Michael Lohner 🇨🇦

Partner, Canadian Strategy Group

[Michael Lohner 🇨🇦 @MichaelLohner]

Good to see the Habs taking more shots 🙄

[Michael Lohner 🇨🇦 @MichaelLohner]

@CarsonJerema @GiantBlueRing would argue this isn’t a flattering photo.

[Michael Lohner 🇨🇦 @MichaelLohner]

The Habs might be tougher to watch than the Oilers.

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@edmontonjournal Couldn’t find a street in his ward?

[Michael Lohner 🇨🇦 @MichaelLohner]

@cspotweet Replaced by a turboprop?

It’s time to renew the fleet. But this is gutting

[Michael Lohner 🇨🇦 @MichaelLohner]

May long lake time with friends

[Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @SPhillipsAB]

Jason Kenney was supportive of me when my records were unlawfully accessed by Lethbridge Police Service, so now it’s time to return the consideration.

No one deserves this, and it is high time for there to be consequences for targeting people for their time in public service.

[Michael Lohner 🇨🇦 @MichaelLohner]

RT @ABDanielleSmith: Met an incredible young man named Brendan today and had the chance to hear a bit of his story.

Moments like that remi…

[MP Amanpreet Singh Gill @AmanpreetSGill]

Seeing the impact of @rmh_can up close stays with you.

Today is McHappy Day. Every visit to McDonald's Canada helps support families staying close to their child’s care.

#cdnpoli #canadafirst #mchappy #rmhc

[Michael Lohner 🇨🇦 @MichaelLohner]

@SportsnetSpec A bit reckless to play him this year. All risk.

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@ChrisLaBossiere @AirCanada @ChrisLaBossiere note the J availability on almost every flight today on AC

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@ChrisLaBossiere @AirCanada I’d lose my mind. Took me two seconds to find all these seats on AC and competitors today.

[Michael Lohner 🇨🇦 @MichaelLohner]

@SportsThor And they will only do #1

[Michael Lohner 🇨🇦 @MichaelLohner]

Can’t wait for the Oilers to do nothing in the off season to improve goal or defence.

[x- bylambd @bylambd]

all year the oilers have been acting like a smart teen pushing how late they can procrastinate their homework before someone finally fails them

[Michael Lohner 🇨🇦 @MichaelLohner]

Gotta stop that one.

[Michael Lohner 🇨🇦 @MichaelLohner]

While I love the passion of @EdmontonJack usually, this is not a good series, nor good games. I’m sorry. It’s not even close. It’s a schooling. Oilers are a hard team to watch.

[Michael Lohner 🇨🇦 @MichaelLohner]

Well I’m pretty sure I will have 20 more free evenings this spring compared to the last two. #oilers

[Michael Lohner 🇨🇦 @MichaelLohner]

I second Hotel Arts Kensington. Do they still serve warm cookies? And the Dorian. Chain, but doesn't feel like it.

[Joni Avram @joniavram]

@kinsellawarren Hotel Arts Kensington looks over the Bow River and is an easy walk to downtown.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

The cynicism & hyper partisanship on this site can be exhausting.

I see criticism of Conservatives like @erinotoole & @lraitt for agreeing to serve on the Prime Minister’s Canada-US relations advisory panel.

Some say it represents “patronage.”

To be clear, membership on advisory panels like this are not paid positions. Sometimes they will offer modest per diems for longer meetings requiring travel. But there is no material reward for participating in work like this. If anything it represents an opportunity cost for busy people who give up paid work or billable time in order to participate.

In other words, it’s not patronage.

Cynics, brace yourself: perhaps what motivates people to set aside partisanship and do voluntary work like this is an authentic sense of duty, of public service that puts country ahead of party.

To the partisans who think it’s disloyal to accept a role like this: please remember that severely normal Canadians do not see the world through your hyper partisan lens. They expect Canadians to work together across party lines to help defend the country from external threats, like Donald Trump’s aggression.

(Remember Stephen Harper appointing John Manley to lead the advisory panel on the Afghan military deployment; or appointing Gary Doer Ambassador to the US.)

Finally, to Conservatives: one of the most unattractive feature of the contemporary left is its tendency to politicize absolutely everything. Don’t repeat their error. Conservatism is not a rigid ideological doctrine requiring loyalty tests and the demonization of our political adversaries.