Joy Skanes

Educator. Teacher with @NLESD committed to community building through restorative approaches. Doing what I can to push for social justice

[Rina Lu🇷🇺 @rinalu_]

When Russia plays by the rules too well, they just change the rules.

At the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, Zagitova built her free skate in a way that squeezed every possible point out of the rules. All her jumps were placed in the second half, where they earned bonus points. It was a very smart and perfectly executed move.

After that season, the International Skating Union limited how many jumps could get the second-half bonus. People started calling it the Zagitova Rule.

[Joy Skanes @jeskanes]

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[Juno News @junonewscom]

Poilievre: "As President Reagan says, if a liberal sees something that moves, he taxes it. If it keeps moving, he regulates it, and when it stops moving, he subsidizes it."

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Happy for the 12 million Canadians getting more GST credit to help make ends meet.

The expanded program will cost nearly $12 billion—money that was not in the federal budget.

How many reporters asked Carney how Canadians will pay for it?

Zero.

[Marc Nixon @MarcNixon24]

Mark Carney finally faces Pierre Poilievre in Parliament for the FIRST time this YEAR.

Suddenly the PRIVATE JET TOUR around the WORLD for all of 2026 makes sense ✈️

Hard to spin polling when you’re getting DESTROYED LIVE in the House.

[Joy Skanes @jeskanes]

@ronmortgageguy This is the law 😀 indigenous people were forced off their land, it was stolen from them. If you purchase property knowing it is stolen, you can be guilty of a crime.
In Canada:
Under the Criminal Code, it is an offence called “possession of property obtained by crime.”

[Joy Skanes @jeskanes]

@TheRealKeean Division is the goal!

[Joy Skanes @jeskanes]

@Matt_Pinner

[Joy Skanes @jeskanes]

@Matt_Pinner

[Joy Skanes @jeskanes]

@mark_slapinski Can’t happen fast enough.

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Wow.

While Mark Carney asks youth — who can’t afford homes or food — to sacrifice more, his company is the single biggest tax dodger in Canada. $6.5 billion in taxes dodged.

He taxes you to fund his out-of-control spending. While he stashes his cash in tax havens.

High-tax hypocrisy.

[Joy Skanes @jeskanes]

@NehanAzamBC @by__brittany Not terrible for the those who originally inhabited the land.

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

Carney got ripped to shreds.

Imperial Oil is moving its headquarters out of Calgary

And laying off 20% of their workforce

Carney has the power to reverse this by removing the red tape & repealing ridiculous development obstacles.

But he chooses not to.

Insane

[Joy Skanes @jeskanes]

@vesperdigital Not current translates into later.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇨🇳 CHINA BROKE THE SKY WITH 11,787 DRONES

Chongqing, China just pulled off the wildest drone light show the world has ever seen.

A jaw-dropping 11,787 drones lit up the night sky, setting a new Guinness World Record.

The drones moved together to create glowing shapes like a giant running kid and swirling clouds above tall buildings.

It looked more like a Pixar dream than something real.

Fireworks could never.

Source: @MarchUnofficial

[Matt Strauss @strauss_matt]

I can’t take it any more. As a father of a three-year-old girl, I can’t take it.

If our government can’t keep toddler rapists in jail, what is even the point.

I find all my quiet moments invaded by sorrow and horror about this. Enough is enough.

https://t.co/11QUyJUcBx

[Dan Knight @DanKnightMMA]

Canada’s economy just shrank. That’s the headline. In the second quarter of 2025, real GDP fell 0.4%. On a per-person basis, it was the same. Canadians are poorer than they were three months ago. That’s not speculation. That’s Statistics Canada’s official number.

So, here’s what happened. The government and its media allies spent the spring bragging that the Canadian economy “grew” in the first quarter of 2025. Real GDP was up half a percent. Sounds good, right? But if you read the fine print, if you look at the numbers it wasn’t real growth at all. It was panic.

Exporters rushed to push product into the United States before tariffs came down. Automakers. Machinery producers. Parts suppliers. They all jammed as much across the border as they could, knowing the window was closing. That sugar high showed up in the Q1 GDP number. It made the economy look like it was humming along.

Then the tariffs hit. And in the second quarter, the bottom fell out. Exports collapsed down 7.5% overall. Passenger cars and light trucks? Down nearly 25%. Machinery and equipment? Down 18.5%. Travel services? Down 11%. The result: GDP fell 0.4%. On a per-capita basis, it was exactly the same. Canadians are literally poorer than they were three months ago.

This is the story you’re not hearing: Q1 wasn’t proof of a healthy economy. It was proof of a desperate one. Businesses scrambling to get ahead of trade barriers, because they knew Ottawa wasn’t going to stop them. Q1 was fake growth, and Q2 was the crash.

Meanwhile, households are spending more, saving less, and wages are barely moving up just 0.2%, the slowest since 2016 outside of COVID. Corporate profits are falling. Government revenues are down since the carbon tax was lifted. And Ottawa’s answer? Spend more. Borrow more. Pretend it’s all fine.

So the question is simple: if this is what “growth” looks like under Mark Carney’s Liberal government front-loaded exports, collapsing investment, rising debt what does the next quarter look like?

[John Smith @yonkojohn]

@Concern70732755 How many Canadians voted Carney when he pretended to cancel the Carbon Tax? Carney gotcha!

[Concerned Canadian @Concern70732755]

The Clean Fuels regulations is the new carbon tax -get ready for your fuel cost to increase by $0.17 cents per litre !

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

WINNING! The entire state of Florida will now be using truck weigh stations as immigration checkpoints!

This is HUGE and will protect Americans from foreingers who can't read or understand English!

This is LONG OVERDUE and EVERY state should do it!