Jeff Paul

Hockey dad. Curler. Views are my own.

[NSTRIKE @NSTRIKE1231]

🇵🇱🇺🇦Poland and Ukraine have officially shattered their brief diplomatic deadlock, aggressively reactivating top-level defense negotiations to seal a monumental tactical swap: Warsaw’s remaining MiG-29 fighter jets in exchange for Kyiv’s coveted, combat-proven drone and electronic warfare technology.

Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz confirmed that after a tense standoff where Poland threatened to mothball and scrap the planes due to a technology-sharing dispute, Ukraine returned to the negotiating table with a lucrative, formalized proposal. Under this revived framework, Kyiv will share its unparalleled, frontline-tested UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) architecture, modern anti-drone algorithms, and electronic warfare breakthroughs. In immediate return, Warsaw will transfer its fully modernized MiG-29 fleet directly to the Ukrainian Air Force.

This high-stakes breakthrough signals a profound evolution in European military dynamics, shifting the relationship between Warsaw and Kyiv from a traditional donor-recipient alliance into a cutting-edge, peer-to-peer strategic partnership. As Poland transitions its sovereign airspace to elite American F-35s and South Korean platforms, absorbing Ukraine's hyper-advanced drone expertise allows Warsaw to instantly fortify NATO's eastern flank against modern hybrid warfare. For Ukraine, reclaiming these combat-ready, Western-integrated fighters provides an immediate injection of ready-to-fly aviation power to systematically eliminate Russian aerial assets without the long logistical lag of pilot retraining.

[Jeff Paul @jdpaul24]

@michaelgendron @bklunder @tylerbanham Depends. With or without chicken?

[Jeff Paul @jdpaul24]

Go Wildcats

[Jeff Paul @jdpaul24]

Read this! I'm team new.

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Opinion: Do you believe in the Old Canada, or the New Canada? https://t.co/ZinQrxBZV4

[CPAC @CPAC_TV]

"I don't think we've done, myself included, a particularly good job of rolling this out and explaining exactly what it is," says PM Carney when asked whether developers pushed for federal-B.C. plan to convert unsold condos in the province into affordable housing units.

#cdnpoli

[Jeff Paul @jdpaul24]

@kinsellawarren Are you doing any book signings while in town? I just got a copy of Hidden Hand for Father's Day.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

A brand new bridge between Detroit and Canada is finished and ready to open. It would speed up traffic for millions of trucks, cut delays for American businesses, and help the auto industry that employs people in every state. There is just one problem.

Donald Trump won’t let it open.

Here is why.

The family that owns the old bridge stands to lose business when the new one opens. So in January, they gave one million dollars to a pro-Trump super PAC.

Weeks later they met with Trump’s Commerce Secretary.

He called Trump.

Hours after that, Trump announced he would block the new bridge. The opening was set for June 12. It got canceled the day before. The bridge sits there finished and empty.

Now here is the part that should make every taxpayer angry.

Canada paid for the entire bridge.

Every dollar. And the United States already owns half of it for free. Trump is holding up a bridge we got for nothing, to protect a donor who wrote him a check, while picking a fight with our closest ally and biggest trading partner.

This is corruption in plain sight.

A billionaire pays, and the President delivers. American workers and businesses pay the price.

Open the bridge. A government should work for the people, not for whoever writes the biggest check.
https://t.co/9o9Gz9UrBo

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

When music brings people together… One lone piper from Scotland and Boston’s finest bucket-drum maestro somehow created the collaboration nobody knew they needed 🥹

[Jeff Paul @jdpaul24]

@cdanny17 @TheAthletic First you make one skating.

[Jeff Paul @jdpaul24]

@kinsellawarren I get the sentiment Warren. But look at it this way. Carney has close to zero influence on the war. So he takes a position that realistically protects 10s of thousands of Cdn jobs for a while. Not unreasonable.

[Jeff Paul @jdpaul24]

@jec79 For sure. But the political take is correct. He has zero influence on the war realistically. So he takes a position that effectively protects tens of thousands of Canadian jobs. I'm here for it.

[Perfect Game International @pg_int1]

Ben Paul (‘26 ON) plates an insurance run for @ONCBaseball with this oppo knock. Has shown ability to fight off multiple pitches & expand the zone. Makes for a very tough out. #Midland CC commit.

#CanadianNatChamp @CPBLeague @PG_Scouting

[Perfect Game International @pg_int1]

‘26 Ben Paul (ON) smokes this to CF for a GR2B. Gets to strength easy & natural ability to lift the baseball. #Midland commit. @ONCBaseball #CanadianNatChamp

[Jeff Paul @jdpaul24]

@jec79 1. Shouldn't that be the caucus chair. And 2. in reality shouldn't that be Carney who could take a page from Mulroney's book on that?

[Perfect Game International @pg_int1]

Ben Paul (‘26 ON) #Midland commit
#CanadianNatChamp

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[Jeff Paul @jdpaul24]

@FiacconiRichard @PierrePoilievre @AndrewScheer You're analysis is always quite astute Greyhounds Fan. Ever thought of running for office? @TerrySheehanMP @FiacconiRichard

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

November, here we come.

[BainsHQ @BainsHQ]

Let’s get to work.