Management Consultant @ large. Health Science(s), economics, strategy. A bit impatient - trying to be kind. Small "c" conservative. Base empiricist. Gay. 🇨🇦
Toronto, Ontario
Joined November 2012
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@USAmbCanada , re F35 review . Has it occurred to you that given your ongoing "irritation" with Canada 🇨🇦 you are in the wrong job ? Seriously dude . Develop some diplomatic skills or go home .
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Canada : No more economic integration with the USA. "They would be our jailers "- Peter Donolo, The Globe and Mail
"Our future as a country does not lie inside a North American fortress. Especially one in which those holding the key have proven themselves belligerent, untrustworthy and hopelessly corrupt. They would not be our partners; they would be our jailers."
Worst of all, the pressure to harmonize our country’s foreign and domestic policies with the United States in “Fortress North America” would be irresistible – and result in our national self-erasure.
"Public health care? Publicly owned utilities? Made-in-Canada environmental, labour or even language laws? Our tight controls on election spending? Our public funding for Canadian arts and culture? All “unfair advantages” or “barriers” that, you can be sure, would be challenged with the maximum power and might of U.S. authorities."
"As Mr. Carney said last year: “The Americans want our resources, our water, our land, our country. Think about it. If they succeed they would destroy our way of life.”
#cdnpoli #onpoli #polqc
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Mulcair: I was a bit shocked to hear Pierre Poilievre mumble his disapproval [of restoring 24 Sussex] ... But the same Pierre Poilievre ... lives at Stornaway with its dozens of rooms. And it is completely free for Mr. Poilievre and his family. And they're well taken care of in there.
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Can someone remind me why all of the video cameras monitoring Jeffrey Epstein‘s jail cell went down the same moment the guard on duty just happened to fall asleep, creating a perfect window for somebody to murder the one man who had all the dirt on Donald J Trump?
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To be conservative is, at its core, to conserve, to preserve what is worthy of being passed on.
Our institutions are not monuments to governments of the day; they are the inheritance of generations and the foundation of those yet to come. Restoring 24 Sussex is not about politics. It is about safeguarding a piece of Canada’s history, our democracy and the enduring institutions that define our nation.
Good
Prime Minister Mark Carney vows to bring back 'respect' to 24 Sussex Drive torontosun.com/news/national…
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The Democratic Party must return to the American people the wealth and power that the obscenely rich have taken from them.
This should be the core Democratic message.
It targets the affordability crisis, corruption, corporate welfare, and crony capitalism.
It shows what must be done.
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James Robison
What Joyce Carol Oates wrote to Elon Musk on Twitter. I am told it rattled him. I love it.
“So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates – scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend’s or relative’s accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the ‘most wealthy person in the world.’”
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Polio vaccine is safer than polio
Diphtheria vaccine is safer than diphtheria
Measles vaccine is safer than measles
Tetanus vaccine is safer than Tetanus
And yes Covid vaccine is safer than Covid
That's
The
Whole
Point
Of
Vaccines
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Building new pipelines & LNG export facilities &/or expanding existing oil & gas pipelines to both the Pacific & Atlantic coasts is not just an issue for Alberta: it should be a national imperative for all of Canada.
1/3
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Congress actually passed legislation to DO SOMETHING about the housing crisis.
But now Trump is acting like a child.
We're going to keep fighting to get this done.
This is good.. Forceful plain language. Democrats need to go on the attack. There's blood in the water.
One billionaire family controls the bridge that carries 25% of all U.S.–Canada trade.
The good news? There's a brand new public bridge right next door (and Canada paid for the whole thing).
The bad news? Donald Trump won't let it open.
Here's the story:
For more than a decade, Michigan and Canada worked together to build a new public crossing right next to it — six lanes over the Detroit River, named for a Canadian-born Red Wings legend, built by thousands of union workers. Canada paid the entire bill. Michigan co-owns it. It's finished. It’s a shining example of international cooperation and collaboration, with a tremendous return for both sides: more jobs, faster trade, and lower costs.
So why isn't it open?
Because the Moroun family, who own the rival Ambassador Bridge just up the river, doesn’t want the competition. They spent years and tens of millions of dollars trying to stop any competing international crossing from being built or opening. They lost. So they went to the White House instead.
In January, Matthew Moroun gave $1 million to a pro-Trump super PAC. Then the billionaire called Trump's Commerce Secretary and, just hours later, Trump suddenly attacked the same publicly owned bridge he praised in his own first term and threatened to block it.
Then, the day before the June 12th ribbon-cutting, the opening was called off indefinitely.
It's corruption so flagrant it would be laughable if it weren't so damaging.
Trump is screwing over Michiganders for the interests of billionaires — holding a finished, publicly owned project hostage to protect one donor's toll booth.
So a finished bridge sits closed, Michiganders keep paying the higher tolls, cars and trucks cost more, and a billionaire family keeps its monopoly.
Mr. President: stop playing games. Open the damn bridge.
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We have a new message for Democrats: attack attack attack.
Trump is corrupt, he’s butchered the economy, and his DOJ operates like mob lawyers. And every voter knows it.
So stop looking backward. Stop with the endless focus groups. This isn't complicated.
He’s weak. Finish him.
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Happy Father’s Day
Age 5 – Dad knows everything!
Age 7 – Dad knows a lot.
Age 10 – Maybe Dad doesn’t know everything?
Age 12 – Dad doesn’t know anything.
Age 14 – Dad lost his mind!
Age 16 – I can’t take Dad seriously.
Age 18 – What does Dad even know?
Age 22 – Dad talks nonsense!
Age 24 – I know more than Dad!
Age 26 – Turns out, Dad actually knows a few things.
Age 30 – I should probably ask Dad about this…
Age 40 – How did Dad make it through all of that?!
Age 45 – Dad was always right.
Age 50 – If only Dad were here… I’d have so much to learn.
cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/… walks like a duck talks like a duck
Poetic justice
Canada’s Aluminium Is Going to Europe. Brilliant Work, Donald.
A 50% tariff on Canadian aluminium, the one country on Earth that was happily selling the stuff at sensible prices, right next door, through an integrated supply chain that took decades to build. And now that aluminium is sailing across the Atlantic to Europe instead.
Canadian exports to the EU went from near zero to between 6% and 40% of monthly totals in the space of a year. Just vanished eastward. Extraordinary result.
US consumers are now paying $6,200 a ton for aluminium. Europeans are paying $4,300.  American manufacturers taxed nearly two thousand dollars a ton more than their competitors. For beer cans. And car parts. And buildings. Tremendous. Nobody could have seen that coming, except everyone.
Meanwhile Europe, which was already scrambling after losing its Middle Eastern supply to the Iran war, now faces a 5.6 million-ton aluminium deficit in 2026. And Canada just filled it. With metal that used to go to America.
The head of the Aluminium Association of Canada put it with admirable restraint: the EU option “remains attractive,” adding pressure on the US market. What he meant was: Washington handed Europe a competitive advantage in manufacturing while American industry pays the bill.
This is what happens when a trade guru who has spent his career slapping his name on buildings in gold letters decides he understands global commodity flows. No leverage materialises. Just an empty dock in Ohio and a very pleased purchasing manager in Rotterdam.
Well done, Donald.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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Every generation of hockey players has its heroes. For many Canadians, Claude Lemieux was one of them.
21 seasons. Four Stanley Cups. A remarkable career and a legacy that will endure.
Thank you for everything, Claude.
ALT Photo of Claude Lemieux
The cost of groceries in Canada has become a food, security crisis. I would like to see the federal government convene a session with their provincial counterparts, and I identify policy interventions . Follow up to the meeting. Should include an action plan.
