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Not Famous, but quite fortunate.

[Kevin Papetti @KPapetti]

Gotta feel sorry for these Knicks players for having to play in such in a big market.

I'm sure Brunson wishes he was playing for a team in a tax-free state with warm weather. Somewhere with less media and where no one would recognize him

[Bics @BrickRippin]

@tim_micallef Following. I have been trying to figure this out for a long time.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.

His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.

Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: The Trump DOJ just published highly disturbing Files about Trump and then DELETED them.

We screen captured them before they were deleted.

Please share these documents far and wide. Don’t let them cover THIS up!!

https://t.co/chzAokyod7

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

When Trumps dad got Alzheimer's (which is hereditary) they put him in a pretend office and let him sign pretend papers and make pretend decisions for his companies.

I feel like that information is relevant right now.

[Topher Scott @HockeyThinkTank]

Thoughts on Team Canada at World Juniors:

There's been a lot of discourse today about Canada's performance after bowing out to Czechia again. I've read a lot about roster construction, team toughness, how players were used during the tournament, and other things related to the team's inability to get the job done.

These things may have been an issue, but reality is the problem runs way deeper.

Here is the biggest thing that people aren't talking about:

Canada has WAY fewer youth boys playing hockey than it did a decade ago.

Looking at Hockey Canada registration and membership data, it's mind-boggling to see the numbers.

And the numbers in the biggest provinces (Ontario and Quebec) are especially egregious.

So why is this happening? Hockey is Canada's sport. It shouldn't be like this.

It's what we hear every day from families all over North America:

Costs are too high. It's professionalized at too young of an age. The stress of the youth hockey experience is too much for kids and families.

Community programs have been replaced by for-profit entities leading to higher costs and more pressure. Development has been replaced by super teams and rogue/outlaw leagues outside of Hockey Canada even before kids are 8 years old. At the older ages, hockey academies have become what families believe is the only way their kids will make it - shelling out INSANE amounts of money to send their kids to do so.

Ontario just got rid of residency rules which will only lead to less accountability and more club-hopping than there already was in the nation's craziest and biggest youth hockey market.

The reason why Canada was the hockey superpower for so long is because it was part of the fabric of the country. There was such a pride and passion for the game and what the game meant to the flag. There was such a sense of playing the game for something bigger than yourself.

Now rather than playing for the love of the game, hockey in Canada is like a job for many of these kids in the environment they're being put in. It's less about pride and passion and more about the path to making it. When in all honesty, it's the pride and passion for the game that is the biggest consistency in the kids that do end up making it.

If Canada wants to restore its hockey dominance, it better take a long look in the mirror at the grassroots and what is going on in youth hockey. If you have tens of thousands of fewer boys playing the game, you should probably look at that first. The bigger your pool of athletes, the more elite athletes you can develop.

"As many as possible, for as long as possible, in the best environment possible". That has to be the guiding principle.

There's a lot of great people in Canada doing incredible things for the game, but the system itself is fundamentally broken. If Hockey Canada is serious about getting back to the top, it has to start at the bottom.

[The Hub @TheHubCanada]

.@MikePMoffatt: Falling sales, falling jobs: Why Canada must cut taxes on new homes

https://t.co/zQjCDPUEtz

[Bics @BrickRippin]

@SamAMcKee Same

[Bics @BrickRippin]

@MikePMoffatt This is an odd intersection of coincidences. I follow your work closely and am (my business) also building a home on a farm right at Whalen Corners as we speak.

[Paul Bissonnette @BizNasty2point0]

Great pump up speech Donald 😂😂😂

[Sam McKee @SamAMcKee]

“We’re here to play hockey. This is not a political forum” - the guy who was on Fox News begging the president to come to the game

[Peter Baugh @Peter_Baugh]

So the sitting president mentioned to players that he wants to annex the country they're playing, but this game isn't being used as a political forum? OK, sure, whatever you say

[Bics @BrickRippin]

🖕Bill Guerin and all of team USA 🖕
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Your stupidity is an inspiration. Put it on the bulletin board. This just got extra personal and political. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[The Daily Beast @thedailybeast]

The U.S. hockey team is hoping the president will make an appearance at their match against Canada, claiming his "51st state" rhetoric has been "an inspiration."

https://t.co/Q49OvIHhDQ

[Bics @BrickRippin]

@danielfoch Have a look at Canada's foreign currency holdings activity over the last 10 years or so. IMO this is being posed as an either/or but the sell off of American dollars will counter balance it to some degree.

[Bics @BrickRippin]

@danielfoch Indirect factor: lowering the overnight rate (and more to come) will reduce risk for home builders to break ground on projects (freehold and purpose built rental). Injects activity into the labour market as well as supply into the real estate and rental markets.

[Omar @TicTacTOmar]

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[Toronto Maple Leafs @MapleLeafs]

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[Toronto Maple Leafs @MapleLeafs]

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[Bics @BrickRippin]

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