Dave Ballingall

Proud Canadian. Democracy over Fascism. Animals are better than humans.

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[Devin Heroux @Devin_Heroux]

Canada’s March to the Match continues to work its way through the Toronto streets toward the stadiums.

Beautiful scenes as fans chant and cheer and high five fans who are lining the streets.

It’s going to be electric inside the stadium today.

[Dave Ballingall @BallingallDavid]

@washingtonpost * Crooked Supreme Court
* Crooked Justice Department
* Crooked FBI
* Crooked President
That's a helluva country you've got there!

[Dave Ballingall @BallingallDavid]

@Acyn He can barely stand up.

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

A 102-day summer vacation after sitting for only 29 days this year. If you were trying to avoid questions about your own corruption, this is what you'd do.

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

When Nixon's Attorney General threatened Katherine Graham, publisher of The Washington Post over Watergate--she defied him, and made history.

When Trump's White House raged about 60 Minutes' story on CECOT prison--a solid story--Bari Weiss got rid of the reporter.

RIP CBS News

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

SEN. BLUMENTHAL: Putin is bombing American businesses. Make no mistake, he is attacking American assets here in Ukraine purposefully and intentionally.

More than half of the businesses in Ukraine have been attacked and bombed, and Americans ought to be outraged by that fact.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Canada needs more Wab Kinew and less Danielle Smith.

[Men's Humor @MensHumor]

Dude got bodied by a body of water

[Jan-Albert Hootsen @jahootsen]

I have worked for almost 20 years in Mexico, where graft and corruption are all too common among the political elite. That said, I struggle to recall a single Mexican politician coming even close to the staggering amounts of corruption the Trump presidency openly engages in.

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

NEW: The health official who led the public response to the Hantavirus outbreak has little background in public health and previously was a penile implant specialist who hosted a podcast where he questioned the 2020 election and compared the Biden administration to Nazi Germany.

[Anastasiya Paraskevova @UkrainianAna]

Ukraine suffered the largest and most fast paced displacement of children since World War II, with around 2.5 million kids displaced from which 1.8 million are refugees.
Over the half of them have been displaced within the first month of the russian invasion.
This should be bigger news all over the world but it's not as it underreported, just as the mass abduction by russians of our children is.
East/West FM has made an effort to highlight their experiences and let them speak out.

[Dave Ballingall @BallingallDavid]

@LisaThompsonPC @BGCDSB What is the rationale for funding religious schools in Ontario in 2026? And only one religion, the wealthiest church in the world. And then only hire Catholics to work there?

[Dave Ballingall @BallingallDavid]

@LisaThompsonPC @BGCDSB What is the rationale for funding religious schools in Ontario in 2026? And only one religion, the wealthiest church in the world. And then only hire Catholics to work there?

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

This exchange between @SenBlumenthal and Trump’s judicial nominees is utterly astounding.

If you can watch this and still think this country isn’t falling into authoritarianism and fascism under Donald Trump, then you are not being honest with yourself.

[Dave Ballingall @BallingallDavid]

"a Premier that picks up my call" lol

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Pierre Poilievre: This Liberal PM has been wrong about every major economic issue of the last decade

Mark Carney: Wrong on crypto, wrong on Brexit ... You know what this government is right on? Cooperative federalism. It's about working with Ontario -- a Premier that picks up my phone call

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

This is truly mind-blowing: Norway has gone from near-zero sales of non‑emitting battery electric vehicles to now close to 100% of all new passenger car sales - achieved in about 13 years.

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[Rasmus Jarlov @RasmusJarlov]

If you look at the agendas that are being pushed in waves by the fake bot armies on Twitter, who do you think is behind it?

- Make US Americans and Europeans hate each other
- The USA should leave NATO
- The EU must be dismantled
- Orban is a hero
- Ukraine is evil. Russia is our friend

It is so obvious.

And by the way, this is exactly why the EU has fined Twitter for lack of transparency. To protect free speech, we must protect the public debat from fake bots that are used actively by the enemies of the free world to divide and weaken it.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.

A Syrian billionaire needed U.S. sanctions lifted so he could cash in on $12 billion in reconstruction contracts.

In an attempt to influence American foreign policy, he proposed a Trump-branded golf course, cut Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump into a multibillion-dollar real estate deal for a resort in Albania, and had someone physically deliver a stone engraved with the Trump family crest to a Republican Member of Congress with instructions to take it to the White House to get the President's attention.

Trump threw his weight behind repealing the sanctions. They were lifted. The contracts are moving, the Trump family’s deals are expanding, and not a single Washington Republican is willing to say a word about any of it.

This is a corruption of everything the office of the presidency is supposed to stand for, and the American people deserve to know about it.
https://t.co/A4lQE3ktoG

[Gord Downie @gorddownie]

‘Ahead By A Century’ was released 30 years ago today, April 22, 1996. Its impact continues to ripple across the world. “No dress rehearsal, this is our life.”

[Will Christou @will_christou]

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was found dead after hours of searching under rubble. She was killed in an Israeli strike, after the Israeli army fired at ambulances trying to reach her, delaying her rescue.

She is the fourth journalist killed by Israel while in the field since 2 March.

She was a professional, kind and dedicated journalist, and always a pleasure to run into in the field.