gregthomaswilliams

Management Consultant @ large. Health Science(s), economics, strategy. A bit impatient - trying to be kind. Small "c" conservative. Base empiricist. Gay. 🇨🇦

[gregthomaswilliams @gregthomaswill1]

@USAmbCanada , re F35 review . Has it occurred to you that given your ongoing "irritation" with Canada 🇨🇦 you are in the wrong job ? Seriously dude . Develop some diplomatic skills or go home .

[Old Canada Series @oldcanadaseries]

Canadian hockey legend, Gordie Howe fishing in the 1950s. 🇨🇦

[gregthomaswilliams @gregthomaswill1]

Poetic justice

[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

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Every generation of hockey players has its heroes. For many Canadians, Claude Lemieux was one of them.

21 seasons. Four Stanley Cups. A remarkable career and a legacy that will endure.

Thank you for everything, Claude.

[gregthomaswilliams @gregthomaswill1]

@Rep_Stansbury Long live the king a real democrat. American democracy is dying. Constitutional monarchy proves to be the older and more durable form of democracy. IMO.

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@HannahIamthest1 lmfao

[gregthomaswilliams @gregthomaswill1]

@krassenstein Indeed

[gregthomaswilliams @gregthomaswill1]

The cost of groceries in Canada has become a food, security crisis. I would like to see the federal government convene a session with their provincial counterparts, and I identify policy interventions . Follow up to the meeting. Should include an action plan.

[gregthomaswilliams @gregthomaswill1]

Americans are pure evil

[Jenni @hashjenni]

In case anyone isn’t aware, Trump is demanding Zambia to hand over its mineral rights by end of day tomorrow or the U.S. gov’t will cut off the country’s access to the AIDS medications that are literally keeping its citizens alive.

Just thought y’all should know.

[gregthomaswilliams @gregthomaswill1]

Another blow to American democracy. How Scotus became an instrument of fascism.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach.

The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.

[gregthomaswilliams @gregthomaswill1]

@WhiteHouse Decrepit

[Hedgeye @Hedgeye]

U.S. Farm Bankruptcies Surge +46% as Fertilizer Costs Squeeze Farmers:

The American Farm Bureau Federation reported 315 Chapter 12 bankruptcy filings in 2025, up from 216 in 2024 and the third consecutive annual increase.

The Midwest got hit hardest with 121 filings, a +70% jump.

The Southeast followed with 105, up +69%.

Together, those two regions accounted for more than two-thirds of every farm bankruptcy in the country.

Fertilizer prices are pouring gasoline on the fire.

Urea, the most widely used nitrogen fertilizer on the planet, has ripped +87% year-to-date and trades near $720 a tonne.

For corn growers who depend on nitrogen, this is a dire situation.

Many farmers are reporting they will cut the amount of fertilizer they use, shift from corn toward less nitrogen-dependent soybeans, or just take the yield loss.

Farms are under pressure.

[gregthomaswilliams @gregthomaswill1]

@SecWar @KidRock @USArmy You're one weird fucking dude

[Josh Matlow @JoshMatlow]

It only gets worse as details are revealed. The runway at Billy Bishop would need 900 meters of new landmass on Toronto’s waterfront for jets. To put this one in perspective, the height of the world’s tallest skyscraper, the Burj Khalifa, is only 829.8 meters.

[gregthomaswilliams @gregthomaswill1]

@GeraldoRivera And you're delusional

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

I can't believe we're even having this conversation: In the last ten years, NOBODY has engaged in more violent political rhetoric than Donald Trump.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Wab Kinew: "We're not going to sell your alcohol and we're sorry if that harms hard-working Americans out there. But you know what to do when it comes time to vote in the midterms or comes time to vote for president again -- throw the bums out as the saying used to go."

[gregthomaswilliams @gregthomaswill1]

@USATODAY He's not a conservative as a fascist. Big difference.

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@DrNeilStone Ha

[gregthomaswilliams @gregthomaswill1]

It's called free speech you fascist Euro trash bitch https://t.co/AIytBIUiLz

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