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[DeMotta @DeMotta]

@TheFigen_ @grok what is his name

[Katya Sedgwick @KatyaSedgwick]

Canadians need to start loving their kids more than they hate America.

[DeMotta @DeMotta]

The CBC might be the hardest program to watch on election night

[Billboard Chris 🌎 @BillboardChris]

Mark Carney is the new unelected Prime Minister of Canada!

“My weakness is, you know, people will charge me as being elitist or uh, you know, a globalist, uh to use that uh term, which is um well that’s exactly, you know, happens to be exactly what we uh what we need.” -Mark Carney

He speaks almost as well as Kamala Harris.

[govt.exe is corrupt @govt_corrupt]

#BREAKING: Mark Carney has won the Liberal Leadership race and is now the Prime Minister.

Only in Canada can an unelected, private citizen with 3 passports be chosen as the Country's Leader. So much for democracy.

F🇨🇦CK Mark Carney!

[DeMotta @DeMotta]

@Vision4theBlind A am

[DeMotta @DeMotta]

@Alphafox78 @YMHstudios

[dani🪜 @lecstappens]

statement made 💀

[Kashif Pirzada, MD @KashPrime]

Probably the most important article you'll read all year, by @omeraziz12 in the @globeandmail
Canada is in serious trouble, and Aziz hits the nail on the head on the causes:

- Deep incompetence by politicians, who resort to PR management over making decisions. Parliament is deeply dysfunctional, with Question Period a joke, and committee hearings a farce. Trudeau but also the provincial premiers have much to answer for. Many of our leaders come from legacy wealthy backgrounds and have absolutely no idea how difficult they've made life for Canadians.

"What I realized soon thereafter was that this country was witnessing a systemic political failure, a complete inability of politicians to get change done in ways that manifested at the dinner table. An extreme form of PR and image-management had begun to take over delivering on policy in concrete ways − and the entire country was noticing. Nor was this an accident, the unfortunate consequence of polarization or inequality, but the deliberate result of multiple policy failures − as well as failures of will."

"Normally, in a democracy, social ills can be addressed by public officials. But Canada’s own political institutions have been riven by corruption and personal ambition. And now also potentially by foreign influence. Each controversy and scandal leads people away from crucial time and policy attention that could have been spent on fixing the country’s major issues. At the parliamentary level, most members of Parliament are so frightened of speaking for themselves that they are rendered powerless. This defies the very essence of the British parliamentary system, upon which Canada’s system is based, which empowers MPs to speak on behalf of their constituents and represent their true voice in the people’s chamber."

- Inattention to rising crime, especially rampant car thefts, a revolving door criminal justice system, neglect of the opioid crisis. We have the laxest justice system in the Western world. Causing someone's death will get you a 6 month sentence in one prominent example. America had mass incarceration, we have mass leniency.

"At some point, one would think that the deaths of so many innocent and vulnerable people would elicit outrage − yet life goes on as normal. Each life is precious, and when violent criminals get off easy, or without punishment at all, they learn the terrible lesson that this country does not take its own laws seriously, so why should they? When the law loses its power to deter crime, either because of prosecutors not moving forward with cases, or because of a general laissez-faire attitude toward violent crime happening in other neighbourhoods, it is the marginalized who are harmed most."

- Rising housing costs that has made nearly everyone, including me, to paraphrase A Bittersweet Symphony, a slave to massive mortgages until they die, or they are perennial renters.

"For many Canadians, the cost of living has become unaffordable. The average price of a house in the GTA is $1.1-million, and Metro Vancouver is around the same. There are certainly cheaper places to live, but the average cost of a rental in Canada has reached record highs − more than $2,100 a month. According to one major study, Canada needs to build an additional 3.5 million homes by the end of the decade and is currently only building around 200,000 a year."

- Violation of the social contract on immigration.
"In Canada, the social contract for years allowed more immigration to grow the economy, but this came with stringent criteria for who should be admitted. Today, there are more than 900,000 international students in Canada, a 170-per-cent increase over the past decade. Some of these students have been scammed by for-profit colleges. Others have been affiliated with fake schools, using their student visas as loopholes in the immigration system. The social system was unprepared for such an influx, though certain institutions benefited: colleges and universities got more fees; politicians touted rising immigration numbers; the landlord class got an endless supply of perpetual renters. Without any housing available, this has left the country unprepared to deal with multiple, overlapping economic and social crises."

Aziz asks What is the Canadian dream?
"It was a promise − less individualistic and gun-friendly than the American version, but no less ambitious. To me, the dream promised that every person here could have a decent shot at life, one that was better than that of their parents. There was emphasis on community and a strong focus on order and good government. The compact included the payment of higher taxes, and in exchange, the existence of world-class social institutions delivering for ordinary people. The immigration system worked because the same contract existed with immigrants − that they would work hard, play by the rules, become part of Canadian society through legal means, and in return, would become citizens of a highly functioning democracy where a good life was, if not guaranteed, then within reach.

The dream was based on fairness, on merit, on policies that worked. It promised breathable air and the bountiful resources of the second-largest country on Earth. It promised the principle of equality of opportunity, promised safety and peace and responsibility. It promised leaders who put the national and long-term interests of the country above their own partisan needs. The dream now feels like it’s on life support."

Amen

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

An absolute travesty at the Olympics.

Angela Carini is forced to box against a biological male. She quits after just 45 seconds, and cries hysterically as her opponent is declared the winner.

Don't look away. This is wokeness.

[The Pleb 🇨🇦 @truckdriverpleb]

We could have purchased 300 of those water bomber planes with the 12 billion we sent to Ukraine

Jasper would still be here today if we had politicians who actually put their citizens first

Why is my money going overseas?

[DeMotta @DeMotta]

@DrLoupis @KILLTONY is that William Montgomery?

[DeMotta @DeMotta]

@OscarPiastri @McLarenF1 You finished second today.

[Saint Adaugoijele ✝️ @JustAdaugoijele]

Divine Praises

Blessed be God.
Blessed be His Holy Name.
Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true Man.
Blessed be the Name of Jesus.
Blessed be His Most Sacred Heart.
Blessed be His Most Precious Blood.
Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.
Blessed be the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete.
Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary most Holy.
Blessed be her Holy and Immaculate Conception.
Blessed be her Glorious Assumption.
Blessed be the name of Mary, Virgin and Mother.
Blessed be St. Joseph, her most chaste spouse.
Blessed be God in His Angels and in His Saints.
Amen.

[The Post Millennial @TPostMillennial]

The ad for XX-XY Athletics TikTok doesn't want you to see

[DeMotta @DeMotta]

@MattP1Gallagher Qualifying in F1 car and race in f2 cars.

[DeMotta @DeMotta]

@MatttClarke92 @NHL Leafs suck

[Andrew Lawton @AndrewLawton]

"We have to work together in order to ensure that journalists can carry out their work in all safety and without any kind of worry for reprisals." -Chrystia Freeland