Bev Pritchard

[@JohnBeggs @jbeggs252]

I have lower than 43% confidence Carney will negotiate a deal with trump that is beneficial to Canadians. Much lower. Like zero. That has nothing to do with my confidence in Carney, which remains high. It reflects my zero confidence in trump. Carney will not accept a bad deal.

[Peter Ratcliffe, forever Canadian 🇨🇦 @PeterHRatcliffe]

Interesting seeing the CPC Leader calling for open public meetings on Trade.

Last CPC government we had with Harper sold the Wheat Board to Saudi Arabia, signed secret and bad long term deals with China, and many other deals done with ZERO any public consultation.

[Kim-Bo @kim_gaetz]

Danielle Smith is actively privatizing healthcare in Alberta,
She has her hands out wanting Health transfers from the Federal Government, this should only be done with strings attached as to where every cent goes while she is creating a U.S. system of healthcare !

[Annie Dufour @anniedufour99]

" The important thing for Canadians to know now is that there is no such thing literally as a deal anymore. We have a deal, CUSMA, and ...even though it has been passed through Congress, Trump says that we will not live up to it. "
"Trump's actions in both in Iran and various parts of the trade war, basically say : the value of a piece of paper signed by this president is ZERO. "- Justin Wolfers, Professor of economics and public policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan
His advice : Canada should give up zero to get his signature on a deal.
#cdnpoli

[Peter Nielsen @nielsen_pe50582]

@highbrow_nobrow @atrupar The US is the worlds largest terrorist organization. They kill schoolgirls and steal oil from Venezuela.The war in Iran is also to protect the petrodollar and for cheap oil

No country on Earth kills more people than the US. International rules are a joke to this terrorist regime

[Annie Dufour @anniedufour99]

@sarobertson_ Diplomacy is not Business. In university, the curriculum of those two areas are not the same. Sure, they have intersecting areas, but the aims are different, the expertise and knowledge to reach them too.
#cdnpoli

[KATY PERRY @katyperry]

I am deeply appalled and angry to see “Firework” used on the @WhiteHouse TikTok account as a backing track for video footage of military strikes. I did not approve this, I was not asked, and I absolutely do not condone it.

I wrote this song to be an anthem of hope, healing, and inner strength for people going through their darkest personal moments. To see a message of self-worth and upliftment weaponized to soundtrack destruction and violence is a complete violation of everything my song stands for.

My music is for bringing people together, not celebrating warfare.

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

I'm glad Bernard Simon could afford $305/night to have surgery at Shouldice, but Shouldice is everything wrong with for-profit medicine. 👇👇👇

Shouldice cherrypicks the easy cases just like other medical profiteers. Everyone there was "slim and trim" Simon wrote. Yup - sure, dump the harder cases on the public system. That's what profiteer medicine does. How come Shouldice gets to reject the harder cases. What gives them the right. Your public hospital can't do that. I can't do that as an "public" ER doctor.

Shouldice's success is because they take on the easy stuff. So when there's bragging, don't forget they cherrypick the easiest work possible. As an ER doctor if I only saw patients age 25 years or less - my numbers would be amazing too.

Shouldice has a paywall the rest of us think is unethical and un-Canadian. The taxypayer bears the cost of surgery, but accommodation is $305/night - which is where Shouldice makes its money. Taxpayers give corporate welfare and profiteers take our public money. How insane is that?

Shoudice makes its money admitting overnight patients, international patients and the taxpayer. This is day surgery elsewhere in the public system. And no - I cannot remember - see a complication in the public system of its cases at least in the last 10 years.

"Innovation". Bernard Simon parrots the party-line that profiteers are the only ones innovating. I've been in public hospitals for 25 years - and the "innovation" is daily in public hospitals. This is such an old often-told lie.

I'm glad Simon could afford the paywall to enjoy his "tasty green salad (including pomegranates) followed by a hefty pork chop with butternut squash and kale, and angel cake for dessert" but his arrogant "Too bad about the longer wait and the less appetizing meals" in public hospitals reflects the absolute worst of entitlement.

Simon thinks he's a reasonable guy by arguing Shouldice should turf a few cases there for "the public wards" - like those Canadians are lesser, dirty and a charity case. It's on par to publish this snobbish arrogance in the Globe and Mail, long a supporter of profiteer medicine.

Ultimately, Simon puts his own medical case out there, and so he opens himself up to critique. He erroneously thinks because he jumped the queue, he did something noble and good, but in fact, it's people like him that make publicly funded healthcare worse for the vast majority of Canadians.

Queue-jumping doesn't shorten the line, it makes the line longer.

@picardonhealth @alandrummond2 @NightShiftMD @FriendsMedicare @OntarioHealthC @CdnDrs4Medicare @HealthCoalition @DrGorfinkel @PfParks @JMeddings @BradenMannsYYC @MaritStiles @ShamjiAdil @NickelBelt @RobinLennox @stephaniebowman @LFairclo @tedhsu @stephaniesmyth @tylerwatt @Wayne_Gates @AlexaNGilmour @chrisglover @LGretzky @kernaghant @kristynwongtam

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[Scott Barber @thescottbarber]

Imagine being proud of using your economic strength to break long standing agreements and essentially steal the hard work and money of Canadians who actually built the bridge. This is gross. Anyone who voted for this should be ashamed of themselves. You voted for the school bully.

[Patrick Stuart @sircharlesohio]

@atrupar For those who don't know, Canada paid for the bridge and was first going to collect tolls to pay for its construction, then split future tolls evenly with the U.S..

And Rapey McRapeface had to ruin it like a spoiled toddler . . .
https://t.co/x6Pr6l9KqG

[David Pope @PopeDavid70233]

@atrupar “Terrible deal”? Canada paid the entire cost to build the bridge.

It was only a terrible deal for Trump donor/bribe payer Moroun family that owns the competing Ambassador Bridge.https://t.co/UEFmJd6jwn

[magnus reid🌻💙🇺🇦💛🇨🇦💪♥️ @magsadoodles]

@atrupar

[McGuffin @GuffyNicola]

@atrupar @R_JonAnderson Mostly the bridge
deal screws Michigan, which would have received 50% of the profit once the debt to Canada is paid off. Remember this in November, Michigan.

[Karl-Heinz Paschek - “Nasty Canadian” @theLLCoolK]

@atrupar This, right here, is why any deal with the United States of America isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.

We see it, the whole world see’s it.

America alone.

[Stephano🍁Barberis @HelloStephano]

This is a great watch:

[Athena is her 💫 @Athena_is_her]

Surprised Piers kept his mouth shut for 3 mins & O'Leary is probably there worried about Data centres he wants to build in 🇨🇦 or give a masterclass of how to get off a DUI while boating that killed someone in Canada. Americans 🇺🇸 have zero clue how they had it so good with us

[Flavio Volpe, C.M. @FlavioVolpe1]

Canadians have real debate on how to respond, but we are united on what this is.

They are upset that we stood up for ourselves because they misunderstand our calm.

We are a complicated nation worth defending. Our history books are full of that lesson.

This too shall pass.

[Stuart B (B3man) 📝 @Filamagnum]

Depreciation and interest payments (on outstanding loans) are legitimate business operating expenses.

For accounting purposes, they fall under Non-cash & Financial Expenses. They are deducted before net profit is calculated.

Payment on loans principal are not an operating expense.

[Glen Murray @Glen4Climate]

Dear @ScottJenningsKY
Let's talk cows.
Canada’s dairy system is not simply a tariff wall designed to keep American milk out. It is a supply-management system designed to keep production roughly aligned with demand, stabilize farm income and preserve a viable network of family-owned farms. Imports are allowed in significant negotiated quantities at low or zero tariffs; the very high tariffs people hear about generally apply only after those agreed import quotas have been filled.

The United States protects its farmers too, often much more extensively, but it uses different mechanisms. American taxpayers support agriculture through crop insurance subsidies, income and price-support programs, disaster payments, commodity programs and direct government payments. Dairy farmers have access to federally supported margin-protection and insurance programs. The U.S. also restricts imports in sensitive sectors. Sugar is an especially obvious example: the United States uses tariff-rate quotas that limit how much foreign sugar can enter at low tariffs, precisely to protect domestic producers and prices. USDA explicitly describes this system.

So there is a real hypocrisy in attacking Canada as a protectionist outlier. Canada essentially says to its dairy farmers: we will control production and imports so you can earn a reasonably predictable income from the market. The United States more often says to its farmers: we will expose you more directly to the market, but protect your income through subsidies, federally supported insurance, price and commodity programs, and, where politically important, import restrictions. In 2026 alone, USDA forecasts federal Dairy Margin Coverage payments, while its broader farm programs continue to provide income, commodity and insurance support.

Both countries protect agriculture. They just write the cheque differently.

And that matters to the family farm. Canada’s system was designed in part to prevent the boom-and-bust cycle in which oversupply collapses milk prices, smaller farmers fail, and increasingly large operations buy them out. Supply management gives a farmer greater certainty that producing milk efficiently can provide a viable living without having to become an enormous industrial-scale operation merely to survive the next price collapse.

That does not make Canada’s system perfect. Quota is expensive and can make it difficult for new farmers to enter. But portraying Canadian dairy protection as some extraordinary trade offence while the United States protects its own farmers with quotas, tariffs, subsidies, insurance and government support is fundamentally misleading.

Canada protects a relatively small number of agricultural sectors openly through supply management. The United States protects agriculture through an enormous, less visible architecture of federal programs and selective trade barriers. Calling one “protectionism” while pretending the other is “free trade” is the hypocrisy.
Hope next time you will fact check yourself.

Sincerely
Glen

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Wab Kinew on Donald Trump's remarks about Canadian wildfires: "Anybody who's making comments like that is not showing basic human decency. And I would remind our American friends that Manitoba had wildfire fighters in your country this wildfire season helping to put out American wildfires. And we'll continue to do that no matter what the Trump administration says because that's what decent people do."