Peter Dawe

New Father, Sports fan, Conservative. Views expressed are my own and not affiliated with my employer

[The Anfield Wrap @TheAnfieldWrap]

Embarrassing...

[Robyn Urback @RobynUrback]

In light of recent events, perhaps Canada *should* let the U.S. try to annex us, since we very well could end up owning Michigan and charging tolls at the Northwest Passage

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

Canada once again made the segment on SkyNews Australia called “Lefties losing it” with @RitaPanahi
We always make international news for all the wrong reasons.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

No Canadian flag.

But a flag of a non existent state that is the raison d’être of banned terror groups like Hamas.

But they regard Canada as an “illegitimate settler state” characterized by white supremacy and genocide.

Tommy Douglas must be rolling over in his grave.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

15 years ago, yogurt maker Chobani tried to enter Canada and build a plant in Kingston, Ontario, but was blocked by regulatory and supply management barriers.

Instead of fighting it long-term, they expanded elsewhere, in the United States.

Today:

➡️They buy about 9% of all the milk produced in New York State.
➡️They process 1.6 billion pounds of milk per year in New York.
➡️They built the world’s largest yogurt plant in Idaho.
➡️They’re now building an even bigger one in Rome, New York (over 2 million square feet, 1,000+ jobs).

That is the true cost of supply management.

[PFT Commenter @PFTCommenter]

15 years ago the entire nation of Canada synced up there piss breaks during the gold medal game. This is what were up against folks we have to lock in Sunday

[Peter Dawe @peterdawe]

@TheAnfieldWrap Lack of pace out wide is killing us

[The Anfield Wrap @TheAnfieldWrap]

"This is either ineptitude or sheer fucking arrogance. This period was always going to come, you don't get to act surprised."

"I don't think it's right that the people [at LFC] who are ultimately responsible for those decisions never speak about them in public."

[Peter Dawe @peterdawe]

Someone should let @TSN_Sports and @BryanMudryk know there are actually two teams playing…. Feels like entire commentary is slurping the US team

[Jason Gregor @JasonGregor]

This is outstanding. Marchand will love these chirps as they celebrate his 1000 points.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

I’m a real fan of your work, Joe.

As a professional journalist, you know how to detect BS better than this, and do a bit of fact checking. (Granted, it’s a Sunday during the holidays!😉)

1) There are 15.3 million households in Canada. 25B / 15.3M = 1,600, not 16,000. Off by a factor or ten.

2) That’s over four years, so $400 / year

3) Of the ~$25 B committed to Ukraine nearly half (~$12B) is through loans.

4) Of the balance, $6.5 B has been for military support. Most of that is the notional accounting value of end of life equipment and munitions that we already owned, and would be disposed of if not transferred, not net new cost to taxpayers. Another large portion has been to support the Operation Unifier training mission that I launched as Defence Minister in 2015. Very little of those costs are incremental (ie we would still be paying for the trainers’ salaries and sustainment as part of CAF OpEx without Op Unifier), and our soldiers say that they are learning as much about modern warfare from the Ukrainians as they’re learning from us.

5) So grosso modo, we’re talking about $6.5B in reconstruction and other support that is direct incremental spending, rather than loans, equipment transfers, or imbedded CAF OpEx. That $6.5B / 15.3M households = $424, or ~$100 / year.

6) Allowing Putin’s aggression to succeed in Ukraine would be an open invitation for him to move to the next phase of his explicit plan to rebuild the Russian / Soviet Empire by invading the Baltic states. That would engage Canada through NATO Article 5, and that would be a helluva lot more expensive, both in lives and money, than helping the Ukrainians to defend themselves.

And that’s not even to mention how Xi would read Western failure to support Ukraine as he develops his plans to invade / blockade Taiwan, with the enormous subsequent rupture to global stability and trade.

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[Peter Dawe @peterdawe]

@BBQChiefs Dee Ford offside

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

For no reason at all Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly shot-for-shot recreated David Bowie and Bing Crosby's "Little Drummer Boy" duet 😂 wait for the end

[Zito @_Zeets]

The texts between Conan, Will Arnett, and Jason Bateman are hilarious. Conan lost both of his parents and somehow joking about Bateman killing them is so dark and yet such a sweet way to help a friend grieve.

[Brian Lilley @brianlilley]

This is lunacy!

[Devin Heroux @Devin_Heroux]

Colleen Jones asked me to interview her a couple of months ago during a chemotherapy appointment.

She told me to write one heck of a story. I hope I did her proud.

About always believing something wonderful is about to happen.

My tribute to Colleen: https://t.co/4qnjCBTQcc

[Lea @Lea_EFC]

Andy Robertson, this is truly heartbreaking 💔🥹

[Toronto Blue Jays @BlueJays]

Correct. #WANTITALL

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher asks where the “keffiyeh-wearing college kids” went now that Hamas is “shooting everybody.”

“Where are the protesters?!” Maher exclaimed.

MAHER: “Have you noticed that now that Hamas has taken over again, they’re what?”

MARK CUBAN: “Shooting everybody.”

MAHER: “Shooting everybody! Where are the protesters? Suddenly, the keffiyeh-wearing college kids are very quiet.”

CUBAN: “Can’t be found. Yeah, can’t be found anywhere.”

MAHER: “This is okay? It’s just amazing, the asymmetry of what goes on.”

[Jennifer Hedger @jenniferhedger]

Rewarding terrorism.