Mark Phaneuf 🇺🇦 🇨🇦

Husband, father, retired educator, beginner golfer.

[Mark Phaneuf 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 @markphaneuf]

Truly humbled and honoured to be selected as a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal. It is very gratifying to be recognized for service to others. Extra special this is the last jubilee medal to hold her name and likeness. #queenelizabethjubilee

[Gil McGowan @gilmcgowan]

Wab is one of the only government leaders in Canada saying what needs to be said in exactly the way it needs to be said. #WhatWabSaid

[Marc Lévesque @MarcLevesqueEco]

Unequivocally good news on the Canadian employment front this morning. Employment rose by a huge 88,000 positions in May, the unemployment rate fell 0.3 percentage points to 6.6% and private sector jobs rose by 56,300 positions, also a very substantial gain.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Canada is building again — and Canadians are seeing the results.

[Canadiens Montréal @CanadiensMTL]

Notre capitaine Nick Suzuki a remporté son premier trophée Frank-J.-Selke! 🏆

Captain Nick Suzuki has won his first Frank J. Selke Trophy!

#GoHabsGo | #NHLAwards

[Gator⚡Gum @gator_gum]

Over the past few days Poilievre has been tweeting out the exact images and talking points of the RW Influencers.

There is a clearly coordinated effort.

Since calling for the end of political theatre he has ramped it up.

Since calling to end divisive political rhetoric he has ramped up.

It's a very sad state for Canadian politics when our Official Opposition and the RW Influencers are one in the same.

[Stephano🍁Barberis @HelloStephano]

It’s one thing to have high polling numbers as an opposition party pre-writ when the governing party has been in power for years and people are weary of the same face. It’s another world altogether to shatter records over a year into your mandate. Carney and the Libs are soaring.

[Andy @SAFCsource]

'Xhaka is a champion and would be a first-team regular anywhere in Italy; Alderete was close to joining Roma; and Brobbey was a target of ours at Milan.

Qualifying for the Europa League was well deserved, and my time in England will stay with me forever.' #SAFC

[Bob A’fette @fette_a]

Apparently, the mayor of Taber and their city council approved this billboard.

I will be buying my corn from British Columbia’s venders this summer instead.

#UpYourCornholeProkop

[chantal hébert @ChantalHbert]

Ça a le mérite d'être clair😇

[Orla Joelsen @OJoelsen]

During a hearing in the U.S. Congress today, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was asked whether he was aware that Greenland is part of Denmark. His response was: “For now.”

It is worth recalling a few basic facts.

Greenland’s future is for the Greenlandic people to decide, in accordance with the 2009 Self-Government Act, which recognizes the Greenlandic people’s right to self-determination. That decision will not be made in Washington, but in Greenland.

Until the Greenlandic people decide otherwise, Greenland remains part of the Kingdom of Denmark. This status is recognized under international law, where respect for national sovereignty and territorial integrity is among the most fundamental principles of the international order.

Greenland is also part of NATO through the Kingdom of Denmark. The United States has maintained a significant military presence in Greenland for decades and at one point operated up to 17 military bases and installations across Greenland. Under the 1951 Defense Agreement between Denmark and the United States, later updated through the 2004 Igaliku Agreement, signed in Igaliku, Greenland, by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, Denmark and Greenland, the United States already has the ability to establish or reopen military facilities in Greenland in cooperation with Denmark and Greenland.

There is therefore no security rationale that justifies discussions about American ownership of Greenland.

The idea of purchasing territories or acquiring parts of sovereign countries belongs to another era. That is not how modern allies conduct themselves in the 21st century.

If members of the U.S. administration believe that such statements enjoy broad support among the Greenlandic people, they are gravely mistaken. Political signals from Greenland have repeatedly shown that Greenlanders expect their right to determine their own future to be respected.

Neither Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, nor any future American president should decide Greenland’s future.

That right belongs exclusively to the Greenlandic people, in accordance with the Self-Government Act and the international principle of self-determination.

Greenland’s future belongs to the people of Greenland. Not Washington. Not any other capital. The decision belongs to the Greenlandic people — and to them alone. Period.

[Yasmina @yasminalombaert]

This is putin casually admitting to what can only be described as a textbook war crime, and he’s doing it with a smug smile on his face.

He literally brags about using Ukraine as a human testing ground.

He openly admits that they didn't fire their "Oreshnik" missile at a military test range. Instead, they fired it at populated areas in Ukraine just because it was "convenient to watch”.

Think about that for a second. He sent explosive warheads into communities, and then sent drones in right after just to count the bodies and measure the craters "down to the millimeter" like it’s some kind of science fair project.

But the scariest part is how he ends it. He casually drops that they are collecting this data so they can figure out how to better use these massive missiles in "urban areas”. That is political speak for densely populated cities filled with civilians, apartment buildings, and schools.
It’s pure, calculated terror.

putin: “After all, we... we used to test such systems at testing ranges. But 'Oreshnik' wasn't tested that way. And this wasn't a combat application. In fact, we haven't had a single combat application of 'Oreshnik' over the territory of Ukraine in the full, so to speak, sense of the word.
And the last one—to be completely honest, I will reveal a major, major state military secret to you. We simply struck a location where it was convenient to observe the results. Well, this concerns Bila Tserkva, and it especially concerns... concerns the DPR [so-called Donetsk People's Republic] area within the perimeter of the main fortified area.
Afterward, our drones flew into that area—the target area we had struck—and simply looked at how the multiple reentry vehicles had landed. They calculated everything down to the millimeter, exactly where everything hit.
For us, this is important in order to make future decisions regarding the full-scale deployment of 'Oreshnik' against designated targets. Including within urban areas.”

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

77 MILLION VOTED FOR THIS 🙄 YOU GUYS MUST BE SO PROUD🤦

[The Iran Spectator @IR_Media24]

🇺🇸 Trump: “If I met the new Ayatollah, I would be honored…”

🇮🇷 Iran: “We don’t talk or compromise with pedophiles.”

Straight rejection. Iran refuses to entertain the clown.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Donald Trump had over 3,700 stock transactions since the war in Iran started, and he profited over 220 million dollars. Don't tell me how he "donates his presidential salary" ever again you stupid fucking MAGAs

[Second Tier podcast @secondtierpod]

Is there a better way to end your time at a club?

Tommy Watson's last ever kick for Sunderland right here.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

The President is not well. He can’t stay awake at important White House events and cabinet meetings.

@WhiteHouse needs to come clean about why trump takes so many trips to the hospital and why doctors keep giving trump cognitive tests.

[Austen Ivereigh @austeni]

“The Vatican has replaced Silicon Valley as ground zero for disruptive thinking. The Catholic church … is becoming a beacon of light in a very dark world…. The pope has become a reassuring – and all too rare – voice of moral clarity.” https://t.co/Y85YTArice

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Open Letter
To the President of the Russian Federation
From the President of Ukraine

When you came to power in Russia more than 26 years ago, many people in Ukraine viewed you positively. That is how it was. But that is now in the past.
Now, the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians view it positively that our long-range drones paid a visit to the opening of your forum in St. Petersburg, covering a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers. As you know very well, that distance is not the limit of our capabilities.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Canada and Barbados share a dynamic trade relationship, and shared values of sustainability and inclusivity.

Prime Minister @miaamormottley and I are going to build on that foundation — by deepening our partnership across development, climate, and security, and by working to renew the Canada-CARICOM Strategic Partnership.