Sam Bullock 💪🇨🇦

wife, avid reader, sometime writer, fan of scifi/fantasy/history/mystery/thriller-tv/books/movies, retired CAF reservist, love good food.

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

Hockey Night in Canada goes back much farther than 1952 when it first aired on television.
National hockey on CRBC/CBC began in 1933, and Hockey Night in Canada was first used as the program's name in 1936.

My Deep Dive on the history 👇
https://t.co/S0y11YkZyZ

[Bruce Anderson @bruceanderson]

Terrible take. People are clearly interested in this deeply human and brutally honest content.

if you’re not, just pay it no mind.

[𝐃𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞s 🇨🇦Vive le Canada!🇨🇦 @portagebaygirl1]

Just a reminder, fellow Ontarians. Doug Ford is now the MOST UNPOPULAR PREMIER IN CANADA. Dropping 10 percentage points since March. That’s some accomplishment you achieved, Doug. But, this is what happens when you only “Get it Done For YOUR People,” Doug.🤨

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenothate. Huge kudos to all involved.

B) The Kremlin operative who BBC names as directing arson attacks against Keir Starmer was taught his tradecraft by…drumroll…Sergei Nalobin !!! Pictured here with Boris Johnson. Also: the star of our podcast series, Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring! Wtaf

[Juez Central @Juezcentral]

A los japoneses siempre se les ve en las tribunas con objetos azules.

Son bolsas de basura infladas. Les sirven para dar color y también de percusión para alentar. Y luego, al final, las utilizan para recoger la basura que queda en el estadio, como hicieron hoy vs Países Bajos.

Su equipo juega como Supercampeones y sus hinchas son tipazos totales.

Selección totalmente querible. Japón💙

[robert lavigne @robertlavigne]

I don't believe I've ever read such Mulroney era Palm Beach / Country Club, supplicating dung, in my-ever lovin' Maple Leaf life

Mar-a-Lago much ..?

[Bruce Anderson @bruceanderson]

People need to get a life and let him lead his.

[Bruce Anderson @bruceanderson]

If @chriswarkentin is not sanctioned by his leader for that incredibly low shot, it will hang around Poilievre as a bad smell for a long time. Let’s have some standards.

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Thierry Henry reacts to the Brazil, Morocco, and Netherlands press conferences, where questions in Spanish were reportedly not permitted for Hakimi, Vinícius Jr., and Frenkie de Jong:

“I have covered World Cups for years, and this situation makes absolutely no sense to me. You’re telling me a World Cup co-hosted by Mexico can stop journalists from asking questions in Spanish? That’s like hosting a Formula 1 race and banning cars from using their engines.

We saw it with Hakimi. We saw it with Vinícius. Now we’re hearing similar stories involving Frenkie de Jong. The players understood the questions. The journalists spoke one of the most widely spoken languages on the planet. Yet somehow the language became the problem.

Gianni Infantino talks about inclusion, diversity, and bringing football to everyone. Fine. Then explain this contradiction. How can FIFA celebrate diversity in every promotional video and then create headlines because Spanish journalists are being told to switch languages at a tournament hosted by Mexico?

Spanish isn’t some obscure dialect spoken by a handful of people. It’s the language of hundreds of millions across the Americas and beyond. If a journalist from Mexico, Spain, Argentina, Colombia, or anywhere else asks a question in Spanish and the player understands it, why is football creating barriers where none existed?

The irony is unbelievable. FIFA keeps telling us football belongs to everyone, but this controversy has many fans asking whether some voices are more welcome than others.

Maybe there’s a logistical explanation. Maybe it’s a translation issue. But perception matters. And right now the perception is terrible.

Because what fans are seeing is simple: a World Cup hosted partly by a Spanish-speaking nation, players who understand Spanish, journalists who speak Spanish, and officials telling them not to use Spanish.

If that’s progress, somebody needs to explain it better. Because from the outside, it looks like football’s governing body is tripping over its own message.”

“FIFA wanted a celebration of diversity. Instead, they’ve handed the internet a controversy that won’t stop being discussed.”

[Rob Pizzola @robpizzola]

These hydration breaks are a joke. We are in North America, not the Sahara. Soccer has been played in heat since the sport existed and nobody needed a TV timeout to survive it. Let's call it out for what it is... An opportunity to add even more commercials to sports.

[Corruptario @corruptario]

Carmine Nigro was on the board of Runnymede. Ford's kid is one of the highest paid staff there.

Nigro chairs LCBO, on board of InvestOntario and Trillium Health. Chaired Ontario Place Corp and the ONPC fundraising arm. Received many MZOs, and a big secret payout from Metrolinx.

[Scott Moore @ScottMoore0]

Over 20,000 people were gathered at Belfast City Hall for the rally against racism today.

That’s over 1% of the entire population of NI.

I was one of them.

[ruthko 🌻 💉11x 😷🖖 @ruthmkb]

Dear @stevenmackinnon @MarkJCarney:

Let Torontonians be LOUD & CLEAR, regardless of political stripes-Toronto DO NOT WANT the Island Airport expansion! STOP @fordnation! Stop him from wasting our tax $ on yet another one of his illogical, make work project!

#NoJetsTO #cdnpoli

[cherie @imherenow1]

Don’t ever forget that Doug Ford didn’t get in this position by himself.
Never forget the clapping seals who voted against Ontarian’s EVERY single time! https://t.co/GcozgjS0Li
#onpoli #DougFordIsCorrupt

[Howllr 🇨🇦🍁 @howllr]

Nearly $200 million for a parking garage.

That’s where Ontario Place is today

What was once a public waterfront destination is becoming a taxpayer-funded project increasingly defined by concrete, parking spaces and private interests

Who this project is really being built for?

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

How is this not a huge news story?

[Devin Heroux @Devin_Heroux]

The Canadian men’s national team members are making their way around the pitch thanking the supporters here today.

They’ve just claimed Canada’s first point at a men’s World Cup with this draw.

And now they’re onto Vancouver for the next two Group stage matches.

[Patrick Gaspard @patrickgaspard]

First black 4 star General in US Military history who flew 179 combat missions in 2 wars for this nation. We all know why Hegseth is doing this and what he’s in the service of. We need to name it in our politics and stop hiding behind polite euphemisms.

[Praise @tufpraise]

Hitler killed himself and Germany surrendered. Japan got nuked. Do they teach history in Ohio?