Mark Dunham

Chemical engineer, maker, sustainability nut, the opposite of an HOA

[Mark Dunham @PAirbender]

@kinsellawarren You know people can discuss things separately right? Like one thing can be fair and another is true?

[Dakota Jeffery-Petts 🍁 @JefferyPetts]

Lee Kuan Lombardi is gonna beat Disorder Ford and turn Ontario into the Singapore of the North at this rate.

[Duncan Dee 🇮🇱🇺🇦 @duncandee]

And the kicker: "Yet new members to our party must endorse basic liberal/Liberal values."

Based on how much of Justin Trudeau's "liberal/Liberal values" Mark Carney and Justin Trudeau's own former cabinet members, MPs and even ordinary party members that they're now running away from, who the heck knows that those even are!?!

Someone ask Steven Guilbeault.

[Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀 @EricDLombardi]

Let me be clear that when it comes to public order, I will put transit riders first.

That means I’d demand cities enforce strict rules against drug use, menace, occupying multiple seats, blocking aisles, playing audio without headphones, smoking, vaping, camping, and other anti-social conduct that drives paying riders off public transit systems.

Repeat offenders should face escalating consequences up to and including involuntary solutions.

We do not have to tolerate disorder. And I’ll invest in space to help those in need at the same time.

But we should not be a culture that valorizes bad personal conduct as empathy.

[wanye @xwanyex]

I imagined adults would be smart and knowledgeable, but it turns out that most of them don’t know how anything works. So I guess we both have our crosses to bear.

[Mark Dunham @PAirbender]

@stphnmaher Then sue him for murder

[Mark Dunham @PAirbender]

@andrewaperez @OntLiberal Can you list said values that these people don't have? Get specific

[Mark Dunham @PAirbender]

@JJ_McCullough @jbsteinberg I voted for Trudeau in 2015 and like the carbon tax and I would vote for Eric.

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

This is what happens when all the adults go up to the cottage for the long weekend, and there leave the keys to the @globeandmail social media account with the 22 year old social justice intern

[Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀 @EricDLombardi]

There are some long-time Liberals upset that I’m running for leader, in part, because I am trying to pull my party back towards liberalism.

I believe that:

- The law should apply equally to everyone
- People should be judged on merit
- Markets should be competitive
- Opportunity must be real for all
- Government should be secular
- Speech should be free
- Excellence should be celebrated

These values are simple, but they are good, and our politics has wandered too far away from them.

[Rahim Mohamed @rmohamed_yow]

Tired: the Trudeau/Ford voter

Wired: the Poilievre/Lombardi voter

[Darshan Maharaja @TheophanesRex]

FINALLY, @EricDLombardi brings a breeze of fresh air in the stagnant, malodorous, pathogen-loaded pool of water that is Ontario politics.

@fordnation should be concerned - their best hope is that the entrenched interests in OLP will prevent Mr. Lombardi from becoming the leader.

[Aaron Pete @Aaronpete_]

With all due respect…

To influenced and media pundits who pick a team, and a political side, and comment on issues in this style - it just reads to me as a bit lazy.

Ad hominem attacks, insults, and judgements with no arguments attached seem like you’re just pandering to your side.

This post doesn’t tell me a thing about what Rachel thinks about monetary policy, fiscal policy, the role of capitalism and markets.

You can call @tobi a loser all you like, but factually he’s a very successful entrepreneur, and did not lose on that venture.

I understand his people can say whatever they like, but I would value a substantive discussion on very wealthy individuals, and how we treat this minority of elites without devolving into insults.

The left isn’t wrong that they command a lot of power and influence. The right isn’t wrong to say they worked hard, and sacrificed a lot to get their wealth.

I would just love to see a bit more substance than what I see here.

[Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀 @EricDLombardi]

This pathetic attitude is among the worst things about our political culture in Canada and I cannot reject it enough.

It gets cloaked in the language of progressivism but it is deeply cynical, ugly, and regressive.

Story time!

Growing up, I was hugely inspired by RIM (BlackBerry). It was one of the reasons why I wanted to go to Waterloo.

I thought it was so cool one of the most innovative companies on earth was an hour away from home.

In fact, my program, Nanotechnology Engineering, was able to exist in part due to the philanthropy of Mike Lazaridis, who funded the Institute of Quantum Computing and Nanotechnology (along with the Perimeter Institute for theoretical physics, which is a brilliant asset for the province and country). Balsillie, for his part, has spent tens of not hundreds of millions of his personal wealth on advocacy and institutions to make Canada a better place. But he too was castigated in our media.

Through high school, I saw how Canadas media took an axe to RIM founders (Mike and Jim), and basically cheered on the decline of the business against competition from Apple and Google.

It was a complete disgrace.

Well, in 2013 I got my second co-op job there, just as they rolled out BB10 (the QNX operating system). 6 weeks into my co-op, my entire department was laid off (Modems/Semiconductors).

Nearly every one of my colleagues ended up moving to the US. Some of the most capable talent on earth, poached in weeks. It was loss that was absolutely devastating to witness.

I have no doubt people like Bruce cheered on the spectacle, just like he would cheer the downfall of Shopify if it were to ever happen; despite the champion it’s been for the country, the thousands of good jobs it’s created, and all the spin-off businesses that have created huge wealth for Ontario.

Well let me be clear that I will have none of this nonsense.

[Brad Smith @bradcsmith]

What about the Croatian, Scottish, Serbian, Indian, Greek, English, Chinese, Ukrainian, German, Irish, and Italian communities that helped build this country? Or the many others who came here seeking a better life?

How about we stop carving out special months for every ethnic group and instead celebrate what actually unites us...

shared ..."Canadian values", institutions, and the 🇨🇦 flag?

This endless focus on division and identity checkboxes isn’t progress.

We have real problems to solve. Let’s focus on rebuilding a country that works for everyone who calls it home, instead of turning heritage into a competition.

[Millennial Moron @Mill_Moron]

@erinotoole @jeffcanadamson Well, unfortunately, after the Generation Squeeze article came out, Poilievre started promising to "protect OAS", so I guess we just hit snooze for another 10 years and hope the problem goes away on its own lol

[Millennial Moron @Mill_Moron]

Two things happened in 1997 - CPP reform, and a proposed reform that involved rolling OAS and GIS into a single "Seniors Benefit" program. The latter was canceled due to public backlash.

We've known for decades that these programs are unsustainable, but it's political poison.

[Richard Dias @RichardDias_CFA]

@MarcMillerVM Ever more government control under the guise of safety. Meanwhile violent criminals run wild.

[Brad West @BradWestPoCo]

Governments at all levels and of all stripes have been very good at creating new rules. Much less good at asking whether those rules still make sense.

Over time, regulations accumulate. They pile up year after year, often long after the problem they were meant to solve has changed or disappeared altogether. The result is a system that becomes more complicated, more expensive, and less responsive to the people it’s supposed to serve.

In Port Coquitlam, we’ve just finished taking a hard look at our hospitality regulations, and we went directly to the people on the ground, running hospitality businesses. Together, we called a time-out and asked some simple questions:

Does this rule still serve a purpose?
Can it be modernized?
Can it be simplified?
Should it exist at all?

The result of this work is that Port Coquitlam Council has approved the elimination or modernization of dozens of out-of-date, or simply nonsensical regulations.

I’m proud of this work, and how quickly we completed it. The next step is to replicate the approach in a well thought out way for our entire system of regulations and bylaws because our belief is that government shouldn’t be measured by how many rules it creates. It should be measured by whether those rules actually make life better.

For more details visit https://t.co/YQbWvoW22A

[Adam Zivo @AdamZivo]

When housing activist @EricDLombardi entered the Ontario Liberal Party (OLP) leadership race this week, many conservatives throughout the province were thrilled.

The 32-year-old political outsider is popular among moderates for his pragmatic centrism, and could find himself uniquely qualified to build a cross-partisan coalition that can topple the Ford government and end an era of populist incompetence.

My latest for @WDiminishment 💡

https://t.co/rHtQsWC2LC