The beauty of Canadian television is that the government uses my tax dollars to fund two shows about hockey that were made in a lab to be either as gay or as heterosexual as scientifically possible
Signal boosting the official @Esport_Canada statement.
๐ฆ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐๐๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฎ ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฎโ๐ ๐ก๐ผ๐ป-๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ถ๐ปย ๐ฅ๐ผ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ด๐๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐๐๐๐๐ฒ ๐ช๐ผ๐ฟ๐น๐ฑ ๐๐๐ฝ
Esport Canada would like to express our deep disappointment that, for a second consecutive year, Canada will not be represented in Rocket League at the FIFAe World Cup, despite being home to some of the worldโs top talent.
We recognize and respect the pressures and priorities currently facing Canada Soccer, but stand by the elite players and passionate fans across Canada who deserve the opportunity to compete on the world stage.
In response to Canada Soccer's decision to not participate in the 2024 FIFAe World Cup this past year, Esport Canada has worked diligently to ensure that our own internal management, coaching, and team selection processes meet Olympic standards and reflect the principles outlined in the Canadian Sport Governance Code and the Canadian Sport Policy. In doing so, we have upheld the ethical frameworks of the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport to the best of our ability, with a commitment to transparency, fairness, and Safe Sport in an effort to collaboratively support Canada Soccer's participation by meeting all standard for operations and participation at this year's event.
We call upon the Government of Canada @CanadianPM and Sport Canada to urgently review the recognition and status of esports within our national sport system. With over 89% of Canadian youth engaging in gaming, and a growing number of elite players that disproportionately represent Canada on the world stage per capita, it is vital that this dynamic and influential sector of competition be fully supported with the same care, structure, and opportunity afforded to other sports.
While we are saddened by this missed opportunity for Canadian Rocket League players, we reaffirm our readiness to support national participation in this and all future Rocket League and nation-based esports events. We will continue to advocate for the esports community of Canada and remain committed to working collaboratively with all stakeholders to ensure Canadian esports players have a clear, ethical, and supportive pathway to represent our nation with pride.
#FIFAe #WorldCup #RocketLeague
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until itโs done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
Just a reminder my Canadian friends. Many spring projects.
Home Depot is 100% American owned. The owner is Bernard Marcus is a huge Trump supporter.
Home hardware is 100% Canadian owned.
Pass the word repost.
Red. White. And Golden! ๐
Team Canada reigns supreme at the 4 Nations Face-Off, taking down the US in classic hockey fashion! ๐จ๐ฆ๐
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Le Canada en or! ๐
รquipe Canada sโimpose ร la Confrontation des 4 Nations battant les รtats-Unis dans la plus pure tradition du hockey! ๐จ๐ฆ๐
so telling 60,000 american settlers in the west bank to go back to brooklyn is antisemitic but telling 1.5 million palestinians in gaza to go to saudi arabia is just good real estate planning
Here's a website to help you find Canadian grocery products. Searchable. Made by a very clever 17 year old. Spread it far and wide. https://t.co/fTRBv7lzL7
The Globe & Mail speaks the inconvenient truth that politicians won't: homes can't both be good investments and affordable.
"Making homes more affordable, for instance, means bringing down the prices of existing homes โ something homeowners who are sitting on big capital gains on their primary residences arenโt eager to contemplate." Bullseye ๐ฏ
Virtually every housing policy and pundit dances around this point, when our entire political economic system is aligned towards raising land prices โ regardless of which party's in power.
"He [JT] kept saying he wanted to make homes affordable for young buyers while simultaneously insisting that home prices had to remain high to ensure the net worth of older Canadians wasnโt hurt."
The public is gaslit into believing we can blow and suck at the same time, making homes affordable without lower prices. By definition that's not possible.
"No astute politician is rushing to antagonize the two-thirds of Canadians who already own a home by engineering a big decline in house prices. So we remain stuck. No matter how much our leaders talk up the need to make homes more affordable, the political calculations lean entirely in the other direction."
Maybe Canadians aren't willing to make the hard choices because no one is presenting them with a real choice. Compare the housing plans of the 3 major parties โ in mechanism, scale, and ambition they can barely be differentiated when contrasted against the scope of the problem.
We will not crack the housing problem without tough choices: make land (what makes RE appreciate) a less attractive long-term investment. Shifting taxes from income to land value will lower its returns as an asset and therefore price, while better rewarding work and productivity.
Any politician or policy silent on this is simply ignoring the real problem.
this is amazing. Nelson Mandela actually visited Gaza in 1999, and said: "Choose peace rather than confrontation, except in cases where we cannot move forward. Then, if the only alternative is violence, we will use violence."
Video shows the moment an ambulance crew was directly shot at by Israeli soldiers in Nuseirat, Gaza. Hours earlier, a group of journalists were reportedly targeted by an Israeli quadcopter in the same area.
๐จBREAKING: Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, to Al Jazeera:
โIsrael is testing weapons on us that we do not recognize. They drop bombs with terrifying sounds, and when a person gets within 200-300 meters of them, they vaporize.
The massacres happening in northern Gaza are unknown to us until later. Nobody calls to inform us. The Israeli army bombs entire residential blocks, wiping out all their inhabitants, and we only find out about them a day or two later.
When these weapons are used on residential buildings, they reduce them to small fragments and rubble. We urgently need an international investigation committee to uncover what โIsraelโ is doing to us.โ