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@LizMair He fibs about everything

You can tell he’s not making this up at all by the fact he couldn’t even remember the purported fourth animal…

@NHLPlayerSafety @reporterchris Morgan Reilly got 5 games. What a joke

Ottawa’s Ridly Greig has been suspended for two regular season games for roughing Carolina’s Sean Walker. nhl.com/video/topic/pl…

@nspector4 Ex Dean of McGill?

@nspector4 Respected female francophone are the hints now.

@BenWoodfinden Hypothesis, this is about Border Carbon taxes. This is perceived in some circles as the way forward and will isolate the US. I am not agreeing just reporting what I hear from people who run in those circles.

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.

@stphnmaher Mind you francophone doesnt mean Quebecer. So maybe one of Dom LeBlanc's cousins got the gig.

@stphnmaher Probably Marc Garneau or Lawrence Cannon. But maybe its the reward to Gilles Duceppe for supporting Libs in Terrebonne 😁

I am told PMO will tomorrow announce that a "well-respected francophone" will be the next GG. I don't know who it will be, or anything else but that.

@mtremblay1 @MickeyDjuric PMMC already ruled out using energy and minerals as "Cards" or "leverage" just last week

@MickeyDjuric So their expectation is that we don't leverage energy in the upcoming CUSMA negotiations but it's perfectly fine for them to leverage where they buy their energy against us? Puh-leeze...! Hoekstra is a Trump sycophant, nothing more. Let's stop giving his statements any oxygen...

U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra: "We think that Canada might be the best place to get that oil. But if Canada denies us the opportunity to get more oil and gas from Canada, we have no choice but to go some other place.” politico.com/newsletters/ca…

Global LNG exports continue to contract due to the Hormuz closure 🚢 ⚠️ Shipments declined to about 33 million tons, the lowest level since May 2024, according to ship-tracking data (Still, the lost volumes were partially replaced with new output from the US and Canada)

@leftcoastbabe @FPWellman Never a good sign when you bring in family like that....shows he feels his position isnt secure...and I would take that all of the way back to JFK and RFK.

@FPWellman And now he's bringing his THIRD wife, a former Fox producer to meetings? Am sure that's "helping." the-independent.com/news/world/ame…

It’s because he is an asshole. It’s not rocket science. He’s a terrible leader way over his head. He must resign.

@DrNeilStone I will say again. Trump received Remdisivir in Oct 2020. What likely saved him were the Regeneron monoclonals, he was in a pretty dire state

RFK Jr saying that "remdesivir and ventilators were bound to kill you " if you got Covid Excuse my language but this is pure total horse shit He is either grossly misinformed or a liar Neither are are attributes I would want for the Health Secretary

@irbrodie I would write a very different paper today based on more experience, education and perspective. It was early and the focus was more about exploring whether it was a slush fund. The answer, if I recall correctly, was a tepid no. But did pick up that it seemed to lack direction

Always, always invest in Albertans.

@nspector4 wonder if they discussed Tusk's assessment from last week? Given the 2500 canadian troops in Latvia will rely on Polish response to rescue. Putin could attack NATO territory 'within months' - and US 'may not come to Europe’s aid' - The Mirror share.google/aXZ9BzonQ6AMPl…

@jackmitchell @BenWoodfinden Yup. The rhetoric doesnt come close. We arent even in the same city let alone neighbourhood or ballpark

@StephenJack4 @BenWoodfinden "In February 1940, orders were placed for the first corvettes; by the end of that year, 44 had been launched."

None of these 15 projects have been approved or are under construction, they have simply been referred to the Major Projects Office. At some point soon we're going to need to start seeing shovels in the ground if "build at speeds not seen since WW2" means anything real.

@andy_mac62 @BenWoodfinden better question, how many pipelines did the confederacy of Liberals, Greens, NDP and enviro groups stop or delay

@BenWoodfinden How pipelines did Harper build?

@travisyost I have show id when i vote in Canada, i dont have to show citizenship, thats captured at voter reg. I definitely dont have to show id going into a restaurant. ID can be license or it can be 2 pieces of govt or bank letters showing name and address. This shouldnt be that hard

Maître d’ always IDs me upon entry at Chili’s

@irbrodie I did a paper all those years ago at UWO ( mid 80's) on the Heritage Fund. And I can admit I missed the bigger point, which i think you highlight. What really is/was the best use of capital based on the circumstances (strategy). View of future has a big impact on that.

payoff than a bond fund. The Heritage Fund made sense when we were worried about the future. When we were optimistic, we invested in people and infrastructure to match. And I fear Ottawa’s fund is a statement of pessimism about the future.

Politicians did not “poach” Alberta’s fund. There’s nothing virtuous about building up resource revenues and investing them in financial markets. In the case of Alberta, investing in educating Albertans and building highways etc had a far far higher cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…

Ukraine Is Now An Arms Superpower open.substack.com/pub/persuasion…

Narrator: Not a single new automobile manufacturing plant has been constructed in the United States. Not one.