Jennifer Lalonde DTEFLA 🇨🇦

This is me. I was an IELTS instructor, materials developer, EAP teacher on a Shanghai-based platform for 7 years, and that's how I developed an interest in privacy, #DataProtection, cybercrime. I didn't know my face was on the China main page until 2019, even though I had...

@MarioNawfal Moral of the story: who TH facilitates the provision of weapons to terrorist religious tribes while there are no hospitals, schools, civil infrastructure?

🇸🇦🇺🇸 Saudi Arabia is telling Trump to back off the blockade before Iran shuts down the only route keeping Gulf oil flowing... Saudi Arabia is reportedly privately pressing Washington to drop the Hormuz blockade and return to negotiations. The reason is simple: if Iran retaliates by activating the Houthis to close Bab el-Mandeb, Saudi Arabia loses its last remaining export route. After the war closed Hormuz, Saudi Arabia pivoted its oil exports to Yanbu on the Red Sea, restoring output to its pre-war level of seven million barrels per day. Iran's foreign policy adviser publicly warned that Tehran views Bab el-Mandeb "just as it looks at Hormuz" and can disrupt it "with a single signal." Saudi energy officials told the WSJ they secured commitments from the Houthis not to attack Saudi ships through Bab el-Mandeb. But Riyadh warned Washington the situation is "fluid" and the Houthis could escalate if pushed further by Iran. The U.S. blockade is designed to choke Iran's revenue. But Iran can respond by choking Saudi Arabia's revenue through its Yemeni proxy. Both chokepoints closed simultaneously means the entire Gulf's oil output has no route to market. Global energy markets collapse. Source: WSJ

@ImmortaINight @HonorAndDaring Yes.

@HonorAndDaring I think Leo is trying to listen in good faith and respond to both sides, because he is the Catholic Pope and there are Catholics on both sides of the issues. I don't agree with all his positions or biases, but I do think he is a good honest man that wants to play a positive role

Unlike most Catholics on X, I am not a formally trained theologian, but I think this might be a bigger moral issue than the US enforcing immigration law.

@ImmortaINight @HonorAndDaring No. Mental illness is now a criteria for MAiD. Homeless people choose assisted death because who wants to be disabled living on the street in cold winter. Death by assisted suicides are not recorded as MAiD but by underlying condition.

@HonorAndDaring "Murder" in this case is a bit subjective because unless the patient is mentally incapacitated they are opting to basically commit assisted suicide. Morally abhorrent still to the Catholic conscience, but debatable on the extent it qualifies as "murder"

Oh. Maybe it *does* matter that former Fr Jean Pierre Garry Pilon (hiding in Campbellford) was incardinated in Biden’s hometown of Scranton. He was put there deliberately by Canadian Bishop Bill McGrattan. Don’t tell me Bishops aren’t PRIMARILY political.

The Epstein boogeyman has made it crystal clear Zíonísts want for you to despise jews as much as possible so that they may orchestrate human sacrifices far surpassing that of WWI & WWII

🌞 Good morning Canada 🍁 Canadian media looks diverse on the surface. It isn't 👇 Five conglomerates control over 80% of what Canadians read and watch: Bell, Rogers, Corus, Postmedia, and Torstar 📺 Bell owns CTV, CP24, TSN and BNN. Editorially centrist, but repeated mass layoffs have gutted local journalism across the country 📉 Corus owns Global News. Centrist to centre-right, with shrinking newsrooms and growing financial pressure 📺 Rogers owns CityTV and Maclean's. Broadly centrist, skewing centre-left in its urban markets 🏙️ Torstar owns the Toronto Star and 80+ papers. Centre-left, bound by the Atkinson Principles, a progressive editorial charter baked into its ownership structure 📰 The Globe and Mail is owned by the Thomson family through their private holding Woodbridge. Centre-right, pro-business, Bay Street in its bones 💰 But here's the one that should make you stop. Postmedia controls 130+ newspapers, including the National Post, Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen, Calgary Herald and Edmonton Journal 🗞️ ⚠️ Postmedia is 66% owned by Chatham Asset Management, a U.S. hedge fund whose CEO is a major Republican donor and which also owns the National Enquirer. Its editorial line? Consistently and aggressively right-wing. Openly hostile to the Liberal government. Editorially close to Conservative Party messaging 🔵 Canadians no longer own Canada's largest newspaper chain 🇺🇸 In Quebec, Quebecor owns TVA and the Journal de Montréal. Right-populist, nationalist, and frequently hostile to the federal government 📡 And in New Brunswick, the Irving family owns virtually every major daily newspaper in the province, while simultaneously dominating its economy. The conflict of interest writes itself 🏭 The unintended consequence? ⚠️ The majority of Canadian print media tilts right, driven by a U.S. hedge fund with zero obligation to Canadian democracy. Quality reporting gets squeezed. Newsrooms get gutted. And ownership interests quietly shape what you read 📉 The CBC remains the only major publicly funded broadcaster and the dominant trusted news source for Canadians 📻 Which is exactly why it's the biggest target on the right for defunding 🎯 If the goal is an informed democracy, this level of foreign-controlled, right-leaning concentration clearly isn't serving it ⚖️ Worth watching how this evolves 👀 You get your coffee ☕. I'll pour myself a glass of wine 🍷. #Canada #CanadianPolitics #cdnpoli #MediaOwnership #Journalism #Democracy #Postmedia

@fionakennyantiq @ForMYCanada @LichTamara “Civility and logic expected.” “Lich is not credible as a human.” ??

@ForMYCanada @LichTamara Lich is not credible as a human & rates no further attention. It would give her less clicks if posts are only a screenshot. Quite a few other liars should be treated the same. Not calling it disinformation. She's quite aware it's a lie.

Today, Canadians watch helplessly as a man who was never elected as a member of parliament, was not a Canadian resident, and who had no relationship to Canadians prior to being (s)elected as Prime Minister steals an unelected majority Liberal government. The irony of some falsely accusing the Freedom Convoy of trying to overthrow the government. What do you think is happening??!? @ChrisBarber1975 @TomMarazzo

@elonmusk This does not look like Truth and Reconciliation.

Each cross is a murdered family

@Acts17David @TeamYouTube @YouTube That’s Google. Wonder if the call to burn churches and synagogues at Easter/Passover also ended up looking like a co-ordinated complaint/reporting campaign by sheeple against an effective Iranian voice?

The weirdest thing about @TeamYouTube treating content creators like useless garbage is that we're the ones who make money for the platform. There's no point in going to @YouTube if no one's producing content. So we produce the videos that ultimately pay the salaries of the lazy, incompetent morons who lie about people like @gghamari and ban her. Quick question for @YouTubeCreators: Can a bunch of us chip in to hire a human reviewer who actually cares and takes his/her job at YouTube seriously? Just one?🤔

@saltypsych The Catholic position (in theory and on the ground) on women and LGB stands in stark opposition to CST, though.

Starting tomorrow at the Vatican, the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences is hosting its 2026 plenary on “The Uses of Power: Legitimacy, Democracy, and the Rewriting of the International Order.” If you read the concept note for the plenary (which I linked below), the guiding premise is that we’re currently experiencing a global crisis involving the weakening of liberal democracy and the postwar “rules-based international order” (including institutions like the United Nations), which, according to them, is no longer stable or sufficient to secure global peace through international cooperation. So the central question of the plenary seems to be: what actually legitimates political power? The concept note explicitly invokes Hegel (because of course it does) and his critique of Kant’s idea that an international federation of states (the same idea behind the formation of the League of Nations and later the UN) was necessary to prevent war and peacefully resolve international disputes based on shared legal principles. Hegel’s critique (articulated in his “Philosophy of Right”) was that international law and a federation of states cannot actually guarantee lasting peace because individual sovereign states retain final authority on whether or not they participate and will ultimately act according to their own interests. So, if we really want lasting peace, an international federation of states can only achieve that if they have a coercive unity binding them and limiting their national sovereignty. They must answer to some ultimate moral authority. And, according to the people participating in this plenary, their solution for everyone is a New World Order driven by a universal moral framework informed by Catholic Social Teaching, which they seem to be suggesting is both necessary and inevitable. The list of speakers and their respective talks is of course not reassuring.

@saltypsych Hmm. Easy to see why Laurentien self-selected aristocracy in Canada wanted Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. Hints of Carney’s post-nationalism here. They are right that (many) peoples exist outside nations, formal citizenship.

Link to plenary concept note and conference booklet: pass.va/en/events/2026…

@saltypsych @ConceptualJames On CST as the new framework the Holy See will use to stay relevant: youtu.be/xaypJ8KfzW4

@saltypsych @ConceptualJames youtu.be/xaypJ8KfzW4

@MelissaLMRogers Catholicism has made itself hated, unfortunately. The arrogance of priests has alienated people and weakened the tradition. That said, this is horrible. There was a call from Iran to attack churches over Easter. TPS had officers guarding synagogues and churches in Toronto.

A Church FIRE happening tonight in Saint-Romain, Quebec 🇨🇦 Construction of this church began in 1893 Horrible to see. This is Canada 🇨🇦

@MelissaLMRogers @gddub 😢

@LichTamara From the Economist, available through the public library! Variable geometry means pragmatism. Strategic coalitions. Be at the table so we are not on the menu. In practice, this means pulling conservative and NDPs into one party FAST. It decreases polarization.

@Nunkwa1 @ForMYCanada @LichTamara We actually needed electoral reform back in 2015 when Trudeau made a National Citizens Assembly an election promise. He admitted just before resigning that he had never intended to do it though. Canadians need to dial it up fast or …

@ForMYCanada @LichTamara Oh Tamara give it up. FYI Crossing floor is part of democracy. Look it up-it has happened at federal level, MPs cross either direction even when Cons were in power. In Alberta your fav person Danielle S crossed with a bunch from wild rose to UPC.

@CjCtwo @ForMYCanada @WhiteDo27131656 @LichTamara They are not idiots. But they aren’t as savvy as they need to be. Constant podcasting and complaining, name-calling, with no organization or planning or policy suggestions.

@ForMYCanada @WhiteDo27131656 @LichTamara @ LichTamara won her notoriety by misleading her band of idiots and lying to Canadians, it’s not like she’s going to change now.

@james_schaus @ForMYCanada @LichTamara Good point. He was defeated by a citizen who took the time to knock on doors for years, getting to know residents, voters, property owners. A citizen who did stuff in the real world, got elected, unseated a party leader.

@ForMYCanada @LichTamara Even funnier given that PP didn’t win his riding and had to be given one so he wouldn’t be homeless.

@scott_robb @ForMYCanada @MikPopsOff @LichTamara Yes. Griping constantly with no productive organizing. Just ostrich rescue.

@ForMYCanada @MikPopsOff @LichTamara If anyone think Conservatives have a clue what they’re talking about then they themselves have no clue what they’re taking about… Cons & supporters are uneducated & have low IQs,have poor cognitive abilities which make them prone to misinformation(fake news)& led by fear/rage