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[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

The mayors of Alberta’s two largest cities are standing up for Canada, and it deserves to be recognized.

Edmonton Mayor Andrew Knack called out the UCP’s “separatist agenda” directly, warning it’s creating “severe economic uncertainty” that will kill investment and cost jobs. His words: “Moving forward with a referendum to do another referendum does nothing to help, and wastes our money. It is a distraction from the issues facing everyday Albertans.” 

Knack says he’s already getting calls from the business community asking whether they should still invest in Edmonton. “It harms our ability to attract economic investment, which in turn affects municipalities’ financial sustainability, which in turn affects people’s property taxes.” 

Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas went further, calling the referendum push a sign of weak leadership from Premier Smith’s government, and warning that the uncertainty alone is enough to deter investment and damage Calgary’s economy. 

These are the mayors of the cities that would bear the greatest economic cost of separation. They’re not fringe voices. They’re the people responsible for keeping businesses open, keeping workers employed, and keeping taxes manageable for ordinary Albertans.

This isn’t Ottawa talking. This isn’t central Canada fear-mongering. This is Edmonton and Calgary saying: enough.

Vote no in October.

[Petrichor ❤🇨🇦❤ 💙💛 @Chasingharmony1]

Both our provincial and federal governments are misunderstanding how deeply passionate Torontonians (and many Ontarians) are about preserving the natural beauty of our waterfront cityscape.
And to do it for the benefit of an AMERICAN BANK? Outrageous.
Expect huge seat changes.

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

Doug Ford sat in the legislature for 29 days this year.

He was on time seven times. We hold grade fives to a higher standard.

His priorities? Buying himself a luxury jet. Hiding his phone records. Cutting OSAP. Taking over the Toronto Islands.

My priorities? Scrapping the tax on groceries. Saving OSAP. Making life more affordable.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

Opossums live short, difficult lives, yet they spend their nights doing work many people never see.

Most only live about one to two years in the wild. They move through backyards, forests, roadsides, and neighborhoods after dark, searching for food while avoiding cars, dogs, predators, and harsh weather. Their lives are brief, but their role in nature is meaningful.

Opossums help clean the world around you. They eat pests, insects, carrion, and sometimes even venomous snakes. They also help reduce ticks, which can carry disease. In their quiet way, they support the balance of the places they pass through.

Still, many people fear them because of how they look or because they appear at night. But opossums are usually shy, gentle animals. When scared, they often freeze, hiss, drool, or play dead because they want to survive, not attack.

Kindness can be simple. Give them space. Do not harm them. Slow down when you see one near the road. Let them keep doing the work nature gave them.

Opossums may not live long, but they leave the world cleaner than they found it.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

It was a Monday in early August 2023. The exhausted truck drivers of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour thought they were heading to a routine production meeting before the Los Angeles shows.
They had no idea what was coming.
Scott Swift walked in. Taylor's father didn't say much—he just began handing out envelopes. When the drivers finally peeked inside, some thought the check said $1,000. Others read $10,000. The third driver stared at his and said out loud: "This has to be a joke."
It wasn't.
$100,000.
Each driver. Nearly 50 of them. The industry standard bonus from the biggest stars? $5,000 to $10,000. Taylor had given them more than ten times that.
But here's what made it matter most: these drivers weren't wealthy. They lived in truck cabs. They hadn't seen their families in 24 weeks. They were people who would never own homes—until now. Until that envelope.
That moment of shock and tears? It was just the beginning.
Across the entire Eras Tour, Taylor quietly handed out $197 million in bonuses. The dancers. The band. The riggers. The lighting and sound technicians. The caterers. Every single person who built the show—they got bonuses, handwritten notes, and wax-sealed letters. When dancers opened theirs on camera in her docuseries, they broke down crying. Some couldn't believe she was real.
"If the tour grosses more, they get more," she explained simply. These people work hard. They deserve it.
But the crew bonuses weren't the only quiet revolution happening.
Starting in March 2023, in every city where the tour touched down, a call came to local food banks. Taylor wanted to donate. No press conference. No announcement. No photo op. One donation fed 75,000 meals. Another provided hundreds of thousands of pounds of fresh produce. Across the tour, the total reached millions of meals—possibly more—all delivered in silence.
She never posted about a single one.
And it wasn't new for her.
In March 2020, when the pandemic locked down the world, Taylor scrolled through social media posts from fans who were breaking. A photographer about to lose everything. A person staring down eviction. She sent direct messages with rent money—$3,000 here, $13,000 there. Some fans got enough for months of bills. She read the Washington Post. She noticed the names. She helped.
She never announced it.
Years later, in October 2025, a two-year-old named Lilah—fighting a cancer so rare that only 58 families in America had ever known it—was filmed by her mother dancing to a Taylor Swift song. Lilah called Taylor her friend. A few days later, the GoFundMe received a $100,000 donation.
The note said: "Sending the biggest hug to my friend, Lilah! Love, Taylor."
Mike Scherkenbach has worked with the wealthiest people in music. He's seen the bonuses. He's seen the behavior. He's watched billionaires guard their money jealously.
What he saw with Taylor was different.
The biggest tour in history grossed $2 billion. The artist behind it became a billionaire from her own songwriting. And then she signed her name onto hundreds of envelopes by hand and sent enough money back to the people who built her dream that they cried opening their letters.
That isn't strategy. That isn't a publicity stunt.
That's what happens when someone, somewhere along the way, remembered what matters.

[Kristin Raworth 🇨🇦 @KristinRaworth]

I love Alberta. I grew up here. Built my life here. Watched my siblings raise their children here. My family built businesses here. My parents taught at the University of Alberta and helped shape generations of students. My grandfather was awarded the Order of Canada for his contributions to this province and played a role in keeping the Edmonton Oilersfrom leaving Edmonton.
I am as Albertan as they come. But I am every bit as proud to be Canadian.
So when I see people trying to convince Albertans that our future lies in separation, I reject it completely. Alberta’s strength has never come from walking away. It has come from building, contributing, fighting to be heard, and helping shape this country into something better.
I will spend every ounce of energy I have defending federalism, defending Canada, and keeping this beautiful province exactly where it belongs: in Canada.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

YES 💯💯💯 #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

I pay my taxes.
You pay YOUR taxes.

If we don't pay our taxes, its simple: You get fined, or you go to jail.

Unless you name is trump: He, and his family, were somehow just given blanket pardons for any and all tax crimes -- past, present or future.

THIS IS A HUGE SCANDAL.

[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

I’m going to say what everyone is too scared to say.

Canada is under attack. Not with missiles. With data. With money. With useful idiots waving provincial flags while American operatives pull the strings from Michigan boardrooms.

3 million Albertans doxxed. The US Ambassador’s fingerprints on the weapon. UCP insiders in the room watching it happen. Trump officials holding secret meetings about carving up this country like it’s a real estate deal. Because to them? IT IS.

Trump said it himself. 51st state. He wasn’t joking. He never jokes.

And while all of this is happening, @PierrePoilievre , the man who wants to lead this country, is hiding under his desk hoping nobody asks him which side he’s on. PIERRE.

The guy who built his entire career screaming about government overreach can’t find his voice when a foreign government is actively funding the dismemberment of Canada?
What do you know, Pierre? What are you afraid of?

Because here’s what I see. A movement that appeared out of nowhere. Fully funded. Fully organized. With American tech. American strategy. American money. And an American ambassador running interference in plain sight.

This isn’t Alberta vs Ottawa.
This is foreign acquisition.
They’re not trying to free Alberta.
They’re trying to own it.
The oil. The land. The leverage.
And some of our own politicians are either too compromised, too cowardly, or too bought to stop it.

Canada is not for sale.
#cdnpoli

[𝐃𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞s 🇨🇦Vive le Canada!🇨🇦 @portagebaygirl1]

He ⤵️
Tried to steal the Greenbelt
Destroyed Ont Place
Closed Science Centre
Took over school brds, Reg govts & Cons authorities
Starved health & schools
Seized Toronto Islands
Changed FOI to keep cell secret & so much more
WORST PREMIER IN ONTARIO’S HISTORY

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

🇺🇸🧐
This is beyond outrageous.
Openly, shamelessly, without fear of anyone, he is robbing America right in front of the entire country — robbing all of us.
Kaitlan Collins, host of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, described the situation this way:
“Imagine suing the government for $10 billion while also being the person who controls that very government. That’s exactly what is happening right now. Donald Trump, sitting in the White House, has filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the Treasury Department and the IRS — the very Treasury he controls, the very IRS he oversees, the very government he leads.
He is effectively both the plaintiff and the defendant, and he wants taxpayers — you, me, every working family in America — to hand him $10 billion. Just think about that.”
Trump even appeared on television boasting that he had already “won,” essentially bragging that he was negotiating a settlement with himself.
Then his lawyers walked into federal court asking for a 90-day delay — not to fight the lawsuit, but to “reach an agreement.” An agreement between Donald Trump and Donald Trump, paid for with your money.
But then something unexpected happened.
Judge Kathleen Williams looked at this circus and basically said: “Wait a second. You are telling me you are suing yourself and expect me to approve a $10 billion payment from the U.S. Treasury directly into your personal pocket? Absolutely not.”
She rejected the 90-day delay. She demanded separate reports from both sides — despite both sides effectively being controlled by the same person. Then she took the extraordinary step of appointing three of the nation’s most respected law firms as independent advisers to the court.
Why?
Because $10 billion of taxpayer money is at stake.
What is really happening here is terrifying: a sitting president allegedly using the power of his office, and a Justice Department under his influence, to settle a personal lawsuit with himself and funnel public money into his own bank account.
Constitutional law already has a name for this: a collusive lawsuit.
The Supreme Court ruled on this principle more than 200 years ago. If both sides are effectively the same party, the courts have no authority to proceed. The Constitution requires a real conflict, real opposing sides — not a friendly deal between a man and his reflection in the mirror.
And this is not some isolated stunt. Critics argue it is part of a broader strategy: stage a fake legal battle, force a surrender, cash the check, and walk away.
But this time the number is staggering: $10 billion.
Money that could repair roads, fund schools, support veterans, or feed hungry children.
Instead, critics say it is being redirected through one of the most transparent legal scams America has ever witnessed.
And the people supposed to defend the public interest? The Justice Department. Government officials whose job is to protect taxpayers.
They are not fighting. They are not even pretending to fight.
The judge sees it. Top legal scholars see it. The Constitution itself sees it.
The only remaining question is whether the system still has enough courage to say “No.”
Because if a president can sue himself and pay himself with public money, then the word “government” no longer means anything.
It simply means: the person holding the pen writes the check — and everyone else pays the bill.

[Wab Kinew @WabKinew]

I won’t repeat the racist comment.

What I will repeat is encouragement for young people to call out hatred and move beyond negativity.

Unity is stronger than division.

We are One Manitoba, One Canada, and one human race.

[Peter Ratcliffe, forever Canadian 🇨🇦 @PeterHRatcliffe]

@fordnation : When every ER is open and staffed, when every patient that needs admission to hospital has a bed and care, when wait lists are reasonable, and when each of us has a family doc, that's the time to talk about new runways and jets at Billy Bishop.

Now is not the time.

[Anthony Farnell @AnthonyFarnell]

30 million dollars was spent to transform an abandoned parking lot into a beautiful waterfront park. Trillium park is a peaceful oasis for jogging, cycling, fireside chats and walks with the dog but it could soon become the closest mainland point to a massive new jetway. So sad!

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

Just an utter and unmitigated disaster. He has got himself into a mess, has no clue what to do, and wants the rest of the world to bail him out.
The sum total of the effort: not only $25 billion in costs and a depleted US missile arsenal, but the loss of US credibility and an Iranian regime that is more radical than ever, more entrenched than ever, and in some ways more powerful than ever, having possession of not just all of their nuclear material, but also the Strait of Hormuz. Hard to think of a more complete catastrophe.

https://t.co/PsMsKIKfzo

https://t.co/gRiPZvTlwI

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a powerful moment, Democratic Chair of the Budget Committee Brendan Boyle, just slammed Donald Trump for focusing on everything but lowering costs. This needs to be heard by every American.

[Paul Stewart II @PaulStewartII]

“Canadian media is not what most think. Canadians are lobsters in a propaganda pot. CBC, for all its faults is the only independent and truly Canadian media.

Canadian media is influenced by 5 billionaires and a US (Trump MAGA) hedge fund. Billionaires being Rogers, Shaw, Thomson, Bitove and Peladeau who respectively own / control / influence:
✔️ Rogers media
✔️ Corus Entertainment
✔️ Globe & Mail, Bell Media, and
✔️ Thomson/Reuters
✔️ Toronto Star, and
✔️ Quebecer Media, including
✔️ Journal de Montreal

These are non “mainstream”, monied interests with collective family wealth exceeding $100 billion and collectively own 85% of Canadian media, including TV and Radio stations of any significance. PostMedia alone is a big part of that.

Chatham Asset Management owns nearly two thirds of PostMedia. It also owns US media AMI / National Enquirer. The link from Chatham to Trump indirectly is David Pecker at AMI. So it’s a Trump MAGA aligned, CPC propaganda operation ever since Harper approved this years ago. Pecker used to be on the PostMedia board and is Trump’s media man.

PostMedia is playing a big role in Trump’s 51st play. Which seems to be Harper’s Christian (Church) Reform Party’s end game. Yes that would be the so called CPC.

Yet, even worse, algorithm driven social media are viral distributors of the “Canadian” and foreign media too! They’re owned by mega billionaires, including Zuckerberg and Musk, with combined wealth over half a trillion alone.

These players are likely first order CPC “owners”, funders and propaganda operatives, beyond their controlling interests in our media.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump gets busted plotting to blindside King Charles in revenge for refusing to help him clean up his Hormuz mess!

According to a leaked Pentagon memo reported by Reuters, Trump is weighing whether to reverse long-standing U.S. policy and side with Argentina on the Falkland Islands, which is a direct insult to the British monarch, who is head of state over the islands.

This comes after British Prime Minister Keir Starmer repeatedly refused to help enforce Trump’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz or get involved in his war with Iran.

Trump, who has publicly called King Charles a “fantastic man” and “brave man,” is reportedly so petty and thin-skinned that he’s willing to reopen a decades-old territorial dispute just to punish the UK for not joining his chaotic military adventure.

The Falkland Islands were the site of a 1982 war between Britain and Argentina. King Charles’s own brother, Prince Andrew, served as a helicopter pilot in that conflict.

Now Trump is dangling the possibility of changing America’s position on the islands’ sovereignty, all because Starmer wouldn’t fall in line on his Iran boondoggle.

This is not serious foreign policy. This is a 79-year-old man throwing a vindictive tantrum on the world stage, risking long-standing alliances just to get revenge.

And not just some politician. On the damn King of England. Just weeks after doing the same with the Pope. What hubris!

Clearly, Trump has no respect for anyone, and absolutely no sense of history. He shames the great United States of America over and over and so many of us just don’t care.

If you agree, please like and share.

[Clay Thompson. @harryt59_harry]

@sarobertsonca Dear @CTVNews .
We have a problem.
Poilievre got away with lying about Justin Trudeau for 3 years and now it looks like the media is giving him another free ride. Pierre Poilievre is lying. Mark Carney doesn't own Brookfield. Canadians expect better from the mainstream media.

[Canadian,Eh🇨🇦 ☃️🚑🚒 @OneCheekyChicky]

@atrupar Canadian people do not wants US dairy. You want us to take your dairy then you must change it to meet our standards, not expect us to drop our standards.
Canadian dairy is free from both artificial growth hormones and antibiotic residues due to stricter regulations,