Brad Paulgaard

[Ryan Hofford @rhofford]

fuckers bad ass aint it

[Daren Millard @darenmillard]

Well fine @ericchurch

[QuickDickMcDick 🇨🇦 @QuickDickMcDick]

Hear me out here - MULTIPLE high speed rail lines.

Have them running to East/West coasts.

But make them underground.

And shape them like a tube.

And don't put trains or people in them - put crude and nat gas in the fucking things

[Chris Pronger @chrispronger]

Gold isn’t guaranteed. It’s earned.

Canada didn’t get it done yesterday. That stings. It should.

But here’s the truth about representing Team Canada. The standard doesn’t drop. The work just ramps up.

Use the loss. Sit with it. Then get back to it.

That’s how you respond in the National Hockey League.
That’s how you prepare for the World Cup of Hockey 2028.
That’s how you show up at the 2030 Winter Olympics.

Adversity isn’t the end of the story. It’s fuel.

#MindsetMonday

[Brad Paulgaard @deucerbar2]

Whoever was flying the chopper low level over my yard just now just know my feeder heifers didn't appreciate it. Use your head.

[Spittin' Chiclets @spittinchiclets]

Are the tough old school Canadian players from blue collard families getting priced out of hockey in Canada and it’s now all soft rich kids?!

[Brad Wall @BradWall306]

Good grief

[BertaProudDad @BertaProudDad]

A “Canadian” brand outsourcing jobs while our youth struggle. I’ve boycotted Tim Hortons for a long time, maybe it’s your turn. 🇨🇦
#SupportCanadianWorkers #CanadaFirst #BertaProudDad

[YEGWAVE @yegwave]

Alberta is cracking down on unsafe practices in the trucking industry, closing five driver training schools, revoking 12 instructor licences, and removing 13 carriers from the road for safety violations.

The province is also targeting “chameleon” carriers, misclassified drivers, and strengthening training standards to ensure only qualified drivers and schools operate.

[Brad Paulgaard @deucerbar2]

Night time Yellow Bines.

[Brad Paulgaard @deucerbar2]

Seal er up young man. Silage 2025.

[John Kowalchuk🧢 @kowalchukfarms1]

Over 75% tariff slapped on canola seed today by China

Potential 2.3billion dollar hit to Canadian farmers bottom line!

Radio silence so far from the feds

Thanks for your concern and immediate response today @MarkJCarney …🙄

#CdnPoli

[Spill The Memes @SpillTheMemes]

How to stay at the perfect level 🤣🤣

[Canadiens Montréal @CanadiensMTL]

Un bel effort individuel de Bryce Pickford permet aux Blancs de s'inscrire au tableau

Bryce Pickford's individual effort gets Team White on the board

⚪ 1 - 2 🔴

#GoHabsGo | Under Armour

[Hux/Hky/Condition @HuxHkyCondition]

Congrats Picks!

[Scott Roblin @ScottRoblin]

After two seasons starring in the WHL, former @stoonblazers playmaker & Macklin product Cole Reschny is one of several high-profile junior players leaving for the NCAA.

In his own words, why Reschny decided to exit the WHL & begin his college career at North Dakota in the fall.

[Spittin' Chiclets @spittinchiclets]

WE’RE GETTING A STANLEY CUP FINAL REMATCH!

[Western Hockey League @TheWHL]

Hear from @tigershockey defenceman Bryce Pickford following his two-goal performance against the Rimouski Oceanic in Night One of the 2025 #MemorialCup.

[Julius Ruechel @JuliusRuechel]

There's a simple rule of thumb that holds up, election after election.

Districts that either benefit from govt handouts (welfare, corporte welfare, etc) or benefit from high levels of govt employment all tend to vote for left-leaning parties.

And districts that are net payees to the govt will vote conservative -- these are the people who are plundered to pay for leftist spending.

The map below of Canada as today's election results pour in is a perfect illustration of that rule of thumb.

This is why, once govt spending grows beyond a certain point, leftist parties can build loyal voting coalitions that stay loyal even when the rest of the country is completely falling apart, just to keep the money flowing to themselves.

The Romans or Medieval Europeans would have called this a patronage network, but of course in the modern era we're just a little less obvious about it. 😈

Every socialist country and banana republic from Zimbabwe to Canada and beyond functions based on this system of building loyal voter coalitions, paid for by plundering everyone else.

In Canada, 1 in 4 employed Canadians works for govt. Add on top of that the countless legal cartels and govt contracts and welfare programs of all sorts, which all depend entirely on govt spending, and that adds up to a very large and reliable leftist voting coalition. (obviously not all govt employees vote Left, but an overwhelming majority do).

According to research by the Montreal Institute, in Canada 44% of every dollar spent in the country is spent by govt. That rises 64% if you account for compelled spending triggered by regulation (like having to hire "consultants" to do an "environmental study" before you build a road or house). Through taxation and regulation, voter loyalty is bought -- a loyal patronage system.

In the end, the Libs/Left are winning not because people are stupid, but because those who benefit from Leftist spending are voting to preserve their own personal interests. It's not stupid, it's selfish. Because human nature is opportunistic. $$$ money talks.

Eventually the perverted incentives created by big govt will perpetuate big govt.

The patronage network is well-established in our socialist-leaning country. Even so-called "right wing" parties regularly cater to that network, which is why so little actually changes even when "conservative" parties get voted in.

As Maxime Bernier found out when he lost the Conservative leadership race to Andrew Sheer in 2017, those who threaten to destabilize the patronage network have no chance to get anywhere near the levers of power -- the voters in the patronage network will do whatever it takes to band together to prevent them from getting in.

This is why empires evolve from liberty towards servitude and suffocating taxation, and only a very severe crisis (usually when the money runs out) will reset that evolution to an earlier time (by shrinking govt) -- and even then it's usually a very messy reset as the "patrons" fight back (at any cost) in an effort to preserve their patronage networks, which they've come to view as their god-given right.

The real tide will turn in Canada if the West opts out, if Quebec separates, or if the cozy economic system provided by lopsided trade with the US crashes to a halt if Trump's push for reciprocal tariffs ramps up into a full-scale trade war after the election.

Canada will not change direction because of what happens at the polls -- big govt is far too entrenched for that. The change will come when parasitic patronage systems hit a brick wall as they run out of money or people to plunder.

Perhaps that crisis will come in the form of a separatist referendum. Perhaps it will be a bond or currency crisis triggered by reckless govt financial mismanagement. Or perhaps it will be Trump's trade war that brings things to a head.

All I know is that the voter incentives favor the preservation of the status quo, but that status quo is simultaneously on an accelerating path towards crisis. And so, as is usually the case when a system is unsustainable but popular, change is coming despite the fact that the majority doesn't want it to be so. And when it comes, there will be a lot of kicking and screaming as the cockroaches fight back. 😈