fire, targeted operations, and force positioning all remain active. Hezbollah has also publicly described the ceasefire as “meaningless,” citing continued Israeli operations, reinforcing the reality that it does not view the agreement as binding. The operational picture also escalated in a more direct way. Hezbollah shot down an Israeli drone using a surface to air missile, and in response, the IDF ordered an evacuation in the area of Deir Ammar. That is not a signal of de-escalation. It is a sign of an active and adaptive battlefield. So while the diplomatic framework exists, the battlefield has not meaningfully changed. Lebanon remains in a state where the government is engaging diplomatically, but Hezbollah retains independent military agency. That is not a stable equilibrium. It is in fact an overlap of incompatible realities. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧠 WHAT ACTUALLY CHANGED Over the last 72 hours, the system did not move in any meaningful way toward resolution. The maritime front remains a contested battlespace and not just a temporary disruption. Negotiations are continuing, but without the core issue on the table and without unified authority behind them. The United States is preparing escalation options while maintaining diplomatic cover. Iran is absorbing pressure across multiple domains while continuing to delay. Lebanon’s ceasefire has been extended, but not stabilized. The bottom line is that this: This was not a period of any great breakthroughs. The gap between negotiation and reality appears to be widening however, and the longer that gap remains, the more likely it is that kinetic events, not talks, determine what happens next.

@kinsellawarren @LLBean Who has seniority ? (Wink)

I think we need a bigger @llbean pillow.

@FoodProfessor Truely sorry for your family's loss. I know we don't know each other, but we have similar experiences when it comes to cancer. A quiet prayer being said for your brother and for a safe crossing to the other side 🙏🏻

Some personal news. Lost my brother this week. The guy who looked after me when I was a kid. The one who coached my baseball teams. The one who loved his hometown, Farnham, with everything he had. The one who taught me how to play hockey. The one who inspired me to become a DJ. The one who got me my first board seat at the Farnham youth center. The one who bought me my first car. The one who helped me start a business when I was young… that guy. He’s gone. Jean—“Charlie” at home—passed away wednesday at 61. A father of three, a grandfather of two, taken far too quickly by an aggressive cancer that gave us only weeks. I broke down when I found out in early March. I was at the Toronto airport, waiting for a flight. I’ll never forget that moment. I knew time wasn’t on our side. We asked him what he wanted to do. He wanted to see the Blue Jays play Los Angeles Dodgers and Shohei Ohtani in Toronto. My twin brother Patrick pulled off something incredible—planned a trip in days. Early April. The Fairmont Royal York. Even some curling, dressed as bananas with the “Peel,” before the game. The Jays lost 14–2. Didn’t matter. We were together. And deep down, we all knew it would be the last time. Tonight, I’m thinking about my father, who just lost his first son. No parent should have to live that. I’m thinking about his daughters—Roxanne, Laurie, Rosalie—his granddaughters Élise and Alice, and Alex, the father. An entrepreneur for over four decades. Vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce. President of the Farnham golf club. He loved Farnham—and Farnham loved him back. This is a brutal loss for our family. But that’s life. F*ck cancer. Rest easy, my big brother. Go join Mom—she’s been watching over us for nearly 17 years. Give her a hug for all of us. Salut, Charlie.

@terrynewman Awesome!! 👏

There is no Dana, only Zuul

@MOSSADil I see you.. 🙏🏻

Significant suppression of our posts. The fact that over a million people opted into seeing our posts are being blocked by the new algorithm is a bit disheartening. If you see this post, drop a comment. It will boost the algorithm. If you follow us, but haven't seen our posts in a while, also drop a comment letting us know. Either way, set notifications so you won't miss us.

Only Canada could hitch a ride aboard the Americans' new moon rocket and then immediately bitch about how their U.S. ties are a weakness. We're the nation-state equivalent of Jaden Smith.

One of the greatest commentaies ever. 🤣

America spent $285 billion to LOSE the AI war. Stanford dropped a 423 page report yesterday and revealed the most damning stat on page 200: The number of AI researchers moving to the United States has collapsed 89% since 2017. 80% of that collapse happened in the LAST 12 MONTHS. Let that sink in. The country that invented the transformer. The country that built OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and xAI. The country pouring $285.9 billion of private capital into AI in a single year (23x more than China). Can no longer attract the people who actually build the technology. And here's the part that should concern every founder, operator, and investor reading this: The Trump administration just made it official. The H-1B visa now costs employers $100,000 PER HIRE. So OpenAI wants to hire a Chinese postdoc from Tsinghua? $100K before they write a line of code. Anthropic wants a French ML engineer? $100K. Google wants the Indian PhD who literally co-authored the paper their entire model is based on? $100K. And these are the LUCKY ones who even get a visa. The result was instant. 89% drop over 8 years. 80% of it in the last year alone. The talent pipeline got destroyed. Now look at the other side of the chart: China's top model is now 2.7 percentage points behind Anthropic's best. Down from a 20+ point gap two years ago. China leads the world in AI publications. China leads in AI patents. China leads in industrial robot installations. US and Chinese models have traded the #1 spot multiple times since early 2025. Switzerland and Singapore now have more AI researchers per capita than the US. The US ranks 24TH globally in actual AI adoption. Behind the UAE. Behind Singapore. Behind countries most Americans couldn't find on a map. And here's the truly insane part: 50% of the world's top AI researchers are Chinese. Jensen Huang said this on a podcast 3 weeks ago. For 20 years, the US strategy was simple: Let them study at Stanford and MIT, then keep them. Pay them $800K. Give them green cards. Build the future on imported brains. That deal is dead. We just told the smartest people in the world: "Pay $100,000 for the privilege of working here, or go home." And guess what they're doing. They're going to Zurich, where Anthropic and OpenAI are quietly opening offices because they can't get the talent into San Francisco anymore. The strategy is the same as building a Ferrari factory and then banning mechanics from entering the building. You can pour hundreds of billions into data centers. You can buy 4 million Nvidia chips. You can sign $300 billion cloud contracts with Oracle. You can build nuclear reactors to power your GPUs. None of it matters if the people who write the algorithms aren't allowed in the country. Wall Street thinks AI is a capex race. But in reality, it's a TALENT race. Every dollar Microsoft and Meta and Google are spending assumes the same army of researchers will keep showing up to use it. That assumption just broke. And the smart money already knows: Why is Anthropic opening a Zurich office? Why is DeepMind expanding in London instead of Mountain View? Why is OpenAI hiring in Dublin and Singapore? Because the math no longer works in America. The government turned the world's biggest brain magnet into the world's most expensive border wall. 3 years from now, when China launches a frontier model that outperforms anything in the US and the headlines scream "How did we lose the lead?" - remember this post. The lead wasn't lost in a lab. It wasn't lost on a benchmark. It wasn't lost to a smarter algorithm. It was lost at customs.

This GQ Jordan Peterson interview lives rent free in my head. The woman who interviewed him — Helen Lewis — had no idea who she was up against.

This is clearly him as an electrician.

@terrynewman @JJNicholl The Liberals haven't grasped the concept of working towards having people *wanting* to stay. Give them a reason to instead of working from marginalizing and belittling them... Trust me. That won't be a winning strategy.

Threatening young people with a massive exit tax or shutting down mobility pathways won’t fix Canada’s problems. It will only confirm why so many feel they have no choice but to leave. nationalpost.com/opinion/terry-…

@nspector4 Champagne socialists have to eat too! We don't expect them to shop at Co-op or value village now do we? (Wink) George Orwell's 1984 famous quote applies : 'We're all created equal. Some are more equal than others' #cdnpoli #NDP