Damon Bennett

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[Damon Bennett @DamonBennett_]

@NYRChip23 The best in my lifetime 🇺🇸

[Toronto Maple Leafs @MapleLeafs]

Welcome home 💙

[Damon Bennett @DamonBennett_]

I’ll take this player all day long. Welcome to Toronto Darren.

[Jeff Veillette @JeffVeillette]

I've generally one to dismiss the lust for chasing after a slapshot on the powerplay, and I don't know that my point of view has necessarily changed there, but if you want someone who will score with a bomb, last year's Darren Raddysh was one of the few guys who did:

[Damon Bennett @DamonBennett_]

@NYRChip23 I love the pick up but I’m even happier there no NTC attached to that contract. I doubt he’ll be here for the full 8

[Damon Bennett @DamonBennett_]

@badhombrez @hwinkler4real You’ll never blame him, will you “ hombre “.

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

Barack: You told me all those years ago that you couldn’t promise me the world, but you could promise me an interesting life. Of course, you outdid yourself and managed to give me both.

Eight years in the crucible, and not once did you melt from the heat. Not once did you let it harden you. Instead, you used it to reveal your truest essence: your stubborn optimism and unflinching courage, your dazzling brilliance and unpretentious decency, your ferocious work ethic and absolutely unshakable moral fiber.

[Damon Bennett @DamonBennett_]

@NYRChip23 When the speak of America, it reminds me of the country I admire and what many countries would want to aspire to become. I miss the hope and compassion.

[Damon Bennett @DamonBennett_]

By far, one of the most gracious and impactful speeches I’ve ever heard. The ideals of an America I admired.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

here's Michelle Obama's entire speech commemorating the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, which in part served as an extended (tacit) rebuke of Trumpism

[Damon Bennett @DamonBennett_]

Powerful speech. Words like these are dearly missed.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

here's Barack Obama's entire speech commemorating the Obama Presidential Center. He reflected on his administration's successes and failures, critiqued the moral rot of contemporary America, and outlined a positive vision of the future -- all without ever mentioning Trump

[Damon Bennett @DamonBennett_]

@5eniorDeveloper This made me laugh way too much 😂

[Gabriele Corno @Gabriele_Corno]

The autistic child meets the living being that will change his life

[Damon Bennett @DamonBennett_]

@NYRChip23 😂💯

[Canadian Institute for Historical Education @CdnInst4HistEd]

Did Canada exist because America failed to conquer it?

On June 18, 1812, the United States declared war on Great Britain. What followed would become one of the most consequential—and often misunderstood—conflicts in North American history.

At the time, there was no Canada.

There were British colonies stretching from the Atlantic to the Great Lakes, populated by English-speaking settlers, French Canadians, Indigenous nations, recent immigrants, and Loyalists who had fled the American Revolution.

Many American leaders believed these colonies could be easily absorbed into the United States. Former President Thomas Jefferson famously predicted that the conquest of Canada would be "a mere matter of marching."

It was not.

Over the next two years, American invasions were repeatedly repelled by a coalition of British regulars, Canadian militia, French Canadian volunteers, and Indigenous allies led by figures such as Tecumseh.

The war ended in 1814 without territorial changes. Yet its political consequences were profound.

For Americans, the conflict became a story of national survival and independence from Britain.

For the people living north of the border, it became something different: a shared memory of resisting annexation and remaining outside the American republic.

Historians continue to debate whether the War of 1812 "created" Canada. Confederation was still more than fifty years away. But the war helped foster a sense that the colonies of British North America had a distinct future—one that would develop separately from the United States.

In that sense, modern Canada may owe part of its existence not simply to British victory, but to an American failure.

#TodayInHistory #WarOf1812 #CanadianHistory #HistoryMatters #OnThisDay #CIHE

[Damon Bennett @DamonBennett_]

Mickeys Canadian roots. 🇨🇦

[Morgan Cameron Ross @Morgan_C_Ross]

Walt Disney discussing his Canadian roots in Ontario in a CBC interview in the 1960s. 🇨🇦

[Damon Bennett @DamonBennett_]

One of my favourite Toronto hangouts.

[Globe Culture @GlobeArts]

The muralist behind Sneaky Dee’s reflects on the iconic Toronto venue’s legacy https://t.co/izVMvuwVIy

[Dominion Aesthetics @CanadianAesth]

Canadian Women’s Army Corp (1941)

[Damon Bennett @DamonBennett_]

@ridetheblinds12 @WatchMyReview It’s just hockey man, get over it.

[Damon Bennett @DamonBennett_]

Ya, I get it. Some of that makes sense but who gives a shit. I hear the same things when the Habs play. We’ve been force fed nonsense bs that Gallagher was the second coming of Christ for the last 5 years. It’s all just media hype bs. The same thing goes on in American markets too.

[Damon Bennett @DamonBennett_]

@lmfaohabs @WatchMyReview Ya I can definitely say that some Leaf fans are but every team has their chuckleheads.

[Damon Bennett @DamonBennett_]

@WatchMyReview 😂 I knew the responses would be quick and glorious. Thanks for not disappointing 🫡

[Damon Bennett @DamonBennett_]

@WatchMyReview We’re the villains in every hockey fan base story…. They hate us cuz they ain’t us, kinda thing.