James Valcke

Father. Fisherman. Ontarian. Aspiring parrothead. Tracking nominal.

Director of Research and Strategy at Viewpoints Research

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Mexico cuts workweek, bans after-hours contact, and guarantees no worker will take a pay cut in the most sweeping labor reform in a generation.
https://t.co/tEW6hFrKLP

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Ballistic missile launch now from Yemen towards Israel.

[Simon Black @_SimonBlack]

Unifor says Walmart contract is only an opening salvo in a broader fight to unionize major employers across the country.

‘Historic’: Canadian warehouse workers sign first-ever union deal with Walmart https://t.co/UuKJUNP94M

[Patrick Webb @Patrickwebb]

BREAKING: Cuba has begun distributing weapons to its civilians and is urging them to prepare for a foreign invasion, per CNN.

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Almost 10% of Toronto mortgage holders won’t qualify to refinance next year, BoC says https://t.co/aoG7YMEsgh

[InteractivePolls @IAPolls2022]

CNN: Platner’s campaign just announced raising over $200,000 in a single day following the New York Times article — their best fundraising day since Janet Mills dropped out of the Maine Senate race

[James Valcke @JamesValcke]

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[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan could make billions on its early investment in SpaceX.

The Toronto-based pension plan first invested in Elon Musk's company in June, 2019. It was part of a funding round that raised US$314-million for Space Exploration Technologies Corp., at a time when its Starlink internet service was just starting to launch satellites and a boom in AI was still years away.

Seven years later, the pension fund is sitting on a potential windfall of as much as US$11-billion from its initial investment of about $300-million as SpaceX prepares to go public next week.

https://t.co/9SdDmGqbbF

[CTV News Winnipeg @ctvwinnipeg]

Manitoba Premier Kinew says no to hyperscale AI data centre south of Winnipeg https://t.co/p00FAyomW0

[Ahmad Elbayoumi @ahmadelbayoumi]

NEW: The Carney government is considering changes to the Access to Information Act, which governs access to government records.

One proposal would limit requests to “official records” stored in official repositories, while excluding “transitory records.”

https://t.co/13NGe2Q70d

[Althia Raj @althiaraj]

My latest column. https://t.co/yjj2BeS9rk

[Lovable Liberal and his Old English sheepdog @DougWahl1]

I am impressed!

I was sure Donald Trump would never post anything about pride month. And then he posted this!

Clearly, I was wrong!

[Lisa Desjardins @LisaDNews]

BREAKING: House votes 215-208 to end President Trump's war in Iran.

[James Valcke @JamesValcke]

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[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Pete Hoekstra: "As the president's representative to Canada, I present the president's views, the United States' views to Canada. Mechanically, I don't do all the reposting and retweeting myself. My understanding is we repost 100% of the president's tweets that deal with Canada."

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Marit Stiles on the Ontario Legislature rising for 5-month break: "We've had an extremely short session. 29.5 days, less than a month that the House has been sitting since January 1st ... there's really important work that needs to be done, it's outrageous."

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

L - GOP Rep and MI senate candidate Mike Rogers actual photo from the campaign trail.

R - Photo put out by staffer.

[James Valcke @JamesValcke]

Have we given up the practice of summoning the Ambassador in Canada? Do we no longer show displeasure? Silence can be deafening...

[BNN Bloomberg @BNNBloomberg]

U.S. excludes Canada from trade talks with Mexico https://t.co/Ap0ZRl7tUR

[James Valcke @JamesValcke]

@JCHIANELLO @XanderAWright You should consider an office. A tent sounds good now, but it'll be cold in October...

[Glen E. McGregor @glen_mcgregor]

Not only are many of the train cars still out of action, the infrastructure around Ottawa’s O-train LRT is also failing. This elevator at Parliament station has been shut down for nearly a full month. An escalator there was also shut for a week+. Why? No clue.

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: A viral joke on social media to turn Trump’s White House UFC fight on America’s 250th birthday into the “gayest party in US history” is becoming real as hundreds of gay men are actually buying tickets and planning to show up shirtless, glittered up, and very flamboyant.