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[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

Shabandowan Fire reports MNR has pulled firefighting crews off of the Ignace and Quetico fires because they’re moving too quickly.
Gakijiwanong Anishinaabe Nation (Lac La Croix) evacuated Monday while Ignace is on standby.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

Fedorov was widely credited for Ukraine’s turnaround on the battlefield, and for cutting corruption in the military.
Firing him after just six months, and with no explanation, is a really bad look for Zelensky.

[nik0p0l @nik0p0l5]

Master in clenching defeat out of jaws of victory. Everyone around UA mil effort had praises to say about Fedorov, but sovok clique must have their contracts so off he goes and who cares how many unnecessary death will be as a result.

[Muhammad Lila @MuhammadLila]

Everyone is posting this insane footage, but nobody is sharing what happened next:

They all made it out safely.

All of them.

They crashed a hi-rail truck into the train to shut down the engines, then ran three miles on foot after the truck caught fire. They even rescued a foreman.

They should be celebrated as heroes.

[Josh Wingrove @josh_wingrove]

Carney said his bridge deal with Trump would count debt repayment in calculations (lowering the US cut) but a US official says it won't & Carney's PMO has declined to repeat the claim.

Parsing the latest with @btaplatt - a lot boils down to what (little?) net profit there'll be:

[Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman22]

The declassified 1962 memo for the UK prime minister informing him (in shakespearean prose) that the US accidentally fried Britain's Ariel satellite with its Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test.

[Ryan Mac 🙃 @RMac18]

"Hi, I'm a reporter and I'm covering your company's layoffs."

"Hi, uh, ok. What's your name?"

"Chip....Cutter."

https://t.co/kc0nz759BF

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

BREAKING: Ojibway Nation of Saugeen has declared a State of Emergency, as a fire looms 13 kilometres north of their community.

There is no evacuation order set but members are standing by.

[Gordon Oz Osinski @drcrater]

I’m happy to announce Canada has a newly confirmed meteorite impact crater! https://t.co/ESyQdgyak0 #ImpactEarth @WesternU @impact_craters

[John Michael McGrath @jm_mcgrath]

The Special Circumstances proviso exists for a reason (the legislature's website lists, as a hypothetical example, an MPP caught in a Toronto snowstorm who can't otherwise safely get home) but now because government MPPs abused it members as a whole are going to lose it.

[Andrew Leach 🇨🇦 @andrew_leach]

One of the most overlooked aspects of the federation is how labour mobility enables resource booms. Without FIFO and migration into AB in the good times, costs would have increased even more, rents dissipated through local scarcity, and development would have slowed.

[The Grenada Loyalist @GrenadaLoyalist]

I was cursed to see what Malta’s new parliament looks like, and now you are too. God wept.

[Noah Gordon @noah_gordon_]

Cool for the FT to include Chinese demand for minerals alongside production--China consumes more copper than it smelts & refines

[cerise 🍒 @yfcherries]

points at the sign

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

Ghana's stock exchange is the second best performing exchange in the world this year. (Up nearly 70%, just behind Korea).

The best performing company is an Accra-based IT company, up 700%. One of its main services is providing local payment infrastructure for China's UnionPay

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

NEW: A PC pattern emerges.

Most of the hotel expenses occur during the spring and fall of each year, suggesting some GTA-area PC MPPs are routinely using hotels when the Ontario legislature is in session - rather than going home like most.

https://t.co/RGT8JKx9eR

#onpoli

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

Meta in June: NameTag "doesn't exist!"
Meta in July: NameTag is a "great feature"

[Daniel Tabin @DanTabin]

Pretty amazing to have the name of a Maya mathematician/astronomer who lived at least 1200 years ago. Sak Tahn Waax or “White-chested Fox”
To read more about this finding (both Sak Tahn Waax's formula and new archeology), read the paper, found here:
https://t.co/HvsO8FAxMs

[Red-Green Alliance @RedGreenBC]

I knew we'd miss trudeau sooner or later but I didn't think it'd be this soon

[Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham]

Story:

The European Union is prepared to introduce emergency measures to combat China’s extraordinary export surge as new figures showed the trade gap had widened dramatically, its top trade enforcer said on Tuesday.

https://t.co/hYQvAFrPf2