Scott Marks

retired

[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

Watching Carney and Poilievre go at it in Parliament is starting to feel uncomfortable. Not in a dramatic way, just in the way it feels when someone is clearly out of their depth and keeps pressing anyway.
Carney knows the file. When he answers, he answers the actual question. He doesn’t need to perform outrage or repeat a catchphrase three times and call it a rebuttal. He just explains things, clearly, because he understands them.
Poilievre comes in loud and confident, same as always, and that works great on a campaign trail or a Facebook video. But in a room where the other guy actually knows what he’s talking about? The gap shows. Every time.
The frustrating part isn’t even the politics. It’s watching someone confuse intensity for competence and expect nobody to notice the difference. People notice.
This stopped being a left vs right thing a while ago. Now it just looks like one guy who did the reading and one guy who thinks he doesn’t have to.

[ForMYCanada @ForMYCanada]

☀️ Good morning Canada. Welcome to my misinformation edition

🇨🇦 Canada politics

Today’s theme: how misinformation spreads through influencer networks and social media.

• A viral claim from commentator Marc Nixon cited a “poll” from Maple Polling claiming Mark Carney had 77.1% negative approval.

When questioned and compared with legitimate polling data, Maple Polling deleted the tweet. The misinformation had already reached ~19K impressions.

• A second viral claim alleged Carney was booed on a jumbotron clip at a sports event. The claim was circulated by accounts including Tracy Wilson and echoed by others.

The accompanying TSN video clip contains no audible booing.

• Claims that Canada is planning to join the European Union also circulated online. While commentator Mario Zelaya framed this as a serious Liberal proposal, there is no government policy or negotiation suggesting Canada could or would join the European Union.

• Another viral post suggested Bill C‑9 (Canada) could criminalize passages from the Bible. In reality, the bill concerns judicial discipline procedures and does not regulate religious speech.

• Jasmine Laine claimed Carney ignored French speakers until campaigning in Terrebonne. Yet Carney’s public engagements in Quebec pre-date that event.

📉 Pattern:
Unverified claims → viral posts → impressions accumulate → corrections rarely travel as far.

This is just in the last week.

Pluralistic democracies depend on evidence-based debate, not viral narratives.

You have coffee ☕️, I’ll pour myself a glass of wine 🍷

#GoodMorning #Canada #cdnpoli #MediaLiteracy #Misinformation

[Scott Marks @smarks_mods]

@lindaadsetts @rita_rewerts Have kept things itemized. It is not an onerous process - Ezra is rage farming and raising money

[Scott Marks @smarks_mods]

@lindaadsetts @rita_rewerts Your final remittance must be audited by an accountant, who is not there to verify what you say only whether the info is accurate. I ran two 3rd party campaigns and was required to submit all receipts and documentation the first time. Quite easy to do only a fool would not…../3

[Scott Marks @smarks_mods]

@lindaadsetts @rita_rewerts This is a 3rd party election audit - much different than a CRA. When you register as a 3rd party you must set up separate bank accounts and account for every penny you spend. Whether they were spent on National campaigns or specific ridings or candidates.

[Scott Marks @smarks_mods]

@pothen @agalbraith Great point that doesn’t fit the conservative victim narrative

[Scott Marks @smarks_mods]

@RealJSPark1 @vesperdigital Good point but you realized bees don’t waste their time trying to convince flies that honey is better than shit!

[Scott Marks @smarks_mods]

@kathy82925 @texangirl123 @jmbprime So eloquently stated - 🙏 thank you!!

[Scott Marks @smarks_mods]

Great hockey game. Canada played they go out as winners in my book!!

[Scott Marks @smarks_mods]

@sweet_shel935 @JasminLaine_ I meant it should have been a statement not a rhetorical question. 😆

[Scott Marks @smarks_mods]

@perreaux And also planned in advance is @JoeWarmington faux outrage.

[Scott Marks @smarks_mods]

@sweet_shel935 @JasminLaine_ Thank you for saying what is incredibly obvious and saving me the trouble. I think your first sentence you should remove the first word and question mark

[Scott Marks @smarks_mods]

@alexbrown17 @joe_warmington @tsnjamesduthie @WayneGretzky Absolutely a solid for Wayne and I would suggest he knew it was coming or even whispered in their ear to ask it. @JoeWarmington knows it too but loves to throw red meat and rage bait his following

[Scott Marks @smarks_mods]

@Humanlty1o1 https://t.co/PbCGmWgPPy…

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Danny Filippidis, a firefighter from Toronto, vanished while skiing with friends in Lake Placid, New York, in February 2018. Six days later, he turned up across the country in Sacramento, California, still wearing his ski gear and with no memory of how he got there. He had no identification, only a credit card, and eventually managed to call his wife after remembering her number. His disappearance sparked a large search, but how he traveled over 3,000 kilometers remains a mystery.

Doctors believe Filippidis suffered a head injury on the slopes that caused severe memory loss. They concluded he likely sustained a concussion but said he would recover physically. Experts explained that the brain injury may have caused both retrograde and anterograde amnesia, wiping out his memory of events before and after the accident. However, others think his case might involve a dissociative fugue, a psychological condition that can trigger sudden travel and memory loss after trauma.

Filippidis recalls waking up cold and sore, then hitching a ride with a truck driver who told him they were in Utah. His next memory was being dropped off in Sacramento. He still cannot remember the missing days, and the driver who gave him the ride was never identified.

Medical specialists say the human brain remains unpredictable when it comes to concussion and memory. Some people recover fully, while others regain only fragments of lost time. Filippidis has returned to work as a captain with Toronto Fire Services, but much of what happened during those six missing days may never be known.

More rare photos: https://t.co/FRrL4hIDpN

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Greg MacEachern on the impact of Carney's speech and Trump losing the plot.

[Scott Marks @smarks_mods]

@kinsellawarren @SpencerFernando It clearly shows him coming to the assistance of a woman the agents knocked down - that action clearly make him a domestic terrorist I assume

[Spencer Fernando @SpencerFernando]

Let’s make one thing clear: Neither Mark Carney, Doug Ford, nor any other Canadian is to blame for the breakdown in Canada-U.S. relations. This is on Donald Trump, with his demand for submission, his instability, his contempt for allies, and his ever-changing demands. Canadians must stand together.

[Wab Kinew @WabKinew]

Canada will never be taken over.

Not by China.

Not by Trump.

We will always be the TRUE NORTH strong and free. 🇨🇦

[James Moore @honjamesmoore]

“If he can get a trade deal with China he should do that.” So we do that and there’s a 100% tariff threat. Don’t ever back down to a bully who is an incoherent and dishonest “partner” who changes his demands from hour to hour. Keep moving forward. Canada first. Canada always.