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Thanks .. Bob
This....
Somewhere in Canada ... the parents and family of this woman should know she danced on the "Grave of the Unknown" the most sacred place in our country
I have of course met Poilievre several times .. and EVERY TIME I wonder ...what does it take to mold such a character.. make a man so ambitious .. make a man so rancid with contempt for others
I have of course met Poilievre many times .. and EVERY TIME I wonder ...what does it take to mold such a character.. make a man so ambitious .. make a man so rancid with contempt for others
I've met Pierre Poilievre ...he's a rancid little man grasping & clinging to the smallness of his kind ...hoping to be the hook upon which others choose to hang their smallness
My Canada isn't a nation of smallness
It is a nation of those who see the folly in pettiness & hate
Ford calling the Philippines to ask for nursing help after causing this debacle by NOT acting on advice is solid grounds for him to either resign or be removed
Asking a developing country to sacrifice its own ability to save its own people is moral bankruptcy writ large
USCG presser about the lost submersible
Odd
The thing was discovered by CDNs
Using a CDN ROV
From a CDN ship
The effort was supported entirely from St John's .. with Canadian Coast Guard ships
RCAF Auroras constantly dropping sonobuoys
AND yet "Canada" was never mentioned
Hey guys ...
You know the "Proud" crowd (Like Alberta Proud & Ontario Proud & Canada Proud etc ..) ??
Amazing ..but ALL their websites are registered to
THE SAME "anonymizer" company in
Drum roll please
TEMPE ARIZONA
More news soon ..
THIS is stunning ... " we haven't seen the legislation but we will be opposing it "
We don't need to have an official opposition we pay then ... we could have an engraved rock ..
Speaking with reporters after Conservative caucus meeting, leader Candice Bergen explained her party’s decision not to support the use of the Emergencies Act. The decision comes ahead of the expected tabling in the House of a motion to confirm the emergency declaration.
#cdnpoli
WAIT... WHAT ..?????
Jason Kenney just spent 3 weeks in France while his province "Burned" and his excuse is he was TIRED ..???
OH FUCK ... ??? SERIOUSLY ????
somebody tell me this isn't true !!??
On this occasion ... if Canada was forced to divulge the nature of our confrontation with India before we were ready and before we had our allies onside ..you can thank Bob Fife and the Globe & Mail .... once again Canada's interests seem second to ambition
Well I just don't know what to say ..
Just had a young man in my hangar declare that the new CDS was a pu**y and because his father is a serving Col. know she's incompetent, and the GG is a "political appointment"
And condemned the Gov't for being "woke"
I threw him out
I've met Pierre Poilievre ...he's a rancid little man grasping & clinging to the smallness of his kind ...hoping to be the hook upon which others choose to hang their smallness
My Canada isn't a nation of smallness
It is a nation of those who see the foley in pettiness & hate
Former prime minister Kim Campbell called Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre a "liar and a hate-monger," and suggested she won't vote for his party in the next federal election.
l isn't THIS charming ??
"Members of a Controversial & Secretive Religious Sect Funded 3rd Party Group Behind Anti-Trudeau Ads"
"The Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, also known as the “Exclusive Brethren,” is a religious sect. "
Press Progress
When are CDNs going to realize ..Harper, Poilievre & others currently masquerading as federal CDN Conservatives ..are nothing of the kind
They're Manning "Reformists", a party born of socially repressive/repressed poorly informed evangelically rooted luddites using Trump tactics
What's painful is watching a number of Conservatives & their thuggish pals like "Canada Proud" trying to debase a Canadian Prime Minister when he stood up to the self-declared "President for Life" of a non-democratic state when that autocrat criticized Canada for our open conduct
Soooo from Andrew Coyne's own lips
<The Provinces have spent $ 70B LESS on healthcare than they were given BY THE FEDs TO SPEND on healthcare >
BUT for example in Ont ... YOU HAVE NO FEE ON CAR LICENCES and "Buck a beer"
ANYONE who votes for CONS..PC or other ..is an idiot
So Ottawa Citizen ..
@davidpugliese
...please explain
Your headline "Trudeau should expect criticism at NATO summit over defence spending: analysis"
And the below seem contradictory ......??
THIS IS PRETTY HUGE: watch the head of NATO praise Canada today for increasing military spending and inadvertently slamming the Conservatives for having military spending at the “low level” amongst peer countries in 2014 (Poilievre/Harper Con govt). Again, Trudeau getting praise.
Question ... HOW in hell ... did he ... get permission from a giant petroleum company to do his little "I channel Oswald Mosley " routine in front of their logo and on their property ..??
I tried to ask Pierre Poilievre whether he is trying to court the far-right vote. He would not answer the question, saying my question sounded like a CBC smear job and a distraction from the real issues.
#cdnpoli
#peipoli
@shaunking
@phoenixpolice
Actually ..I'd like the resignation of the chief of police and all those responsible for recruiting and training and setting an example that would allow this conduct
So.. we have Moody's reaffirming the Canadian Gov't rating at AAA...
So WHAT exactly IS Pierre Poilievre's justification for his trashing Canada at every opportunity & saying we're "Broken" ???
The man is a prolific self-interested dung merchant..
Trump with a Goebbels haircut
Whereas I often disagreed with Singh on policy and doctrine ... I always thought he had the country's best interest at heart and respected him ... now ...feet of clay and no spine ... sad ... very sad
As a Quebecer whose life has been lived during the "Quiet Revolution" and Souveraineté-association period I find Mr. Scheer's remarks vile ...
This is historically inaccurate ..a destructive and near libelous slur .. and panders to a hate mongering element in his base
It’s clear that every time we have a Trudeau in office we have a problem with national unity. Justin Trudeau’s response to this crisis is very disappointing.
Sorry ...I really don't get these Canadians rushing off to the US..spending 100s of $ on testing & 1000s on shopping..propping up the US economy..pouring C$ out of the country..C$ from stimulous programmes paid for by other CDNs & small businesses.. being exposed to more virus
Someone needs to take Galen Weston aside and tell him "for profit" healthcare is morally repulsive to most CDNs
AND
Regardless how hard he works to camouflage his family's multi-jurisdictional & trans-national wealth, CDNs still see him as an avaricious, privileged plunderer
This is Harper doing his damnedest to become the centre of a global right wing cabal ...the man is a menace to democracy and the progressive evolution of civilized society .. malignant to his core
Next time you hear someone rat on about JT singing "Queen" with his staff at Charle's piano
Look at this photo.. both hands.. big smile.. no hesitation.. if you know anything about humanity ... you know they liked & respected each other ...and felt safe with each other
O'Toole says he was flying S&R missions while JT was attending birthday parties
SO ?
<<When O'Toole was dampening his diaper I was searching for bombs behind armories & lugging an FN >>
What in hell relevance does this theatre bring to our national debate ??
I've met Pierre Poilievre ...he's a rancid little man grasping & clinging to the smallness of his kind ...hoping to be the hook upon which others choose to hang their smallness
My Canada isn't a nation of smallness
It is a nation of those who see the folly in pettiness & hate
If Ontario, the richest province in Canada is at the point where, through the most abject mismanagement, it has been forced to request help from the CDN Forces & Red Cross..
THIS WHILE
@fordnation
remains vacationing..
The people of Ontario must demand his immediate resignation
Ontario
Canada's richest & most capable province has, by virtue of this grotesquely incompetent Ford Gov't , fallen to a state where the Federal Gov't is having to sustain and shore up interventions by the CDN military and the Red Cross ..using NATIONAL resources
A disgrace
@MichaelChongMP
And WHO was PM when we lost it ..??
And WHO was PM when the PBO told the PM that Defence cuts would make the CF unsustainable ..??
AND who terminated 25% of the staff in Global affairs
AND WHO closed CIDA
AND Who closed 20% our overseas diplomatic posts
Here is a thought ..and it is perhaps ..in reality the most important outcome of this election
If O'Toole had won gov't ..this morning Canada would be waking up with a PM prepared to accept science/vaccine sceptics in his caucus
During the most lethal pandemic in living memory
@levinepmc
I operate a company
We have maintained wages above the minimum for at least 4 years
We have maintained a humane & supportive work place for at least 4 years
We have NO trouble attracting enthusiastic & engaged workers
I submit your client's business model is defective
The level of bigotry was staggering..racist misogynistic and demonstrably age-ist
I am troubled, especially that there are toxic colonels out there bad mouthing the CDS because of her sex on the 2nd day of her appointment
Sickened actually that he's poisoned his son's mind too
On Canada Day .. in THIS world ..quivering in fear of democratic ruin, war and pestilence, we have Poilievre hammering on about his political future & "axing "the" tax"
Poilievre is simply a deficient little man hoping others will hang their smallness on his ambition
I'm in Ottawa for the night .. hotel I stayed at for years has become a victim of Covid and the Convoy thugs .. trying to find out the fate of the the staff of the hotels and local restos..so sad ..no one knows ..
What a cruel thing that gang of misfits did to those poor people
@gtlem
EVERY one of these students who can be identified should be expelled and sent home clearly they lack the judgement and the intellect to receive a degree from this institution
Well let's see Perrin
BOTH railways (sold during Harper Gov't) now controlled by US interests (1 with a US CEO) having a pissing contest with the TEAMSTERS ..(Yup a US union)
In an election year in the US .. with massive influence on not only the CDN but also the US economy ..
He was very combative.. threatening ..and disrespectful of me and all those he discussed ..not sure what his career is but said he knew many like minded serving officers ..
Disgusted ..deeply ..
I've spent my entire adult life in intern'l trade & as an "adjacent" to national security & government
I believe Mr. O'Toole's revelation here of his lack of comprehension of this trade situation in and with the US demonstrates clearly his unsuitability for national leadership
Mr. Trudeau has continuously failed to deliver for Canadians on jobs and trade.
His recent trip to Washington DC was nothing more than an expensive trip paid by taxpayers for photo-ops with American politicians.
I have stayed away from blatantly asking for Ford's removal ..but his completely egregious breach of trust with the people of Ontario together with the use of Ontario's affluence & privilege to extract skilled carers from a disadvantaged society is so utterly vile..
Ford must go
What's wrong with the VERY fundamental of this statement ....aside from the fact that it reflects the statesmanship of a hyena ..??
"suspected" ... he's glad a "suspect" is dead ...
We want this in a PM ... ??? a guy who endorses the killing of "suspects" ...
"The IMF upgraded its outlook on Canada"
"Canada has reached a soft landing"
"Inflation has cooled in Canada"
Just a few recent international headlines for Poilievre to lie about
Is anyone getting the feeling that, like Trump, Poilievre, no matter how hard he tries, just can't keep his bigotries and hatred(s) camouflaged ....
It's like a little boiling pot of hate and he can't keep the rage from escaping where we can all see and smell it
@soledadobrien
@MeghanMcCain
Live & raised in Canada, according to
@MeghanMcCain
a "Socialist Country"
I'm left slackjawed at the profound ignorance & blind bias against single payer Healthcare & economic worth of basic social programs
We've longer life spans & lower infant mortality & NO med bankruptcy
We are going the see & hear a torrent of haughty denials and antagonistic jeering from Indian officials and "bots" over the next weeks & months
...Canadians need only offer one response to the slander "18 May 1974" And walk away ...
No other response is necessary
To enhance the question: " Why are Putin AND IDU Harper so interested in having Poilievre our next PM ..and why has IDU Modi joined them in that effort ??? "
We have a big problem with this guy, Pierre Poilievre, who’s running for Prime Minister of Canada. Seen here with Kat Kanada who’s recently been exposed as part of a Russian propaganda operation in Canada. Ask yourself why, Putin is so interested in having Poilievre as our PM.
"However, a recent report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) revealed Canada has achieved a soft landing following its financial woes and will see higher-than-expected growth.": Daily Digest
Someone whisper this to PP will ya ????
Seriously pissed off about this ... the Heat pump conversion program is absolutely genius ... (especially if we get the CDN made ones that go down to -30 )
BUT
Bad messaging+ the premiers +the US owned media makes it look like a Liberal back down
Libs FIGHT for this !!
Climate change is real, and we’re stepping up to combat its disastrous effects. While Conservatives continue to offer empty slogans and no solutions, we announced even more measures for cleaner air and more savings.
Very important question for Canadians ....Both Trump and Orban are members of the IDU ... the organization run by Stephen Harper .... we NEED to know if Harper was there last night .... It would be a clear declaration of the CPC direction in Canada
Orban destroyed democracy in Hungary - land of my birth. Hungarians of my generation fled for the US and Canada to get the hell away from authoritarianism. Now this decaying Mar-A-Lago conman is huckstering Hungarian authoritarianism. It's as if Putin is producing this shitshow.
So ...due to the Liberal Gov't's acquisition of and twinning of the Transmountain pipeline ..after foreign investors walked away .. export of Albert oil via the west coast has tripled ..and so has US procurement..
Do I hear applause from west of Manitioba ???
I thought not
Next time you watch Poilievre rant about federal gov't spending ..and its impact on "inflation " and housing cost in particular ..remember this
Provincial spending is THREE times that of Federal gov't spending ..That's right THREE times
The ProvGovs are mostly run by CONS
Watching with amusement as the Con/Rebel/Trump/Poilievre/Nat.Post/ machine starts to spin up & focus on Carney ...
MUST be terrified of a guy who comes from NWT/Edmonton, went to Harvard, cause he was smart & played goal, ran a central bank or 2, and can do "retail" on request
You KNOW this is false !
The Feds have transferred nearly 1/3rd of a TRILLION $ to the provinces over the last 4 years ~$280 BILLION..
Of that the provinces have spent at best 210 B$
$70 B at least has vanished into non-medical programs or largess.
WHY do you mislead ??
IF you still believe that our government cares about the HEALTH of Canadians 🇨🇦Please ask yourself why an estimated 22% of Canadian adults (about 6.5 MILLION) do not have a family doctor, or why people DIE waiting for care 🤯 please think critically
Next time you hear people tossing around the whole Indian / CDN relationship issue ..and how Modi likes to bash Trudeau ... just remember 1 date "18 May 1974"
Don't EVER ... get over it ....
That's when India betrayed Canadian trust ... and has been laughing at us ever since
There is no doubt that Harper has been revealed as one of the major influences in the dark forces swirling about remaining democracies & is malignantly illiberal in his philosophy.
We need to investigate his activities and our intelligence forces should be monitoring his conduct
It's unthinkable that a Canadian leader would join the murders, terrorists, authoritarian and fascist world leaders in the International Democratic Union, but for our former PM to be their leader is an egregious affront to Canadian sensibilities.
#cdnpoli
Lets be blunt ..Today Trump insulted denigrated and set Canada up to be a ..perhaps "the" enemy state which these demented US fascists can focus their hostility..the convenient target
CPC ..if you don't stand up for Canada and against Trump ..you are traitors to CDA & your oaths
@KristinRaworth
to keep the cross jurisdictional police coordination and authority
to keep a flow of resources going into intel
to ready for "after shock" disruptions
for the next while "spell off " many of the exhausted police personnel (cross jurisditionally)
My hunch
Dog whistling to their base
Let's check Joly's qualifications
Bachelor of Laws Université de Montréal
Chevening scholarship
Magister Juris Brasenose College, Oxford
Edinborough Award
Batters & Housakos don't have the intellectual energy to bring a dull glow to a 40 watt bulb
Don't you dare "older person" me about Ford and no computer skills
Doug's the kind who's had someone to wipe his nose his entire life ..he's an anti-intellectual who saw computers for nerds
When the check engine light on his SUV flashes he has someone else drive it to a dealer
Honestly ..were I a CPC member of long standing ..I'd be crushed & heartbroken that an institution with such an honourable past and with the contributions of people like Stanfield Camp Segal and others had turned into a gang of grifting selfserving meritless lying thugs
So the damaging implications here ..are ... ??
OH I see yes .. well
Do you know almost EVERY cook book in the world is printed in China ..do you know EVERY profit cent from this went to the CDN Red Cross ..
SO really this is just a drive by smear with a dog whistle chaser
Justin Trudeau’s book was republished by a Chinese state-owned company after he became PM
Former foreign policy and security advisers to the PM say they were not consulted on the arrangement, and would have advised Trudeau to reject the deal
Canadians ...have a REALLY CLOSE LOOK AT why people are trying to destroy Canadian universal health care ....and WHY there is so much foreign influence in that effort ... As in the US .... they really are in it for the profit ..and to pile up serious wealth
Health insurance CEO pay:
• Cigna: $91M
• Molina: $52M
• Anthem: $33M
• Humana: $30M
• United: $26M
• CVS: $17.3M
CEOs pay themselves millions by charging you premiums and denying you care.
Private health insurance isn't health care. It's a scam.
Pass
#MedicareForAll
It IS a lie .... I know EACH MP has a designated email account. special "personal access only" this is the account designated in the screen captures
IF PP insists on NOT reading that account he CLEARLY is abdicating, ignoring or abandoning if you like, his responsibilities
@journo_dale
Let's not forget that the Harper Gov't SOLD the properties of significance owned by the Gov't of CDA (many of which had been held for the greater part of a century) to manufacture that phony "Budget surplus"
Forcing us to PAY RENT for suitable facilities
AND FIFE KNOWS THAT
@glen_mcgregor
Honestly ..about 1/2 of African Canadians have direct lineage to US slaves fleeing to Canada ..WHY does she even think this is unimportant to their descendents ??
The older women were simply too afraid to come ..and then the businesses were sold or closed
What a despicable fate for these honest hard working people
And yet they Convoy thugs are championed by Pierre Polievre and his ilk
@KenPaxtonTX
Actually no ..Canada has laws against the contribution of "Dark Money" and funding criminal acts
Please stay our of our affairs ..
Seems you have problems minding laws at all
This morning .... my vacant CBC morning host pronounced it "Macey" Hall ...when talking about Gordon Lightfoot
CBC ... MUST stop hiring people from "J" School and Broadcast Arts program who aren't first taught about this country and have an awareness of this world & history
Think we are slowly starting to see the real reason Poilievre refuses to seek a security clearance
Too many really compromising connections & the US (especially) would freak if they thought this guy was seeing for example 5 Eyes intel ...
Its a little like Scheer "Kompromat"
Good ol' Harper ..a "fantasy" surplus .... made up by selling off GoC assets .. never or only replaced at vast cost ... the man even literally sold the Parliamentary silverware ..a gift from Westminster at Confederation ...
The man has been an ongoing abscess ..IDU perpetuates
@robertlavigne
@MichaelChongMP
Harper sold off Canadian Residences around the world - basically a fire sale. Plus the residence in London. In most cases properties had been owned by the GOC for eons - leaving open the question of how you could ever find replacements. Pure theatre
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@DonMartinCTV
: Does Trudeau love all of Canada?
We are in a VERY tough place, a pandemic, a climate emergency, our nearest closest neighbour deep in convulsion and a major media "personality" AND a network goes completely infantile
"Does Mommy love all her kids ?"
FFS
For Americans afflicted by junk info about CDN health care:
Spent Sat with a woman having a brutal kidney stone attack
At Hosp, was initially seen & treated within 1st hour, had 3 CT scans, IV, drugs & 4 consultations
Sent home by evening w/scripts
Paid C$19.70 for parking
@stephcpreston
It's also a splendid case study/ teaching example for management study of "institutional / structural racism ..We need to highlight as many of these as possible interdisciplinarily .. For some reason it is easier to use an example from another discipline and then search one's own
Pierre Poilievre is a junior league eugenicist & Ayn Rand acolyte .. he's never had an original thought but is utterly capable of chaining simplistic responses to complex problems, then rolling them in glitter so the dullest minds think they're "brilliant" and he's "tough"
One of my posts has pissed off the Cons so badly they now have bots retweeting drones who have school yard mocked my post ... It's like watching a fight in a kindergarten
Actually no ...
the request was made BY the singer...
the request was passed on to the military through channels who said "No " end of saga ...
I think Mr. Fife has been "torquing" again
By the way ... these sorts of requests are frequently made & mostly turned down
A federal minister wanted Canadian soldiers to serve as props at a pop concert. It's just the latest way the Trudeau government has treated national security as a joke via
@torontostar
Once again, I ask Canadian progressive MPs to IMMEDIATELY pass a law forbidding CDNs from passing information to US (or other countries) which could be used to as evidence to prosecute women who have sought reproductive healthcare in Canada
BREAKING: Potential Trump VP nominee, Katie Britt, announces a plan to create a database of pregnant women. This is a clear plan to help Trump monitor and potentially prosecute women who have abortions. Retweet so all Americans know how dangerous Trump is.
@glen_mcgregor
Let me refer you to Section 130 (1) of the Criminal Code of Canada ... She's already committed the offence ...AND documented evidence
Convenient that this prosecution will be so economical
A note for Pierre Poilievre.. " great men are not created by propaganda " : Edgar Jung June 1934
Your trail of manufactured "truths" and shrill wailing will lead to nothing save failure
@CBCNews
For all the charities who BARELY hang on during the pandemic and stuck assiduously to the rules and intent and are now nearly ruined ... I find this sort of thing repulsive
Damn... this makes me mad as hell
Ah yes Chartwell....the company with Mike Harris as Chairman emeritus ....OH and he and his wife Laura run an "elder home care" franchise called "Nurse Next Door"
You know ..the laid off nurses Harris once called "Hula Hoop" workers
@toddthiessen1
You are mistaken ... if he'd held the story for the week requested ...the only thing at risk would have been his by-line...
He has for his ambition and avarice only risked other Canadians and our allies ...
"Canada’s economy grew 2.1 per cent on an annualized basis in the second quarter, StatsCan said on Wed, more than analysts & the Bank of Canada expected, though the central bank is still on track to cut interest rates next week" .. Yahoo Financial
Who is going to tell PP..??
Deeply saddened to learn of Catherine's ( .
@Scribulatora
) death
I just skimmed through years of DMs and feel sad for the loss of her
Wretched really ... so much to live for and to experience ..
We met it seems almost exactly a decade ago and yet it seems no time at all
@Marston4ca42
@SouthwestAir
@POTUS
Any pilot working for me who demonstrated that sort of questionable judgement would have a hard time finding a position as a golf caddy the next day
Okay ..I've read the article
I've also spent nearly 40 yrs at or near the hub of gov't
I've known or supported at least a dozen Ministers in that time
JWR was a barely functional JM .. and this indicates she has far greater ambition & notion of her competence than is warranted
@mollyluise
@cvspharmacy
As a Canadian where insulin was discovered and the patented extraction method was GIVEN TO THE WORLD ...I am enraged ...
This beggers the imagination ..