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@Tablesalt13 Unfortunately for the voters, we will be at least 3 long years before the next election. The liberals will have 3 years to further import more “on the payroll” voters from over seas. Canada is sooo cooked

‼️BREAKING The constituency office of MP Gladu, who betrayed her constituents and crossed the flood to prop up Carney has been defaced.

@mario4thenorth Welcome to Australia!! Canada is finished

The guy arrested for firing 14 bullets into a Jewish-owned restaurant, DURING PASSOVER, has a name. Mohamed Mahdi. It’s in the Toronto Police news release. CBC didn’t use it. CTV didn’t use it. Global didn’t use it. Canadian Press didn’t use it. Every major Canadian outlet quoted the police release. Every one of them omitted the name that was IN the release. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence 🙄

@elonmusk @MarcNixon24 The Left just took a majority government without an election, so yeah, we are definitely cooked

Canada is cooked

The Elephant’s Foot in Chernobyl - looking at it for 300 seconds left you 2 days to live.

@thirtyspace @jen_keesmaat I live downtown, so I pay quite a bit of tax into the City of Toronto. How about you?

@itikia @jen_keesmaat No, you idiots need to pay for driving downtown and we can afford bike lanes and trains. Leave the car at home, and the revenue will help us build more.

News flash: fewer cars is the only way to ease gridlock. Technology won’t save us. It’s a physics problem. Too many cars, not enough space. Until the City becomes serious about being an urban place that promotes walking, cycling, and transit as first choices for getting around, this mess will not be resolved. It’s a shame to see the city so lost when it comes to a vision of a livable, urban future. London figured it out, Paris figured it out, Montreal is figuring it out. But Toronto is regressing, prioritizing moving cars as the key to mobility. It’s both sad and futile. Congestion Pricing could solve this problem overnight.

The CEO of the only company that could build the pipeline to the Pacific lists the five things standing in the way. All five of them are…. Mark Carney. Don’t believe me, listen for yourself.

@Sebasti14971286 @CTVNews Truly a sad day for CTV and CBC…

@CTVNews Sad day for CTV News

U.S. rescues aviator whose fighter jet was shot down in Iran ctvnews.ca/world/mideast-…

Worth every f*cking penny. We burned hardware to bring an American home and deny the mullahs a propaganda trophy. A captured U.S. WSO would’ve been paraded on TV, tortured, exploited for intel, and used for humiliation theater. Instead, our guys flew into hell, got him out, and came home with zero U.S. fatalities. That’s what a country does for its own. Meanwhile blue states blow fortunes on fraud rackets and call it compassion. I’ll take $300 million to save an American warfighter over one more dime for parasites and scammers. Absolute heroes.

They think in reality. The high speed rail is a cute nice to have, but not a need to have. It’s a great way for Liberal’s to funnel tons of cash into their side companies and make a fortune. I would be surprised if they’ve already purchased tons of land on the proposed route, and would be waiting for expropriation to turn a profit. The cost is huge, but we have much higher priorities right now - we need an economic deal/partnership with the USA. We need to get the house in order, financial, before we chase cute projects.

‘They used to think big’: transport minister slams Conservatives’ criticism of high-speed rail ctvnews.ca/politics/artic…

🚨“WE GOT HIM! My fellow Americans, over the past several hours, the United States Military pulled off one of the most daring Search and Rescue Operations in U.S. History, for one of our incredible Crew Office Members, who also happens to be a highly respected Colonel, and who I am thrilled to let you know is SAFE and SOUND!” - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸

@BNNBloomberg Think tank? Give me a break, this Carney asking a think tank to ask him to raise taxes. This is all him - he’s created the perfect situation Trump, and fake pressure to spend like a drunken sailor, and tax like a communist.

CTV National News: Think tank calls on Ottawa to raise taxes to meet NATO spending target bnnbloomberg.ca/video/economic…

Here are several. Enjoy! Foreign Aid — Gone. No more billions shipped overseas while Canadians line up at food banks. Arts & Culture subsidies — Gone. Taxpayers aren’t here to fund obscure grants and festivals. Media handouts (including CBC and legacy journalism subsidies) — Gone. Let them survive on actual audiences, not government life support. Corporate welfare — Gone. No more billions in handouts to big business and connected insiders. Consultants & bureaucratic bloat — Gone. Fire the McKinsey-style grift and slash the endless studies. Climate/green slush funds and pet projects — Gone. Blanket grants to special interests — Gone. Lavish cabinet retreats, perks, and junkets — Gone. Immigration & entitlement reforms: Deport welfare recipients who aren’t Canadian citizens. Deport any non-Canadian convicted of a crime — immediately and permanently. Require a minimum of 10 years of legal residence to access socialized healthcare at no cost. No Old Age Security (OAS) or similar benefits for anyone who hasn’t contributed to the Canadian economy for at least 20 years. Revenue idea: Launch a citizenship-by-investment program. Attract high-net-worth individuals who actually bring capital and create jobs, instead of low-skilled inflows that strain services. Problem solved.

BREAKING: Trump told the world to take the strait. The world went to the United Nations to get permission. Russia, China, and France said no. On April 2, Bahrain brought a fourth draft resolution to the Security Council authorising member states to “use all defensive means necessary to secure transit passage” through the Strait of Hormuz for a minimum of six months. It was the product of weeks of negotiation among Gulf states watching their economies suffocate while 84 tankers exited Hormuz in the entire month of March, a volume that used to move in a single day. Russia broke silence. China broke silence. And France, a NATO ally whose largest shipping company CMA CGM has 14 vessels trapped in the Gulf, broke silence alongside them. The objections were coordinated. Russia and China called the text “one-sided” and demanded focus on “root causes.” Macron called a military operation “unrealistic.” No vote was held. The resolution died in the drafting room. The strait remained closed. And every Gulf state that heard Trump say “build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT” now knows that the legal cover to do so does not exist. This is the diplomatic kill shot nobody is pricing correctly. Without a UN mandate, any multinational naval operation in the strait operates without international legal authority. Warships engaging IRGC fast boats or clearing mines would act under national rules of engagement alone, exposing every government to legal liability and domestic political risk. The UK’s 35-nation meeting to “marshal capabilities” was already aspirational. Without a resolution, it is also unauthorised. France’s position is the fracture that reveals the architecture. Paris denied airspace to Israeli military resupply flights. Now it has blocked the resolution that would free its own ships. CMA CGM, the world’s third-largest container shipping company, is a French firm headquartered in Marseille with 14 vessels anchored or diverted because of the closure. France chose diplomatic positioning with Beijing and Moscow over the commercial interests of its own national champion. That is not neutrality. That is a strategic calculation that the relationship with China matters more than the cargo. And China’s position is the most revealing of all. Chinese vessels already transit the strait freely under the IRGC’s selective passage regime. China does not need the strait reopened for everyone. It needs it open for China. And it is. The toll is paid in yuan. The clearance is granted. Chinese tankers pass while European, Japanese, and Korean vessels sit anchored. Beijing is profiting from the closure while blocking the resolution that would end it. The current regime gives China a competitive advantage it has never had in global energy markets, and the Security Council veto is the instrument that preserves it. Trump told allies to fight. The IRGC published what happens to their bridges if they do. And now the Security Council has told them they cannot legally secure the strait even if they wanted to. Caught between a president demanding action, an IRGC threatening retaliation, and a council withholding authority. The strait is not just closed by Iran. It is closed by the international order itself. The alliance did not break over a threat. It broke over a choice. And the choice was made in a room where three vetoes weigh more than twenty million barrels a day. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

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@Dave_Eby Ok, when the budgets run dry let’s see how many of your health professionals will see to the needs of the patient without a pay check. Time to focus on your fiscal responsibility first o ensure the budget never runs dry for the patients

Donald Trump’s loss is BC’s gain. Thousands of US doctors, nurses and health professionals are applying to work in BC, because our system is based on the needs of the patient — not their ability to pay. BC now has more doctors per person than anywhere else in Canada.

Passengers on a commercial flight captured the launch of Artemis II on camera The plane happened to pass near the launch trajectory at the exact moment of liftoff, giving passengers a rare view of the rocket launch right from their windows.

Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch is set to become the 1st woman to fly around the moon 🌕

🔥🚨BREAKING: Kid Rock just responded to the liberal backlash he got after a U.S. Attack Helicopter flew by his house.

In my opinion, they’d be better off spending a fraction of this on EV charging infrastructure along this corridore. The future is EV with self driving features - when you’re driving Toronto to Montreal using self driving, the extra time it takes vs. a high speed trade is negligible. Plus a train will never get you to your final destination, so you’ll still need to transfer to a bus or taxi or walk to your final destination. Therefore, I don’t believe you’ll save any additional time. Currently, if I fly Toronto to Montreal, I can do door to door in about 4 hours; I leave the house travel to YTO airport, wait for flight, land at YUL, travel to my hotel, 4 hours minimum. If I drive, I’m at about 5.25-5.5 hours, and I have the benefit of having my car with me in Montreal.

Is building a train between Toronto and Quebec really the best use of $100B. I mean, that is the cost, right? I am not wrong about that?