RBArmstrong

Father, husband, lawyer

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

I'd be surprised if there's a single instance of nooses being used as a hate symbol in Canada. And on the rare occasion it happens in the U.S., it's almost always a random knot. Like all our dumbest policy, this is the importation of an American moral panic.

[Cory Morgan @CoryBMorgan]

NDP thy name is hypocrisy

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Some corners of the federal government continue to operate like a parody of Trudeau era wokeism.

@EvanLSolomon, if incoherent identify politics like this👇 is what’s steering Canada’s AI policy, you will be responsible for leaving Canada behind in the most important economic transformation since the Industrial Revolution.

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

Canada's uneventful adoption of gay marriage in 2005 ended up persuading most of the West to follow suit. Right now we're seeing the opposite: On everything from euthanasia to harm reduction, Canada has screwed it up so badly the world is stampeding in the other direction.

[Tracey Wilson @TWilsonOttawa]

“the Liberal Party's shamelessness is its superpower”

[Tracey Wilson @TWilsonOttawa]

“Two Pakistani men who gang-raped a French tourist in front of her three children six years ago will be sentenced to death, a court has ruled. 

Abid Malhi and Shafqat Ali were convicted of gang rape, kidnapping, robbery and terrorism offences back in March 2021 over the attack were handed the death penalty”

Good.

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

Smith during the presser today in Quebec "I think we have to be very clear that the people of my province are very upset with the way we've been treated for the last 10 years"

"An example I gave in my speech was, imagine if an Alberta politician had come here and tried to shut down your hydroelectric business and say you couldn't develop your aluminum industry anymore."

"That's what Stephen Guilbault did to our province, and that's the reason why people are so frustrated and why they lost hope."

"It costs jobs, it cost economic growth. It cost us our ability to generate revenues to pay for the things that we care about." @ABDanielleSmith

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

I'd argue that on some issues, BCers are actually becoming more radicalized than even Albertans. The perils of wokeness are still theoretical to your average Calgary Tory. In B.C., they're literally shitting on your front stoop or shooting up your small business.

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

If I could describe the difference between Broken Canada and Functioning Canada, the answer is one word: Consequences. Name the area of Canadian life that is visibly degrading, and I'll show you how it all started with the institutional deletion of consequences.

[Terry Glavin 格立文 @TerryGlavin]

First you have to prove the statement is false (unlikely), then that refusing to compare residential schools to the Holocaust is "downplaying," then that the refusal was motivated by hate. This is a performance of virtue that insults the intelligence.

[National Newswatch @natnewswatch]

ANALYSIS: In skipping so many question periods, Carney dodges accountability, @davidakin reports https://t.co/v5hxTQhubg

Find out more at https://t.co/1zbPY5GAhV

[Kate Harrison @KatlynHarrison]

Blaming the previous government for weak economic growth would be more compelling if Mr. Carney wasn't also the Chair of the Liberals' Task Force on Economic Growth under the previous government. #cdnpoli

[Matt Gurney @mattgurney]

Genuinely intrigued to find out to what extent anyone is going to notice and/or care the tacit acknowledgement that a lot of what we touted as economic growth was specifically rapid population growth. And that high immigration was masking other problems.

https://t.co/U44wfqTEmv

[Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 @ezralevant]

On the right is Firas Al-Najim, a terrorist supporter who regularly pickets outside Jewish synagogues, schools and seniors homes.

He’s an Iranian agent in Canada.

On the left is Omar Alghabra, appointed to Mark Carney’s new combatting antisemitism committee.

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

Pierre Poilievre "I remember Mr. Alghabra lobbying me before he was in politics to keep Hezbollah legal, so I'm not sure that he's the right guy to combat anti Semitism." @PierrePoilievre

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Under PM Harper...

Q1 2015: -0.8% annualized GDP
Q2 2015: -0.5% annualized GDP

Bank of Canada: "Yes, Canada meets the technical definition of a recession."

Under PM Carney...

Q4 2025: -1.0% annualized GDP
Q1 2026: -0.1% annualized GDP

Bank of Canada: "Two negative quarters of GDP alone should not be used to define the state of the economy."

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

If a guy screams "Heil Hitler!" in your face, you're not going to accomplish anything by debating the finer points of the Rhineland occupation. Similarly, if someone is shrieking for intifada, they don't care in the slightest that their genocide libel is fake. They've announced what they value, and it isn't the truth.

[Melissa Mbarki @MelissaMbarki]

No “mass grave” was discovered at the site of the Kamloops Indian residential school five years ago. Even the Tkemlúps te Secwepemc Nation at Kamloops refuted that characterization within a week of the initial round of shocking headlines. Ever since, the Tkemlúps have gone back and forth on the subject, aided by $12.1 million in federal funds, from “probable burials” to graves to “signatures that resemble burials.”

The hundreds of graves “found” at Marieval in Saskatchewan, where Trudeau famously posed kneeling at a gravesite holding a teddy bear, were ordinary burials in a Cowessess community cemetery where gravestones had been removed. Cowessess elder and former Marieval student Lloyd Lerat said this about the graves: “We’ve always known these were there.… It’s just the fact that the media picked up on unmarked graves, and the story actually created itself from there because that’s how it happens.”

The 182 graves “discovered” near the old St. Eugene’s residential school in B.C. at the Ktunaxa community of ʔAq’am were burials in a former pioneer cemetery later associated with a hospital and a Catholic mission that had lost its wooden crosses to grass fires over the years. “There’s no discovery, we knew it was there, it’s a graveyard,” Sophie Pierre, a former St. Eugene’s student who served for 25 years as the Ktunaxa tribal chair, explained later. “The fact there are graves inside a graveyard shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.”

The 160 “unmarked graves” reported on Penelakut Island were not newly discovered. Some were associated with a cemetery, others were inferred from ground penetrating radar research, and more were the result of archeological surveys on the island’s foreshore. Twenty years earlier the RCMP had excavated a rumoured residential-school burial site on the island and came up with nothing.

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

This hilarious meltdown is now into its second day

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

Will @globeandmail editorial board members turn themselves in to police voluntarily, or will @LeahGazan be required to dispatch her Truth & Reconciliation Accountability Special Weapons Squad to secure compliance ?