Dave Kowlessar

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

LIVE: from the World Economic Forum • EN DIRECT : au Forum économique mondial https://t.co/fcNf3WUYbf

[Dave Kowlessar @Verndk]

I’m sorry, I fell asleep waiting up for the game, woke up at the bottom of the 7th and changed the red t-shirt I had on by mistake. Put on my blue one and it all went downhill .. #gobluejays next year !

[🐢🐢🐢 [email protected] @HarlemJ11]

@JonLemire @Blackletter007 We know

The USA and Russia have been meddling for years

And it has nothing to do with “drug cartels”

And they can’t even use the ‘weapons of mass destruction’ argument this time

[MaggieK 🇨🇦 @MaggieKeresteci]

#Canada isn’t broken. I’m an immigrant, as was my late husband. He was the most patriotic Canadian ever - moved to tears when our flag was raised or national anthem sung. He grew up in a repressive regime & recognized with gratitude, the immense privilege it is to be Canadian.

[Fun Tom 🇨🇦 💂 @funtomvids]

🟥 What a pleasure it is to have a well-qualified Prime Minister who is also such an authentic and affable man. 🙂

He laughs easily with others (including at himself! 😄), cares deeply about Canadians and the Canadian economy, is calm, measured and diplomatic, yet with a steely underlying determination to successfully guide our Nation through this tumultuous TRUMP era.

His oft-repeated message is clear: We must build at home. We must build our national economy. We can give OURSELVES more than the Americans, or anyone else, can ever give us. 🫴🏼🍁✅

In Calgary, he addressed the issue of Alberta Separatists, with a calm message of UNITY and optimism.

Meanwhile Poilievre was busy taking selfies with maple-MAGA ruffians, and delivering messages of division. 🙄

[Rotary Club of Halifax Harbour @HalifaxRotary]

Our Club & teammates with @rotaract #Halifax put up a new greenhouse at @parkerstreethfx to support their efforts to grow produce & address food insecurity in their neighbourhood! #Rotary @Rotary #PeopleofAct

[Alicia Nicholls @LicyLaw]

Thanks Barbados Business Authority!

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

Greek mythology never more relevant…

New Airforce One arrives from Qatar

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

Let’s get this straight from the outset. The sole intent of this meeting in the Oval Office, was a tag team mugging designed specifically to disgracefully humiliate a war time president in front of the world’s media, for the sole purpose of gaining leverage.

Just one problem, Zelenskyy hadn’t read the script. He was OK until JD Vance lit the blue touch paper looking for Zelenskyy to get down on his knees and show gratitude to a president, who had spent his entire campaign attempting to block military aid to Ukraine. JD Vance has been the chief cheerleader to not give Ukraine a cent. So tell me, who was Zelenskyy supposed to thank? Did they plan to invite Joe Biden into the room?

The reality of the situation is, Zelenskyy is viewed as an obstruction to their attempted extortion of his nation’s mineral wealth. So it’s no surprise Lady Lyndsay Graham is now calling for his resignation. The Ukrainian president owes no loyalty to this administration, all they have ever done is try to starve him of military aid which they did successfully for six months resulting in thousands of Ukrainian soldiers losing their lives.

Meanwhile, the President of the United States has unilaterally decided to align with a Russian war criminal. Trump has demanded nothing from Putin by way of reparations for Russian aggression. Instead, preferring to insist Ukraine pay reparations as the VICTIM of an illegal invasion. To really twist the knife, he is illegally attempting to convert lawfully appropriated funds, retrospectively to a loan.

$183 billion dollars of aid has been appropriated, NOT $350 billion as claimed by Trump. 70% of the military aid funding, has been spent in arms manufacturing plants across America, providing jobs and profits to those companies. You won’t be surprised to note that many Republicans hold stocks in those companies too. In many cases the newly manufactured hardware has gone into U.S. stock, while the older stocks have been shipped to Ukraine.

These same plants have also been paid by NATO allies and European countries who supplied aid to Ukraine. I’d really like to take a look at the premiums that were added to these orders.

The U.S. has been the primary economic benefactor of the Ukraine war, while simply drip feeding just enough hardware for Ukraine to hold off the Russian army. At every twist and turn Ukraine has been exploited, so Zelenskyy has every right to be pissed off and say enough of this shit.

Here’s where we are. The Trump Administration has every intention of throwing Ukraine under the bus as a favor to Putin, so that Trump can align America with Russia. Bizarre really, when you consider it’s an economic basket case feeding its soldiers on out of date rations. The only beneficiary of this realignment is Putin. He needs sanctions lifting quickly before his economy collapses.

This geopolitical move by Trump effectively destabilizes European security, because the lifting of sanctions will allow Putin to regroup, then take another stab at Ukraine before moving on to the Balkan states.

European and the NATO allies must stop thinking they can rehabilitate their abuser. It can’t be done. When a bully steals your lunch money today, rest assured he’ll be back tomorrow.

It’s time to rip off the bandaid. Revoke the leases on all US bases, in the interests of the global threat presented by the Russo-American alliance. Invite South Korea, Australia and New Zealand into a new alliance. Cancel all military contracts and current licenses for military tech to the U.S.

It’s time for a new global alliance. This can then form the foundation for a new economic alliance to rival the dollar. This can be done, there just has to be the will to do it.

America has now declared war on the world, so it’s time to demonstrate that the world has had enough. We need to STOP living in fear of our abuser.

TODAY WE ARE ALL UKRAINIAN

S L A V A U K R A I N I 🇺🇦

[Rotary Club of Halifax Harbour @HalifaxRotary]

Thank you Patrick Sullivan, CEO of @halifaxchamber, for speaking to our Club this morning! We appreciate what you do for #Halifax's business community! #Rotary

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

I am incandescent with rage right now. I feel sick to the stomach. A US Vice President stood today on the soil of where so many Americans gave their lives to defeat fascism in Europe. He delivered a disgraceful speech that spat on their graves. Not that we should expect any different, given his boss skipped visiting the graves of fallen Americans in Europe for fear of getting his hair wet. The same man who called the same fallen heroes suckers and losers.

As a Brit that loves America and the American people, I am deeply disturbed at the insults delivered by a man who once described Donald Trump as an “idiot" and said he was "reprehensible." Privately, comparing him to Adolf Hitler.

How times have changed. Vance is now part of the most authoritarian administration in American history. An administration actively seeking to deny bodily autonomy to women. An administration pursuing the same mass deportation of immigrants that Europe witnessed in 1930s Germany. Vance is a man that his own president doesn’t even see as his successor.

He came to Europe to vomit his Christo-fascist bile on leaders from the UK and across Europe, in what appears to be a retribution tour designed to assert American power.

The U.S. are to my knowledge the only NATO country to have invoked Article 5 of the NATO charter after 9/11. We, his European allies, met that call with no questions asked. We sent thousands of soldiers to the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq to fight a war on the false premise of Donald Rumsfeld’s ‘known unknowns’. We did this despite millions of our own citizens protesting in the streets of our cities.

Our military stood shoulder to shoulder with his military and we, like many Americans, stood to salute our fallen young men and women returning home day after day. I have tears in my eyes as I write this, thinking of them and their loved ones. Our brave men and women willingly gave their all and far too many made the ultimate sacrifice in support of an American led war.

For the record, 6000 Ukrainian solders server alongside American soldiers in Iraq. This, despite Ukraine not being a member of NATO. In 1994 upon signing the Budapest Memorandum they gave up their nuclear weapons in return for security assurances from the US and the UK. These were then reneged upon in 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea. They were told ‘An assurance is not a guarantee’.

Now, despite their friendship and their brave sacrifice on the battlefields of Ukraine, the President of the United States has decided to abandon them and hand a victory to an indicted war criminal, who illegally invaded the sovereign territory of a US ally. An ally who’s soldiers had previously lost their lives supporting America in its war on terror.

SHAME ON HIM. Shame on the man who dodged the draft and never served a day in defense of his nation. He is a coward and I would gladly call him that to his face. To all those Americans on social media currently posting vile insults to those who have always been there for America, I say, democracy is bigger than you, as you sit anonymously behind your phones posting poison.

America might have the most powerful army on the planet, but remember, that same army fled from Saigon after being handed their ass by a bunch of peasant rice farmers, armed with grenades made from discarded US coke cans. Ukraine have been to the Russian army what the Vietnamese were to you and we salute them.

You might want to throw Ukraine under the bus while stealing there mineral deposits, BUT EUROPE WILL NOT ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN. I know for sure that the UK will not abandon the Ukrainian people. Our aid to GDP contribution already exceeds that of the US as does Poland, Germany Finland and others.

The U.S. is no longer a reliable ally and if need be, we will stand with Ukraine without America.

As for your pathetic tariffs, do your worst. You will soon have no friends but thugs and autocrats, so I’m sure Wun Dum Fuc will be right at home.

[Mario @PawlowskiMario]

THINGS JUST GOT REAL‼️

Macron just called an emergency summit in Paris, and Poland’s Foreign Minister Sikorski is making it clear—Europe is done waiting for the U.S. to get its shit together. This isn’t just a meeting; this is a massive geopolitical shift happening in real-time.

Europe sees what’s happening. Trump is actively sabotaging NATO, playing footsie with Putin, and screwing Ukraine over. Now, Poland, France, and the rest of the EU are stepping the fuck up.

What’s on the table?

•Ukraine’s survival. More weapons, more direct support.
•European defense without the U.S. Because let’s face it, America under Trump is unreliable as fuck.
•Kicking reliance on Washington’s security guarantees to the curb. Europe’s getting ready to hold its own.

Sikorski basically just said, “Europe needs to be strong and united or we’ll get steamrolled by Moscow.” Zelensky is calling for an “Army of Europe” while Russia is massing 150,000 troops in Belarus.

Let that sink in. We are watching history being rewritten right now. If Europe makes a serious move to build its own military power, NATO as we know it could be done.

The world is shifting—fast.

[Made In Canada @MadelnCanada]

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[Bev 🇨🇦 @Garnet_2203]

“These Canadian’s are as blood thirsty as they are friendly…” 🇨🇦🇨🇦🤣#Canada #Trump #tariffs

[Sears Canada Parody @SearsStores]

Purchase CANADIAN over AMERICAN.

CANADA FIRST!

[Rotary Club of Halifax Harbour @HalifaxRotary]

#Rotary = community service, fellowship, & professional development! Our Club hosted a Public Speaking workshop during the weekend. Thank you attendees & co-facilitators @ChristaH_1 and @HenkvanL! #Halifax @Rotary

[CBC BARBADOS @CBCBARBADOS]

Barbados is now Chair of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group. This was revealed by Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kerrie Symmonds who is presently in Davos for the World Economic Forum. https://t.co/yDKJ8Db2GN #CBCNewsBarbados

[Rotary Club of Halifax Harbour @HalifaxRotary]

Big thank you to Gabe & the crew from @AtlanticTennis for serving up :) some lessons to our Club members this morning! Excellent way to begin the day. @Rotary #Rotary

[Mike Savage @MikeSavageHFX]

A real honour, thank you.

[Rotary Club of Halifax Harbour @HalifaxRotary]

Our Club is thrilled to support @AningaProject with another $5,000 to support education for young girls in Uganda, Kenya, and DRC! We've contributed $30K since 2018 for school and medical supplies, food, and much more! #Rotary @Rotary