Cole Sauerberg🇨🇦

[Cole Sauerberg🇨🇦 @Beats642]

@ZeekArkham I think the word "apparently" might have gone long way in this post.

[Cole Sauerberg🇨🇦 @Beats642]

@CleanComedian69 @elonmusk I think in the near future AI may be that medium. It is certainly an affordable one. If the story is good, the medium is just a delivery vehicle.

[Cole Sauerberg🇨🇦 @Beats642]

@CleanComedian69 @elonmusk I have a genuine question. What if you have a story to tell, but you don't have the millions of dollars it takes to make it? Does that mean your story should remain untold?

[Cole Sauerberg🇨🇦 @Beats642]

@xtremeleafan @JonFromAlberta I assume this also applies to Bloc and PQ reps as well? That's a lot of by-elections...

[Cole Sauerberg🇨🇦 @Beats642]

@ericitaIiano You can dissect it all you want, but it is really this simple: I went to the theater with a friend. When the credits were (finally) rolling we stood up and he asked me what I thought. Without even thinking, I replied "That's 2 and a half hours I will never get back"

[Cole Sauerberg🇨🇦 @Beats642]

@godfingers89 @ABDanielleSmith Ummm... Alberta is a net EXPORTER of refined fuel products. It's 5 major refineries produce just under twice as much as demand. Now you know...

[Cole Sauerberg🇨🇦 @Beats642]

@jpalmiotti @MrPitbull07 There's a person vacuuming the hallway just outside the buffet room. Do you tip him too? One floor below the restaurant are people washing the linens from the hotel rooms. How much is their tip?

[Melanie In Saskatchewan @saskatchewan_in]

If you’ve felt something shifting in this country but couldn’t quite put words to it, this is my attempt.
••••••••••••••

Today I am 51.
Today my youngest daughter turns 11.
And today marks six months since I became a widow.
Four days ago would have been my husband’s birthday.

There’s a kind of silence that settles into a house after loss. You don’t hear it at first. You feel it. I feel it most standing behind my daughter while she blows out her candles. There used to be a steady hand at the small of my back. Not dramatic. Just there. The quiet reminder that no matter what storm rolled in, we would brace together.

That steadiness is gone.

I grew up fast. Stability wasn’t handed to me. I learned early that if you want solid ground, you build it yourself. I’ve survived enough to know the difference between discomfort and real danger. I’ve worked since I was a teenager. I’ve built my own life piece by piece. I don’t scare easily.

Which is why this feeling matters.

I should be thinking about cake and friends and what eleven feels like. Instead I’m thinking about the country she’s going to inherit.

I believed in a simple contract. Work hard. Pay your taxes. Raise your kids. Speak your mind. In return, the system should function with fairness and transparency.

Lately, that contract feels… thinner.

I watch our leaders sign onto international policy agendas most Canadians never vote on. Climate targets. Digital speech regulation. Economic frameworks that seem to arrive here already shaped. We’re told this direction is inevitable. Necessary. Forward thinking.

Since when did inevitable replace debatable?

I see proposals expanding government authority in the name of safety. I see speech rules tightening. I see emergency powers stretched. I see spending decisions pushed through with limited scrutiny.

And I’m told this is modernization.

I turn on legacy media and I notice the rhythm. Opposition voices are pressed hard, framed skeptically. Government policy failures are cushioned with context. When consequences flow from governing decisions, pundit panels ask Conservative guests to explain why it’s their fault. When MPs cross the floor, the first storyline is opposition weakness, not possible political incentives.

This government usually gets the benefit of software positive framing before it ever gets real accountability.

Meanwhile, families are staring at grocery bills and mortgage rates. Immigration numbers rise faster than services and infrastructure expands. Housing is tight. Healthcare wait times are long. Billions of our tax dollars leave the country to fund pensions in other countries or ridiculous initiatives like gender sensitive farming principles in areas ruled by authorities who do not share similar Western lgbt values. All while people here feel the squeeze.

And I’m told this is balance.

I’m not hysterical. I studied behavior. I ask for specifics before I draw conclusions. I don’t jump at shadows. I look for patterns.

The pattern I see is consolidation. Narrative management. A narrowing of what’s acceptable to question. A widening gap between what institutions say and what ordinary people live.

Grief sharpens things. When the person who stood behind you is gone, you notice instability more clearly. You feel the wind differently.

Now I stand alone behind an eleven year old girl.

And I’ve said something I never thought I would say.

I’m not sure I can encourage her to have children one day.

Not because I don’t believe in family. But because I can’t promise that if she works hard, the system will meet her halfway. I can’t promise housing will be attainable, healthcare dependable, taxes prioritized at home before applause abroad. I cannot promise that she or her offspring can thrive.

That sentence should never leave a mother’s mouth.

But it has left mine.

I don’t want chaos. I don’t want violence. I want debate. Equal scrutiny. Guardrails that hold. Immigration tied honestly to capacity. Fiscal decisions argued in the open instead of wrapped in moral packaging. I want sanity and morally principled domestic obligations restored. I want what is missing from this country to come back: Hope!

Mostly, I want Canada to feel like it belongs to its citizens again.

Today I am 51.

Today my daughter is 11.

She makes a wish over candles. Mine is heavier.

She deserves more than survival. She deserves a country solid enough to stand on.

And mine is this:

That when she turns 51, she never feels she has to write something like this.

Melanie in Saskatchewan

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[Cole Sauerberg🇨🇦 @Beats642]

@Milajoy A trucker in my home town was looking for a main road. He saw a sign for the old western fort that the road was named after. He trned onto that road and crashed into an overpass that ironically passed under the road he was looking for. He was not fluent.

[Cole Sauerberg🇨🇦 @Beats642]

@otokyo Looks like something you would find just a few inches away from a pair of brass balls.

[Cole Sauerberg🇨🇦 @Beats642]

@ochronosis @DrAkhilX Ummm... only female mosquitoes bite.

[Cole Sauerberg🇨🇦 @Beats642]

@MrPitbull07 I would round it to 80...Simple.

[Cole Sauerberg🇨🇦 @Beats642]

@WilliamShatner I just wish you hadn't been cut off during the after-flight interview. I get that Jeff wanted to get to everyone, but damn. You were just warming up.

[Cole Sauerberg🇨🇦 @Beats642]

@not_mycloset @JenniferSey Holy fvck Monica! You're justifying a murderer! Get some help...please!

[Cole Sauerberg🇨🇦 @Beats642]

@ThrillaRilla369 Pay cash when the rounding is in your favor, pay with a card when it isn't. Bonus of up to 25 cents a day! Big win!

[Cole Sauerberg🇨🇦 @Beats642]

@HeyRaziel_ @JoelSercel The solution would be constant communication...not "here's an update of the last month". Yes, the information may be old, but trends and events would still have meaning to each respective culture.

[Cole Sauerberg🇨🇦 @Beats642]

@KeruboSk So, based solely on his criteria, he got off cheap.

[Cole Sauerberg🇨🇦 @Beats642]

@RAF_Luton This is inaccurate. It is 717 AA batteries...and one A battery.

[Cole Sauerberg🇨🇦 @Beats642]

@AndrewMayne I think the main reason isn't cost, but rather to relieve strain on an electrical grid that is:
Aging
Slow and expensive to upgrade
Already under stress (EVs, etc.)

[Cole Sauerberg🇨🇦 @Beats642]

@unXorable @ChrisMartzWX What you're describing is a beta cuck....the US has been accused of MANY things, but being a beta cuck is definitely NOT one of those.