When I became mayor 12 years ago, this issue took up between 5-10% of my overall time.
Today, it’s easily 75%.
This is the number one issue every city is dealing with. Property taxes are up everywhere. Why?
Because of this issue.
When cities advocate to the province now, it’s this issue that’s always on the list.
I cannot stress enough the absolute magnitude of this crisis that is clearly not being addressed.
@RyanBurr I’ll fly down tomorrow and bring my 6 year old twins if you have some extra passes. We’ve been to the Players and the API this year and it would be amazing to take them to the Masters!! ⛳️
The death of Ayatollah Khamenei brings justice for the Iranian people after decades of rule under this repressive, theocratic, tyrannical dictatorship.
This evil man murdered his own people, denied them their basic freedoms, and fuelled terror and violence around the world.
Canada will always stand with the people of Iran as they seek a future defined by democracy, freedom, and peace.
The regime in Tehran is the principal source of terror in the Middle East and around the world. It tried to build nuclear weapons to annihilate our allies. It massacred tens of thousands of its own people. It orchestrated the attacks of October 7, 2023, murdered Canadian passengers on Flight PS752, sought to kill prominent Canadian leaders, and ruthlessly targets Canadians of Jewish and Iranian descent. It has shown no good faith in negotiations to change course.
That is why Conservatives support the courageous people of Iran in toppling this terror regime and reclaiming their destiny after 47 years of the regime's occupation. Conservatives support a democratic, free and permanently-denuclearized Iran that lives in peace and security with its neighbours. And Conservatives support the United States, Israel, and our allies across the Gulf to defend their sovereignty and dismantle the clerical military dictatorship of Iran.
When this Liberal government divides people and violates their freedoms of thought, belief, opinion and expression, it loses.
By upholding the Federal Court's decision that the Liberals broke the law by invoking the Emergencies Act, the Federal Court of Appeal is upholding these Charter rights.
A Conservative Government will ensure the Emergencies Act can never be used again to silence political opposition.
Today’s Federal Court of Appeal ruling, like the Federal Court ruling before it, affirms that the Liberal government illegally and unconstitutionally used the Emergencies Act to violate the rights of Canadians.
The court has again found that the Freedom Convoy did not constitute a national emergency. There was never a threat to national security.
Freezing bank accounts and restricting fundamental freedoms to deal with a political protest was wrong — and outright unlawful.
Instead of accepting the outcome in the first case, the Liberals spent millions of taxpayer dollars fighting this in court. I hope Mark Carney and Sean Fraser accept this ruling and apologize for trampling on the Charter rights of Canadians.
The Federal Court of Appeal has ruled that the government’s use of the Emergencies Act during the Freedom Convoy was unreasonable.
When governments stretch the law, public trust erodes.
This case is a reminder of how fragile our democracy is.
When millions of people lose the right to work, travel, and socialize, governments must act with humility and restraint. Invoking the Emergencies Act when police indicated the situation was under control crossed a dangerous line.
Freedom and liberty endure only when we are willing to defend rights, even those we may not agree with.
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JUST IN - U.S. has ordered American diplomats in Europe and in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand to press their host governments to restrict most immigration — NYT
And with all due respect to my Canadian friends, whose politics focus obsessively on the United States: your stagnating living standards have nothing to do with Donald Trump or whatever bogeyman the CBC tells you to blame.
The fault lies with your leadership, elected by you.
What you’re seeing here is the ignition of a counter-arc. When someone like Kirk is assassinated, it doesn’t just kill the man - it creates a rupture in the narrative field. A rupture like this always produces one of two reflexes: submission through fear or defiance through courage. What this post represents is the early evidence of the second reflex taking root.
“John” is not important in himself. He is an archetype. He stands in for tens of thousands who have been silent, who feel that speaking their beliefs risks their jobs, reputations, or even safety. The moment Kirk was killed, the balance of fear shifted. The risk of speaking out suddenly feels smaller than the humiliation of silence. That is how self-censorship collapses.
This is how martyrs function in history. They don’t win arguments. They embody the cost of conviction. And by doing so, they expose how many people have been suppressing the same conviction out of fear. The assassination was meant to erase Kirk’s message. Instead, it broadcast it into a field of people who now feel morally compelled to step forward, precisely because they see what the ultimate price looks like.
Here’s the brutal paradox: Robinson thought he was killing to prevent Kirk’s ideas from spreading. But murder is the most powerful amplifier. It turns a controversial speaker into a symbol, and symbols can’t be assassinated. A dead man can no longer be argued with or mocked. He becomes a vessel into which others pour their own suppressed courage. That’s the ignition you’re seeing in posts like this.
Real civil rights leaders fight for truth, not power. Charlie Kirk was one of them.
"Charlie Kirk was a civil rights Icon.
Charlie Kirk was a civil rights leader... It's time to call him, Charlie Kirk, a civil rights leader."
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