🇨🇦 Jamie Carroll 🇨🇦

Entrepreneur; CEO of Carroll & Co. Consulting, MAPLE|silk Canada, Great Plains MDF, etc.; proud dad. Tweets are mine and often satirical.

[🇨🇦 Jamie Carroll 🇨🇦 @jec79]

@PremiumNutz @1scoobyD00 You’re either an idiot or a quisling. Either way, piss off.

[🇨🇦 Jamie Carroll 🇨🇦 @jec79]

Love. And buy Stelco.

[National Newswatch @natnewswatch]

Industry Minister Melanie Joly wants to build an aluminum rolling mill in Canada https://t.co/bm9HYAMhQw

[🇨🇦 Jamie Carroll 🇨🇦 @jec79]

@SerpentorsLairX Funny.

[🇨🇦 Jamie Carroll 🇨🇦 @jec79]

@PremiumNutz @1scoobyD00 Yes, there’s nothing be forced upon us arbitrarily and beyond our control in this industries, you tit.

[🇨🇦 Jamie Carroll 🇨🇦 @jec79]

@PremiumNutz What a unique and interesting idea. 🙄

[🇨🇦 Jamie Carroll 🇨🇦 @jec79]

@1scoobyD00 @PremiumNutz Sigh. I’m not really here to give a macroeconomics lesson but what’s good for the Canadian economy may not be good for a single company or shareholders focused exclusively on quarterly results.

[🇨🇦 Jamie Carroll 🇨🇦 @jec79]

@1scoobyD00 @PremiumNutz Exactly the point. But we need steel mills producing the types of products needed/used in Canada rather than for export markets.

[🇨🇦 Jamie Carroll 🇨🇦 @jec79]

@davidpugliese We really should be more focused on the fact his training had lead him to believe that shooting someone accused of shoplifting diapers was an appropriate response.

[Just A Plane Person 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇦🇺🇬🇧 @CF101B]

Starting today for both those and uniform and us veterans/civilians please wear your poppy.

I have started using the black center pin. The RCL sells them.

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https://t.co/o2cKCHJIYs

[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

In 1941, a Spaniard walked into the British embassy in Madrid and offered to spy on the Nazis.

The British turned him down.

So he went to the Germans instead, pretended to be a loyal fascist, and got hired as a German spy. His plan was to lie to them for the rest of the war.

It worked better than anyone could have imagined.

His name was Juan Pujol García. Before the war he had tried his hand at running a chicken farm and a movie theater. He had no spy training. What he had was a deep hatred of both fascism and communism after the Spanish Civil War, and an incredible imagination.

The Germans gave him a codename, invisible ink, money, and orders to go to Britain and recruit spies.

He didn't go to Britain.

He went to Lisbon, Portugal, and made everything up.

Using a tourist guidebook, maps, magazines, newsreels, and a British railway timetable from the library, he wrote long, detailed reports about life in England. Military movements. Morale. Ports.

He'd never been there. He made mistakes. He didn't understand British money. He once reported that dockworkers in Glasgow would do anything for a liter of wine.

The Germans loved him anyway.

Then British codebreakers reading German messages noticed something strange. The Germans were hunting for a convoy that didn't exist, based on a report from some agent in Britain they'd never heard of.

The British went looking for this mystery spy. They found Pujol. In 1942 they finally took him on and brought him to London.

Now he had real help. MI5 gave him the codename Garbo, after the actress, because they thought he was the greatest actor in the world.

Together with his British handler, Pujol built a fake spy network for the Germans. It eventually had 27 imaginary agents. Each had a name, a personality, a job, and a backstory. A Welsh nationalist. A Venezuelan student. A Greek sailor. Some of them recruited their own imaginary sub-agents.

When they needed to explain why one agent had gone quiet, they killed him off. They even put a fake obituary in a Liverpool newspaper. The Germans reportedly paid a pension to his widow.

Who also didn't exist.

Then came D-Day.

Hours before the landings, the British let Pujol send a message warning the Germans that the invasion was coming in Normandy. It was timed so it would arrive too late to matter, but it made him look brilliant.

Three days later he sent the most important message of his career. Normandy was a trick, he said. The real invasion was still coming, at Calais, led by a huge army under General Patton.

That army was fake too. But the Germans believed him.

German forces that could have been rushed to Normandy were held back near Calais for weeks, waiting for an attack that never came.

The Germans were so grateful they awarded him the Iron Cross.

A few months later, King George VI made him a Member of the Order of the British Empire.

He's one of the only people known to have been decorated by both sides of the war.

After the war, afraid of revenge from surviving Nazis, he faked his own death from malaria in Africa and disappeared to Venezuela, where he lived quietly running a shop.

For decades the world thought he was dead.

In 1984, a British writer tracked him down. Pujol came back to Normandy for the 40th anniversary of D-Day and met veterans who had landed on the beaches.

Some of them thanked him.

[🇨🇦 Jamie Carroll 🇨🇦 @jec79]

@PremiumNutz You see, some of us are capable of holding more than one thought at a time… Yes, build an aluminum mill. But also buy Stelco to ensure that steel producing asset stays in Canada and stays producing.

[🇨🇦 Jamie Carroll 🇨🇦 @jec79]

@tylermeredith Amazon really really puts my human-hating introversion in direct conflict with most of my other values.

[Tyler Meredith @tylermeredith]

This is really gross behaviour by Amazon and should be actively denounced

Choosing to join a union is a Charter protected right - it is an expression of democratic values and association

#cdnpoli

https://t.co/sILSTn3Qmc

[🇨🇦 Jamie Carroll 🇨🇦 @jec79]

@DavidMcLA It must be so much easier to be a mindless, fact-immune twat waffle.

[National Newswatch @natnewswatch]

First Nations prepare for historic meeting with Carney and the premiers https://t.co/DaQfBztOEY

[X Global @X_Global_tv]

Freeland: The President is destroying the US market. In fact, your stock market is performing worse than the stock markets in Europe or Canada.

And all of this for what reason? Because Canadians aren't being nice enough. The end result was doing something that's hard to do... making Canadians angry.

[🇨🇦 Jamie Carroll 🇨🇦 @jec79]

Never more true than now…

[Greg 🚭🚯 @gregalmonte_]

@SecRubio

[Carrie Tait @CarrieTait]

2025 federal election in Alberta:
Liberals: 27.8% of valid votes --> 631,929 of 2,267,230

2026 Alberta referendum on (1) staying in Canada vs (2) starting the legal process for binding secession vote:
Option 2: 24.9% of valid votes, w 99% polls in --> 514,128 of 2,059,140

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

NEW: A group of Catholic bishops prayed over President Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday, 12 days before the midterm elections, at a meeting organized by an official at the Heritage Foundation.

A senior Vatican official called it “a highly inappropriate meeting and an insult to Pope Leo XIV.”

In April, Trump called the pope “terrible for Foreign Policy,” and Vice President JD Vance warned that Leo should “be careful” when he talks about theology. https://t.co/VLBSOIOlBR

[National Newswatch @natnewswatch]

P.E.I. Tory official agent faces 42 charges over party donations https://t.co/EaHjJmd7Qd