Michael Robin

Science fan and agriculture journalist. Biotechnology, ag, food, energy and the challenges of communicating in the Age of Woo.

[Jared Wesley @DrJaredWesley]

"Rather than contributing to Poilievre’s “Canada First” vision, leaders like Smith & Manning are pursuing regional defiance that threatens not only federal Conservative prospects but also the unity of the country itself." My latest on "Western Defeatism".

https://t.co/YPsu65S0Wt

[Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @DuaneBratt]

Smith keeps saying that we need to calm down the rhetoric against Trump while she simultaneously ramps up the rhetoric against Ottawa.

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

Pretty much timed to the dot.

Just extraordinary how much better off the US, and the world, would be if she had been elected instead of him.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

[Chris (Proud AB Motherfu*ker) @SkipIsChris]

Most Albertans love this country. We’re tired of being used as pawns in some loudmouth’s game of federal chicken.

Manning and Smith can posture all they want. The rest of us are trying to raise our kids in a country that still works.

#cdnpoli #ableg
[9/10]

[Chris (Proud AB Motherfu*ker) @SkipIsChris]

You want to help Alberta? Send people to Ottawa who know how to work with Canada—not threaten it.

You don’t fix things by lighting the house on fire.

You fix things by showing up, working hard, and building something better.

#cdnpoli #ableg
[8/10]

[Chris (Proud AB Motherfu*ker) @SkipIsChris]

.@djclimenhaga said it best:

“Vote like we tell you, or we’ll bust up your country.”

That’s the vibe from Manning & Smith.

And frankly, it’s embarrassing.

#cdnpoli #ableg
[7/10]

https://t.co/2XOxqF4rqr

[Chris (Proud AB Motherfu*ker) @SkipIsChris]

Preston Manning is now threatening national unity—not to fix Canada, but to bully it. If we don’t vote how he wants, he says the West might leave.

That’s not leadership. That’s bullshit.

Here’s a thread for anyone tired of being pushed around.

#cdnpoli #ableg
[1/10]

[Nathaniel Teed @nathaniel_teed]

So here’s the situation:

The Sask Party just extended a $60 million lab contract — without even putting it up for bids — to a U.S.-based company that:

👉 Is a donor to the Republican Party

👉 Gave over $30,000 to the Sask Party

Is the Sask Party on your side, or Trump’s?

[Dean Blundell🇨🇦 @ItsDeanBlundell]

🧵THREAD: Mark Carney just declared the end of America's global leadership. 🇨🇦
In a landmark speech, Carney said it loud and clear:
“The system of global trade anchored on the United States… is over.”
“If the U.S. no longer wants to lead, Canada will.” 1/

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

Only in Canada is it permissible — indeed, routine — to threaten to blow up the country if you don’t get your way. It’s an empty threat — secession is a practical impossibility — but because we indulged this fantasy for fifty years with Quebec we’ve encouraged others to try.

[Law VS Reality 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🇬🇪 🇮🇷 @LawVSReality]

Someone call the cops James from the @westernstandard just got body bagged by Prime Minister @MarkJCarney for asking a very stupid but predictable question! Ha ha ha #Cdnpoli #Housing

[Michael MacKay @mhmck]

An exodus has begun from the American Oblast of the Russian Federation (formerly the United States).

Scientists, researchers, writers, intellectuals, artists and free spirits realize there are many other countries – with a better quality of life – where they will be welcome.

[Lawrence Martin @LMartinOtt]

From Mark Bourrie's just published book, "Ripper," on Poilievre.
"I think he's an angry teenager in the body of a grown man."
PP is intelligent, a sound-bite maestro, Bourrie writes, but "the nastiest leader of a major party in this country's history." A political "goon."

[David Shepherd @DShepYEG]

Today @globeandmail revealed that every disastrous decision made in wasting $70M+ on Turkish Tylenol was made directly by Danielle Smith & the Health Minister.

Not AHS - the UCP.

They chose the biggest gamble as part of a political stunt & Albertans were left with the bill.

I asked Min. LaGrange what she’s going to do to get back the $49M Danielle Smith got stuck as store credit with MHCare. #ableg

[Vicki Campbell🇨🇦 @merry123459]

Conservatives like their supporters dumb. It’s the only way they can obtain power and keep it. Uneducated supporters who are easily manipulated, brainwashed and gullible. It’s a term plan, but it’s working in the US already. Pay attention Canada.

[Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna]

Pierre Poilievre has taken lessons on misogyny from Republicans with his use of a misogynistic hashtag on his political videos for years & infatuation with promoters of toxic masculinity like Jordan Peterson.

It’s not just appalling, it’s disqualifying if you aim to be PM.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

President Emmanuel Macron:

"Today there is no discussion about peace. Today there is a discussion between the United States of America and Russia. And if I'm correctly informed, Russia has invaded Ukraine. Ukraine is not at the negotiating table. If Russia backs down, if Russia commits to a cease-fire in Europe, then we will see what the security guarantees will be. Then Ukraine, a sovereign country, will have the right to determine for herself what she needs for security. So we are going to proceed in the right order.

We need to strengthen the European pillar, there is no other way. All we have to do is equip ourselves, arm ourselves and build a real European deterrent force to ensure peace in Europe, which is our goal."

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

"Russia is by far the number 1 information aggressor in the world."

@kalenskyj