Robert Cooper

Senate-loving, High/Red Tory, Monarchist, Academic Elitist, Geek, Veteran, Gamer, Skier, Pub Enthusiast. (cunningly disguised) - Views are my own obviously

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Controlamos el 60% de Gaza y toda esa área ha sido destruida, entramos y destruimos todo, ese es nuestro modelo y ahora lo hacemos en Líbano. Ni uno solo de los 200.000 libaneses del sur volverán a sus casas. No vamos a dejar de ocupar Siria ni Líbano ni Gaza".

Israel Katz, ministro de defensa de "Israel", se vanagloria de la limpieza étnica en Gaza y asegura que la está repitiendo de igual forma en Líbano, presumiendo de que han expulsado a 200.000 libaneses de sus casas... y que jamás volverán.

Este genocida debería ser capturado por sus crímenes de lesa humanidad, ni siquiera hace falta un tribunal de Nuremberg, ya admite él mismo la limpieza étnica que está perpetrando abiertamente por TV.

[Kelden Formosa @KeldenFormosa]

The conservative freakout about this issue seems really dumb to me.

1. Our previous NDP-aligned mayor signed a literal secret agreement with Cowboys Casino to let them take over a public park, pave over it, and turn it into a music venue for the Stampede.

2. The park was right beside a high-density residential neighbourhood whose residents didn't move in or buy their homes knowing it would soon become a music venue.

3. This was, predictably, terrible for locals, especially during the workweek of Stampede.

4. There is an entire set of Stampede grounds where there's plenty of empty space to hold a music festival and way fewer residents in the vicinity.

5. Farkas and his team are trying to come to some sort of compromise to make this work.

6. Poilievre is now going after residents of the *only* major downtown riding the Conservatives represent, one of Calgary's few swing ridings.

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

Sturgeon Lake ain’t havin it.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

It was the dumbest of times, it was the stupidest of times…

[Stephen Maher @stphnmaher]

It was an invasion, and in the end the Americans were driven out.

[Robert Cooper @RobACooper]

In other news water is wet

[John Hudson @John_Hudson]

Scoop: U.S. intelligence agencies are warning the Trump administration that Netanyahu is likely to take steps that will undermine Trump’s Iran deal as the Israeli leader faces intense political pressure to continue waging war in Lebanon 🧵

[John Hudson @John_Hudson]

Scoop: U.S. intelligence agencies are warning the Trump administration that Netanyahu is likely to take steps that will undermine Trump’s Iran deal as the Israeli leader faces intense political pressure to continue waging war in Lebanon 🧵

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

A brand new bridge between Detroit and Canada is finished and ready to open. It would speed up traffic for millions of trucks, cut delays for American businesses, and help the auto industry that employs people in every state. There is just one problem.

Donald Trump won’t let it open.

Here is why.

The family that owns the old bridge stands to lose business when the new one opens. So in January, they gave one million dollars to a pro-Trump super PAC.

Weeks later they met with Trump’s Commerce Secretary.

He called Trump.

Hours after that, Trump announced he would block the new bridge. The opening was set for June 12. It got canceled the day before. The bridge sits there finished and empty.

Now here is the part that should make every taxpayer angry.

Canada paid for the entire bridge.

Every dollar. And the United States already owns half of it for free. Trump is holding up a bridge we got for nothing, to protect a donor who wrote him a check, while picking a fight with our closest ally and biggest trading partner.

This is corruption in plain sight.

A billionaire pays, and the President delivers. American workers and businesses pay the price.

Open the bridge. A government should work for the people, not for whoever writes the biggest check.
https://t.co/9o9Gz9UrBo

[Courtney Theriault @cspotweet]

The UCP call dual practice a game changer, and @PfParks agrees- just for different reasons.

He argues it doesn't address serious surgery waits, adding places that use it like Sweden have far better patient-doctors ratios.

He says it violates the Canada Health Act and wants federal intervention.

[Courtney Theriault @cspotweet]

"The separation movement seems to be either greatly discounting the costs of setting up (federal govt) services, or they're flat out lying."

@MichaelSolberg with Vote To Stay says a new financial analysis shows an independent Alberta would bleed cash.

Consider- the APP projects a $45B surplus in year one, while Solberg says it would be at least a $27B deficit.

https://t.co/QJF91Id4FT

[Made In Canada @MadelnCanada]

Canada’s head coach Jesse Marsch says that Qatar’s Assim Madibo came into Canada’s dressing room to apologize to Ismael Koné & the team about the leg injury he caused. 🇨🇦🇶🇦

[Maher Mezahi @MezahiMaher]

This is a testament to Canadian diversity

Toronto’s central square is named “Sankofa Square” it’s a Ghanaian name. Today the Ashanti King & Ghana’s VP were here as the city celebrated Ghana’s World Cup win

This is exactly what the tournament should feel like in North America

[Sandy @Duckett62]

“The former AHS executive said the government has replaced some experienced executives with former Alberta government bureaucrats who have no requisite health-related education and no operational experience, yet some are being paid 30 to 40% more.”

[Doug Saunders @DougSaunders]

I suspect a lot of Americans here have visited tourist spots in Europe once and not gone to a typical Carrefour or Rewe or Waitrose. They put even the best US supermarkets to shame in both quality and selection. The better California chains are modelled on them. Not even close

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

Wherein the health minister argues the best strategy for dealing with a fire on the stove is to napalm the entire block.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

I thought this deserves its own post.

A lid is blown off the tank by the attack on the Moscow oil refinery.

[Robert Cooper @RobACooper]

He really is an insufferably stupid person isn’t he?

[rick bell @RickBellwrites]

BREAKING. HOT OFF THE PRESS AND EXCLUSIVE. Dani Dollars. Wednesday. Read the column. #ableg #cdnpoli #Alberta
https://t.co/OlVNdVVTF7

[David Rider @dmrider]

Toronto was made for this

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Unreal: the symbolism of Trump signing a surrender agreement at Versailles in which the US agrees to pay massive reparations is just too perfect.

I wouldn't be surprised if Macron weaponized Trump's complete ignorance of history and told him something like: "Mr. President, Versailles is where the most consequential deal of the 20th century was signed. Yours deserves the same stage."

Either that or Macron stumbled into the perfect historical parallel through sheer obliviousness - which, knowing him, is actually even more likely.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

REVEALED: Jewish activists @JAZA_UK have shown us material from inside an Israeli property event in London yesterday, which shows that illegal settlements on Palestinian land were on sale in the UK.

Activists gained access to the event, spoke to numerous developers about the properties for sale in Israeli settlements - which are illegal under British and international law - before they were ejected for disrupting the speeches.

The Board of Deputies, which calls itself a representational body for British Jews, claimed that all properties being sold were inside Israel, however these pamphlets clearly show the opposite is true.