Alan Hicken

A dollar spent locally in our community and stays in our community is the dollar that creates jobs and wealth in our community. Buy Local, Spend Local

[Alan Hicken @anhicken]

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Thank you @bradtrivers @GOVPEI
and the community for attending our open house. I hope people see how important these services are for everyone! #peipoli

[Sportsnet @Sportsnet]

CANADA IS MOVING ON IN THE 2026 FIFA WORLD CUP 🗣️🇨🇦

[NHL Public Relations @NHLPR]

Gavin McKenna, a member of Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin First Nation, became the first known Indigenous player selected first overall in nearly 50 years. #NHLDraft

#NHLStats: https://t.co/8d1HxENkVY

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

WWII Veteran and Purple Heart recipient Robert Hilliard:

"Next week I'll be 101 years old. In February 1944 when I was 18 years old I was inducted into the army and what they taught me to do there was to kill people who set up detention camps. Can you imagine how I felt earlier this year when they announced that one of the future detention camps would be at that same camp landing in Florida? We have a fascist, a fascist government, that allows innocent people to be put in detention camps and incarcerated."

Source: @tomaskenn

[Elliotte Friedman @FriedgeHNIC]

Real nice moment at draft. Cameras caught a fan in crowd with a clipboard, charting the picks.

@NHLMedia crew brought him on set. Great to recognize devoted fans like this

https://t.co/mEOPqQj9zQ

[Mallory McMorrow @MalloryMcMorrow]

One billionaire family controls the bridge that carries 25% of all U.S.–Canada trade.

The good news? There's a brand new public bridge right next door (and Canada paid for the whole thing).

The bad news? Donald Trump won't let it open.

Here's the story:

For more than a decade, Michigan and Canada worked together to build a new public crossing right next to it — six lanes over the Detroit River, named for a Canadian-born Red Wings legend, built by thousands of union workers. Canada paid the entire bill. Michigan co-owns it. It's finished. It’s a shining example of international cooperation and collaboration, with a tremendous return for both sides: more jobs, faster trade, and lower costs.

So why isn't it open?

Because the Moroun family, who own the rival Ambassador Bridge just up the river, doesn’t want the competition. They spent years and tens of millions of dollars trying to stop any competing international crossing from being built or opening. They lost. So they went to the White House instead.

In January, Matthew Moroun gave $1 million to a pro-Trump super PAC. Then the billionaire called Trump's Commerce Secretary and, just hours later, Trump suddenly attacked the same publicly owned bridge he praised in his own first term and threatened to block it.
Then, the day before the June 12th ribbon-cutting, the opening was called off indefinitely.

It's corruption so flagrant it would be laughable if it weren't so damaging.

Trump is screwing over Michiganders for the interests of billionaires — holding a finished, publicly owned project hostage to protect one donor's toll booth.

So a finished bridge sits closed, Michiganders keep paying the higher tolls, cars and trucks cost more, and a billionaire family keeps its monopoly.

Mr. President: stop playing games. Open the damn bridge.

[The Guardian @PEIGuardian]

A P.E.I. man who operated a “sophisticated, retail drug trafficking business” from a Charlottetown apartment has been sentenced to a total of five years in prison.

Read more ⬇️
https://t.co/8mPjxMMbxo

[UBI Works 🇨🇦 @ubi_works]

This is the biggest public heist of our generation.

Canada's oil wealth should be paying us dividends, not just funding Big Oil windfalls.

2 in 3 Canadians (all parties) support a windfall tax that can raise more in its first year than Canada’s entire ‘sovereign wealth fund’.

[iPolitics @iPoliticsCA]

Energy Minister Tim Hodgson laid out plan to support new reactor construction across Canada while position the country as a global explorer of nuclear technology #cdnpoli https://t.co/mRRFhZHTzP

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

In the richest country on earth, millions of people can't afford healthcare, housing, childcare or other basic necessities.

We don't need tax breaks for billionaires, more military spending, endless wars and a White House ballroom.

We need to improve life for the working class.

[Don Davies @DonDavies]

The Carney Liberals are selling off Canada's airports. When Heathrow was privatized in the UK, fees skyrocketed and service took a nosedive. I asked the Liberal finance minister if Canadians should expect the same here: higher fees & worse service at airports. He wouldn't answer.

[Andrew Leach 🇨🇦 @andrew_leach]

Pretty dramatic change in Canadian crude oil export patterns per StatCan data

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Hawaii just passed the first state law in the country banning corporations from making political donations in state elections.

Now a Koch-backed legal group is suing to overturn it.

Big Money won't get out of our politics without a fight — one that we the people must win.

(via @LeverNews)

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

This one hits hard.

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

When the system is rigged for the rich while the 99% struggle to afford the basics, public ownership is how we take back the economy.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

"Wherever people are discriminated against because of their national, ethnic, religious or linguistic origin, or because of their economic or social status, the universal principle of the equal dignity of all human beings is seriously violated."

-Pope Leo XIV

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

In tiny Albania, over a hundred thousand people have been in the streets against an environmentally disastrous luxury resort planned by Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and his Qatari billionaire partners.

This is what global oligarchy looks like — and the people are saying NO.

[Don Davies @DonDavies]

So, Liberal plan says it’s full speed ahead for AI tech billionaires NOW.
Privacy and online protections for Canadians can WAIT.
This is backwards.
We need effective AI regulation and strong safeguards BEFORE we let this powerful technology run unrestricted.

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

This is a devastating interview.

Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good.

Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.

[Amie Archibald-Varley @AmieVarley]

Manitoba just became the first province in Canada to legislate nurse-to-patient ratios — and this week their implementation committee released their first roadmap for how it rolls out. This is massive. This is historic. And every other province should be doing the same. When