Greg Brown

Walmart Canada and Costco Canada were the first and strongest supporters of Canadian made Sprague brand, in addition to many other emerging and disruptive Canadian made food brands that compete head to head with U.S. made food imports. They bring much needed competition into the Canadian grocery space, which helps keep food prices lower than they would otherwise be without them, and employ thousands of hardworking Canadians in Canada. It's complicated!

@CTVNews Odds are Rubio is "misspeaking"!

Rubio denies Zelenskyy’s claim that the U.S. asked Ukraine to cede land to Russia for security deal ctvnews.ca/world/article/…

@brianlilley The same premiers always tell Ottawa to stay in their lane. Well that’s exactly what Ottawa is doing; following the Constitution.

It’s crazy that provinces currently play no formal role in selecting judges appointed serve in courts over their jurisdiction.

@PierrePoilievre BS radar on full alert. The term of the interim budget watchdog expired. He wasn’t fired.

The Prime Minister is firing the interim budget watchdog for telling the truth about his Liberal record of doubling deficits to the highest outside COVID, cooking the books, and breaking his homebuilding promises. Reinstate the watchdog. Restore accountability: conservative.ca/cpc/reinstate-…

@Sam_Waldenberg @davidfrum @jeffzeleny The former president he talked to was himself!

All four living former US presidents have not talked to President Trump about Iran, aides tell @jeffzeleny and I, raising questions about about whether such a conversation actually took place. #cmmtp9kkj00003b6ugy51zcow" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cnn.com/world/live-new…

@TazWes @PabloReports @MeidasTouch Canadian here. We don't need a passport to vote. Driver's license is sufficient. As a matter of fact a couple of bills with your name and address is also fine

@PabloReports @MeidasTouch The bill is designed to prevent fraud, consistent with Canada and most of tje EU and world. Please help stop fraud.

Senate Republicans want to force the SAVE Act through reconciliation. The bill is designed to suppress voters, esp. women, minorities, and veterans.

You are absolutely allowed to leave Canada. You just can’t take a chunk of it with you. As for the constitution, it’s true: it’s very hard to change. Too hard. That needs to change — for everybody’s sake. The country needs a better amending formula — one that is based on the consent of the people, not the consent of the premiers. But whatever formula is chosen, it can never be the case that one part of the country can impose constitutional changes on the rest of the country merely by voting on it — or legislating it. It’s wrong, and unconstitutional, when the government of Quebec does it, or purports to. And it’s just as wrong when the government of Alberta does it. Or purports to. Constitutional change, of any kind, can only be the result of a broad consensus across the country. That’s especially true of the kind of constitutional change that would be required to break up the country. A final point, which has been made a thousand times, but it seems needs to be made a thousand more: equalization is not unfair to Alberta. It’s a screwed-up, dysfunctional, politicized program that doesn’t actually equalize. But it’s not paid for by Alberta, and it’s not an interprovincial revenue-sharing program. It’s a federal spending program paid for by federal taxpayers. Even as federal taxpayers, Albertan’s don’t pay into it disproportionately. They face exactly the same schedule of tax rates as taxpayers in the rest of the country. The people who pay disproportionately for it are richer people. They’re supposed to: that’s how a progressive income tax works. All these feverish calculations of how much more Albertans pay into the federal treasury than other Canadians are only a statement of how much richer Albertans are, on average, than other Canadians — a blessing, and a burden, they have in common with Canadians in, for example, midtown Toronto, who also pay “disproportionately” for equalization and other federal programs, only without the same vast industry devoted to showing how hard done by they are. The only way in which you could say that equalization treats Alberta “differently” than other provinces is that its government does not qualify, and has never qualified, for equalization payments. But that’s not discrimination either — there’s no law that says “Alberta shall not be eligible for equalization payments.” The reason it does not receive equalization is because it is, by far, the richest province in the country, with by far the highest per capita revenues — even without a provincial sales tax. Equalization is messed up enough, but an equalization program that paid out to the richest province in the federation would be completely insane. Maybe we shouldn’t have a progressive income tax. Maybe we shouldn’t have an equalization program. I happen to think we need both, albeit in substantially modified form, but those are legitimate questions for debate. What’s not legitimate is pretending that equalization is some kind of scam against Alberta. What’s even less legitimate is pretending you can abolish or reform a federal program by a referendum in one province. And what’s least legitimate of all is invoking the failure of that non-solution to a non-problem as justification for the constitutional nonsense of secession — which, to repeat, is the proposition that you can not only leave Canada, but take a piece of it with you.

@RiseOfAlberta Just remember that Ottawa sends millions to Alberta specifically for healthcare that aren't necessarily spent on healthcare by the UCP government.

Next time you wait in an ER, remember: Alberta sends Ottawa enough money to build 15 new hospitals every year. #AlbertaIndependence

@elonmusk I wouldn't believe it. No source is shown .

Wow

BREAKING: The U.S. Olympic curling team enrages MAGA by tearing into ICE on the world stage and taking a brave stand for the embattled people of Minnesota: "There's no shades of gray" and "We love our country." This is what real Americans sounds like... "I'd like to say I'm proud to be here to represent Team USA and to represent our country. But we'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been for everybody. This stuff is happening right around where we live," said Rich Ruohonen, the skip for the United States Men’s Curling Team. He is himself from Minnesota. "And I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a Constitution," he continued. "And it allows us to freedom of the press and freedom of speech, protects us from unreasonable searches and seizures and makes it that we have to, you know, have probable cause to be pulled over." "And what's happening in Minnesota is wrong," he said. "There's no shades of gray. It's clear. And I really love what's been happening there now with people coming out, showing the love, the compassion, integrity, and respect for others that they don't know and helping them out and we love Minnesota for that." "I want to make it clear that we are out here. We love our country," he went on. "We're playing for the U.S. We're playing for Team USA. And we're playing for each other, and we're playing for our family and our friends that sacrificed so much to get here today." "And that doesn't change anything because what the Olympics means is excellence, respect, friendship," said Ruohonen. "And we all, I think, exemplify that. And we are playing for the people of Minnesota and the people around the country who share those same values, that compassion, that love, and that respect." Ruohonen's words are especially courageous given the deranged rhetoric coming out of the Republican Party right now. Senator Rick Scott has called for any American Olympians who dare question the idea that U.S. is currently a beacon of "freedom and democracy" be "stripped of their USA Olympic uniform." MAGA is not American. Real Americans believe in the sanctity of free speech. We proudly stand with our Olympic athletes! Please ❤️ and share if you stand with our Olympics heroes!

@Lianne_Rood I would expect this type of innuendo from a click bait influencer not a member of parliament.

Carney has traveled the world and Canadians have only seen photo ops and picked up the bill. Brookfield has seen stock prices rise with every new country Carney has visited. Why? #cdnpoli #brookfield #canada

For all the conservatives blaming the PM for Trump's rant about the Gordie Howe bridge. #CCP

@CTVNews In other words he lied!

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick acknowledges meetings with Epstein that contradict previous claims ctvnews.ca/world/article/…

@NBCNews Wasn't he okay with this project in his first term?

Instagram’s parent company Meta and Google’s YouTube will face claims that their platforms deliberately addict and harm children. TikTok and Snap, which were originally named in the lawsuit, settled for undisclosed sums. nbcnews.com/business/busin…

@terrynewman No it's up to a reporter to back up their premise with facts.

He needs to prove he is not profiting with Brookfield from the decisions he's made governing Canada.

If Carney wants an election, he needs to sit down for a tough Canadian interview where a reporter asks him everything, including why he did not disclose his DOJ testimony and why Canada's deals with Qatar and China align with deals Brookfield made with the same countries.

@itsJohnRocker What foreign country is Bad Bunny from?

I REFUSE to watch a Super Bowl halftime show performed by a crossdressing foreigner who has NO RESPECT for this country that has give him EVERYTHING.

@Lianne_Rood The layoffs were announced before the China deal . Not related. be honest.

After Carney agreed to have Chinese EV’s enter our market, the CEO of GM warned us that the move was a "slippery slope." A week later, over 1,000 jobs were slashed at the GM Oshawa plant. Our economy is tanking, and Carney doesn’t care.

@SenSchumer Words are cheap. What are you doing to stop it?

Trump called for Republicans to, “take over voting in 15 states in the country.” Trump calling on his own party to nationalize voting is just more dangerous, autocratic poison. Our democracy is at risk, and it’s all the President’s fault.

@SenMikeLee You want to disenfranchise married women who choose their husband's name.

We are closer than ever to voting on the SAVE Act in the Senate. We are closer than ever to forcing Democrats to filibuster 24/7 on the Senate floor, telling the American people why they don’t deserve secure elections, until they drop. We are closer than ever to victory.

@ABDanielleSmith Guess the Liberals aren't stifling production after all! Good thing the previous PM got the TMX expansion built.

Alberta’s energy workers deserve a huge thank you. Our province is setting new production records, with output averaging up 4.2% with more than 4.2 million barrels a day in 2025, the highest levels ever recorded. To every rig hand, geologist, engineer, control room operator, truck driver, pipefitter, welder, tradesperson, camp cook, and everyone else who helps power Canada’s economy— thank you! Read article here: atb.com/company/insigh…