Ken O 🇨🇦

[VisuallyBetter @Isuckatpicking]

Nothing says the world wants more Alberta oil like having to subsidize oil and gas companies to produce more oil in order to fill a pipeline the industry doesn't see a business case for.

[𝒥𝑒𝓈𝓈 @worldreads]

terrible time to have a history degree & pattern recognition skills

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

"The stock market and economy seem out of sync," per CNBC

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

From the DM's...

Separatist Leader Jefferey Rath has had his assets frozen by the courts as a result of ongoing legal proceedings involving Tallcree First Nations on allegations he moved $8.5 million from a Tallcree trust to his private corporation.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

NEW: A senior cabinet minister in the Ford gov’t billed taxpayers thousands of dollars for hotel rooms in downtown Toronto, despite living just a few kilometres away from Queen’s Park — public money that he’s now promising to partly pay back.

https://t.co/LTZuC4IAvg

#onpoli

[BeatinTheBookie.com®️ @BeatinTheBookie]

Stubhub should be forced to shut down immediately by the government. That’s the only solution here.

[KNugent4118 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @KNugent4118]

Why does Doug Ford have people going around door to door campaigning outside election period?
I just had a guy show up at my house.
He didn't seem to know why either.

@ElectionsON
@fordnation

[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

The “oldest ally” line is doing a lot of work to hide a pretty basic double standard.

The US hit Canada with 25 to 35 percent tariffs, citing fentanyl as the reason, despite Canada accounting for a sliver of a percent of fentanyl seized at the border. That’s not how you treat an ally. That’s how you treat a target.

Canada responded with targeted, dollar-for-dollar countermeasures, then pulled most of them back by September 2025 in good faith while talks continued. That’s not some rogue act of aggression. That’s exactly what sovereign countries with leverage are supposed to do when a trading partner starts swinging tariffs at them for a manufactured pretext.

As for “only Canada and China retaliated,” that’s true, and it’s not the own the US thinks it is. Most other countries didn’t retaliate because they didn’t have the leverage to. The EU was fully prepared to hit back on over 100 billion in US exports and only backed off after cutting a deal that included 600 billion in US investment commitments. Japan, the UK, South Korea, they all negotiated from a position where retaliation wasn’t realistic. Canada and China retaliated because they could.

Being an ally was never supposed to mean you sit there and take unilateral tariffs with no response. NORAD partner. Largest bilateral trading relationship in the world. Integrated auto supply chains. None of that stopped the US from treating Canada like a national security threat under Section 232. You don’t get to invoke a decades old friendship as a shield while breaking the terms of that friendship yourself.

[Renzo™ @fwrenzo1]

I miss when "The News" was just a guy in a suit telling you what happened, instead of a 24 hour panic machine designed to make you hate your neighbor so you don't notice your rent went up 30%.

[Captain Dick @CaptainDick12]

Oddly enough, if Canada added 18,000 jobs, in the same time period that Ontario lost over 16,000 jobs, that means Canada actually added 34,000 jobs to cover Doug Fords losses. Go figure? Maybe Ford's plan is not working? Maybe Ford's advertisements are fake?

[Larry LeClair @LeclairLar]

@josh_wingrove @btaplatt @DavidWelch47 1. No deal with the US is worth the paper it's written on.
2. Canada lived up to it's end. The US did not.
3. The US used the good will and honesty of Canada to sucker punch them.
4. Dealing with the US is basically dealing with the mob.

[Captain Dick @CaptainDick12]

Ontario loses 16.7K jobs in June. Ford is STILL playing the tariffs card after 8 years in office. Isn't it about time for a Premier to admit his agenda is the problem. The entire world has tariffs but the entire world is not losing jobs like Ontario. https://t.co/oY7sgothxT

[Captain Dick @CaptainDick12]

Carney = up 18,000 jobs
Ford = down 16,000 jobs

[Tom Whittaker @whittakertp]

This demonstrates the USA is not a reliable trading partner and ANY agreement is not worth the paper it is written on. Not to mention it proves @USAmbCanada blatantly lied about who paid for the bridge. PM Carney is right when he says no deal is better than a bad deal.

[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

Everyone’s cheering “Canada still gets 50%” on the Gordie Howe bridge. That’s not the win it sounds like.

The original 2012 deal was Canada and Michigan, not Canada and the US federal government. Canada paid the $6.6B and would only started splitting toll revenue with Michigan after decades of recoupment.

Trump blew that up in February, threatened to block the bridge from opening unless Washington got a cut. Now the US federal government gets 50% of toll revenue starting immediately, plus veto power over any toll increase above 10%.

Why now? Matthew Moroun, owner of the competing Ambassador Bridge, donated $1 million to a Trump-aligned super PAC in January. Three weeks later he met with Commerce Secretary Lutnick. Hours after that meeting, Trump threatened to block Gordie Howe.

Canada financed this bridge alone. We didn’t need a renegotiation. Trump manufactured a crisis to cut himself in.

This needs to be called what it is; EXTORTION!!

[Tom Whittaker @whittakertp]

Canadians need to boycott the Ambassador Bridge. Use the new Gordie Howe bridge or the Windsor-Detroit tunnel. Screw @USAmbCanada and his donor.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

One lesson of the Trump years: the US signature on an international agreement is worthless. There was an agreement in place to govern the bridge. Trump repudiated the agreement at behest of a donor with a direct anti-public-interest stake.

[Tyler Watt 🇨🇦 @tylerwatt]

Doug Ford said students were abusing OSAP and used that to justify deep cuts.

But internal government documents tell a different story: 95% of the increase in provincial OSAP grant spending came from private career colleges - not students at Ontario's public colleges and universities.

If the government knew what was driving the costs, why did every student pay the price? #onpoli #FixOSAPASAP

[Ken O 🇨🇦 @kokobo13]

@Ben_oharabyrne @glen_mcgregor This is a horrible deal that is not worth the price to accelerate opening.