angelfish

observer of many things, level playing field for all, no I will not change my tone, opinion is all mine.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

David Cochrane presses CPC trade critic Adam Chambers on 'full-blown' recession claims: "You're the only group calling it a full-blown recession. Part of being a credible steward of the economy as a government in waiting is to properly analyze, assess, and define what is happening in the economy."

[Today In History @historigins]

In a 1997 episode of Baking with Julia, Julia Child was visibly moved and wiped away tears after tasting Nancy Silverton’s brioche tart with pears poached in wine. ⁠
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She was so impressed by the tart’s perfect texture and flavor that, in a phrase that went down in history, she called it “a dessert to cry over,” while praising Silverton’s mastery of the art of baking.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Félicitations à Mike Myers, qui s’est vu décerner le prix Icône au gala des prix Écrans canadiens de 2026. 

Tu fais la fierté du Canada 🇨🇦

[Madame Julie @MadameJulie007]

❤️🇨🇦👇❤️🇨🇦👇

[Mike Kelloway @mikekelloway]

Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservative Premier is on side supporting opportunity for our province.

Federal Conservatives? They seem to think every investment and every success story is a conspiracy.

Not everything is a conspiracy. Sometimes it’s just progress.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Canada’s Aluminium Is Going to Europe. Brilliant Work, Donald.

A 50% tariff on Canadian aluminium, the one country on Earth that was happily selling the stuff at sensible prices, right next door, through an integrated supply chain that took decades to build. And now that aluminium is sailing across the Atlantic to Europe instead.

Canadian exports to the EU went from near zero to between 6% and 40% of monthly totals in the space of a year. Just vanished eastward. Extraordinary result.

US consumers are now paying $6,200 a ton for aluminium. Europeans are paying $4,300.  American manufacturers taxed nearly two thousand dollars a ton more than their competitors. For beer cans. And car parts. And buildings. Tremendous. Nobody could have seen that coming, except everyone.

Meanwhile Europe, which was already scrambling after losing its Middle Eastern supply to the Iran war, now faces a 5.6 million-ton aluminium deficit in 2026. And Canada just filled it. With metal that used to go to America.

The head of the Aluminium Association of Canada put it with admirable restraint: the EU option “remains attractive,” adding pressure on the US market. What he meant was: Washington handed Europe a competitive advantage in manufacturing while American industry pays the bill.

This is what happens when a trade guru who has spent his career slapping his name on buildings in gold letters decides he understands global commodity flows. No leverage materialises. Just an empty dock in Ohio and a very pleased purchasing manager in Rotterdam.

Well done, Donald.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Crusader Damien 🇨🇦🙏🏻🇺🇦 @CrusaderDamien]

We shall not go quietly into the night! Rage, rage against the dying of the light!
WE ARE CANADIAN!!! ❤️🇨🇦❤️

[Adam Wren @adamwren]

.@PeteButtigieg on Gordie Howe Bridge: "The craziest thing about this is that Mexico was never going to pay for the wall, but Canada actually paid for the bridge."

[NOLLY @omoelerinjare1]

Los Angeles, 15-year-old Clara Daly from California, was travelling with her mom.

A flight attendant asked if anyone knew sign language. Clara, who had studied ASL for about a year, volunteered.

The passenger was 64-year-old Tim Cook, who is deaf and blind, flying alone. Clara knelt in the aisle and fingerspelled into his hand to communicate. She helped him order water, check the time, and speak with the crew.

For the rest of the long flight, she stayed with him, chatting until landing and bringing comfort to his journey.

[Energi Media @EnergiMedia]

“You have a right to leave Canada. You do not have a right to take a piece of it with you.”

Andrew Coyne delivers a sharp response to separatism.

Watch the full interview on the Energi Media channel.

#Canada #AbLeg #Separatism

[Larry Legend☘️ @LarryBirdDaily]

The Pistons were one pass away from taking control of the series..

Then Larry Bird appeared out of nowhere..

“Now there’s a steal by Bird…”

That was 39 years ago today..

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

The women and men of the Canadian Armed Forces represent the very best of Canada.

That’s why we gave them the biggest raise in a generation last year — so that their pay reflects the weight of their responsibilities.

[Terry T. 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @terry_truchan]

PM Mark Carney claps back at reporter who is “confused” as to why Canada isn’t just capitulating to the US demands on trade talks.
THIS IS WHY HE HAS A MAJORITY GOVT!
#cdnpoli #cdnpolitics #abpoli

[Canadian Armed Forces @CanadianForces]

We have confirmed that a previously unidentified grave at Courcelette British Cemetery in France is that of Sgt Norman Harold McLennan, identified through historical and archival research. 1/6

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

July 26, 2020. A beach near Collingwood, Ontario.

Sixteen-year-old Jamey Ruth Klassen was supposed to be enjoying a quiet family vacation beside the icy blue waters of Georgian Bay.

Farther out on the lake, a man named Christopher Robertson had taken his kayak out alone for a peaceful paddle. Then the kayak filled with water and flipped.

Suddenly, he was stranded in the freezing bay, clinging desperately to the overturned hull while shouting for help.

Jamey didn’t hear him directly.

What she heard instead were strangers nearby calling 911, panicking about a kayaker who had disappeared beneath the surface and wasn’t coming back up.

Most teenagers would’ve stayed on shore.

The water was brutally cold. The distance looked impossible. Lifeguards and paramedics were already being called. Waiting would’ve been understandable.

Jamey never waited.

She ran toward the water and dove in.

Alone, she swam nearly 600 feet through Georgian Bay — the distance of two football fields — pushing herself farther and farther from shore toward the empty kayak floating in the distance.

By the time she reached it, Christopher Robertson was gone.

Then Jamey looked down.

Through the clear Canadian water, she could see him lying motionless twelve feet below on the lake floor.

She took one breath.

And dove.

The cold tightened around her body instantly as she reached the bottom. She grabbed Robertson beneath both arms and forced herself upward, dragging his unconscious body back toward the surface.

He wasn’t breathing.

His body hung limp in the water.

Jamey refused to let go.

She turned him onto his back, balanced his head against her shoulder, wrapped one arm across his chest, and began swimming him toward shore using only one arm and her legs.

Every second became harder.

Her muscles burned violently. Her lungs screamed. She had no formal lifeguard certification because the pandemic had canceled the courses she planned to take that summer.

Still, she kept kicking.

Then fear hit her.

Jamey realized she might drown beside him before reaching shore.

Exhausted and losing strength, she used the last thing she still had left:

Her voice.

She screamed for help.

A nearby paddleboarder heard her cries and rushed across the water. Together, they lifted Robertson onto the board while Jamey, shivering and exhausted, swam the remaining distance alone.

Onshore, police officers and paramedics immediately began CPR.

Moments later, Christopher Robertson started breathing again.

He survived.

Nearly a year later, Jamey Ruth Klassen received the Carnegie Medal — North America’s highest civilian honor for heroism. Out of millions of people, only eighteen recipients were chosen that year.

But Jamey barely spoke about herself afterward.

Instead, she used the scholarship money from the award to attend nursing school at McMaster University, quietly continuing the same instinct that had driven her into the freezing water that day:

If someone needs help, you go.

No hesitation.
No spotlight.
No waiting for someone braver.

Just a sixteen-year-old girl who saw a stranger drowning… and decided his life mattered more than her fear.

[🇨🇦 Policy Hawk @CDNPolicyHawk]

This seems to have touched a chord in Canada, and a nerve in America...

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

🚨 The real masterminds and backstage geniuses behind the rose petals falling from the Pantheon’s oculus on Pentecost Sunday?

The Rome firefighters!

Italy at its finest 🇮🇹🔥

[Prime Minister of Canada @CanadianPM]

For over 150 years, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has served and protected Canadians – and the Government of Canada is ensuring that the RCMP has the support and resources it needs to continue that work for generations to come.

[🇨🇦 Policy Hawk @CDNPolicyHawk]

"A classified wish list is seen by Canada as a request, but it is seen by the Pentagon as an order"

And therein lies the issue. American security benefits enormously from Canadian cooperation. They are not in a position to dictate to us.

https://t.co/oXqCadBDCq

[🇨🇦 Policy Hawk @CDNPolicyHawk]

What's so irksome about US posturing against Canada on mutual defence is that they treat us as moochers, when we're clearly net contributors.

Here's the USAF Commander of NORAD having to explain to Congress that defending the US would need more resources without Canada.