@TinaYazdani Dear Premiere Ford,
FYI, Canada already has a foreign affairs division and a Prime Minister that's romping through the international meadows looking to find business for Canada.
Your job is to stay home, organizing local affairs so we can benefit.
Ask Wab how it is done.
Science gasps for breath. They are removing all the ocean monitors to understand changes in currents and climate, and the excuse is a master class in obfuscation & double speak . (1/2) https://t.co/vs782YbcI3
Don’t forget when Rome was collapsing emperors would use Gladiator fights to distract the people from the Corruption of the State at that time! This is all starting to make sense now. Who agrees?
A 102-day summer vacation after sitting for only 29 days this year. If you were trying to avoid questions about your own corruption, this is what you'd do.
PM Carney says he's not considering expelling US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra over Trump's latest 51st state post, adding that "it's an administration that we have to work with ... We take the administration as it is."
Every time I read some weekend column about a boomer struggling to retire on $100,000 a year and a multi-million dollar home, I'm reminded that my retirement plan is to die in the climate wars.
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump saw this untouched wilderness in Albania and decided to build an enormous luxury resort there.
Albanians are fighting to shut them down.
If you’re genuinely afraid of the WEF or the WHO, I need you to understand something, you’re a sucker, and you’ve been tricked into fearing a conference and a committee.
The WEF is Davos. It’s a ski resort in Switzerland where billionaires and politicians eat expensive food, take photos together, and agree that inequality is bad actually. It produces no laws. It has no army. It cannot make you do anything. Klaus Schwab is not your supervillain. He’s an 86 year old German academic who writes books nobody buys and hosts a yearly networking event for people who are already powerful enough to not need the networking.
The WHO is 194 member countries occasionally agreeing on health guidelines that those same countries then ignore whenever it’s politically inconvenient. It is chronically underfunded, routinely overruled, and has less enforcement power than your municipal bylaw office.
These are not hidden rulers of the world. They are PowerPoint presentations with a budget.
The people who have you scared of these organizations do not want you asking where your actual problems come from. They don’t want you looking at your own provincial government, your own city council, your own grocery chain, your own landlord. It’s a lot easier to fear a Swiss ski resort than to engage with something you can actually do something about.
You got played. It happens. But you should probably know.
🟥 Ten years later, our country is still battling to overcome the crushing housing BACKLOG created by Pierre Poilievre when he was in charge of the housing portfolio, under Harper.
That's how bad it was.
That guy built just 6 houses the entire time he was in charge. SIX!! 🫴🏼6⃣
A record-breaking feat of ministerial incompetence! 😒
Fortunately, we now have Prime Minister Carney enthusiastically tackling the issue once and for all.
Cleaning up Pierre's mess, with ingenuity, technology and CANADIAN-SOURCED building materials. ✅🏗️🏘️
It's time to build.
Canada’s Aluminium Is Going to Europe. Brilliant Work, Donald.
A 50% tariff on Canadian aluminium, the one country on Earth that was happily selling the stuff at sensible prices, right next door, through an integrated supply chain that took decades to build. And now that aluminium is sailing across the Atlantic to Europe instead.
Canadian exports to the EU went from near zero to between 6% and 40% of monthly totals in the space of a year. Just vanished eastward. Extraordinary result.
US consumers are now paying $6,200 a ton for aluminium. Europeans are paying $4,300.  American manufacturers taxed nearly two thousand dollars a ton more than their competitors. For beer cans. And car parts. And buildings. Tremendous. Nobody could have seen that coming, except everyone.
Meanwhile Europe, which was already scrambling after losing its Middle Eastern supply to the Iran war, now faces a 5.6 million-ton aluminium deficit in 2026. And Canada just filled it. With metal that used to go to America.
The head of the Aluminium Association of Canada put it with admirable restraint: the EU option “remains attractive,” adding pressure on the US market. What he meant was: Washington handed Europe a competitive advantage in manufacturing while American industry pays the bill.
This is what happens when a trade guru who has spent his career slapping his name on buildings in gold letters decides he understands global commodity flows. No leverage materialises. Just an empty dock in Ohio and a very pleased purchasing manager in Rotterdam.
Well done, Donald.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
China-Russia trade “underscores Russia’s diminished economic position. It is now functionally an economic satellite of China….Almost 6 percent of the entire Russian economy now consists of exports to China. That is a proportion equaled by Iran” https://t.co/azhbMSy12I
Pope Leo XIV: "Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a means of achieving results, a resource to be used and exploited, and are no longer recognized as a proper end in themselves who should never be instrumentalized. The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them." #MagnificaHumanitas
Strange that this news barely made any meaningful public saturation. 3000 new jobs for Calgary with the De Havilland expansion.
https://t.co/WuhCB3DwGv
🚨BREAKING: There is NO water in The Rio Grande?!
I’m standing here in New Mexico and the river is completely DRY.
Nearby AI data centers are consuming massive amounts of water to keep their systems cool.
Meta’s Los Lunas facility alone has reportedly been tied to roughly 75 million gallons of water usage per year connected to Rio Grande resources and it’s only ONE of many projects expanding across the state.
People can argue over the exact numbers, but one thing is undeniable… these facilities require enormous amounts of water and there are more data centers across the country being built as we speak.
This is starting to look like an environmental disaster in plain sight.
We need to put pressure on local representatives and the President to examine this environmental crisis before it’s too late.
🚨 BREAKING: Albertans are set to take to the streets THIS FRIDAY in what could be the largest organized protest in the province's history.
From every corner of Alberta, people are taking to the streets to protest everything from the cost of living and healthcare cuts to AI data centres and the promotion of separation.
This isn't a protest for one issue. It's everything at once, because it's all connected.
What a grift!
I really think her constituents would demand she be present in the House.
Can her riding association find no one more competent and more local to represent the riding???
What happened to election rules that you must live in the riding you were elected in?
This must become law, an MP must not live in a foreign country.
May 25, 2019 Michelle Rempel married an American from Oklahoma. For 7 yrs she's been living in the US.
https://t.co/9XGM8SLJMd
TMX is often used as proof that Ottawa blocked Alberta. The record shows the opposite. Ottawa approved TMX in 2016. Private capital stepped back in 2018, well after federal approval was already in place.
Canada then bought the project, organized delivery through Trans Mountain Corporation, carried the risk, addressed the legal and consultation delays, corrected the process failures, and delivered Alberta’s pipeline to tidewater.
It did so after the 2014 oil-price collapse, in a lower-price era, as climate risk and competing energy technologies became more central to investment decisions.
Canada did not block Alberta’s pipeline to tidewater.
Canada delivered it.
My latest in The Alberta Effect series on separation.
#Ableg #Alberta #Energy #TheAlbertaEffect