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@T_Krawchenko @irgarner But let’s Ukraine continues to hold strong.

I’m checking headlines this morning about the massive bombings across Ukraine and I guess it’s not found to be particularly newsworthy. I’m grateful to the Guardian that has consistently had good reporting. Just made a donation to them. I see nothing from the New York Times.

The craziest part? The wealthy stayed wealthy. The middle class didn’t get hit. The sky didn’t fall. Almost like the panic was always propaganda.

@ikwilson @cspotweet The First Nations consultations are going to be a rude awakening for UCP and separatist Albertans, and good. Because the separatists I see on X have literally no idea of Canadian history, law, or what Treaties entail. 🤷‍♂️

This made MAGA big mad 😂

They never do. Read The Morning After, by Chantal Hebert and Jean Lapierre. Twenty years after the 95 referendum, the major players *still* hadn’t figured out what they would have done in the event of a yes vote. It was all just bluff and improv. But anyone who does try to game the thing out with any rigour pretty quickly comes to the conclusion that it can’t be done: not unilaterally/illegally, and not by negotiation/constitutionally. That needs to be communicated to people. But what needs to be communicated even more is that the whole enterprise is illegitimate; that there is not, and cannot be, any such thing as a right to secede from a democratic country (which is why virtually no democratic country recognizes such a right); that threatening to do so to blackmail your fellow Canadians is as morally bankrupt as it is practically futile; that the attempt to invoke democratic principle in its defence is bogus — you cannot vote to help yourself to something that isn’t yours, namely the territory of Canada — while the right of self determination simply folds in on itself: if Albertans or Quebecers have a right to self determination, do Edmontonians or Montrealers? For that matter, do Canadians? Or is the proposition that the vast majority of Canadians must simply stand mute while their country, which tens of millions have built over several centuries, is blown apart by a single vote on a single day by a small fraction of the population? Even if either Alberta or Quebec had been sovereign states prior to entering the federation, that would not hold water: once you’ve dissolved your sovereignty in the larger entity, you can’t reconstitute it. It no longer exists. There’s nothing to reconstitute it with. But it’s just gaga to make such claims with regard to a province that, like Alberta, was itself the creation of an Act of the Parliament of Canada, or like Quebec, of the Parliament of Great Britain — and then only the relatively minor rump that was carved out of the pre-existing Province of Canada at Confederation. Two thirds of the present-day territory of the province of Quebec was added after Confederation — again, by acts of the Parliament of Canada. So there’s no actual likelihood of Canada breaking up, even if there is a referendum in either or both provinces, and even in the vanishingly unlikely event that either or both of them managed to win a “clear majority” on a “clear question.” What is possible is that either or both of them might land themselves in a ruinous, divisive, and possibly violent mess, whose costs would mostly be borne by their own citizens. But we do not make that prospect more likely by rushing to make offers to dissuade them from leaving or going to great lengths to show “the federation works.” The committed hardliners regard such offers with contempt while the cynical blackmailers regard them as a baseline from which to make further demands. Neither is anything achieved by saying “fine, go.” Acquiescing in the theft of Canadian territory and the destruction of the federation hardy counts as a “tough” position. No, the proper stance is to advertise, well in advance, that neither exercise will be regarded as conferring any right to secede of any kind; that whatever we might be willing to talk about afterward, it would not be secession. It might not even be as advantageous as the status quo.

"Even without her ideological history, though, Ms. Smith is temperamentally a bad risk for a security clearance. She is a political opportunist and a blabbermouth. Conservative commentator Andrew Coyne recently compared her to a magpie." #abpoli

No one needs to give you a reason or right to leave Canada. You’re free to do so even today. Pack your bag and have a safe trip. However, you don’t have the right or privilege to take any part of Canada with you.🧳 #cdnpoli #ableg

Mitch Sylvester says the Alberta separatist movement is based on total bulls**t.

A clear majority of Albertans are opposed to separatism. The ONLY reason it’s the threat it is, is because our governing party is HOPELESSLY compromised. Within party ranks, the separatists are the majority. Our province will not be safe until the UCP no longer forms government.

All the money and power in the world only to build a pedophile robot that tells everyone how stupid he is

There are important adult discussions to be had about MAiD. Posting shit like this makes that nearly impossible.

@nowak_paul He’s a crook.

A track record of dismissing women in the media and press who try to hold him to account… Bigger issue is this. If you received a personal gift of £5m from someone based overseas, would you think it fit and proper to declare it?

@AntiTrumpCanada @yomeeks To me, the main difference between North Korea and the USA is that Kim Jong-un wasn’t democratically elected by his fellow countrymen.

As a Canadian, I can now understand what it feels like to be a South Korean living directly adjacent to a deranged, nuclear-armed megalomaniac. The main difference is Kim Jong-Un is not in the Epstein Files.

@propublica I really hope somebody’s keeping track of all this.

Before the 2024 election, federal prosecutors were “full steam ahead” looking into how a prison gang in Puerto Rico gave drugs to inmates if they voted for a GOP gubernatorial candidate. After Trump’s election, the investigation evaporated. propublica.org/article/trump-…

Everytime Danielle Smith cites "left" or "woke" or any other derogatory slur she has for Albertans not in her extremist RWNJ base, she does it purposefully to create division. Smith is not nor has she ever been good Premier material.

I guess I missed the annual Loser Convention in Ottawa.

A man with no working truck convinced Wall Street he had built the next Tesla. His company hit $30 BILLION. All he did was push it down a hill with no engine. > Trevor Milton founded Nikola in 2014, named after the same inventor as Tesla. > The goal was to build hydrogen powered trucks that would make diesel obsolete. He had no trucks. > In 2018 he released a promotional video called Nikola One In Motion. It showed a sleek semi truck accelerating smoothly down an open highway. Investors went wild. > What nobody knew was that the truck had no engine, no fuel cell, and no propulsion system of any kind. > Milton's team towed it to the top of a hill, tilted the camera to hide the slope, and let it roll. > He spent the next four years doing the same thing with words. On podcasts, television and social media. > Investors were told Nikola could produce its own hydrogen. It could not. They were told the trucks were ready for production. They were not. They were told orders were flooding in. They weren't. > In June 2020 Nikola went public. Within days the company was worth $30 BILLION, more than Ford. > Milton's personal stake hit $7.3 BILLION overnight. > A $32.5 MILLION ranch in Utah followed. A record for the state at the time. > In September 2020 Hindenburg Research published a report calling Nikola "an intricate fraud" built on "an ocean of lies." Milton resigned within ten days. > A federal jury convicted him of securities fraud and wire fraud in 2022. Sentenced to four years in prison the following year. > He never went. He was free on $100 MILLION bail pending appeal. > He and his wife donated $3.2 MILLION to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign. > In March 2025 Trump gave him a full pardon. The pardon erased $168 MILLION in restitution to defrauded shareholders. > Nikola filed for bankruptcy the following month, leaving thousands of investors with nothing. The company never had a product. The only thing that was real was the $30 BILLION valuation, the $7 BILLION that landed in his pocket and the pardon that made sure none of it had to be returned.

Yep. Ukraine has cards.