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The founder of a Canadian Pride organization has been convicted on 7 of 10 human trafficking charges by an Ontario jury, in a case involving two women. Jake Tucker of Innisfil Pride maintains his innocence and plans to appeal. Sentencing is pending.

@Reil76 I didn’t say or bring up that part because that’s ludicrous lol. I agree, the industry is important but no income tax seems like a stretch. I was just more so in agreement with your original post and still tried to highlight the importance of a derrick, for all of Canada 🇨🇦

@zac_mich And if you plan on no income tax as some of the so called leaders say, it’d need to be the amount I said to cover the 24B

Alberta separatists claim oil is the key to independence and they’re not gonna pay income tax. Wellllll Alberta made $22B from oil & gas royalties last year. Sounds like the industry is carrying the whole province, right?Here’s what they don’t tell you. Income taxes brought in $24.2B. Regular Albertans and businesses quietly out-contributed the oilpatch. And oil isn’t stable. In 2015 when prices tanked, resource revenue collapsed to $2.8B. The province ran deficits almost every year from 2008 to 2022. Next year, with oil forecast lower, resource revenue is projected to drop to $13.2B while income tax stays steady near $24B. So when someone tells you we can’t afford to question the oil industry, or that pipelines and royalty breaks are non-negotiable because oil funds everything, ask them this: Why does a province sitting on one of the world’s largest energy reserves keep going broke every time the price of a barrel moves? The industry is important. Nobody’s denying that. But it’s a volatile. Alberta has been using boom revenues to avoid hard conversations instead of building something durable.

@Reil76 What’s your math? Here is mine, lmk if I’m off base: We’d need a 5% PST ($6B+) just to cover a "moderate" oil dip. To replace oil royalties entirely during a "bad year" like 2015, Albertans would need to pay $15B–$20B more in taxes—roughly $4,000 extra per person.

@zac_mich It would need to be 30-35% PST lol. And no worries, reply as much as you need my friend lol

@Reil76 My take is the balanced one. I don’t have premium as well so sorry for all the tweets lol. 😂

@Reil76 Alberta’s budget looks like a "regular" economy on paper, but it’s actually a symbiosis. While income tax ($24B) technically outpaces royalties ($22B), that tax base is fueled by the energy sector. When oil stalls, the "multiplier effect" hits everyone. 🛢️📉 2 of 2

Mark Carney has been Prime Minister for a year. He promised to build at “speeds not seen in generations.” And today? Still no pipeline. Still no projects of "national interest." Get this Liberal government out of the way and green-light projects now.

WARNING: do not make smoked shotgun shells unless you’re prepared to eat way too many of them. These things should honestly be illegal at a backyard cookout. Absolute 10/10.

This guy just explained Liberals vs Conservatives like we’re five… and it’s brutal because it’s dead accurate. Red team (Liberals): “We wanna spend like drunken sailors but we’re gonna keep all that oil, gas, and natural resources in the ground like it’s radioactive waste.” So how do they pay for it? Easy — they just take it straight from your pocket with endless taxes and fake “green” fees. Blue team (Conservatives): “Let’s actually use the resources God gave Canada, create real wealth, and let YOU keep more of your own damn money instead of treating taxpayers like an ATM.” One side wants to punish you for working and living. The other side wants Canada to actually prosper. Pretty simple when you stop listening to the propaganda and just watch what they do. Vote blue. Keep your money. Develop our resources. End the Liberal wealth transfer. Canada deserves better than poverty disguised as virtue. #LiberalFail #CarneyDisaster #cdnpoli #CanadaFirst #TaxationIsTheft #UseOurResources

@Reil76 Brutal, hey. WHY?!

Canada Post just got another $673 million from Ottawa to stay alive through next March. Last year it was $1.03 billion. Gone by February. Then another billion when that wasn’t enough. Now $673 million more, and experts are already saying it probably won’t cover the full year. The corporation lost $1.57 billion in 2025 alone. A business professor at Carleton said it out loud this week: Canada Post is insolvent. I get that rural mail delivery is a real issue. I get that not everyone has an Amazon warehouse an hour away. Those are legitimate concerns worth solving.But we are not solving them. We are just writing cheques and hoping something changes. At some point you have to ask whether the answer is to keep funding a corporation that has burned through multiple billions in back to back years, or to actually redesign how last mile delivery works in this country. Open it up. Restructure it. Do something different. Because what we’re doing now isn’t working!!

Today Prime Minister @MarkJCarney and I made significant progress towards reaching an agreement on a west coast pipeline and carbon pricing that will protect Alberta ratepayers and businesses, and result in hundreds of billions of new investment in the Alberta and Canadian economies.  Although there is still some work left to be done to get to the finish line and ensure the interests of Albertans and our industries are properly protected, I am now much more confident this will be completed well before Alberta’s west coast pipeline submission to the Major Projects Office next month. Stay tuned Alberta :)

Well Canada has made international headlines again Not in a good way Saskatchewan school kids had to be pulled out of a bizarre and perverted play involving drag queens and indigenous land claims No, This is not fake news

You've heard about this story. Now you get to see it. I traveled to Columbus, Ohio, and witnessed the most egregious government waste I've seen in my 20 years as an investigative reporter. This has been going on for years, and you've been paying for it. Take a look⬇️

Liberal Super Majority New Polls have the Liberals eliminating the Conservatives wiping them off the MAP. Either the Polls are wrong or Canadians love the last 11 years so much they want MUCH more of the same.

@singh_g77 @Fan960Wills So does tanking work???

@Fan960Wills And he proceeded to win 2 cups! Not with us though…

Once again, the NHL Draft Lottery doesn’t go #Flames way. BUT…the last time had the sixth-overall pick, they took Matthew Tkachuk, so here’s hoping!

ELBOWS ALLLLLLL THE WAY UPPPP!

SHOCKING 😳 The Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem was not consulted at all about the sovereign wealth fund. Hard to keep inflation under control when you’re not consulted about $25 billion worth of debt creation in advance

@JamesJohnsonYYC @prasad_praneel

Refresher on draft lottery odds for the Flames: 9.5% chance at 1st overall 9.5% chance at 2nd overall 0.3% chance at 3rd overall 15.4% chance at 4th overall 44.5% chance at 5th overall 20.8% chance at 6th overall 19.3% chance at their first top 3 pick in franchise history

If anyone doesn’t know why Chayka is disliked btw

Sources: Prior to Sunday, the #NHL looked into a tampering concern raised as new Maple Leafs GM John Chayka began to hire his staff. The claim was unsubstantiated but underlined the suspicion some counterparts have for Chayka as he resurfaces. Details: hockey247.com/2026/05/04/fra…