Michelle Hynes

Policy wonk - is that a thing? Loves cooking, gardening, my awesome hubby and my pretty great kid ... taking back my life from Crohn's disease

[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

Hot take: Scrap Question Period.

I know. Hear me out.

Every day, the people we elected to run a G7 nation spend 45 minutes screaming rehearsed one-liners at each other while backbenchers bang their desks like it’s a hockey game.

No answers get given. No policy gets made. No problem gets solved.

The minister reads a non-answer from a cue card. The opposition screams. Repeat 35 times. Camera cuts to someone rolling their eyes. Done.

And we wonder why voter turnout keeps dropping.

Foreign observers watching Question Period for the first time genuinely cannot believe this is how a serious democracy operates. It looks like a school cafeteria fight.

The original purpose was accountability. Ministers answering directly to elected representatives. A check on executive power. Legitimate and necessary.

What it became is theater. Purely for clips. Every question is written to go viral, and every answer is written to avoid saying anything. The actual governance happens somewhere else entirely, behind closed doors, away from cameras.

Countries like Germany, Sweden, and New Zealand have structured interpellation systems where written questions require written answers on the record. Documented. Searchable. Accountable.

You know what that produces? Actual information. Actual accountability. A paper trail.

Canada deserves better than a daily episode of Real Housewives with a peace tower in the background.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Yup

[Michelle Hynes @hynesmc]

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[emy 🫍✨🦈 @hearts0fhorrors]

canucks just keep giving us good news with every hire this is a very unfamiliar feeling i’m not used to feeling genuine joy and optimism with this team LMAO

[Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @LukaszukAB]

A referendum on Canadian unity is divisive enough. Holding a referendum to have another referendum will divide us and will kill our economy. It is now more important than ever that all supporters of #ForeverCanadian sign up at https://t.co/Xq9yBfTCGG so we can stop this insanity.

[Brooke 🥀 🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🇬🇱Proud Canadian @FairplayDesigns]

Dear Albertans
Your problem is not Canada,
Your problem is Danielle Smith

[Real Mike 🇨🇦🇺🇦 Fake Ezzie @fakeezzie]

Our Premer keeps saying separatist voices of discontent "deserve" to be heard, but for the millions of us, the vast majority, who don't want time, money & energy wasted on a divisive referendum, when is it OUR turn to be heard ?!? She just isn't listening. #ableg

[Danielle @Daniell90179739]

@cspotweet @AlexandreLand15 All the pipelines from every orifice of Alberta will not create oil and gas jobs. We’re already at record level production and companies are laying off thousands of people.
Who does Danielle Smith work for? Certainly not Albertans.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

The @CanadiensMTL are headed to the Eastern Conference Finals. All of Canada is behind you. 🇨🇦

[Michelle Hynes @hynesmc]

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[Leon @TrpstrLeonOG]

My dad retired at 61.

Union pension.
House paid off years ago.
Medicare coming soon.
Social Security locked in.
At dinner he told me people my age just need to “budget better.”
I make $74k a year.
My rent is $2,050.
I’ve got maybe $3,500 saved after bills.
I just nodded and passed the potatoes.

But what I wanted to say was:

Your retirement existed because companies still offered pensions.
Your Social Security works because my generation keeps paying into it.
Your home doubled in value while mine feels permanently out of reach.
You didn’t crack some secret code.
You were born into an economy that hadn’t pulled the ladder up yet.

[Bruce @bruce_barrett]

Remember when they used to put this on tv and celebrated Canada’s Heritage?

[princesserica84 🇨🇦 @princessrica84]

This sounds like the perfect coach for a rebuilding Canucks team

[Mark E. @markEmarkSJS]

This is how entitled Blackhawks/O6 fan bases are. Win 3 cups, win the lottery and be gifted Bedard, then complain about that same lottery system that rewarded you.

The only fanbase I will hear complaints from today is Vancouver. They are deserving of that for their bad luck.

[Michelle Hynes @hynesmc]

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[kyla @kylaer_]

No canucks fan on planet earth thought we’d actually get the number one pick after 56 years of existence and being by far the worst team in the league, but still so angry because none of us wanted to be right.

*sigh*

[darren 2 @Shawn86764868]

@SWrights975 It’s always rigged

[TSN @TSN_Sports]

The Vancouver Canucks have missed the playoffs 16 times since the NHL introduced the draft lottery in 1995

They haven’t jumped up a single time 😬

[Michelle Hynes @hynesmc]

This is not a good look for the NHL

[Thomas Drance @ThomasDrance]

The #Canucks drop to 3rd overall, as the Maple Leafs (#1) and the San Jose Sharks (#2) win the two draws at the 2026 NHL Draft Lottery.

It is the 7th time in Vancouver's franchise history that the club has moved down at the NHL draft lottery. The club has never moved up.

[Michelle Hynes @hynesmc]

I am interested to know what the actual odds are for the Canucks to drop down …. Again… seems dodgy

[Don Taylor @DonTaylor5]

Perrault. Neely. 3 Cup Final losses. 2 riots. Messier. Bure leaves. Lidstrom from centre. “My contract sucks”. Hughes leaves. The misery list is long for Canucks’ fans—-and now includes losing a draft lottery to, of all teams, the Leafs

[The Original Burnsie @burnsieoriginal]

Rip Cheech!

[JABO Vancouver @jabo_vancouver]

It may have taken 45 years, but I was happy to see John Garrett finally get officially awarded the 2nd assist on Gordie Howe's final NHL goal. If you listened to John's interviews you knew what that moment meant to him. I'm glad he was alive to see it become official last year.

[Michelle Hynes @hynesmc]

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[Vancouver Canucks @Canucks]

Canucks Sports & Entertainment is heartbroken by the sudden passing of John Garrett, a cherished member of our family whose loss is deeply felt across our entire organization and community.

We extend our heartfelt condolences to John’s family, friends, and all who knew and loved him. He will be deeply missed.

Forever a Canuck.

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