Rob Groh

“There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler’s mind.” Crankypants/Curmudgeon, Founder @TheVine_Agency

[Rob Groh @robgroh]

Ozempic for cars! https://t.co/DVEWhre6WW

[Sail Canada @SailCanada]

Antonia and Georgia Lewin-LaFrance win 2nd gold medal in a row at 49er, 49erFX and Nacra 17 European Champs

https://t.co/4RHtY0VzEi

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Antonia et Georgia Lewin-LaFrance remportent leur 2e médaille d’or de suite aux Champ. européens en 49erFX

https://t.co/IC0njs5jJB

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

What country has better healthcare again?

Life expectancy
🇨🇦: 83.42
🇬🇧: 82.21
🇺🇸: 79.54

Infant deaths per 1,000 live births
🇬🇧: 3.08
🇨🇦: 3.64
🇺🇸: 5.07

Yearly deaths due to lack of insurance
🇨🇦: 0
🇬🇧: 0
🇺🇸: 68,000

Bankruptcies from medical debt
🇨🇦: 0
🇬🇧: 0
🇺🇸: 530,000 a year

[David Fisman @DFisman]

My brother, what did you think would happen?

[Glen Murray @Glen4Climate]

I believe @MarkJCarney is doing a good job under extraordinarily difficult circumstances. While I have serious disagreements with some of his policies and strategy, he has repositioned Canada as a constructive global partner, effective networker, and economic realist. If Canadians remain patient and united, that approach will pay dividends.

But two major challenges remain.

First, Canada must confront its #productivitycrisis immediately. Too much policy is still shaped by large energy, banking, construction, and development interests invested in the status quo. We need to listen less to institutional bureaucracies and more to entrepreneurs, innovators, municipalities, and the non-profit sector. Canada needs more bottom-up leadership and less top-down decision-making.

Second, our definition of productivity remains far too narrow. Weak GDP growth, poor labour productivity, slow innovation, pollution, wasted resources, fragile supply chains, unaffordable housing, inefficient transportation, and badly designed communities are all connected. Our infrastructure should build the tax base—not the tax burden.

Meanwhile, the inevitable fallout from Trump’s trade policies and the escalating conflict with Iran is already appearing.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the United States has lost roughly 75,000 manufacturing jobs since January 2025, including nearly 26,000 in motor vehicles and auto parts. Tariffs have added an estimated US$1,600 to the cost of every American-built vehicle, while American companies and consumers are bearing most of the tariff bill.

Higher prices, disrupted supply chains, retaliatory tariffs, declining investment, and growing geopolitical risk will deepen America’s economic isolation. They will destroy more jobs, weaken communities, and further erode public support as the promised prosperity fails to materialize.

Canada will inevitably suffer collateral damage because our economies are so closely integrated.

Carney is doing the best he can in a brutal situation. But managing Trump's economic fallout is not enough. Canada must urgently build a more productive, innovative, resilient, and independent economy of its own.
#Canada #Productivity #EconomicResilience #TradePolicy #CanadianEconomy #BuildTheTaxBase #Innovation #MarkCarney

[Glen Murray @Glen4Climate]

Trump and Hoekstra free loading on Canada! Here is why this so called deal is a collosal scam.

As a former Ontario Transportation and Infrastructure Minister, I have been following U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra's comments. If news stories are accurate, his claim that Canada paying for the Gordie Howe Bridge is a "myth" because tolls will pay it back is highly misleading. We have been severely taken advantage of.
American users are, at most, just paying their share of a massive loan that Canada financed 100% upfront. Our federal and provincial budgets absorbed nearly $8B in total capital costs—including the bridge, Detroit plaza, and Ontario’s $1.4B Herb Gray Parkway. This tied up massive amounts of Canadian capital, creating a huge opportunity cost for our own local projects.
Furthermore, Canada spent over $1.4B inside Michigan on purely U.S. infrastructure. It is far from Canada's job to fund American highway ramps, local roads, and customs plazas. Yet, Michigan used a loophole to leverage Canada’s stateside investment, triggering $2.2B in U.S. federal matching money to spend on completely unrelated state projects.
Worse, reports show the U.S. wants to divert half of the bridge's revenue into economic development funds that only benefit their side. Let’s be clear: this isn’t splitting "surplus profit". That revenue is desperately needed to cover operations, maintenance, and the trillions in construction debt first. There won't be actual surplus profits to share 50/50 for at least 50 years. By diverting revenue now, they are starving Windsor of infrastructure money while leaving the debt firmly on the backs of the Canadian people.
To correct the Ambassador’s logic, I will borrow his penchant for real estate analogies:
The old house on the block,the Maroun family-owned Ambassador Bridge,is 90 years old, congested, and obsolete. While fixing it was essential to Detroit’s economy and the export of U.S. goods, we could not find a single government on the U.S. side willing to invest public tax dollars or accumulate debt to deal with it.
Instead, our neighbours had us build a brand-new duplex with our own money, and now they want to move in rent-free. While we carry the entire 50-year mortgage and risk, they are using the money they saved to buy a car, a barbecue, and take a vacation. It is a deeply frustrating and disappointing deal for Ontario. 🇨🇦 #GordieHoweBridge #Windsor #ONpoli #CanPoli

[David Frum @davidfrum]

One lesson of the Trump years: the US signature on an international agreement is worthless. There was an agreement in place to govern the bridge. Trump repudiated the agreement at behest of a donor with a direct anti-public-interest stake.

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

So we paid all the costs of construction, and now we’ll get only half the revenues? Do I have that right? https://t.co/JImBDwX4Hy

[@RGBAtlantica @RGBAtlantica]

While Canada and Europe ban growth hormones in our milk, the US dairy farmers use it to increase milk in cows which is harmful to humans and cows. We will not bend to their demands. #CUSMA #rBGH #dairy #milk #meat

[Robert Benzie @robertbenzie]

Taking a page from the @CPC_HQ handbook, the @OntarioNDP has a cake to mark the 1,000th day of the RCMP criminal investigation into the Greenbelt land swap (that was launched 1,003 days ago).

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

Five major Ontario school boards that have been under the direct supervision of the Ford government for a year or more have posted budget deficits despite the education minister blaming trustees for their financial turmoil.

https://t.co/WQPVzHC4Bb

#Onpoli

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

No charges. No public updates. No end in sight.

The RCMP's Greenbelt investigation has reached the 1,000-day mark, and remains "ongoing."

Opposition is accusing the Ford government of "learning nothing" & continuing "backroom deals" as probe drags on.
https://t.co/13bN1k7Q3B

[Lee Fairclough @LFairclo]

Doug Ford didn’t get rid of his #gravyplane. He just found a way to keep flying it on your dime.

The taxpayer funded  Bombardier Challenger was sold at a $200k loss to Chartright — the same company now chartering it back to Ford at $10,000 an hour. Also billed to Ontario.

[Gil Penalosa @Penalosa_G]

STOP blah, blah, blah
Often I see elected officials 'talking health' and days later vote against protected bikelanes, SAFE crosswalks, etc.

City leaders that care about HEALTH must ban sale of sugared drinks in schools, parks, hospitals… all PUBLIC. Not ONE good ingredient.

[Norm Di Pasquale 🇨🇦 @normsworld]

Toronto MPs need to listen to their constituents! “The Island Airport expansion continues to be unpopular with voters. A majority (54.8%) oppose the expansion while under 1 in 10 voters strongly supports it. (8.7%)” https://t.co/BrkwoQ3gRd #topoli #cdnpoli

[Jack Hauen @jackhauen]

The NDP is once again asking for a public inquiry (Premier Ford has said that's not happening)

#onpoli

[Corruptario @corruptario]

Carmine Nigro was VP of the PC Ontario Fund.

Now he's the chair of the board of the LCBO, and chair of the board of Ontario Place.

He also benefited from a bunch of MZOs, naturally.

[Josh Matlow @JoshMatlow]

We have a real opportunity to stop Doug Ford’s plan to bring jets to Toronto’s waterfront.

The federal government has opened a public consultation, and they need to hear from you. Their survey is not the only way to do it. You can send an email right now with just a few clicks by visiting https://t.co/N2HXzgM5gz.

Contrary to what Doug Ford has promised, studies warn that jets at Billy Bishop pose a significant risk of increased noise pollution, water pollution, air pollution, and traffic congestion, which would negatively impact housing, public spaces, and public perception – potentially reducing tourism and economic development on the waterfront.

Any proposal for Billy Bishop and our city’s waterfront must include Toronto as a full partner. Your participation in this consultation is an important first step.

Please make your voice heard!

[Mike Schreiner @MikeSchreiner]

Tell the federal government what you think about Doug Ford's billy bishop expansion: https://t.co/lH5LkLvbDN

[Mike Schreiner @MikeSchreiner]

Doug Ford's scheme to expand Toronto's Island airport for jets will cancel thousands of homes being built during the worst housing crisis in Ontario history.