Bradley Cameron 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇮🇱🇩🇰 🇬🇱

People are equal. Ideas are not.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Absolute must-read from @MooreUSA on the debacle of today's Moscow visit.

"The United States, Ukraine and Putin negotiated a ceasefire to begin at midnight on September 5 to assure the safety of the American negotiating team.

"It took Putin 14 minutes to violate the ceasefire. In the first 2 hours and 46 minutes of the ceasefire, Russian drones and missiles targeted 18 Ukrainian cities, including mine...

"Witkoff’s boss, President Trump, has spoken 14 times by telephone with Putin since he re-entered the Oval Office. Putin sent missiles and drones into Ukraine during or after every call. Eleven of the 14 were major attacks of 100 or more drones and missiles."

https://t.co/hh3cam2ymP

[Phil Gordon @PhilGordonDC]

U.S. acceptance of Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz is an extraordinary outcome only made conceivable by an administration that squandered legitimacy, alienated allies, attempted regime change in a war it had not adequately prepared for and that is being forced to accept a catastrophic outcome without viable alternatives.

Counterfactuals are impossible to prove but in other circumstances Iran's closure of Strait by brazenly attacking maritime traffic and neighbors' civilian infrastructure would likely have justified and led to a united, global response--like the U.S.-led naval escort mission during the Iran-Iraq war, the global coalition that reversed Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1991, the multinational naval force enforcing UN sanctions in the Gulf in the 1990s, or the UN Security Council sanctions on the Iranian nuclear program in the 2010s--that led to the JCPOA.

Instead US and other countries are now being forced to accept an outcome that would have been unthinkable before the war but seems to have become unavoidable because of it.

[Bradley Cameron 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇮🇱🇩🇰 🇬🇱 @ayobradley]

@SundaeDivine Greenland not surveyed but I think we can go ahead and shade that one in as red as well all things considered.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Surrender document being signed at Versailles

1919 2026

[Jack Hunter @jackhunter74]

Trump: I’m gonna wipe out an entire civilization.

Pope: That’s wrong.

Vance: The pope should stick to questions of morality.

[Ross Douthat @Douthat60]

For the would-be Great Man of History, the final boss is always the pope.

[Stephen McIntyre @ClimateAudit]

there's an absurd irony to these events. During World War 2, Canadian aluminum production supplied about 35-40% of all Allied requirements. When U.S. Defense Production Act was passed in 1950, Canada was given unique status as "domestic" production as a //secure// producer.
Instead of building on that relationship, Trump implemented tariffs on Canadian aluminum, which resulted in US importing aluminum from Persian Gulf nations and Canada sending much of its aluminum to world markets in Europe and Asia.
The Trump policy was to replace secure aluminum from Canada with insecure aluminum from inside the Strait of Hormuz. All in the name of national security.

[Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 @MLJHaynes]

JUST IN: Israeli Police prevented Cardinal Pizzaballa from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre today, as he went to say Mass.

@LPJerusalem calls it a “grave precedent” which “constitutes a manifestly unreasonable and grossly disproportionate measure.”

Full statement from @LPJerusalem below

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Joint Press Release
The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Custody of the Holy Land

Holy City of Jerusalem
Palm Sunday, 29 March 2026

This morning, the Israeli Police prevented the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Head of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land, together with the Custos of the Holy Land, the Most Reverend Fr. Francesco Ielpo, OFM, the official Guardian of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, as they made their way to celebrate the Palm Sunday Mass.

The two were stopped en route, while proceeding privately and without any characteristics of a procession or ceremonial act, and were compelled to turn back. As a result, and for the first time in centuries, the Heads of the Church were prevented from celebrating the Palm Sunday Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

This incident is a grave precedent,and disregard the sensibilities of billions of people around the world who, during this week, look to Jerusalem.

The Heads of the Churches have acted with full responsibility and, since the outset of the war, have complied with all imposed restrictions: public gatherings were cancelled, attendance was prohibited, and arrangements were made to broadcast the celebrations to hundreds of millions of faithful worldwide, who, during these days of Easter, turn their eyes to Jerusalem and to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Preventing the entry of the Cardinal and the Custos, who bear the highest ecclesiastical responsibility for the Catholic Church and the Holy Places, constitutes a manifestly unreasonable and grossly disproportionate measure.

This hasty and fundamentally flawed decision, tainted by improper considerations, represents an extreme departure from basic principles of reasonableness, freedom of worship, and respect for the Status Quo.

The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Custody of the Holy Land express their profound sorrow to the Christian faithful in the Holy Land and throughout the world that prayer on one of the most sacred days of the Christian calendar has thus been prevented.

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

Just war doctrine is no less a part of the Catholic Church’s perennial teaching in defense of innocent human life than her condemnation of abortion and euthanasia. Right-wingers who reject or ignore the former are no better than left-wingers who reject or ignore the latter.

[Bradley Cameron 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇮🇱🇩🇰 🇬🇱 @ayobradley]

@s_guilbeault Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

What would be our response if 200 Catholic school children were kidnapped in Minneapolis, Chicago, New York, or any other city in America?

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🤡 The American “peace plan” contains phrases that were clearly written in Russian first

The Guardian reports that the U.S. “peace plan” includes several lines that were almost certainly drafted in Russian before being translated. In English they sound unnatural and out of place — as if the document was written or edited by people who think in Russian.

The clearest example is the third point: “Russia is expected not to invade neighbouring countries, and NATO is expected not to expand further.”
The construction “it is expected” is unusual in English but is a direct calque from Russian.

The document also contains other Russian-style word choices — such as “ambiguities” and “to enshrine” — which look just as odd in this context.

All of this has fueled suspicions that at least some of the contributors to the text were linked to Moscow.

[Peter MacKay @PeterMacKay]

Reflecting on this statement in the run up to Remembrance Day.

“A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its muniments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its greatest structures and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual references to the sacrifices and glories of the past.”

Joseph Howe, Nova Scotian founder of Confederation.

[Їne Back Їversen @IneBackIversen]

🇺🇦Anchorage, Alaska. Thank you for this beautiful display of support and humanity. Thank you for being on the right side of history, and showing others exactly what that side stand for!
#StandWithUkraine

[Halifax_Police @HfxRegPolice]

Traffic Advisory – Bayers Lake

Police are assisting Halifax Regional Fire and Emergency with the response to a fire at Susies Lake in Halifax.

Police are asking the public to avoid the Bayers Lake area. Evacuations and street closures are underway.

Lessening the traffic congestion will help crews respond to the fire and allow those evacuating to leave safely.

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[RCMP Nova Scotia @RCMPNS]

RCMP Halifax Regional Detachment is seeking information from the public in relation to an arson that occurred in Lower Sackville on August 5.
https://t.co/X3D4kgsxDx

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

But remember: the issue isn’t what’s best for Canada Post. The issue is what a best for a) Canada Post’s users, and b) Canada Post’s funders, aka the taxpayers.
We don’t actually need Canada Post any more: certainly not for parcels, where it is just one of many courier companies competing for business, and not even for letter mail, really, which is well on its way to being replaced by email.
Contrary to myth, courier companies will deliver a letter to any address in the country, provided the sender is willing to pay a price sufficient to cover the cost of delivery. What they won’t do is deliver mail to every address at the same price, as Canada Post is obliged to do.
But then, neither will Canada Post. It will on urban routes, where the costs are much less than the price of a stamp (now $1.44, after the latest huge increase), but on suburban and rural routes “community mailboxes” have taken over. And even then the post office loses buckets of money.
But neither should it be expected to. There’s no earthly sense in charging the same price to deliver a letter, across town or across the country. The price should vary, as most things do, with the marginal cost. Would that mean mail delivery would cost more in rural areas than urban? Sure. Why shouldn’t it? Lots of things cost less in rural areas — houses, for starters — and no one cries about that. And costlier delivery is surely better than no delivery, which is what they have now.
The only reason the universal price is maintained is as a means of justifying the post office’s statutory monopoly on first class mail — the legal prohibition, rigorously enforced, on anyone but Canada Post delivering a letter for less then three times the price of a stamp. As in: “if it weren’t for the monopoly, private couriers would undercut the post office on low-cost urban routes and leave it to service the high-cost rural routes.”
But this argument is only valid if private couriers are free to set prices according to costs, and Canada Post isn’t. Release Canada Post from the uniform price obligation, and there is no longer any argument against releasing long-suffering consumers from Canada Post’s decrepit, decaying monopoly.
Once competition were allowed in letter mail, we might well discover that we had no more need of Canada Post to deliver the mail than we now do to deliver a parcel. At which point we could shut the whole thing down — or give it away, ideally to its employees — and save the long-suffering taxpayers a bundle.
We might discover some other things: for example, that rural mail delivery, even to people’s homes, need not be as costly under competition as it is under a state monopoly. We might even discover, once we got used to letters being delivered much faster and cheaper than under Canada Post’s glacial, extravagantly costly regime, that they are not so outmoded as all that.
The point is: we should fix letter service first, and worry about what to do with Canada Post after. That means eliminating uniform pricing, and abolishing the monopoly!

[Bradley Cameron 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇮🇱🇩🇰 🇬🇱 @ayobradley]

@CamdenHutchison @Anthony__Koch Depends on your conception of God https://t.co/I20h98FT1M

[Ocho Drinko @ochodrinko85]

Every guy’s wardrobe has a nucleus. A centerpiece, if you will - a top tier, A1 shirt that looks and fits better than the rest. The rest of the outfits are merely filling the gaps until enough days have gone by to wear the big hitter again.

[Deedy @deedydas]

The new Pope has a degree in mathematics from Villanova University.

This guy doesn’t just understand sin. He understands cos.