That Mel 🇨🇦

@Scribulatora It was in 1982. The day I became a Canadian citizen, 88 yr old Mr. Alexander Smith, a customer of my place of work, gave me this envelope with a crisp new twenty dollar bill in it. ♥️🇨🇦♥️ #CanadianStories

While Russian Duma members were getting guided tours of US government buildings and Trump was busy pressuring Ukraine to surrender, Russia helped Iran destroy an irreplaceable American $700,000,000 AWACS aircraft.

@CatsEyeMuseum @poppymoppet Lovely!

✨️ Astrud Gilberto ✨️ 🌱 29.03.1940 – 05.06.2023 🌹 🎵 The Shadow of Your Smile 🎬 Newport à Paris, 08.11.1968 🇫🇷 Now when I remember spring 🌸 All the joy that love can bring 💞 I will be remembering 💭 The shadow of your smile 🌙 #AstrudGilberto

Pope Leo on Palm Sunday: “This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood’ (Is 1:15).”vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

Bank of America just agreed to pay $72.5 million for helping Jeffrey Epstein traffic underage girls. The settlement dropped late Friday night. Buried under war headlines and protest coverage. Almost like they planned it that way. And this is literally the FOURTH major bank settlement tied to Epstein's sex trafficking operation. JPMorgan paid $290 million to victims. Then another $75 million to the US Virgin Islands. Deutsche Bank paid $75 million to victims and got hit with a $150 million regulatory fine on top of that. Now Bank of America adds $72.5 million. Total exposed so far: Over $660 million. Number of bankers criminally charged: ZERO. Number of bankers who went to prison: ZERO. Every single settlement came with "no admission of wrongdoing." Every bank said some version of "we regret the association" and moved on. But the court filings tell a very different story: JPMorgan filed suspicious activity reports on Epstein's accounts as early as 2002. Their own compliance team flagged him. They KNEW something was wrong but they kept banking him for 11 more years anyway. When Epstein was alive and actively trafficking girls, JPMorgan flagged $4.3 million in suspicious transactions. After he died in his cell? They retroactively reported $1.3 BILLION in suspicious activity going back to 2003. That's 300 times more than what they reported while he was alive. A Senate investigation found that JPMorgan executives overruled their own compliance officers to keep Epstein as a client. Internal emails show top executives approved continued business with Epstein even AFTER his 2008 conviction because he was bringing in ultra-wealthy referrals. Deutsche Bank picked Epstein up as a client in 2013, the same year JPMorgan finally dropped him. Their own CEO later admitted onboarding him was "a critical mistake that should never have happened." They literally kept him for five more years. Bank of America allegedly didn't file suspicious activity reports on Epstein-linked accounts until AFTER he was dead. The pattern is identical every time: See the red flags. Ignore them. Profit from the relationship. Wait until the client dies or gets arrested. Then file a report. Then write a settlement check. Then say you did nothing wrong. Now think about this... These are the same banks that freeze your business account over a $5,000 wire transfer. The same compliance departments that require endless forms of ID to open a checking account. The same institutions that flag small business owners for "suspicious activity" if they deposit cash from their own customers two weeks in a row. But a convicted sex offender runs hundreds of millions through their systems for DECADES and nobody notices. Nobody reports it. Nobody escalates it. Nobody calls law enforcement. Until he's dead. Then suddenly everyone remembers everything. Senator Wyden called for a criminal investigation. The Treasury Department has thousands of pages of Epstein bank records they still won't release. Congressional investigators say the full picture of what these banks knew hasn't come close to being revealed. $660 million in settlements and fines. But not a single criminal charge against any banker at any institution. That's the system working exactly as designed. I wonder why no one's talking about the files anymore?

“for the first time in centuries, the Heads of the Church were prevented from celebrating the Palm Sunday Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre”

What will it take for the world to recognize that Netanyahu's Israel is off the rails? A wanton contempt of all that's holy. And now? Barring the most senior representative of Christendom from entering the Holy Sepulcher on Palm Sunday. Stop us. We can'd do it on our own.

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To be clear, this is an opinion column in a major Israeli newspaper advocating ethnic cleansing.

@anneapplebaum Thank you, Anne.

Viktor Orban wants Hungarians to re-elect him, even though he has turned Hungary into the most corrupt and one of the poorest countries in the EU. To do so, he is telling Hungarians to fear sabotage, thievery, or even a military attack from … Ukraine theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…

Pay attention, Canada 🇨🇦 !! “…politicians from several countries are shoveling propaganda at an electorate in order to build terror of an enemy that doesn’t exist at all.”

@PierrePoilievre Hey, folks. There's still time to sign the petition calling on ALL party leaders to obtain and maintain their top-secret security clearance. @PierrePoilievre is the only leader who couldn't get his. Why? 🍎#GetTheClearance🍎 Sign here: ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/P…

Hi Pierre, Gas in Canada has been higher priced than gas in the U.S. my entire life - for lots of reasons including market size, economies of scale and, yes, taxes. But it has nothing to do with any recent tax changes. In fact, a gap of 18% would be among the lowest on record.

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@Dred_Tory 😂😂

JJ McCullough is what you get if a Dr. Seuss character wanders into Ayn Rand's weakest novel.

Last night, Budget 2025 received Royal Assent 🇨🇦 This is our plan to build a stronger economy, protect our sovereignty, and empower Canadians with more opportunities and a lower cost of living.

An Afghan asylum seeker hopes that “one day my children will live in a world that sees refugees not as a burden, but as human beings who survived the unimaginable.” George Packer tells her story: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…

I met with Canada’s new ambassador to the U.S., Mark Wiseman.    Canada is not just Minnesota’s neighbor — they are our number one trading partner and close friend, and I look forward to working with Ambassador Wiseman to further strengthen our economic and security ties.

No Kings resistance, Ontario Branch, meets noon tomorrow, Queen's Park.

Happy birthday to Jann Arden, born on this day in 1962 in Calgary! Through her career, she has won eight Juno Awards (out of 19 nominations), two Canadian Screen Awards, the Order of Canada and has a star on Canada's Walk of Fame. She has 17 top ten singles from eight albums.

@HelloStephano I hide and block posts from bots or disinformation trolls.