Laura Bradford 🇨🇦

Canadian. Family Mediator and Parenting Coordinator. A2J. Rotarian. Carney Liberal. Coffee. Kindness.

[Kathryn Marshall @Lawsome_]

My law firm is gearing up to take on the Federal Government over the thousands of sexual assault/ intimate partner violence cases that are thrown out of the criminal court system due to delays. We are ready. Everyday a woman is murdered in Canada because her abuser escaped consequences. Learn more at https://t.co/iPPlMo6Fqh and watch the video below and SHARE:

[墓碑科技 @mubeitech]

西方部分政客一直在私下劝乌克兰：把东部的顿巴斯让出去，战争不就能停了吗？

“土地换和平”，听上去像是一笔务实的妥协。

泽连斯基在布鲁塞尔的新闻发布会上，说出了自己的逻辑，各位且听，有没有道理：
如果普京真的只想要顿巴斯，2022 年 2 月全面开战的第一天，俄军装甲部队为什么要直扑基辅？

基辅在乌克兰中北部。
离顿巴斯前线有六七百公里。
那里既不是俄语区争议的核心，也没有东部的煤矿工业带。
那是首都。
一个国家的神经中枢。

当时俄军精锐伞兵强行突降安东诺夫机场，几十公里长的机械化纵队从切尔诺贝利一路向南狂飙，目标只有一个：
斩首政府班子，瘫痪全军指挥系统，彻底抹掉这个国家的主权。

没有首都，就没有国家。

今天俄军为什么把大部分主力压在顿巴斯打残酷的阵地战？
不是因为莫斯科的胃口变小了。
是因为他们在基辅城外被打崩了，后勤补给全线断裂，不得不狼狈撤退。
打不下首都，才被迫缩回东部，靠漫无止境的炮火犁地打消耗战。

把军事失利后的被动收缩，说成自己自始至终只要东部，这本身就是战场受挫后的包装。
如果乌克兰真听了那些政客的劝告，主动从顿巴斯撤军，接下来会发生什么？

很多人不知道顿巴斯在军事防御上意味着什么。
从 2014 年起，乌克兰依托当地密集的重工业城市群和高地，修筑了整整十年的坚固防御带。
斯拉维扬斯克、克拉马托尔斯克，地下工事纵横，全是最坚固的钢筋混凝土支撑点。
这是挡住俄军向西推进的最厚一道装甲盾牌。

一旦乌克兰为了换取一纸停火协议把这些阵地拱手让出，整条防线就必须向西后撤数百公里。
防线后面是一马平川的平原，无险可守。
这等于自己走出修了十年的堡垒，站在开阔地上，把命运押在侵略者的信誉上。

面对一个公开宣称乌克兰根本不配算作一个国家和民族的对手，让步换不来满足。
割让土地只会向对方发出最危险的激励信号：暴力吞并确实有效。
停火只会给对方提供宝贵的喘息期，重组军工产能，补充前线兵员，把重炮和装甲集结地直接前移到乌克兰毫无遮拦的腹地门槛上。
等下一轮攻势再次打响，乌克兰已经失去了最后一道天然屏障。

那些在布鲁塞尔催促乌克兰早点签字妥协的人，总觉得这是花最少代价结束冲突的捷径。

泽连斯基把欧洲一直避而不谈的后果直接摆上了台面：
如果乌克兰的防御彻底崩塌，国家解体，会发生什么？
两千万难民将直接涌入欧洲。

欧洲各国的边境管控、财政预算、社会治安和福利系统，会在几个月内被彻底冲垮。
为了看守多出来的两千公里高危边境，北约必须把几十万正规部队永久前移，常年维持战备。
现在省下来的每一笔防务预算，日后都会变成整个欧洲不得不掏出十倍代价去填的安全黑洞。

在残酷的地缘现实面前，最致命的幻想就是拿生存底牌去喂侵略者的胃口。
停火线从来不是靠善意画出来的。
面对一个旨在消灭你国家地位的对手，你主动让出的每一寸阵地，最后都会变成刺向你胸口的下一柄刺刀。

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Billionaire Sir Richard Branson unleashes a SCORCHING attack on Trump and his disgusting cozying up to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.

This is EXACTLY the kind of thing that gets under Trump's skin...

"I thought I’d never have to say this in my lifetime, but this is 2026, and sadly nothing is what it used to be," Branson, the founder of Virgin Group, wrote on LinkedIn. "The Trump administration has become an appeaser to autocrats and dictators, putting their personal whims before the best interests of the American people and those of the free world. What is it about Putin that President Trump fawns over?"

"How will America’s allies ever be able to trust this administration again when they are now turning against them at a time of war and suffering?" he asked.

Trump has repeatedly betrayed our Ukrainian allies in recent days. First, he announced a stunning deal with Putin to allow millions of barrels of diesel into the global markets, a move that will directly pump money into the Russian war machine. Then, he began a concerted smear campaign against President Zelenskyy and said that Putin is easier to deal with.

The backstabbing escalated when Washington failed to provide its usual early warning to Kyiv of an incoming Russian ballistic missile attack. Now, it appears that the White House ordered a temporary disruption of Starshield, a military version of Elon Musk's Starlink that the Ukrainian armed forces rely upon.

"The slowdown of Starlink/Starshield and the inexplicable lack of advance warning of Russian missile launches have already caused Ukrainian civilians to die unnecessarily," wrote Branson. "How much worse can it get?"

"If one thing is clear it’s that European leaders must overcome the initial shock about Trump’s recent actions and step up to the plate. It’s as much about Europe’s freedom as it is about Ukraine’s sovereignty. Both are worth fighting for," he continued. "All options should be on the table now, from the transfer of frozen Russian assets to Ukraine to the delivery of advanced weapons systems such as Germany’s Taurus."

"Why oh why is this happening? We cannot let the free world be dismantled before our very eyes," Branson concluded.

We couldn't agree more. Trump is an enemy to Ukraine, an enemy to democracy, and an enemy to the American people. When Democrats retake power, we have our work cut out for us. Every last trace of this monstrous man's legacy must be erased.

Please ❤️ and share if you think that Trump is Putin's puppet!

[Kostya K @Kostiantyn1024]

To Donald J. Trump, 45th and 47th President of the United States
From Viktor Yushchenko, 3rd President of Ukraine
Mr. President,
I write these words without diplomatic formulas or ceremonial language. I write simply, from one human being to another, and from one president to another—two men who understand that there are moments in history when decisions determine not only the fate of nations, but the fate of freedom itself.
For Ukrainians, freedom is not an abstraction. It is not a slogan written into a political declaration. Freedom is in our blood. It comes to us through generations — from our Cossack forefathers, from ancestors who valued above all else their liberty, their dignity, and the land God gave them.
We are a nation rooted in the soil. Our identity grew from love of our home, our field, our village, our city, our church, our family, and the sky above us. Ukrainians have never sought what belongs to another nation. But neither have we ever willingly surrendered what is ours.
Mr. President, look at what is happening in Ukraine right now, at this very moment. Every day and night, our cities shudder under Russian ballistic missiles, Iranian Shahed drones, and aerial bombs. Russia strikes ordinary residential buildings in ancient Kyiv, sleeping neighborhoods in Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, Dnipro, Kharkiv, and towns across our country. Families are killed in their homes. Millions live under the threat of another siren, another explosion, another night wondering whether their children will still be alive in the morning.
And when there is talk of “concessions” or deals with Putin, the Kremlin’s answer is more missiles, more drones, and more bloodshed. Ukrainian families pay the price.
Behind every statistic is a human life. A mother buries her child. A child stands beside the grave of a father. A family returns to what was once its home and finds only broken concrete and photographs scattered through the ruins.
This is not a distant “conflict.” This is the daily reality of millions of Ukrainians.
And against this reality, Ukrainians hear calls that Ukraine should stop. That Ukraine should restrain its strikes against the infrastructure that finances and sustains Russia's war. That trade in Russian energy can somehow be separated from the missiles and drones Russia sends against Ukrainian families. It cannot.
Money paid for Russian fuel is not an abstraction called “commerce” It finances an economy geared toward total war. Russia needs resources to wage this unjust war and Ukraine is fighting to deprive Russia of those resources.
There is a profound moral difference between the aggressor and the nation defending itself.
Mr. President, America knows this distinction better than most nations. It knows how dangerous it is to believe that trade can tame an aggressor or make the threat disappear. History taught us that lesson at a terrible price.
Before the United States entered World War II, America traded extensively with Imperial Japan, including in strategically important materials. Washington hoped for years to avoid a wider war in the Pacific. Ultimately, economic pressure and diplomacy could not prevent catastrophe and on December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked.
History may not repeat itself exactly, but it does raise the same questions again. What price do free nations pay when aggression is rewarded rather than stopped?
Ukraine once placed extraordinary faith in the international order led by the United States. When the Soviet Union collapsed, Ukraine inherited one of the largest nuclear arsenals in the world. In negotiations with our allies, we agreed to give it up. We did so because we believed that a world governed by agreements was safer than a world governed by nuclear weapons.
In 1994, the United States of America, along with its partners, signed the Budapest Memorandum, providing Ukraine with official assurances of security, sovereignty, and the inviolability of our borders. They pledged not to threaten or use force against Ukraine. America assumed a moral responsibility toward Ukraine. So how can anyone today, when a treacherous enemy has attacked us, forget America’s signature on this document?
Ukraine kept its word. Russia broke its word.
That history matters today. Because when a nation gives up the most powerful weapons on Earth in return for international commitments, and is later invaded by one of the very states that made those commitments, the consequences extend far beyond Ukraine.
Every nation in the world is watching and asking whether agreements with great powers mean anything. They are asking whether giving up nuclear weapons makes a country safer—or more vulnerable. And they are watching America.
Mr. President, our nations are connected by more than treaties and diplomacy. We have stood together many times before. One of the six Marines who raised the American flag at Iwo Jima was Sergeant Michael Strank, whose family came from Lemkivshchyna and who gave his life fighting for the United States. When American and Soviet forces met at the Elbe in April 1945, American Lieutenant William Robertson was first embraced by a Ukrainian boy from the Cherkasy region — Oleksandr Silvashko. Ukrainian soldiers served alongside American forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, and, today, Ukraine continues to share its hard-won military experience with its American partners, including expertise in countering Iranian-designed drones. Ukrainians and Americans have shed blood together in defense of freedom against tyranny.
Mr. President, above all, there is one thing I want you—and the world—to understand.
Do not mistake the Ukrainian desire for peace for a willingness to surrender. The Ukrainian spirit cannot and will not be broken.
No people wants peace more than a people whose children are being killed. But peace cannot come by asking the victim to pay the price for the aggressor’s crimes. We cannot agree to a peace that will later cause the deaths of many more of our children and grandchildren.
We are a people with deep roots, bound to our land by love, labor, and the spirit of freedom. We will never yield our land willingly to anyone. This is our home, given to us by God. We were here, we are here, and we will always be here. We cannot be intimidated by missiles, and we cannot be forced to surrender.
Ukrainian identity has been forged through centuries of attempts to erase it. The Russian empire tried to silence our language, destroy our culture, starve our people, imprison our leaders, and rewrite our history. And still Ukraine survived. We survived because our roots are deep, and because the blood of a free people flows in our veins.
Russia can destroy our buildings. It can terrorize our cities. It can kill our people. But it cannot destroy who we are. It cannot compel Ukrainians to cease being Ukrainian.
Mr. President, America’s greatness was not built by accommodating tyranny, but by understanding, at decisive moments of its history, that freedom must be defended before the price of defending it becomes immeasurably greater.
Ukraine is defending that principle today with the lives of our people.
Today, the free world faces questions larger than Ukraine itself: whether borders may be changed by force; whether agreements between nations still have meaning; whether aggression will be rewarded; and whether the free world will stand beside those who choose freedom.
One does not negotiate with tyrants—one stops them.
Mr. President, I believe America understands this.
With faith in truth, freedom, and the honor of the free world,
Viktor Yushchenko
President of Ukraine 2005-2010

[CP24 @CP24]

Ontario company to jointly produce Ukrainian drones in Canada
https://t.co/3tLPqAFiqx

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski with the absolute truth:

“We appreciate President Trump’s involvement in trying to end the Russia Ukraine war.

But in Poland, we believe that it will bear fruit if you put pressure on the aggressor and not on the victim of the aggressor.”

[Foreign Policy CAN @CanadaFP]

Joint statement of the Foreign Ministers of Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Japan the Netherlands and the United Kingdom

To read the full text ⬇️
https://t.co/03c4LJAOAq

[Flavio Volpe, C.M., LLD (Hon.) @FlavioVolpe1]

For those needing more context on why “Toronto is in decline” is false:

2025 Crime rate: 29% below Canada - StatsCan

2025 Crime Severity Index: ↓7%, below Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver & Edmonton - StatsCan

2025 Homicides: ↓47% - TPS

2025 Property crime: ↓8.6% - TPS

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[Prime Minister of Canada @CanadianPM]

Again and again, women have refused to accept a system that did not see them, hear them, or reflect them.

This month and every day, we celebrate the women across Canada who broke barriers, continue to lead today, and inspire future generations.

[News to Remember @allchronology]

Every fucking word of this. OMG share this with everyone—crying my eyes out…

[Bob Rae @BobRae48]

Read this please it is so
Important. Too many are moving away from the principles of the rule of law https://t.co/6SBeOL4sib

[Mark Bourrie @MarkBourrie]

Treason is not too strong of a word:
Alberta separatists made a deal with Republicans, offering Canadian resources for help breaking up our country:
@globeandmail https://t.co/bISkUPFUvv

[Scott Barber @thescottbarber]

We have a US president repeatedly stating he is planning for our annexation and now we learn US government officials are presently involved in fomenting two provincial separatism movements. This is so beneath the principles on which the US was founded. This is the stuff of Putin’s Russia. Who in America voted for this?

[UN Women @UN_Women]

🚨 Rape culture doesn’t begin and end with an act of sexual violence.

It lives in the:

🔴 attitudes that excuse it
🔴 stereotypes that blame survivors
🔴 silence that protects perpetrators

There is #NoExcuse for abuse — or for the culture that lets rape culture persist.

[Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield]

Good morning, my beloved country! 🇨🇦
On this gorgeous early Fall day, I am grateful for all the people and selfless work, over the centuries, that have made Canada possible in this world.

[Warren Kinsella @kinsellawarren]

There is a reckless and dishonest op-ed in my newspaper by an Irwin Studin that asks a number of questions and pretends that the answers are unavailable. Let me provide them.

1. "Who approved the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines for Canada?" National regulatory agencies around the world, such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), approved the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. In Canada, Health Canada did so.
2. "Why were they approved without proper Canadian testing?" The vaccines were tested in clinical trials and authorized under Health Canada's Interim Order for COVID-19 related drugs. They were approved in December 2020. They had been tested for months and underwent standard, rigorous preclinical testing and three sequential phases of human clinical trials before receiving regulatory authorization.
3. "Were they approved with any knowledge of risks of injury and death?" Before emergency authorization and full regulatory approvals, clinical trials and scientific reviews identified specific short-term adverse events and theoretical risks associated with mRNA technology. These included allergic reactions and flu-like symptoms. There were no statistically significant difference in overall or all-cause mortality between the vaccinated and placebo groups. None.
4. "Why were these risks not communicated frontally [sic] to Canadians?" COVID-19 mRNA vaccine side effect risks were communicated to Canadians through official channels, repeatedly. The federal government and public health agencies used a multi-layered approach to convey side effect risks. $88 million was spent communicating with the public about Covid-19 and vaccines in just 2020. Physicians communicated risks, as did the media, including the one in which Rudin published his conspiracy theory.
5. "Why were the vaccines not removed immediately upon information about injuries and likely deaths? (This would have been done for any product on any sane Canadian day!)" This is the most reckless bit of propaganda in this screed. After attempting to build a false case there were serious risks and fatalities, the author insinuates blame for "injuries and likely deaths" that he has not shown happened. Insinuating homicide is a serious charge. He has provided no proof. Where is the proof?
6. "And why, pray tell, were we forcing perfectly healthy Canadians — including young Canadians and pregnant women — to take the vaccine simply in order to access what were once considered basic public goods in our beloved Canada?" This too is a falsehood. No one in Canada was held down to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Again, where is his proof that people were physically restrained and injected with something? He has none.

Opinions are fine. Presenting bullshit as facts is not.

[Frid 🇪🇺🦌 @Frid45]

Even though I’m not Canadian, I know a true leader when I see one. Carney is the greatest leader the West has seen in years, an example every European leader should follow.

Canada and Europe, united for the greatness of Western civilisation. 🇨🇦🇪🇺

[Truth Matters @politicsusa46]

It must be such a great feeling to wake up a Canadian and know that your Prime Minister is knocking it out of the park?

He is sharp as a pin and his use of diplomatic nuance is sublime. He’s charting a path that I am absolutely convinced is the right path for the Canadian people and for the world for that matter.

He has led the charge to diversify trade policy and is now building resilience to provide Canada with opportunities beyond the US. With the arctic trade routes in play and his respect for what China might have to offer, he’s building a trading framework that’s diverse by economic necessity.

The world’s now looking at the example Canada is setting as the gold standard. How cool is that? Congratulations!

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/FbEq0x4xOJ

[BNN Bloomberg @BNNBloomberg]

PM Carney has become ‘the intellectual leader of the free world’: Former foreign affairs minister https://t.co/ShqGH2EABE