Susan A 🇨🇦

@SlightPeeve @DavidNe29154673 @runthinkwrite @FondOfBeetles @cathydevine56 Irish dancing? Beauty pageants? All women are not inferior to every man: you know this is not true. Serena Williams could beat most 99%?) men at tennis; but not top 200 seeded males. According to her, btw.

@DavidNe29154673 @runthinkwrite @FondOfBeetles @cathydevine56 If ALL women are biologically inferior to EVERY man at: chess, computer games, darts, pool, lawn bowls, snooker, Irish dancing, beauty pageants, etc...then how can they be equal to men at any paid work? Therefore why should they be paid the same as a 'superior' man?

The ad hominem and misogynistic insults directed against my friends @FondOfBeetles and @cathydevine56 are increasing, from sporting men - academics and journos. It's noted, and it's explicable: it's all they've got left.

@SlightPeeve @runthinkwrite @FondOfBeetles @cathydevine56 That’s really not the case. She would acknowledge that you can’t compare average folks to trained athletes to elite athletes. That’s actually one of the problems: non-elite males can beat elite females at many sports. Read her stuff, she brings data.

@runthinkwrite @FondOfBeetles @cathydevine56 Beetles pushes 'absolute male supremacy' piffle. To them EVERY man is superior at EVERY activity to EVERY woman (excepting babies). I expect her in the near future to testify against equal pay for women on that basis, as equal pay is 'against immutable biological reality'.

@StephenPunwasi @HolyRoller1945 We have never recovered from the forced amalgamation with the burbs. Urbanites want different things. But Ford’s nonstop interference has definitely made things worse.

@HolyRoller1945 A large part of Toronto’s problem is the shitty ideas in the city are pressured by the province and federal government. It’s not even just the people elected here, but rural Ontario and Atlantic Canada are electing how they think we should live.

fyi 🇨🇦, Toronto is dying. School board to cut 289 teachers, 5,000 fewer kids expected. TO now has more seniors than kids, a problem that takes at least a generation to fix. Politicians are spending astronomical amounts of taxpayer cash to turn TO into something no one wants.

@yodobasiend @Vincentt1987 You are correct. The error is the shadow. Wind does not always blow in the prevailing (usual) direction. But all shadows must be in the same direction.

@Vincentt1987 「風向き」という意見があるが… この地域は普段左に向けて風が吹くから木々が左に向けて変形してて、この時だけ偶然反対方向に風が吹いてる、…てことない？絶対ない？論理的にあり得ない？？？

En Japón, la pregunta de 100 puntos que un maestro de primaria le hizo a sus estudiantes diciendo "solo tienen 1 minuto"; "Encuentren el error lógico en la imagen."

@vipashigaru @Vincentt1987 Exactly. The wind can blow in a direction other than prevailing. But all shadows should be in the same direction, and they are not.

@Vincentt1987 私が推すのは影。手前の柵の影は手前に来ているのに対し、左奥の木々の影は真下に、家の影は見当たらない。

🇺🇦 Bravo! Zelensky just dropped a cold warning straight to the American people: “I want American people to understand: we are your allies in Europe. World has no distance anymore — when drones already strike thousands of kilometers. One, two, three years — drones will strike ten, twenty thousand kilometers. With reactive engines, they will be very cheap. There will be swarms of these drones. You can’t defend that by yourself. The world has to help countries defend themselves and push the aggressor back. That’s why, i think, Americans need us, and we need the United States.” Who’s listening?

@PaulStewartII @MarkJCarney While this is indeed the tradition of Westminster, we do not have the same balance of powers of Westminster. Parties hold power of nomination. MPs here rarely speak or vote against party lines. What is the real purpose here? Committee control? Dismantling QP? What?

This is a great time to reup this explainer on how floor crossing is the essence of our democracy. It's a feature, not a bug. This is democracy in action. The starting point is the people. MPs are elected from ridings to represent their constituents in Parliament. They serve the people first. Parties come after. MPs may remain in caucus, leave it, sit as independents, or join another party. Those choices can carry real consequences. Sometimes large ones. That is part of representative government.² Parliamentary democracy exists to govern in line with the majority will of the people, as reflected in the House those people elect. Its purpose is to produce government from the representatives the people send to Ottawa, and to test that government through confidence in the House. In that sense, shifts between parties can be one way the House continues to express the people’s collective will between elections.² parliamentary and democratic history Since before Confederation, hundreds of politicians in Canada have crossed the floor. Some did so quietly. Others changed the course of a Parliament. Some were punished by voters. Others were returned. The practice is normal, although controversial at times.³ The broader Westminster tradition says the same thing. Winston Churchill crossed the floor twice. In 1904, he left the Conservatives over tariffs and free trade and joined the Liberals. In 1924, he returned to the Conservatives as the political landscape shifted. Churchill was, in that sense, a “double-crosser.” History does not see Churchill as a moral or democratic failure. It sees him as a parliamentarian operating within a parliamentary system that allows parties to shift and members to realign.⁴ Full assessment in the paper below 👇 x.com/PaulStewartII/…

At this important moment for our country’s future, Canadians with a broad range of experience and perspectives are uniting to build Canada strong. I am honoured to welcome Marilyn Gladu today as the newest member of this government and our Liberal caucus. In a time of global economic uncertainty, Canada’s success will depend on how we build ambition into progress and strengths into sustained advantage. Marilyn brings the practical, results-driven leadership this effort demands. Having spent decades of her career in engineering and international business, she understands what it takes to create good jobs, strengthen supply chains, and ensure Canadian industry can compete in a rapidly changing global economy. She has been elected by the people of Sarnia—Lambton–Bkejwanong in four straight elections since 2015, and repeatedly earned recognition from colleagues across Parliament for her proven willingness to work constructively across party lines. I’m looking forward to working closely with Marilyn to build a stronger and more independent Canadian economy, meeting the challenges of a changing world with lasting opportunities for all.

@preta_6 I what i am learning about Mark Carney with these floor crossers is very distasteful.

This doesn’t make sense. She’s either a total phony or there’s something that made crossing the floor very lucrative. What is going on?

So if Mr. Carney gets a majority, what changes? Because no one is really opposing them now. And they’re not really bothering too much with Question Period now. And they’re already on the omnibus… And why does Ford think it’s key? Because it hasn’t helped him accomplish much.

@cselley Well, that very much depends on how you define beauty.

@Mspundit I love it too, but it's not "beautiful."

When was Canadian architecture beautiful?

@cselley And a personal favourite, the OCAD building by Stuart Alsop.

@cselley BCE Place Calatrava atrium is beautiful.

@cselley Calgary Central Library. Gorgeous inside and out. Also pretty new.

@cselley Blue Flame Kitchen in Calgary. Believe it or not, this is a corporate cafeteria open to the public, and the food is also top notch.

@cselley The Well atrium is beautiful. Quite a new building.

@mattgurney I was wondering about the possibilities of pipelines across the Saudi desert as an alternative. x.com/i/grok/share/c…

Honestly at this point Canada and Europe should probably have a plan in place to mine Hormuz.

If the ceasefire doesn't hold, or holds in a way that becomes particularly humiliating for POTUS, not hard to him imagine taking it out on NATO.

@UNWatch Some background via Grok on UNRWA… x.com/i/grok/share/b…

TRAGIC: “Today, the resources are not here,” says UNRWA's Philippe Lazzarini. “The U.S. has stopped. Another important donor has stopped—Sweden. It was part of the top five. And we have a significant decrease of the Arab world's contribution to UNRWA. In 2025, it dropped by 90%.”

TIL Govt of Canada systems cannot even share addresses. And no one has written some middleware agent (If that’s the term?) to fix this. Leading the charge on productivity gains!

@fem_mb @elonmusk @Support Not hard at all.

How hard would it be to set the algorithm to just reject any account made with that phrase in the name or url, @elonmusk @Support?

@MikePMoffatt @gregbradyx Because no young families can afford to live here?

@gregbradyx The biggest factor is age. City of Toronto has way more 17 and 18 year olds than 3 and 4 year olds, so for every 10 kids aging out of the system, only 8 or 9 are aging in.

1. I don’t like seeing teachers lose their jobs. Not at all. My parents taught their entire careers, were damn good ones, & never had a moment’s fear about getting cut. 2. I’ve heard the number, in 26-27, is closer to 11,000 kids in families leaving the TDSB for another board or for private. This is no accident. Until the reasons for this get addressed, more teachers will lose their gigs.