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[Brian Lilley @brianlilley]

his is exactly what I've been saying for months now.
No renewal, 10 years of annual reviews.
Investor uncertainty.
Others told you nothing would change.
They didn't read the agreement or listen to American officials and ponder what their words and actions mean for Canada.

[Mark W. @DurhamWASP]

“Everybody suffers from Multiculturalism, because Multiculturalism is no culture, it means that there is nothing to be loyal to, nothing to belong to. Any culture that wants to survive has to have an agreed culture and a common language.”

Peter Hitchens

[Batfox Pictures @Batfox_Pictures]

Few songs had a greater impact on British rock in the 1980s than "She Sells Sanctuary." Blending Billy Duffy's shimmering guitar work with Ian Astbury's commanding vocal, it became The Cult's breakthrough hit and remains the band's defining anthem. Their performance at the Tibetan Freedom Concert in 1999 showed the song had lost none of its power, uniting a huge festival crowd behind one of alternative rock's most enduring classics.

[Jasmin Laine @JasminLaine_]

Question for Liberals: if Donald Trump didn’t win the last U.S. election, would Canada have pipelines? Would housing suddenly become affordable? Would our deficit, which predates any trade war, have shrunk? Would the 155,000 professionals who left largely due to taxes suddenly return back home?

If everything is Trumps fault, what would have changed for the positive had he not been elected?

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

This is why no one in any Western country can cut any welfare spending ever and why we keep going further and further into debt.

Because any time anyone reduces spending on anything, an example can be wheeled out of a person who suffered or even died as a result.

On this basis, there can never be too much spending, too much aid or too much tax.

Indeed, the author of the tweet I am quoting will almost certainly oppose paying taxes of 100% or having 100% of his country's GDP be used in aid to the developing world. Despite the fact that his failure to give all his/his country's money away is demonstrably killing people right now. How many lives could be saved by having all of his money go to Africa? How many millions could be saved by having all of the federal budget be sent to the poorest parts of the world?

[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

One of the most thought provoking speeches I've seen in a while.

@Miss_Snuffy on how raising a generation to see the world through oppressors and the oppressed is changing the West.

If you don't have time, bookmark it. It's worth every second.

WATCH:

[Warren Kinsella @kinsellawarren]

Olivia Chow isn't going to lose the mayoralty because she is an awful person.

She is going to lose because on the issues that matter to people – crime, congestion, cost of everything – she has done an awful job.

#topoli

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

Canada recognizing the civil rights of trees while still using their corpses as building material is actually a pretty close analogue to our evolving stance on human rights.

[Jamil Jivani @jamiljivani]

Parents raise children. Not the government.

This is crazy.

[Tracy @Tracy1ieu]

The Most Incredible Stupid Human Trick Ever

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

🚨 BREAKING: Edward Snowden risked his life to expose the US government secretly using tech companies to spy on Americans.

Bill C-22 just passed in Canada and it does the exact same thing except this time it isn’t secret.

The Carney government is doing in PUBLIC, what the Obama administration tried to do in private.

The Liberals can now order Google, Apple, Bell, Rogers, Meta, X, Signal, anyone, to hand over your data in SECRET.

They are legally banned from telling you.

No warrant.

No judge.

No notice.

They didn’t even bother to hide it.

[John Frankensteiner @JFrankensteiner]

The “Have a good life” goodbye into Sam's fantasy of growing old with Diane is perfectly directed, possibly the best television ever, and certainly as beautiful as a sitcom has ever been, or ever will be

R.I.P. James Burrows

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

Rather than addressing the lawful access privacy and security concerns, the government rushed Bill C-22 through committee, cut off debate, avoided a recorded vote, and maligned critics. My post on the embarrassing final stage of a deeply troubling bill.
https://t.co/8j6BQtYpYV

[Jon Fraser @JonFraserTF]

This is absolutely wrong. School in Canada should be in English or French. If you don't like it, don't move to Canada.

[J.J. McCullough @JJ_McCullough]

I do find it a little bit funny that Carney constantly questions the patriotism of his political opponents while also constantly wishing he could be part of a different continent that he clearly considers better than his own.

[Barbara Kay @BarbaraRKay]

No. When you call yourself a "settler," you are not sending a signal that you "understand" the history, you are sending a signal that the land is still up for grabs. Nice little gift there to the Land Back movement.

[MJ Murphy @hothingsgirlsay]

People have been asking me to break this conversation down, and this is the first clip I’m doing.

Watch how the language gets used to hypnotize people in real time. Women’s sex-based spaces get downgraded to spaces “typically reserved” for women. Serious concerns about privacy, boundaries, trauma, and safeguarding get reduced to mere “discomfort.” Male inclusion gets framed as compassion, while female objection gets framed as prejudice.

This is how rights are eroded: not all at once, but word by word.

In this clip I break down the persuasion tactics, the reframing, the minimization, the false equivalencies, and the emotional language designed to make women doubt their own boundaries. Because women did not fight for shelters, prisons, locker rooms, rape crisis centers, and sports categories just for men to redefine them with polished talking points.

And remember this line: if women’s discomfort is not a reason to exclude men, then men’s discomfort is not a reason to be included.

Once you learn to spot the language tricks, the spell breaks.

#WomenMatter #SexBasedRights #ProtectWomen #NLP #Persuasion #DebateBreakdown #RealityMatters #WomensSports #FreeSpeech #CriticalThinking

[Disgraced Propagandist @DisgracedProp]

People demanding "proof" of election fraud are not understanding how crime works. I worked at Manhattan DA for over 2 years, one in Homicide. We never had video proof of the crime. We almost never had DNA. These are things that occur on CSI on TV, not in real life. And we still convicted people all the time.

What we had was testimony and circumstantial evidence. Travel times, bank records, cell phone data, gate access codes. Motive, capability, benefit, time and place. Never direct proof. Of course the defendant always denied the crime, but there was enough evidence to show that one had to have occurred nonetheless.

If what we have in the LA Mayoral election is a statistical anomaly that is beyond reasonable explanation with anything besides fraud, that is enough to prove a crime. This has been true since the beginning of Western Civlization.

[Aaron Pete @Aaronpete_]

I'm prepared to go to jail over this.

My grandmother Rita Pete went to St. Mary's Indian Residential School. She experienced terrible abuse. As a consequence, she struggled with alcohol use most of her life.

My mother was born with FASD as a consequence of her using alcohol to cope with her trauma.

I am Chief of my community Chawathil First Nation. I am working to address the longstanding impacts of these past policies through renovating homes, building new homes, creating childcare, and growing businesses through economic development.

I have interviewed people who went to Indian Residential Schools. I have interviewed people who believe Indian Residential Schools were awful, horrible schools, meant to remove the Indian from the child.

I've also interviewed people who believe they were well intended, generous investments by Canadian taxpayers meant to assimilate a society and had shortcomings.

Like with many things, the history is dark, complicated, and with any policy that existed for a long time, across a whole country - there were different experiences.

No one story tells us everything. No report shares the full experience of the individuals who went. No commentator today can disprove someone's lived experience with statistics.

The path forward is not to criminalize speech, questions, or debate.

The path forward is empathy for past attendees.
The path forward is truth based on facts.
The path forward is real conversations.
The path forward is to lean into complexity.

If the government criminalizes this, then I will be a criminal for having these conversations.

If I am a criminal by the laws definition, then I am committed to going to jail over this.

[MidWitTourist @MidWitTourist]

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