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You're not smart enough to tell me how to live. -Kathy Shaidle

[Oxygentax @oxygentax]

@peteremcc @CoryBMorgan Are we really immune to prices when $116 for a litre of milk is normalized?

[Buy High, Sell Low @tradeoilstocks]

“Give them a massive amount of oil, agricultural land, copper, freshwater, and every natural resource in the world. Now make them neighbors with the biggest market in the world. Great, now have them leave the resources in the ground and instead flip condos to each other”.

[katy 🌸 @KatyKray73]

Energy expert Dr. Lars Schernikau: It sounds simple… until you do the math.

• 1 GWh battery = 700,000 tons of mined materials
• Takes 450 GWh to build (450x its capacity)
• Stores as much as 400 tons of coal
Hours of storage. Massive mining, degradation & risks.

This doesn’t fix intermittency, it multiplies the destruction.

‘Batteries are an environmental nightmare’.

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@philthatremains @krassenstein So migrants that crossed into the USA illegally aren't illegal, but properly permitted, privately funded ballrooms are? Huh.

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@CTVNews Driving where? To the US?

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@TheophanesRex @sarobertsonca All revenue greater than zero. @grok how many people do Canadian Oil and gas companies employ and what's the total payroll for that industry?

[Fringe Truth @TruthFringe]

How did so many in Canada end up hating a guy (Poilievre) with a gay father, married a refugee, and came from a humble middle-class background? But yet they love rich boy silver-spoon-fed (Trudeau) and Carney, the rich banker?

[Melanie In Saskatchewan @saskatchewan_in]

To Mark Carney & Those Applauding Him:

I am a Canadian paying for a country that doesn’t include me.

I live in the part of the country your map forgets.
About 2,600 kilometres from the nearest stop on your proposed $90 billion train.

I am an overtaxed, under-served Canadian.

I heat my home with rising costs.
I fill my vehicle at almost $2 a litre, depending on the day and my luck.
I watch a country with 163 billion barrels of oil behave like it’s on a meagre allowance.

And you want me to pay for a train I will never use.

How thoughtful.

I am a hard-working, falling-behind Canadian funding infrastructure I will never touch.

It runs roughly 800 to 900 kilometres, depending on how creatively it detours around reality, from Toronto to Quebec City.

Seven stops.
All neatly contained within Ontario and Quebec.
Top speed, 300 km/h.
National reach? Let’s just call it selective.

I am a Canadian treated like a revenue stream, invited only by invoice.
Roughly $90 billion. About $8,000 per household.
For a ticket I will never hold.

From where I sit in Saskatchewan, your high-speed rail corridor might as well be interstellar travel.
Two thousand plus kilometres away circling the station, and still billing me.

I am a Canadian bereft of a stop on this train.
Close enough to fund it. Far enough to never use it.

I am an overextended, nickel-and-dimed Canadian.

I am fixing my own road access.
Paying more for groceries.
Driving farther for basic services.
And now funding new infrastructure for people who already have airports, highways, and existing rail.

At this point, I would settle for a train that delivers affordable groceries.
No need for 300 km/h. Just cost-saving reliability.

I am a Canadian squeezed by government-made inflation, where every errand costs more than it did last week and every explanation from you sounds rehearsed.

I am a Canadian quietly recalculating the future, trying not to downgrade my retirement to a leaky camper on wheels, while the country accumulates debt it cannot repay and prints money to pretend it can.

I am a rural Canadian watching how this works.
Not on my land. Not this time.
But close enough to understand the mechanism.

Because an 800 plus kilometre corridor does not meander politely.
It cuts. Straight. Fast. With purpose.
Through farmland. Through properties. Through communities.

I am a watchful Canadian taking note of precedent.
Survey stakes. Expropriation powers. “Public interest” to be explained after.

It is not my yard today.
But it is someone’s.
And tomorrow, it will be called "necessary" for something larger.
Something urgent. Something climate-related. Something that cannot wait.

I am a wary Canadian noticing how easily "necessity" is declared to match your agenda.
And how quickly my rights become flexible once it is declared.

I am an observant Canadian with a long memory for names.
And somehow, the same SNC-Lavalin lineage Canadians were told to forget is back, rebranded as AtkinsRéalis, positioning itself for one of the largest public contracts in Canadian history.

A remarkable comeback. Truly.
No apology tour. Just a new logo and a larger taxpayer subsidized opportunity.
Seems history doesn’t repeat. It follows a predictable pattern.

I am an unimpressed Canadian watching familiar #Lavscam players return under reimagined branding.
The script is the same. Only the cover has changed.

I am an exasperated Canadian you included in your sales pitch.
I am told it will create 50,000 jobs.
I am told it will add $35 billion to GDP.

And I am sure it will.

In the corridor.
Where the stations are.
Where the density is.
Where the benefit is.

I am a shunned Canadian excluded from the outcome.
Included in all the arithmetic. Excluded from all the access.

I am a cynical Canadian being told this is nation-building. Though the nation appears to exist along a very specific set of coordinates.

I am the depleted Canadian who:

Reads grocery receipts like an audit.
Choreographs fuel stops around paydays not plans.
Measures distance in cost, not kilometres.

I am an overburdened, last-in-line Canadian.
Essential when it is time to pay. Optional when it is time to benefit.

I am an impoverished Canadian whose citizenship now resembles a pre-authorized debit agreement.
The withdrawals are national. The benefits are regional.

I am an exhausted, overlooked Canadian.

You’re not building this for me or my family.
You're just sending me the bill.

Signed,

Your most reluctantly reliable revenue stream,
Melanie in Saskatchewan

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@Michphil1998 @McLeanChronicle @grok what is oil without carbon called?

[Brad Wall @BradWall306]

Alternate headline: Pierre Poilievre backs common sense support for new Olympic gender policy

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@JosephFordCotto Nope. 51st through 59th state. I assume that Quebec would opt out in this scenario

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If the wage gap were real, wouldn't the women be making 8.77 for that ride?

[Tiffany Fong @TiffanyFong]

Uber gives you a little discount if you want to risk your life with a female driver.

[Mr Crumbsworth @MrCrumbsbody]

@222Minutes They don't even have to live in India.

Just not Canada.

[Alberta Independence @albertaseparate]

RETWEET If you give ALBERTA SEPARATION your THUMBS UP! #albertaseparation

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@ING2Firebrand Maybe it's the same place that Malaysia Flight 370 ended up?

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@MarcNixon24 Atlantic Canada is sitting on several trillion cubic feet of Natural Gas that they choose not to develop. I think the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act needs to be expanded to LNG and Natural Gas and extended to the east coast of Canada.

[CAMILLE PAGLIA STAN ✨ FAN ACCOUNT @Provokatov]

I AM FUCKING SCREAMING 😂😂😂

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I'm not even a hockey fan, but I know that there are, in fact, 6 players per team on the ice... unless there's a penalty.

[Jamie Nye @jamienye]

I didn't know Czechia's coach was a comedian. LOL

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

Don't listen to Al Gore.

Al Gore is not a scientist. But I am.

There is no “climate crisis.” That is political jargon, not a legitimate scientific term.

In fact, in the United Nations IPCC AR6 WG1 report—considered by most academics to be the “gold standard” of climatology—the term “climate crisis” appears exactly ZERO times.

🔗https://t.co/0NLdWOSvSW

The Clean Air Act of 1970, as explicitly written, does not classify CO₂ and “greenhouse gases” (GHGs) as “air pollutants.”

🔗https://t.co/Hd37BYMgMV (p. 1690 / 15 in .pdf)

But in the case of Massachusetts v. EPA (2007), the Supreme Court was asked whether or not the EPA had authority under the Act to regulate CO₂ as an “air pollutant.” The Court ruled in a narrow 5–4 decision that under Section 202(a)(1) of the Act, the EPA had the authority to regulate any emissions from motor vehicles should they “may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.”

🔗https://t.co/sCGcdRcsJL

The Court's ruling to allow unelected bureaucrats at the EPA to make regulations without Congressional approval was a direct artifact of the 1984 Chevron Deference framework. Obama decided to take advantage of this and ordered the EPA to cook up a so-called “Endangerment Finding” to advance his administration's climate agenda items along without having to go through Congress to properly amend the Clean Air Act of 1970.

In June 2024, however, the Supreme Court decided to overturn Chevron in a 6–3 ruling in the Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo case. As such, bureaucrats can no longer interpret vague laws and interpret them to implement desired regulations. This, however, did not apply to cases like Massachusetts v. EPA (2007) that were decided under the Chevron framework.

🔗https://t.co/tvFWDnOW76

The Supreme Court needs to overturn Massachusetts v. EPA (2007) as soon as possible, and force Democrats to go through proper channels to impose regulations, not lean into executive powers like petty tyrants to get what they want (something they accuse Trump of doing on the daily). They can go back to the drawing board and amend the Clean Air Act to classify CO₂ as “pollution,” or they can let it go.

As for whether or not climate change is an urgent problem, while the IPCC WG2 and WG3 reports (used for policy) have taken an activist stance and say it is, there is not much in the way of actual observational evidence to suggest that we are facing a humanitarian crisis.

The quality of life continues to improve despite the modest warming (mostly seen in overnight lows) over the last century. Key figures include:

1⃣ Average life expectancy has more than doubled on every continent since the 19th century.

🔗https://t.co/xqSxg7VjMm

2⃣ The total number of deaths resulting from weather or weather-related natural disasters have decreased by over 96% since the 1920s. That figure is despite a six billion-person increase in global population over that time.

This trend has mostly to do with the advent and the improvement of warning coordination systems, but any increase due to supposedly “worsening” extreme weather is masked by it.

🔗https://t.co/RgELre0aZ7

3⃣ Global crop yields have been at all-time record highs in recent years, despite droughts and floods (which have always been a thing).

This is because many crops have been genetically modified to produce higher yields.

Innovation wins.

🔗https://t.co/ENQvE408dt

Anyone who claims that we are facing an “existential crisis” because the planet is a little warmer than it was a century ago is either an uninformed stooge OR is a charlatan.

It just so happens to be that Al Gore is the latter.

He is a liar.

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@uncledoomer I don't think they're pretending