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.
“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.
By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level – I mean the wages of decent living.”
– President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933
You know, I wasn't going to snark on this, but you need an education.
Please, let's review who signed Canada up to spend $6.4 billion on the Gordie Howe International Bridge without any guarantee of when, or even if, we'd recover the investment.
It wasn't Mark Carney.
The agreement was negotiated and signed under Stephen Harper's Conservative government. Canada agreed to finance construction because the Michigan Legislature refused to appropriate the money. In exchange, Canada receives the toll revenue until its costs are recovered.
That wasn't being "taken to the cleaners." It was the only way to break the decades-long monopoly of the privately owned Ambassador Bridge, which handled roughly a quarter of all Canada–U.S. trade and had become a strategic bottleneck.
Today, Canada has a modern publicly owned international crossing that strengthens supply chains, improves border resilience, creates economic growth on both sides of the border, and generates toll revenue over time.
If you're going to criticize the deal, at least criticize the government that made it. Conservatives negotiated it. Conservatives signed it. Conservatives defended it.
Facts matter more than campaign sound bites.
BTW Pierre, this is why you lost the election. This is why you'll continue to lose.
What Trump has done to our Canadian friends & neighbors regarding the Gordie Howe bridge is f’n shameful mob boss BS. They paid over 6 billion to build it, we had agreed all along w/plan & then he demanded 50% of the tolls & co-ownership to allow it to open. Boycott US goods CA.
The Canada Strong Pass is back.
Free access to our national parks. Lower entry fees at museums. Free rail travel for your kids.
From now until September 7th, you and your family can explore more of Canada for a lot less.
Marie-Philip Poulin: "To see you on the ice with the Ottawa Charge, with the prime minister of Finland, was unbelievable. We know we have you behind us, to support us, and it was unbelievable."
#JimmyKimmel will air a repeat of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on the night of Stephen Colbert’s final late-night show on CBS (May 21) out of respect for his friend:
• Kimmel did the same thing during David Letterman’s final “Late Show” in 2015
• Tonight, Kimmel will appear on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” alongside NBC’s Jimmy Fallon Seth Meyers and HBO’s John Oliver
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