Janet Baker

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

An appropriate birthday present on my uncle's birthday today. A federal judge ruled that President Trump and the Kennedy Center Board acted unlawfully in renaming the Kennedy Center. The judge held that only Congress can change the Center's name and blocked the planned two-year closure. I know they'll probably appeal and the story isn't over, but for today let’s celebrate a great birthday gift.

[Wab Kinew @WabKinew]

We stand on guard for thee 🇨🇦

[Thomas Juneau @thomasjuneau]

The US ambassador to Canada continues to provide a master class in how not to do public diplomacy

[Janet Baker @JBakes56]

Exactly

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Pete Hoekstra is the United States Ambassador to Canada. A man appointed specifically to understand Canada. Whose entire job, when distilled to its essence, is to comprehend why Canadians feel the way they do about the country directly to their south – the country that just slapped tariffs on their exports, questioned their sovereignty, and suggested they might want to consider becoming the 51st state.

And when a journalist asks him, with admirable patience, whether he understands where that frustration is coming from, he doesn’t say “it’s complicated.” He doesn’t say “we have work to do.” He says, with the serene confidence of a man who has never once been troubled by self-awareness: “Absolutely, no.”

Absolutely. No.

Not just no. He reached into the English language and found the one adverb that makes the answer worse.

This is a diplomat. This is America’s official representative to a nation of 40 million people who are currently being economically strong-armed by his boss. His job – his only job – is to understand Canadians. And he has looked that job squarely in the face and said: not today.

You genuinely could not find a better summary of current American foreign policy if you wrote it yourself.

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Wab Kinew criticizes Danielle Smith over duty to consult First Nations on secession referendum https://t.co/rvCfxQGVCU

[Janet Baker @JBakes56]

@spittinchiclets we are aware. From the looks of things he did it all on his own too.

[Spittin' Chiclets @spittinchiclets]

Leafs fans, not sure if you’re aware but Mitch Marner is heading to the Stanley Cup Final.

[Troy Westwood @TroyWestwood]

Spectacular job here of holding Smith’s feet to the fire in seeking truth. 🇨🇦

[Warren Kinsella @kinsellawarren]

She flat-out lied about the law. He called her on it, and it was something to see.

[Nora Loreto @NoLore]

Everything coming from Kinew these days is showing that his time in Canadian politics is still yet to come. He's quickly becoming one of the most credible politicians in Canada.

[Jason Pugh 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @TheJasonPugh]

🚨WATCH:

“Sorry, I’d like to respond. So I think we know that that is not correct. A lot of what you just said there, Premier Smith.” - Manitoba Premier @WabKinew

#cdnpoli @ABDanielleSmith

[OverDrive @OverDrive1050]

"That is a direct shot at the 'grow up bro, this isn't junior hockey comment from William Nylander.' You know exactly what he's talking about here." 😳

Hayes, O-Dog and Noodles on Mitch Marner's postgame comments

#ForgedInGold

[Janet Baker @JBakes56]

@OverDrive1050 for the life of me I can’t figure out why those doughheads at MLSE didn’t hire @chrispronger but I think I just answered the question.

[OverDrive @OverDrive1050]

"I got good feedback on my conversation with them, but they were going in a different direction." 👀

Chris Pronger details his interview with the Maple Leafs and Keith Pelley

#LeafsForever

[Courtney Theriault @cspotweet]

"I think we know that's not correct a lot of what you said Premier Smith."

Manitoba premier Wab Kinew pushes back against Smith's claims on a sovereignty petition court case and duty to consult, and asks for Alberta's referendum to be paused for a couple of years so Canada and provinces can make progress on energy projects like a pipeline.

[Janet Baker @JBakes56]

This was fantastic @WabKinew well said

[Bruce Arthur @bruce_arthur]

Exceptional

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

Happy 62nd birthday to Lenny Kravitz!

How in the world this man is 62 years old & still lookin like this?!

[Janet Baker @JBakes56]

You go @WabKinew !!! I agree 100%

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Canada needs more Wab Kinew and less Danielle Smith.

[Janet Baker @JBakes56]

Oh Mitch…

[OverDrive @OverDrive1050]

"That is a direct shot at the 'grow up bro, this isn't junior hockey comment from William Nylander.' You know exactly what he's talking about here." 😳

Hayes, O-Dog and Noodles on Mitch Marner's postgame comments

#ForgedInGold

[Meanwhile in Ukraine @MeanwhileInUA]

Putin didn't invade Ukraine because of NATO. He invaded because Ukrainians were proving democracy works.

Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum puts it plainly: Putin looked at Ukraine's democratic movement and thought, "If they can do it in Ukraine, then people could do it in Russia. So I need to crush this."

That's the real threat Ukraine posed. Not missiles. Not borders. A working democracy next door.

Applebaum frames the war as a fault line between the democratic and autocratic worlds. Russia isn't just trying to take territory. It's trying to erase Ukraine as a nation, reduce it to a colony, and send a message to every country that the post-1945 rules of Europe no longer apply.

Those rules were simple: no invasions, no wars, borders don't change by force. Russia understood exactly what it was breaking when it crossed into Ukraine.

[распад и неуважение @VictorKvert2008]

The U.S. ambassador to Ukraine resigned and openly accused Trump of aligning with Putin.

Respect to Bridget Brink — a brave and honest woman.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Anita Anand: "We very much celebrated the fact that Sweden had decided to join [NATO] and Finland as well. It was a moment of great joy in the Alliance to welcome two new members."