Pete Hoekstra, @USAmbCanada kicks off the 250th July 4 Independence celebration in Ottawa by introducing the F-35 & F-18 fly over for attendees.
"We'll end up being stronger together, we just got some work to do. Enjoy the planes."
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I wish Canada, Prime Minister @MarkJCarney, and all Canadians a Happy Canada Day. Ukraine joins you in celebrating this day. We appreciate Canada’s leadership in helping us protect the lives of our people across many domains: defense assistance, pioneering work on sanctions against Russia’s shadow fleet and financial sector, diplomatic advocacy, and much more. We are grateful that we can count on your continued support in all these areas. Thank you, Canada!
Happy Canada Day! Bonne Fête du Canada ! 🇨🇦🍁 Watch Ambassador Yamanouchi's message to all Canadians.
We hope everyone has a great day celebrating with their friends and family!
Clint Eastwood !!!! ❤️
Aos 96 anos, Clint Eastwood quebrou nossas ilusões sobre envelhecimento. Não ofereceu consolo sobre anos dourados cheios de serenidade. Pintou a verdade: "A luz machuca os olhos. Respirar pode ser um trabalho duro. O teu corpo já não está a cooperar. Cada passo requer estratégia."
Mas o verdadeiro peso da velhice não é físico. É emocional. Ao cruzar os anos 90, seu círculo social diminui. A maioria das pessoas que te conheceram quando eras jovem desapareceram. O telefone parou de tocar. O ritmo dos dias abranda. A pílula mais amarga não é a dor. É a ausência de alguém que queira te ouvir.
Eastwood explicou por que os idosos repetem histórias. Não é para me gabar. É para se ancorar a uma realidade onde eles eram ativos, amados e relevantes. "Você se encontra repetindo histórias, adicionando detalhes, não para convencer ninguém, mas para sentir que você ainda está conectado a algo", disse. "Você tenta transmitir coisas aos jovens, mesmo quando vê o tédio nos olhos deles".
Vivemos em uma cultura que trata a longevidade como um troféu, mas ignora a solidão que a acompanha. Louvamos o rápido e o brilhante. Não deixamos espaço para o ritmo lento dos idosos.
Clint Eastwood é um gigante do cinema, mas suas palavras falam por cada idoso de 90 anos. São bibliotecas vivas da nossa história. Quando os ouvimos, algo mágico acontece. Fechamos o fosso entre gerações. Rugas não são sinais de envelhecimento. São mapas de uma vida plenamente vivida. E é um privilégio ouvir sua viagem.
Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦
With millions of Canadians with Scottish roots, the bond between Scotland and Canada remains as strong as ever.
Wishing a wonderful Canada Day to all Canadians at home and around the world!
En cette fête du Canada, nous exprimons notre gratitude pour l’héritage que nous ont légué nos bâtisseurs: un pays enraciné dans la liberté, le sens des responsabilités et un engagement commun les uns envers les autres, renforcé par des générations de Canadiennes et de Canadiens qui ont bâti ce pays, l’ont servi et se sont sacrifiés pour lui.
Laureen et moi souhaitons à toutes et à tous une très heureuse fête du Canada ! 🇨🇦
@CarymaRules An embarrassing display of how not to march in public. It’s not that hard. And if you are the NCO in charge a few corrective “left, right, left” commands spoken quietly is usually enough to sort out the cattle. Sad.
I am Iranian. Let me tell you what is truly heartbreaking:
The IRGC has slaughtered tens of thousands of innocent Iranians, our brothers, sisters, children, and not a single one of those soccer players opened their mouths.
The only one who dared speak up for the people, Sardar Azmoun, got banned from the World Cup on some bullsh*t excuse about a photo with a UAE Sheikh.
The rest of the team? They didn’t even flinch. Not one word.
Worse, some of them actively stood with the regime and the Supreme Leader, the same butcher who drowned Iran's streets in blood.
Team captain Mehdi Taremi has been a vocal, proud supporter of the IRGC and Khamenei, just scroll through his social media, it’s all there.
Shoja Khalilzadeh proudly told Iranian media he’d dedicate his goals to the Supreme Leader, not to the people being massacred, but to the man ordering the killings.
There’s video of Shoja and Jalal Hosseini chilling in their car, happily singing “Salute Commander,” that disgusting propaganda anthem made for Khamenei.
When asked about the oppression back home, Ramin Rezaeian coldly shrugged it off as “an internal matter.”
Don’t give me that “they were forced” bullsh*t.
Silence under threat? Maybe.
But no one forces you to publicly suck up to the regime like these clowns did. No one puts a gun to your head and makes you sing praises to a mass murderer.
So no, there’s nothing heartbreaking about their elimination.
That team represents anything but the people of Iran.
Good riddance.
Fly home, bitches.
My heart is with Venezuela. 🇻🇪💔
I have been trying to find the right words, but there are moments when words simply do not feel big enough.
Lives have been lost. Children and families have been displaced and left without homes or basic necessities. Some are grieving, while others are desperately searching for the people they love, enduring the unbearable uncertainty of not knowing whether they are safe or whether they will ever see them again.
Yes, my family is safe, and I am deeply grateful. Venezuela is where I was born. It is part of my story, my roots and my identity, even though Canada is the country that raised me and became my home.
To witness this tragedy from far away is heartbreaking. Yet, in the middle of so much devastation, I am overwhelmed by the courage, humanity and extraordinary work of the Venezuelan people inside the country. They are searching for the missing, helping the injured, opening their homes, sharing what little they have and doing everything they can to protect and save one another.
For years, the Venezuelan regime has failed its people. But Venezuelans have always shown that we are greater than those who have failed us.
When institutions abandon people, our people find one another. We feed strangers. We shelter families. We comfort those who are grieving. We carry one another through fear, loss and uncertainty. Once again, Venezuelans are showing the world what it means to remain courageous, generous and deeply human in the most painful circumstances.
To everyone in Venezuela helping, searching, rescuing, comforting and refusing to give up: you are not forgotten, and you are not alone.
Many of us who live outside Venezuela carry a deep and complicated guilt. We have watched you remain there, fighting battle after battle for the country we all love. We have witnessed your sacrifices, your courage and your determination to keep going.
Now, as this tragedy brings even more pain, that guilt feels even heavier. It is difficult to express how much I love my people and how painful it feels to be far away when Venezuela needs so much.
But please know this: Venezuelans and friends of Venezuela around the world are mobilizing. People are organizing collections, raising funds and working to bring help to those who need it. Distance has never made us forget you. We carry Venezuela with us everywhere.
We will continue standing with our people and fighting for our country, always. Today, more than ever.
For those asking how to help, the following organizations and community accounts have been shared as places to find donation information 👇🏼👇🏼
🤍 Financial support and humanitarian organizations:
@redcrosscanada
@globalempowermentmission
@wckitchen@unicefcanada
@welove_foundation
@globalgiving
@savethechildrencanada
@doctorswithoutborders
@thehouseproject_
🇨🇦 Physical donations in Canada:
Please follow @venezolanosenontario and join their WhatsApp community for updated information about collection points, transportation plans and current needs.
Donation centres currently being shared include:
📍 Ottawa — @encantocafemanotick
📍 Toronto — @tiaflortoronto
📍 Etobicoke — @latindough
📍 Montreal/Laval — @elloungemtl and @larepaqc
📍 Edmonton — @sazonvenezuelan
📍 Calgary — 388 Silverton Glen Green SW
Questions: 825-488-8636
Requested items include:
• Non-perishable food
• Bottled water
• Medical supplies
• Hygiene products
• Baby supplies
• Blankets and bedding
• Batteries, flashlights, chargers and power banks
Please avoid donating formal clothing, high heels or other non-essential items.
Because needs, collection details and transportation arrangements may change, please confirm directly with the organizers before donating or travelling to a collection point.
Every donation matters. Every share matters. Every act of support matters.
BC has 200+ First Nations with overlapping traditional territories covering every inch of the province.
As I explain to Global News: If we allow one provincial park to be shut down to non-Indigenous citizens on the basis of ancestry, it sets a problematic precedent for parks & public land all across BC.
I’ve been fighting this park closure since it first happened, and four summers later I’m not about to stop.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: BC’s beautiful provincial parks belong to ALL British Columbians.
When General Donahue commanded the 82nd Airborne Division, he made it a point to do physical training with a different squad every morning. He brought them to headquarters, where a certified instructor led everyone through a demanding high-intensity workout. He did it religiously for two years.
I liked the idea so much that I brought the same approach into squadron command. Every morning, a different section would join me and the Command Sergeant Major for PT. It gave us a chance to sweat alongside our soldiers, spend time with every part of the formation, and build relationships that we wouldn’t have developed by staying behind our desks or working out by ourselves!
Elon Musk: ”Nothing makes you happier than kids. I really encourage all my friends and everyone to have kids.
The birth rate in the United States has been below replacement rate since roughly when I was born. I think last year was the lowest birth rate on record. It was very low.
We’re seeing this trend in almost every country on earth. This is worrying because if something doesn’t happen, humanity’s gonna disappear. So it’s very important to have kids.”
Elon Musk was asked if he is considering running for president.
Elon Musk: “I actually don’t want to be president. To be clear, I want to build rockets and cars. I just love creating technologies that people find useful, and that’s what I want to do with my time.”
Elon Musk says smartphones won't exist in 5 years.
"We're not going to have a phone in the traditional sense. What we call a phone will really be an edge node for AI inference, with some radios to obviously connect, but essentially you'll have AI on the server side communicating to an AI on your device."
"There won't be operating systems, there won't be apps in the future. You've got a device that is there for the screen and audio to put as much AI on the device as possible so as to minimize the amount of bandwidth needed between your edge node device and the servers."
"You'll get everything through AI. Whatever you can think of, or really whatever the AI can anticipate you can think of, it'll show you."
"It's probably five or six years, something like that."