😉🤭😂 Albertabama’s Queen of Stupid Danielle Smith now careening around like a drunken sailor. 🤷🏼🍁🤷🏼 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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😉🤭😂 Albertabama’s Queen of Stupid Danielle Smith now careening around like a drunken sailor. 🤷🏼🍁🤷🏼 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
So 🍁neofascists are salivating over the prospect of an even more vitriolic, self-satisfied, slogan-spouting would- be dictator piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre returning to the House of Commons to lead his pack of braying werewolves. A winning strategy, for sure. 🤷🏼🤔🤷🏼
One’s all for safeguards and minimal use, but not abolition.
The kids have bubbles floating by Hart House as U of T swings into term. God forever bless our alma mater 😉
Enjoy your Big Mac 😉
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Do take two minutes and watch. 🍁🙏🏻🍁 youtu.be/bguDFkPv9CI?...
Honour Terry Fox. Re-read his story on this day, in @theglobeandmail.com. 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
The dean of 🍁Canadian health journalists, Mr. Picard, is on target in the matter of animal research. Funny how many millions of Big Macs are consumed per annum without a qualm, while Big Dumb Doug Ford goes after lifesaving scientists. He would have hunted down Banting and Best —> no insulin. 🤷🏼🙄🤷🏼
If you want to see close up the forces that have always been arrayed against the truth about climate change, watch the docudrama ‘The Trick’ streaming on the PBS Passport service. It tells the story of how the bad guys worked assiduously to undermine confidence in climate science, and fighting back.
Horns of a horrible dilemma: a world led by Communist 🇨🇳China or a world led by fascist 🇺🇸USA. 🙄
🔥🔥🔥 Carney on Poilievre - “I honestly believe he disdains much about the country. It’s pretty awkward for him now that the country is coming together. He’s trying to find a flag to wrap himself in & play patriot. The last refuge of a scoundrel, the last time I checked.” #cdnpoli
The only cost/benefit analysis that matters to Big Dumb Doug Ford is how many votes and seats won vs how many lost. 🤷🏼🙄🤷🏼 #onpoli www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
45 years ago today Terry Fox was forced to call off the Marathon of Hope at Thunder Bay. He showed a nation what determination and leadership meant. Terry has stayed in our hearts ever since. We carry his spirit in these troubled times.
President of Death! Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer: -Australia by 2028 -Sweden by 2027 -Rwanda by 2030 -UK by 2040 -Indonesia by 2030 -Bhutan 2030 -El Salvador by 2030 -Canada by 2040 How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban. You will note USA is not on this list #cdnpoli
Something weird about a couple, like the doyenne of the 🍁gun cult and her significant other, owning SIXTEEN guns between them that they “used for hunting,” all of which are now banned. Is she saying they’ve had to stop hunting altogether? Doubt it. And who in the world owns sixteen guns anyway? 🤔🙄🤷🏼
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As Trump destroys 🇺🇸America’s forward-looking clean energy industry (to the benefit of China), 🍁Canadians should remember that Albertabama’s Queen of Stupid Danielle Smith is doing the same. 🤷🏼🙄🤷🏼 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
The 🍁gun cult is replete with the same kind of dude. 🤷🤭🤷
Mr. @deadder.bsky.social strikes again in today’s @theglobeandmail.com.
Wait for it: soon Trump will be doling out public funds to traitorous neofascist insurrectionists as compensation for having been traitorous neofascist insurrectionists. 🤷🏼🇺🇸🙄🇺🇸🤷🏼
The 🍁gun cult wants Canada to be just like this too. Back to school! Shoot ‘em up! 🤷🏼🍁🙄🍁🤷🏼 www.thestar.com/opinion/minn...
The brilliant Ms Atwood helps Alabertabama’s Queen of Stupid Danielle Smith along the way to making that province an international nutbar laughing stock, with a new story for seventeen year olds about the perfect John and Mary who will never give offense. 🤭😉😂 www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
The Stalinist stupidity to which fascist 🇺🇸America’s culture war has descended. 🤷🏼🙄🤷🏼 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Still, delete it. It’s needlessly offensive to more than the Queen of Stupid. 🤔
Language 🧐 Please delete.
Albertabama’s Queen of Stupid Danielle Smith just loves to embarrass 🇨🇦Canada on the world stage. As seen here in @TheGuardian.com. 🍁🤷🏼🍁 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Nazi Trump’s net approval rating (per The Economist) is well under water. But in contrast to actual human beings with a soul, it only encourages him. 🤷🏼🙄🤷🏼
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What's next , statues honoring the KKK ? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
You spelled ENDANGERING wrong, @nytimes.com. “Pushing the boundaries” is a *positive* frame implying unconventional innovations. There are no innovations here. Just medieval anti-science populist attacks on some of best methods of truth seeking we have.
Doubt the 🇺🇸American political class has the capacity for that anymore.
Donald Trump: “Yes, it’s true. I am a Nazi.”
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Just like Nazi Germany, Queen of Stupid Danielle Smith’s Alberta is banning whole categories of books. 🍁🙄🍁
In today’s @theglobeandmail.com Mr. Ling is quite right about the true issue in the last election but dead wrong in espousing the ridiculous notion that petulant teenaged piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre has the slightest capability to deal with the situation in which 🇨🇦Canada finds itself.
Delete “on the brink of becoming”, @theglobeandmail.com.
Another distinguished 🍁Canadian chooses to leave with dignity under our enlightened MAID legislation.
Under piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre’s pandering proposed castle law, get ready for home invaders to start ariving with AK47’s so they can shoot you before you shoot them. Yee Haw! 🍁🙄🍁
Donald Trump is a Nazi. 🙄🙄🙄 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
This lawyer has it just right in his critique of Thug Ford’s reckless attack on the Lindsay police and our judges. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying), Freedom, and the Lie That Canada “Kills Its Own” When a government program becomes a punching bag for MAGA/MAPLE MAGA Religious Cult led internet outrage, facts go missing. Let’s put them back @deanblundell.bsky.social #cdnpoli open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
Mr. Martin is right on the button here: “We will become, thanks to this vampire president, a more independent country - and in so doing, a prouder one.” And therein lies the rub for piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre: we all know he wants us to be more, not less, like the neofascist 🇺🇸state. 🍁🤔🍁
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🤭🤭🤭 The bores of @theglobeandmail.com inadvertently disclose why none of them could get elected dogcatcher: it’s terrible, they say, for politicians to employ metaphors in rallying the population. Odd position to adopt, for people who earn a living by wordsmithing … 🍁🙄🍁
Does the Conservative Party of Canada have to pay for @theglobeandmail.com to run piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre’s press releases like this one? 🍁🤔🍁
Can anyone imagine the piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre deploying this degree of nuance and savvy in realigning 🇨🇦Canada’s international relations? He would just run around Europe demanding they all axe their carbon taxes (as he did with 🇺🇦Ukraine). 🍁🙄🍁
You know how the 🍁gun cult would have us believe that all legally purchased guns are owned by perfectly safe, perfectly sane people? And advocate at the same time for opening up gun ownership in all sorts of types to all sorts of people? 🍁🙄🍁
@foreignaffairs.com offers a clear-eyed, clinical projection for Trump’s strategy of 🇺🇸self-harming whilst beggaring neighbours. Avoid paywall by signing up for their free newsletter. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
As ever, piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre thinks we’re all kindergarten children who can’t think, only chant. 🤷🙄🤷
Gee whiz. If only the 🇨🇦Canadian government would listen to the 🍁gun cult and let us have guns for everyone everywhere, we too could have school massacres all the time. Give the teachers guns as well and we could have fun shootouts! 😔😔😔 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Hmmm - memory tested. Not sure one’s getting your point.
Mr. Coyne’s piece isn’t right wing though lots of his work is.
And on the same page, Mr. Coyne has it exactly right on use of force against home invaders, having actually read and understood existing laws, unlike Mr. Mason.
I agree with Caroline @northernck.bsky.social. Let's get a movement going in Ontario to get some new blood for the Libs and NDP, leaders who will shine a spotlight on this trainwreck of a premier; leaders who will get voters excited about voting again.
Mr. Mason doesn’t often write stupid columns in @theglobeandmail.com, but this one sure is.
Letter writer in today’s @theglobeandmail.com has it exactly right on individual #ElbowsUp🇨🇦 efforts.
France illuminated the Eiffel Tower at night, with Ukraine's flag, to show its solidarity and resolve to protect democracy. #3E #StandWithUkraine
Oh, do go on with your naïvety. Go to Cuba and wave that wand if it’s so easy. Bye.
You missed the point by not reading the whole thread - we were talking about poverty in Cuba, and one was responding to the suggestion that it could easily be addressed.
Business will follow incentives - if the failed state messes up the USA market, business will adapt and seek certainty elsewhere.
That may well prove out, in which case, back to the barricades.
Wrong. If prayers are answered, renew NAFTA but continue long term quiet disengagement from the failed 🇺🇸state. If not answered, drop the gloves and clear the bench.
Hate has no place in Canada. Saturday, September 13 Christie Pits 1-4 pm
One suspects that most of the trade law ignoramuses yapping about 🇨🇦Canada dropping retaliatory tariffs on US NAFTA-compliant imports are unaware that apart from China, no other country had applied such tariffs against US goods - ie they all folded and went in with elbows down. 🍁🍁🍁
Well, we could have had piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre (who ordered his clapping seals to vote against free trade with 🇺🇦Ukraine) now shaking hands with President Zelensky in Kiev. Wouldn’t he have made 🇨🇦Canada so proud? 🤷🏼🙄🤷🏼
At one’s age, so much to do, so little time to do it. 😉
Now there’s a classic understatement: “These simple things are addressed.” Where’d ya get that magic wand? 🤷🏼
We’ve travelled Cuba extensively. The poverty is excruciating. We love Havana, but c’mon, its grandeur is not just faded, it’s visibly crumbling - part of its perverse allure, to be honest - and its people suffer daily indignities through no fault of their own.
For sure, reasonable minds can easily differ on this😉
Um, when Mr. Coyne is right, his arguments are more cogent and articulately expressed than 95% of what’s available from the left, and he marshals facts to support his views with great finesse. (One says this as a person he once attacked, wrongly, by name on Twitter.)
Bye.
One prefers to read history, not pop journalism, sorry.
Why would one?
Such a lot of narrow-minded, over-privileged bores 🥱
First world problems. Not too fussed about them.
Any country in the world could always be a lot better.
Not in Cuba? Or South Africa? Or South America? Behind the former Iron Curtain? I move around Toronto all the time without using a car. Trains I’ve booked in the UK and Italy this year were anything but cheap.
Um, if you can’t see all the nice things we already have, there’s no point wasting time providing a list. Travel much?
What a stupid comment. Canadians have endless nice things. We just don’t trumpet them from the skies. 🙄
One can only cower before your transcendent brilliance. 🤷🏼🤭🤷🏼
Back on Twitter, one spent much time blocking neofascists. Over here, it’s the same, albeit less time-consuming, exercise with neoStalinists. 🤷🏼🙄🤷🏼
To everything there is a season … And for what they’re worth, the current polls don’t bear out what you’re saying.
No doubt you also castigate Mr. Coyne, even when he’s right? 🤷🏼😉🤷🏼
Stay tuned.🤔
Here’s the key difference between Prime Minister Mark Carney and piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre, one that Canadians seem to recognize: the PM is always acting in good faith, whether or not one agrees moment to moment, whereas the piffleswipe is always acting in bad. Smart cousin vs petulant teenager.🍁
So, @deadder.bsky.social chronicles our times better than just about anyone. Centuries from now, his art will illustrate the history books, and not just in 🇨🇦Canada.
So, piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre, markets move up and markets move down. But do keep yammering on as usual about how 🇨🇦Canada is broken right now. 🤷🏼🤭🤷🏼
Two things to say about Ms Byrne’s non-mea culpa as analysed in @TheGlobeandMail.com today: 1. Nice try, Jenni. 2. Today’s Conservatives are so pig-headed they always forget Harold Macmillan’s famous warning that Liberals tend to heed - “Events, dear boy. Events.”
Mr. Ling has it just about right in this piece on what 🇨🇦Canada needs to do in face of the failed neofascist 🇺🇸state to the south. First and foremost, recognize how bad it is. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Um, you don’t read too good, or look around on here for context. No more time or you. Bye.
Where are crime rates highest in Canada? Why, in gun-toting Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Bearing arms has really helped them a lot. 🤔
Idiots of @theglobeandmail.com editorial board actually say out loud that piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre shouldn’t be on Team Canada. That should work well for him. And for the rest of us. 🍁🤷🏼🙄🤷🏼🍁
Have a nice day, and best of luck over the long haul 😉
