ClearTheNet

Just a guy, Sens fan, believer in justice and equality

[Evan @daviddunn177]

This is the most accurate anyone has ever described Elon Musk.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

We are supposedly at war to stop Iran from enriching the uranium we “obliterated” over a year ago.

Yesterday we signed a deal to help Saudi Arabia enrich uranium.

The first time the United States has ever helped another country enrich uranium on foreign soil.

The Saudis refused the inspection protocol 140 other countries accept. Too intrusive, they said.

Trump agreed. He signed a national security waiver to get around the rule.

The Saudis paid Kushner $100 million. They put $2 billion into his firm. They put another $6 billion into LIV Golf, which pays Trump properties to host its tournaments. They signed ten billion dollars in Trump-branded real estate deals in Jeddah and Riyadh. All in just the last few years.

But sure. My paintings.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: Isn’t there concern that this slippery slope to socialism inevitably ends up as full-blown communism?

AOC: I mean, no. I think that’s very silly. We can’t even raise the minimum wage. Do they really think communism is going to happen? No. They’re trying to scare people because they don’t want us talking about the fact that we all have a right to health care.

So they want to call everything they don’t like communist because if people actually wake up to the fact that their elected officials are screwing them over when they get here, they’re going to realize they deserve better and that health care as a right isn’t crazy. They want to call this stuff communist because they don’t want us to realize that the rest of the developed world has guaranteed health care. They want to call it communist because they don’t want you to know that Germany, Italy, the UK, Canada—everybody else—has it better than us, and we spend the most money for the worst care in the developed world.

[Maryam @hell_line0]

Did you know that Islamic law prevents pregnant women from divorcing their husbands?

Oh wait. I meant Missouri. Missouri law.

Typo, guys.

[Wab Kinew @WabKinew]

Taking 🇺🇸 booze off Liquor Mart shelves is having an impact. If Trump wants to negotiate an end to the trade war he started, we’re happy to get a fair deal. Until then, the US booze stays off the shelves. Thank you for buying 🇨🇦 and thank you for your attention to this message!!!

[Gary Jackson 🇨🇦 @factsmatter_Ont]

Let’s remember to boycott US food. Especially from Ohio like Smuckers jams, Jif peanut butter, Crisco and many Heinz condiments. There is also Stouffers and Lean Cuisine. Pillsbury and Campbells soup also have large operations in Ohio.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Thomas Massie on Trump’s speech to the nation tonight about election fraud:

“We control the House, Senate, White House, and Supreme Court, so I ask my Republican colleagues, why are you complaining about election fraud? We won all the elections!”

This is all a distraction from the fact that our elections actually are rigged, but not in the way Trump or even Democrats ever claim.

Our elections are rigged by corporations and billionaires who buy off and bribe both parties to tilt the economy in their favor, creating an unbalanced society that’s rigged for the rich.

Elections under capitalism are a sham, as they don’t produce democracy for the people. They only produce democracy for the rich.

Elections under capitalism are simply a mechanism of control for the ruling class to keep the masses divided and trapped in the very system that’s rigged against us.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Teneycke: "When you elect leaders who are completely and utterly unaccomplished prior to entering politics and who have entered politics in their 20s, you are going to be very vulnerable to running against somebody who has actually done something with their life. And why Scheer is still sitting in the caucus is the same reason why Poilievre will end up sitting in the caucus after he's done being leader, because he is unemployable in any other job."

[Paul 🇨🇦🍺🏌🏼‍♀️🏒🇺🇦 @Paulintoronto47]

Giddyup!!

[🍁☘️Canadian Fletchy 🇨🇦 @Darth_Pingu]

Saw someone on here refer to Pierre Poilievre as "Lethbridge Liberace" and I can't stop laughing!!!

[Stephano🍁Barberis @HelloStephano]

Boss Hogg vs Loss Hogg.

[Erin O'Toole @erinotoole]

As per my post from last month, we can already see the challenges with Halifax and can avoid them by basing the submarines in Sydney with the icebreakers and Coast Guard College. More secure, more room for servicing and more affordable for families. 1/2

[Erin O'Toole @erinotoole]

Before buying new jets and submarines, Canada should plan to leapfrog from laggard to leader in defence by developing autonomous platforms with Canadian innovators. My latest in @thewalrus

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

Hi Ben, thanks for commenting. Allow me to elaborate. 

First, nice to meet you. We may disagree on policy. But like many Canadians I have a deep respect for the commitment of your family to the betterment of our great nation.

Second, you raised that I'm making a political point which I disagree with. My arguments are based on medical foundations, which you correctly noted is my expertise. Where I think you are right is that policy disagreement can seem political. 

Ben, I don't belong to a political party. I've been an Ontario ER doctor for 20 years. I take care of diabetes, hypertension and addictions daily. I'm a full-time ER doc engaged in civic matters. And while I may criticize conservative policy Ben, I am able to praise Leader Poilievre (yesterday), Premier Ford (June 24) and Deputy Premier Jones (May 19, 26, 28) when I think they get it right. Like you Ben, I'm interested in good public policy with my orientation to the average and lower-income Canadian. 

Third - let's look at it - but I think you and I will agree on most public health policy around addictions, but not all. But first - my wheelhouse - medicine.

The foundations of medicine are the foundations of 1) chronic disease management and 2) addictions. 

The Four Pillars of Addiction Medicine:

1) Law enforcement - here Ben, we likely agree. People who violate our laws should face the criminal-justice system. As has been shown however, I don't think arresting and incarcerating someone for active drug use is the solution. They need medical care and wrap-around social services. Incarceration is far more expensive than hospital care which is far more expensive than shelters which is far more expensive than safe consumption sites. I hope we can agree a criminal-justice approach to the homeless fentanyl user (who I take care of almost daily) isn't compassionate, effective or a good use of taxpayer's money. 

2) Education/Prevention - here Ben, we likely agree. You and I likely agree all Ontarians should be drug-free. We should educate adults and children about the harms of recreational drug use. It wrecks human lives. I see it daily. Patients I have taken care of are now dead too early. You and I likely agree on the goal of total drug abstinence. We should inform those with addictions that there is no barrier addictions support (walk-in) Monday to Friday in Toronto. 

3) Treatment - here Ben, we likely agree. We likely agree Premier Ford's expansion of HART hubs is a good policy idea. We likely agree low barrier medical detox and treatment facilities should be expanded. We likely agree we are not meeting the need for treatment, because too many Ontarians still die from toxic drugs. And let's agree that it's mostly non-Toronto, young, Caucasian men of lower income that are mostly dying (with First Nations over-represented in deaths). 

4) Harm reduction - here, we may disagree but we shouldn't. Harm reduction is not a dirty phrase. It's what physicians do for a living. For the vast majority of diabetics I examine, I don't have a cure for their condition (and neither does their family MD or endocrinologist). But I treat exacerbations of their condition, we aim to improve their diet, promote exercise, counsel on adherence to medications - and this reduces the harm of their yet untreatable condition. This is harm reduction. There is no other way to describe it medically. The same holds for hypertension. For many Canadians we counsel diet (reduced salt), exercise, stopping smoking and excess drinking, weight loss and medications - because for some, their high blood pressure is incurable. Of note, some hypertensives can be cured and de-prescribed medications. 

I hope you can see how for diabetes and hypertension, physicians employ harm reduction. The same applies to addictions. 

For addictions, we should want law enforcement, education, treatment and harm prevention. Lacking harm prevention is like driving a 3-wheeled car. It can work, but it's not optimal. 

For addictions, the point of harm reduction is that it is supposed to be a bridge to somewhere. A bridge to abstinence, housing, social supports and a better life.

Two hang-ups for some are two big myths:
1) Harm reduction increases crime
2) Harm reduction doesn't work. 

Myth: harm reduction (safe consumption) increases crime
-In November 2025, McGill researchers looked at 10 years of Toronto Police data. Harm reduction sites were found to be associated with stable or less crime. Journal of the American Medical Association. https://t.co/rxeEp9x8nQ

Myth: harm reduction (safe consumption) doesn't work to save lives
-In February 2024, Toronto researchers looked at and showed safe consumption sites saved lives, The Lancet. https://t.co/yQlLOH8KhX

Thanks for reading. Ultimately, if you examine this issue from a strictly medical lens, the foundations of medicine are the foundations of addictions medicine. We have unfairly villainized harm reduction when it is what doctors in Ontario and Canada do everyday. We want to cure human disease, but when we cannot, we try to lessen the effects of the condition, and that is harm reduction - whether for diabetes, hypertension or the homeless fentanyl user. 

Thanks Ben, Raghu

[Erin O'Toole @erinotoole]

This thread is a good reminder of the politics behind inaction on 24 Sussex. I regret playing petty politics on it at one point myself. As a proud country that is beginning to appreciate our history better, I think the plan to restore the residence is a good one. 🇨🇦

[ClearTheNet @DonaldGordonCPA]

I like this take. I’m of the opinion you give management the benefit of the doubt at the very least. I’m going to cheer and be positive until proven otherwise.

[America's #1 Sens Fan @NotInOttawa]

I'm convinced half of you aren't even fans of the team. You'd rather criticize and complain and hope these decisions backfire just so you can say you were right and management was wrong.

Sports is a lot more fun when you cheer for your team and don't question every decision btw

[ClearTheNet @DonaldGordonCPA]

@TSNJR put on skates for the first time at 13, Ed Jovanovski! You manifested this pick.

[John Rodenburg @TSNJR]

I like this Cover pick for Ottawa. Lots of potential and London is a factory for hockey players.

Heard good things about him

[Brandi Morin @Songstress28]

WOW. Big news.

The Assembly of Treaty Chiefs just dropped a bomb on Danielle Smith.

Treaty 6, 7 & 8. United. Unanimously calling for an RCMP and Auditor General investigation into whether the Premier and her UCP government committed TREASON under Section 46 of the Criminal Code of Canada.

The Chiefs met on Treaty 7 territory in Calgary on June 16 and voted as one — pushing a separation referendum that puts Canada’s sovereignty at risk, trampling the Treaty relationship, ignoring privacy violations affecting millions, and opening the door to foreign interference. That’s the case they’re laying out.

And they’re going back to the source. When Treaty was signed, the Northwest Mounted Police — now the RCMP — made a promise: protect First Nations, protect these Territories. The Crown guaranteed peace and goodwill in exchange for sharing this land.

The Chiefs are saying: eff around and find out.

#TreatyRights #Treaty6 #Treaty7 #Treaty8 #AlbertaSeparation

[Steve Warne @SteveWarneMedia]

My latest for @TheHockeyNews: Drake Batherson Wide Open To Signing Extension This Summer: 'Ottawa Feels Like Home' #GoSensGo #SensNation Full story here ➡️https://t.co/HiP5OpF5CY