Paul Bakhmut

@MackenzieKieran @sarobertson_

@sarobertson_ I wonder why she feels so unsafe? Oh, right (wing rhetoric and fearmongering).

Poilievre: I met a lady at the airport the other day who told me that she moved from Vancouver to Mexico so that she would feel more safe. Let that sink in. She feels more safe in Mexico than in Vancouver. (Mexico’s homicide rate is more than 13x higher than Vancouver’s)

@MarlaTodd185141 @sarobertson_ Have you ever traveled outside of Canada? 😉

@sarobertson_ I lived in Vancouver for many years and never felt unsafe, every city has areas of increased gang or homeless populations. He is such a fucking idiot, couldn’t even win his own riding why does he even have a seat.

@tyjoshie @dexter_doggie @sarobertson_ She didn’t say Mexico is safer, she said she would feel more safe. Would you feel safe around here? This is Canada: 👇

@dexter_doggie @PBakhmut @sarobertson_ But Ma, Joe down the street saw one so that is more accurate than reality /statistics. Honestly, I hear a banjo in the background every time these people tweet now. There’s no sane person on the planet that believes Mexico is safer.

@dexter_doggie @sarobertson_

@PBakhmut @sarobertson_ This is literally what scientists call "anecdotal evidence." Statistics are actually what you need if you want to know if people are moving in significant numbers and why.

@CanadaTaxGuy @walkerpj1 @GMDanTO Which system do you prefer, capital gains tax or no capital gains tax?

Not everyone is a tax burden. Indentured servants is dumb. You really need to be objective here. They should receive it because it appreciated while you were a resident and did not pay tax on it. And residents are taxed in Canada. Otherwise, anyone who wants to sell can leave Canada. Sell. And then come back and avoid tax.

I’m a CPA and tax expert. Canada has a lot of silly taxes and dumb tax rules. But exit taxes actually make sense. And it’s not some sort of ‘theft’. In fact, many countries (including the US) have them. 🧵

@CanadaTaxGuy And why would this not make sense? It’s quite natural that some people might want to leave to a no tax country.

Why does the exit tax exist? Let’s say you buy an investment in Canada for $1 and it grows to $10m. Now you want to sell it. You would pay ~$2.6m in tax if you sold it. You think ‘why don’t I just leave Canada to a no tax country and sell it there instead?’

Ukraine launches TrophyLab: we are opening access to captured Russian weapon technologies for our global partners. Every missile, drone, and vehicle seized on the battlefield is now a source of knowledge for the free world. Through this secure platform, allied governments, labs, and defense tech manufacturers gain access to deep technical data, reports, and vulnerabilities. Users can also request physical equipment for testing, significantly shortening the development cycle for countermeasures. What was meant to be the enemy's secret advantage is being dismantled to defend democracy. Join the platform: 🔗 trophylab.mod.gov.ua/en/

Moscow's instantly-iconic exploding fuel storage tank is resulting in a flood of memes. I'll add a selection below...

@PhilipJohnston @ycombinator It’s not too late! 🤩

We did @ycombinator 2 years ago with an average founding team age of 41 and became YC’s fastest unicorn 💪🏻👴🏻💪🏻 YC is the YC for 35+ founder 👌

the most wildly infuriating thing about canada is that all of our problems are self inflected and if we just focused on growth and got out of our way we would all be happier and wealthier

government destroys value. in this case, the value of an American education was destroyed in ~40 years. if there’s no marketplace for customers (parents of students) to demand value (quality of education for price paid) by simply going to another service provider (school or educator), it is inevitable that costs will go up and quality will go down. this is true of any service provided by government, which effectively grants itself a monopoly, deleting the opportunity for other service providers to compete in offering better value to customers/citizens…

@brendan_samek 😂

Investors about to be absolutely destroyed by hype

@StephNass hierarchy 😅

Sometimes, the deck says : - John, CEO & Founder - Jack, CTO & Co-founder - Jim, COO & Co-founder So there's THE FOUNDER and *his* co-founders. Feels weird.

@EricDLombardi @ruffoloj It is important to learn from others, but the "developed" world isn’t exactly know for great healthcare. If you consider medical tourism patterns, it’s worth asking why millions of people from the "developed" world travel elsewhere for better options.

I’m not going to measure my healthcare proposals on how “American” people perceive solutions to be. I will instead ask the question: Why is our universal healthcare system underperforming nearly every other universal system in the developed world, at a higher cost? What lessons do top performing systems like those of Japan, Denmark, and the Netherlands hold for us? Nor will I buckle at acknowledging reality: The vast majority of healthcare in Ontario is delivered privately but paid publicly. And frankly, it would be decent for the media to actually state this as a duty to inform the public. Ensuring there is “competitiveness” among providers Ontario is paying is paramount to the public interest. There is no need for this word to be taboo in our healthcare conversation. Many of the solutions are operational and technological, not ideological. Digital health records. Integrated specialist referral systems. Public 24hr urgent care centers. Public fast diagnostic centers. So many more! Ontarians want to see the public system work. That will be my priority and focus. Not only will I invest in expanding access and capacity, nobody will ever need to pay for it out of pocket.

@snoble @EricDLombardi Why Australia? What do you like about their system?

I am once again gesturing wildly at Australia as a set of healthcare policies for Canadians to consider. No system is perfect, but given our cultural similarities and shared language it's a really good case study for us. They've arrived at quite an interesting set of tradeoffs and guard rails.

California is turning UC Berkeley (whose professors won 4 Nobel Prizes last year) into remedial school. No SAT for admissions and a new mandate to make everyone's "outcomes similar." No mention of excellence. This is how bureaucrats kill the nation’s best public university.

@8arani Toronto on $120k: - CN Tower view from the Dollarama checkout line - Porsche Macan sticker on a Presto card - Joey after work once a month, tap water only - LinkedIn looks disgusting

OPTION A: Toronto - Bay Street / big tech / consulting - Good money -> $120k to $500k - Condo downtown with CN Tower view - Porsche Macan, Benz GLE, or BMW M4 in the condo garage - Morning coffee in the PATH - Equinox before work, Joey after work - Raptors, Leafs, Drake concerts, TIFF parties - Parents can finally explain your job - LinkedIn looks disgusting OPTION B: SF - Hayes Valley / Mission / SoMa -> join or build a startup - Bet on yourself -> $0 to $1B - Hacker house with 6 people, 2 fridges, and no real furniture & mattress on the floor - Waymo to investor meetings you are not emotionally ready for - $8 coffee, $19 sweetgreen, Mission burritos at 1am - Everyone is either building AI, raising money, or “figuring out distribution” - Parents ask when you are getting a real job - Hoodie, MacBook, Claude Code, no sleep

The stupidity of these @Stanford students to take the greatest opportunity for equality in humanity ever and to really free humanity and go walk out on @google and @sundarpichai that's pioneered that. Biased, idiotic, short-sighted and very selfish. Selfish because they ignored the bottom 3 billion people on this planet that could benefit from AI and they are worried about their misinformed selfish self-interest. youtube.com/watch?v=wf74VX…

Venture capital in Canada is very simple. We’ll back American companies swinging for the fences, watch them turn into monsters, then come home and treat a Canadian founder raising a normal seed round like they asked to buy NASA. Best we can do is $10K, 11 meetings, and a full exit strategy for a product that launched Tuesday.