Patrick Diotte

[Patrick Diotte @PatrickDiotte]

@Bananrama2 My family owns the office buildings in this photo. The encampments have caused them so much grief over the years. Despite consistently raising the issue with local officials, the City doesn’t seem to care. In fact, they’ve tended to treat us, local business owners, as the problem

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Remember to start each day by immediately grabbing your phone and exploding with anxiety and rage at the news

[Patrick Diotte @PatrickDiotte]

Buster the rooster enjoying the Sudbury Christmas telethon. A great cause to crow for! @CTVTelethon

[Patrick Diotte @PatrickDiotte]

@ThePaikinPod @StephenMarche Janice bringing some much needed calm and common sense to this conversation…. Ouf.

[Dr. Zachary Paikin @zpaikin]

“It’s time to end our obsession with ourselves that isolates us and reject the identity politics that divides us.”

[Patrick Diotte @PatrickDiotte]

@ianbremmer Particularly in comparison to some of the other pale blue and blue states…

[Patrick Diotte @PatrickDiotte]

@ianbremmer How is Canada a full democracy when it has an unelected senate?

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

For my British and European friends who are "shocked" and "surprised", here are 10 reasons you didn't see this coming.

Read this short post and then read the replies from our American friends who will confirm what I'm saying.

1. Americans love their country and want it to be the best in the world. America is a nation of people who conquered a continent. They love strength. They love winning. Any leader who appeals to that has an automatic advantage.

2. Unlike Europeans, Americans have not accepted managed decline. They don't have Net Zero here, they believe in producing their own energy and making it as cheap as possible because they know that their prosperity depends on it.

3. Prices for most basic goods in the US have increased rapidly and are sky high. What the official statistics say about inflation and the reality of people's lives are not the same.

4. Unlike you, Americans do not believe in socialism. They believe in meritocracy. They don't care about the super rich being super rich because they know that they live in a country where being super rich is available to anyone with the talent and drive to make it. They don't resent success, they celebrate it.

5. Americans are the most pro-immigration people in the world. Read that again. Seriously, read it again. Americans love an immigrant success story. They want more talented immigrants to come to America. But they refuse to accept people coming illegally. They believe in having a border.

6. Americans are sensitive about racial issues and their country's imperfect history. They believe that those who are disadvantaged by the circumstances of their birth should be given the opportunity to succeed. What they reject, however, is the idea that in order to address the errors of the past new errors must be made. DEI is racist. They know it and they reject it precisely because they are not racist.

7. Americans are the most philosemitic nation on earth. October 7 and the pro-Hamas left's reaction shocked them to their very core because, among other things, they remember what 9/11 was like and they know jihad when they see it.

8. Americans are extremely practical people. They care about what works, not what sounds good. In Europe, we produce great writers and intellectuals. In America they produce (and attract) great engineers, businessmen and investors. Because of this, they care less about Trump's rhetoric than you do and more about his policies than you do.

9. Americans are deeply optimistic people. They hate negativity. The woke view of American history as a series of evils for which they must eternally apologise is utterly abhorrent to them. They believe in moving forward together, not endlessly obsessing about the past.

10. America is a country whose founding story is one of resistance to government overreach. They loathe unnecessary restrictions, regulations and control. They understand that freedom comes with the price of self-reliance and they pay it gladly.

[Patrick Diotte @PatrickDiotte]

@sarahmarie1978 @cspan Chips & salsa?

[Patrick Diotte @PatrickDiotte]

@MarcSerreMP Don’t forget about the 19 fatal casualties from the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, amongst others.

The total cost to Canada on June 6th 1944 was 381 killed, 584+ wounded, and 131 captured.

Revised casualty figures:

https://t.co/S9x3HfA604

[Patrick Diotte @PatrickDiotte]

@AJBraden @CDACanadaACD Makes sense that they likely all share the same library! We’re lucky to have access to it.

[Supreme Court of Canada @SCC_eng]

The Court has dismissed the appeals in R. v. Edwards. It ruled that the military status of military judges does not violate the constitutional guarantee of judicial independence to which persons tried before courts martial are entitled. https://t.co/iFB0hsHabr

[Boris Johnson @BorisJohnson]

Congratulations to @SpeakerJohnson and everyone involved in passing the crucial aid package for Ukraine and Israel. American leadership is needed now more than ever.

[Patrick Diotte @PatrickDiotte]

@RiverWardRiley Do you happen to know when the last review/traffic study was conducted?

[Patrick Diotte @PatrickDiotte]

@RiverWardRiley I witness near misses at that intersection daily. With upcoming developments on Baseline, the situation will only become even more precarious. I appreciate the distance to the larger intersection is technically not enough to merit a set of lights, but an exception may be needed.

[Patrick Diotte @PatrickDiotte]

@RiverWardRiley Hi Riley. Benches along Malibu Terrace at Lexington Park might be nice. The area has a ton of foot traffic and the nearest benches are on the other side of the park.

Side note: the city needs to seriously consider adding traffic lights at the intersection of Fisher and Malibu.

[Law360 Canada @law360ca]

#SCC rules 5-4 there is a reasonable expectation of privacy in IP addresses, which attracts the Charter’s s. 8 protection against unreasonable search and seizure, and which requires police to get prior judicial authorization to request IP addresses: R. v. Bykovets, 2024 SCC 6.

[David Portier @davidportier]

No other Canadian Prime Minister has ever eulogised an American President, and Brian Mulroney did it twice.

Here is a clip from the funeral of Ronald Reagan.

https://t.co/NuefEPikQv