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@sentdefender Racism.

The frustrations with Defense Secretary Hegseth’s approach came to a boil last summer during a heated exchange between Ricky Buria, Hegseth’s Chief of Staff, and Army Secretary Driscoll about a separate promotion. Buria chastised the Driscoll for selecting Maj. Gen. Antoinette R. Gant, a combat engineer who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, to take command of the Military District of Washington, said three current and former defense and administration officials familiar with the exchange, with Buria telling Driscoll that President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events, the officials told The New York Times. Driscoll was shocked. “The President is not a racist or sexist,” he told Mr. Buria, according to the officials. Driscoll then raised the issue with a senior official at the White House who agreed with his assessment of President Trump. Hegseth’s office retreated from the issue, while General Gant began serving in the position last summer and was promoted to two-star rank in early March. The Pentagon did not address Hegseth’s decision to strike the four officers from the promotion list or respond to questions about Mr. Buria’s interaction with Secretary Driscoll.

@automtl514 Je ne pense pas que ce genre d'institution juive anglophone fasse un pli sur la différence de notre très "progressif" PM pour qui un commerçant est d'abord et avant tout une source de financement pour projets idéologiques. Tant que la vache a lait paie ses taxes tout va bien.

« In the case of Beautys, an imposing cinder block running down the east side of St-Urbain affects access to its delivery door. As for Venus, suppliers have to park over 100 metres away for deliveries. Beautys owner Elana Sckolnick, granddaughter of the restaurant’s legendary founder Hymie Sckolnick, recounts how one supplier has had to walk three blocks gingerly carrying his eggs for delivery. Venus proprietor John Rodousakis notes that the lack of stopping spots necessitates him hiring people to unload flowers on Jeanne-Mance, a football field away from his store. The bottom line is that Sckolnick has seen a 30-per-cent drop in revenues in a year. For his part, Rodousakis reports a staggering 85-per-cent loss, and if business doesn’t pick up in a year, he’ll have to close down. What aggravates Sckolnick and Rodousakis most is the perceived lack of action from Plateau-Mont-Royal borough officials in these matters. Their issues fall under the domain of Projet Montréal, which still runs the borough despite having lost control of Montreal to the Ensemble Montréal team of newly elected mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada. »

@DimitrisSoudas @gmacofglebe @CandiceBergen_ Au moins si ses actionnaires avaient raison d'être heureux...

Let’s be precise. Millions of Canadians are not paid 12 million dollars a year to lead a company that is legally bound by the Official Languages Act. That standard exists for a reason. It comes with the job. It is not optional. Framing this as a struggle of “ordinary Canadians versus elites” is simply not grounded in reality. In Ottawa, the vast majority of deputy ministers are Anglophone. In cabinet, francophone ministers have often presented in English. I do not recall many, if any, Anglophone ministers presenting in French. The imbalance you are pointing to is not where you suggest it is. This is not about sidelining anyone. It is about leadership and responsibility. Mr. Rousseau has lived in Quebec for two decades. His spouse is francophone. He leads a national carrier subject to federal law. He publicly committed years ago to learning French. After hundreds of hours of tutoring, in a moment that required dignity and respect, he could not deliver even a few sentences in the language of one of the victims and their family. That is not about control. That is about priority. And let’s be honest about the lived reality of this country. Francophones who move into majority Anglophone environments adapt quickly because they must. They do not have the luxury of opting out. That expectation has never been controversial. Yet when the expectation is reversed at the highest levels of leadership, it suddenly becomes a debate about fairness. It is not. Canada made a foundational choice. Two official languages. Not one and a half. Not when convenient. Not when it is easy. In moments of tragedy, language is not a technicality. It is how you show respect. It is how you honour people. It is how you lead. Reducing this to a question of control or elite pressure misses the point entirely and risks turning a matter of basic respect into an unnecessary division.

Mr. Rousseau is expressing what millions of Canadians who don’t know french and have tried to learn it feel. What I am tired of is that a few elites (in Ontario primarily) get to tell the 80% of Canadians who don’t speak french fluently that we need to sit on the sidelines. It’s time for a conversation about what 2 official languages actually means. What’s transpired over the last few days is not about the communication or language but about control.

@LolOut160461 @Microinteracti1 For Trump, loyalty is a one-way street

This is typical Trump style honestly. First he gives full power to someone like Hegseth and when things start going south he immediately starts looking for a scapegoat to save his own image. Pete Hegseth is learning the hard way that in this administration you are a hero one day and a villain the next morning once the stock market starts crashing

Trump Is Already Looking For Someone To Blame. The war isn’t going well. Oil above $110. The Strait of Hormuz closed for weeks. Wall Street just had its worst day of the war.  No clean exit. No plan. So Trump went on camera this week and mentioned, casually, that someone close to him had told him just yesterday that Hegseth is bad at his job. That’s how it starts. Anonymous hallway gossip, aired publicly, while the war is still running. History is being quietly rewritten in real time. Trump didn’t fail. Trump was failed. Pete Hegseth is currently standing on the tracks. @Microinteracti1

Quelques merveilles 100% naturelles : - l'amiante - la peste bubonique - le VIH - le syndrome de la mort subite du nourrisson - les règles douloureuses chaque mois pendant 40 ans chez les femmes - les maladies génétiques - l'anthrax - les tsunamis - la fasciite nécrosante - la névralgie du trijumeau - la variole - le virus Ebola - les malformations cardiaques à la naissance - la leucémie infantile - les rayonnements solaires - la rage - les prions - les impacts de météorites - la grippe espagnole - la méningite - la septicémie - la gangrène - le tétanos - l'endométriose - les fausses couches - la mortalité en couches - le paludisme - la tuberculose - la lèpre - le venin de mamba noir - l'éléphantiasis - la poliomyélite - les handicaps de naissance - le diabète de type 1 - l'épilepsie - les frelons asiatiques - les maladies auto-immunes - l'infertilité - la torsion testiculaire - les calculs rénaux - les hernies discales - les hémorroïdes - les abcès dentaires - les poils incarnés - les pellicules - les pieds qui puent - l'acné - la calvitie - les verrues - le zona - les poux - le hoquet qui ne part pas pendant 3 jours - les puces - les tiques - la toxoplasmose - le ténia - les parasites intestinaux - la syphilis - la typhoïde - le typhus - la diphtérie - la coqueluche - l'autodigestion pancréatique - la scarlatine - l'halitose matinale - la fièvre jaune - le choléra - la dengue - la cannelle - les punaises de lit - la ricine - la maladie de Crohn - le curare - les ergots de seigle - la toxine botulique - l'arsenic - le cyanure - la sangsue céphalique - la ciguë - la fibromyalgie - les lèvres gercées qu'on lèche pour arranger et qui empirent - l'amanite phalloïde - les aflatoxines - les moisissures - le monoxyde de carbone - la radioactivité - les éruptions volcaniques - les cyclones - les tremblements de terre - les tornades - les avalanches - les glissements de terrain - les sécheresses - les invasions de criquets - les morsures d'animaux - les rayonnements cosmiques - les attaques de prédateurs - les crises d'appendicite - les crampes nocturnes au mollet - les rhumatismes - les chenilles processionnaires - la surdité congénitale - la dégénérescence cérébrale - la ménopause - la vieillesse - la conscience de sa propre finitude - la mort

@automtl514 Je faisais des blagues avec la fixation sur les saillies de trottoirs de PM mais c'était vrai.

«  L’ancienne administration a beaucoup investit…. dans les saillies de trottoirs »🤭🤣 Soraya Martinez Ferrada revient sur les “investissements routiers” de Projet Montréal Crédit Qub radio

@markhayo101 @RonFilipkowski I feel the same. So sad.

@RonFilipkowski I blame the astonishing political illiteracy and terminal unseriousness of American voters. I am a wary European centrist who was pragmatically pro-American because I thought the US would always defend the liberal-democratic order. I'm sorry to say that I now hate your country.

Both Denmark and Iran made preparations to repel a ground invasion from the United States during the past month. 32 more months of this shit.

Former Defense Secretary Gen. James Mattis isn’t exactly a dove. He’s a Marine, a combat commander, and about as “America First” as it gets in the real world—not on a hat. And even he is warning that Trump’s “policy” of bullying our allies is dangerously stupid. Mattis pointed out that Denmark, which owns Greenland, lost as many troops per capita as the U.S. fighting alongside us after 9/11. They bled with us. They buried their dead with us. And now Trump slaps tariffs on those same allies while demanding they spend more on defense—something that literally requires a strong economy. His warning is blunt: “You can’t bring allies on board if they don’t trust you.” Trust is the real currency of alliances, not photo-ops and flag-hugging. Mattis is clear that the threat from the “aberrant, bizarre, murderous regime in Tehran” will only be handled “with allies — lots of allies.” But thanks to Trump’s chaos diplomacy, Mattis says it could take 8–12 years to rebuild the trust this White House has burned down. That’s a decade lost because one president would rather pick fights with NATO democracies than stand up to dictators. If you actually support our troops, you don’t sabotage the alliances that keep them alive. You “get back to thinking strategically and giving our word and living up to it”—exactly what Mattis says we’ve stopped doing. The question isn’t whether our allies will show up for us next time. The question is: after Trump, why would they?

@GeraldoRivera No. Hard no.

Karoline Leavitt is a terrific White House press secretary, and spokesperson for the president, measured, controlled, informed, competent. Whether you’re right or left, Republican or Democrat you have to appreciate competence and loyalty.

@renaudbrossard C'est du clickbait académique.

Ce titre du Devoir est trompeur et témoigne d'une incompréhension de l'économie et des échanges. Le Québec ne perd pas 10G$ par année; les Québécois échangent 10G$ par année pour accéder à des produits dont ils ont besoin. De la même façon qu'on ne perd pas d'argent en allant à l'épicerie, on le dépense pour obtenir des produits dont on a besoin. #polqc ledevoir.com/economie/96648…

@AlecStapp @DerekPederson3 This view of progress is conservative.

“Corporate farming methods” are why you don’t have to do backbreaking work as a farmer anymore and why starvation is the exception rather than the rule around the world today

@NGrandvaux @SolidEvidence Oui, mais au "prix plus bas conforme".

@SolidEvidence I am tired of the "no one could have predicted this". We learned many times now, that relying on a on e country, or one plant isn't going to go without trouble on the long term. Diversification should be the norm on everything essential. We need to start learning from experience

I hope no one needs an MRI this year. The world's largest producer of liquified helium is in Qatar and is shut off. We just got a notice that our supply for the year will be at least cut in half. No one could have predicted this (unless they thought about it).

@thecyrusjanssen These people are delusional, its a mental health issue

The problem is the US government has no ability to change the governments in Iran, Venezuela and Cuba. Look at Venezuela, we captured Maduro and stole their oil, there is no regime change, Maduro’s VP is now in charge and the US pulled out. Look at the Middle East, we spent $2 trillion dollars and 20 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban. Fast forward 6 months and all of these governments will be the same, only more hardened and angry at the US The US has never in its entire history launched an air campaign that resulted in a successful regime change, what makes anyone think the US could pull off 3 let alone 1 regime change within the next 6 months? Shallow understanding of how the world works.

@MartineDub3 Je serais vraiment intéressé à lire un papier sérieux sur le potentiel de gain pour la marge de manœuvre budgétaire d'un meilleur contrôle des dépenses ("efficience") vs. le réel potentiel d'agrandissement de l'assiette fiscale.

@blarose33 Les Québécois auraient intérêt à obtenir des conseils financiers. Ils feraient de meilleurs choix.

Lisez! Parce que nos gouvernements (fédéral/provincial) tiennent compte seuls des revenus, pas des actifs. lapresse.ca/affaires/chron…

@automtl514 Les devis descriptifs plutôt que fonctionnels sont une plaie dans l'ensemble des contrats publics québécois et un frein à l'intégration de l'innovation. @FDuranceau86311

@MartineDub3 Pas convaincu que ce soit jouable, mais que ça puisse donner plus de raisons de se choisir du conseil financier, aucun doute.

@blarose33 Le décaissement des avoirs pour la retraite devrait se prévoir à l’avance pour éviter ces situations. Les planif. financiers, fiscalistes font déjà ce travail. Ceux qui détiennent des portefeuilles d’actions le font aussi pour minimiser les risques à l’étape de la retraite.

@MartineDub3 J'aimerais bien voir ces chiffres. Les abus restent marginaux dans l'ensemble du portrait. On a plus un problème de dépenses que de revenus.

@blarose33 2/ Les inégalités augmentent partout, les + riches s’enrichissent, les plus pauvres en arrachent davantage. L’état se prive de milliards de revenus en accordant des avantages fiscaux qui bénéficient davantage aux plus aisés. Sans tronçonneuse un meilleur équilibre est nécessaire

@MartineDub3 Imagine un bon proprio obligé de vendre au mauvais moment à un spéculateur qui fait un flip après un évincement! Franchement je ne vois pas pourquoi on voudrait laisser l'état prendre cette initiative au nom de la justice sociale.

@blarose33 Donc un investisseur qui a misé sur l’immobilier pourrait avoir plusieurs immeubles valant une fortune et avoir besoin de l’aide de l’état?

@MartineDub3 Pour les actifs illiquides, c'est non pertinent. Pour les REER (CELI? Pas sûr j'en ai pas), ils sont imposés à la sortie. Je ne suis pas sûr qu'on veuille permettre wu gvt de décider quels actifs doivent être vendus avant d'avoir droit à un programme conçu pour être universel.

@blarose33 La justice fiscale est problématique car la seule considération est le revenu, pas les actifs. Déclarer les actifs ne veut pas nécessairement dire de les taxer. Nos gouvernements économiseraient en ciblant ceux qui en ont réellement besoin.

@automtl514 LOL