Proud Canuck 🇨🇦

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[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.

[Proud Canuck 🇨🇦 @below_the_radar]

@gator_gum No regrets. So much better than PP.

[Proud Canuck 🇨🇦 @below_the_radar]

@CanadianUK @NationalDefence @CanadianForces Great to see Capt Smith recognized. He is one of the most capable, smart and professional officers with whom I’ve had the pleasure of working.

[Proud Canuck 🇨🇦 @below_the_radar]

@natemook @Y_Stefanyuk @Ekaterina_Onish Keep up the great work Nate. Sending ❤️ and a donation from 🇨🇦. Please thank Irina and all the volunteers in the Ukrainian who are looking out for these poor pets.

[Surjan Singh @surjansingh_]

I’m proud to introduce the uncage, a new type of goalie cage with better visibility and bars 5x thinner than a cat-eye cage. Inspired by bullet-proof vests.

I'd appreciate a retweet to help me accomplish my dream of getting this invention to the NHL and PWHPA!

[CN Tower / Tour CN @TourCNTower]

Tonight the #CNTower will be lit blue for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Awareness Month / Ce soir la #TourCN sera illuminée en bleu pour le Mois de sensibilisation au syndrome du colon irritable

[Proud Canuck 🇨🇦 @below_the_radar]

@Erpikaa Smart decision. Shows you care about those around you.. even if you don’t know them.

[Proud Canuck 🇨🇦 @below_the_radar]

@Erpikaa …And the aunt? I heard you have a pretty incredible Aunt…

[Proud Canuck 🇨🇦 @below_the_radar]

@ArtistAJ17 Thank you @ArtistAJ17 for this great illustration - and now my avatar. We are with the Ukrainian people. 🇺🇦

[Julie Payette @Astro_Payette]

Respect for women everywhere around us, in our families, in society and at work, we must demand. Domestic violence, we must oppose. So that these beautiful young women (killed at Polytechnique on 6 Dec 1989) did not die in vain. So that it never happens again… Never again 🥀

[Christopher E Richardson @DivebumChef]

retweeting because important, and so I can find again to cite..

[Proud Canuck 🇨🇦 @below_the_radar]

@Erpikaa SOMEBODY always has to be the first. Why not you? Trailblazers are hard to come by but we still need them.

[Proud Canuck 🇨🇦 @below_the_radar]

@Erpikaa Being a cool Aunt is a worthwhile goal if you ask me.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

“What makes the struggle harder and more painful is to know so many of my fellow citizens, including so many of the people I put my life at risk to defend, are downplaying or outright denying what happened.” — DC Officer Michael Fanone to the @January6thCmte

[Proud Canuck 🇨🇦 @below_the_radar]

@Matthew_4_Trump So you support Tucker Carlson’s deeply offensive attack on the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs? Or do you just ignore stuff Tucker spews when it doesn’t fit your narrative?

[Proud Canuck 🇨🇦 @below_the_radar]

@FoxNews Your host @TuckerCarlson is abhorrent in his shameful disrespectful of General Milley. Fox is complicit in your silence, and in allowing this person to continue on air. It’s difficult to understand if your network has any standards whatsoever. #TuckerHatesOurMilitary

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

General Mark Milley is an American hero. Tucker Carlson isn’t.

[Proud Canuck 🇨🇦 @below_the_radar]

@DanRather General Milley is articulate, smart and passionate… especially when it comes to defending his men and women in uniform. He doesn’t hesitate to stand up to bullies no matter how high they are in the administration. This is also why he scares people like @TuckerCarlson so much.

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

Please stop for a moment and watch this, with the sound on. Share with others. An unflinching rebuttal to all those who are politicizing studies of race and injustice courtesy of Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

[Proud Canuck 🇨🇦 @below_the_radar]

@Erpikaa Why do you think this is a ‘Boomer’ thing, and not an ‘everyone’ (including Millennials) thing?