Don Swindells 😎 🇨🇦 🌈

fully vaccinated. Support LGBTQ2, Agree to women’s right to choose. Stand with Mark Carney, Follow F1, Indy and Nascar.

[Tareq Hadhad @TareqHadhad]

This resonates deeply with me and my family.
Canada never asked us to leave our story behind. It invited us to add it to a larger one. What a great country! 🇨🇦

[Frank @FrankVeri]

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Monsanto wanted its growth hormone in every glass of Canadian milk. One government scientist stood in the way and his own bosses spent 14 years trying to destroy him for it.

His name was Dr. Shiv Chopra.

Born in India, 1934. Came to Canada in the 1960s. PhD in microbiology. Senior scientist at Health Canada's Bureau of Veterinary Drugs. 35 years reviewing drug applications. Approve the safe ones. Reject the unsafe ones. Protect the public.

For 20 years he did it quietly.

Then Monsanto came knocking.

A new drug. Bovine growth hormone. Brand name Posilac. Inject it into dairy cows, get 10-15% more milk. Bigger profits for the industry. Far bigger profits for Monsanto. The FDA had rubber-stamped it in 1993. Monsanto expected Canada to follow.

The file landed on Chopra's desk.

He started reading the science. He started finding holes.

The data was thin. Long-term safety studies were missing. The cow studies that did exist showed lameness, mastitis, reproductive failure, shortened lifespans.

If it was doing that to the cow, what was it doing to the milk?

His recommendation: reject it. Demand real safety data.

His managers had a different idea.

Approve it. The Americans approved it. Why are you holding it up? Just sign off.

He refused.

So the pressure started. Closed-door meetings. Attempts to pull the file and hand it to someone friendlier. Gag orders don't talk to the media, don't talk to anyone. Suspensions. Reprimands. Demotions. Dead-end reassignments.

He kept refusing.

Two other scientists refused with him. Dr. Margaret Haydon. Dr. Gérard Lambert. Same data. Same alarm. Same answer.

In 1998 the Canadian Senate launched an investigation into what was happening inside Health Canada.

Chopra and his colleagues did something almost nobody does. They walked into the Senate and testified under oath. Said managers were pressuring them to approve unsafe drugs. Said industry was running the regulator. Said the system was broken.

It made headlines around the world.

In 1999, Health Canada rejected Monsanto's application. rBGH would not be approved. Europe banned it next. Then most of the developed world.

Sit with that. One immigrant scientist in Ottawa beat one of the largest chemical corporations on Earth — and won.

Then his own government fired him for winning.

July 14, 2004. After 35 years of service, Health Canada fired Chopra, Haydon, and Lambert on the same day. Official reason: insubordination. Real reason: he embarrassed them in front of the country.

The same year, the Prime Minister mailed him a gold watch for "illustrious service." While they were firing him. He called it comedy.

He sued to clear his name. The fight took 13 years. He lost appeal after appeal. The final ruling came down in 2017. Three months later, in January 2018, he died. 83 years old. Never reinstated. Never given his pension back. Never owed an apology by anyone.

But here is what they could never take back.

rBGH is still banned in Canada today. Every glass of Canadian milk is still hormone-free — because one man refused to sign.

And the United States? Never banned it. It's still legal there. Right now.

He kept it out of Canada and they fired him. The system he fought is still pouring it into glasses across the border.

So tell me below was Shiv Chopra a hero, or just a troublemaker who got what was coming to him? Pick a side. Because someone in those meetings is still telling scientists to "just sign off."

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Carney on Pierre Poilievre's criticism that Canada already has a trade deal and that these trips aren't helpful for Canadians: We are not satisfied with the status quo. Maybe the leader of the opposition is, but we're not ... the opportunity for Canada in Europe is as big, if not bigger, than any other economy.

[Justin Trudeau @JustinTrudeau]

Sometimes supportive boyfriend duties call. But you know who I’m rooting for to take the Cup 🇨🇦

[Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @LauraBabcock]

“Even though we’re not really in recession Poilievre was GLEEFUL that we might be. He’s basically being Canada’s abusive boyfriend again telling us we’re old, fat and stupid and no one will love us so we might as well vote for him.”

OShow 🇨🇦 https://t.co/xuFRgWTn7q #Cndpoli

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Carney on Canada-Ireland-European integration: Combined, the population is more than twice that of the US. We have a larger cultural export industry and a more diverse one, a similarly sized GDP. Together we are one of the largest economic, cultural, technological, financial blocs in the world.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Carney: The US has been clear that they do not want to go to the Congress to change the fundamental architecture [of CUSMA].

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

SEN. KELLY: How many times have Vance and Rubio been to Ukraine? Zero. Has Trump been to Ukraine? No.

He invited Putin to United States, but he still failed to send anybody at high level in his government to visit Ukraine. Have Kushner or Witkoff been to Ukraine? They have not.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Carney: The new world order will be built from Europe. Canada is the most European of non-European countries, and we are transforming our cooperation with the EU ... In a more dangerous and divided world, Canada has chosen to build and work in partnership with Europe.

[Thomas Carrique @OPPCommissioner]

I was deeply moved this morning by the outpouring of support from members of the community and our fellow first responders who stood with us during this morning’s procession in honour of OPP Provincial Constable Tarun Bali. The overwhelming show of solidarity along the procession route provides strength and comfort to our officer’s family, friends and colleagues during an incredibly difficult time. When we experience loss, it is your compassion and support that help carry us forward. To everyone who helped us honour Provincial Constable Bali today, thank you. #HeroesInLife

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Carney: The G7 is not running the world, it's important but it's not running the world.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Macron: It was your presence in Yerevan that shows just how much Canada is a country that is politically and geostrategically united with Europe. It's a strong political signal of the strength that unites us, and we share this common attachment and an international system based on rules.

[MAGA Cult Slayer🦅🇺🇸 @MAGACult2]

He covered it better than any news source we’ve got and it was also entertaining. The real story about the Albanian Island adventure these two idiots were up to.

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

THIS IS THE ULTIMATE UNMASKING OF THE HOSTS.

Look at the reality on the ground in Mexico—the stadiums are packed, the atmosphere is peaceful, and the country is opening its arms to the entire world without fear or prejudice. This is what the World Cup is actually supposed to look like. Mexico is showing true global hospitality, letting the beautiful game unite people across borders, and completely shattering the negative propaganda the Western press loves to spin about the Global South.

But look at the staggering, hypocritical contrast just across the northern border.

While Mexico creates an open, vibrant celebration, the United States is running a calculated policy of systemic exclusion. They are weaponizing their borders to humiliate the CAF Referee of the Year, Omar Artan, turning him away at the tarmac on completely fabricated, vague "security" whispers. And it’s not an isolated glitch—they’ve mass-denied visas to Côte d'Ivoire’s entire home-based supporters' club because they openly signaled they "do not want to see them" there.

The mask has fully dissolved. The U.S. wants the prestige, the global spotlight, and the billions in broadcasting revenue that African talent and fans bring to this tournament, but their deep-seated imperial hubris prevents them from treating our people with basic human dignity. Mexico is proving it can host the world with class and honor, while Washington treats a global tournament like a segregated, private club. The world is now wide awake to the fraud

[Michael Leach @Mike_Leach1976]

The bag of milk, the shoes at door… Whoever made this will win an award, probably a few. I’m sobbing, this is beautiful. This is who we are. We’ve welcomed the world for almost 140 years. We’re made for this moment. #CanMNT #FIFAWorldCup

[D Prasanth Nair @DPrasanthNair]

The famous incident from the 2003 Carlsberg Cup, where Danish midfielder Morten Wieghorst intentionally missed a penalty against Iran.

The referee had awarded the penalty because an Iranian defender caught the ball with his hands inside the box, mistakenly thinking he had heard the half-time whistle.Since the penalty was awarded due to a misunderstanding, Wieghorst consulted his coach and deliberately fired his shot wide as a display of sportsmanship, an act for which he later won an Olympic Committee Fair Play Award.
Football is great

[Jen (ESC) 🇨🇦❤️🦋 @Smil3yAngel]

Yesterday the orange turd again said that the US doesn't need Canada.

Canadians, we need to step up our game.

If you are still boycotting the US, and buying anything but American, I want to follow you!

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🚨 Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum just completely shattered the Western media narrative.

​Calling the bombing of schools a war crime and directly accusing those who justify it of supporting genocide is the kind of fearless leadership the Global South needs.

​While the West lectures the world on "rules-based order," sovereign leaders are refusing to stay silent. The empire is losing control of the narrative, and a multipolar world is officially here.

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene accuses President Trump of being a traitor.

"I'm saying exactly that..."

I mean, it's pretty remarkable to hear you say that you think the president is a traitor.

MTG: "What is remarkable to me is that this administration, people that we voted for, demanding transparency, the man that campaigned all over the country, claiming that he would be the one to drain the swamp, is the very man that fought to keep the Epstein files from being released. And then he, in turn, called me the traitor because I fought to release the Epstein files."

[Dean Blundell🇨🇦 @ItsDeanBlundell]

Correct.
The Canadian economic beatings will continue until US morale improves.
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