Geoff Russ 🍁

Editor-at-Large for @WDiminishment

Contributor to the @nationalpost, @WesternStandard, and the @MLInstitute and many others.

[Geoff Russ 🍁 @GeoffRuss3]

‘We are not going to sit by and watch potential development in British Columbia be held back by any source, not by big business, not by big labour, not by big government'.

My latest in @WDiminishment, on W.A.C. Bennett, the Socreds, Lorne Doerkson, and a rich legacy that the @Conservative_BC can have all to themselves, if they wish.

The Socreds brought a distinctly British Columbian form of conservative governance, free from the baggage of federal politics and inspired by the frontier spirit of this province.

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[Fran Yanor @FranYanor]

With @LDoerkson's new govt set to be sworn in next week, @RobShaw_BC takes a run at the @Conservative_BC election platform to sort out what promises can be met quickly. [My favourite, O Canada!]
For @BeatNorthern
https://t.co/BP7FKNI5Br

[Melanie Bennet @MelanieBennet_]

The very same thing is happening in Canada. Two of Ontario's largest unions @ETFOeducators and @osstf gathered at a socialist conference in late October with France’s far-left Parti Ouvrier Independent. Their links to La France Insoumise is deep and multi-layered.

La France Insoumise have been central to the chaos spreading across France and the POI act as the embedded Trotskyist core within LFI's organizational structure.

It's incredible to me that so called "real journanlists" in this country have completely failed to report on this.
https://t.co/a8k0nFkmAk

[MRJB 🇬🇧🇨🇦 @DrMichaelBonner]

I keep saying this.

[J.D.M. Stewart @jdmstewart1]

“Let us never forget the solemn truth that the nation is not constituted of the living alone.”

[Cosmin Dzsurdzsa @cosminDZS]

Remembrance Day at the cenotaph in Victoria

Packed from the steps to the street.

Lest we forget

[Geoff Russ 🍁 @GeoffRuss3]

'The men of Canada who are going to the front are going as free men by voluntary enlistment, as free men in a free country.

They are coming forward voluntarily for the purpose of serving this Dominion and this empire in a time of peril...

We stand shoulder to shoulder with Britain and the other British dominions in this quarrel. And that duty we shall not fail to fulfill as the honour of Canada demands.

Not for love of battle, not for lust of conquest, not for greed of possessions, but for the cause of honour'.

[Without Diminishment @WDiminishment]

On Remembrance Day, Prime Minister Robert Borden’s declaration of war upon Germany.

https://t.co/pcfNTrSIuL

[Jonathon Van Maren @JVanMaren]

John McCrae wrote one of the great Canadian poems, "In Flanders Fields." But his other work is also magnificent. For Remembrance Day:

O guns, fall silent till the dead men hear
Above their heads the legions pressing on:
(These fought their fight in time of bitter fear,
And died not knowing how the day had gone.)
O flashing muzzles, pause, and let them see
The coming dawn that streaks the sky afar;
Then let your mighty chorus witness be
To them, and Caesar, that we still make war.
Tell them, O guns, that we have heard their call,
That we have sworn, and will not turn aside,
That we will onward till we win or fall,
That we will keep the faith for which they died.
Bid them be patient, and some day, anon,
They shall feel earth enwrapt in silence deep;
Shall greet, in wonderment, the quiet dawn,
And in content may turn them to their sleep.

We will remember them.

[Geoff Russ 🍁 @GeoffRuss3]

@CarsonJerema Dastardly Drampf strikes again

[Geoff Russ 🍁 @GeoffRuss3]

Yes, Stephen.

Do you know why Canada has become a lot more male?

[Stephen Maher @stphnmaher]

This seems bad. If you have ever spent time in male-dominant northern boom towns you know that this kind of imbalance is unhealthy.

[Scott McInnis @McInnis_4MLA]

I’ve always been a die hard Leaf fan, but certainly a Team Canada fan first🇨🇦

I’ve always admired and respected @CP0031 as a man and a hockey player.

Winning the Ted Lindsay, Hart, Vezina, and Jennings trophies in a single season is quite remarkable-especially for a goalie.

On top of that, a World Junior, Olympic, and Canada Cup/World Cup Gold is very impressive.

What a résumé.

[Kieran Wilson 🍁👑 @ksm_wilson]

Boy, does the Toronto Scottish ever have aura, as the kids say.

[Dakota Jeffery-Petts 🍁 @JefferyPetts]

Is... Is this guy acting like Sir John A *wasn't* a cultural chauvinist or moral universalist?

Does he think Sir John A supported the same multiculturalism and moral/political relativism he does?!?

Lol, lmfao even

[Clayton DeMaine @ClayDeMaine]

The CBC removed a CBC Kids News video on Monday after a Juno News investigation and a wave of criticism online came down on the state broadcaster for platforming unconventionally coloured poppies and their causes during Remembrance Day.

https://t.co/Jfdc8xIEnt

[Geoff Russ 🍁 @GeoffRuss3]

Free the Zon, free the Zyn.

[Western Standard @WesternStandard]

Convenience stores take Ottawa to court over pharmacy-only nicotine pouch rule https://t.co/slzdo93HLy

[Les Perreaux @perreaux]

I'm not sure Canadians grasp the scale of this catastrophe and the federal government appears to be intent on keeping it that way.

Fifteen soldiers still on venitilators three weeks later, nine in critical condition. Astonishing.

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

What an outrage:

The Carney Liberal government says it can’t afford to let all reservists attend Remembrance services.

Where are all the billions going? To defence lobbyists and corporate powerbrokers, not the troops.

All the brave men and women in uniform deserve to be front and centre at ceremonies that honour their courage and sacrifice.

[Grant Dingwall @GrantADDingwall]

@GeoffRuss3 @CBC I've said for years that CBC should be folded into Library & Archives, and it should provide royalty-free picture and video feeds and archives to document our history.

[Susan A 🇨🇦 @Mspundit]

@GeoffRuss3 @CBC Same for radio. I was interviewed on a show, and was not given access to the recording. Told to pay the hundreds if dollars fee to listen. Unbelievable, really.

[MRJB 🇬🇧🇨🇦 @DrMichaelBonner]

Strength

[Geoff Russ 🍁 @GeoffRuss3]

@retrontario @CBC 🫡

[Geoff Russ 🍁 @GeoffRuss3]

This new psychedelic, gonzo documentary, 'Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney', looks set to be a fascinating watch.

Viewing the trailer, I’m infuriated all over again by the reminder that the @CBC sits on oceans of high-quality footage from 20th-century Canadian history, from political conventions and elections to everyday life, yet keep it locked away in their vaults.

Granted, you can probably access it if you have the resources to make a full-length film, but for the rest of us? Navigating the system is a headache at best.

This is our history, funded directly by our tax dollars. Every frame of it should be easily accessible and fully open to the public for viewing and use.

It almost feels as though the bureaucracy has a vested interest in keeping Canadians detached from their past.

Perhaps it's just the history nerd in me, but when my country’s visual heritage is so needlessly gatekept, I feel robbed of a part of my inheritance as a Canadian citizen. I simply want to see and hear the country that my parents and grandparents grew up in.

We pay for the salaries and projects of the CBC. Open the archives for the rest of us.