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@WatchMyReview @TSN_Sports Perfect. Shows how much it pains them

@TSN_Sports Now they will scream it's fixed by the NHL

The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Gavin McKenna sweepstakes in the 2026 TSN Mock Draft Lottery. 🤣 #TradeCentre

The moment the Leafs won the 2026 Draft Lottery 🎥: Sportsnet | #LeafsForever

That first pick feeling!

John Ivison: Carney’s flimsy economic claims get ripped apart by his new parliamentary budget officer nationalpost.com/opinion/john-i…

“It's a great day to be a Toronto Maple Leaf…” @CraigJButton on the Leafs winning the NHL Draft Lottery for the second time in franchise history, the impact of securing the first overall pick following their tumultuous season, and more: tsn.ca/nhl/video/2026…

#BREAKING: Toronto Maple Leafs win 2026 NHL Draft Lottery, will select No. 1 overall cp24.com/local/toronto/…

THANK YOU @ HOCKEY GODS!!

Leafs win the draft lottery

@EricGrenierTW So this projection is based on aggregated polls taken before the economic update and sovereign “wealth” fund each landed with an unenthusiastic thud, except one? Seems rather dated.

The Writ's projections have been updated: LIB🔴 46.2% (↗️0.5 since last week) / 221 seats (↗️3) CON🔵 34.5% (↗️0.5) / 86 (=) NDP🟠 8.8% (↘️0.6) / 12 (↘️3) BQ💠 6.3% (=) / 22 (=) GRN🟢 1.9% (↘️0.2) / 2 (=) Full regional projections and tracking charts: thewrit.ca/p/the-writs-fe…

The Prime Minister appears to be moving Canada toward closer alignment with the European Union, raising important questions about national sovereignty and democratic accountability. Canada is an independent country with its own Constitution, including the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which protects the fundamental liberties of Canadians. Any move toward deeper political or legal integration with a supranational body like the EU could shift decision-making authority away from Canadian institutions and toward external bodies that are not directly accountable to Canadian voters. torontosun.com/opinion/column…

I don't understand why Canadian government reps keep saying “We don't support Iran for positions at the UN” as they keep supporting Iran for positions at the UN. 🧵

The PRC ambassador’s warning about Canadian MPs going to Taiwan or Royal Canadian Navy warships transiting international waters are unacceptable. The silence from the Liberal government suggests that they are “keeping the sign in the window” and kowtowing to Beijing despite this intimidation, and even though Canada’s national intelligence agency has assessed that the PRC is the biggest foreign interference threat actor in our democracy. Mr. Carney needs to make clear that these comments are unacceptable. Mr. Carney needs to make clear that as an independent sovereign country, Canada does not take its instructions from foreign governments about where its MPs can go or where its warships can transit in international waters. #cdnpoli

Last August, I was invited to keynote (no honorarium) at a major event organized by Polytechnique Montréal—you know, the campus that no longer allows meat to be sold. I received a note yesterday saying they’ve pivoted and will invite someone else to speak. Here's the deal. Unless you’re left-of-centre or aligned with the Liberals, you risk being sidelined on university campuses in Canada. Full stop. That’s the reality—and Canadians should know it.

The average voter won't care, but the more Carney lays out his worldview the more the contradictions and incongruences in his thinking (or lack of sincerity) become apparent. In his famous Davos speech he said "we actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be." But the way he talks about and sees Europe does not fit this, and this statement is bizarre. We should absolutely be pursuing closer ties to Europe, but it is delusional if he actually believes the new international order will be "rebuilt out of Europe." Europe for all its grand aspirations cannot even defend Ukraine by itself and without American help. Europe would need something like 300,000 additional troops and €250 billion a year in extra defence spending just to deter Russia without the Americans. NATO's own Secretary General told the European Parliament in January that Europe "cannot at the moment provide nearly enough of what Ukraine needs to defend itself today, and to deter tomorrow," and that without American weapons "we cannot keep Ukraine in the fight. Literally not." Rutte told European lawmakers that anyone who thinks Europe can defend itself without the US should "keep on dreaming." Four years into the most serious land war on the continent since 1945 and this is where we are. That is not a continent about to anchor a new international order. The world order is quickly is reorganising, yes. But around a US-China axis, not Brussels. The eurozone is forecast to grow 0.9% this year. China at 4.5%. China accounts for roughly 30% of global growth, Europe's share of global GDP keeps shrinking. Europe is just one of many players. Again if you take Carney seriously here, it's silly. Build closer ties with Europe yes but do not believe this is the next superpower. But i suspect this is actually just another sign that Carney is good at politics - he knows exactly what the Davos crowd, his boomer base and media admirers want to hear and he is very good at giving it to them. Flattery has done him enormous favours in European capitals. But telling European elites the future runs through them is not realism, it is the opposite of realism. It is telling people what they want to hear, not the truth.

@ryanwhitney6 Great news! Don’t need fair weather fans!

Big news today. Biz is out. Can’t believe it. What a run. 2 trips to the second round. Memories for a lifetime

@MPelletierCIO @cbcwatcher Wow! Built out of Europe? Not Canada? So little faith in our country.

We're doomed if he truly believes this.

@CanadianPM Vacuous

In Yerevan today, Prime Minister Carney met with Roberta Metsola, the President of the European Parliament. The leaders discussed the strong and growing Canada-EU relationship, advancing collaboration across priority sectors, and more: pm.gc.ca/en/news/readou…

GIDDY UP COWBOY!!! 🤠 Easton Cowan scores to make it 2-0!

This photograph was captured during the 5th Solvay Conference on Quantum Mechanics in Brussels, Belgium, in 1927. Among the 29 attendees, 17 were either Nobel Prize laureates or would go on to become one in the future. Notably, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, positioned two seats to the left of Albert Einstein, who is seated in the middle of the front row, was the sole woman in attendance. She holds the distinction of being the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win it twice, and the only individual to secure Nobel Prizes in two distinct fields: physics and chemistry. Here are the names of the other attendees. Some of these names may sound familiar, especially if you've studied physics, as many fundamental physical constants bear their names: Front row: Irving Langmuir, Max Planck, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Paul Langevin, Charles-Eugène Guye, C.T.R Wilson, Owen Richardson. Middle row: Peter Debye, Martin Knudsen, William Lawrence Bragg, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Paul Dirac, Arthur Compton, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, Niels Bohr. Back row: Auguste Piccard, Émile Henriot, Paul Ehrenfest, Édouard Herzen, Théophile de Donder, Erwin Schrödinger, JE Verschaffelt, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Ralph Fowler, Léon Brillouin.

Fun fact. If you blended all 8 billion people on Earth into a fine goo (density of a human = 985 kg/m3, average human body mass = 62 kg), you would end up with a sphere of human goo just under 1 km wide. [✏️ kiwi2703]