Adam McCarthy

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Trump Media is charging up to $100,000 a month for banks and trading firms to get faster millisecond access to Trump's Truth Social posts through the "Truth API" low-latency feeds before anyone else does, per FT.

This is directly aimed at creating a new revenue stream for Trump.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Utterly pathetic.

The left has become so infantilized, and so enthralled by antisemitism, that it is now deemed “hurtful” to be in the presence of the Ambassador of the world’s only Jewish country.

The putative reason Nenshi gives for his humiliating statement is “civilian casualties” in Israel’s defensive war against Hamas, which executed the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, and whose primary goal is the destruction of the Jewish state.

If civilian casualties in a just war make a country and its representatives pariahs, that would include Canada’s role in the two world wars, Korea, and Afghanistan.

Nenshi certainly couldn’t abide being in the presence of Winston Churchill or FDR.

I have seen @nenshi attend @CJPAC and other pro-Israel events for years, including this Stampede. So I expected better from him.

For shame.

[Adam McCarthy @AdmMcC]

@CoryBMorgan We need to get some truth tellers going in politics like David Parker. Just dial the truth telling back just enough that he doesn't tell everyone the truth about our home addresses and other contact info and it would be perfect

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Ty Cobb on Trump: “The man is crazy. He is a malignant narcissist, he’s demented. It’s all about self-enrichment. I spent hours and hours in the Oval working through things with him. It’s much worse now”

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

In 2015, ISIS captured Palmyra and demanded its head of antiquities reveal where the treasures were hidden.

He was 81 years old. He refused.

Khaled al-Asaad had spent over 50 years excavating and protecting Palmyra, the caravan city that once rivalled Rome in the Syrian desert.

He learned Aramaic to read its inscriptions. He raised his children among its ruins and named his daughter Zenobia, after its rebel queen.

Before the city fell, he helped evacuate hundreds of artefacts to safety. ISIS interrogated him for weeks to find them. But he gave them nothing.

They executed him in the square and left his body among the columns he had spent his life defending.

Archaeology is not a soft profession. Sometimes the people who guard the past die for it.

- @MichaelButtonX

[BeyondOldfashioned @Karen22912]

I try to be fair.
But from my understanding of things- Canada just relented on an issue that we were 100% in the right on.
Giving in to American Admin extortion practices.
AGAIN- I try to be fair minded.

[Adam McCarthy @AdmMcC]

@FoodProfessor If cost overruns and traffic diversion changed the economics of the deal he should articulate why that is and how they came to split revenues. It is a total shake down by the Americans. Gross.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

I invite you to imagine how you would want our government to respond if a single rocket was fired into a neighborhood near you by an enemy sworn to kill you all. Now watch this video and remember it isn't rain you're seeing.

[Brad Zubyk @Bzubyk]

Carney is very much in the stylistic mold of Stephen Harper and Paul Martin - a somewhat dull technocrat whose brand is managerial competence.

[David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense @davereaboi]

Hmm. So he accepted a $400M plane from Qatar, claiming that it’s a deal because it replaces Air Force One. Now we find that it doesn’t, in fact, replace that plane at all. It was always just a transparent attempt to receive a new plane for his personal use from the Muslim Brotherhood’s patrons.

[Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhoganyyc]

TMX is wildly profitable. Tolls are only part of the full story.

TMX generates over $1.7B per year for Canada through our ownership position.

It also results in an additional $46.7B in royalties and taxes over the first 20 years of operations, and there are substantial benefit agreements in place with First Nations.

An excellent return on $34B. But because the commercial tolls only tell part of the story of return TMX is also an excellent illustration of why infrastructure that provides broader public and economic return is often backstopped by or involves government involvement (see: roads, rail, etc)

[Adam McCarthy @AdmMcC]

UNCLOS provides a dispute framework but doesn't guarantee a pipeline will be built. It isn't an institution that would bypass Canadian courts, if anything it would add a layer of international legal complexity. You still have to negotiate routes, infrastructure, environmental approvals, and operating agreements. It's easier to do that from within Canada. Point 2 is also ridiculous for a lot of reasons but that's an entirely different conversation.

[Adam McCarthy @AdmMcC]

@AlwaysAlberta That makes no sense. Post secession we would not only be dealing with Canadian courts, but we'd also be relying on international law, courts, and institutions to enforce access. How is that easier than working within Canada, especially given our current PM is working with us?

[Adam McCarthy @AdmMcC]

What? KXL is built on the Canadian side. When you talk about profitability, are you talking about recovering the cost of constructing TMX? Market access for another 1mm bpd that can be shipped anywhere is 100% in our national interest. I've never heard anyone seriously try to dispute that... Very odd post man.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Albertans have won the argument for responsible resource development.

Thank-you to our fellow Canadians for your support and understanding. It’s in our shared national interest that Canada achieves its full potential as a global energy super power!

To the perennially angry separatists who thrive on a victim mentality: learn to take “yes” for an answer!

[Adam McCarthy @AdmMcC]

@WhyCensorMe @JonFromAlberta You're pretty much what I envision the majority of secessionists being like in their thinking LMAO

[Adam McCarthy @AdmMcC]

Taxation on carbon is just a tax. If it's the wrong tax there is no fraud in it. Make a case, win elections, and break up the ideological capture. Getting it wrong one way or another is not fraud. Taxing carbon in Alberta and using it as rebates for plant optimization or renovations is one way to transition away from carbon fuels. Not a point that's relevant to the conversation. Carney/Smith are about to double pipeline capacity of TMX. Secessionists are an obstacle rather than a solution

[Adam McCarthy @AdmMcC]

@WhyCensorMe @JonFromAlberta Again... irrelevant. We are talking about organizing ourselves politically to get pipelines built. People will have different opinions and we need to work through those to get things done in a free society. It's not just energy, I think data centres are increasingly important.

[Adam McCarthy @AdmMcC]

@WhyCensorMe @JonFromAlberta Climate alarmists have collected political wins. They're wrong in my view but from my vantage they are no more frauds than secessionists like Jon who disguise politics with grievances while offering no solutions or accountability. Beat ideas with better ones.

[Adam McCarthy @AdmMcC]

@WhyCensorMe @JonFromAlberta They are using the port of Van so tanker ban doesn't apply. Agreed that risk carried by gov but so does the benefit. There is a difference between criminal fraud and getting it wrong. You're getting it wrong and handle that through persuasion and discussion.