Sam

sam i am. sens, jays, raptors. politics.

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

Yankee go home

[James Moore @honjamesmoore]

That would be his job.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra remains absolutely baffled by the persistence of anti‑American sentiment among Canadians.

[David Harrigan @onedery]

Alberta is the wealthiest Province. Leads all provinces in GDP per capita, highest standard of living, highest average earnings. We've lowest overall tax burden for residents and corporations. Also, we have it so hard that we need to leave the country.

[Warren Kinsella @kinsellawarren]

False.

No passport. No armed forces. No health care system. No pensions. No OAS. No CPP. No disability benefits. No EI. No consular support. No student aid. No federal policing. No banking system protection. No free mobility. No constitutional rights.

You're alone.

[Realist Sens Fan @monika_caryk]

I didn’t see any heart like this from Montreal

[dom 📈 @domluszczyszyn]

i’m not sure we’ve ever seen this level of fraudulence exposed to this degree in the conference final

[Sam @Sam_SENS]

Is this guy truly so dense that he can’t see the immense irony of this statement?

[Ambassador Pete Hoekstra @USAmbCanada]

CRTC’s decision to triple the tax rate on leading streaming services is making a bad situation worse. CRTC is targeting and taxing U.S. companies, putting up new, discriminatory trade barriers, and worsening the investment climate for American businesses.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Jen Gerson: "The momentum here right now is on the side of people who treat the idea of the Republic of Alberta as a kind of religious movement. It's a millenarian movement ... heavily influenced by the kind of nihilism that infects a lot of the broader MAGA movement."

[Rick Anderson 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦🇮🇱🇩🇰 @RickAnderson]

Mr "Canada is Broken" sees no relationship between his years of trash-talking Canada and the rise of separatism in his base.

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

This is a good point. Voting for a referendum in the referendum on a referendum does not actually trigger a referendum.

It would just “commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada.”

NB there is no “legal process required under the Canadian Constitution” to hold a “binding referendum” on separation. The constitution makes no mention of either separation or referendums. And any referendum on the subject could not possibly be binding on anyone. Least of all the premier.

[James Moore @honjamesmoore]

A referendum that will divide your party and make the province look unstable for investment, all to ultimately affirm the constitutional status quo, is an odd choice…

[Stephen Maher @stphnmaher]

Separatists in both Quebec and Alberta have no idea how much worse everything can be than it is now. Half the problem with this country is that people have no idea how good we have it and how bad things can be.

[Rick Anderson 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦🇮🇱🇩🇰 @RickAnderson]

It seems impossible to please some environmental critics.

Doubling the size of Canada's 90% emission-free electricity system is an environmental win, even if some power is generated via low-emitting natural gas plants.

Doubling LNG Canada's capacity is also a win, as it often supplants Asian coal and oil combustion and BC's is shaping up as the world's lowest-emission LNG.

[Rupa Subramanya @rupasubramanya]

Trump to Xi: "We're going to have a fantastic future together. I have such respect for China. The job you've done. You're a great leader. I say it to everybody. You're a great leader."

It's cute how MAGA and MAGA North are describing this flattery as "realpolitik," when Carney's very measured approach without the extravagant praise on Xi in January was met with meltdowns about betrayal, capitulation, and selling out the West. The hypocrisy is comical.

For what it’s worth, I think both Trump and Carney are ultimately doing what any serious leader has to do: deal with China as it is, not as they wish it to be. The difference is mostly one of tone, not substance. Both understand that China is a major rising power that cannot simply be ignored or economically ring fenced out of the global system.

[Rupa Subramanya @rupasubramanya]

Remember when Canada’s tiny delegation of five ministers went to China to revive a very limited “strategic partnership,” and MAGA plus MAGA North had a collective meltdown, accusing Canada of selling out? The funny thing is, I always suspected Trump, like Carney, would ultimately be pragmatic about China. The outrage was always more about mocking and putting Canada down than anything else.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Mélanie Richer: "[Pierre Poilievre] talks a lot about 'Ottawa elites' and I don't know who is more 'Ottawa elite' than somebody who's been elected since -- how many years is it? 22 years?"

[Sam @Sam_SENS]

damn I’m out here agreeing with BG

[Bruce Garrioch @SunGarrioch]

#Sens have a lot of work to do in the off-season. Their pace isn’t close to what we’ve seen in other series

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

Just an utter and unmitigated disaster. He has got himself into a mess, has no clue what to do, and wants the rest of the world to bail him out.
The sum total of the effort: not only $25 billion in costs and a depleted US missile arsenal, but the loss of US credibility and an Iranian regime that is more radical than ever, more entrenched than ever, and in some ways more powerful than ever, having possession of not just all of their nuclear material, but also the Strait of Hormuz. Hard to think of a more complete catastrophe.

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[Tyler Meredith @tylermeredith]

🇨🇦 has the lowest deficit to GDP in the G7

🇨🇦 has the lowest debt to GDP in the G7

🇨🇦 is moving toward 100% of its deficit being capital investment

And 🇨🇦’s deficit is coming down faster than expected

While the world around us is unstable - we’re on the right path

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