Mornings are my favorite with Maya. She’s wide awake, bright-eyed, and so wonderfully responsive. I’m still in awe of how much she’s improved over the past few months especially just this week alone. I love you so much, my sweet baby girl. ❤️
Canada's living standards are collapsing in a socialist doom loop.
The govt is trying to hide this by "growing" the economy with massive numbers of immigrants. However cramming millions of Bangladeshis into Toronto doesn't make for a more powerful first world city, it just turns the entire the city into the 3rd world also. Now they are all on welfare and the rent is higher for everyone.
Canada's GDP per capita was 94% of America's in 1981. Today it's 67%. The widest gap since World War II.
Ontario is now poorer than 43 US states. Including Louisiana and Alabama. This isn't a hiccup, it's a collapse.
From 2017-2024, US productivity grew 10.1%. Canada's fell 0.6%.
The US spends 3.4% of GDP on R&D.
Canada spends 1.7%.
Housing prices are 50% to 100% higher in Canada compared to the USA, meanwhile incomes are 30% lower.
Canadians spends 48% of their income on a mortgage. The average American: 34%.
Canada has talent, natural resources (oil, gas, minerals hydro), safe geography, rule of law. It should be one of the wealthiest countries on the planet.
What it doesn't have is a system that rewards being successful. It is a system being strangled by bad immigration policy, bad trade policies, massive regulations, woke DEI mind viruses and crushing taxes.
I’ve earned the right to say this, President Trump.
I served alongside U.S. and NATO troops. I still advise, at the request of the U.S. DoD, to help give American soldiers a better chance of survival if captured.
I was captured, tortured, falsely tried by a Russian proxy court, and sentenced to death after Russia invaded my country. America judged my experience worth listening to.
So when I say you are an offensive dick, when you dismiss allied service with “they’ll say they sent some troops,” then smirk and say they were “a little away from the front,” you insult every veteran who stood with America after 9/11.
You breed contempt, and that’s the second put-down to veterans in as many days, and to those who fought and died in Afghanistan to support you, the US
Thank you for your attention on this matter.
Shaun Pinner
Recipient of the Order of Courage
Ukraine 🇺🇦
Young Ukrainian mother and her daughter wounded by broken glass.
Video recorded moments after this morning’s Russian double-tap ballistic missile strike against Sumy which left at least 31 killed and 84 wounded.