John Gibson

Montreal born, raised in the world. Pipeliner.

[Fun Tom 🇨🇦 💂 @funtomvids]

🟥 #ShortStory

Once upon a time in a fiercely beautiful and sovereign land, there was a guy with no security clearance, no plan, and no skills

Some people called him a “leader”, but most just called him “that guy”.

Anyway, That Guy lost the election, lost his constituency seat, was GIVEN a seat by his friends so he could sneak back into parliament through the back door, where he then polled at 16% and lost 6 by-elections in a row…
Something completely unprecedented for a main opposition party.

And yet still they kept That Guy as the “leader” of their party.

And the Liberals of that land shrugged and said, “ok”.
And they won every election for the next 20 years.

And the people of that fiercely beautiful land, lived happily ever after.

The END.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This guy is showing how they now have a super expensive Robotic Dog at his Company that watches everything they do 24/7 and he finds it weird. How would you feel about one being at your place of employment?

[Mike Angelle ⬛⬜⬛⬜⬛⬜ @trainofangels00]

The Carney-Barton Machine: Canada’s Ultimate Economic Mercenary Force -

If you think you understand Prime Minister Carney’s vision, it is time to get to know Dominic Barton—because this partnership is about to unleash an unprecedented era of Canadian financial power.

Fresh off key byelection victories, Carney has overhailed Invest in Canada by naming Barton as its chair.

Carney and Barton share a deep, long-standing alignment on global massive commerce.

Barton is an absolute economic beast and a master money machine. Having led global consultancy giant McKinsey and Co. and served as Canada’s ambassador to China, his background is unmatched.

Currently steering mining titan Rio Tinto, Barton commands a huge, highly organized network of global power.

This fiercely pro-Canadian move is designed to absolutely shred traditional American economic influence.

For too long, Canada played second fiddle to the country south of its border, but Trump has NOTHING on the institutional machine Barton wields.

Working alongside new CEO Gurinder Grewal, Barton is poised to kick the doors off this country for multi-billion-dollar foreign investments.

American investors are suddenly waking up to just how coordinated Carney's economic mercenary machine truly is.

- While Washington relies on chaotic trade posturing, sandbox insults and online memes, Ottawa has deployed an elite financial special forces unit.

Watch closely:

America is about to be left lapped and smoked in the wind, wondering how Canada captured the world's capital right from under their noses.

#canpoli
#cdnpoly
#Canada
#MAGA
#Republicans

[John Gibson @jdg_jfl]

@TheTweetOfGod All my life, and now this?
God damm. HDTPM. Abrazo

[Tibet.Net @CTA_TibetdotNet]

"If you can at least be warm-hearted, you will reap great benefits. You will have friends; your children will grow up to be kind people, which is the proper way to build a happier society and a happy life," His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. #MondayMotivation

[John Gibson @jdg_jfl]

@degewa Praise be to Milaripa.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America they hand you a tiny spoon and let you taste the ice cream for free, as many as you want, before you buy anything.

A teenager named Colton held one out to me.

"You can try 'em all."

I said, "How many may I try?"

"Like, all of 'em."

In Japan you look at the photograph, you choose, and you live with your choice. Nobody hands you a spoon, because choosing correctly is your job.

He had made an offer. To refuse an offer is to insult the man who made it. To accept two is to insult the other twenty-nine. There was exactly one honorable path and it ran through the entire case.

I started at the left.

Colton handed me spoons. Somewhere around the eleventh he stopped being confused and started being invested. By the nineteenth he was scouting ahead of me.

"Okay, this next one's got a swirl."

Then he gave me water. Unprompted. To cleanse. We were nineteen deep and this had become a joint operation with a chain of command.

Thirty-one flavors. Thirty-one spoons. A line formed behind me and not one person complained, and I know that because I was listening for it with my entire body.

Colton set down the scoop.

"So what are we thinking?"

We.

I ordered vanilla.

The line did not laugh. Colton did not laugh. He nodded slowly, like a man whose suspicion had finally been confirmed, and gave me four words.

"Yeah. That's the move."

Then he put two scoops on it and charged me for one.

[Oh Canaduh @CanaduhOh]

This might be the most Canadian interaction ever 😂

[John Gibson @jdg_jfl]

@barbinpei Me too. It took Covid to almost kill me then never smoked cigarettes again.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A massive glacier collapse on the Nepal-Tibet border has triggered catastrophic flash flooding and mudslides.

On Wednesday morning, an enormous chunk of ice snapped off a high-altitude glacier, plunging over a vertical kilometer into the valley bottom.

Glaciologists report that this massive ice avalanche blocked the Lhende Khola river, a tributary of the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli rivers. The temporary dam rapidly failed, releasing a towering, apocalyptic wall of water, mud, and heavy debris that violently tore through downstream mountain settlements and border facilities.

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

.@WCKitchen will start serving meals and water next few hours plus more team members already flying in! #ChefsForNepal 😢🫶🏻🙏🕊️🫶🏻such a sad situation….

[Clarence Beeks @DoThough58510]

I’ve seen this before.

[R4ven 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @R4ven664]

So if you want to learn French (Canadian)

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

BREAKING NEWS: CANADA CLOSES STRAIGHT OF LAKE SUPERIOR; TRUMP SENDS THEM $300 BILLION

[Mens_Corner__ @Mens_Corner__]

I’d marry her.

[Dee. ✌️🇨🇦 💛🇺🇦🇺🇸💪 @QwertyDee_]

😂

[John Gibson @jdg_jfl]

El Pana. What a character. Love him.

[Béatrice Margé @beatrice_marge]

🗡️ Rodolfo Rodriguez "El Pana"
Inventor de suertes...

"El par de Calafia"

"El Pana" lo ejecutó por primera vez en la Plaza de toros de Calafia, un día como hoy el 16 de agosto de 1983.

#EternoPana💫

[John Gibson @jdg_jfl]

Now that, is a horse race. Bravo.

[Fundación Toro Lidia @ftorodelidia]

💥 Los 120 segundos más EMOCIONANTES que vas a ver hoy como muestra de lo que también es la cultura popular.

Es el Palio de Siena de Italia, una carrera de caballos que enfrenta a los distintos distritos de la ciudad. De origen medieval, la competición se desarrolla dos veces al año: el 2 de julio se corre el Palio di Provenzano (en honor a la Virgen de Provenzano) y el 16 de agosto el Palio dell'Assunta (en honor de la Asunción de la Virgen).

El Palio es ganado por el caballo, con o sin jinete, que haya cumplido primero las tres vueltas a la plaza en el sentido horario (la tradición dice siempre y cuando este lleve en la frente la escarapela con los colores del barrio para el cual está corriendo).

Es una auténtica locura lo que se vive en la Piazza del Campo de Siena. Mucho más que una carrera, ya que cada caballo y jinete defienden los colores y el honor de su barrio. De lo que ahí pase se hablará todo el año.

Como la tauromaquia, el Palio de Siena es cultura popular y cultura viva, con un animal como protagonista. Y al igual que aquí ocurre con los toros, los de la #IndustriaAnimalista también quieren acabar con este espectáculo único al considerarlo "maltrato animal". Y es que el animalismo es un problema global que quiere acabar con todo.

Frente a la censura animalista, la alegría de la cultura popular.