Brad Patton

Retired Fire Chief. Still very interested in the Fire service 🇨🇦 Slava 🇺🇦

[Danielle Smith @ABDanielleSmith]

One Card. That’s it.

Starting July 2, Albertans can get a new driver’s licence or ID card that includes their healthcare number and proof of citizenship, all on one secure card at no additional cost.

No more flimsy paper cards. No more carrying multiple pieces of ID. Just a common-sense change that makes life easier.

[Chris Ryan @Watchdog_MP]

💥 RCMP JUST TORCHED THE LIBERAL GUN GRAB!

Brian Sauve (20,000 federal officers): Targeting licensed owners is statistically baseless, insanely expensive, and pulls cops off real crime.

As a retired cop I couldn’t agree more. Criminals use illegal guns. Not your PAL holders.

Liberals: Stop harassing law-abiding Canadians. Go after the gangs and smugglers.

Enough waste. Enforce real laws.
Agree? RT + comment.
#cdnpoli #GunControl #RCMP

[🇨🇦Unacceptable Canadian Girl🇨🇦 @AreOhEssEyeEe]

🚨This should concern every single Canadian!🚨

Const. Kevin St. Louis of the Edmonton Police Service stated "Every individual that we’ve identified during this investigation is a temporary foreign worker or on a student visa & relatively new to Canada." https://t.co/uvIl62ngDT

[Rebel News @RebelNewsOnline]

Majority of UCP voters support independence: poll

She says she is a federalist. She is not campaigning for Alberta to leave Canada — she's been clear about that. But she is also not turning around and attacking the people who are talking about it.

That is not an accident. One look at the numbers and you'll understand why Premier Danielle Smith is walking this line the way she is.

According to exclusive polling commissioned by Act For Alberta, and full disclosure, I am the point of contact for that third party advertiser, roughly 60% of United Conservative Party voters say they would vote to leave Canada.

Not think about it. Not flirt with it. They would vote to leave. That is not fringe. That is the base.

These are the people who built the party, who knocked on doors, who trusted conservative leadership to fight for Alberta.

And that brings us to disgraced former UCP premier Jason Kenney, Smith's predecessor.

Because he chose a very different path.

He calls separatists names. He mocks them as kooks and radicals and crazies, in vicious Trudeau-esque internet tirades.

He derided the very people who worked so hard to get him elected in the first place. People who gave him a chance to do it his way.

And what did that approach deliver? Nothing tangible. No meaningful reset with Ottawa. No shift in the relationship. No results that matched the promises.

So what happened? Those same voters started looking elsewhere.

Not because they suddenly changed who they were, not because they are no longer Conservatives, but because they felt ignored, dismissed, and taken for granted.

The old ways of strongly worded letters and lawsuits over jurisdiction have never worked. There are no pipelines, no control over immigration, no civil liberties the feds wouldn't crush if given a chance.

Smith is not making that mistake. She is reading the room, and when this many people are this frustrated, you do not lecture them. You do not insult them. You do not pretend they are a problem to be managed or berated.

You listen. You acknowledge where they are at, and you let the conversation happen.

This is bigger than separation. This is about trust. Trust that Alberta’s concerns are being taken seriously. Trust that political leaders are actually hearing the people who put them in power.

Smith holds her position. She says she believes Alberta is better off in Canada. But she is not trying to shut down the people who disagree.

She is not attacking her own base, because she understands something her predecessor did not.

You do not keep support by ridiculing the people who gave it to you. You respect them, let them speak, and you deal with reality as it is, not as you wish it would be.

REPORT by @SheilaGunnReid:

[The Really Big Show @TheRlyBigShow]

We cannot sell our oil because it is not decarbonized.

But we can sell our airports to the countries buying them with oil money?

Saudi Arabia does not decarbonize its oil.

The UAE does not decarbonize its oil.

They are among the most likely buyers of Canadian airports if Carney proceeds with privatization.

They will use oil profits to buy Canadian infrastructure while Canada sits on its own oil waiting for a carbon capture condition that makes no economic sense.

We are applying a standard to ourselves that we do not apply to the countries buying our most valuable public assets.

It doesn't make any sense.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇳🇴🇮🇷 Norway's cashing in on the Iran war by reopening 3 North Sea gas fields that have been shut since 1998.

It's also approving exploration in 17 new offshore areas across the North Sea, Norwegian Sea, and Barents Sea.

Norway, which already supplies 30% of Europe's gas and 40% of what France burns, is betting that energy security wins over climate optics.

The contradiction is hard to ignore.

Oslo has acknowledged the climate crisis, their own officials describe fossil fuels as the main driver. Then they reopen 28-year-old fields and greenlight new exploration in the same breath.

But here's the thing: Europe had no real backup plan. The green transition was supposed to make this unnecessary. It didn't move fast enough.

So the continent is running back to whoever has the gas.

Norway is simply taking the call.

Source: France24_en

[Serkan Tanyildizi @srkntnyldz]

Amerika'da kaybolan 10 yaşındaki Peyton Saintignan'ı bulmak için destek olan Drone firması sayesinde polis termal görüntüleme özelliğine sahip drone'larla, küçük kızı orman zemininde kıvrılmış bir şekilde uyurken buldu.

[Tom Mavin @Feral999]

The Waterloo Regional Police, currently the only service in Ontario participating in firearm confiscation efforts, is set to receive $899,300 in funding. While other police services across the province have not adopted similar measures or identified clear public safety benefits, Waterloo remains the sole participant in the initiative. Politics and cash before public safety. @CanadasNFA

[Tracey Wilson @TWilsonOttawa]

The SK Government, with the SK Firearms Commissioners Office provide an update on their amendments to the SK Firearms Act.

TL/DR: they will be issuing appraisal certificates to affected gun owners so they can persue fair compensation and reject the offers from the ASFCP. This also stalls the program itself while they hash it out.
They will also be providing exemption certificates to affected owners to protect them from criminality out past the amnesty. This is huge. They get to keep their guns without fear of criminal charges.
The SK Chiefs of Police Assoc. fully supports this and thanks the SK government for doing this, and allowing them to focus on fighting crime instead of grabbing guns.

https://t.co/ucsJWSjR9v

[Muskoka Lakes Fire Department @MuskokaLakesFD]

Huge shoutout to Seguin Fire Dept! 👏
Crews responded to a vehicle fire on Rosseau Lake Rd 3 today. While the truck was lost, quick action saved a 6,000 sq. ft. cottage! 🏠
Our Automatic Aid Agreement ensures the fastest response for our community. Grateful for this partnership.

[Mark McQueen @markrmcqueen]

Nine years ago, @JustinTrudeau launched the Canadian Infrastructure Bank: It was "tasked with financially supporting revenue-generating infrastructure projects that are 'in the public interest' by catalyzing private investment."

In 2026, the "new" @liberal_party gov't have found the solution to what's been holding Canada back: the lack of a "Sovereign Wealth Fund" that'll invest in infrastructure projects alongside the private sector!

Norway has zero effective national debt; that's why it can benefit from a true SWF. Ottawa & the Provinces already owe $2.5 trillion in debt; borrowing more to "invest" is just another margin loan backed by our Grandchildren.

RT @globeandmail Carney to announce sovereign wealth fund to back major projects https://t.co/oLT7lARvsj

[Cindy K @MAGAMAHACindy]

Hypothetically…….. We are being taxed on money we never made.

Let that sink in.

If I bought my property outright for $160,000 in 2009
Now the county says it’s worth $446,000.
Did I sell it? No.
Did I make a profit? No.
Did I get a check for $446,000? No.
But my taxes jumped like I did.
That’s the problem.
This isn’t income.
This isn’t cash.
This is a number someone decided on paper and now I’m being billed for it.

If my stock portfolio doubles, I don’t pay taxes until I sell.

If my income doesn’t increase, I don’t magically owe more income tax.

So why does owning a home work differently?

Why am I being taxed on unrealized gains?

A house isn’t just an investment, it’s where people live. And this system means you can do everything right, pay off your home, and still get squeezed harder every year because of a number you never turned into money.

You don’t truly own something if you can be taxed out of it.

This isn’t about “services” or “inflation.” It’s about being charged for value you never received.
It’s time people start to notice.

[Concerned Canadian @Concern70732755]

The biggest hypocrite in Canadian history
If he is so anti-USA then why :
1) his wife works for a USA company
2) he has a home in the USA
3) his children go to USA schools
4) his investments are 90% USA
5) he exported Brookfield to the USA

THOUGHTS ?

[Ottawa Citizen @OttawaCitizen]

Canadian military personnel left scrambling after cuts to out-of-country allowances https://t.co/RAErr6UdUc

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

‼️JUST IN: - An entire parking garage has been engulfed in flames in a massive EV fire

at Chinese automaker BYD’s Pingshan facility in Shenzhen, China

These cars are soon going to be in underground and condo parking garages in Canada and the UK.

[Yossi BenYakar @YossiBenYakar]

https://t.co/lk0d08BzbW
Mark Carney, Canada’s Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Party, says:

“We cannot trust America.”

Meanwhile:

- His wife lives in the United States
- All four of his children live and study in the United States
- 91% of his investment portfolio is in the United States
- He owns a house in the United States

Yet he tells Canadians they can’t trust America.

Hypocrisy at its finest.

[Brad Patton @FormerFireChief]

Is your Fire Rescue Dept ready to respond to this? Either as 1st due or as mutual aid? Emergency services is all about planning and preparing.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: An absolutely TERRIFYING fire has erupted at a California warehouse in Ontario

Firefighters are actively responding right now to the six-alarm fire

"It is all hands on deck as they try to contain the blaze."

[Box 43 Association @Box43Pio]

Box 43 is operating at a working fire in Flamborough

[GuelphToday @GuelphToday]

Iconic local restaurant announces sudden closure https://t.co/dSVxw7NJN5

[Juno News @junonewscom]

POILIEVRE: "You can't fill pipelines with speeches in Davos, and you can't fill hungry stomachs with fake MOUs and announcements. Overseas speeches do not put food on the table here at home."