Shane Edwards

[Shane Edwards @ShaneEd24250118]

#OurNeighboursAre showing us their worst side and don’t care.

[MeidasClips @MeidasClips]

Charlie Angus blasts Pete Hoekstra over his claim that Canada paying for the Gordie Howe Bridge is a myth: "That's bullshit. And you know that, and we know that, and we know that you know that. What predators do in gaslighting people is they feel they have some kind of power in being able to lie to their face -- and have the person that is being lied to know that it's a lie. It just shows their contempt for us."

[Shane Edwards @ShaneEd24250118]

Who is seeing blatant corruption being normalized? #OurNeighboursAre

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

$2.5 million. That’s what a convicted fraudster told fellow inmates he’d arranged to pay to get out of prison early. Not through an appeal, not through a judge, but through a phone call to the president. 

David Gentile defrauded 10,000 investors out of $1.6 billion and was sentenced to seven years. Less than two weeks later, Trump commuted his entire sentence. When federal prosecutors started investigating how that happened, a DOJ official called the U.S. Attorney running the case, and the investigation was shut down within months. 

Not because they ran out of evidence. Because someone in Washington decided they shouldn’t keep looking. 

Welcome to Episode 9 of The Pardon Papers.

[Fair Vote Canada 🗳 🇨🇦 @FairVoteCanada]

Under first-past-the-post, local races favour wealthy insiders, meaning landlords are massively overrepresented while renters are shut out.

Proportional representation breaks this political closed shop to outsiders and gives everyday Canadians a chance for a choice that fits.

[Shane Edwards @ShaneEd24250118]

#OurNeighboursAre learning that corruption is being normalized in the USA.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Psaki: “Do you remember last year when Trump announced his massive across the board tariffs…He called it liberation day, it actually led to a stock market crash. That liberation day announcement was made on April 2nd of last year, and Trump’s financial disclosures show that he made 327 stock purchases six days later, on April 8th, while the market was down…So he makes those purchases on April 8th. The next morning, just after the market opened, he told his followers on Truth social: ‘THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY.’ Hours later, he paused his tariffs and the stock market had a historic rally, so historic in fact, it represented the biggest single day gain in the history of the Bloomberg billionaires index. To put it simply, it appears an official act by Trump cratered the stock market. Trump then bought the dip and then used another official act to bring the price of the market back up. Trump of course insists that all his stock transactions are handled by his two adult sons [@EricTrump & @DonaldJTrumpJr] without his involvement or knowledge of the individual trades carried out on his behalf. When asked about the timing of these specific trades, the White House told us tonight that President Trump only acts in the best interests of the American public, saying there was no conflict of interest. The White House also directed us to the Trump Organization. We’ve reached out to them, but we haven’t heard [anything] back.”🤦‍♀️

[Shane Edwards @ShaneEd24250118]

Kaoham Shuttle - A Unique Railway Experience https://t.co/7F3U853qxP via @YouTube

[Shane Edwards @ShaneEd24250118]

#OurNeighboursAre unable to admit that they were wrong, that Donald Trump was not the right choice for the Republican Party or for their nation. They would rather support corruption than admit their mistake.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: CNN just aired a devastating montage of all the times that Donald Trump accused others of using their public office to make money. Donald Trump's net worth has almost tripled since he took office. Everything he accuses others of is an open admission.

[Shane Edwards @ShaneEd24250118]

While it is true that Mr. Poilievre has never actually supported affordability by any of his actions, this post is fulled with factual errors. Is this an attempt to muddy the waters and make readers reject all criticisms of him?

[Cult MTL @cultmtl]

“Pierre Poilievre was Housing Minister in Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, which allowed 800,000 affordable rental units to be sold off to corporate landlords and developers. Under Harper, the average home price in Canada went up 70%, and Poilievre refused to do anything about it.”

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

Today is Memorial Day in Newfoundland and Labrador.
On this day in 1916, 780 men with the Newfoundland Regiment charged into battle at Beaumont-Hamel. Only 68 soldiers answered roll call the next day.
That sacrifice is honoured at the Beaumont Hamel Memorial.

📸 NTV

[Resource Works @Resource_Works]

A North Vancouver plant has made the chlorine that purifies Western Canada's drinking water since 1957. In April, council voted to shut it down by 2030.

The plant makes 40% of Canada's liquid chlorine and supplies 70% of what treats drinking water in B.C. and Alberta. The twist: one of the loudest opponents turned out to be a California competitor running a fake grassroots campaign.

The full story of a fight over safety, supply and a corporate rival: https://t.co/7lnOk8agRY

#BCPoli #WaterSafety #Manufacturing

[Shane Edwards @ShaneEd24250118]

#OurNeighboursAre seeing corruption becoming the new norm.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

https://t.co/yFOl7zvOhC

[Shane Edwards @ShaneEd24250118]

#Visit1980 #CanadaHeritage

[Old Canada Series @oldcanadaseries]

Terry Fox being airlifted back to BC from Thunder Bay on September 2, 1980 after running 5373kms over 143 days during his Marathon of Hope. Terry Fox passed away 45 years ago today. Make sure to follow: @TerryFoxCanada 🇨🇦

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: Another ICE agent has been caught on video illegally pointing a firearm at a U.S. citizen, in Lemonwood, California.

In the video, an unmarked ICE vehicle is stopped in the middle of the road… no vehicles are in front of it, and nothing is preventing them from driving forward.

Instead of continuing to drive down the road, the ICE agent is blocking a pickup truck from turning, while pointing a gun, out their window, directly at the driver of that truck.

The truck backs up, but the agent still keeps the firearm pointed at the driver.

Only AFTER people begin honking their horns does the agent lower their weapon, and drive away.

The law states that pointing a firearm at someone is considered a serious threat of deadly force. It is only justified when an officer has an objectively reasonable belief that they are facing an immediate threat of death, or serious bodily harm.

It is not legally allowed to be used to control traffic, and it is not legally allowed to be used as intimidation.

And that’s exactly why this video should be alarming to you.

The agent is not boxed in… nothing is preventing them from driving down the street.

Meanwhile, the agent is the one preventing the truck from continuing its turn. And they are doing so while pointing a gun at the driver.

So, the question becomes…

What immediate threat justified the ICE agent to stop their car, and point a firearm at a U.S. citizen?

Because we are seeing a growing pattern, of publicly documented incidents, where ICE agents point firearms at legal observers, journalists, and bystanders during enforcement encounters… when they are not facing an immediate threat of death.

That is not how public safety works.

Pointing a firearm at someone is one of the most serious things an officer can do, because it instantly escalates an encounter into a potential deadly force situation.

And that is exactly why the law is supposed to restrict it.

Every unnecessary drawn gun increases the risk of a wrong judgment, and a fatal mistake.

And when there is no accountability, for when that line gets crossed, drawing a gun because the normal for every situation.

And when it becomes normal, more people’s lives are put in danger.

[Fair Vote Canada 🗳 🇨🇦 @FairVoteCanada]

Why did 24 Sussex crumble?

First-past-the-post encourages parties to weaponize basic maintenance to target swing voters.

Proportional representation changes the incentives, requiring multi-party consensus that protects long-term planning from short-term political theatre.

[Fair Vote Canada 🗳 🇨🇦 @FairVoteCanada]

The federal government just won the Code of Silence Award for record secrecy two years in a row.

First-past-the-post lets false majorities shut out journalists.

Proportional representation requires broad oversight, making it harder for governments to hide behind closed doors.

[Shane Edwards @ShaneEd24250118]

With support of only 18% of the electorate no Party should believe they are entitled to ignore the voices of the majority.

[Fair Vote Canada 🗳 🇨🇦 @FairVoteCanada]

Ford spends millions in taxpayer dollars to control the narrative because first-past-the-post keeps giving him 100% of the power with 40% of the vote.

Respect for taxpayer money requires genuine consensus. Proportional representation ensures funds face broad oversight.

[Fair Vote Canada 🗳 🇨🇦 @FairVoteCanada]

When a single party gets 100% of the power with a minority of the vote, they can unilaterally weaken accountability.

Proportional representation requires cross-party collaboration, making it much harder for any government to shield public records from scrutiny.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Anyone else still outraged that President Trump managed to get immunity from IRS audits for himself, his family and his businesses?

And he did it by suing and settling with his own government.

It's so blatantly corrupt we don't even know where to begin...

[Fair Vote Canada 🗳 🇨🇦 @FairVoteCanada]

This excellent Brandon Sun piece nails it: when politicians redraw lines to choose their voters, your ballot loses power.

Single-member ridings leave democracy vulnerable. Proportional representation ensures every vote counts exactly as intended. (Link to article in replies)

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

"Not since the Watergate era, when [Nixon] took his fight to control the incriminating White House tapes to the Supreme Court, has a president worked so hard to shield documentary evidence of his administration’s inner workings from public view." https://t.co/S4X8jn6Z4K