By David Abbruzzes:
This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
Very well stated.
On this day in 1980, O Canada officially became Canada's national anthem.
First performed for a Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony in 1880, it was composed by Calixa Lavallée with words by Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier.
From 1939 to 1980, it was the de facto national anthem.
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I am Erie, the southernmost and shallowest of the Great Lakes, and today my northern shores are alive with 🎆 celebration. I am a proud Canadian!
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Some of Canada’s most important conversations on the Cold War, free trade, constitutional issues, relations with the United States, Commonwealth affairs, global conflicts, and international diplomacy took place at 24 Sussex Drive.
For more than 75 years, it has been the official residence of Canada’s prime ministers and the setting for some of the most consequential private discussions in our nation’s history. While Parliament is where governments govern, 24 Sussex is where relationships are built, trust is earned, and diplomacy often begins.
Among the world leaders welcomed there:
🇺🇸 John F. Kennedy — Cold War strategy, NORAD and continental defence.
🇬🇧 Queen Elizabeth II — Canada’s constitutional monarchy and the enduring relationship between the Sovereign and the Prime Minister.
🇬🇧 Winston Churchill — Canada’s role in the Commonwealth and the post-war world.
🇺🇸 Ronald Reagan — Free Trade, acid rain, NATO and the Cold War.
🇬🇧 Margaret Thatcher — Apartheid, the Commonwealth and global security.
🇷🇺 Mikhail Gorbachev — The end of the Cold War and nuclear disarmament.
🇺🇸 George H. W. Bush — The Gulf War, continental security and the negotiations that led to NAFTA.
🇺🇸 Bill Clinton — Trade, economic growth and North American cooperation.
🇺🇸 George W. Bush — The response to 9/11, border security and Afghanistan.
🇺🇸 Barack Obama — The global financial crisis, energy, climate policy and North American competitiveness.
These conversations helped shape Canada’s place in the world.
That is why restoring 24 Sussex is not about renovating a house. It is about preserving an institution that has witnessed decades of Canadian history, statecraft and diplomacy. Strong democracies preserve the institutions that outlast governments, political parties and generations of leaders. Canada should do no less.
🌞Bonjour from France
Pierre Poilievre says Canadians don't need a new home for the Prime Minister. They need homes for working-class Canadians.
Fair enough. Canadians do need more affordable housing.
What I don't understand is why Mr. Poilievre himself lives in taxpayer-funded official accommodation as Leader of the Opposition. Unlike the Prime Minister, @PierrePoilievre isn't expected to host foreign leaders or state dignitaries.
If official residences are a low priority, shouldn't that principle apply consistently?
Canadians deserve leaders who are willing to live by the same standards they ask of everyone else.
#cdnpoli
On this day in 1813, Laura Secord walked 32 km through the forest in the night, with the help of the Mohawk, to warn the British of an ambush.
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NEW: we’re learning more about the cost of “Protect Ontario” ads to taxpayers.
FOI records show the cost for just one ministry to produce & run them last year was nearly $10 million.
The total the Ford government has spent across all ministries is expected to be much higher.
Happy birthday to Robert Munsch, born on this day in 1945!
One of Canada's most beloved authors, he has written over 50 children's books. He has a star on Canada's Walk of Fame and two schools are named for him.
His most famous acclaimed book is Love You Forever.
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