JoAnna Komarnicki

It is what it is.

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Ottawa mayor declares June 11 ‘Robert Fife Day’ to honour veteran journalist https://t.co/ObQ6cOfcBp

[Michael Leach @Mike_Leach1976]

The bag of milk, the shoes at door… Whoever made this will win an award, probably a few. I’m sobbing, this is beautiful. This is who we are. We’ve welcomed the world for almost 140 years. We’re made for this moment. #CanMNT #FIFAWorldCup

[Ben Mullin @BenMullin]

Scott Pelley just issued a statement on Bari's remarks this morning:

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[Stephen Maher @stphnmaher]

If Kinew were any more solid he would be made of rock

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

In 1943, Canada erased a hospital room from existence to save a royal baby — and Europe's oldest monarchy thanked them with flowers that still bloom 80 years later.
The Nazis had taken Holland. Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands had fled across the Atlantic with her daughters, finding refuge in Ottawa while her homeland burned. Now she was pregnant — and that pregnancy had triggered a constitutional crisis no government had ever faced.
The problem was brutally simple: If this baby was born on Canadian soil, Canadian law would grant automatic citizenship. And the ancient laws governing Dutch royal succession were unforgiving. Any hint of foreign citizenship could disqualify this child from ever ascending to the throne.
Sending her home wasn't an option. German U-boats prowled the waters. The royal palace in The Hague had swastikas hanging from its windows.
So Canada's lawyers did something that belongs in a novel, not a history book.
On January 19, 1943, the Canadian government issued an Order in Council that rewrote reality. The maternity suite at Ottawa Civic Hospital was declared extraterritorial. Not Canadian. Not Dutch. Not part of any nation on Earth.
For the span of a birth, that room existed in a legal void — a pocket of nowhere wrapped in hospital walls.
Princess Margriet was born into that impossible space. The moment she drew breath, she was Dutch — purely, legally, unquestionably Dutch. No competing allegiance. No threat to her royal destiny. The lawyers closed their books. The doctors smiled.
And then, as quietly as it had vanished, the room became Canadian again.
The war ended. Holland was liberated. And the Dutch Royal Family didn't just say thank you — they said it in a language that would outlive everyone who spoke it.
In 1945, 100,000 tulip bulbs arrived in Ottawa. Not as decoration. As gratitude made tangible.
But one shipment wasn't enough to express what Canada had done. So they kept sending them. Every single year since 1945, the Dutch Royal Family sends 20,000 more bulbs to the Canadian capital.
Today, if you walk through Ottawa every May, you'll find over three million tulips blazing along the Rideau Canal, flooding through Commissioners Park, turning the city into rivers of crimson, gold, and violet. Most people who stop to take photos have no idea they're standing in the middle of a thank-you note that's been growing for eight decades.
Princess Margriet is 83 now. She still makes the journey to Ottawa during tulip season, walking through gardens that exist because she was once born in a room that legally didn't.
Some acts of kindness become gardens. Some thank-yous outlive everyone who gave them.
And some flowers bloom forever.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Princess Margriet was born here in Ottawa during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

After the war, her mother, Princess Juliana, gifted 100,000 tulip bulbs to Canada in gratitude for the leading role Canadian soldiers played in liberating the people of the Netherlands, and for providing refuge to the Dutch Royal Family.

Every year, the Canadian Tulip Festival serves as a symbol of the lasting friendship between our two nations. It was an honour to meet Princess Margriet in Ottawa today.

[Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @SPhillipsAB]

I will also add Rachel Notley’s information was shared in a similar way, at least according to reporting in the Globe and Mail.

I hope she takes legal action as well.

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

when I was younger, I used to think true love was tumultuous and intense. but now, I feel like real love is gentle, passionate in a soft, sweet way. not fireworks and drama, but a love that's like coming home, the breeze on a still summer day, a balm to the aches of the world.

[Sean Amato @JSJamato]

Nenshi told reporters he learned of this all on April 17th and the NDP emailed the RCMP that day to report it. #ableg #cdnpoli

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

I understand that my personal information, including my home address, was shared publicly on a screen at a recent Alberta separatist event. It was also recorded on video, and is now circulating.

This was apparently part of the outrageous data leak of Albertans’ private information, wherein Elections Alberta shared its entire detailed provincial voter database with the “Republican Party of Alberta,” which in turn shared it with some separatist group called the “Centurion Project,” whose leadership then shared my personal information publicly.

Over the past few years I have received no shortage of threats from people broadly associated with the separatist / antivax / far right movement in Alberta. So it is disturbing that my personal information is now broadly available, particularly in those circles.

While I have been targeted specifically, the broader data breach may also effect vulnerable Albertans, including victims of domestic violence, journalists, activists, judges, and other public servants for years to come.

I will retain legal counsel to seek advice on recourse regarding this outrageous and potentially dangerous violation of my personal privacy.

[Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @SPhillipsAB]

Jason Kenney was supportive of me when my records were unlawfully accessed by Lethbridge Police Service, so now it’s time to return the consideration.

No one deserves this, and it is high time for there to be consequences for targeting people for their time in public service.

[Andrew Leach 🇨🇦 @andrew_leach]

If the stories of the Centurion meeting are true, and a room full of separatist activists was given personal information about @jkenney, to whom many will have ill will, that's exactly the type of behaviour everyone is worried about. And it was done in full view.

[Naheed Nenshi @nenshi]

Alberta’s NDP Caucus has obtained video evidence that appears to show that a senior member of the United Conservative Party (UCP) party executive and a member of the UCP Caucus staff, people that are in the Premier’s inner circle, attended the April 16 online meeting of the Centurion Project. This meeting provided training to volunteers on how to use the separatists’ project database that is at the centre of this data breach of three million Albertans’ electoral data.

The Alberta NDP Caucus obtained a recording of the Centurion Project’s April 16 online meeting, attended by 80 individuals. The attendee list and a video recording of the call identify that a ‘Rob Smith’ and an ‘Arundeep Sandhu’ were in attendance. The President of the UCP is named Rob Smith and the UCP Caucus Director of Stakeholder Relations is named Arundeep Sandhu.

Alberta’s New Democrats have passed this recording on to the RCMP as they continue their investigation.

This obtained video also shows Centurion Project members demonstrating how to use a database to search for personal information of Albertans by searching for the name and address of former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. Jason Kenney’s personal information was shared on screen with all meeting attendees. This video appears to show the database that was built using the unauthorized electors list that was the subject of an injunction issued by the Court of King’s Bench on April 30, 2026.

Premier Smith must immediately confirm whether Rob Smith and Arundeep Sandhu identified in the video are the same individuals that are associated with the UCP party and caucus. If these were the same UCP associates, the Premier must also explain:

-Why were senior UCP officials attending the meeting? Were they directed to attend?

-How she can claim, as recent as yesterday, that she only learned of this data breach from police statements on April 29-30, published almost two weeks after this meeting took place?

-Why was it not reported or disclosed by any UCP or any government official to the RCMP and Elections Alberta that the Centurion Project appears to have unauthorized access to the electors list?

-What actions, if any, she has taken to protect the privacy of Albertans?

Albertans deserve answers and transparency from Premier Smith and this UCP government, now.

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

“Very private people have mastered the art of telling you little about themselves but doing it in such a way you think you know lot.”

— Unknown

[Laura @plantyaf_716]

Molson Canadian buys Sabres fans a round to thank them for viral 'O Canada' moment https://t.co/Wl5W4nXU05 https://t.co/Wl5W4nXU05

[Hudson Williams Updates @hudsonwupdates]

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has a photo of him and Hudson Williams on display in his office, and says that the Russian phone call scene from episode 5 is his favourite scene from “Heated Rivalry” (via cbcnews)

🔗 https://t.co/wYCpJiqGj8

[Matina Stevis-Gridneff @MatinaStevis]

The New York Times can now proudly say that we have an office in Toronto, where most of our Canada team is based, for the first time in our 100+ years of covering the country. Very proud to be building up our presence here.