John Struthers

Past President Criminal Lawyers’ Association. Ontario Progressive Democracy. Leafs, Chelsea, Jays, Raptors, Guitars, vintage and new.

[Kathryn Mathias @KathrynMathias1]

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[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

I’m going to say what everyone is too scared to say.

Canada is under attack. Not with missiles. With data. With money. With useful idiots waving provincial flags while American operatives pull the strings from Michigan boardrooms.

3 million Albertans doxxed. The US Ambassador’s fingerprints on the weapon. UCP insiders in the room watching it happen. Trump officials holding secret meetings about carving up this country like it’s a real estate deal. Because to them? IT IS.

Trump said it himself. 51st state. He wasn’t joking. He never jokes.

And while all of this is happening, @PierrePoilievre , the man who wants to lead this country, is hiding under his desk hoping nobody asks him which side he’s on. PIERRE.

The guy who built his entire career screaming about government overreach can’t find his voice when a foreign government is actively funding the dismemberment of Canada?
What do you know, Pierre? What are you afraid of?

Because here’s what I see. A movement that appeared out of nowhere. Fully funded. Fully organized. With American tech. American strategy. American money. And an American ambassador running interference in plain sight.

This isn’t Alberta vs Ottawa.
This is foreign acquisition.
They’re not trying to free Alberta.
They’re trying to own it.
The oil. The land. The leverage.
And some of our own politicians are either too compromised, too cowardly, or too bought to stop it.

Canada is not for sale.
#cdnpoli

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Thirty federal cases affected after Toronto police officers charged in Project South probe https://t.co/vcQvDLTvBA

[Fight Police Corruption Toronto @FightPoliceTO]

An unknown number of #TorontoPolice officers are currently under investigation. It appears more members of the drug squad are involved with stealing evidence and obstruction of justice.

#topoli #TorontoPoliceService

https://t.co/73X6agCgWR

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

#Exclusive: An unknown number of Toronto police drug squad officers will be the subjects of a conduct investigation by Ontario’s police watchdog, the Star has learned. https://t.co/gfIXWCpsm9

[John Struthers @johnstruthers]

You can’t breathe oil.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Pierre Poilievre: "We must be unabashed defenders of oil and gas. Everywhere on earth where fossil fuel use has risen, life expectancies and living standards have grown. More is better for Canada and for the world. And we will keep fighting for it."

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

NEW: NDP Leader Marit Stiles suggests Premier Doug Ford will "be in prison" at the end of this current mandate, and says the NDP would call a public inquiry into the Ford government if elected after the 2029/30 election.

#onpoli

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

JUST IN: A Trump judicial nominee was asked point blank: is Trump eligible to run for a third term?

Their answer: “I would have to review the actual wording…”

Sen. Chris Coons then asked every nominee in the room to confirm the Constitution bars a third term.

Silence.

Every single one of them refused to say it.

Trump is appointing judges who won’t affirm the 22nd Amendment to his face.

Never stop connecting the dots.

[John Struthers @johnstruthers]

@ryangerritsen Our standard of living is a lot more than money.

[Alison Craig @lawandchocolate]

He led the Toronto police homicide unit. Now Hank Idsinga is detailing the racism and antisemitism that fueled his exit https://t.co/R2j2QJ0lsv via @torontostar

[Nathaniel Arfin @ArfinNathaniel]

Ford was told he couldn’t conduct government business on his personal phone. He did it anyways.

A court ordered he release his cell phone records. He refused.

Today, the Ontario Government will vote to allow Ford to delete those records, retroactively.

This is authoritarian.

[Paul Manning @mobinfiltrator]

This is a little fucked.

Scores of officers arrested regularly from @NiagRegPolice. I mean it's prolific.

Last one. I just don't have the time.

I'll use this as an example with the departments official claims of “transparency.”

PC Const. Mark Taks, 25 years old, only two years on the fucking job:

- May 2017, investigation into drug trafficking.
- Oct 6, 2017, charged (steroids, cocaine, marijuana, prescription drugs).
- March 20, 2018, charged again for breaching bail conditions. $100,000 bail assigned.
- Placed under house arrest.
- Dec 1, 2018, resigns.

And today?

I can't find any clear, publicly available court disposition.

No final answer on how it ended.

Now zoom out.

- DS. Shane Donovan / PC. Nathan Parker (2018). Officer shoots officer, charges collapse, no full public explanation.

- PC. Ben Tomiuck, Assault charge, resolved through diversion, back to duty.

- PC. Kenneth Bettes (former officer). Multiple disturbing charges, no clarity on exit.

- PC. Matthew Belzil. Repeated charges, then sues alleging he was framed.

- PC. David Kukoly. 28-year officer, charged with multiple sexual assaults.

- PC. Wendy Cools-Lartigue. Breach of trust, fraud-related charges while on duty.

- PC. Scott Heron. 2012 smuggling arrest. Jailed. Later breach issues.

- PC. Mark Taks. Trafficking. Breach. House arrest. Resignation. No clear outcome.

That’s not one incident.

It’s a pattern.

And here’s the common thread:

- Charges laid.
- Public attention.
- Then silence.
- No clear explanation of how it ends.

Zero accountability or closure.

When a police service says it’s “transparent,” that doesn’t just mean announcing arrests.

It means explaining everything that led us to an officer being charged and beyond.

Transparency isn’t just how a story begins.

It’s also how it ends.

#onpoli #cdnpoli

[Robert Benzie @robertbenzie]

NEW: The Ontario government has purchased a used $28.9 million private jet for the use of Premier Doug Ford, the @TorontoStar has learned. The 2016 Bombardier Challenger 650 was delivered this week.

https://t.co/3YTaafkt4M

[Dapper Millenial @realcdnrhetoric]

Wonder why more Ontarian's aren't outraged at Doug Ford?

Because Post-media (CityNews, CTV, CP24, Global, etc...) Are all bought and paid for by Ontario Conservatives.

We don't have freedom of the press. We have a mob boss running the province, and getting rich from it.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Actual quotes from President Trump:

Trump’s “victory timeline” claims.

Mar 3: "We won the war."
Mar 7: "We defeated Iran."
Mar 9: "We must attack Iran."
Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully.
March 10: practically nothing left to target
Mar 11: “You never like to say too ⁠early you won. We won. In ​the first hour it was over.” Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet."
Mar 13: "We won the war."
Mar 14: "Please help us."
Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it."
Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all."
Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me."
Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad."
Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help."
Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO."
Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 20: "NATO are cowards."
Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it."
Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait"
Mar 22: "Iran is Dead"

Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran."
Mar 24: "We’re making progress."
Mar 25: “They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.” Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we’ll just keep blowing them away."
Mar 27: "We don’t have to be there for NATO."
Mar 28: No major quote
Mar 29: Claimed talks were progressing
Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences."
Mar 31: Claimed a deal was "very close" and that Iran would "do the right thing"
Apr 1: "We’ll see what happens very soon."
Apr 2: Repeated that a deal was likely, while warning of continued strikes if not
Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen."
Apr 4: Said Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences.

Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."
April 6 :a whole civilization will die
April 7: total and complete victory
April8: objectives were met

A true disaster

[John Struthers @johnstruthers]

The Straits of Hormuz are a nuclear option you can use.
#peace

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

A few weeks ago I had a conversation with an American who genuinely believed Europe and Canada would help the United States in its war with Iran. I asked him why he thought that, given that Trump had spent months threatening to annex Canada and seize Greenland. He went quiet. Then he said he had never heard of any of that.

Not that he disagreed. Not that he thought it was exaggerated. He had simply never encountered the information. It had never arrived.

This is worth pausing on. Because in every other functioning democracy on earth, that information would have been impossible to avoid. Not because Europeans are smarter or more curious. But because of how news works outside the United States. The BBC and The Daily Telegraph hate each other. Le Monde and Le Figaro disagree on everything. Aftenposten and Dagbladet have been arguing since before most of their readers were born. But they all cover the same events. A threat to annex Canada is not a left-wing story or a right-wing story. It is a story. It runs everywhere. You hear it on the radio driving to work. You see it on the newsstand. Your colleague mentions it at lunch. Facts are not a channel you choose. They are the weather. You step outside and they hit you.

The only media ecosystems on earth that work differently are not political opposites of each other. They are North Korea and Russia. Not because the content resembles MAGA content. But because the architecture is the same. In all three cases, outside information does not get filtered or reinterpreted. It gets blocked at the door. A completely parallel reality is built inside, maintained by repetition, and sealed from correction.

This is why the rest of the world does not just disagree with MAGA voters on foreign policy. It finds them genuinely disorienting to talk to. Not offensive. Disorienting. Like speaking to someone who is absolutely certain the building has two floors when you are standing on the third.

Which brings us to today’s masterclass. And this screenshot says everything.

A Trump supporter posted: “Absolute masterclass by Trump. He got the Strait open without any help from Europe and without any boots on the ground.”

That post was written on the same day a refinery on Lavan Island burned for hours after the ceasefire was announced. On the same day Iran’s own official statement read “this does not signify the termination of the war.” On the same day Iran kept its toll system, its uranium program, its protocol over the strait, and walked away with sanctions relief and reconstruction aid.

The post is not stupid. It is not written by a bad person. It is written by someone who received a completely different set of facts than the rest of the world did. And from inside that information environment, with only that data, the conclusion is perfectly logical.

That is what makes it so unsettling. It is not ignorance. It is a sealed universe, doing exactly what sealed universes do.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

An hour after announcing his resignation, the US Army Chief of Staff says: "A madman is about to lead the great US military to ruin."

[Zülfü Emek @zulfu_emek]

Kennedy duvarı yalamayan yegane ABD başkanıydı.

Hayatına mal olan konuşma;

-İsrailli yetkililere, onların yayılmacı politikalarını kabul etmediğimi söyledim. O toprakların kadim halkının (Filistinlilerin) hakları görmezden gelinemez. Adil bir çözüm bulmalıyız.”

#Irán

[John Struthers @johnstruthers]

The Attorney General of the Province of Ontario.

[Isaac Callan @isaaccallan]

WATCH: Attorney General Doug Downey wouldn't be drawn on Premier Doug Ford's call for the judge in the Umar Zameer trial to apologize.

Critics say the premier is putting his AG in an uncomfortable position. #OnPoli