Mr. S.J. Brittain.

Photographer….Husband…..Father….Grandfather

[Mr. S.J. Brittain. @sbritt51]

@terrynewman @SPVM @stminfo Assumed it was in Europe because of the

[Karla Treadway | Host Sovereign Sphere Podcast @thesovereignceo]

What small towns in Canada are doing an exceptional job of managing their municipalities?

I’m talking about clean, development friendly, close knit, low crime and homelessness?

Help me out. I’m doing a story and would love to research this 🙏

[Mr. S.J. Brittain. @sbritt51]

@thesovereignceo Stouffville, Ontario. Great Mayor and his team. Lots going on.
This weekend…
Art in the Park
Farmers Market
Car show (vintage?)
Yearly favourite-Strawberry Festival coming very soon

[CPAC @CPAC_TV]

In Ottawa, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre announces his party’s bill to remove the sales tax on used cars. “The principle is that the GST should only apply once,” he says. “Once at the final sale, and never again.”

#cdnpoli

[Jon Fraser @JonFraserTF]

@RoKhanna @elonmusk @JoeBiden Hey @grok - how many people work at all of Elon Musk's companies and how many jobs can be attributed at his company's suppliers?

[Mr. S.J. Brittain. @sbritt51]

@JonFraserTF I must try

[Mr. S.J. Brittain. @sbritt51]

@JonFraserTF Well done on generating your photo to an art style format 👏

[Mr. S.J. Brittain. @sbritt51]

@JonFraserTF That works as well. I’m a photographer but the photos don’t translate as well on the screen. The subscription is very reasonable considering the vast collection that changes according to the seasons/ holidays and different museums around the world

[Frances Auger (Me / Myself / and I) @fern_60]

Lupine Season
Blue Rock Nova Scotia
Marc DeVries

[Mr. S.J. Brittain. @sbritt51]

@vitamindees @CTVNews @MBrant75 Why do Canadians hate success??

[David Gebala @DavidGebala]

Look who gets to leave the hospital grounds! ❤️ many more walks to come with this amazing weather

[Mr. S.J. Brittain. @sbritt51]

@SteveKooner More Moneyyyyy for NGO’s and Lawyers….
“Show Me The Money “

[Mr. S.J. Brittain. @sbritt51]

@Shesjuly @CTVNews 1.47 Billion population in India vs. How many white priests..

And you want to do whataboutism

[IntegrityTO @integrity_to]

Perhaps no other park represents the decline of Toronto as clearly as Barbara Hall Park. It is the site of the AIDS memorial and also a no-go zone as it has been hijacked by drug dealers with a devastating human aftermath.

The revitalization of the memorial - a vision of the Echoes project - should have been its own item but Chris Moise lumped it together with the idea of erecting a fence at night to mitigate the crime and disorder and did so much to the chagrin of the HIV/AIDs activists in the room.

In the end, Moise, upset that people were blaming him, gave up and told the committee to figure it out - abdicating his responsibility as a councillor. The item was referred to the General Manager and sent to the bureaucratic abyss.

Nobody from the 519 community centre, adjacent to the park, spoke at the meeting. What do you think? 🤔

[Mr. S.J. Brittain. @sbritt51]

@nationalpost You were saying what again?

[National Post @nationalpost]

Carney should be applauded for social media ban, writes Tasha Kheiriddin.

"I believe in personal freedom but also in science, and in protecting kids from harm. And every day, we see more evidence of the damage social media does to children" https://t.co/B4IDl3FLN3

[Melanie In Saskatchewan @saskatchewan_in]

THE CULT OF THE RED LAWN SIGN
🤔If ethics matter, why do they stop mattering the moment a Liberal gets caught?

I've spent the last little while reading through the public findings of Canada's Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner since 2016.

I know. Riveting stuff. The kind of thing normal people do when they're not busy enjoying hobbies or maintaining healthy social lives.

What I found was a trail of ethics violations, conflict-of-interest findings, disclosure breaches, recusal failures, and contraventions involving Liberal MPs, cabinet ministers, and even the Prime Minister himself since Justin Trudeau first took office.

Not allegations.
Not rumours.
Not conspiracy theories scribbled on the back of a Tim Hortons napkin.

Official findings.
Public record.

And yet every election, like clockwork, millions of Canadians solemnly inform us that Conservatives are the unethical ones.

At this point, I'm less interested in the politicians than I am in the voters. Because eventually you have to stop blaming the dog for getting on the couch when the owner keeps lifting him up there.

If ethics matter, why do ethics findings never seem to matter?

If integrity matters, why does integrity suddenly become a complicated philosophical debate every time the person in question has a red lawn sign?

If character matters, why is character always somebody else's problem?

The pattern is almost comforting now!

A Conservative gets accused of something and we're told it reveals their true nature.

A Liberal gets caught doing something and we're immediately handed a twelve-part documentary explaining why context is important, nobody's perfect, everybody makes mistakes, and have we considered Stephen Harper?

It's like watching a smoke detector argue that the fire is actually a nuanced heating event and how dare you call it anything else. If you do, then you hate Canada. 🤦🏼‍♀️

The truly remarkable part isn't that politicians keep getting caught. Politicians are politicians. Nobody should be falling off their chair in shock.

The remarkable part is watching people continue to vote for individuals with documented ethics findings while insisting they occupy the moral high ground.

That takes real commitment.
The kind of commitment usually reserved for flat-earthers and people who still think the self-checkout is making their lives easier.

So here's my question...

⁉️ Do Liberal voters not know?
⁉️ Do they know and not care?
⁉️ Or have we reached the point where ethics are no longer principles at all, but merely sticks used to hit political opponents?

Because from where I'm sitting at a kitchen table in rural Saskatchewan, trying to make sense of a country that increasingly feels upside down, it looks an awful lot like partisan loyalty has replaced standards.

And once that happens, ethics stop being ethics.

They become team colours.🤨

Melanie

#cdnpoli #Ethics

Source:
Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Investigation Reports
https://t.co/oCMey6YFPq

https://t.co/cgUAA2jTpb

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On This Day — June 10, 1977

Just three decades after the Holocaust — when the world closed its doors and left Jews to die on sinking ships and in sealed trains — the State of Israel rescued 66 Vietnamese refugees drifting helplessly in the South China Sea and made them citizens.

For the first time in nearly 2,000 years of exile and powerlessness, the Jewish people had sovereignty … and they chose to use it to save strangers.

In the middle of the vast ocean, a leaking wooden boat carried 66 terrified men, women, and children with no food, no water, and failing SOS signals ignored by ships from East Germany, Norway, Japan, and Panama. Death was closing in.

The Israeli cargo ship Yuvali, en route to Taiwan, spotted them. Captain Meir Tadmor radioed Haifa for instructions. Prime Minister Menachem Begin personally gave permission, and the Jewish crew took every soul aboard, fed them, clothed them, and diverted their voyage — sailing home to Israel.

When the ship arrived, Begin — whose parents and brother were murdered in the Holocaust — stood before the Knesset and declared with deep emotion:

“We Jews know what it is to be refugees. We know the agony of wandering the seas while the world looks away. For the first time in two millennia, we are no longer powerless wanderers. We are a sovereign nation — and therefore it is natural for us to give these people a haven in the Land of Israel.”

This first group of 66 was only the beginning. Between 1977 and 1979, tiny Israel — still absorbing its own Jewish refugees from Arab lands and the Soviet Union — welcomed more than 300 Vietnamese boat people in total, granting them full citizenship and a new life.

Many of these Vietnamese-Israelis went on to build beautiful, fully integrated lives in the Jewish state. Their children grew up speaking Hebrew, served in the IDF, started families with Israeli spouses, and thrived in professions ranging from business and policing to the restaurant industry — becoming a small but vibrant thread in the tapestry of Israeli society.

This was not politics.
This was the Jewish soul speaking.

After centuries of being the stranger, the outcast, the one no empire would shelter … the Jewish people were finally the ones with the power to open their gates. And they chose to remember.

[Mr. S.J. Brittain. @sbritt51]

@finland227 @visegrad24 Don’t you have a goat waiting for you at home?