Rob Volpe (he/him)

#CanadianParamedic #Unionist #PeerSupporter & unapologetic 'lefty'. 🇨🇦 will NEVER be the #51stState. Trans rights are human rights 🏳️‍🌈. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

[barney @barneyxbt]

something i’ve realized watching all of this play out

a sandwich that jumps from $8 to $14 never goes back to $8. rent that climbs from $1,400 to $2,200 stays at $2,200 forever.

gas, groceries, insurance, all of it. prices only move in one direction

inflation becomes permanent the moment everyone accepts the new number.

and we always accept it because we have no other choice

then workers ask for raises just to survive the prices they had nothing to do with creating.

and suddenly they’re the problem. they’re “hurting the economy” by wanting to afford food

the economy for who exactly.

because whoever it’s working for it sure as hell isn’t us

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

🇨🇦 Here’s Canadian soccer coach Jesse Marsch - an American citizen - with a message Trump needs to hear. Canada’s strength is our unity and diversity, not division. A powerful response from an American to Trump’s ridiculous “51st state” fantasy. 🍁💪

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Legendary #Maddow: “Headline: ‘Donald Trump can’t open the Strait of Hormuz, so instead he’s blocking the Strait of Detroit.’ It’s a headline from The Globe and Mail, the Canadian newspaper. The big beautiful new bridge that Trump is not allowing us to use, is a bridge that crosses the Detroit River. It goes from…Detroit…to…Ontario. Canada fully financed and paid for this bridge. It is ready to be opened, it will be the biggest U.S. border crossing in Canada, it will be one of the most important routes for trade in the entire world, the single most important one with one of our two most important trading partners, Canada, but Trump won’t let anybody use it, even though it’s ready, ready to be driven on.” 🤦‍♀️

[Mother Of Eagles 🦅 @CCknockout]

The Iranians made a song about Mark Carney 🥹

[Wab Kinew @WabKinew]

New tariffs from Trump, same elbows up message from Manitoba. 🇨🇦

Tariffs make life more expensive.

We’re standing up for Manitobans, which makes life more affordable for us and Americans too.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Thank you, Mark, for your resolve, friendship, and support. Grateful to Canada and all Canadians for the help we feel every day.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Canada's role in taking firm action – often trailblazing – to ramp up pressure against Russia and in rallying allies across the Atlantic to support Ukraine is greatly appreciated by Ukrainians. Ultimately, this is what will help bring Russia's war to an end. Thank you, Mark, and all Canadians for your support and condolences.

[Defense of Ukraine @DefenceU]

🇺🇦🇨🇦 Thank you, Canada, for standing firmly with Ukraine. The new $200M contribution to PURL announced by @MarkJCarney is vital for protecting our people from Russian air terror.
This is true partnership that saves lives.

[Michael Gerald Gibbs🏳️‍🌈🍁 🇺🇦 (He/Him) @Mikeggibbs]

Dear American Universities:

I get that you want to honour Canadians as gestures of goodwill and healing for Canada during an unprecedented time of stress and conflict, instigated by evil forces inside America.

I get your motives are pure, and Canadians appreciate that.

However, may I suggest you avoid honouring currently serving politicians.

Polls go up and down, and some fall into extreme disfavour.

Doug Ford is probably the worst person you could have picked.

Up to his eyeballs in corruption, and currently under police investigation.

Please focus on Canadians outside political office who are deserving.

People like Jeremy Hansen.

Cancer researchers. Public health leaders. Athletes. Actors. Comedians. Human rights activists. Business leaders. Notable jurists.

It's a long list to choose from.

Doug Ford shouldn't be on ANY list.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

⚡️ Israel turns away ship with stolen Ukrainian grain in win for Kyiv.

"The Russian supplier of the cargo will have to find an alternative destination to unload it," Israel's Grain Importers Association said.
https://t.co/kWnDK9qEiY

[Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷 @d_foubert]

BREAKING: Iran says the strait is closed.
BREAKING: Trump says the strait is open.
BREAKING: Hegseth says the strait is open.
BREAKING: Bloomberg says 3 ships crossed.
BREAKING: Iran says those 3 ships are Iranian.
BREAKING: Maersk says it needs clarity.
BREAKING: The strait is a philosophical concept at this point.

BREAKING: A fourth ship attempts to cross.
BREAKING: The fourth ship turns around.
BREAKING: The fourth ship's captain says he "needed to think."
BREAKING: Insurance for the fourth ship is now $47M.
BREAKING: The fourth ship is still thinking.

BREAKING: Trump posts on Truth Social that Hormuz is "TOTALLY OPEN, BEAUTIFUL, LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN."
BREAKING: 800 ships remain trapped in the Gulf.
BREAKING: Trump posts again that this is Biden's fault.

BREAKING: Iran announces tolls of $2M per ship.
BREAKING: Iran announces tolls must be paid in crypto.
BREAKING: Iran has not specified which crypto.
BREAKING: Someone on CT says it's XRP.
BREAKING: XRP is up 34%.
BREAKING: It is not XRP.

BREAKING: Russia and China veto the UN resolution on Hormuz.
BREAKING: Russia proposes an alternative resolution.
BREAKING: The alternative resolution does not mention Hormuz.
BREAKING: Nobody is surprised.

BREAKING: Israel bombs Lebanon.
BREAKING: Iran says this violates the ceasefire.
BREAKING: Trump says the ceasefire does not cover Lebanon.
BREAKING: Netanyahu says the ceasefire does not cover anything Netanyahu is currently doing.
BREAKING: Ceasefire is now 11 hours old.
BREAKING: Iran closes Hormuz again.
BREAKING: Hegseth says the strait is open.

BREAKING: Trump floats joint US-Iran toll venture to manage the strait.
BREAKING: The White House clarifies Trump was "just thinking out loud."
BREAKING: Iran says it will consider the proposal.
BREAKING: Trump says Iran's 10-point peace plan is "not good enough."
BREAKING: Trump says it is "a workable basis."
BREAKING: Both statements were made within the same hour.

BREAKING: 20,000 seafarers are still trapped on ships inside the Gulf.
BREAKING: The IMO says the priority is evacuation.
BREAKING: Iran says passage requires "coordination with armed forces."
BREAKING: Nobody has coordinated with the armed forces.
BREAKING: Hegseth says the strait is open.

BREAKING: The strait remains closed.
BREAKING: This is day 41.
BREAKING: We will keep you updated.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Canada’s latest package delivers strong new sanctions against Russia’s shadow fleet, including 100 tankers. It reinforces the pressure over Russia’s brutal aggression against Ukraine. This sanctions package also targets Iranian drone manufacturers.

Important and timely steps. Both Russia and the Iranian regime must feel the pressure and must be stopped. Thank you to @MarkJCarney and Canada!

[Tom Santos @tommysantos14]

When Trump leaves office:

The Department of War will go back to being the Defense Department.

The Trump Kennedy Center will go back to being the Kennedy Center.

The Gulf of America will once again be the Gulf of Mexico.

The unfinished East Wing (it won't be finished by the end of Trump's term) will be rebuilt by the next president, and it will not be a ballroom.

Federal agencies packed with unqualified loyalists will fire those people and rehire the career experts Trump fired.

The Department of Justice will go back to enforcing the law instead of protecting the president.

Scientific agencies like NOAA, the EPA, and the CDC will go back to publishing research without political interference.

The U.S. will re-align with its allies and not with its enemies.

The presidential pardon power will stop being used as a rewards program for loyalists.

Inspectors General will go back to investigating corruption instead of getting fired for it.

The White House press room will go back to having briefings, with real journalists and not podcasters.

U.S. foreign policy will stop revolving around flattering dictators.

And the world will progress as though Donald Trump never existed.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Rep. Don Bacon on Trump: "​He treats Zelensky and Ukraine more harsh than he does Putin. He treats Putin with velvet gloves, but he gives Zelensky the old boxing glove treatment, and I don't get it. There's like a moral blindness in this administration when it comes to Russia."

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Republican Congressman Don Bacon:

Trump treats Putin with velvet gloves, but he gives Zelensky the old boxing glove treatment, and I don't get it. There's like a moral blindness in this administration when it comes to Russia.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Four years ago today, Russia invaded Ukraine.

We stand with Ukraine and its brave people now and always, until victory and beyond.

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

[Mimi 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @FacciniMyriam]

A drawing that needs no caption.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

We are shocked by the news of the shooting at a school in Tumbler Ridge, Canada. When children are killed, no one should remain indifferent. Such tragedies should never happen anywhere, in any country in the world.

We hope that all those who were injured will recover quickly. On behalf of all Ukrainians, I express our sincere condolences to the families and loved ones, to all Canadians, and to Prime Minister @MarkJCarney.

[The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent]

Ukrainian service members have launched a social media campaign to support skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych, who is facing pressure from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at the 2026 Winter Games.

Photo: @73sof_ua; @sof_ua; @tc_uasof; @3rd_regiment_uasof / Instagram.

[Phil Williams @PhilNvestigates]

Here is a modest proposal for the White House press corps: Stand together. No one should ask another question until the President answers the question that was ignored.