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[Jim Stanford @JimboStanford]

The proposal to privatise operation of major airports to private investors (who will charge royally for it) muddles PM Carney’s message about “building Canada.” This builds nothing, but imposes new risks and costs on Canadians. I spoke with @andrewcbc for @CBCNews. #cdnpoli

[Lauren Conlin @conlin_lauren]

MISSING SCIENTISTS: The House Oversight Committee wrote this letter to Pete Hegseth on April 20, demanding a detailed briefing on the missing scientists by April 27. No substantive response to that demand appears to have ever been made public (if there was one).

The White House promised it would be looking into the cases of Monica Reza, William Neil McCaslin and others noted in the brief (Los Alamos Employees like Melissa Casias, Anthony Chavez, etc.).

So, what happened? Did they forget, or do they think the public doesn’t need a distraction anymore? The family members of the missing did not forget. @WhiteHouse @SecWar

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

Schrier: Have you ever treated a case of measles?

RFK JR: No.

Schrier: Well, I have. Let me tell you how much those children suffer. The wonderful thing is that there's a vaccine to prevent it... but it doesn't do any good unless it's actually given to them.

[Doug Saunders @DougSaunders]

That second sentence is why I, like 70% of Canadians, instinctively distrust people with religious beliefs in positions of power

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Lloyd Axworthy: "This isn't just a tariff trade war. This is an attempt by Trump for full dominance over the Western Hemisphere. Canada is up on his map as simply being another vassal state, another group he can push around."

[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

Hell ya, fam.

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

Ontario's new subway cars: Maryland. Our highway maintenance: Texas. Our teachers' supplies: American-owned Staples. Doug Ford has been playing Captain Canada for 18 months – but every one of these deals still stands. Recall the legislature so we can cancel the U.S. contracts.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Charlie Angus just UNLOADED on Trump over his latest attack on Canada

[.Grant Curran. @beauzam14]

Fuck me sideways. I'm sick to death of people asking why a lying, criminal Paedophile/Rapist/Fraud is still the US president. Here's your answer. The Supreme Court, The Congress, The DOJ, The FBI,the right wing media and every other institution are corrupt. Every fucking one����

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

The sheer number of lies from President Trump about Canada – growing again today – is remarkable. Just some fact checks from the last 18 months:
- Trump falsely said today that Canada's unemployment rate is "10% and rapidly rising,” though it is 6.4% (under the Canadian method that adds about a percentage point) and has been declining for three months
- Trump falsely said today that Canada does 95% of its business with the US, though 72% of Canadian exports went to the US last year
- Trump falsely said today that high Canadian agricultural tariffs have caused the entire US trade deficit with Canada, though that deficit is overwhelmingly caused by US imports of cheap Canadian crude and though something like 97% of US ag exports to Canada are tariff-free
- Trump has falsely said Canada generally doesn’t “take” US agricultural exports, though Canada is the world’s second-biggest buyer of those exports
- Trump has falsely said the Canadian public likes the idea of becoming the 51st state, which the Canadian public overwhelmingly opposes
- Trump has falsely said Canada is one of the world’s highest-tariff countries, though it is actually low in WTO global rankings
- Trump has falsely said Canada essentially doesn't have a military, though its military has fought with the US in multiple wars and its force size ranks in the upper half of NATO
- Trump has falsely said Canada hiked its dairy tariffs during the Biden administration, though they hadn’t changed since Trump’s first presidency
- Trump has falsely said the US trade deficit with Canada is “$200 billion,” though it is nowhere close
- Trump has falsely said Canada prohibits US banks, though it doesn't and though more than a dozen US banks were operating in Canada at the time he spoke
- Trump has falsely said Canada is “constantly surrounded” by Chinese and Russian ships, though that is fiction
- Trump has falsely said then-outgoing PM Trudeau was using their trade battle to run again for prime minister, though Trudeau obviously wasn’t running

[Mike Schreiner @MikeSchreiner]

This data centre fight is bigger than just Hamilton. It's a fight for the future of our communities, our water, and our land. It's time to take our power back from the tech billionaires and their friends in Ford's government.

[Jennifer @Draven1683]

I need Canadian media to stop repeating what Trump says and start repeating what Mark Carney says

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇺🇸🇺🇸🧐🤔“AND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH…”

Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share.

This Australian’s response to Trump’s rant that “NATO does nothing for America” is absolutely devastating:

“Mate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the streets tonight.

A country where 40% of adults can’t cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money.

A country where insulin costs more than a car payment, and people ration it just to stay alive.

A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy.

A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too afraid of abortion laws to treat miscarriages.

You imprison more of your own citizens than any country on Earth.
More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea.

In the land of the free, 2 million people sit in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything.
They’re simply too poor to afford bail.

Your life expectancy is declining. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening.

Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s.

Your children practice active shooter drills between math and English classes while you sell defense stocks to your friends.

Your minimum wage hasn’t changed in 15 years.

Your teachers work two jobs, your veterans sleep under bridges, and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that never attacked you.

And now a convicted criminal — found liable for sexual abuse, defending a pedophile, sleeping with a porn star, and running the biggest dumpster-fire campaign since the Taliban — is thanking you for yet another disaster.

And you call Greenland badly governed?

Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world.
Nobody there goes bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because insurance refused treatment.

‘NATO wasn’t there when we needed them.’

When exactly was that, champ?
September 11?

Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU.

Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU.

Australia wasn’t even in NATO, and we still showed up. For twenty years.

And then you left at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left everybody else to clean up the mess.

You don’t care that a great nation is being terrorized by your friend, and you haven’t shown it a single ounce of sympathy.

So maybe before calling other countries badly governed, take a look at your own backyard, you aluminum siding salesman with a spray tan.

The only thing badly managed in this picture is your damn mouth.

And you still dare to lecture the rest of the world?”

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Why is the U.S. giving Israel $3 billion a year for “infrastructure,” when remote locations on the Navajo Nation reservation lack basic running water and electricity?

[Jessica Berlin @berlin_bridge]

Dear Greenland, dear Denmark,
Don’t even think about allowing this. If you give them an inch they’ll take 100 miles. Kick them out now or accept that you just opened the floodgates.
Like Putin, you can’t negotiate with Trump. Showing weakness will just guarantee the next outrage.

[David Leavitt 🎲🎮🧙‍♂️🌈 @DavidLeavitt]

The president of the United States can't bank with capital one because of its money laundering policies

This should be bigger news

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE!

[ABC News @ABC]

JUST IN: Capital One says it closed hundreds of bank accounts associated with President Trump and his businesses in 2021 "for anti-money laundering reasons," according to a recent court filing from the financial institution.

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