L. Wayne Mathison

Entrepreneur & Ex Municipal Leader. Cross-disciplinary student of economics, psychology, and philosophy. I prefer local grit and real-world results over vibes.

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

Pelican Lake, Manitoba

[Jim McMurtry @JimMcMurtry01]

Teacher and student explain why this matters

[Jim McMurtry @JimMcMurtry01]

When I was young we protested when educational authorities imposed something stupid.
My mother fought for the right of female students at her high school to wear pants and later jeans.
Students today are acquiescing to race, trans, Indigenous & Islamic indoctrination.
Not Daniel.

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

CBC has been running around each Province hunting down grocery stores who don’t comply with labeling where their food comes from.

You must obey with rules of the groupthink hordes or you will be hunted down if you step out of line in Canada.

What a nightmare this country has become.

[Miranda Veracruz de la Jolla Cardinal 🍎🍏 @MVdlJCardinal]

"How dare Trump rename Lake Ontario!"

"Anyways, here I am at Sankofa Square..."

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

Freeland took a break from counting our money in Ukraine to talk about her views on the trade war. She has a new book called “Unreliable Boyfriend” which I’m pretty sure is what Carney was called when he was the Governor of the Bank of England.
Freeland repeats the lies as to the reasons why Carney pulled out of trade negotiations, and is questioned on why Canadians have to live under such a poor standard of living.
She basically says we are willing to live under terrible conditions because sovereignty. It’s always funny to hear the people who live in multiple homes and are multi millionaires tell us to tough it out.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

"If we took a moment to fully understand what President Trump is trying to accomplish, Canada might pursue a very different CUSMA strategy. We're not even trying. Tariffs may not have rebuilt America’s food-manufacturing sector yet, but they have forced manufacturers to adapt to higher input costs and become more productive.

U.S. food manufacturing is now more productive than it was 18 months ago, while Canada is moving in the opposite direction—and that is not good for our food security."

[Jasmin Laine @JasminLaine]

Not a good look.

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

Wab Kinew and Doug Ford are doing the same thing: pick a loud fight with Donald Trump, fire up the base, and hope nobody spends too much time looking at their own records in government.

Trump’s rhetoric toward Canada deserves criticism when it crosses the line. But childish insults are not a trade strategy, and they do nothing to protect Canadian jobs, investment or our negotiating position.

Premiers are elected to govern. Fix healthcare. Control spending. Improve productivity. Deal with crime. Make their provinces competitive.

Picking fights for applause is easy. Governing competently is harder. Both are failing.

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

That’s a strange response. If more facts come out, then judge those facts when they come out. My point does not depend on Salma Zahid’s politics or on guessing the motive.

Setting someone’s vehicles on fire at their home is serious criminal behaviour. If the evidence later shows a different motive than people first assumed, fine. The arson is still wrong, the perpetrators should still be found, and the courts should still deal with it seriously.

And “you people have learned nothing” is exactly the tribal thinking I’m arguing against.

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

This is disgusting. I don’t care whether Salma Zahid is a Liberal MP or someone I disagree with on nearly everything. Setting vehicles on fire at someone’s home crosses a huge line.

Crime in Canada increasingly feels like it carries fewer consequences, and that destroys public confidence. Police need to find whoever did this, prosecutors need to treat it seriously, and if convicted, the sentence should reflect the danger and intimidation involved.

Political disagreement belongs at the ballot box and in public debate. Arson does not.

[Jasmin Laine @JasminLaine]

This is absolutely horrible!!! Glad they’re all safe.

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

Do not live from reward to reward. Choose what is worth pursuing, train yourself to enjoy the effort, and let the reward take care of itself.

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

No reputation is strong enough to protect us from poor judgment. Character is shown by what we do next.

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

Yes. One thing I should have added: Gladue was a serious mistake in Canadian sentencing.

A person’s poverty, trauma, addiction, upbringing, rehabilitation prospects and individual circumstances can all be relevant. But those principles should apply to everyone. Race or ancestry should not create a different track through the justice system.

And the idea has spread. Canada now funds Impact of Race and Culture Assessments, used primarily for Black and other racialized offenders, which can recommend alternatives to incarceration.

When sentences are softened and dangerous repeat offenders return to the community sooner, ordinary Canadians carry the risk.

Justice should be individualized, but the law itself should be equal.

Bastiat warned about what happens when law stops protecting equal rights and starts dispensing advantages according to group identity.

He would be spinning in his grave.

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

It should not be happening to anyone, period.

I don’t care whether the victim is a Liberal MP, a Conservative, or an ordinary Canadian. Setting vehicles on fire at someone’s home is dangerous criminal intimidation and could easily get somebody killed.

I get the thought, it was my first thought too. But the attitude of, “Now she knows how it feels.” helps nobody. The goal should be that nobody has to live with this.

Canada needs stronger self-defence protections for people defending themselves in their own homes, tougher consequences for repeat violent offenders, three-strikes laws for habitual violent criminals, and mandatory minimums for the most serious violent crimes.

Castle laws should not mean a licence to shoot someone over a minor trespass. They should mean that when someone violently breaks into your occupied home, the law gives the innocent person defending their family a strong presumption that they acted reasonably.

Hold politicians accountable at the ballot box. Hold criminals accountable in court. People should be safe in their homes, no matter who they vote for. That is what I want.

[Mrs. kotzma @RKotzma]

@WayneMathison Please, it happens every single day to the common citizen. Zahid isn't special, she is getting a dose of what ALL canadians have been dealing with due to HER cabal of libranos. ZERO pity for her.

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

This is worth reading, whether you agree with it or not.

The residential school story deserves careful scrutiny, especially around claims about forced attendance, graves, deaths and genocide. Serious history should be able to withstand serious questions.

Read the sources. Check the records. Make up your own mind.

https://t.co/sIXWkRE2yY

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

@terftasticwoman Good.

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

When Dolly Parton died, my right-leaning friends were simply sad. They remembered her music, her personality and the enormous amount of good she did for other people.

What struck me was that some of the left-leaning reaction I saw immediately turned to questions like whether she had supported Palestinians, as though a dead woman needed to pass one final political purity test before she could be mourned.

I find that bizarre.

Dolly Parton did not belong to the right or the left. She was a human being who lived a remarkable life and helped a great many people.

The speed with which some people try to make someone’s death politically useful is becoming a pretty good measure of how badly tribalism has distorted our sense of basic decency.

Sometimes the proper response to a death is simply: she lived, she contributed, she mattered, and she will be missed.

[Brenda Dobson (Mopar Girl) 🇨🇦 @bjdobson08]

@WayneMathison She had integrity!
https://t.co/FQ2uwY7dbD

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

I am getting completely fed up with the CBC.

If my Canadian publicly funded broadcaster needs to tie itself in linguistic knots over whether the September 11 attacks can simply be called terrorism, something has gone badly wrong with its editorial culture.

Nineteen al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four passenger aircraft as part of a coordinated ideological attack. They deliberately struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, while a fourth aircraft crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers fought back. Nearly 3,000 people were killed.

If your “journalistic standards” require reporters to dance around the word terrorism when describing 9/11 unless somebody else says it first, your standards have stopped serving clarity and started obstructing it. CBC says this is a longstanding policy because words such as “terrorism” can be politically and emotionally loaded.

Give me a break.

Journalism is supposed to describe reality accurately, not sanitize perfectly ordinary language because somebody might find the terminology politically inconvenient.

And taxpayers should be allowed to ask a very basic question: why are we compelled to fund this?

I have reached the point where I support ending the CBC’s public subsidy and selling off the commercial broadcasting assets. If there are legitimate public-service needs in remote and northern Canada, fund those services directly and transparently. We do not need a massive taxpayer-funded national news organization to accomplish that.

A public broadcaster has an especially high obligation to earn public trust because Canadians don’t get to decide individually whether to finance it.

When common sense repeatedly loses to institutional ideology and tortured editorial rules, eventually the institution forfeits that trust.

CBC has completely forfeited my trust.

[David Knight Legg @KnightLegg]

That time when the federal govt was desperate to take the moral high ground in a trade war with the Americans - & the govt run CBC decided 9/11 can’t be called ‘terrorism’ on the 25th anniversary of the worst terror attack in history….

Who’s going to fire this guy and tell the CBC to call 9/11 terrorism?

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[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

After seeing this, I think Manitoba needs to think very carefully about how we debate major infrastructure.

X says it uncovered a huge network of suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts, including accounts trying to manipulate the debate around AI data centres and energy.

That does not prove foreign bots had anything to do with Wab Kinew rejecting the 500-MW data centre near Île-des-Chênes. We should not make that leap without evidence.

But it should make us ask harder questions.

AI computing capacity is becoming strategic infrastructure. So are our mines, critical minerals, hydroelectric generation, oil pipelines and natural-gas infrastructure.

Manitoba has enormous advantages: cheap hydro, a cold climate, critical minerals, oil production and a central position on major Canadian oil and gas corridors.

Foreign competitors have every incentive to see North America produce less energy, mine fewer strategic minerals and build less computing capacity. If they can influence public opinion against those projects without firing a shot, that is cheap geopolitical warfare.

The answer is not to rubber-stamp every project. It is to judge each one on hard numbers: jobs, taxes, electricity requirements, environmental costs, Indigenous consultation, infrastructure investment and long-term strategic value.

But we should be very careful about allowing social-media outrage, coordinated campaigns or ideological slogans to determine whether Manitoba builds the industries of the future.

If a project is bad, reject it on the evidence. If it is good, build it. And make damn sure the debate is actually ours.

[Melissa Mbarki @MelissaMbarki]

I find it interesting that bot farms are manipulating conversations around AI and energy policy.

[Bradshaw @myabradshaw78]

@RebelNewsOnline @Manfred9876 @ScarlettGrace92 I want to know who told him to. I also want to know why Carney is silent. Carney and his MPs weren’t silent when the CEO of Air Canada didn’t put a statement out in French.