This is my “secret” that nobody knows.
I’ve never said publicly & instead I took years of abuse for my positions on Indigenous affairs in Canada.
My wife & my three kids: They are First Nations.
But I don’t believe my kids resumes need to be put on the top of a stack because they are First Nations.
I believe in equality. I believe in a merit based system.
I don’t believe we should be asking unelected chiefs for permission to build nation building projects.
I believe in uplifting the country as a whole.
I don’t believe in mass graves of children as a result of genocide.
Facts show mass graves were common for communities as a whole because of Tuberculosis.
I believe Residential schools did exist.
I do not deny them.
I agree - there were flaws. But I don’t believe nuns and teachers were taking the life of children.
I also don’t think it’s sustainable that we spend $30 billion per year on Indigenous Affairs while First Nations life expectancy continues to decline.
Look it up; they die younger.
We must acknowledge that something is broken.
Those who actually need help, are not getting it.
The Liberals created an environment that doesn’t help those in need, but instead helps a consultant Liberal class.
Did you know that when Harper was PM, he created the First Nations Financial Transparency Act?
Since we fund First Nations bands with our taxes, audited financial statements must be provided or face enforcement, fines/consequences.
The public, the First Nations band members, they deserve transparency from their Chiefs.
The Liberals paused the enforcement. Completely.
Ask yourself: Why?
Did you know that a First Nations band, an individual, HAD TO SUE HIS OWN CHIEF because they would not disclose where their money was going? It’s absurd. He & his people have the right to know. So do we, as taxpayers.
I’ve sat back, and seen all the negative comments, threats and how I “hate” First Nations.
And it couldn’t be further from the truth.
There’s a world that exists, where you can fight for truth, honesty, transparency & normalcy, and it not be considered hateful.
I love my wife & my kids.
I want to see First Nations AND all Canadians thrive and succeed.
WE ARE ALL EQUAL.
Al Sharpton and other activists are telling Black Americans and Black-owned businesses to boycott America’s 250th birthday.
My response: You do not speak for me.
You do not get to use my skin color to tell me what I can celebrate. I was not a slave. You were not a slave. We are free Americans, and I refuse to walk around pretending we are still in chains.
Yes, I proudly put George Washington on my America 250 Cousin T’s pancake box. He owned slaves, but that is not his entire legacy. He was also our first president and helped build the nation that gave people like me the freedom to rise.
I went from foster care to building Cousin T’s, a successful Black-owned American company. I am living the American Dream.
So while Al Sharpton is calling for a boycott, I am calling for Black Americans to stop letting professional outrage merchants convince us that patriotism belongs only to white people.
America is my country too.
I will celebrate her loudly, proudly, and without permission.
.@BernieSanders , it is a time to celebrate. @elonmusk has created enormous value for society by building @SpaceX, driving down the cost of rocket launches and creating a global satellite communication network that has brought high speed, low-cost internet and communication access to hundreds of millions and eventually billions of people along with critical advantages for our military and our nation’s defense.
SpaceX and its technologies will cause an acceleration in the growth of wages and wealth creation globally, including in some of the poorest communities in the U.S. and around the world.
Access to low-cost, high speed communications everywhere will allow children around the world to be educated, families to build businesses, and life-saving medical knowledge and care to be available everywhere.
SpaceX will materially bring down the cost of compute, advancing AI and humanity.
Meanwhile, 4,000 SpaceX employees yesterday became millionaires, including hourly wage employees who you claim you are trying to help.
The Elon Musks of the world drive growth, global GDP, and provide access to goods and services at lower cost that would otherwise not exist.
Elon’s nominal trillionaire status is due to his ownership of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, the Boring Company and his other initiatives that have brought new technologies that improve our everyday lives.
Elon is not sitting on a trillion dollar pile of cash, jewelry and gold. He is using his controlling stakes in his companies to advance mankind. Elon’s companies don’t pay dividends. They reinvest all of their capital to accelerate innovation and value creation.
Elon is working 24/7 for all of us. He deserves respect and appreciation, not smears.
Bernie, your socialism would never allow a SpaceX to be built. Socialism has only proven to impoverish mankind and lead to death and destruction.
We need to create the conditions for more SpaceXs to be built, not attack the great entrepreneurs who are helping to advance our country.
I think possibly the best thing about Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire is how angry it makes a bunch of losers who've never built a thing in their lives.
The first trillionaire in human history
- Elon Musk
- Born in South Africa
- Bullied relentlessly as a kid
- Immigrated to North America
- Arrived with a backpack and a dream
- Built Zip2 with his brother
- Sold it 4 years later for $300 million
- Co-founded PayPal with the profits
- Revolutionised digital payments
- Sold PayPal to eBay for $1.5 billion
- Bet everything on Tesla and SpaceX
- Got mocked for electric cars
- Got laughed at for reusable rockets
- Nearly went bankrupt in 2008
- Kept building anyway
- Turned Tesla into the world’s most valuable automaker
- Made EVs mainstream and transformed the automotive industry
- Made reusable rockets a reality
- Reduced the cost of reaching space by 95%
- Sparked the modern commercial space race
- Built Starlink and connected millions around the world to high-speed internet
- Turned SpaceX into the most valuable private company in history
- Bought Twitter for $44 billion
- The world said he overpaid
- He was called reckless, stupid & crazy
- Advertisers fled, media declared it dead
- Critics called it the worst acquisition in tech history
- Renamed it 𝕏
- Rebuilt the platform anyway
- Turned it into one of the most influential platforms on Earth
- Launched xAI and accelerated the global AI race
- Sent astronauts to space
- Is trying to get humans to mars
- Created millions of jobs
- Generated hundreds of billions in value
- Inspired an entire generation of builders
Before:
- Failed repeatedly
- Worked insane hours
- Slept in factories and offices
- Got bullied, laughed at and mocked
- Constantly told “it’s impossible”
- Kept building anyway
- Made it possible
Today:
- Richest person on Earth
- First trillionaire in human history
- Largest IPO in history $1.77 trillion
Most people quit when the world laughs at them.
Elon Musk built the future instead.
Love him or hate him…
Nobody has changed more industries in a single lifetime.
Payments. Cars. Energy. Space. Social Media. Communications. AI.
History won’t remember the people who said it couldn’t be done.
It will remember the people who did it anyway.
Congratulations Elon.
The first trillionaire. 🚀
I am truly perplexed that so many people are against mosques being built...
I think it should be the goal of every Western Society to be tolerant regardless of their religious beliefs. Thus mosques should be allowed, in an effort to promote tolerance.
That is why I also propose that two nightclubs be opened next door to the mosque, thereby promoting tolerance from within the mosque. We could call one of the clubs, which would be gay, "The Turban Cowboy ", and the other a topless bar called "You Mecca Me Hot."
Next door should be a butcher shop that specializes in pork, and adjacent to that an open-pit barbecue pork restaurant, called "Iraq o' Ribs."
Across the street there could be a lingerie store called "Victoria Keeps Nothing Secret ", with sexy mannequins in the window modeling the goods.
Next door to the lingerie shop there would be room for an adult sex toy shop, "Koranal Knowledge ", its name in flashing neon lights, and on the other side an off-licence called "Morehammered."
All of this would encourage Muslims to demonstrate the tolerance they demand of us, so their mosque issue would not be a problem for others.
GOD BLESS YOU SIR 🫵🏻🫡
My respect 96 years .
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AMERICAN MADE .
The GOAT !!
Clint Eastwood Said Something About Getting Old That Stopped Me Cold.
Aging is not gentle.
You are still here. Still present. Still watching the world move. But the body that carried you through everything - the wars, the work, the wildness of youth - begins to ask for more than you can give it. Joints that never complained now speak up in the morning. Eyes that once took in everything now flinch at the light. Breathing, which never required a single thought, starts needing little pauses.
But none of that is the hardest part.
The hardest part is the quiet.
At a certain age, you reach for the phone and remember there is no one left to call.
The people who knew you when you were young - who remembered the same summers, the same streets, the same faces
- are gone. One by one, then all at once, until the memories you carry have no one left to share them with.
So you tell the stories anyway.
To whoever will listen. With a little more color than perhaps the truth deserves. With a touch of pride you've earned and a grief you don't always name. You know the person across from you wasn't there. You know they can't quite feel it the way you do.
But you tell them. Because the telling is the holding on.
Those stories are not just memories. They are the proof that a life was lived. That people were loved. That things mattered.
And if no one asks for them - you offer them anyway, quietly, like setting something down on a table and hoping someone picks it up.
Old age is not simply what happens to a face or a body.
It is memory looking for a place to rest.
And what an older person needs - more than advice, more than solutions, more than someone telling them how to feel - is simply someone willing to sit down, be still, and listen.
Not to fix anything.
Just to be there.
That is the whole gift. And it costs nothing.
~Wild Whispers .
Canada paid $24 million to help a Chinese company make baby formula and ship 85% of it to China.
The Canada Royal Milk story has layers.
Layer 1: a Chinese dairy giant built Canada's largest infant formula plant in Kingston Ontario.
Layer 2: Canadian taxpayers contributed at least $24 million to the project.
Layer 3: early planning documents show 85% of production was intended for export to China from day one.
Layer 4: it used supply-managed Canadian milk priced and controlled to protect Canadian food sovereignty.
Layer 5: supply management advocates defend this system against American trade pressure every CUSMA cycle.
Layer 6: supply management is a major trade irritant cited in the CUSMA negotiations.
Bottom line: the system designed to keep Americans out subsidized Chinese exports.
If you were the Americans at the negotiating table, wouldn’t this make you furious?
And as a Canadian, doesn’t it anger you that we ship baby formula made with Canadian milk out of the country while parents here face sky-high prices and shortages?
These two paragraphs of my verdict are crucial for everyone to read and understand.
"Even if all of the statements made by Van Langenhove are based on scientific evidence and statistics, it makes no difference to the criminal intent. Van Langenhove is not charged with spreading false information. He is charged with presenting facts in a way that incites hatred against persons on the grounds of one or more of the protected criteria in the Anti-Racism Law.” 1⃣
"For Van Langenhove to have committed a crime, it is not necessary for him to have incited concrete acts of hate or violence. It suffices that others are incited to take on a general attitude of intolerance or disapproval regarding a group protected under the criteria of the Anti-Racism Law." 2⃣
This means you can go to jail for "inciting hatred" even if your statements were 100% factual (see 1⃣) and even if you did NOT incite concrete acts of hate (see 2⃣).
The benchmark of "inciting hatred" , a crime punishable by prison, is thus "saying something that has the potential of inciting someone to have a general attitude of disapproval regarding a protected group". This means literally any criticism of mass migration is now a punishable offence. If you cite a statistic, and someone could potentially think less of a protected group (like migrants) because of it, you can be jailed.
The craziest part is that there is no defence possible against this. I brought the scientific studies that I cited to court, but the judge didn't care 1⃣. I also proved that the hundreds of students present at the lecture included students of all different political affiliations, and everyone was able to voice their opinion or ask questions. The lecture went very calmly, so obviously nobody was incited to hatred. But this too did not matter 2⃣, because if the judge says he believes there is the possibility that someone COULD be incited to "a general attitude of disapproval", this is enough for the judge to send me to jail, even without any evidence.
I'm telling you this to warn you that by the time these hate speech laws have come into place, it's already too late. You will NEVER be able to beat these laws in court. You have to stop them before they are implemented. Let my fate be your warning.
An American Jew is shocked by Palestinian Muslims telling him that Jews especially women and children deserve to be raped and murdered by Muslims from Gaza.
Zach Sage Fox, a fearless American Jew, posed as a woke Italian journalist and sneaked into the Palestinian Territories in the West Bank.
He wanted to hear for the first time what ordinary Palestinians really think about the rape and mass murder of 1200 people in Israel by Hamas terrorists on October 7.
He also asked them about Hamas plans to destroy Israel and commit genocide against Jews.
Their answers will make your blood boil.
This is the raw, unfiltered truth the Western media refuses to show you about the conflict.
While the mainstream media and leftist politicians push the lie that this is just a “land dispute” or “resistance,” Palestinians on the ground openly celebrate the slaughter of Jews and demand more. They do not want peace. They want every Jew dead. They say it straight to the camera with smiles on their faces.
This is not a fringe view. This is the mainstream Palestinian position.
Zach Sage Fox risked everything to expose it. The media does not care about the facts. Too many Western journalists promote Hamas propaganda and disinformation to demonize Israel and its people.
The civilized world must stop pretending this is normal political disagreement. This is genocidal hatred rooted in Islamic supremacism. The same ideology that fuels October 7, grooming gangs in Britain, and endless jihad worldwide.
If you want the truth, stop trusting the media and start listening to the people who live it.
Share this video. Retweet it. Hit like. Follow the truth tellers who refuse to bow to the narrative.
The mask is off. Palestinians said the quiet part out loud.
Barbara Walters writes:
Unfortunately, many have forgotten and still countless others have never known how Ms. Fonda betrayed not only the idea of our country, but specific men who served and sacrificed during the Vietnam War.
The first part of this is from an F-4E pilot. The pilot's name is Jerry Driscoll, a River Rat. In 1968, the former Commandant of the USAF Survival School was a POW in Ho LoPrison, the "Hanoi Hilton."
Dragged from a stinking cesspit of a cell, cleaned, fed, and dressed in clean PJ's, he was ordered to describe for a visiting American "peace activist" the "lenient and humane treatment" he'd received.
He spat at Ms. Fonda, was clubbed, and was dragged away. During the subsequent beating, he fell forward onto the camp commandant 's feet, which sent that officer berserk.
In 1978, the Air Force Colonel still suffered from double vision (which permanently ended his flying career) from the Commandant's frenzied application of a wooden baton.
From 1963-65, Col. Larry Carrigan was in the 47FW/DO (F-4E's). He spent 6 years in the "Hanoi Hilton". . . The first three of which his family only knew he was "missing in action." His wife lived on faith that he was still alive. His group, too, got the cleaned-up, fed and clothed routine in preparation for a "peace delegation" visit.
They, however, had time and devised a plan to get word to the world that they were alive and still survived. Each man secreted a tiny piece of paper, with his Social Security Number on it, in the palm of his hand. When paraded before Ms. Fonda and a cameraman, she walked the line, shaking each man's hand and asking little encouraging snippets like: "Aren't you sorry you bombed babies?" and "Are you grateful for the humane treatment from your benevolent captors?" Believing this HAD to be an act, they each palmed her their sliver of paper.
She took them all without missing a beat. . . At the end of the line and once the camera stopped rolling, to the shocked disbelief of the POWs, she turned to the officer in charge and handed him all the little pieces of paper...
Three men died from the subsequent beatings. Colonel Carrigan was almost number four but he survived, which is the only reason we know of her actions that day.
I was a civilian economic development adviser in Vietnam, and was captured by the North Vietnamese communists in South Vietnam in 1968, and held prisoner for over 5 years.
I spent 27 months in solitary confinement; one year in a cage in Cambodia; and one year in a 'black box' in Hanoi. My North Vietnamese captors deliberately poisoned and murdered a female missionary, a nurse in a leprosarium in Banme Thuot, South Vietnam, whom I buried in the jungle near the Cambodian border. At one time, I weighed only about 90 lbs. (My normal weight is 170 lbs.)
We were Jane Fonda's "war criminals."
When Jane Fonda was in Hanoi, I was asked by the camp communist political officer if I would be willing to meet with her. I said yes, for I wanted to tell her about the real treatment we POWs received. . . and how different it was from the treatment purported by the North Vietnamese, and parroted by her as "humane and lenient."
Because of this, I spent three days on a rocky floor on my knees, with my arms outstretched with a large steel weight placed on my hands, and beaten with a bamboo cane.
I had the opportunity to meet with Jane Fonda soon after I was released. I asked her if she would be willing to debate me on TV. She never did answer me.
These first-hand experiences do not exemplify someone who should be honored as part of "100 Years of Great Women." Lest we forget. . . "100 Years of Great Women" should never include a traitor whose hands are covered with the blood of so many patriots.
There are few things I have strong visceral reactions to, but Hanoi Jane's participation in blatant treason, is one of them. Please take the time to forward to as many people as you possibly can. It will eventually end up on her computer, and she needs to know that we will never forget. See less
“Free Palestine.”
I grew up on those words.
In Lebanon, most people around me wanted a free Palestine for a very practical reason — to send the Palestinian refugees back. The civil war that tore my country apart was ignited in no small part by the Palestinian armed factions who turned Lebanon into their launching pad. “Free Palestine” meant: free us from them.
In Damascus, where my father’s family lived, the sentiment was different but equally self-serving. Palestine must be returned to the Arabs, its righteous owners. No one asked follow-up questions. No one was expected to.
Palestine was central to Islam, most Arabs are Muslim, therefore supporting the Palestinian cause was reflexive. A non-brainer in the most literal sense — no brain engaged at all.
Nobody stopped to point out that Palestine is not an Arabic word. Nobody found it strange that Jerusalem, the supposedly third holiest city in Islam, is not mentioned once in the Quran. Not once. Nor is Palestine. The entire theological and political architecture of this cause rests on a foundation that their own scripture doesn’t bother to acknowledge.
What was actually happening was indoctrination. A systematic, generational rejection of Jewish sovereignty — and frankly, of any minority sovereignty. Jews, Christians, Druze, Kurds, Assyrians, Yazidis — the Arab world has been remarkably consistent in how it treats people who are different. We just don’t talk about that.
Instead, in the West, we talk about Palestine.
In the West, a civilization that has elevated human rights to its highest moral currency, the Palestinian cause has become the one exception to every rule. In the queue of human suffering, Palestinians cut the line every time. Homosexuals executed in Gaza and hanged from cranes in Iran? Palestine first. Women imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for campaigning for the right to drive — a right they were denied until 2018 — girls sold into marriage in Afghanistan, women erased from public life entirely under the Taliban? After Palestine. Political dissidents ground into dust in Syrian and Egyptian prisons, journalists disappeared in Libya, children starving in Yemen while their rulers wage proxy wars, entire populations hollowed out by hunger in Sudan? All of it waits. Christians ethnically cleansed from Iraq and Syria, the Arab world methodically emptied of every Jewish community it once held — a demographic erasure carried out across a century with surgical patience and near-total Western silence?
Palestine is still first.
So let’s end where we started. Free Palestine. Which Palestine, exactly? The Roman invention? The British administrative line? The British Mandate covered the entire territory of what is today Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and Jordan. In 1921, 78% of that mandate was handed to the Hashemite family — a dynasty imported from Hijaz in present-day Saudi Arabia — and became the Kingdom of Jordan, which it remains to this day. A foreign royal family, on the majority of historic Palestine, ruling it as a monarchy. Nobody protests that. No flags, no chants, no encampments. The remaining 22% was designated for the Jews, became Israel, and is the only part that any pro-Palestinian activist has ever had a problem with.
So when you say Free Palestine, you mean that 22%. You mean the Jews.
And free it from whom? From a people with a three-thousand-year-old documented presence in that land, to restore the glory of a name coined by Roman colonizers, a name lifted from the Torah, a name that has no roots in Arabic, no mention in the Quran, and no history as a sovereign state?
You are not chanting for liberation. You are chanting for colonialism — the Roman kind, repackaged for social media.
Free Palestine is not a cause. It is a colonial term, coined by invaders, recycled by the indoctrinated. The least you can do is have the intelligence to understand it and the decency to reflect on your position.
📍#Israel
CBC, you should be ashamed.
While you endlessly lecture Canada about “truth and reconciliation” and residential school horrors, you conveniently forget your own history of promoting the very system you now condemn.
Mark Carney’s father, Robert J. Carney, was principal of the Joseph Burr Tyrrell Indian Day School in Fort Smith, NWT. In a 1965 CBC Radio interview, he defended residential schools and described some Indigenous children as “culturally retarded.”
Old CBC clips and propaganda that once pushed the narrative? Buried or memory-holed.
The speaker found this on Reddit and it hit hard: “I don’t think my grandparents actually knew what was really going on in those schools.”
CBC painted the trucker convoy as terrorists… yet stays silent when it’s their own legacy and the sitting Prime Minister’s family tied to the very history they weaponize.
This is why trust in CBC is in the toilet.
CBC owes Canadians real accountability — not selective outrage and taxpayer-funded spin.
Digging for more? Drop a 🔥 if you’re done being lied to. Share this.
#CBCPropaganda #MarkCarney #ResidentialSchools #CDNPoli #TruthAndReconciliation
🚨🍿 Trump invites Tim Cook to explain basic economics to Mark Carney after Canada demands 15% of revenue from Apple, Netflix, Amazon, and Disney.
Have Canadians had enough of this economically illiterate Liberal government yet?🤡
Daily reminder about Gaza.
What is important to understand about the Gaza, is that it was the Islamic “Resistance” Movement aka Hamas, the Islamic republic of Iran, and all of the other delusional Islamic groups who designated, created and engineered Gaza in its entirety, including the population, as a battlefield.
They spent nearly two decades investing all of their efforts and resources into this. They spent billions to create a battlefield below and above the ground, they built a 600 mile network of terror tunnels that stretch under the Gaza, ‘for reference, that’s larger than the London underground’.
They installed rockets, weapon caches and tunnels in the north and south, in residential areas, in hospitals and schools. They weaponized Gaza totally.
By invading Israel on the 7th of October 2023, carrying out the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust, and taking hostages, Hamas provoked and lured Israel into the Gaza battlefield with the false assumption they would be victorious.
But they were defeated on the battlefield that they prepared themselves, and all hostages were brought home to Israel.
Those of us who do understand, have had enough of Gazan lies and deceit, their wickedness and self inflicted suffering, their accusations and blame. It’s time they own the consequences of their actions.
Gaza had 20 years to build for peace, they chose the path of of radical Islam, Hamas and Jihad. Gaza preferred war, so they can accept war, and stop playing victim !
Hamas are both genocidal and suicidal ! Their self-inflicted suffering is nauseating, their human sacrifices for their god is barbaric.
Every bomb, every bullet, every limb lost and every life destroyed in Gaza and in Israel is the responsibility of the psychopathic Islamic Jihad ideology, superiority complex, and attitude, aka Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Islamic republic of Iran, Hezbollah and all those who support them !!!
Introducing the Alberta Transition Council.
We're doing the serious, professional work behind one practical question: how an independent Alberta would actually function — lawfully, responsibly, and without disruption.
We think that question deserves real planning.
More soon.
Today, I was asked to leave the chamber after calling out the Premier for remarks I believe were false and misleading regarding my record and the record of members of our caucus on LNG development in Northern B.C.
For years, the Premier has attempted to claim that we do not support projects like LNG Canada, while at the same time trying to take credit for a project he actively opposed while in opposition. The people of the North remember who stood alongside our workers, local governments, Indigenous partners, and communities to fight for these opportunities when it mattered most.
I am proud of my record. As a Kitimat city councillor, I worked hard alongside many others to help get Phase 1 of LNG Canada to final investment decision. That project has created jobs, opportunity, and long-term economic benefits for our region and for British Columbia. The credit belongs to the many people who put in the hard work over many years to make it happen.
I will not sit quietly while the history of that work is rewritten for political convenience.
When the people of Skeena elected me, I promised to be a loud, strong, and unapologetic voice for our communities. That means standing up for our workers, our industries, and the truth, even when it is uncomfortable.
I will continue to do exactly that every single day, unapologetically.