Mark Towhey

Trusted Advisor to business & political leaders. Writes. Talks. Walks. May chew gum. Sometimes pithy.

[Mark Towhey @towhey]

HOW DID HE get here and why?

Chris Alexander is a good man who won’t be Toronto’s next mayor. But he could ensure Olivia Chow is.

https://t.co/20y5Iclnt6

[Mark Towhey @towhey]

BECAUSE IT’S NOT about trade. It never was. It’s not about smoke, or drugs, or defence spending, or TV ads, or booze.

It’s always been about ownership. Trump has been entirely transparent. He’s not kidding.

Trump wants Canada. Our territory. Our resources. As his 51st State.

[Mark Towhey @towhey]

NO ONE IN their right mind would ever enter into any type of agreement with this man.

https://t.co/wgAjXVnFw2

[Mark Towhey @towhey]

IF YOU HAVE a valid passport or use your smartphone to pay for morning coffee, you already have a Digital ID numbnuts.

[Mark Towhey @towhey]

@hrm_1973 Nope.

[Mark Towhey @towhey]

CANADA HAS a free trade deal with USA in place until 2036. It doesn’t get better.

I am unclear why the CPC is in a hurry to end CUSMA and replace it with less beneficial terms.

Nor why they want to rush any deal with a man notorious for breaking them.

Whose side are they on?

[Mark Towhey @towhey]

@gerrybuddy I’m a natural peacemaker. 🧐

[Mark Towhey @towhey]

WAIT. NO ONE asked me anything…

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Candidates for the next UN secretary-general have faced questions on global crises, diplomacy and the future of the organisation ahead of a Security Council selection process.

[Mark Towhey @towhey]

AND YES. I do appreciate the numbnuts self-identifying in this digital medium.👇

[Mark Towhey @towhey]

IF YOU HAVE a valid passport or use your smartphone to pay for morning coffee, you already have a Digital ID numbnuts.

[Mark Towhey @towhey]

NO ONE IN their right mind would ever enter into any type of agreement with this man.

https://t.co/wgAjXVnFw2

[Mark Towhey @towhey]

I AM “I’m never not tired” years old.

[Mark Towhey @towhey]

@WilliamShatner @WiliamShatne Done.

[Mark Towhey @towhey]

I WONDER IF/HOW this affects survivor benefits for their families?

[Murdoch Davis @murdochdavis]

Orwellian: 3 military officials said one reason behind the reduction in the count of U.S. war dead was that the administration removed 4 killed this past weekend because they died after Trump declared a cease-fire in #IranWar. #military
https://t.co/I1vtweIIxf

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Quite the chutzpah for Turkey to open this kettle of fish.

If Turkey is now committed to "decolonization," does that mean they will give back the lands taken from the many ethnic and religious minorities who have been victims of Ottoman & Turkish imperialism?

Will the Armenians have their ancient lands restored to them, or receive reparations for the genocide inflicted on them in 1915?

The Kurds given the right of self-determination?

The ancient Greek regions returned?

Will the 1974 Turkish invasion and occupation of Northern Cyprus be reversed?

Will the descendants of Jewish families who fled Kemalist policies of forced assimilation be given compensation?

Will the Hagia Sophia be returned the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, from whom it was stolen?

Will there be a truth & reconciliation project recognizing the millions of slaves taken & trafficked by the Ottoman Empire, particularly the countless boys kidnapped from Balkan Christian families for forced military service?

Will compensation be given to Christians for the hundred of Churches and monasteries destroyed?

The possibilities for Turkish decolonization are endless.

[Mark Towhey @towhey]

CANADA HAS a free trade deal with USA in place until 2036. It doesn’t get better.

I am unclear why the CPC is in a hurry to end CUSMA and replace it with less beneficial terms.

Nor why they want to rush any deal with a man notorious for breaking them.

Whose side are they on?

[Mark Towhey @towhey]

@TammyBu65502331 Only you read my observation as ridicule.

[Mark Towhey @towhey]

A NURSE IN scrubs and paper clean-room booties stands at the counter in Tim Horton’s asking for a fork. I think the booties may fail their purpose as she leaves and walks across the parking lot back to the hospital.

#CityScenes

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

Canada quietly signed the UN Cybercrime Convention last week. The problem: it isn't really a cybercrime treaty. It's a sweeping cross-border surveillance pact that places human rights at risk, which Canada once opposed and declined to sign nine months ago.
https://t.co/3xkpO9uPY2

[Mark Towhey @towhey]

TRUMP AND HIS minions keep saying Canada can’t survive without USA, that our economy is crumbling, that our country will fail.

Because he needs to believe this. He’s desperate to do what he said he would do: use economic warfare to subjugate and annex us.

[Mark Towhey @towhey]

BECAUSE IT’S NOT about trade. It never was. It’s not about smoke, or drugs, or defence spending, or TV ads, or booze.

It’s always been about ownership. Trump has been entirely transparent. He’s not kidding.

Trump wants Canada. Our territory. Our resources. As his 51st State.

[CityNews Toronto @CityNewsTO]

The hockey stick market is dominated by China. So why is President Trump targetting Canadian hockey sticks with new tariffs? https://t.co/kHLHx3RBh0

[Mark Towhey @towhey]

US CONSUMERS gotta pay for Trump’s follies somehow.

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

The White House just announced a new round of tariffs on more than 80 countries.

The legal strategy changed. The economics didn't.

Six weeks ago, I explained why these tariffs were coming—and why they'll still fail American consumers.

https://t.co/UbDDMZiGPB

[Mark Towhey @towhey]

AND YES, I know my take will piss a lot of you off. But I refuse to adhere to an inviolable dogma that defies common sense. 🤷‍♂️

[Mark Towhey @towhey]

FOR THE RECORD I voted for the CPC and despise what the Liberal government has done to Canada since 2015.

But the CPC urging the government to do something detrimental to Canada’s future… is asinine.

If that’s the best Poilievre can do, we need a new option.