Anne Hubner 🇨🇦

Professional BG Performer in BC Film Industry & UBCP/ACTRA member. Missing Person’s Advocate. Co-Founder- Cal Advocates For The Missing

[FraserValleyToday.ca @chwknews]

Police in Abbotsford need help locating a 32-year-old woman who was last seen Saturday evening at, or near, an Abbotsford shopping mall. https://t.co/MHb6pAFTRH

[Kate Harrison @KatlynHarrison]

We also have leverage. We've done nothing with it. Instead, our PM makes speeches at Davos, rallies countries against Trump, and steadfastly avoids the negotiating table. Sure, we can keep hoping for a midterm miracle. But hope isn't a strategy. Time for Canada to come of age.

[Kate Harrison @KatlynHarrison]

@adamchamb Two things can be true. It is good the bridge is open. It's also true that Carney ran on being the right guy to negotiate with Trump, and we have capitulated at every turn. The voters who bought the PM's sales pitch should be disappointed in the product they bought.

[Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 @Bubblebathgirl]

Mick Jagger: Fans Don’t Want Political Lectures at Concerts

Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger pushed back against the trend of musicians delivering political speeches from the stage, following Bruce Springsteen’s recent anti-Trump remarks.

Speaking in a Saturday interview on The New York Times’ podcast, Jagger said fans come to shows for an escape:

“The bottom line of my thing really is that my job in the live music world is for those people that come is to have the best time they possibly can. For two hours or whatever it is, to forget all their problems and the problems of the world… You don’t want to lecture them.”

He added that “Nobody wants to hear a whole song about politics.” (Video: AI)

Do you agree with Jagger that concerts should be an escape from politics? Or do you think artists should use their platform to speak out?

[Brian Lilley @brianlilley]

Decisions have consequences both good and bad.

[Anne Hubner 🇨🇦 @AnneGavin3]

@NoSacredBeliefs Love this! A reminder worth having. Remember to look up.

[Anne Hubner 🇨🇦 @AnneGavin3]

Excellent piece by Shane! Don’t forget to look up…

[306 Shane @NoSacredBeliefs]

The Second Star

No one remembers when we stopped looking up.

Not to check the weather or mark the hours until sunrise, but to search for the impossible point where the ordinary gives way to the extraordinary.

It happened gradually.

Windows closed. Schedules filled. Every empty afternoon was claimed by another obligation, another notification, another demand that we stay grounded. We told ourselves that growing older meant setting certain things aside.

Not our toys.

Our wonder.

The old stories told us that flying belonged to children.

We misunderstood.

Children dream of flying because they have never felt the full weight of the world. Adults earn it differently. Every bridge first crossed, every cure first coaxed from stubborn nature, every symphony first heard in a single mind, every star first reached by human hands began with someone who refused to believe the world was already complete.

The world has always belonged to those willing to imagine what did not yet exist.

Civilization has always belonged to those willing to build it.

Somewhere along the way, we traded the second star for the nearest streetlight. We chose what was visible over what was possible. Certainty began to feel like wisdom, and productivity like purpose.

The clock still ticks.

Only now it hangs on our walls, buzzes in our pockets, and rules every margin of our days. We learned to outrun it, forgetting that time was never the real pirate.

Fear was.

Not fear of monsters or shadows, but fear of failure. Fear of ridicule. Fear of believing too deeply in something that did not yet exist.

Yet wonder grew up too.

We kept searching for it on secret islands, never noticing that it had been waiting elsewhere all along. It lives in observatories drinking light from galaxies older than our species. It lives in laboratories where the impossible quietly becomes inevitable. It lives in workshops, classrooms, libraries, and late-night conversations where someone asks a question too big for any quarterly report.

Wonder did not abandon us.

It simply asked us to meet it where grown-ups build the future.

Children are given wonder.

Adults are entrusted with it.

The age of wonder did not end.

It asked to be carried.

Not in fairy tales alone, but in blueprints, equations, melodies, stories, discoveries, and every quiet act of creation that leaves the world larger than it was yesterday.

So tonight, look up.

Not because a map waits in the sky, but because every generation needs a few people willing to search for a second star no one else has noticed yet.

The way forward has never belonged to those who already know where they are going.

It has always belonged to those willing to leave the window open just a little longer.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

This was Lindsey Graham two days ago in Kyiv after meeting with Zelensky.

[Dan Albas @DanAlbas]

Sad to see that the Central Okanagan has the highest unemployment rate in 🇨🇦.
As youth unemployment is much higher in BC, it’s clear that the Federal & Provincial Governments jobs plan aren’t working. A good start would be adopting @GarnettGenuis’ & @gavindew’s Youth Jobs Plans:

[Gina Unfiltered @Gina_T1]

Warning: This image may contain more policy discussion than an entire week of prime-time political coverage. 😂

[Anne Hubner 🇨🇦 @AnneGavin3]

@AmazingZoltan Being jury foreperson in 2005 Vancouver trial vs a US military officer was quite interesting!! He & his gf took me to Joe Fortes for lunch after we wrapped up. Pretty wild

[Royce Koop 🇨🇦 @RoyceKoop]

NEW COLUMN: Carney looks like a fiscal phony

Canadians elected Mark Carney to fix the books. That's far from what we're getting.

His first budget nearly doubled Trudeau's deficit. His five-year projections outspend Trudeau by $83 billion. And it took just two months to blow through the projections in his own Spring update.

Meanwhile, Carney has stonewalled the Parliamentary Budget Officer, refused to justify massive defence spending, and shut down committee investigations into reckless Liberal spending sprees.

Voters hired a banker. What they got was someone who can’t even write a budget, let alone stick to one.

https://t.co/5tg8Sk5Lh4

#cdnpoli #cdnpolitics

[Conservative Party @CPC_HQ]

Mark Carney has delivered the worst first year of economic growth for any Canadian Prime Minister since 1963. He ran as the economic wizard who would 'fix our economy' and 'build Canada strong.' Now Canadians are facing the cost of this Liberal government at home. Tell us how you think Carney is doing?
https://t.co/7Whi8LPjKp
https://t.co/UoqWlcrwNC

[Anne Hubner 🇨🇦 @AnneGavin3]

Better title is: master negotiator caves at expense of Canadians.

[New York Post @nypost]

US, Canada strike deal on tolls to let new Gordie Howe bridge open on July 27 https://t.co/9DBkTcxErr

[Gina Unfiltered @Gina_T1]

@RealKrysKo The “Carney Caved Bridge” does have a certain ring to it. 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

[Mackenzie Gray @Gray_Mackenzie]

Here are some of the details on what Canada had to give up to open the Gordie Howe Bridge, as per a Canadian government source.

For the first 15 years, Canada gets 50% of toll profits and the other 50% goes into a regional "economic development fund." What that fund does and who runs, is not clear

Under the previous agreement, Canada was to receive 100% of toll profit until they were made whole on the $6.4B they spent to build the bridge, which Michigan/the US contributed $0. The agreement also says it could be 50+ years before Canada was whole, that timeline is now longer.

The Americans will have to agree if Canada wants to increase the bridge tolls by more than 10%, or lower them below compared regional averages.

That clause helps out the owners of the Ambassador Bridge, the Maroun family, who have donated to the Trump administration and previously to US ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra, to try and stop the new bridge from opening #cdnpoli

[Anne Hubner 🇨🇦 @AnneGavin3]

@MarkJCarney - weren’t you billed as a master negotiator in the lead up to last years federal election? What do you say to those who believed your hype?

[Commentary Donald J. Trump Truth Social Posts On X @TrumpTruthOnX]

I was able to cut a MUCH BETTER DEAL for America, and by so doing, will be allowing the new and spectacular Gordie Howe International Bridge, spanning Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, to open on July 27th, as scheduled. The original deal made was unacceptable to me! The new deal is great, and fair. Thank you and congratulations to the Canadian Government. May we both have many years of success with this wonderful new development!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP

( TS: Jul 11 2026, 12:04 AM ET )

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Gordie Howe Bridge.

Looks like PM Carney ultimately conceded, and President Trump got much of what he wanted. Here's U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra on The Food Professor Podcast explaining why Canada ultimately had to make concessions.

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

‼️ BREAKING: Carney just caved to Donald Trump on the Gordie Howe Bridge.

Canada paid the entire $6.4 billion. Michigan paid ZERO.

Carney’s record with Trump:

-Retaliatory tariffs: dropped

-Digital Services Tax: dropped

And now the Gordie Howe Bridge?

Trump has surrendered nothing.

Carney has surrendered everything.

Elected to handle Trump.

Handled by Trump.

This is capitulation.

NO WONDER CARNEY GOT MAD WHEN HE WAS ASKED ABOUT TRUMP.

Carney’s response when asked if he’d renegotiate: “We’re willing to clarify aspects of the current arrangements.”

Trump’s response: “MUCH BETTER DEAL for America.”

Carney failed and got mad when asked about it.

Politically, he knows this will hurt him.

The pattern is clear.

[Jasmin Laine @JasminLaine]

Question for every other country in the world: who does your media talk about more, the government in power or the opposition party?