Geof Charlebois 🇨🇦

Husband, Father, Coach, and IT Nerd. Doesn't get any better.

[Dominic Beaudry @DhkBeau]

In Ojibwe our word for praying to ancestors is namehwin.

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

NEW: A secret report on the financial stability of the ROM suggested selling off artifacts to make up for a post pandemic drop in visitors.

The Ford government refuses to release the report and says no such sale was ever considered.

https://t.co/AixBglcoWC

#onpoli

[Mark Evans @markevans]

Eight years later: Doug Ford was never “For the People”
https://t.co/eLr3m1ArKu

[Cory Bowles @corybowles]

Everyone in Canada howling about defunding the CBC is mad that Hockey Night in Canada is moving to a paid sports channel. I mean, that's what you wanted, right?

[Native American @_nativeamerica]

Navajo Windtalkers - Heros of WWll

[Goldironhands @Goldironhands]

@CWHM Here is some photos from Niagara Falls of the flyover.

[Frank Domenic @TheFrankDomenic]

A secret audit report commissioned by the provincial government suggests selling off Royal Ontario Museum artifacts and says the ROM has financial difficulties. The ROM had a surplus last year. #ontario #onpoli #dougford #royalontariomuseum #frankdomenic🍁

[John Cusack @johncusack]

It was in this palace in June of 1919 that the President of Germany Gustav Bauer signed the treaty of surrender and agreed to pay restitution to the allies. Trump is clueless as to what he just did.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

We all see that Putin is now relying on one last thing: constant missile attacks. He has ballistic missiles. So we need anti-ballistic capabilities.

We’ve done a lot to defend against drones, and our interception rate is above 90 percent. That is a serious achievement. We are also defending against cruise missiles. But Russian ballistic missiles remain a problem, and we need an answer to that problem.

Our anti-ballistic coalition – all the countries that are part of it – must demonstrate full capability and deliver real results – better this year.

By this winter, we should already see concrete outcomes from our joint work on anti-ballistic defense.

From a speech at the 35th UDCG meeting. (1/3)

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Russians need to realize that their social contract with Putin is dead. For years, he slaughtered Ukrainians using their army and taxes, while Moscow residents ignored the war and lived free from attacks or mobilization if they wished to. That deal is no more. If you burn Ukraine, Ukraine will burn you back. Welcome to the party.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Ladies and gentleman, the most protected airspace in Russia.

[Jill Davis @Jdavis_Halton]

With sis in Niagara Falls when she took this video of the iconic Snowbirds and the B-25 Mitchell. The video was longer but I may have been in the way and a bit noisy. @CWHM #Aviation

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

HOLY SMOKES! Moscow right now 🔥🔥🔥

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

NEW: we’re learning more about the cost of “Protect Ontario” ads to taxpayers.

FOI records show the cost for just one ministry to produce & run them last year was nearly $10 million.

The total the Ford government has spent across all ministries is expected to be much higher.

[Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @DrGorfinkel]

Last year @FordNation spent a record $112 MILLION on government ads.

TAXPAYER $ that could have bought -

🏥 5 million hours of HOME CARE
🧲 37 brand new MRI SCANNERS
🏠 HOUSING for 3,600+ homeless Ontarians for a YEAR

This makes my blood boil

@DFisman @raghu_venugopal

[United Canada 🇨🇦 @UnitedCanucks26]

There’s approximately 14.6 million Canadians on Twitter.
As a collective, Canada has a voice on here.
Together we are stronger! 🇨🇦
Retweet and put a maple leaf 🍁 if you’re one of the proud Canadians on here. Let’s follow one another.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

WOW, everybody is there at the Grand Opening for the Obama Presidential Center: The Clintons, The Bushes, The Bidens, and of course The Obamas.

Every presidential family that matters. 🙏💪🏽

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

In recent years, we have all learned that Russians are evidently the most repulsive people on the planet.

When you are already down on the ground, they kick you in the stomach. If you fight back, they start whining and accusing you.
After today's Ukrainian attacks on Moscow, the Russians will scream: "Ukrainian terrorists, murderers..."

Stop.

Russia started this war, which violates international law. For over four years, Russians have destroyed Ukrainian cities, killed, raped, and abducted people.
And the entire Russian population was fine with that.

Have no pity for the Russians in Moscow—they must end the war.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Dear Joe,
I wish I could sit down with you face to face and explain why so many of us were offended by the UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House.
For me, it had nothing to do with the UFC or who showed up for the fights. The brand you and Dana have built is a bona fide American success story. More power to you. As for the fighters, in my book, anyone brave enough to put it all on the line in the arena is remarkable to witness. Their dedication and discipline inspire me. I don’t understand anyone who can’t admire that.
And as for the people who attended, I, for one, love Shane Gillis. I think he’s hilarious and brilliant. It was a show. A once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. I can’t blame anyone for wanting to witness it firsthand.
My problem is that I believe some of our public spaces are sacred. And unlike many of the great powers that came before us, these American monuments belong to all of us. Not to whoever happens to hold power at the moment.
The White House does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to any President. It belongs to the people. To treat it as Caesar treated the Colosseum is antithetical to everything our founding fathers fought for.
This is not Rome. Presidents are not emperors doling out bread and circuses for the peasants. The White House is the People’s House. This “celebration” could have happened in any stadium within a stone’s throw of the South Lawn. No one would have had an issue with it.
But that was obviously Donald Trump’s whole point. By holding the event on the South Lawn, what he was saying to the rest of us is:
“This is my house. I own it. I will do with it what I please. I’ll build a colosseum and have the gladiators fight under my gaze. I’ll tear down the East Wing. I’ll pave over the Rose Garden. I’ll cover everything in gold and marble. I’ll erase the names of all the men who came before me.”
The fights were an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy.
The White House is not Buckingham Palace. It is not the Palace of Versailles. It is not the Forbidden City of Beijing. It does not belong to an emperor, or a king, or a commissar.
The White House belongs to us. All of us. The person who sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is nothing more than an honored guest. A temporary caretaker.
The President is our servant. Not our Caesar.
Respectfully, Hunter

P.S. Cage match between me and Don Jr.? Your call on the venue. Anywhere but the South Lawn.