Erinn Broshko

Businessman, lawyer, husband and father of three energetic boys.

[Holly Doan @hollyanndoan]

.@SCC_eng Chief Justice says Canadians deserve judiciary free of politics, but would not discuss his own criticism of #FreedomConvoy.
Richard Wagner declined to recuse himself from sitting in judgment on protestors he described as anarchists and hostage takers.
https://t.co/4rTcWVLvay
#judicialprinciplesatstake

[Ben Woodfinden @BenWoodfinden]

Richard Wagner has spent his time as Chief Justice turning himself into the self-appointed guardian of Canadian democracy: annual press conferences, speeches about the rule of law, warnings about democratic backsliding.

The old convention was that judges speak through their rulings and otherwise keep quiet. Wagner seems to find that beneath him. He wants to be a public figure, not just a judge.

The irony is that every time he steps up to the microphone to defend the court’s legitimacy, he’s the one politicizing it. A judiciary that lets its work speak for itself doesn’t need a spokesman. Wagner has made himself one anyway, and the institution is worse off for it.

[Erinn Broshko @ebroshko]

Envy is very unattractive

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Opinion: SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Here’s how to properly hate him https://t.co/qAQVdquwCP

[DouglasTodd @DouglasTodd]

A trenchant viewpoint from the @globeandmail's former environmental reporter, who is also a noted outdoors and nature author.
#bcpoli

[wealthmoose @wealthmoose]

Mark Carney on tape: “When voters said no to our ESG agenda, we went around democracy.” @MarkJCarney

He’s now Prime Minister.

Let that sink in. 🇨🇦💀 #cdnpoli

[Erinn Broshko @ebroshko]

When He calls, you answer the phone.

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Pope Leo XIV says “I never wanted to be be Pope, not when I was younger and not when I was older, but when the Lord calls you have to say yes”

[Joe Lonsdale @JTLonsdale]

Extraordinary. Construction began in 1882.

Some things are only possible with faith.

[First Things @firstthingsmag]

“Jimmy, whom I am honored to call a friend, is a seventy-eight-year-old diabetic who has been in solitary confinement some seven hundred days longer than the United States was engaged in World War II, and is now serving a twenty-year sentence for threatening Chinese national security. That conviction has no more legal or moral validity than that of the Lord by Pontius Pilate.”

[La Sagrada Família @sagradafamilia]

We see the tower of Jesus Christ illuminated for the first time!
The light show, starting from the base up to the illumination of the cross, culminated with a composition of lights guided by drones that traced the figure of Gaudí and the phrase “first love, then technique”.

[Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot]

👀 Trans Mountain is apportioned, i.e full capacity.
It’s only been in service for two years.

Demand for Canadian heavy oil in global markets has been proven beyond a doubt.

[Erinn Broshko @ebroshko]

MOU is DOA

[Paul Vieira @paulvieira]

Cenovus Energy CEO Jon ​McKenzie said Tuesday ‌Alberta's proposed 1 million barrel-per-day pipeline to ​British Columbia's ​Pacific coast cannot be ⁠financed by the ​private sector under ​Canada's current regulatory regime. https://t.co/osEvB0QORN

[Global BC @GlobalBC]

The BC Conservatives say non-residents have racked up more than $200 million in unpaid health bills in British Columbia since 2020.

https://t.co/3y2WeyOKzV

[Without Diminishment @WDiminishment]

Geoffrey Moyse: The NDP refuse to fix DRIPA themselves

"As a piece of provincial legislation, DRIPA can be amended, suspended, or repealed by the B.C. legislature. There is absolutely no need for an appeal to the SCC to deal with a legislative problem."

https://t.co/eLSKhnyUNX

[Ben Woodfinden @BenWoodfinden]

Wagner holds press conferences like this one every year to lecture Canadians that criticizing court decisions amounts to portraying judges “as partisan actors, or described as obstacles to the will of the people.”

But if the judiciary wants to be “sheltered from all politicization,” maybe the Chief Justice shouldn’t be holding press conferences wading into political debates.

You can’t appoint yourself a public commentator and then claim immunity from public criticism. Canadians have every right to object when courts invent rights found nowhere in the constitutional text or effectively legislate from the bench.

[DouglasTodd @DouglasTodd]

Looks like @MarkJCarney is saying one thing and doing another on guest worker levels.
Canada is touting its progress in returning Canada’s temporary resident numbers to sustainable levels, says @globeandmail
However, the number of foreign nationals holding work permits is actually rising.
In fact, there are more now than in 2024, when Ottawa announced it would tighten rules.
@ircc numbers show in March, 1.5 million people held a work permit.
That’s a 12% rise since March of 2024.
#cdnpoli #bcpoli #onpoli #qcpoli @ronmortgageguy
https://t.co/sAwEQQm6FX

[New York Mickey @MickmickNYC]

This might be the most adorable thing in Central Park 🦝🥹

I promised Mika that we’d go to Central Park and try to find raccoons, and somehow we hit the jackpot ❤️

Not only did we spot a mother raccoon peeking out of a tree, but two curious babies kept popping their heads out to see what was going on below 🥹🌳

Raccoons are mostly nocturnal, so seeing a mom and her babies like this felt extra special. One of those magical New York City moments we’ll be talking about for a long time 🦝✨

[Old Canada Series @oldcanadaseries]

Canadians approaching Juno Beach on D-Day, 82 years ago today on June 6, 1944. Of the 14,000 Canadians involved, 340 were killed with 574 wounded and 47 captured. credit: cbc/Dale Gervais, Benjamin Moogk and Brad C. Croix 🇨🇦

[Old Canada Series @oldcanadaseries]

This photo was taken 82 years ago today. Canadian troops land at Juno Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944, carrying bicycles and equipment as they push inland in the liberation of Normandy during WWII. 🇨🇦

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

D-Day: Invasion of Normandy [Real Footage in Colour]

[Terry Glavin 格立文 @TerryGlavin]

Fair play. But it wasn't just a "mass grave" of 215 corpses in Kamloops that in fact wasn't discovered. The remains of roughly 1300 children were similarly (un)discovered in false reports across Canada in 2021, and it hasn't stopped.