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With the Habs' do or die game tonight against the Hurricanes, it was hard to know what to draw for Saturday's #MontrealGazette. So, I came up with this, congratulating the team for an excellent, entertaining season, no matter what happens this evening. Please share! Terry Mosher
Opinion piece by Tesla owner Michele Miller in the Boston Globe:
"I didn’t buy my Tesla in 2020 to make a political statement. I bought it to stop burning gas; And I’m not going to undo that choice just because the narrative around it has changed. What’s unfolding now is a case study in how some progressive movements have become more invested in symbols than systems; Years ago, when I bought my first Tesla, it was the political right that mocked the car. My father — a lifelong Republican — urged me to get rid of it. He saw it as a symbol of elitism: impractical, smug, unnecessary.
I bought my second Tesla in 2024 for the same reason as the first: to continue reducing my reliance on fossil fuels.
Now, that same father has warmed to it. Tesla is often praised in conservative circles, while many progressives are actively protesting against the company. What changed? Not the car, but the story we tell about it.
If the political pendulum can swing that easily, maybe the car isn’t the problem. Maybe we’ve just gotten too comfortable treating every purchase as a declaration of identity, rather than asking: What does this tool actually do?
What troubles me is the selective outrage. It’s easy to denounce a choice you didn’t make. It’s even easier to suggest someone sell an expensive, low-emission vehicle without acknowledging the real trade-offs involved.
Progress, after all, isn’t just about individual choices, it’s also about building systems that make better choices possible. Tesla’s EV charging network, once exclusive to its own customers, is now opening to other electric vehicles, creating critical infrastructure for broader clean transportation. That’s a tangible environmental good that extends far beyond any single company or CEO.
So no, I’m not selling my Tesla. Not because I’m ignoring the conversation — but because I’m engaged in it. Because I believe evolution doesn’t come from symbolic purging. It comes from working — however imperfectly — toward progress."
Full piece: https://t.co/zLSrMcO54r
@JustinTrudeau Please remove tariffs from Chinese electric cars. Canada needs to be able to acquire the best and less expensive products on the market and that’s BYD cars. Stop supporting legacy manufacturers who don’t care about progress and only care about profits.
Went grocery shopping with the wife, people in the aisles reminding each other to buy Canadian is f*cking awesome. This is the Canada I love, we may bicker and disagree on plenty, but we come together when it's important.
Buy Canadian 🇨🇦.
🚨BREAKING NEWS
CANADIANS BOO THE AMERICAN NATIONAL ANTHEM IN OTTAWA NHL GAME JUST NOW
I have NEVER seen Canadians boo any national anthem....ever before in my entire life.