Catherine Hessian

Mom by design, thinker by nature. BSc U Manitoba, MBA McGill, software engineer, financial derivatives and accounting, old school Canadian liberal

[Catherine Hessian @cathinott]

@HowToAI_ Yes. This isn’t a surprise. LLMs don’t understand anything.

[Catherine Hessian @cathinott]

@FoodProfessor @ASophievanisle Most Canadians don’t understand that the US is playing hardball with us because we are so shady.

[Catherine Hessian @cathinott]

@FoodProfessor We have become China. If we become the 51st state maybe the US will kick the CCP out of Canada. They would be stupid not to.

[Catherine Hessian @cathinott]

@DisaffectedPod I think they genuinely do not understand. Eating out is by definition more expensive than eating at home.

At home you are providing the shopping, the storing, the preparing, the serving, and the premises. At a restaurant you are paying for all of those, and tax on all of those.

[Melissa Mbarki @MelissaMbarki]

No “mass grave” was discovered at the site of the Kamloops Indian residential school five years ago. Even the Tkemlúps te Secwepemc Nation at Kamloops refuted that characterization within a week of the initial round of shocking headlines. Ever since, the Tkemlúps have gone back and forth on the subject, aided by $12.1 million in federal funds, from “probable burials” to graves to “signatures that resemble burials.”

The hundreds of graves “found” at Marieval in Saskatchewan, where Trudeau famously posed kneeling at a gravesite holding a teddy bear, were ordinary burials in a Cowessess community cemetery where gravestones had been removed. Cowessess elder and former Marieval student Lloyd Lerat said this about the graves: “We’ve always known these were there.… It’s just the fact that the media picked up on unmarked graves, and the story actually created itself from there because that’s how it happens.”

The 182 graves “discovered” near the old St. Eugene’s residential school in B.C. at the Ktunaxa community of ʔAq’am were burials in a former pioneer cemetery later associated with a hospital and a Catholic mission that had lost its wooden crosses to grass fires over the years. “There’s no discovery, we knew it was there, it’s a graveyard,” Sophie Pierre, a former St. Eugene’s student who served for 25 years as the Ktunaxa tribal chair, explained later. “The fact there are graves inside a graveyard shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.”

The 160 “unmarked graves” reported on Penelakut Island were not newly discovered. Some were associated with a cemetery, others were inferred from ground penetrating radar research, and more were the result of archeological surveys on the island’s foreshore. Twenty years earlier the RCMP had excavated a rumoured residential-school burial site on the island and came up with nothing.

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

“I am Muslim” is analogous with “I am American,” not with “I am Christian.” If you don’t understand this, you will never understand what is actually going on.

“I am Muslim” means I am a citizen of the ummah, the Islamic state that lost its territory to infidel Arab puppet leaders, the Zionists, and the Christians, and that empire must be restored.

“I am Palestinian” means I am Muslim. The term “Palestinian” was invented to mask “Muslim,” because the religious war needed a secular label.

In this framework, saying “I am Palestinian” means “I am Muslim,” and that Jews can't take what is believed to be Allah’s land.

Demanding Sharia law in the West means replacing the constitution of the infidel government and establishing the Islamic constitution, essentially occupying the land or restoring it under the rule of Allah.

Saying, “I am a Muslim and I want Sharia law,” means: I am a citizen of a foreign state, and I want my constitution to replace your constitution.

The UAE banning the Muslim Brotherhood is, in effect, the infidel government of the UAE banning the political activism of a foreign state, Islam, on its territory.

[Catherine Hessian @cathinott]

@beyondwaiting You just don’t hit other people. I feel like I’m explaining that the sky is blue.

[Catherine Hessian @cathinott]

@matt_marsden123 @LetsGoBack___ @katrosenfield That’s so scary.

It’s like I read a former woke person say that when she was woke she didn’t know that she had opinions. To her, all of her thoughts were just facts.

[Lisa Bildy @LDBildy]

I testified at the Senate yesterday on the "Combatting Hate" Bill, which impacts expressive rights. I also listened to every other panel discussion on this Bill, which was very illuminating and quite disturbing.

Canada is on a precipice.

We are a country of atomized groups simultaneously jockeying to be seen as the most oppressed, while also wielding considerable power as sacralized identities to push for restrictions on the expression of others — not just "hate", but also offence, dissent, and even opposing facts.

Having listened to many of the other speeches before I prepared mine, I took the opportunity to speak against criminalizing "denialism". That would be a terrible path for Canada to take — even worse than the one we're already on.

Criminal law cannot manufacture harmony (generously assuming that is what the activists want); only open debate and dialogue can.

[Catherine Hessian @cathinott]

@terrynewman We absolutely need full transparency.

For a start check out the app

USDebtClock

which has a ton of constantly updating stats about the US

[Mia Hughes @_CryMiaRiver]

This is actually incredible! The Globe and Mail admitting to its total failure in covering the "unmarked grave" mass hysteria — an event that changed Canada, possibly irreparably.

"The fact of the crimes committed against Indigenous children at residential schools over many decades does not automatically validate claims that hundreds of students were dumped into unmarked graves in Kamloops and other residential schools. That is an extraordinary assertion, one that requires proof.

…The media, including The Globe and Mail, did not initially scrutinize, much less challenge, that assertion. The initial headlines and stories in the media simply stated as fact that the remains of 215 children had been found.

Perhaps it will be proven, some day, that there are hundreds of unmarked graves at Kamloops. But it was not proven to be true in May, 2021. It is not proven to be true today.

…The lesson of 2021 should be: assertions about residential schools should be listened to carefully, and then, just as carefully, held up to scrutiny.”

Now do the scandal of paediatric gender medicine, @globeandmail. You have been just as gullible and your reporting has been just as atrocious.

Assertions about "gender-affirming care" should also be held up to scrutiny.

You frequently report that this treatment is life-saving, when there is no evidence that is true.

You call puberty blockers fully reversible, when there is clear evidence that is false.

You blindly accept the existence of "trans kids" without questioning where this sudden explosion of young people "born in the wrong body" came from.

You appeal to the authority of medical associations, including the thoroughly discredited WPATH, and dismally fail to investigate the astonishing levels of fraud, corruption, and institutional capture.

[MikesMoneyTalks.ca @moneytalkstweet]

You won't hear this on the CBC

Geiger Capital: "Western governments told their people that we needed to mass import low-skilled foreigners to keep the economy strong.
Well now they've done it, and their economies are still weak. It's because of their policies. They forever changed the demographics of their nation for nothing."

[Aaron Pete @Aaronpete_]

Thanks for joining the conversation.

Do you know the flack people have taken for holding this position?

Do you know the flack I’ve taken for speaking with these voices.

As a First Nations Chief, and podcast host - I’ve sought to find a path forward.

I did an hour breakdown on the real history, the the genuine questions that exist - while speaking with @FrancesWiddows1, @CandiceMalcolm, @jonkay, @NigelBiggar.

These people have been called denialists, white supremacists, and other horrible names. It took courage to speak out when they did.

They deserve some more respect, as they said this when it was the most difficult.

I’m glad you’re saying it now, but it shows how far behind you are when a bunch of independent media voices beat you to this by YEARS.

I hope you take this as a lesson, and that next time you’re ahead of the curve, rather than years behind.

We have some pressing issues facing our country, and it would be nice to be put out of a job - by really good journalism.

[Catherine Hessian @cathinott]

They talk about how “the media” acted at the time. Strangely, the media all acted in lockstep.

Even as I, and many others, were thinking “wait a minute there’s no proof of anything here”, because we have brains and we use them to think, not one reporter tried to use their brain to ask basic questions.

I wonder what the odds were of all the media being identically stupid at the same time.

[Catherine Hessian @cathinott]

@Mr_Atoz @ryangerritsen 100%

[Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀 @EricDLombardi]

I always find reactions to a quarter or month of economic data in Canada to be amusing, especially with the news that we are in “recession”.

If it’s good news, the government takes credit.

If bad, the opposition blames the government.

The reality is that we have been a stagnant economy for the better part of the last 25 years.

Our underperformance is structural. Economic mismanagement spans governments and partisanship.

We’re in recession now is because population growth via immigration has stopped. Nothing else has changed.

Regulatory complexity burden protecting large uncompetitive sectors? Unchanged.

Complex tax system disincentivizing investment and earned income? Unchanged.

Unproductive public bureaucracies? Hardly considered a problem.

Interprovincial barriers? MOUs are just paper.

Housing? Still a mess in Ontario and BC as provincial government drags their feet on long term reforms.

And the malaise in Canada is concentrated here in Ontario.

We have consistently lagged Canada, even as our country lagged nearly everywhere else in the developed world. Even the UK!

Yes, Ontario is genuinely facing headwinds on trade with America. That makes a hard problem even more difficult.

But if we look pre-2024, the story is much the same. In 2000, Ontario was rich by developed country standards.

Today we are not.

This should make us angry, because we have an insane amount of opportunity if we change course. But not if we keep re-electing the status quo.

[Catherine Hessian @cathinott]

@yaoillitxt Walking isn’t exercise in the way those categories mean it.

It’s the very least you can do. It’s what humans are supposed to be able to casually do. Exercise for these categories means pushing yourself hard.

[Catherine Hessian @cathinott]

@MelissaMbarki As a Canadian, I’m done with the current setup.

It worked for a while and that’s great.

But it’s 2026 and we need to come up with a forward-looking arrangement that provides opportunities for the next generation, in the world of now not the world of 1867.

[Catherine Hessian @cathinott]

@TristinHopper There should be total transparency in the government. Any citizen should be able to go online and see exactly where every dollar is going. I don’t believe in secrets.