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Hearing and seeing so many people talk about how they miss Canada from a certain time period. They want to go back to when they had certain experiences or certain outcomes. That wasn't real. It only seemed real because your knowledge and world experience and access to

Continuity, Not Exception (Humans, a species among species) Most of human history rests on a quiet assumption: that we stand apart from the rest of life. We convinced ourselves that animals lacked reason, morality, identity, empathy. Humanity alone, we said, crossed an invisible boundary separating mind from instinct, meaning from mechanism. But observation keeps eroding that boundary. Animals cooperate. They punish unfairness, comfort the distressed, remember the dead, recognize individuals, and sustain complex social relationships shaped by expectation and consequence. Elephants linger beside their fallen. Primates reconcile after conflict. Social species navigate alliances, obligation, and trust in ways that are unmistakably structured. Even language, once treated as the final dividing line, increasingly appears less like a human invention and more like an expansion of communicative systems already widespread in nature. Each discovery does not raise animals toward us; it lowers the wall we imagined between us. What is emerging is not the spread of human traits outward, but the realization that these traits were never exclusively human. Evolution did not abruptly generate morality or cognition in a single species. It refined capacities that had already proven useful across millions of years of social living. Humans did not step outside nature. We are what happens when social intelligence accumulates long enough to study itself. The error was never primarily scientific. It was conceptual. We mistook complexity for superiority and familiarity for importance. Because we experience reality through human cognition, we quietly assumed cognition like ours must be the measure of value itself. The species making the judgment and the species benefiting from it turned out to be the same. Evolution does not produce higher or lower beings. It produces organisms fitted to particular problems. A bat perceives space in ways forever closed to us. A dog inhabits a world structured by scent rather than sight. An octopus solves problems with a nervous system alien to our own design. Evolution creates specialists, not royalty. Human exceptionalism begins to look less like a conclusion drawn from evidence and more like a story told from a single point of view. The harder implication follows naturally. Morality, empathy, and meaning are not signs that we escaped biology. They reveal how far biological processes themselves can extend. We are not the moment nature became conscious. We are one expression of consciousness emerging within it, continuous with what came before and inseparable from what still surrounds us. The world was never divided into humans and animals. We simply arrived late enough to mistake inheritance for invention.

@ProCanadian5 @thefullbite Never expected the question be answered, but people were freaking about it even being asked. Don't want personal questions, don't invoke your personal story as a fact claim in your argument.

@TheRunedBroker @thefullbite You used the word interrogation, and if he gave a little bit of himself, that’s his prerogative. He is not required to answer any of anyone’s questions. By the way.

@ProCanadian5 @thefullbite It wasn't an interrogation. HE put his own personal stuff on the table. It deserves to be tested.

@thefullbite Respectfully @TheRunedBroker

@originalkmiller @BitcoinMorfeo The Bloq also barely has any seats, at one point they had 50 they have since dwindled to 22. If you really look at it, the Bloq themselves have accomplished very little. All things Quebec has, is because of their provincial government.

@BitcoinMorfeo It really doesn't matter what federal party we vote for. Alberta and Saskatchewan votes have only impacted the results of a federal election 3 times in 60 years. Maverick tried this route. The Bloc works because they have the seats. We have so few seats they will ignore them.

Hey Albertans, whether the referendum succeeds or fails, it’s likely to take a while for independence to come to fruition. In the meantime, should we form an Albertan federal party à la BQ? If we did, would you vote for it?

Would be the pointless of the most pointless. Really take a look at things, the Bloq can be credited with accomplishing very little for Quebec. The majority of what Quebec has, was achieved through the moves and machinations of their provincial government. You'd be able to accomplish far more provincially than federally.

77 years ago — 1949 federal election results. Alberta stood apart. For decades, Albertans have participated in Con-Federation in good faith….yet nothing has changed, indeed it’s gotten worse. History speaks volumes. Sign the petition.
#AlbertaIndependence

Skate Canada (@SkateCanada) is now untagging themselves from any tweet that points out their hypocrisy.

@PierrePoilievre @papajoey1968 No, it's Ottawa you moron. Its the entire city. Fully infected by Liberal Party insider bullshit and all of the people basking in its glow. You just can't help yourself.

No. The problem is not "Ottawa." Ottawa is a city. The problem is the "Liberal government," whose present Liberal ministers, Fraser, Miller, and Diab, unleashed this immigration chaos. To fix a problem, name it.

Alberta Independence Sign the petition - THAT is the current goal. It's the only item on the menu. Stay on point and on message.

10 months ago, this was a post from Scott Moe. Do you believe he is doing enough to help Saskatchewan escape the status quo? Perhaps Scott Moe should have listened to what the NDP were saying: There is no middle choice--its either separation or status quo.

Again, only subject to it for company disclosures to employees or passengers. The act does not govern personal statements from the CEO. Further to this, in 2023 at committee, the Liberals and the Conservatives voted down a Bloq amendment requiring the Air Canada CEO to speak French. He speaks English, one of the pilots is English (if you must know) and he chose to communicate in the language that would offer the most sincerity rather than clumsily trying to speak French. So again, reorient yourself and guage the priority, genuine expression of condolences or "correct language" when again, 1/2 the flight crew was Anglophone. 🙄🙄

@TheRunedBroker Air canada is subject to the official languages act they aren't just any private company. Delivering a statement especially in this circumstance is a priority. The only ones doing performative outrage are people turning this into a Quebec bashing exercise.

I think we should offer condolences in French for a Quebec pilot that died. JJ I understand you hate Quebec but this is about respecting the dead in the official language that best suits the incident. Quebec is a part of Canada too. Stop using the dead to score political snark.

@TrevHal You - "We presume he is innocent" Also You - "We are kicking him out of the party" .... So which is it? Those are mutually exclusive.

Hon Chan, MLA for Richmond Centre, has been removed from the Conservative Caucus of British Columbia, effective immediately. Yesterday, Mr. Chan informed me of serious criminal charges against him. Prior to yesterday, the caucus and party had no knowledge of this matter or any related incidents. Action was taken immediately upon becoming aware of these charges. Our caucus wishes to be clear; any allegations of domestic violence are taken seriously. Anyone who experiences it deserves to know that people in positions of public trust will be held to the highest standard of accountability. Mr. Chan is entitled to the presumption of innocence and due process before the courts. Those proceedings will run their course. The caucus will respect the appropriate process as it proceeds.

@lolaluvsmovies @joshryanjames Wouldn't give a shit. I'd employ the use of technology to understand the words and then I'd carry on with my day. It really is that simple.

@joshryanjames Don’t ever presume/pretend you know what someone else is feeling. Ever. Canada is bilingual. One of the deceased is French Canadian from Quebec. If the situation was reversed and a formal announcement was only in French how woukd your statement be different?

One from Quebec. One from Ontario. Died heroes together. Do you think that they argued with each other about language? Of course, they didn't. Grow up people. Stop embarrassing yourselves.

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@CndContinental @JeffreyRWRath 150 years been trying to do that.... How's it working out for us? Retards live in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. I choose to save 6 million rather than try to convince 41 million.

You realize that the whole drive to take Alberta and Saskatchewan out of Confederation is to make them isolated from all markets but the USA, then subjected, owned and controlled by the USA. After which, with those two provinces out of Confederation the rest of Canada can be weakened economically and with political, economic and other pressure, also forced to surrender to the USA, and thus all of Canada becomes OWNED by the USA. Why don’t we fix Canada and hold it together? #thecarrotconference

Should we call the new country Alsask? 😎

@Puffingtonpete2 Keith actively has a job. Kenney not so much.

Why wait till May? Debate now.

Alberta and Saskatchewan together will become an economic powerhouse. Oil, natural gas, fertilizer, uranium, potash, and critical minerals. The resources the world needs, built by two provinces no longer held back by a declining Canada.

@dandolfa @slawman75 @manofbird Wasn't even a slip up. This was voted down in 2023, Air Canada has no government ownership and therefore isn't a Crown Corporation or anything of the sort. Quebeckers can stfu...people died, maybe grab some perspective? x.com/i/status/20368…

@slawman75 @manofbird I love the French-Canadian heritage in Canada! CEO clearly slipped up. The faux outrage expressed by many overshadows the real tragedy. CEO should issue a follow-up statement in French and the country should start focusing on its real problems. My 2 cents worth.

If I were a Quebec politician you’re goddam right I’d make hay from the Air Canada language brouhaha because the dismissive arrogance demonstrates how much English Canada still and will always devalue Quebecers’ attachment to their cultural and linguistic history and identity.

Sincerity > optics Over 500 French Karens in this country seriously need their heads examined (including YFB and Legault). 2 people died. The bodies are still in New York waiting to be patriated back to Canada for grieving families to be able to bury them. Less than 24 hours after the incident the Air Canada CEO issued a personal statement offering his condolences... And your collective panties are in a bunch because it was English spoken with French subtitles? People like you are the scourge of the earth, so fucking comfortable in your life that you have to invent reasons to get outraged. Allez vous faire foutre!