@ReignMorbid @Bone348 In that case, why CPR, Transcanada or confederation bridge. Une fédération implique toujours des droits et des responsabilités, cela inclut la contribution nationale dans le développement des provinces.
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Ben Youssef
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@Bone348 If Toronto and Montreal want it, Toronto and Montreal can pay for it then.
Why the hell should flin Flon Manitoba have to pay for it?
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Another HSR post;
FUN FACT: the HSR trains of Italy, China(some) & Sweden are all ZEFIRO Variants designed by, you'll never guess who....
BOMBARDIER, Canada's flagship transportation industrial firm.
We even apparently have domestic expertise...
Build the damn train!!!
Clinton Desveaux@ClintonDesveaux
Canada needs Japanese and South Korean engineers to build us a high speed train with its own dedicated line from Quebec City through Montreal and Ottawa to Toronto. We also need a high speed rail between Calgary to Edmonton It’s time for us to evolve
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C'est officiel !
Je serai le candidat du Bloc Québécois dans Vancouver Nord–Capilano lors de la prochaine élection fédérale.
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@johnknotek @CheriDiNovo L'histoire donnera son verdict sur ce projet de train à haute vitesse comme sur d'autres grands projets de l'histoire du Canada.
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@petitben59 @CheriDiNovo Confed bridge super successful on build as private company took on all risk. Bridge is still heavily subsidized. CPR there was no other viable cross country alternative and fully funded by private enterprise now. Don’t see the high speed rail achieving either of these.
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Poilievre wants to cancel the high speed Toronto to Quebec City rail.
We should suggest (on his dime) he spend some time in Europe where rail takes you everywhere and public transit is taken by the wealthy because it's faster, cleaner, greener and cheaper.
Tory governments are the reason we're decades behind the world.
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@Caiopino67 @MUFCDarren_ That implies changing the culture of the Italian football and moving away completely from Catenaccio. Football has evolved, but Italian mindset about the game has not. C'est là le gros problème par rapport au Football italien globalement, pas seulement la Squadra Azzurri.
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@MUFCDarren_ Remember that If the italian football is reformed properly, it will be pain for everyone (see tennis!)
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🚨 Zinedine Zidane on Italy 3rd World Cup miss in a row :
“In that final, Marco Materazzi insulted my sister. I complained, but nothing was done. When I reacted, the referee sent me off, and it cost us the World Cup. My career ended with a red card, but I told them—that was the last World Cup they would win.”
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@gitzeler @MrJFTaylor @SamHersh01 That is your opinions, but do you remember how many times people of Toronto and Ontario for that matter have been bickering about public transportation. Between building silly streetcar or subway. In my view, every large capital public expenditure is an issue in English Canada.
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@petitben59 @MrJFTaylor @SamHersh01 It's not English Canada, it's not even most of Canada, only like 20% of all Canadians strongly oppose this the other 80% are in favor or indifferent. The support is there across all of Canada. Such a weird attempt to separate Canadians by language???
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Canada is literally the only G7 country without high speed rail.
Conservatives want you to continue to pay sky high prices for gas, worsen congestion on roads and make your commute hours longer.
We've been "studying" high speed rail for 50 years - time to get it built.
Scott Robertson@sarobertsonca
Pierre Poilievre on the Toronto–Quebec City High-Speed Rail Network: "Conservatives oppose the $90b Liberal-Alto train ... a future Conservative government will cancel this $90b boondoggle altogether."
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@johnknotek @CheriDiNovo English Canada has been asking the same question every time. From the construction of cpr to the confederation bridge. C'est toujours le même discours de petit comptable avant chaque projet de grande envergure. C'est à cause de cela que le projet Avro à été abandonné. Enough!
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@CheriDiNovo You do understand math correct? Two European unions could fit inside Canada and their population is 10x larger. While high speed rail would be nice it only would service just over half of Canadian population which is 20x smaller than European Union. For $90b math ain’t mathing.
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@MrJFTaylor @SamHersh01 I truly don't understand English Canada. These same questions were raised before the construction of cpr, the transcanada highway, the confederation bridge, and now the high speed train for Québec city to Windsor corridor. Les mêmes bêtises avant chaque grand projet!
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@SamHersh01 Canada is 5,500 kilometres in a straight line, if you are thinking rail line more like 7,500 kilometres then there are those pesky mountains and lakes. But if you are talking just Ontario and Quebec high speed then it is indeed possible, just at other Canadians expense.
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@DavidFord32 @_shireenahmed_ Répondre à cette question risque d'être une stupidité de ma part. Go figure out that answer yourself.
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Caption: Not me being stopped at the entrance at Media arrival time (5:30 pm) because a BMO Field security guy couldn't believe I am a sports journalist and part of the press corps.
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@SMohyeddin @avilewis Un homme de principe avec un sens extrêmement élevé de l'état! Nous perdons un a un les consciences de la nation. Que son Âme repose en paix.
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During his illness, Stephen Lewis spent what little energy he had, protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. This fact will most likely be missing from most remembrances of him today. Canada lost a giant of humanity and social justice. Sending love to @avilewis & entire family.
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@DelVFN @NickKristof How about human rights in Sudan right now, Gaza, and Myanmar. Are they of lesser God? Well l guess they don't have oil. C'est l'unique raison et non les droits de l'homme où le terrorisme.
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America is the super power of the world, does that make sense? Not only there’s a responsibility to wipe out terrorists groups as much as it relates to the US, it stands for human rights values, at least you all have to pretend to. #Operationepicfury #FreeIranfromIslamicrepublic #DigitalBlackOutIran
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Imagine if instead of spending $1.3 million/minute on war in Iran, we spent this on people. With 3 days of war, we could eliminate the worst form of global hunger, saving 1.5m kids' lives. With less than 3 weeks worth, we could offer national pre-K or college for all Americans.
AF Post@AFpost
State Sec. Rubio: “Imagine if instead of spending billions on weapons, Iran spent that money on its people. They’d have a much different country.” Follow: @AFpost
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@calxandr Merci beaucoup, monsieur le ministre. Autant que je sache, les États-Unis n’ont jamais acceptés une responsabilité légale de ce mépris. Merci une fois de plus pour votre service à la nation.
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@petitben59 Oui, je m’en rappelle de cet incident remontant aux années 1980.
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All Canadians should think of Iran this way. Ukrainian Airlines flight PS752 had 55 Canadian citizens & 30 PRs on board. Of 167 passengers, 138 were travelling to Canada when the plane was shot down, killing all, on 8 January 2020 by an Iranian IRGC air defence unit.
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Tymofiy Mylovanov@Mylovanov
Zelenskyy: Iran shot down our plane. Killed our passengers. Didn't admit it. Then the full-scale war, they handed Shaheds to Russia, killing our civilians I asked them to stop. They promised no more than one batch and carried on lying. I think of them as accomplices of Russia 2/
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@calxandr Avec tout le respect que je vous doit, monsieur le ministre. Est-ce que vous vous rappelez de l'avion Iran air abattu en plein vol par la marine américaine avec plus de 280 personnes à bord pendant la guerre Iran-Iraq.
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This was long before: the February 2022 full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, backed by Iranian drones; the 7 October 2023 terrorist attacks against Israel, aiming to distract from Ukraine; & recent Iranian attacks against Gulf states. Iran is a perennial aggressor.
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@MelissaLMRogers It's not complicated. I have been hearing this same excuses ever since l was kid in Ottawa. C'est toujours le même refrain, le français est difficile à apprendre. C'est une question de volonté purement et simplement.
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UNBELIEVABLE 🇨🇦 Carney demands the next Air Canada CEO be Bilingual. Only 18% of Canadians are Bilingual. Instead of getting the BEST person for the job, they will search in a very small % of people to Lead Canada’s largest airline
VERY SLIPPERY & dangerous slope. Good luck 🇨🇦
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@ToufLatouffe @DanielBordmanOG Les imbéciles au Canada anglais n'ont aucun sens de l'histoire malheureusement.
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@DanielBordmanOG Sense of entitlement ?!? We built the fucking thing. There was nothing before us. Damn right we are entitled.
Get out of here
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Fuck off Quebec.
Honestly, the hostility created by the French sense of entitlement actually negatively impacts the majority of Canadians and excludes them from positions of power. You can get a CBC panelist to sneer at us all you want, but our country is weaker because of this nonsense.
Produce an elite goalie and then we can entertain your absurd language laws, until then the country has serious problems to deal with so calm down and stop undermining the country.
Sincerely,
English speaking Canadians
Josh Wingrove@josh_wingrove
*AIR CANADA CEO MICHAEL ROUSSEAU TO RETIRE
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@MichelMagaPCC @hassinhadi @PaysQuebec @AirCanada Avec le salaire de ce monsieur, je ne comprends pas pourquoi sacrément, il n'a pas appris le français. C'est une pure foutaise de sa part.
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La Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montréal remet son Prix citron à @AirCanada. Pour marquer le coup, un immense citron a été installé devant les bureaux de la SSJB, sur la rue Sherbrooke à Montréal. L’organisme reproche à Air Canada, malgré ses engagements, de ne pas respecter ses obligations linguistiques.
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@for_options @AlbertaUncaged @brianlilley @TomTSEC Dying language. Pour vous peut-être, mais pas pour nous les Québécois. BTW, it's about time for all federal politicians to speak both official languages.
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He was Air Canada’s CFO during the 2008-09 financial crash.
He took over as CEO in 2021 when air travel was decimated.
Just 6 weeks ago Air Canada financial results showed record revenue.
But now he’s out because he didn’t do a video in French
torontosun.com/opinion/column…
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@Bearwood1973 @jurgen_nauditt But why now. Because they never shared those values from the start. Cette réalité était connue de la plupart des pays de l'union à l'époque. D'ailleurs honnêtement, la Hongrie n'est pas seule dans cette liste des pays qui applique cette règle à géométrie variable.
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@jurgen_nauditt Finally, this need to be example, if country does not share common values and is just burden should be expelled.
And Hungary can be example for other similar cases
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The EU is preparing five scenarios in case Orban wins. Expulsion from the EU is even being discussed – Politico.
Brussels plans to neutralize Budapest's blackmail after the April 12 elections. On the table are the suspension of the veto right, a complete freeze on funding, and the suspension of Hungary's voting rights.
The most radical option, already under discussion, is the complete expulsion of the country from the European Union.
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@EmilyFarina5 One of the coldest in winter. I remember taking the Transcontinental from Montréal to Vancouver, the 4 hours stop at Winnipeg train station in February was just awful. En été c'est autre chose.
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I’m in Winnipeg’s Union Station, the most beautiful train station in Canada. It deserves much more than the meagre six VIA Rail departures per week.
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@Patrickdery Il raconte ça pour la gallérie et non le reflet d'une conviction historique.
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Les fédéralistes sont-ils des Québécois?
Le chef du Bloc dit que non. Le chef du PQ, lui, appelle à « voter comme un Québécois ».
(Oui, ils ont vraiment dit ça.)
René Lévesque, pour qui le mot Québécois n’était « en aucun cas la propriété exclusive d’un groupe et encore moins d’un parti », aurait été horrifié.
Mon plus récent texte, à lire ici ⬇️
avezvousvotepourca.substack.com/p/les-federali…
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