FortisEtLiber

"Far right" = common sense. Woke is a mind virus. Climate change = scam. To find the truth follow the money. If you're triggered that's your problem, not mine.

[Conrad Black @ConradMBlack]

It is with great concern for some of my fellow countrymen, inching precariously toward the edge of utter lunacy, that I write this post.

Prime Minister Mark Carney this week, in an interview with the New York Times, went on record saying it would be “irresponsible” not to plan for the possible contingency of a military invasion of Canada by the United States. Unfortunately, Mr. Carney didn’t misspeak or fall victim to a cherry-picked quote taken out of context. His concern was later reiterated by Defence Minister David McGuinty and Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Soloman.

We all know that Donald Trump has a colourful history of spouting off some truly outrageous whoppers from time to time, but even he has never disseminated something as fatuous, dangerous or dishonest as this. And while he seldom backs down from his outrageous claims, whenever he pushes the envelope too far, at least his entourage goes on damage control to walk back some of his excesses – Carney’s guys are doubling down.

Despite these idiotic statements, these are intelligent men. The odds that all three of them would simultaneously become afflicted by the same psychotic delusion is infinitesimally small. The only rational conclusion, therefore, is that they believe, or rather their polling data shows, that enough Canadians are so possessed by Trump Derangement that engaging in such asinine demagoguery is politically expedient.

Sadly, they may be right. The vast coalition of useful idiots and true believers after effectively having their intelligences insulted by their dear leader, are coming out of the woodwork to express gratitude online for the Prime Minister’s caution in preparing for all, including the most remote, contingencies. Others are retreating slightly to hold the line at the fall-back position articulated by Minister McGuinty that, this kind of paranoid delusion is perfectly normal and, “all militaries in the world spend time analyzing risk scenarios.”

I assure you, this is not normal.

Back on planet Earth, the situation is tense and acrimonious (and there is plenty of blame to go around for that), but this is not the more than two centuries of peace along the 49th parallel that followed the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in 1815 drawing to an end. Trump has imposed tariffs on $20 billion (or 2% of the $400 billion per year) of Canadian exports to the US. In other words, amid this unnecessary, escalatory, and foolish trade dispute, the United States will still purchase 200% more Canadian goods and services this year than the rest of the world combined. This situation is like a restaurant’s picky regular customer complaining about an overcooked steak to a prideful chef who, fortified in his own mind by the knowledge he cooked the steak perfectly, refuses to comp the entree. This is not the start of World War III. We are so far removed from a military incursion at our southern border that we may as well be strategizing the response to the equally plausible threat of Santa Claus leading an invasion of elves from the north.

If we woke up tomorrow in some parallel reality where the United States actually was contemplating a full-scale military campaign against Canada, with all due respect to our brave men and women in uniform, the only preparations to be made would be negotiating the terms of our unconditional surrender. Some brave and patriotic Canadians may refuse to submit and instead choose to conduct, as a matter of principle, a brutal and bloody guerilla warfare campaign against the strongest conventional and nuclear military force in the history of the world. Unfortunately, they would be in the precarious position of having to rely on our miserly European allies, or countries like Russia or China, whose recent actions have been significantly more hostile and provocative challenges to our sovereignty than the US tariffs, to supply us with weapons, and they would not remotely be adequate. It’s all so desperately preposterous.

But for the sake of argument, let’s suppose that Donald Trump was indeed the terrifying bogeyman haunting the dreams of the most extreme and hopeless sufferers of Trump Derangement Syndrome and its frightful sister affliction, Andrew Coyneism, a rare and especially acute form of tweet-induced psychotic maladjustment. Even in this scenario, why would Trump use the military to annex Canada? All he would have to do is offer Alberta statehood, liberation from transfer payments, excessive regulation and carbon taxes, carte blanche to exploit its natural resources, a generous welcome bonus in the form of a $100,000 tax credit to every adult Albertan and replace their Canadian dollars with equal amounts of US currency. They would effectively be acquiring Alberta for the knock-down bargain price of roughly 1x annual GDP.

Simultaneously, the US (including the newly acquired Alberta) would immediately cut off all trade with the rest of Canada. The net impact to Canada of this manoeuvre would be a cataclysmic economic collapse, while the newly composed United States would take a net GDP hit (loss of all trade with Canada, mostly offset by the acquisition of Alberta) of 0.8%. Next would come a full package of sanctions, a naval blockade, and when the rest of Canada became desperate enough, a Chinese belt-and-road style offtake of all of Canada’s resources at bargain prices, which by then, the Canadians would be desperate for. In the meantime, the US would revamp its immigration policy to recreate the brain-drain of the 1990s on steroids, welcoming the top 20% most productive Canadians to flee what had overnight become the third world. Harvard Alumnus Mark Carney might well be among those at the front of the line seeking this emigration opportunity, rejoining 91 percent of his own investments already located there.

There would, no doubt, be a fearsome contingent of Canadians refusing to bend or break in the face of American tyranny, and elbows would be flying up to vertiginous heights with such vigour that the Canadian healthcare system would be overwhelmed by millions of spontaneous emergency room visits of patriotic patients with dislocated shoulders.

I suspect many of you reading this are thinking to yourself that this is so completely far-fetched and absurd that, if serious, I must have lost my mind. Allow me to reassure you that while this is all bunk, it remains at least ten times more likely than the United States military executing a boots-on-the-ground invasion of Canada. Anyone who spends more than one second worrying about such an outcome should immediately proceed to the nearest sink to splash some cold water in their face and pull themselves together.

[Eric @EricLan45460640]

@YEGWhisper Nough said to the elbows crowd.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

This should be pushed far and wide. Watched in every college class in the U.S. Thank you @billmaher The moral confusion is gross. "It is not a genocide, it is a counterattack in a war...Gaza equals genocide is a lie, an easily provable lie (as I have argued from first hand observations in Gaza). The fact that so many democrats go along with it is to me the party's worse moment since they undid reconstruction after the civil war...words have meaning...genocide, kill or try to kill an entire people, you can't just change the definition of genocide to mean counterattack in a war where people including civilians die, that's every war..."

[Jeff Berube @ABJeffBerube]

Brookfield has $300M invested in Entropy who builds carbon capture facilities in Alberta.

Now one thing most of you might not be aware of is that the carbon credit market in Alberta has crashed below $20/tonne which makes any investment in carbon reduction uneconomical.

So why does that matter?

Well if you ever wondered why he’s so stubborn about forcing the Pathways project through, it’s because allowing the carbon credit market to fail in Alberta will effectively tank their Entropy investment.

By mandating Pathways go through, they now have cover to force a floor price of around $60/tonne for carbon credits, which is effectively the minimum credit price Pathways will need to make the numbers work.

Long story short: Decarbonized oil is bullshit. Pathways being forced through to justify articifial support of carbon credit market so that Brookfield doesn’t lose their $300M Entropy investment.

Yes, you should be mad.

[FortisEtLiber @pucker77]

@ConradMBlack I think Mark thought he was on SNL

[Rise Of Alberta @RiseOfAlberta]

🚨BREAKING: The Alberta Transition Council has released its fully costed financial assessment for an independent Alberta.

After paying for every service Ottawa currently provides, it projects Alberta would still have $22.2B to $32.1B left over every year. That works out to $4,390 to $6,350 per Albertan, every year.

[Ms.BORN FREE 🇨🇦🙏 @LittleMsCujo]

Racketeering Expose by Derrick Sweet
Sept 20\26

My name is Derrick Sweet. I am a 61 year old Canadian and earn my living as a stock market analyst. I follow money for a living. I began my career in investing in 1993 at Midland Walwyn in Toronto as a Financial Advisor. After establishing myself as a successful advisor I was recruited by BMO Nesbitt Burns in 1997 and offered the position of Vice President and Senior Investment Advisor and presented with a $250,000.00 signing bonus, which was a lot of money back then. For several years I was one of the top advisors in Canada and a regular invited speaker at investment conferences across Canada. By 2002 I had sold my business to a bank and some time after that I started offering stock research reports to DIY investors who manage their own money. I provide this background on who I am so you have a better understanding how I discovered possible acts of racketeering.
I have been closely following Mark Carney’s violations of the trust he was voted to uphold for too long. I am not a lawyer and am not making any former charges against Mark Carney in this post. I am simply pointing out activities by the PM of Canada that are a direct conflict of interest that could possibly lead to several charges of racketeering.

The Prosecution Case Against Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada (the PM)

I. The Core Allegation: "Pay-to-Play" Infrastructure

The prosecution will argue that the Prime Minister (PM) has operated a criminal enterprise where public policy and taxpayer-funded contracts were used as a vehicle to inflate the value of a private entity (Brookfield) in which he holds a direct pecuniary interest (stock options).
The Nexus: The Acts: 42 distinct government deals awarded to or partnered with Brookfield.
The Benefit: $5 billion in reported profits for the entity.
The Conflict: Multi-million dollar stock options held by the decision-maker (the PM).
II. Count 1: Breach of Trust (Criminal Code s. 122)

Under Section 122, we do not need to prove a "bribe" was paid. We only need to prove that the PM, in connection with his duties, committed a Breach of Trust that would be an offence even if committed against a private person.
The Evidence:
Duty of Office: The PM is mandated by the Conflict of Interest Act to "arrange private affairs to prevent conflicts of interest" (s. 5).
The Breach: By failing to divest or recuse himself from a policy environment that directly benefits a company where he holds options, he has fundamentally violated the trust of the Canadian public.
Legal Standard: Per R. v. Boulanger, the prosecution must show the act was a "marked departure from the standards expected of an individual in the accused's position." Managing 42 deals while holding the stock is a "marked departure" by any reasonable standard.
III. Count 2: Frauds on the Government (Criminal Code s. 121)

This is the Canadian version of "racketeering." Specifically, Section 121(1)(c) prohibits an official from demanding or accepting a benefit for themselves in exchange for "assistance" or "exercise of influence" regarding government dealings.
The Strategy:
We will argue that the Stock Options constitute an "advantage or benefit." The value of these options is tied directly to the success of the 42 government-backed deals. Every time the PM announces a deal, he effectively "cuts himself a check" by driving up the equity value of the firm.
IV. Count 3: Organized Corruption (The "Racketeering" Element)

To push this into the realm of organized crime/racketeering, we look at the Enterprise (the Liberal Party/PMO) and the Pattern of Activity.
The Enterprise: The Prime Minister's Office (PMO).
The Pattern: A series of 42 separate transactions. In racketeering law, we look for "Continuity and Relationship."
Relationship: All deals involve the same beneficiary (Brookfield).
Continuity: The deals spanned a significant period of time and continue as long as the PM holds office.
V. The "Smoking Gun": Intent (Mens Rea)

The defense will claim the PM has a "Blind Trust." I have dismantled this below:
Transparency vs. Blinding: If the PM knows he has the options (which is public knowledge), the trust is not "blind."
The $5 Billion Profit Announcement: We will present evidence that the PM was aware of the financial health of the company while simultaneously crafting legislation (like the CLARITY Act or housing initiatives) that specifically favors Brookfield’s asset classes.

This is not a series of unfortunate coincidences. This is a closed-loop system of enrichment. The Prime Minister is using the sovereign authority of Canada as a marketing arm for a private corporation. He is both the 'Grantor' of the contracts and the 'Grantee' of the profits. In the private sector, this is insider trading. in the public sector, this is a Racket."

CONFIDENTIAL LEGAL MEMORANDUM

SUBJECT: Draft Criminal Referral – s. 121 & s. 122 Criminal Code (Canada)
TARGET: The Right Honourable Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada
NEXUS: Financial Entanglements with Brookfield Asset Management (BAM)
DATE: February 13, 2026
I. PREAMBLE & JURISDICTION

This referral outlines a prima facie case for investigation by the RCMP Sensitive and International Investigations Unit. The allegations concern a systematic pattern of conduct wherein the subject, in his capacity as Prime Minister, has influenced or directed federal policy and contracts toward Brookfield Corporation (and its subsidiaries) while maintaining a multi-million dollar personal financial stake in said corporation via unexercised stock options and carried interest.
II. STATEMENT OF FACTS

Direct Interest: As of February 12, 2026, the subject remains the holder of approximately $6.8 million USD in Brookfield stock options (calculated at market value), with expiration dates extending into 2033/2034.
The "Profit Nexus": On February 12, 2026, Brookfield Corporation reported annual distributable earnings of $5.4 billion USD, an 11% increase. This profit spike coincided with a series of 42 federal "deals" or policy partnerships announced during the subject’s tenure.
Conflict of Interest Screen Failure: Testimony provided to the House Ethics Committee in late 2025 confirmed that 95% of Brookfield-owned companies (approximately 1,900 entities) are not covered by the subject’s current "ethics screen," allowing for direct interaction between the PMO and entities that contribute to the subject’s future performance pay.
Policy Correlation: Specific federal initiatives—including the $3B auto sector save-out and the AI Infrastructure Fund—directly align with Brookfield’s core 2026 investment strategies (AI infrastructure and energy transition).
III. APPLICABLE OFFENCES (CRIMINAL CODE OF CANADA)

COUNT 1: Breach of Trust by Public Officer (s. 122)
The Theory: The subject has exercised the powers of the Prime Minister’s Office for a purpose other than the public good—specifically, the appreciation of his private equity holdings.
Evidence: The subject’s refusal to divest (liquidate) his assets, despite public warnings from the Ethics Commissioner and the Clerk of the Privy Council that a "blind trust" is insufficient for assets as large and specific as Brookfield carried interest.
COUNT 2: Frauds on the Government (s. 121(1)(c))
The Theory: The subject, being an official, has "accepted or agreed to accept" an advantage (the appreciation of stock options and carried interest) from a person/entity (Brookfield) that has active and ongoing dealings with the Government of Canada.
Evidence: The "carried interest" held by the subject is a direct performance-based payout. Every federal contract awarded to a Brookfield-managed fund (e.g., the Global Transition Fund) serves as an indirect "commission" or "reward" to the subject.
IV. INVESTIGATIVE ROADMAP

To move from "referral" to "indictment," the following evidence must be secured via production orders:
Internal PMO Communications: All emails between the PMO and Bruce Flatt/Justin Beber (Brookfield executives) regarding the 42 specific deals.
Blind Trust "Bypass" Logs: Records of "recusal failures" where the subject was present for decisions impacting Brookfield subsidiaries not covered by the s. 1,900-company screen.
Option Exercise Strategy: Correspondence between the subject’s trustee and Brookfield regarding the optimal "cashing out" window relative to government policy announcements.
V. CONCLUSION

The legal threshold for a Section 122 investigation is a "marked departure" from the standard of trust. The simultaneous management of the Canadian economy and the holding of a performance-based stake in a company receiving 40+ federal deals meets this threshold.
I have broken down the 42 Critical Deals and Policy Alignments between the Canadian Federal Government and the Brookfield ecosystem as of early 2026.
In a racketeering case, we don't just look for "contracts"; we look for "The Pattern." These deals are categorized by how they directly feed the valuation of the PM’s private equity holdings.
The "Brookfield 42" Portfolio Analysis

Category A: The Infrastructure & Housing "Mega-Deals" (14 Deals)

These deals leverage the 2025/2026 federal budget initiatives to de-risk Brookfield's massive real estate and modular construction divisions.
The Build Canada Homes Initiative: A $36 Billion federal program. Our investigation shows Brookfield-owned modular housing firms received the lion's share of "fast-track" status.
Canada Growth Fund (CGF) Backstopping: 4 specific "Carbon Capture" deals where the federal CGF provides "price certainty" for Brookfield’s decarbonization projects, effectively guaranteeing their 15-20% IRR (Internal Rate of Return).
The BGIS Master Contract Extension: Brookfield Global Integrated Services (BGIS) continues to manage 3,800+ federal buildings. Even though Brookfield sold its majority stake, it retains a "carried interest" in the performance of the legacy contracts.
Category B: The "Green Transition" Payouts (18 Deals)

This is the most egregious category for a racketeering charge because the PM personally co-headed these funds before taking office.
The Global Transition Fund (GTF) Infusion: Federal pension oversight boards (under PM influence) have directed over $12 Billion into the GTF.
Wind West & Nova Scotia Offshore: 6 deals where federal "nod" and subsidies were given to offshore wind projects where Brookfield is the lead equity partner.
Small Modular Reactors (SMRs): 2 deals for the Darlington SMR project. Brookfield’s acquisition of Westinghouse (nuclear tech) makes them the primary beneficiary of this federal nuclear push.
Category C: The "Digital Sovereignty" & AI Build-out (10 Deals)

A new 2026 frontier. Brookfield recently launched a $100 Billion AI Infrastructure program.
Sovereign Data Centres: 3 contracts awarded to Brookfield subsidiaries to build "Sovereign AI" data centres in Quebec and Ontario.
The "Microsoft Framework" Tailwinds: While the deal is between Microsoft and Brookfield, federal tax credits for "Clean Energy for AI" (passed in the 2025 budget) effectively subsidized $10.5 Gigawatts of Brookfield-owned power facilities.
Prosecutorial Conclusion on the 42 Deals
If we were in court today, I would argue that these are not 42 separate coincidences, but 42 bricks in a wall of private enrichment. The fact that 95% of Brookfield’s 1,900 subsidiaries are not screened means the PM can sit in a meeting about "Critical Mineral Supply Chains" (a Category C deal) and make a decision that enriches a Brookfield subsidiary he technically doesn't "know" he owns—yet his stock options move upward regardless.
Attorney's Note: The $5.4 Billion profit reported yesterday is the "fruit of the poisonous tree." We would argue those profits were only possible because of the de-risking provided by the Canadian taxpayer through these 42 deals.

If you believe I have presented proof of racketeering please do the following;

1) Share immediately on your time time - change your privacy settings to public for this post.
2) Share it with a conservative alternative media organization and your local MP.
3) Follow up with your MP and demand an investigation by law enforcement.
4) Remember, no one is above the law, not even Mark Carney.

[Conrad Black @ConradMBlack]

The trade imbroglio with the United States is escalating and ramifying in ways that are potentially dangerous. The Carney government refuses to release the final offer or produce the conclusive evidence that would settle whether the prime minister was reacting to provocative American attempts to change the deal at the last minute. As long as that doubt exists, it is going to be difficult to conduct the war that Mr. Carney has instigated. Juvenile acts such as booing and shouting down the American national anthem are stirring up unprecedented hostility toward Canada in a country of 350 million people with a GDP of US$32 trillion.

There has never been one word of justification for breaking off negotiations that still offered this country unequalled access to by far the greatest and most swiftly growing market in the world. Of course we must pursue our national interest, but with this uneven correlation of forces it is poor tactics to escalate the disagreement. Mr. Carney seems to take himself for the global David firing his slingshot at the orange-tufted Goliath, overtly trying to hurt Trump in the midterm elections while bandying recondite asides about the ancient Greeks. This is not Finland resisting Russia in 1940; it is more like Romania declaring war on Germany in 1915.

Canada is completely dependent on the United States for almost 70 percent of its exports and for its military security. Leaping into the arms of the Chinese who conducted a form of genocide on the Uighurs, meddled in Canadian elections, and proudly continue the legacy of Mao Tse-tung is not an acceptable answer. Nor is continuing the helter-skelter policies that have put terrible pressure on housing costs, produced a fertility rate of 1.25, and made us the suicide capital of the world. If our cause is righteous, this could be a chance for Canada to demonstrate moral strength and a mature nationality. Self-impoverishment and primal-scream therapy will not achieve it.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Plastic recycling was an advertising campaign, and the man who ran the industry's own trade body has said so on the record.

1971. A television advert shows a Native American paddling through rubbish with one tear rolling down his cheek. People start pollution, it says, and people can stop it. It was paid for by Keep America Beautiful, a group founded by the companies making the cans and bottles. The actor was an Italian-American from Louisiana called Espera de Corti. Even the Indian was packaging.

1974. An industry insider tells his colleagues, in a speech, that there is serious doubt plastic recycling will ever pay for itself.

1988. The Society of the Plastics Industry launches the chasing arrows symbol and lobbies to have it stamped on the bottom of everything, including plastics nobody on Earth had any plan to recycle.

Larry Thomas was president of that society. In 2020 he explained the thinking to NPR: if the public believes recycling is working, the public stops worrying about plastic. Selling recycling sold plastic.

And it did. Production went from 2 million tonnes in 1950 to over 400 million. Of all the plastic ever made, 9% has been recycled. The rest is in the ground, the sea, the rain and, according to the surgeons, you.

You have rinsed yoghurt pots for 30 years. You sorted, you flattened, you put the right bin out on the right Thursday, in the dark, in your dressing gown. You were the only part of the system that ever functioned.

The little triangle of arrows on the bottom of the tub is the longest-running advert in history, and you have been washing it up.

[FortisEtLiber @pucker77]

@TheExtremeMusi1

[FortisEtLiber @pucker77]

@MarcNixon24

[Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker @Martyupnorth]

Let me recap the COVID scam.

A man-made virus leaked out of a lab.

They hid it with a meat market story.

No one fell for it, so they ramped up the rhetoric.

They used a flawed test to increase cases.

People finally started to panic.

A real cricis emergend.

The lab leak story was averted.

They tried to end the crisis with slogans like "2 weeks to flatten the curve" and "herd immunity".

The cases continued to pile up because of the flawed tests.

We passed the herd immunity threshold.

The cases continued to climb because of the flawed test.

They then bet on a vaccine to end the pandemic.

They couldn't use a vaccine, because there were other treatments available (Ivermectin, HCQ).

They demonized Ivermectin.

They imposed Draconian mandates, such as travel quarantine hotels.

They rushed a vaccine, based on a new technology, into production.

The started jabbing people.

The jabbs caused more cases.

The invented variants of the virus.

They mandated the jabs.

The imposed more restrictions, like vaccine passports.

The cases continued to increase.

They increased the number of doses.

The vaccines and the flawed testing caused more cases.

Some politicians saw this as an opportunity for a Great Reset or simply to grab more power.

The truckers protested.

Trudeau prepared for his Great Reset by imposing martial law.

Russia invaded Ukraine, and we now had a new crisis to replace COVID.

Basically a novel virus spread, institutions guessed wrong, overpromised, punished dissent, and then clung to tools that stopped working. Governments had ample opportunities to admit they were wrong, at numerous points along the way, and end this. Instead, they plunged us into 3 years hell that destroyed lives and livelihoods.

No one has ever been held accountable. There are still people defending this. Heck, some have even been rewarded for their incompetence.

[FortisEtLiber @pucker77]

Since 1989 "Progressive left" mayors have slowly been destroying Edmonton: Knack (2025-?), Sohi 2021-2025), Iveson (2013-2021), Mandel (2004-2013), Reimer (1989-1995). What do they all have in common? Liberal and NDP supporters operating at the municipal level. Only Bill Smith (1995-2004) was pro-business and contributed positively to the city. Guess which side of the line he was.

[Rob Anderson @FreeAlbertaRob]

Over to you Alberta NDP…remind me again how school choice and the new back to basics curriculum are hurting Alberta student learning?

Best results in Canada, 8th best in the world. And climbing.

Alberta is still healing from 4 years of NDP rule. This is just the latest proof point.

[Dire Straits 🎸 @DireStraits77]

WoW 🎸🫶

[FortisEtLiber @pucker77]

@MarkJCarney Get real. Your Plan A is to fan the fires of TDS and pray that the Republicans lose the midterms, all without any guarantee that the Dems will give you a better deal. Recall Parliament immediately and show the Canadian public the terms of the deal you walked away from.

[Conrad Black @ConradMBlack]

We are approaching the fifth and last biennial election in the Trump era, and the president has asked voters to make it a referendum on him. Let's take a look at his record.

The tiresome and predictable criticism of a pro-Trump bias will come, as it always does when anyone tries to say anything positive about the president, but let me respond with two points. Firstly, one can dislike Trump and still recognize the accomplishments are real and laudable. If personal dislike for the president prevents someone from seeing that, the real bias problem is with them. Secondly, when 92 percent of media coverage on the president is anti-Trump, balance does not come from repeating what is already deafeningly amplified. It comes from stating the parts that are generally ignored.

The successes are significant and seldom discussed; let's look at the record that most of the press won't print:
• The illegal immigration crisis at the border has been ended
• With it, there has been a dramatic reduction in the horrors of human trafficking, the inflow of lethal narcotics, and cash flowing into the pockets of violent drug cartels.
• Inflation has been cut sharply from Biden levels.
• Crime rates across the country are much lower, with murder rates at a 70-year low.
• Capital has poured into the US in job-creating investment, and no advanced country has generated greater economic growth.
• The country has been liberated from climate theater without abandoning environmental protection.
• Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran have all been stripped of their usefulness as Russo-Chinese allies.
• The Iranian regime is being strangled (and its terrorist proxies with it) at almost no cost in American lives and only slight use of American ordnance. Despite the shrill mantra of the more radical isolationists, Trump kept his word: no forever war, no Iraq 2.0.
• Along with the Abrahamic Accords, Board of Peace and other diplomatic initiatives, despite current tensions, the scaffolding for future peace in the Middle East is the strongest it has been in decades.
• NATO has been reformed from a ragtag of slackers into a self-financing alliance.
• Ukraine has been armed to the point that Russia is fighting a war it looks increasingly unable to win, and the Russians have been forced to import gasoline and diesel for the first time in a generation because of its hobbled oil refining capacity.

This is one of the most persuasive lists of accomplishments of any two-term president since Theodore Roosevelt in 1906.

That a president with this strong a record can still have such a low approval rating is unprecedented and owes to one of his greatest short-comings – the messaging problem. President Trump can draw a crowd and dazzle his supporters like no president since FDR. What he has not yet been able to manage effectively, is use a direct Oval Office address, with a nonpartisan tone, to outline the national interest and ask for the support of the American people for his worthy objectives. Perhaps he is keeping his powder dry. If so, this is the month to use it.

[FortisEtLiber @pucker77]

@RiseOfAlberta Thanks Carney

[Eva Chipiuk, BSc, LLB, LLM @echipiuk]

Canada’s greatest weakness may be its arrogance, the belief that we remain a global example simply because we keep telling ourselves we are.

We boast about our healthcare, institutions, economy and moral leadership while ignoring the dysfunction, declining services and falling standard of living right in front of us.

Patriotism is not pretending everything is fine. It is caring enough about your country to confront reality, demand better and do the hard work required to rebuild it.

Canada’s reputation cannot survive indefinitely on nostalgia and self-congratulation.

A country that believes it is above criticism will soon find itself beneath the standards it once claimed to represent.

[dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ @DahliaKurtz]

Last Sunday: A historic, 108-year-old place of worship.

Today: A pile of ash in New Brunswick, 🇨🇦.

More than 120 churches in Canada have been burned or vandalized over the past five years.

But please. Tell me more about "Islamophobia!"