Jason Peters

Married, father of two. Parks and Rec Guy. “Retired" College Vball Coach and political junkie. NE Patriots,WPG Jets, Blue Bombers fan. Opinions are my own.

[Winnipeg Sports Talk @SportsTalkWPG]

PTI did not hold back on Connor Hellebuyck’s trade request.

Mike Wilbon and Frank Isola ripped the Jets goaltender for wanting out of Winnipeg with five years remaining on his contract.

[Roddy 🇨🇦 @RodKahx]

Trump tarrifs on Canada?

3.4% annualized growth with record setting job growth? All with the current tarrifs in place.

Let Trump tarrif Americans into poverty.

Stay the course Canada.

[Martin Pelletier @MPelletierCIO]

My God.
Bloomberg Editor-In Chief.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The World Cup final, perfectly summarised in this Brazilian cartoon.

[DJ @DjCheshier]

Canada’s boreal forest — the source of much of the wildfire smoke drifting into the U.S. — isn’t like our managed forests in the lower 48.
It’s the largest intact forest ecosystem on Earth: roughly 1.3 billion acres (about 78 times larger than Alaska’s Tongass, our biggest national forest, and 7 times larger than all 154 U.S. National Forests combined). It stretches in an almost continuous belt from the Yukon to Newfoundland.
Why can’t they just do controlled burns like we do here?
Because most of it is remote, roadless wilderness.
• Less than 9% of Canada’s population lives in the boreal region.
• Less than 1% of the forest itself is developed.
• Vast areas have no roads and are only accessible by aircraft or winter roads.
You can’t send crews in to do prescribed burns across a billion+ acres of inaccessible terrain the way we can in populated areas near roads and communities in the U.S. Wildfire has been nature’s primary management tool in these ecosystems for thousands of years.
Smoke reaching the Northeast isn’t new either. It happened in 1950, 1988, 1995, 2002, 2017, 2021, 2023, 2025, and now 2026. Weather (especially upper-level wind patterns) determines where the smoke goes, not just where the fires are burning.
Blaming Canada’s government for “not controlling” these fires is political theater. The scale and inaccessibility make large-scale suppression or prevention across that wilderness fundamentally different — and in many places, practically impossible — from managing forests near U.S. population centers.
Nature runs that forest. Politicians don’t. Let’s stop pretending otherwise.

[Brent Bellamy @brent_bellamy]

Fun fact for American politicians.

Canada’s forests are the size of all these countries COMBINED:

Portugal. France. Spain. Germany. Poland. UK. Sweden. Norway. Finland. Denmark. Italy. Greece. Netherlands. Switzerland. Austria. Belgium.

Get out your rake.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

What country has better healthcare again?

Life expectancy
🇨🇦: 83.42
🇬🇧: 82.21
🇺🇸: 79.54

Infant deaths per 1,000 live births
🇬🇧: 3.08
🇨🇦: 3.64
🇺🇸: 5.07

Yearly deaths due to lack of insurance
🇨🇦: 0
🇬🇧: 0
🇺🇸: 68,000

Bankruptcies from medical debt
🇨🇦: 0
🇬🇧: 0
🇺🇸: 530,000 a year

[Arash Madani @ArashMadani]

My God.

The King.

[U2 @U2]

Street of Dreams. New track and music video. Tomorrow 7/7 @ 9AM PT / 12PM ET / 5PM BST.

[Sam Monson @SamMonsonNFL]

Henderson didn't even play in the game and came out of it with a broken arm AND a yellow card!

[Volleyball World @volleyballworld]

#SVLeague 🇯🇵: CHAMPIONS SPOTLIGHT 🏆

Osaka Bluteon made history in blue 💙.

After a 38–6 regular season and a straight trip to the Semifinals, Osaka Bluteon kept their title chase alive and pushed all the way to a dramatic 2–1 Finals win 💫, capturing the club’s first SV.LEAGUE title 🏆.

The blue wave continues into Japan’s 🇯🇵 national team, with Shoma Tomita, Akihiro Yamauchi, Yuji Nishida, Tomohiro Yamamoto, Masato Kai, Hiroto Nishiyama, Keitaro Nishikawa, and Larry Evbade-Dan all selected for the season ahead 👏🏻

🏐 #Volleyball

[Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais]

Look, was LIV Golf successful? No.

Did it bolster the reputations of everybody involved? Also, no.

But was it fun? Once again, no.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Andrew Santino just blew my mind with one simple comparison.

A million seconds = 11 days.
A billion seconds = 31 years.

Let that sink in.

We throw around “billionaire” like it’s just “millionaire but with more zeros,” but the actual gap is insane. A million seconds is less than two weeks. A billion seconds is longer than most people’s entire adult lives.

It’s a perfect reminder of how detached our brains are from what these numbers actually mean.

Next time someone casually says “he’s a billionaire,” just remember: that’s not “a lot of millions.” That’s an entirely different universe of scale.

Mind officially blown.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Comparing Easter messages

[Titanic New York @TitanicNewYork]

114 years on, Belfast witnesses a full-scale drone Titanic depart into the night...a powerful tribute.

#titanic #rmstitanic

[U2 @U2]

A note to U2’s audience from Bono:

"We are in the studio, still working towards a noisy, messy, 'unreasonably colour xerox’ album to play LIVE… which is where U2 lives. We still look to vivid rock n roll as an act of resistance against all this awfulness on our small screens. These are for sure ‘wilderness years’ for so many of us looking at the mayhem out there in the world. It’s a time that has our band digging deeper into our lives to find a wellspring of songs to try to meet the moment…

With Easter Lily we ended up asking very personal questions like: Are our own relationships up to these challenging times? How hard do you fight for friendship? Can our faith survive the mangling of meaning that those algorithms love to reward? Is all religion rubbish and still ripping us apart…? Or are there answers to find in its crevices? Are there ceremonies, rituals, dances that we might be missing in our lives? From the rite of Spring to Easter and its promise of rebirth and renewal… Patti Smith’s album Easter gave me so much hope when it was released in 1978. I wasn’t yet 18. The title is a nod to her.

We will attempt hoopla and fanfare at a later date to remind the rest of the world we exist but in the meantime… this is between you and us."

Easter Lily EP available now. https://t.co/OB3mVe69vu

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: Kid gives a blunt answer after a CNN reporter asked him why he was excited about the Artemis II launch.

Reporter: "Why do you want to be here? Why do you love space? Why do you love being a part of history?"

Kid: "We're going back to the freakin' moon, that's why!"