James Burrows

Passionate, opinionated follower of politics and sports. James served on St. Albert City council for 9 years.

[JudyMB @JudyMaxB]

Climate Alarmism is an indoctrination scam

It is intended to justify a massive global wealth redistribution scheme

FACTS
👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

➡️Climate has been changing naturally for 4.5 billion years. Earth has adapted and managed just fine

➡️CO2 is the gas of life. It is a critical element of photosynthesis. Without CO2 we all die. They even pump it into greenhouses so the plants grow better

➡️Earth is actually in a CO2 FAMINE right now

➡️Alberta has the 3rd largest oil reserves in the world

➡️Canada contributes less than 2% of global emissions. China contributes 35%

➡️Alberta just experienced the coldest snowiest winter in decades. It just snowed here a week ago. Snow on the eastern slopes in June is not unusual. A spell of 30°C weather in summer isn’t either.

➡️@MarkJCarney’s Net Zero fantasy is a WEF “Climate Crisis” scheme to shut down Alberta’s resource industry and make oil energy scarce. It is not scarce. It is the world’s most affordable energy source

➡️Premier @ABDanielleSmith thinks Carney’s Net Zero industrial carbon tax is going to get her a pipeline. It will not. She has been bamboozled… again. Useless MoU.

➡️Carney’s industrial carbon tax flows through the supply and transportation chains to retailers to increase the prices on everything Canadian consumers need to survive

➡️THERE IS NO CLIMATE CRISIS

[JudyMB @JudyMaxB]

This was the day I completely lost respect for @yfblanchet and Quebec in general

This is why no one objected to Quebec wanting to separate (twice) but Eastern Canada is having a meltdown because Alberta wants independence

Alberta sends $47 billion more per year to Ottawa than Alberta gets back

The gravy train is going to STOP.

[Dante Rossi @tvc1five]

🚨Queen’s University law professor Bruce Pardy warns: Mark Carney branded peaceful truckers “seditionists” and “terrorists” simply for protesting Trudeau’s mandates — no violence, just honking horns and parking tickets.

Now as Prime Minister, he’s advancing Liberal hate speech laws that will silence dissent and crush the right to protest.

Every Canadian 🇨🇦 should be deeply worried: our free speech is in grave danger. Wake up! #MarkCarneyMustGo

[Cory Morgan @CoryBMorgan]

Nothing short of changing the constitution will bring the endless cycle of provincial independence flare-ups to an end.

Will Canada ever find the will to open the constitution & could it succeed in changing it?

Probably not.

https://t.co/RZ6Ii5Ci2d

[RMC86 @RMC19861987]

Truth bombs on the state of 🇨🇦 economy by @DrJStrategy:
1⃣ 🇨🇦 economy is dying of cancer & rot, cement was poured last decade.
2⃣ Carney & Ford are pivoting; Danielle Smith recognized this last year.
3⃣ We need to figure out how we are going to grow in the new 🇺🇸 system.
4⃣ The Bank of Canada should be ashamed, level of incompetence is stark.
5⃣ We need to put in policies that are pro-growth, we need to deregulate, we need to stop fighting Trump.
6⃣ 🇨🇦 was sick even with the tariff position. 🇨🇦 does not have a competitive position with advanced manufacturing.
7⃣ We’ve embraced green virtue as a basis of our industrial policy.
2-minute summary of full video from: @davidlin_TV on YT

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

Canada’s institutional obsession with land acknowledgements and historical guilt has officially jumped the shark.

Every university lecture, corporate meeting, school event, and government memo now seems to begin with the same rehearsed confession about whose land we are supposedly standing on. It has become a civic ritual, complete with liturgy, original sin, and mandatory public piety.

Strip away the administrative sermonizing and the whole thing rests on a very shaky version of history.

We are expected to pretend pre-contact North America was a peaceful, static, eco-friendly paradise where distinct peoples lived in permanent harmony until Europeans arrived and ruined everything.

That is not history. That is mythology.

Worse, it is patronizing. It strips Indigenous peoples of their full humanity by pretending they were somehow immune to the normal forces that shaped every other society on earth: ambition, conflict, trade, migration, alliance, conquest, revenge, and expansion.

The actual history of this continent was not a postcard. It was dynamic, complex, and often brutal.

The Haudenosaunee expansion during the Beaver Wars reshaped huge parts of what is now Southern Ontario. The Huron-Wendat, Neutral, and Erie peoples were devastated, displaced, or absorbed through war and political domination.

On the plains, the Blackfoot Confederacy, the Iron Confederacy, and others fought long struggles over territory, trade, horses, resources, and survival. Peoples moved. Borders shifted. Alliances formed and collapsed. Some groups conquered. Some retreated. Some disappeared into larger political orders.

History did not begin when Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence.

This land was already a theatre of power, movement, conflict, diplomacy, and displacement long before Europeans arrived.

The modern Canadian narrative treats European colonisation as a unique cosmic crime, as if conquest and territorial displacement were invented in 1492. They were not. Europeans arrived as a technologically dominant global power and did what powerful groups had done across human history, including on this continent.

That does not make the suffering harmless. It does not erase broken treaties, residential schools, forced relocations, or government abuse. Those things happened, and they matter.

But a serious country cannot build its future on a childish version of the past.

Every habitable part of the world has been taken, lost, fought over, inherited, traded, defended, and taken again. The people Europeans encountered were not frozen in moral perfection. They were human beings living inside history, not outside it.

The guilt industry does not repair the past. It often paralyzes the present.

Canada cannot move forward by treating itself as a permanent crime scene or by dividing citizens into inherited moral categories of “settler” and “Indigenous.”

We can tell the truth about cruelty, conquest, broken promises, and injustice without pretending history had a correct stopping point right before European ships appeared.

A mature country does not need ritual guilt.

It needs honesty, equal citizenship, legal clarity, and the courage to build a future instead of endlessly prosecuting the past.

[Gublo @Gubloinvestor]

Canada has long been known as a land of immigrants and opportunity. However, many are left wondering:

what broke Canada?

Here is a real story shared by a close friend.

My friend landed in Canada in 2015 and was offered free English coaching as part of his early settlement assistance in Saskatchewan. He joined these English lessons and noticed that he had several classmates from the African continent. Surprisingly, these classmates had been stuck at the exact same English proficiency level for three to four years. This was shocking to my friend because it was a very basic, introductory level that could easily be cleared within three months.

After befriending most of them, my friend figured out the truth. These individuals had actually been living in Canada for seven to eight years and were still studying at the exact same college. Furthermore, none of them had applied for Canadian citizenship; they all remained permanent residents.

The Loophole

The reason was simple, if you become a Canadian citizen, you no longer qualify for free language schooling. These free English programs are a benefit reserved strictly for permanent residents.

Because they shared a similar religious background, many of these families had between four and eight children. Additionally, their cultural or religious beliefs did not permit the women to work outside the home. Since the men were perpetually "in school," these families were able to claim every single government benefit available to them. They received money for:

Food and groceries
Rent assistance
Unemployment benefits
Child tax benefits

Meanwhile, our own elderly population has to keep working well past the age of 65 simply because they cannot afford to retire.

This is what broke Canada: weak government policies exploited by strong personal interests.

[Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker @Martyupnorth]

This post is as relevant today as it was 2 years ago.

"If you want to predict what the Liberals will do, regardless of the issue, ask yourself this question: What's the smallest thing they can do, that will cost the least, commit them to nothing, achieve nothing, but will give partisan supporters the idea that they are serious and progressive?"

Every problem we have in Canada in 2026 was caused by the Liberals during the last 11 years.....

[Dan McTeague @GasPriceWizard]

My early take on peace between U.S. and Iran:Damage done.

World is severely short of oil/product which will take months to replenish

For drivers, the effect will be minimal to downside in the short term as future traders have largely ignored fundamentals and leaned on rumours

[Richard Dias @RichardDias_CFA]

Forgive me, Ms. Lang (@AmandaLang), but you are exactly wrong. The problems Canada faces ARE, in fact, about government mismanagement. Canada is in structural stagnation due to a chronic lack of productivity growth and a collapse in private investment, the result of government policy.

If 'trade frictions' and war in Iran disappeared tomorrow, they would not, in any way, solve the underlying cause of weak growth.

Also of note:
Youth unemployment is at a 35-year high adjusted for participation.

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

Canada does not need blind loyalty.
It needs honest citizens.

A government that demands applause has usually stopped earning trust.

A serious country can handle questions about speech, debt, crime, immigration, energy, health care, and basic competence.

Free citizens do not owe the state obedience.

They owe their country something better: judgment, courage, memory, and the nerve to say no when power gets too comfortable.

Canada was not built by people who clapped on command.

It was built by people who worked, argued, voted, paid taxes, raised families, defended freedom, and expected government to know its place.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

ZELENSKYY: Today we have reason to express special gratitude to Britain. They have detained Russian oil tanker off their shores — this is the first such step taken by United Kingdom.

We must stop Russia’s shadow fleet to bring Russia’s war closer to a halt. Thank you, Britain!

[James Burrows @JamesCBurrows]

@WorkingCdns Liberals LOVE announcements. They are a party of announcements. But not much else.

[Working Canadians @WorkingCdns]

Geez - can Carney keep repeating the same things ad nauseam or what? Canada has big problems but he’s not going to fix them by getting closer to EU or China. What a disaster for Canada.

[Mark Dietz @MarkDietzinAB]

My admiration for Jeff Rath just grew.
I had no idea he had just lost his wife.
All through this, he still came out, did interviews, stood tall for Alberta, never backed down, and voiced himself on our behalf.
That deserves a whole lot of respect. 🫡
My condolences to Jeff and his family.

[John Tomkinson @johnwtomkinson]

Canada is broken.

The Tsetsaut / Skii km Lax Ha Nation is incorporated as the "Tsetsaut Consultation Society".

It is not a Band recognized by the government.
It has no treaty or agreements.
It claims to have 30 members.

This "consultation society" stopped and vetoed a $1.2 Billion gold mine project by lawfare claiming it wasn’t consulted enough using section 35 of the Charter.

The decision was made supporting the non-FN Band by Trudeau’s Liberal federal government appointed "judge" Emily Burke. It appears to be extortion enabled by the Canada’s federal government.

It is easy to see why Canadians have no faith in the judicial system, and why the BC independence movement is growing now too!

[Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker @Martyupnorth]

Our exports to the USA dropped by $30 billion last year.

The Americans account for 72.5% of all our exports.

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[David Staples @DavidStaplesYEG]

@kushika_twt It is your moral failure to fail to understand how a prosperous society is built

[Dan McTeague @GasPriceWizard]

How the energy crisis has forced the same IEA to eat its previous words - that the world needed less oil and that it should divest from it

[David Staples @DavidStaplesYEG]

@Heccles94 Here's an equation to keep in mind:

Because of people like Elon Musk fewer kids starve.

Because of socialist central planners, kids starve.