Brad Loewen

I came on here to stay updated on music and musicians and maybe a bit of humour and then got sucked into politics because it has never been more interesting.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

The official crayon box of “I don’t want to brag but my parents are doing alright.”

[Sara Gonzales @SaraGonzalesTX]

Imagine being so broken by @elonmusk that you drive a Tesla but have to add a license plate holder that says “F Elon” 😂

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

Best photo bomb in history - 😂😂😂

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

People in Britain keep sending me messages.

They ask me to say what they no longer dare to say themselves.

Not because they are lying.
Not because they lack evidence.
Not because they have nothing worth saying.
Because one sentence about the wrong subject can cost them their job, their reputation, their future, and sometimes even their freedom.
So British citizens quietly hand their words to a Japanese account and ask me to speak for them.

Think about how terrifying that is.

The people of a country that gave the world some of its greatest ideas about liberty now need a foreigner to say what they believe inside their own homeland.

Free speech does not disappear only when the government officially bans it.

It disappears when ordinary people begin checking the room before they speak.

When they delete the post before publishing it.

When they whisper the truth privately, then watch someone abroad shout it publicly.

That is not healthy debate.
That is not tolerance.
That is fear.

When a nation’s citizens must smuggle their opinions across its borders just to have them spoken aloud, free speech is not “under threat.”

It has already fled the country.

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

Back then she was a young 55 year old with crazy ideas

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

This is the Carney economy in one picture.

He sold himself as the adult in the room. The banker. The international dealmaker. The man who could handle Trump and restore confidence.

Instead, Canadian manufacturers are preparing their exit.

According to the KPMG survey, 42% of manufacturers have already moved some production to the United States or are considering doing so. Another 36% are cutting investment, 12% have paused spending and 9% have cancelled projects altogether.

Manufacturing jobs are disappearing. Investment is drying up. Factories are moving south.

Businesses respond to incentives, costs and uncertainty. They do not remain in Canada because Mark Carney gives polished speeches about nation-building. They go where taxes, energy prices, regulation, labour costs and access to markets make production worthwhile.

Carney promised competence. What Canadians are getting is stalled trade talks, falling investment, disappearing jobs and another Liberal government that seems incapable of understanding how private-sector wealth is actually created.

A great many Canadians now see Carney as an incompetent ideologue in a good suit, surrounded by the same Liberal machine that helped create this mess.

And what consequences does he face?

Very few.

Carney is rich. His family is secure. His pension, investments and connections are intact. He will never worry about a mortgage payment, a grocery bill, a lost factory job or whether his children can afford a home.

The people who pay for his failures are workers, families, small-business owners and young Canadians whose futures are being shipped across the border.

That is the ugliest part of modern government. The people making the decisions are often insulated from the consequences. They can damage an economy, lose jobs, drive away investment and still retire wealthy, respected and welcomed back into corporate boardrooms.

A résumé is not an economic policy. A banker’s vocabulary cannot hide factories closing and investment leaving.

Canada is not being built. It is being hollowed out, while the people responsible remain comfortable.

[I love Tesla 🔋🚀 @JC70769]

"A guy looked at my airplane the other day and said I wonder how many people I could have fed for the price of that airplane...

I replied I am not sure, it fed a lot of families at the Dassault factory where it was built. I’m sure it fed a bunch of families that rolled the aluminum at the Alcoa factory. It surely fed a lot of people at the Honeywell factory where the experts built the turbines. It fed a whole company for a few weeks when I had them build me a new interior. It feeds the families of the linemen that fuel it.

That’s the difference between capitalism and a welfare mentality. When you buy something, you put money in people's pockets, and give them dignity for their skills.

When you give someone something for nothing, you rob them of their dignity and self worth.

Capitalism is freely giving your money in exchange for something of value.

Socialism is taking your money against your will and shoving something down your throat that you never asked for."

[Aɴᴛ @AntSpeaks]

Hey Mark, you're worth around $35 million while continuing to land major Hollywood roles. You could donate $25-30 million tomorrow and still live an extremely comfortable life for the rest of your days.

At a conservative 4% safe withdrawal rate, even a remaining $5-10 million would generate roughly $200,000-$400,000 a year in passive income, several times what the average family earns. On top of that, you own multiple luxury properties, including a New York penthouse reportedly worth around $7 million, and you're still taking on film roles that pay millions.

Lecturing others while sitting on tens of millions yourself is peak Hollywood...

As for Elon, his charitable giving has far exceeded your entire net worth tenfold. And as for the idea that he can simply "solve world hunger" by writing one giant cheque only demonstrates your fundamental misunderstanding of how global hunger actually works. It's not a problem that disappears because one wealthy person transfers money into the system.

You need a basic economics lesson and a mirror, because your hypocrisy is matched only by your lack of self-awareness.

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

People who want to remove Pierre:

1) Liberal boomers who will never vote for him

2) Liberal lobbyists that burned bridges with him

3) Liberal MSM that gets paid by the Liberals

4) Liberals who fear him

All of them have a common denominator.

In 2 months, Carney has blown a double digit lead by 50%.

50%

Carney is no saviour.

He can’t negotiate with Trump.

He lies.

Life is not any more affordable.

He calls his MPs only useful for votes.

The cracks are starting to form.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

@bloewen_itw Even a small tree by a parking lot gets pruned with care here.
Nobody asks if it deserves the attention.
It is just done.

I am glad that came through on your visit.

[Brad Loewen @bloewen_itw]

This poll would be more useful if you correlated it to taxpayer or tax recipient. What % of taxpayers think government spending is about right or too low?

[Canada Proud @WeAreCanProud]

A new poll has found that 51% of Canadians believe that Mark Carney and the Liberals are either spending too much or WAY TOO MUCH.

Are you with the majority of Canadians on this question?

[Brad Loewen @bloewen_itw]

Having visited Japan recently, I was struck by the reverence they have for trees. No tree, it seemed, was unworthy of care, they were all beautiful and many were stunning. Remarkable.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Osaka, a train station has a tree growing through its roof.

When Kayashima Station expanded, an ancient camphor tree stood in the way.

It was nearly 700 years old.

So Japan did not move the tree.

It moved the station around it.

Steel, tracks, roof, everything changed.

The tree stayed.

Progress does not always mean erasing the past.

Sometimes the future simply makes room for it to keep growing.

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

It’s harder to get unlimited pasta at Olive Garden than it is to vote in California.

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

This was posted by CBC. It’s not edited in any way. That is the music they chose to add to this clip.
This is purposeful & unwarranted fear they are pushing.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

This makes me happy on so many levels.

[Carolyn Rockey @CarolynWRockey]

Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The ones he had looked after as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. Wild butterflies fled. His didn't.
He was in second grade. He wrote a four-page letter to Dr. Martha Weiss, an entomologist at Georgetown University who had studied whether moths could retain memories through metamorphosis. He asked if she could help him design a version of her experiment for butterflies.
She said yes.
Using a muscle therapy device, Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70 per cent of them still avoided the lavender. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis. The memory survived anyway.
Then he bred them.
The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, two generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to a scent their grandmother had been taught to fear.
Jo documented it all in a 33-page research paper and presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.
A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.

-Wilderness Whisper

[Brad Loewen @bloewen_itw]

Imagine a country that enforces the rules. Imagine thinking that that country should be as loose with the enforcement of rules as your own country is.

[Jon Fraser @JonFraserTF]

We all saw the video of her smacking that young girl. Even if that hadn't happened, she still overstayed her visa and was in the country illegally. That is exactly why she is now in an ICE facility.

[Richard “Beebo” Russell @proverbs_14_23]

Not a day goes by that I am not reminded of a famous study where men and women were forced to play a card game against an opponent.

Their opponent then either cheated and stole money from the subjects; or cooperated and played fairly.

Afterwards, the men and women were strapped into an FMRI, and watched as their prior opponent received a painful electric shock.

For men, the brain produced an empathic response when the honest opponent was shocked. But it produced no empathy, and in fact showed signs of a pleasure when the cheater was shocked. Their empathy was conditional on how the opponent behaved.

But for women… The brain produced an empathic response for both types of opponents. It didn’t matter if they had been cheated by them prior, they wanted to alleviate everyone’s suffering regardless.

This is their greatest asset, it is the feminine divine. It is the reason why a mother’s love is unconditional.

It’s also the reason why you will be stabbed to death in a Walmart parking lot by a borderline retarded Haitian with 73 prior convictions.

[Lorrie Goldstein @sunlorrie]

70% of Canadians say crushing taxes destroying standard of living: Poll
The results suggest a growing disconnect between government spending policy and the priorities of taxpayers.
https://t.co/3sa4gPYYN8

[Brad Loewen @bloewen_itw]

Harder to launder money through water bomber procurement than it is through the Ukraine

[wealthmoose @wealthmoose]

🇨🇦 The Liberals found $26B for Ukraine.

$3.2B for condo developers.

Can’t find enough water bombers while Canadian towns burn to the ground.

This isn’t a money problem.
It’s a priority problem.

Canada first should not be a controversial concept.

In Ottawa it apparently is.