Charmaine de Silva

Communications, Issues + Advisory. Recovering journalist. 🇱🇰 born, 🇨🇦 raised. She/Her 🌈

[windward antifascist @windward_afa]

For some reason it's the ones who cry the hardest about "protecting women" from queer & trans people who do the most harm to women.

[Jordan Armstrong @jarmstrongbc]

WATCH: MLA Jordan Kealy speaks after being charged with sexual assault. He says he’s innocent and will remain an independent (had been rumours of imminent rejoin of @BCConservCaucus) will he fights the charge.

#bcpoli
@CUrquhartGlobal
@GlobalBC

[😼 @dutchessprim]

Me watching @HunterBiden absolutely shred haters on here…

[Prime Minister of Canada @CanadianPM]

The Montréal Victoire – a team that truly lived up to its name.

Yesterday, Prime Minister Carney welcomed the 2026 Walter Cup champions to Ottawa to congratulate them on securing their historic title.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.

[𝐍𝐚𝐝𝐢. @luvblessingz]

Happy Pride to those who cannot celebrate openly or safely. Know that you are seen, and you belong. 🏳️‍🌈

[Janet Brown @JanetBrown980]

BRENDA LOCKE’S FOUR-YEAR CAMPAIGN TO END THE SURREY POLICE SERVICE CONTINUES

Terminating SPS Chief Norm Lipinski is a politically motivated decision that makes our city less safe #SurreyFirst

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Introducing the Montréal Victoire: the first Canadian team to bring the Walter Cup home to Canada. Your victory was a milestone for women’s hockey — and a proud moment for all Canadians. 🇨🇦

[Vancouver Canucks @Canucks]

WELCOME COACH MANNY!

General Manager Ryan Johnson announced today that the #Canucks have hired Manny Malhotra as the 23rd Head Coach in franchise history.

DETAILS | https://t.co/JJyyPHeb09

[MLB @MLB]

From the bleachers to the ballfield and everywhere in between …

Baseball is for everyone. #Pride

[Doug Ford @fordnation]

Happy Pride Month, Ontario!

To everyone celebrating pride across the province, wishing you all a safe and fun month.

[Celine Dion @celinedion]

Félicitations à La Victoire de Montréal pour avoir remporté la Coupe Walter.
- Céline xx…

[laur @fleetluvr]

this is genuinely making me tear up just thinking about how these women had no idea that a league with so many fans would exist when they were kids and women’s sports would be huge

[🏆 - Victoire de Montréal @PWHL_Montreal]

Vous pensiez vraiment qu’on n’allait pas capturer Poulin avec une bière, un cigare et la Coupe Walter 😌

You really thought we wouldn’t capture Poulin with a beer, a cigar, and the Walter Cup?

[abbey @tempoxwingsfan]

everyone's wants a lesbian sports show while Canadas biggest hockey star is married to her teammate and they just won the PWHL championship together ... and then posted a sexy hockey photo shoot

[Dr. Hedy Fry @HedyFry]

Wishing @premgill all the best after a remarkable decade at the helm of @creativebcs. Congratulations on a legacy of championing BC's creative industries at home and abroad and growing 🇨🇦's economy. Always a pleasure to work with you, Prem. Best wishes for continued success! #BCcreates

[Andy Kim @AndyKimNJ]

My son has a soccer game this weekend. He'd like me to go. I'm going to try. I said, this is not good timing for me. He's a person I've known for a long time.

[Sportsnet @Sportsnet]

"I think I peed a little." 😭

Marie-Philip Poulin on her honest reaction to when Abby Roque scored a jailbreak goal while she was in the penalty box in Game 4 of the Walter Cup Finals

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Disney paid a 13-year-old $15,000 an episode while selling $100 million in merchandise with her face on it. She never saw a dollar of the merch money.

Hilary Duff made $975,000 total for 65 episodes of Lizzie McGuire. The show's dolls, sleeping bags, notebooks, and Kohl's apparel line generated over $100 million in revenue for Disney. Her cut of that: reportedly zero. The movie grossed $55.5 million worldwide. She got $1 million.

Then Disney tried to lock her in. They offered a primetime ABC spinoff at $35,000 per episode and a sequel for $4 million plus 4% of gross. When her mother pushed for better terms, Disney gave them 24 hours to accept and then pulled the entire deal.

Her mom's quote: "Disney thought they'd be able to bully us into accepting whatever offer they wanted to make, and they couldn't. We walked away from a sequel. They walked away from a franchise."

She was 16. Most child stars who walk away from their franchise at 16 don't come back. The list of early-2000s Disney kids who maintained stable careers, stable finances, and stable public lives is brutally short.

Duff did seven seasons of Younger. Wrote novels. Raised three kids. Stayed out of tabloids for a decade. Then in late 2025, she dropped a comeback single. Her "Small Rooms, Big Nerves" warm-up shows sold out instantly, marking her first headline concerts in over a decade.

The Lucky Me Tour starts June 2026. Seven countries. 47 North American cities. Madison Square Garden. Red Rocks. The O2 in London. She added second nights in LA, New York, Toronto, and London because the first dates sold out too fast. Her husband produced the album.

The math that sticks: Disney made $100 million off a teenager and paid her less than $2 million total. Twenty-five years later she's headlining MSG and they're still selling Lizzie McGuire reruns.

That hallway walk on JHud's set is 25 years of receipts arriving at once.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it.

Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago.

IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued.

The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk.

The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit.

Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.” 

Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million.

The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out.

This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president.

Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues?

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