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@Anthony__Koch Liberals watching conservatives argue over whose more conservative

I am literally a pro-life gun owner man. Holy fuck.

@Gray_Mackenzie I like Erin O’Toole, but the CPC should not give up on cultural issues. There is a silent majority of Canadians that have had it with woke nonsense, but mainstream media and other institutions are too ideologically captured to seriously discuss those topics.

Former CPC leader Erin O’Toole told Global News that Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives need to moderate their policy positions if they want to beat the LPC “Ignore the culture war issues, ignore the floor crossings, and just focus on the long-term prosperity of Canadians.” globalnews.ca/news/11814734/…

@timekeeper1999 @West_Man_Fallen @Prominent_Bryan Grandparents are doing a lot of childcare because it’s next to impossible to afford kids without two full time working parents

Health coverage after retirement drops significantly where I work, very little for medication and no dental at all. You can deduct it at tax time. In some cases, people have to divorce to pay for care if one person has PCH needs, and the other assisted living needs, because the fees go based on joint income. You have no idea how expensive it can be for seniors care.

A retired couple that has a combined income of 190k gets the full OAS but we claw back the Child Benefit almost fully at 150k annual income So we are more generous with welfare for old people than for families So backward. And yet no parties ran on fixing this!

@i_zzzzzz Most of those condo podiums will be home to shoppers drug mart, pizza pizza and dollarama

I believe the first $40 sandwich will be invented in Vertical Corktown

@SabrinaMaddeaux @carastern @MikePMoffatt The gap between the starter homes and upgrade homes seems to be growing. All the investor activity that inflated starter homes has collapsed, while the upgrade home prices have always been driven more by end users.

@MikePMoffatt Even if you have equity in a condo or a small house, the cost to move to a larger home has become impossible. Between higher prices, interest rates, and taxes, the gap is too wide for most middle-class families to cross. We now also have a second-time buyer crisis.

Big win for housing affordability this morning! Premier Doug Ford just announced Ontario is extending the HST rebate to cover 100% of the tax on all new primary residences under $1M, and a percentage after that for one year. This is a policy we’ve been calling for at the Missing Middle to break the market gridlock. 🧵

@Bret_Sears This issue with his commentary is that immigration has been dramatically cut back under Carney. Jiang seems to suggest that Carney has increased immigration, which is not true.

This exchange between Tucker Carlson and Professor Jiang Xueqin on the current state of Canada is worth watching. TUCKER: You mentioned Canada. Most Americans don't even know the capital of Canada. Canada does not appear on their radar, doesn't figure in their thoughts. But you described it as probably, quote, probably the richest country in the world. I think that's objectively true. And yet Canada is not a rich country. In fact, it's getting poorer. Its life expectancy is declining. Its GDP is declining, and that's on purpose. The nation of Canada has been suppressed on purpose. Its population is being killed off by the state through its assisted suicide program and its population is changing through mass immigration against the will of the population. So that country is being held down on purpose. And my question is, by whom and why? JIANG: Sure. That's a great question. And it's something that I struggle with all the time because I am a Canadian citizen. I went to school there. So my answer is that Canada was never really a nation-state. It's more of a glorified resource colony for the British, the city of London and the reality is now that the British are under a lot of strain, the state of London is under a lot of financial pressure. It sees places like Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. And what do you do if you have financial issues? You do corporate restructuring, right? You change the middle management. right and historically you know the British got along very well with the Indian elite right they went into India and stole tons of dollars from uh the indians and the Indian elite were perfectly happy to help them so why not use the same model for Australia and for Canada So there are millions of Indians who immigrated to Canada in the past five years and it's put a lot of strain on the Canadian economy because housing prices have exploded and so ordinary Canadians can no longer afford to buy a house. And it's put tremendous pressure on the Canadian welfare system, on the Canadian economy. And you would think that the proper strategy would have a moratorium where they're like, you know what, we've had too many immigrants and we need to close the borders and absorb these immigrants because we want to ensure that these immigrants have proper housing, they have decent jobs, right? You would think that that'd be the right strategy. And instead, Mark Carney goes to India and says, we want more Indians, and also, we'll give you scholarships to come to Canada to study for free. Meanwhile, there are a lot of Canadians who are homeless, who are unemployed, and who cannot put food on the table. But hey, we want more Indians. So if it's not corporate restructuring, if it's not trying to asset strip Canada, I really don't understand the strategy for this. TUCKER: Well, I mean, it's a kind of genocide against Canadians, people whose ancestors built the country, but you wonder what the purpose is. Because it is happening all over the West, all over the English speaking world in the white countries. And it's not an accident, it's not organic. So it's a big picture that spans from Australia to Ottawa.

@jkenney The complete support of Israel at all costs is a blind spot in Canadian conservative politics that will be costly. Is there anyone on the Canadian mainstream right that has taken a more nuanced or critical approach of Israel as it pertains to the war with Iran?

Without US-Israeli leadership, all of Europe would have ended up living under the threat of Iranian nuclear annihilation, armed with long range ballistic missiles. A threat controlled by jihadi fundamentalists who believe it is their religious obligation to accelerate the apocalypse. Like Europe’s elites in the face of Hitler’s massive military expansion in the 1930s, today’s appeasers would continue to look the other way and mumble about diplomacy until it’s too late. Europe failed to protect its Jews from Hitler. But now the descendants of the Jews who survived Hitler are protecting Europe. #AmYisraelChai

@nostalgicfile Buying Lumber and Under Construction are masterpieces. Legendary soundtrack.

"It's just a song"

@MarketPalmer_ I respect the execution of this rage bait. Well done.

"Boomers had it way easier buying houses." They also dined out like 3 times a year, never traveled, and worked overtime all the time.

@Tim_Pettit_ @acoyne The crux of the issue is whether rejected asylum claimants should have access to supplementary health benefits that Canadians do not have access too. This has become obfuscated because people don’t like Polievre’s tone.

No reasonable person blames immigrants or asylum seekers for our healthcare problems and scarcities. We created these problems ourselves. But adding more users to a problematic system short on resources is itself a problem. We have a total public debt of $3.4 trillion. Most governments in Canada appear to be running deficits. Thus, we don’t have infinite resources. A hospital bed given to an asylum seeker is a hospital bed taken away from a Canadian. It’s frankly that simple. This isn’t about racism or compassion or what are or are not Canadian values. It’s simply about ensuring we look after our own first. Mr Coyne has four flags on his bio. Not one of them is ours.

My latest, on the disgraceful attempt by two political leaders to blame immigrants for their troubles, and ours theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

@RobynUrback Liberalizing beer and wine sales

The PCs under Doug Ford have governed Ontario with a majority for nearly 8 years and I can’t think of anything remarkable or substantial they have done with it. Just crap like this

@mikalskuterud @acoyne Mikal, do you believe that rejected asylum claimants should have access to supplemental health benefits that many Canadians themselves do not have access to?

The CPC were given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to exploit the LPC’s mismanagement of our world-renowned immigration system. They’ve squandered it by playing to people’s worst base instincts. This messaging does nothing to repair the LPC damage and get us back on track. Sad.

@DanDicksPFT Remember these videos the next time some economist gloats about how Mexico is replacing Canada as America’s most important trade partner.

Airports shut down, military getting involved, power may soon be cut, our resort is surrounded by burning cars, the situation is intense!

@MikePMoffatt Introducing the Right Honourable Bobson Dugnutt, Minister of Shenanigans

Here's a full list of all the former Tory MPs who have crossed the floor to the Liberals this Parliament.

@AdamZivo Try to bring up ending birthright citizenship in one of those seminar rooms and watch the mental gymnastics, legal semantics and virtue signalling unfold.

When I got my Master of Public Policy at the Munk School (2018-2020), it was taboo to acknowledge that immigration fraud is a significant problem. I remember during one major lecture, I raised my hand and suggested that, if certain countries are associated with asylum fraud, then their applications should be subjected to additional scrutiny. The guest lecturer basically called this idea racist, and my conservative classmate (who was quieter about her beliefs) later remarked that this seemed to be the point where I had been “cancelled” by my classmates. I bring this up because I want people to understand the ideological culture that allowed our immigration system to crumble.

@DVERandy Democrats: “we like bad bunny” Republicans: “we like kid rock” Meanwhile in French Canada…

I have watched this performance 100x since Friday

@brianlilley Is there a statute of limitations on the OBC?

Statement from Toronto City Councillor Gord Perks on his home not being up to building code. Have your say one way or the other in the comments.

@SabrinaMaddeaux @MikePMoffatt “The impact on younger people’s ambition is profound”, this needs to be discussed more! Whenever I hear employers talk about the lack of commitment and work ethic from young people, I always think about how significantly the playbook has changed for young people.

Is the starter home dead? ☠️ @MikePMoffatt and I talk about why today’s struggling buyers have effectively aged out of the starter home altogether. Meanwhile, housing policy is still being built for a market that no longer exists. Watch: youtu.be/O-spwo02MaY

@FoundationDads No need to disrespect Captain Underpants like that

Reading to your kids every night has a better chance of changing the world than anything else you do. But only if you read great stuff. This time is precious, so don't waste it on frivolities like Diary of a Wimpy Kid or Captain Underpants. Be bold. Here are 38 recommendations that belong on your shelf: (This list doesn't contain obvious selections like The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Chronicles of Narnia. Those should already be on your shelf.) 1. Have Spacesuit - Will Travel by Robert Heinlein 2. Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry 3. Watership Down by Richard Adams 4. The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall 5. Give Me Liberty by L. M. Elliott 6. Holes by Louis Sachar 7. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken 8. The Story of the Treasure Seekers by E. Nesbit 9. Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk 10. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin 11. The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald 12. The Winter King by Christine Cohen 13. Over Sea Under Stone by Susan Cooper 14. Animal Farm by George Orwell 15. Boys of Blur by N.D. Wilson 16. Night Journeys by Avi 17. Forbidden Child by Gwen Newell 18. 100 Cupboards by N.D. Wilson 19. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 20. Five Children and It by E. Nesbit 21. Pinnochio by Carlo Collodi (Try the MinaLima edition) 22. The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt 23. The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw 24. My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George 25. Penrod by Booth Tarkington 26. The Dragon and the Raven by G.A. Henty 27. Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones 28. The Blue Fairy Book (full versions of the classic fairy tales you think you know) 29. Bambi by Felix Salten 30. Leepike Ridge by N.D. Wilson 31. Hank the Cow Dog series by John R. Erickson 32. Matilda by Roald Dahl 33. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White 34. Amulet series by Kazu Kibuishi 35. Cardboard by Doug TenNapel 36. Red Planet by Robert Heinlein 37. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (edit while you read per your personal convictions) 38. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson

@mario4thenorth If Conservatives run with the narrative of “Carney should be trying to work with Trump” then they are dead in the water.

I have a crazy idea: Instead of flying all over the world, to get deals done with other countries, why doesn’t the Prime Minister get a deal done with Donald Trump, like he promised us he would? 75% of our GDP goes to America, so why antagonize the US?