Don Barrie 🇨🇦

Canada : No more economic integration with the USA. "They would be our jailers "- Peter Donolo, The Globe and Mail "Our future as a country does not lie inside a North American fortress. Especially one in which those holding the key have proven themselves belligerent, untrustworthy and hopelessly corrupt. They would not be our partners; they would be our jailers." Worst of all, the pressure to harmonize our country’s foreign and domestic policies with the United States in “Fortress North America” would be irresistible – and result in our national self-erasure. "Public health care? Publicly owned utilities? Made-in-Canada environmental, labour or even language laws? Our tight controls on election spending? Our public funding for Canadian arts and culture? All “unfair advantages” or “barriers” that, you can be sure, would be challenged with the maximum power and might of U.S. authorities." "As Mr. Carney said last year: “The Americans want our resources, our water, our land, our country. Think about it. If they succeed they would destroy our way of life.” #cdnpoli #onpoli #polqc

@kmhboiler @ryangerritsen Apparently you’ve never been anywhere near CFB Cold Lake or CFB Bagotville. Also, our country is not a war mongering nation that needs to constantly display its military readiness.

@ryangerritsen It is crazy, being down in the USA, I work all over the country and you constantly see fighter randomly flying. All the airports seem to have a strong air force presence also. Do not remember once every seeing a fighter jet in canada for the 40+ years lives there.

Meanwhile back in Canada the Snowbirds are switching to a Turboprop… These pilots are badass.

Oh - that’s what it was - not that he is a genocidal maniac slaughtering as many human beings as he can

These people are repugnant… UCP lied to get elected & immediately pivoted to serving Americans, corporate interests, monopolies, Oil & Gas, privatization scams, & themselves…. While screwing the citizens of Alberta & Labour.

@jamiljivani Oh great. Jamil follows AND believes things Keean says. Bad info sources lead to stupid posts.

Parents raise children. Not the government. This is crazy.

@dpmont0407 @toog416 What exactly do freight railways know about passenger rail? These two things are not even remotely similar. Via Rail has always struggled because it had to lease space on freight lines who made passenger trains wait on sidings so priority freight could go first.

@toog416 If there were a business case for it CN and CP would have built it already without expropriating any land because they already own the right of way.

They are never actually going to build a high speed train in Canada. Never. It is impossible, because Canada includes Canadian politics (and secondarily because it’s a stupid idea and nobody would use it). All high speed train politics are merely about WANTING to build it.

@MarcNixon24 What point are you making here Mark? Do you know and trust these Americans? Are there really zombies running loose in Vancouver? Do you think this is a factual case study? Maybe dial down and re-think the negativity you seem to have for your own country.

USA tourist visits Vancouver FIFA WORLD CUP They provide honest review Open air Drug use is out of control ZOMBIES EVERYWHERE You do not need an alarm clock at 6 AM people are screaming for drugs

trump put fencing & a blue tarp around the Reflecting Pool. He figures there’s nothing he can’t “fix” by covering it up. Like his name being removed from the Kennedy Center. Or the Epstein files, because he raped children. So many coverups, so little time.

The Montreal shooter Seth Scott Hatfield was fueled by a violent, 104-page manifesto filled with extreme incel ideology. A reminder that for 4 years, @PierrePoilievre’s YouTube channel used #MGTOW tags to deliberately target this exact misogynistic subculture. #cdnpoly #Montreal

@VI_Hillbilly @ImFreeManJones Yup. This post gets 10/10 on the baloney meter!

@ImFreeManJones Canada is only "nice" if you pledge allegiance to the state religion. Shameful they put you through this treatment, but turn a blind eye to all the fentanyl precursor chems being smuggled into our country through our porous border. All theatre and it's all so tiresome.

I drove over to Canada yesterday for some sightseeing. My wife and I pulled up to the Canadian crossing station. The agent at the window was really nice and all smiles as he asked us the typical questions and put our information in the computer. Then, he saw something on the screen. His facial expression went blank. He looked down at my passport. Looked back at the screen. Back at the passport. Back at the screen. No more smiles. Straight face. He told me to pull around for an inspection. My wife and I got out and three officers searched every square inch of my truck. They found nothing and sent us on our way. I’m still on a list from J6. And, that list is apparently shared with other countries.

Who saw this a while back and just KNEW this was not gonna end well? Trump made his motorcade drive down the reflecting pool before it was sealed. The contractor didn’t clean up the motor oil and tire dust, they just painted right over it. The paint failed exactly as predicted. By June, massive gashes of blue lining were peeling off in the exact shape of the motorcade’s path. The oil trapped underneath stopped the paint from sticking. Surface prep 101. Six innocent people arrested.

One billionaire family controls the bridge that carries 25% of all U.S.–Canada trade. The good news? There's a brand new public bridge right next door (and Canada paid for the whole thing). The bad news? Donald Trump won't let it open. Here's the story: For more than a decade, Michigan and Canada worked together to build a new public crossing right next to it — six lanes over the Detroit River, named for a Canadian-born Red Wings legend, built by thousands of union workers. Canada paid the entire bill. Michigan co-owns it. It's finished. It’s a shining example of international cooperation and collaboration, with a tremendous return for both sides: more jobs, faster trade, and lower costs. So why isn't it open? Because the Moroun family, who own the rival Ambassador Bridge just up the river, doesn’t want the competition. They spent years and tens of millions of dollars trying to stop any competing international crossing from being built or opening. They lost. So they went to the White House instead. In January, Matthew Moroun gave $1 million to a pro-Trump super PAC. Then the billionaire called Trump's Commerce Secretary and, just hours later, Trump suddenly attacked the same publicly owned bridge he praised in his own first term and threatened to block it. Then, the day before the June 12th ribbon-cutting, the opening was called off indefinitely. It's corruption so flagrant it would be laughable if it weren't so damaging. Trump is screwing over Michiganders for the interests of billionaires — holding a finished, publicly owned project hostage to protect one donor's toll booth. So a finished bridge sits closed, Michiganders keep paying the higher tolls, cars and trucks cost more, and a billionaire family keeps its monopoly. Mr. President: stop playing games. Open the damn bridge.

@JasminLaine_ Less fires than ever? Do you live on a small island in the middle of a big lake? BC has 16 active wildfires right now and it’s not even the end of June. Give your head a shake Jasmin.

While the media will still tell you “climate change” is the cause of fatalities to try and scare you… turns out, the data shows the opposite. The world is on fire due to climate change? Turns out the data shows that there are less fires than ever. Polar bears are dying due to climate change? Actually, there population is on the rise because humans stopped shooting them. We’ve spent over $16 trillion on “green transitions”… yet, our energy consumption has increased and no transition has been made. @BjornLomborg

@FreddyLA7 Land of the free huh?

Back in the land of the free, we missed it🦅🇺🇸 Crossing back into the USA over the Detroit River with a nice view of the skyline.

Seeing some of the embarrassingly hateful reactions to Starmer's resignation today, I thought it was worth resharing this. The level of personal hostility directed at Keir Starmer deserves scrutiny in its own right. Not because he should be immune from criticism, but because the tone and intensity of the attacks tell us something unhealthy about the state of democratic politics. Starmer is a conventional political figure. Cautious, legalistic, incremental. He frustrates people precisely because he is managerial rather than messianic. Yet the reaction to him often goes far beyond disagreement, tipping into visceral hatred more commonly reserved for authoritarians or demagogues. Much of this hostility is disconnected from concrete policy. It is not about specific votes, proposals or outcomes, but about projection. A belief that Starmer embodies betrayal, bad faith or hidden malice. That kind of politics runs on suspicion rather than evidence. This matters because democracy depends on the assumption of good faith among opponents. You can think a leader is wrong, timid, or misguided without believing they are fundamentally illegitimate. Once politics becomes moralised to the point of demonisation, compromise is reframed as treachery and pluralism as weakness. The pattern is familiar. In fragmented, polarised systems, anger concentrates not on extremists, whose intentions are clear, but on moderates, who disappoint maximalists on all sides. The centre becomes the lightning rod precisely because it resists totalising narratives. There is also a media and online dynamic at work. Incentives reward outrage, not proportionality. Algorithms favour contempt over analysis. Over time, this creates a political culture in which relentless personal attack feels normal, even virtuous, rather than disgusting. None of this is a defence of Starmer’s decisions, instincts or record. Those should be argued over robustly as you do in a democracy. The problem is the substitution of critique with hostility and the quiet erosion of democratic norms that follows when political opponents are treated as enemies rather than rivals. A democracy cannot function if every election is framed as an existential struggle against internal evil. At some point, the target may change, but the damage to trust, restraint and culture remains.

A democratically elected British Prime Minister has been driven from office by a relentless campaign of propaganda and misinformation; funded, amplified and perpetuated by foreign billionaires and elites whose interests bear zero resemblance to those of ordinary working people. A noble gesture from an emotional Keir Starmer, entirely consistent with his conduct in office. A truly sad day for British democracy. His full resignation speech:

Man posts incredibly silly/self-interested take about a completely foreseeable tax bill that any fiduciary with an IQ above room temperature (measured in Celsius of course) could have told him was a dumb idea…you do NOT take 3+ decades worth of capital gains in a single year on a fit of pique. Man gets (deservedly and unrelentingly) dragged for posting such a silly thing and exposing the limits of his foresight and planning. Man then tries to pivot to claim he was REALLY fighting for all of us all along, and the fault of misunderstanding that generous take is, of course, ours. Not his. Because HE cannot be wrong, of course. Rather, his preferred course is to escalate and double-down; to distract rather than to contemplate WHY he got dragged, and the obvious ingratitude for the life Canada gave him and his family when they needed it (and which I don’t begrudge in the slightest… “as you do unto the least of these,” and all that…though I do wonder now how Mr. “Suicidal Empathy” would look back on his own circumstances of entering the country…) I’ve maintained a file of “wisdom” on my computer for years…titled “Jim’s Rules for Living”. Many of the nuggets I’ve collected over the years (because I am not that smart and I value the insights of others) deal with the importance, nay, JOY of being wrong. From Charlie Munger’s, “Try to destroy a cherished belief at least once a year,” (i.e. you were wrong, learn from it and get better), To Maya Angelou’s, “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” (i.e. when you find out you have acted wrong…don’t necessarily beat yourself up for the past, but DEFINITELY change your behaviour to be “not wrong” in future). To, I believe, Dr. John Deloney’s, “One of the most crucial gifts you can give your kids is the willingness to look them in the eye, own your mistakes, and say, ‘I was wrong’.” One of my own (based on hard-earned experience dealing with some family members, and seeing my wife do the same), is that people will do almost ANYTHING - go without, blow up their own lives; torch foundational friend and familial relationships - rather than admit when they are wrong… …with the corollary that thus being able to admit when one is wrong as early as possible is a SUPERPOWER. Our man here appears to have absorbed precisely zero of these lessons. Sad. So it goes.

Dr. Fauci should sue your ass into a homeless shelter.

@AlbertaCanada60 Remind your buddy to research exit taxes if he wants to leave Canada. Can’t wait to hear how that goes.

A buddy of mine pays over $200k in taxes to CRA plus almost $10k in property taxes, $8k auto insurance $6k electric and gas bill for the home, after researching the USA 🇺🇸, he's now considering moving to the USA 🇺🇸. Canada 🇨🇦 is destroying our future with excessive taxes.

Fun fact: Everyone identifiable in black in this picture is Canadian. Richie Laryea: born in Toronto Ismaël Koné: moved to Canada at 7, raised in Montreal Derek Cornelius: born in Ajax, ON Stephen Eustaquio: born in Leamington, ON