Rob C🇨🇦

Student of life, avid people watcher, Toronto Raptors & Blue Jays fan, political junkie, progressive and fitness buff.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Hegseth removed Chappie James's portrait from the Air Force Art Gallery and left the wall empty.

James flew 179 combat missions across two wars. First Black four-star general in US military history.

Curry passed that portrait every day for a decade. When it came down, he retired.
The wall is still empty.

[Jack Hauen @jackhauen]

New: Engineers warned Metrolinx of ‘fall hazard’ months before GO train passenger fell and died

A leaked report shows the agency knew about the "deteriorated" platform, but did not fix it before a woman lost her balance and fell under a train.

#onpoli

https://t.co/pZp4IZc51C

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

Toronto ER doc here. I'm less worried about World Cup measles, norovirus and Mpox than I am about the ER patient on a regular day who waits 8-10 hours to be seen, stays 2-3 days in a hallway stretcher or who sits in agony in a chair. We have our priorities backwards.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

"This Sunday night’s UFC spectacle on the South Lawn...captures something about this moment in our history.

It's vulgar, violent, commercial, grandiose, tacky, and it dishonors a place once thought worthy of care and respect. In other words, it’s Donald Trump."

https://t.co/YSuFldfj70

[Cheri DiNovo @CheriDiNovo]

$56,571 per spot approx. Think of a lot of folk for whom that would pay rent for awhile....or buy food for their kids or get the promised but never provided good rehab

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Donald Trump can’t open the Strait of Hormuz, so instead he’s blocking the Strait of Detroit https://t.co/GfVFF43IoR

[Mark Bourrie @MarkBourrie]

Today's greatest understatement:

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

According to a new report released today by the Miami New Times, Trump threw and funded underage sex parties at his Palm Beach golf course.

The president was made aware of the pending publication 2 days ago.

Maybe now you understand why we struck Iran last night.

[Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @LukaszukAB]

Alberta, what do you get out of the $91,000,000, yes, $91 million referendum?

Nothing.

This $91 million could have been spent on building 3 schools, or 4 senior homes, or emergency rooms, hiring doctors or nurses.

Instead, you get nothing.

https://t.co/sC8k2eJVQe

[Greg MacEachern @gmacofglebe]

https://t.co/voddiGyAem

[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

The Carney government just dropped a $3.2 billion food security strategy and it’s worth understanding what it actually does.

Right now, only 11 cents of every dollar you spend on groceries reaches the farmer who grew it. Five companies control 80% of the grocery market. And Canada exports billions in agricultural products while turning around and importing processed versions of the same food from the US at a markup.

This plan attacks that problem structurally. $1 billion goes toward food terminals and distribution hubs so independent grocers can buy directly from Canadian farmers, cutting out the middleman. The Competition Bureau gets a funding boost to go after the property control tricks big grocers use to block competitors from moving in nearby. And Farm Credit Canada gets $1 billion for domestic food processing so we stop exporting raw product and importing it back as something more expensive.

The targets are concrete: expand the Ontario Food Terminal by end of year, open two new food terminals and 10 regional food hubs by 2028.

This isn’t a handout to Loblaws. It’s infrastructure to break their stranglehold on the supply chain.

Will it fix your grocery bill overnight? No. But building real competition into the system is how you get lasting price relief, not a rebate that disappears after one quarter.

[Flavio Volpe, C.M. @FlavioVolpe1]

One day we will look back at this time and will remember how we responded.

Did you find your spine or did you punch down? Did you apologize to a bully or did you find your feet.

Finding strength in the darkness and conviction in a storm weatherproofs a society.

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

NEW: Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s approval rating falls to its lowest level since he first took office in 2018.

The latest Angus Reid data shows a 10 point drop down to 21% approval.

Ford also finds himself at the bottom of the list among fellow Premiers.

#onpoli

[Mike Schreiner @MikeSchreiner]

As I called on them to do last week, the federal government has stepped in on Billy Bishop airport expansion. Now's our chance to let the government know we're against an expansion meant to line the pockets of American bankers.

Say no to expansion here: https://t.co/eyEh84U15B

[Roland Paris @rolandparis]

I guess this is why we elect governments, not oil company CEOs, to govern us.

[Richard Warnica @richardwarnica]

Doug Ford cut Toronto out of the island airport debate. There’s no reason Mark Carney’s Liberals have to go along https://t.co/ZOT3XAcaZ0

[Grant Us Eyes! Oh Grant Us Eyes!! @lobotomyhunter]

Toronto Pearson is only @ 50% capacity AND they are already expanding Terminal's 1 and 3. WE DONT NEED A BILLY BISHOP EXPANSION!

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

America is back fighting a war we already won because Iran shot down an Apache helicopter with a military we already destroyed, and it's all over nukes they never had and a strait that was wide open.

Is that about right?

[Hildegard Angel Oficial @hilde_angel]

Nem uma única bola rolou no gramado até agora e este é o quadro da COPA 2026:
• As equipes do Senegal e do Uzbequistão foram tratadas na chegada como criminosos, com buscas completas em seus orifícios.
• O melhor árbitro da África foi enviado de volta à Somália, apesar de seu passaporte diplomático.
• O Fotógrafo da equipe do Iraque foi impedido de entrar mesmo com visto válido.
• Foi negada a entrada nos EUA de 90% dos fãs marroquinos com ingressos já adquiridos.
• Foram recusados vistos a 14 membros da equipe de apoio do Irã.
• Foi negada a entrada no país do principal atacante da Suíça, o camaronês Breel Embolo. A equipe viajou sem ele. Após a forte repercussão, o visto foi enfim concedido.
• A equipe iraniana, cujos jogos serão todos nos EUA, foi proibida de pernoitar no país. Imediatamente a após cada partida, os atletas voarão de volta ao México, onde se hospedam.
- Qual é o sentido de sediar a Copa do Mundo se não pretendem que o MUNDO faça parte dela???

[Stephano🍁Barberis @HelloStephano]

Huge Canadian economic news:

Canada posted a $2.7B trade surplus for April; the highest in 15 months (since the trade war).

PM Carney just in the last week: 88K new jobs, $2.7B trade surplus; the man is doing his job in hyperdrive.