82 years ago, 14,000 Canadians landed on Juno Beach, many of whom would never come home.
On the anniversary of D-Day, we pause to honour those who served and sacrificed. We remember that our rights, our freedoms, and our way of life were fought for and were won by those who answered the call.
Charlie Angus: "When Donald Trump started threatening our nation, to make us beg to be part of the US ... [Danielle Smith] went down to Mar-a-Lago. She didn't go down with Alberta business leaders. She didn't go down as part of Team Canada. She went down with Jordan Peterson and Kevin O'Leary."
Arlene Dickinson on Danielle Smith: "I find it difficult to believe that she is not trying to push a separatist agenda and if she isn't then she's doing a really poor job of governing and showing people what she really cares about."
The insult didn't start in a Canadian liquor store. It started at a podium in Washington.
It is insulting to call one of the oldest allies, a country that sent soldiers to Normandy, Korea, Afghanistan, a state of the Union that should be absorbed.
It is insulting to threaten economic warfare against a neighbour whose economic integration with America runs so deep.
It is insulting to interfere in the internal politics of a sovereign ally - funding preferred candidates, amplifying separatist movements, treating a democratic election as an opportunity for destabilisation.
It is insulting to stop traffic at the Friendship Bridge, a structure Canada literally built and named after the relationship being dismantled by the people now calling it insulting.
It is insulting to charge entry fees to citizens of a country that shares the world's longest undefended border, a border that has been a symbol of peaceful coexistence for two centuries.
It is insulting to revoke Canada's invitation to the Board of Peace for the crime of defending its own sovereignty at Davos.
Canada didn't remove American spirits from shelves unprovoked. It removed them after the US spent eighteen months removing every assumption of mutual respect that made the relationship worth maintaining.
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Queen BUMBLEBEES - HELP THEM OUT!
A vital thread concerning bumblebee queens at this time of year!
Please #retweet/#share. EVERY QUEEN BUMBLEBEE THAT SURVIVES GETS TO ESTABLISH A NEST which otherwise would not happen.
Let me explain.
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The banana peel you tossed on the trail is going to get a bear killed.
Every single apple core and orange peel left on a trail teaches a nearby bear that human hiking trails are a food source.
In bears, it is almost always fatal.
Wildlife managers have a phrase for it: "A fed bear is a dead bear."
Once a bear associates humans with food it keeps coming back. It gets bolder. It approaches campsites. It gets too close to people.
At that point there is no rehabilitation, no relocation that reliably works. The bear gets euthanized.
The bear didn't do anything wrong. It learned exactly what we taught it.
Leave no trace means leave no trace.
Pack it in. Pack it out. Every time.
When middle powers work together, we can do even more than protect ourselves and our sovereignty — we can build something better, more prosperous, and more just than what came before.
In response to the mis and disinformation following the Tumbler Ridge tragedy:
On February 10th, 2026, while most British Columbians were carrying heavy hearts and grieving the tragic situation in Tumbler Ridge, Tara Armstrong, MLA for Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream, took the opportunity to capitalize on this tragedy for her far-right political agenda.
MLA Armstrong made two reprehensible tweets on the night of the shooting that attacked the Transgender Community, before any details of the tragedy were even officially released by the RCMP. This came at a time when she could have used her platform to call for peace, unity and positive change to ensure this never happens again.
Since then, Armstrong has double-downed on this harmful rhetoric with inaccurate, misleading data. This is irresponsible behavior for anyone, but especially for an elected representative who should know the impact her actions will have on vulnerable members of the Transgender Community, the traumatized residents of Tumbler Ridge, and the public as a whole.
In light of her reckless comments and dangerous sharing of misinformation, we at CentreBC call on MLA Armstrong to apologize to the residents of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbians and the Transgender Community. It is time for MLA Armstrong to step down and remove herself from public office.
~ CentreBC
@TaraArmstrongBC
In an era of great power rivalry, Canada is choosing to be principled and pragmatic. To name reality, to act together, and to build what we claim to believe in.