Alexander Bakus

I just Alex, Carpathian Guy. 🇨🇦

[Alexander Bakus @alexbakus]

This is a fantastic idea for Canada. It needs a further step. Let me introduce you to the Apprentice-Journeymen ratios which can effectively block these new skilled apprentices in Canada.

[Build Canada @build_canada]

If we're going to build Canada, we need skilled tradespeople. High-speed rail, homes, pipelines, wind turbines, robotics, medical equipment – these do not get built without tradespeople.

But our trades are on a path of decline. One third of Ontario's trades workers are nearing retirement and Canada will lose 700k of its 4 million tradespeople by 2028. This is already hurting our economy as companies and manufacturers have to turn away business because they of labour shortages.

At the heart of this problem is an outdated apprenticeship system that turns away earnestly hard-working people. Currently, every apprentice needs to complete an average of 8000 hours (~4 years) of training before they're fully certified. They're often earning low wages during training.

Imagine a skilled immigrant who arrives in Canada with all the know-how, but has to go through an entire training program from scratch. Or an experienced welder who wants to become a millwright to improve their pay – again they have to start from scratch.

We propose shifting this outdated system to competency-based licensing. Test to see if people know the skills they need to do the job, not if they have completed an arbitrary number of hours of a program.

By recognizing actual skills rather than time in training, we can quickly integrate skilled workers into the economy, enabling faster employment, higher earnings and solving urgent shortages in construction, manufacturing and housing.

[Dominik Hasek @hasek_dominik]

Another terrorist attack by Russian imperialists. This time even on a kindergarten. More dead and more wounded. Putin and others responsible for this must be tried and punished just like the fascists after World War II in Nuremberg in 1946

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

“Poles should be more careful about what they say regarding Ukraine and its history.” (Norman Davies)

I highly recommend reading Norman Davies’ latest interview.

Davies is not only one of the world’s foremost historians of Poland, but also the author of the monumental God’s Playground: A History of Poland. At a time when emotions are running high, he offers something that has become increasingly rare: historical nuance.

A few points that stood out to me:

“We should say this plainly: overall, the UPA was not a criminal organization.”

Davies does not deny the crimes committed in Volhynia. In fact, he says he has “no doubt” they fall within the spectrum of genocide. But he also insists on distinguishing between the crimes of specific factions and an entire national liberation movement.

He also warns that the current political escalation is a strategic mistake:

“This affair will cost Poland in the future… At precisely the moment when Ukraine is in its fifth year of war with Russia, the Polish president handed Russia a very useful pretext for propaganda.”

On President Zelenskyy’s decision to honor the “Heroes of the UPA,” Davies rejects the claim that this was about glorifying the Volhynia massacres:

“What the President of Ukraine did has nothing to do with Volhynia. Ninety percent of the UPA had nothing to do with Volhynia. Was President Zelenskyy supposed to refuse to honor ninety percent of the heroes of the UPA?”

Finally, Davies calls for perspective rather than political grandstanding:

“I believe Poles should be more careful about what they say regarding Ukraine and its history.”

Source: Onet News

[Simon Ostrovsky @SimonOstrovsky]

Russia likes to portray itself as a bastion of traditional family values, but in all the metrics that matter it is behind the US and Ukraine in religiosity. Find out where it’s lagging in the full video with @jkirchick on my YouTube channel @ SOSTROVSKY

[Alexander Bakus @alexbakus]

@SlawomirDebski Remove the log from your own eye then you will see well enough to help with your friend's eye.

[Build Canada @build_canada]

What the @CANMNT_Official has given to Canadians is nothing short of magical – passion, inspiration, and hope.

This is Building on Home Turf, by @arvinfarsyad 👇🇨🇦

[Build Canada @build_canada]

You'd be forgiven if you felt like "sovereign AI" has been a buzzword.

Except now it's a necessity. Not tomorrow, not in a year, now.

Two weeks ago, the US government took down Fable 5, and this week they're restricting the release of GPT-5.6.

It's not just Anthropic models, and soon it won't just be American models.

Foreign governments can and will restrict the export of their most powerful frontier models - even to their allies.

Home-grown models developed in Canada will be the only way we can keep up on the world stage.

[Alexander Bakus @alexbakus]

@AdamZivo Welcome to the club!

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

There has been distressing news about the war in #Ukraine, which keeps expanding. There are many innocent victims, rescue workers killed, and churches and cultural heritage sites devastated by flames. I am close to all those who mourn their loved ones, to the wounded, and to those who continue to serve life with courage amid violence. Let us #PrayTogether that this war may end. Let us ask the Lord to open paths of dialogue, extinguish hatred, and make a just and lasting #Peace possible.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Defence Minister Fedorov: Belgium's defense minister personally found a plane at night to get missiles to us before the attack.

Almost a hundred for F-16s, sent reactively through Brussels by Canada. Result: 100% destruction of cruise missiles in that strike.

[Radosław Sikorski 🇵🇱🇪🇺 @sikorskiradek]

Perhaps Putin hit Lavra Pecherska because the Orthodox monastery in Kyiv was already famous while Moscow was still a forest.
I hope that this outrageos attack disabuses Christians the world over of the absurd idea that the old KGB colonel is a defender of the faith.

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

When Notre-Dame burned in 2019, the world stopped.

Today, Russia damages Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a monastery nearly 1,000 years old and older than Notre-Dame itself.

A thousand years of history deserves the same attention, the same sympathy, and the same protection.

[Alexander Bakus @alexbakus]

In case you’ve ever considered russkiy to be a Christian nation, this is how they honour the cradle of Eastern Orthodoxy. These people have no God.

[Jimmy Rushton @JimmySecUK]

Russia just targeted and heavily damaged one of the most religiously significant sites in Eastern Orthodoxy.

Remember that the next time some pro-Russian simpleton blathers on about "Putin protecting Ukrainian Christians".

[Meaghan Mobbs @mobbs_mentality]

For nearly a millennium, Christians have prayed at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.

Empires rose and fell. Wars came and went. The monastery endured.

Tonight, flames rise over one of Christianity’s holiest sites after a Russian strike.

This is not a war over territory - Russia is assaulting memory, identity, faith, and civilization.

[Mykhailo Fedorov @FedorovMykhailo]

For the first time since 2022, Ukraine is steadily seizing the battlefield initiative. The cost of advancement for Russia continues to skyrocket—in May, Ukraine reclaimed more territory than Russia managed to capture.

This is a historic moment for our nation to force Russia into peace and end this war from a position of absolute strength.

But achieving this requires more than weapons and technology alone. That is why we are building a completely new military service system rooted in human respect, justice, and transparent, clear-cut rules.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Irish parliament have now started demanding samples from Aughinish are forensically analysed against missile fragments. This is a huge step closer to linking the russian refinery to the Kremlins military complex.

[Alexander Bakus @alexbakus]

all of them tap water?

[Farhan Thawar @fnthawar]

Discuss

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Lots of pro russian Irish people telling me to ‘go to the front lines & leave Ireland’

I’ve just come here from Nikopol. The press armour is still in my bag. I watched Russian drones hunt civilians with my own eyes. That’s why the indifference here is so despicable, especially while Ireland still supplies alumina to Russias war machine.

I’m not going anywhere. This investigation continues

[Alexander Bakus @alexbakus]

@Sirupsen I’ll take figs over kiwis all day long.

[Meaghan Mobbs @mobbs_mentality]

I hope it’s all becoming clearer.

The same people who spent years working to undermine support for Ukraine have now dropped the pretense entirely and openly aligned themselves with Russia.

Not with America’s interests. With Russia.

And in doing so, they have exposed what many of us have been arguing all along: this was never really about Ukraine.

Because supporting Ukraine was never an act of charity. It was an act of self-interest.

A weakened Russia is good for the United States. A Russia forced to expend its military, economic, and political power in a failed war of aggression is good for the United States. Demonstrating that borders cannot be changed by force is good for the United States. Showing China, Iran, and every other adversary that aggression carries consequences is good for the United States.

Instead, these voices chose to attack the country fighting our adversary rather than the adversary itself.

Now many have abandoned even the pretense of neutrality and openly defend Russia, a hostile power that has partnered with Iran, armed America’s enemies, worked against our interests across the globe, and repeatedly sought to weaken the United States and the West.

The irony is remarkable. Many claim to be champions of America First while making arguments that benefit Moscow at the expense of American power, American credibility, and American security.

The masks are off.

What was presented as opposition to aid for Ukraine has increasingly revealed itself as something far more damning: a willingness to excuse, rationalize, and even admire a regime whose interests are fundamentally opposed to our own.

Supporting Ukraine was always the America First position. True MAGA understood that from the beginning.

[Alexander Bakus @alexbakus]

@internetvin Perth, ON 😉