Elizabeth Bonell

Teacher

[Financial Post @financialpost]

Zellers 'accelerating comeback' with two new stores in Ontario

https://t.co/Le5LN9Jh55

[CityNews Toronto @CityNewsTO]

Zellers set to return to Ontario with new Toronto store opening June 18. https://t.co/Y2WwJO53V7

[RTN @RTNToronto]

#NEW: Zellers is set to return to Toronto on June 18 with a new store opening.

[CTV News @CTVNews]

Zellers plays with toys, food as retailer's relaunch reaches Ontario https://t.co/CtLCccqy3o

[CTV News @CTVNews]

A look back at the history of Zellers https://t.co/K6uuL2fV8I

[Joe @Joethecreator99]

Euphoria creator and producers have thanked Drake for his huge impact on the show over the years. Drake is an executive producer of the show and the creators have said if it wasn’t for him the show wouldn’t have been made. Sam Levinson the creator has said that Drake help sell the show to HBO and that he was the one who funded most of the show and even marketed it to the Lelia for them and that’s why it became a huge success. He said that Drake is a nice person and what the public try’s pushing about him is always false.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Jill Biden just exposed the most painfully awkward limo ride of Melania Trump’s life.
In her new memoir “A View from the East Wing,” Jill writes about Inauguration Day 2025, when tradition required her to ride from the White House to the Capitol with Melania after the pre‑inauguration tea. It should have been a symbolic handoff between first ladies. Instead, she says, Melania sat “stone‑faced,” barely speaking, clearly furious over the FBI search of Mar‑a‑Lago for Trump’s hoard of classified documents.
Jill actually tries to show empathy: she notes that as first lady she had her own home searched by agents as part of the investigation, and that she knows “how distressing it was to have agents rummage through your underwear drawer.”
Melania, Jill writes, wasn’t having it. She blamed Joe personally, acting as if the normal chain of law‑enforcement and courts didn’t exist and the president himself had ordered a raid on her bedroom.
The tension was so thick that the inaugural committee didn’t dare put the two women alone together. Jill says they recruited Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s husband, John Bessler, as a human buffer and plopped him in the middle seat.
Bessler did what Midwestern dads do in impossible situations: he tried small talk. He asked about Barron’s studies at NYU. Melania, staring out the window, gave him a single word: “NYU.” Every attempt to shift the conversation back to something neutral — the weather, the ceremony — died in the air. In Jill’s telling, the presidents’ limo up ahead was probably tense too, but at least Joe and Trump were talking. In the first ladies’ car, it was just cold silence and one‑word answers all the way up Pennsylvania Avenue.
Jill uses the story to make a broader point: this wasn’t a one‑off. She writes that Melania declined her invitation to the traditional 2021 inauguration tea when Joe first took office, breaking a norm that has survived even the ugliest transitions.
Four years later, when the roles reversed and the Trumps came back to the White House, Melania still didn’t extend the same courtesy back. In every interaction Jill describes, Melania shows zero grace — even compared to other first ladies who have quietly swallowed humiliations and still showed up for the sake of the country.
And here’s the part that matters beyond the gossip. Trump has spent years telling his followers that the Mar‑a‑Lago search was a personal vendetta by “the Bidens,” not the result of him hiding boxes of classified nuclear and military documents in a ballroom, a bathroom, and a basement.
Melania apparently believes that narrative so deeply that she can’t even make small talk in a limo without seething. Jill, who knows firsthand what it’s like to have agents go through your things, points out the obvious subtext: it’s not the invasion of privacy Melania is truly angry about. It’s that her husband was finally treated like any other citizen who hoards national‑defense secrets and refuses to give them back.
We don’t often get honest, human‑level snapshots of what power feels like up close. This one matters because it captures the collision between entitlement and accountability.
Jill Biden is sitting there thinking about how to show a little solidarity over something painful that neither woman directly controlled. Melania Trump is sitting there convinced that nothing in her orbit — not an FBI warrant, not a criminal investigation, not even the peaceful transfer of power — should happen without her family’s permission, and furious at anyone who suggests otherwise. VIA~~~Josh Helfgott
In a few years, historians will write whole chapters about classified documents, indictments, and constitutional crises.
For now, it’s worth remembering this image: two first ladies in the back of a limousine, one trying to keep a fragile tradition alive, the other staring out the window, still unable to see that the law applies to her husband, too.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Good.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Ukraine slams St Petersburg as Crimea spirals into fuel catastrophe.

https://t.co/HOj06Zd6xv

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

Congress must get on the right side of history & support a democracy, free market nation who wants to ally w/ us, and to oppose a thug who is invading its neighbor. We’ve waited long enough to help Ukraine & put sanctions on Russia. This is our Churchill vs Chamberlain moment.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Mike Johnson again serves his Russian master.

[SPRAVDI — Stratcom Centre @StratcomCentre]

American jazz musicians were urged to refuse to perform at a festival in Moscow, which is funded by Gazprom.

Representatives of the international movement Arts Against Aggression appealed to American jazz performers Allan Harris, Camille Thurman and Tierney Sutton with a call not to participate in the Moscow Jazz Festival.

The open letter emphasizes that the event is funded by the sanctioned "Gazprom" and the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives of the Russian Federation, and the festival is led by saxophonist Igor Butman - a member of the "United Russia" party, who is under sanctions from Ukraine, Latvia, and Canada for supporting Russian aggression.

Activists remind that American sanctions legislation generally prohibits US citizens from providing professional services or conducting financial transactions related to sanctioned or affiliated with the Russian state structures.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

@danobrien20 A huge amount of unwashed Irish tankies and pro russia communists have tried to discredit this reporting. Sad state of affairs here in Ireland!

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

For weeks, Irish politicians have dodged questions about the refinery in Ireland supplying Russia’s war machine.

So I tracked down government minister Niall Collins at a farming show.

He refuses to back sanctions & his stance was worse than I expected.

Avoidance.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Every sign at this refinery in Ireland is in russian. The official website is a .RU domain.

There’s no reason to hide it because local politicians are openly doing it for them.

[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

Hey Pete Hoekstra and Donald Trump, go to hell with the 51st state nonsense.

Canada is a sovereign country, not a bargaining chip, not a territory, and not a future addition to the United States. Canadians have no interest in giving up our independence, our institutions, or our identity.

You can keep pushing the fantasy, but it’s not happening. Canada will never be the 51st state.

Respect our sovereignty and move on.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

PM Carney on negotiating with the US after Trump's latest 51st state post: "In another world it would be strange. But in the current world, well, this is really one aspect of negotiating with the Americans."

[Gator⚡Gum @gator_gum]

Donald Trump and the US Ambassador to Canada again posting "51st State" bullshit. At minimum, it's a ridiculous joke that shows the maturity level of the Office of the President... At worst, it's a threat from a foreign leader.

What an absolute asshole.

[Dean Blundell🇨🇦 @ItsDeanBlundell]

Ah, Trump's MAGA piss boy, US Ambassador to Canada, @petehoekstra, mocking Canada/pushing the 51st State rhetoric again.
Here's your reminder that he's nothing more than a MAGA operative and a dangerous extremist who can fuck all the way off.

[Jason Pugh 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @TheJasonPugh]

Prime Minister @MarkJCarney on Donald Trump’s “51st State” post.

“The President is an exceptionally active user of social media. You probably can chart his usage of it. It’s only gone up in recent months, and we’re not going to respond or react to everything he posts."
#cdnpoli