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☀️ Good morning Canada. Welcome to my misinformation edition
🇨🇦 Canada politics
Today’s theme: how misinformation spreads through influencer networks and social media.
• A viral claim from commentator Marc Nixon cited a “poll” from Maple Polling claiming Mark Carney had 77.1% negative approval.
When questioned and compared with legitimate polling data, Maple Polling deleted the tweet. The misinformation had already reached ~19K impressions.
• A second viral claim alleged Carney was booed on a jumbotron clip at a sports event. The claim was circulated by accounts including Tracy Wilson and echoed by others.
The accompanying TSN video clip contains no audible booing.
• Claims that Canada is planning to join the European Union also circulated online. While commentator Mario Zelaya framed this as a serious Liberal proposal, there is no government policy or negotiation suggesting Canada could or would join the European Union.
• Another viral post suggested Bill C‑9 (Canada) could criminalize passages from the Bible. In reality, the bill concerns judicial discipline procedures and does not regulate religious speech.
• Jasmine Laine claimed Carney ignored French speakers until campaigning in Terrebonne. Yet Carney’s public engagements in Quebec pre-date that event.
📉 Pattern:
Unverified claims → viral posts → impressions accumulate → corrections rarely travel as far.
This is just in the last week.
Pluralistic democracies depend on evidence-based debate, not viral narratives.
You have coffee ☕️, I’ll pour myself a glass of wine 🍷
#GoodMorning #Canada #cdnpoli #MediaLiteracy #Misinformation
Incredible heroism revealed. An aviation expert explains how the pilots in the LaGuardia crash intentionally took the impact head on. They refused to veer away to prevent the fuel filled wings from hitting the truck & exploding. They sacrificed themselves to save the passengers
Women’s Para Hockey players definitely deserve more 👍🏼
"We deserve more.”
Shireen Ahmed and Para ice hockey world silver medallist, Claire Buchanan, talk about the underrepresentation of women’s Para ice hockey at the Paralympics
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Common sense post with very scary outcomes.
🚨 BREAKING:
Iran didn't respond to US bombs with missiles.
They responded with GAME THEORY.
And in doing so, they may have just fired the most dangerous shot at the US dollar in 52 years.
Here's the move most people completely missed: 🧵
(Read this slowly. Share it widely.)
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JUST IN: The United States produces 96 THAAD interceptors per year. Eight per month. Two per week.
Iran launched over 500 ballistic missiles in the first week of this war.
That arithmetic is the most important classified secret that is not actually classified. It is sitting in Lockheed Martin’s January 29 press release, in the MDA’s budget justification documents, and in the CSIS depletion analysis published in December. Nobody connected the numbers until the war made the connection impossible to ignore.
The US Army operates seven active THAAD batteries worldwide. Each carries 48 interceptors across six launchers. Standard doctrine fires two interceptors per incoming ballistic missile. One full battery is exhausted after defending against 24 missiles. Iran launched over 500 in a week. The June 2025 twelve day war consumed approximately 150 THAAD interceptors, roughly 25 to 28 percent of the entire global stockpile, in under two weeks.
Two AN/TPY-2 radars have been confirmed damaged or destroyed. The radar at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan was struck in the opening days, confirmed by CNN satellite imagery. The radar at Al Ruwais in the UAE was claimed destroyed by Iranian forces. Each AN/TPY-2 costs approximately $500 million and requires years of production lead time. A radar loss does not proportionally reduce coverage. It creates geometric gaps in the overlapping defense zones that remaining batteries cannot compensate for. Subsequent attacks route through those gaps.
Total confirmed US equipment damage in the first five days exceeds $1.9 billion, including a $1.1 billion early warning radar in Qatar, the THAAD radars, and aircraft.
On January 29, Lockheed Martin signed a framework agreement with the Department of Defense to quadruple THAAD interceptor production from 96 to 400 per year. The timeline to reach full production rate is seven years. The year 2033.
The bottleneck is not funding. It is physics. THAAD interceptors require specialized solid rocket motors shared across PAC-3, SM-3, and PrSM programs. Seeker heads are manufactured at an estimated maximum of 500 per year. Component lead times run 12 to 24 months. A THAAD interceptor ordered today arrives around 2030.
The war is consuming interceptors in weeks. The production system replaces them in years. That gap is not a logistics problem. It is a structural vulnerability in the architecture of American military power that every adversary on earth can now quantify.
China is watching. The batteries defending Guam and South Korea are the same finite inventory being depleted in the Gulf. Every interceptor fired at an Iranian missile tonight is unavailable for a Chinese missile tomorrow. The Pacific and the Gulf share a single ammunition supply. They cannot both be defended at current production rates against simultaneous threats.
The @AFpost claim that half the global THAAD systems are lost is not verified. What is verified is worse. The radars are being destroyed at $500 million each. The interceptors are consumed at rates the production line cannot match for seven years. And the solution arrives in 2033.
The war is eight days old. The production ramp is 2,555 days long. Price the gap.
https://t.co/ULBgEzZ3A8
Interesting 🤔
JUST IN: The most powerful military in human history just admitted that aircraft carriers cannot reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
An insurance policy can.
And the insurance policy is $332 billion short.
The Trump Administration announced a $20 billion reinsurance program through the Development Finance Corporation to cover war risk losses for vessels transiting the Persian Gulf. The DFC will coordinate with the Treasury Department and CENTCOM. Priority goes to oil, gasoline, LNG, jet fuel, and fertilizer. The stated goal is to physically get tankers moving again through the strait that carries twenty percent of the world’s petroleum.
Read those numbers again. Twenty billion in coverage. JPMorgan estimates the aggregate war risk exposure for all Gulf maritime commerce at $352 billion. The program covers less than six percent of the total insured value at risk in those waters. A single very large crude carrier can carry $300 million in insured cargo. Sixty six ships and the entire program is exhausted.
This is not a criticism. This is the single most important admission in the entire war.
For eighty years the United States Navy has guaranteed freedom of navigation through the world’s critical waterways by projecting military force. Two carrier strike groups sit in the theater right now. More firepower concentrated in one body of water than most nations possess in their entire military.
And none of it can make a tanker move.
Because the tanker’s problem is not Iranian missiles. The tanker’s problem is that seven Protection and Indemnity clubs cancelled war risk coverage effective March 5. Without that coverage the ship cannot satisfy insurance covenants in its financing agreement, cannot meet coverage requirements of the destination port, cannot fulfill liability terms of its charter contract. A ship without P&I coverage is legally excluded from global maritime commerce regardless of how many warships surround it.
The DFC program is the United States government saying out loud, through the structure of the solution it chose, that this is a financial problem dressed in military clothing. The aircraft carriers provide the security perimeter. The reinsurance provides the permission to sail. Without both, nothing moves. The Navy can sink every Iranian vessel afloat and the tankers still will not transit until someone in an office in London or Bermuda or Connecticut underwrites the voyage.
Seven letters from seven insurance clubs closed Hormuz. The United States just responded with an eighth letter. The question every oil trader should be asking is whether $20 billion in rolling coverage is sufficient to convince a shipowner to send a $300 million asset through waters where Iranian drones struck the Skylight on March 1, where GPS jamming affected 1,100 vessels in a single day, and where the reinsurance market that normally prices this risk has formally and contractually withdrawn.
The programme exists. The ships have not moved.
The gap between the announcement and the first insured transit is where the real price discovery happens.
https://t.co/ULBgEzZ3A8
Everyone should have support and a chance in Canada…not those who you deem acceptable. Grow up and open your eyes to the possibilities 🇨🇦 has to offer.
OPEN LETTER TO JAMAL JIVANI
You say young men are being forgotten.
They are not.
Young men are already included in education policy, workforce programs, housing strategies, healthcare planning, and mental-health funding. They are part of youth strategies across this country.
This is not a forgotten group.
What is happening is the deliberate creation of a grievance narrative.
No one disputes that young men deserve opportunity, stability, and support.
But you don’t get to advocate for young men by erasing women, people of colour, Indigenous communities, LGBTQ+ Canadians, and people with disabilities.
You don’t get to talk about fairness while selectively deciding whose struggles count.
Young men matter.
So do young women.
So do disabled Canadians.
So do racialized communities.
So do Indigenous youth.
Frankly, the only person you consistently center in this conversation is yourself.
You are politicizing identity, not solving problems.
This playbook isn’t Canadian it’s Republican (Project 2025)
It’s straight out of the Charlie Kirk / JD Vance culture-war strategy: divide people, manufacture resentment, and turn social issues into political weapons.
Canadians see it.
You are not advancing a uniquely Canadian vision.
You are importing an American grievance narrative and trying to pass it off as concern.
If your vision truly cared about young people, it would include:
• Mental-health supports for all youth
• Affordable education and training
• Good jobs and fair wages
• Accessible healthcare
• Strong disability supports
• Real equity and inclusion
Leadership expands the circle.
It doesn’t shrink it.
Canadians don’t need culture-war letters.
Garnet.
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Frame by frame breakdown of this MURDER shows ICE is lying!
-ICE had ALREADY disarmed the man before shooting.
-The man NEVER drew his gun.
At the 0:06 second mark we see the man’s hands on the ground covered in large gloves.
His hands are empty.
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Afghanistan Withdrawal Facts
Trump not Biden Negotiated directly with the Taliban terrorists and excluded the Afghan army.
Trump not Biden Drew down US forces from 13,000 to 2,500, making them vulnerable to attack.
Trump not Biden Ordered the release of 5,000 Taliban fighters from prison, one of whom would become the new leader of Afghanistan.
Trump not Biden Wanted to invite the Taliban leaders to Camp David on the anniversary of September 11th.
Trump not Biden Agreed to a May 1st exit from Afghanistan, then bragged that he didn’t need an exit strategy.
Trump not Biden Refused to brief Biden’s incoming team on the situation in Afghanistan.
Trump not Biden Shut down every airbase in Afghanistan except one, crippling the US’s ability to extract its assets safely.
How dare he be so reckless…Canada never "stayed a little back, a little off the front lines"
🇨🇦 Canada saved thousands of American troops by taking over frontline operations in Kandahar during the Afghanistan War.
In early 2006, as the United States faced severe troop strain from its escalating commitments in Iraq, Canada dramatically stepped up to assume primary responsibility for one of the most dangerous and Taliban-infested regions in Afghanistan: Kandahar Province. Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) personnel, under Operation Athena (Canada's main combat mission in Afghanistan), deployed in force—peaking at nearly 3,000 troops at any given time—and took command of Regional Command South (later Task Force Kandahar), a multinational brigade that included U.S., British, Dutch, and other allied units.
This bold move directly relieved U.S. forces who had previously been operating in Kandahar. Many American units were able to redeploy to Iraq or elsewhere without leaving a critical security vacuum in southern Afghanistan, where the insurgency was intensifying. By filling this gap during a period when U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan were relatively low (prior to the later surges), Canada effectively preserved American military manpower and resources—allowing the U.S. to maintain pressure on multiple fronts without overstretching even further.
From 2006 to 2011, Canadian troops held the frontline and bore the brunt of some of the fiercest fighting NATO had seen since the Korean War.
No matter your political position…you cannot dismiss his comments.
Pierre Trudeau knew what was going on.
Yup…you’ll miss it.
Enjoy while you can 🥰
PS - early morning coffee works wonders 😁
Not too many years ago we would have been dragged out of bed three hours ago by excited kids.
Now it’s just me and the dog awake, with everyone else snoozing.
Young parents, I know it’s rough when the kids run in at 4:30am shouting “Santa was here!”, but you will miss it.
You are so far on the wrong side of history that you can’t think straight.
VP Vance has no place in Canadian Politics…he needs to remain focused in his own country’s problems.
The Vice President of the USA stating what so many of us have been shouting for months. Repeat after me - Donald Trump is not responsible for Canada’s pathetically deteriorating economic position - the Federal Liberals put us here so stop voting them in.
Sending prayers to everyone in the region 🙏🏼
Hurricane Melissa slammed into the southern coast of eastern Cuba, hours after causing devastation in neighboring Jamaica as the strongest-ever cyclone on record to hit that Caribbean island nation. Follow our live coverage: https://t.co/xfGsBEEvKU
PM Mark Carney is a saint…I would not have been so pleasant to Mr Trump. I thank God every day that Mr Carney was elected in April 2025.
#🇨🇦Forever #ElbowsUp
Trump goes on a rant against the insanity of transitioning children in front of Canada's PM, Mark Carney.
Carney has a transsexual child.
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I’m very sorry for your loss. My deepest condolences to all your family.
After two years of treatment for cancer, it is with great sadness that I share the passing of my father, Tak Kwan Wong, in the evening of Saturday, September 6, surrounded by his children and in the embrace of his loving wife, Mee Ling, of 55 years. Dad was a strong, curious, and kind man who travelled the world with the Royal Navy. In Montreal and Toronto, he worked professionally in the top hotels as a chef garde manger and sous chef. Dad carried a quiet demeanour, always speaking calmly and with intention. Never one to pass on the opportunity to go fishing or to cheer for his beloved Toronto Maple Leafs, Dad’s love of these pastimes was surpassed only by his love for his wife, three daughters and their spouses, and seven precious grandchildren.
May he now rest in everlasting peace and love. ❤️
I’m so sorry someone said this to you. You’re an important part of Canada and belong here. Anyone saying something so uneducated is just wrong. Here for generations or just receiving 🇨🇦 citizenship…all are Canadians and belong.
#ForeverCanadian
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#NeverMapleMAGA
I'm feeling extra spicy after being attacked and told to go back to China. This racist rhetoric is being whipped up by MAGA in Canada. It's unacceptable, and we need to speak out and fight for our province and our country. #forevercanadian #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
Good to know 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Happy Labour Day!
This is the day when we honour and celebrate the history of the Canadian Labour Movement.
Did you know Americans took the idea for Labor Day from Canada?
Or that the holiday dates back 130+ years?
This is the story!
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I’m not tearing up or anything 🥹
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