M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁
@barrettsprivateer.bsky.social
Descendent of Barrett's Privateer 🍁 Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ottawa. Public Servant. Wedding Officiant.⛵, 🥌, 🎸 writer of stories and some are true. St.FX.
My great aunt Arabelle Wilson actually saw the Titanic pass her steamer as it departed from the UK. She would be one of few very last people to have seen her.
Danny Fearns@dannyfearns.bsky.social · 14h agoGood morning Bluesky ☀️ My grandad told me he saw the Titanic - from the outset he warned all the people that the ship would sink, but nobody listened to him. He knew he was right and didn't give up. He warned them again & again, until eventually they kicked him out of the cinema.
True. Canada does not need NAFTA/CUSMA!
Ken Wood part owner of 🇨🇦@madhat59kenwood.bsky.social · yesterday@flaviovolpe.bsky.social what would be good for 🇨🇦? We walk from #NAFTA. We lost jobs manufacturing food souventry loss investment in 🇨🇦 & now clown wants auto. 🇨🇦 gets nothing from NAFTA. Big biz big investors all made out like bandits. We traded with 🇺🇲 b4 NAFTA we will again. I hope 🇨🇦 walks. #cdnpoli
When all you do is GRIPE every waking hour, and, that's all Poilievre, Lewis, Bernier, May, Blanchett and their supporters do is GRIPE!! Their GRIPING is exhausting!
Cult MTL@cultmtl.com · 3d agoPierre Poilievre and Maxime Bernier named Canada’s most unpopular party leaders
The fact remains that Guibeault, McKenna, Trudeau, Freeland and the MEDIA were unable to explain to Canadians HOW Carbon Pricing worked and HOW it reduced emmissons. Their inept responses were epic and I particularly recall them saying *It's puzzling*. Carney had no choice but cancellation. /2
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦@emmettmacfarlane.com · 2w agoI mean, we knew this. A *majority* of Canadians benefitted from the federal carbon pricing scheme due to how the rebates were structured. Mark Carney didn't just hurt the climate fight, he took your money.
Could this be similar to the likes of Enron and Nortel *cooking* their books? If it is happening again, and history does repeat, the crash should be of epic proportions.
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 3d ago‘Palantir’s market capitalisation has risen to $320 billion, 150 times earnings. The 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵 has speculated that “Palantir might be the most overvalued firm of all time.”’ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @lucasamin.bsky.social on Palantir’s NHS contract. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ummm. This better change! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Canada built its nuclear industry on self-reliance. Its new reactors will depend on foreign fuel | CBC News
Canada built its nuclear industry around Candu reactors supplied by a made-in-Canada supply chain. Ontario is building, and other provinces are considering, SMRs that require foreign uranium enrichmen...
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You can't generate leverage by telling everyone it's all for leverage. It's like signing a ransom note. 🤦♂️
1/3 The striking lesson from Ukraine and Iran is that a much larger power does not automatically win when it tries to impose its will by force. When the defender refuses to collapse, denies a quick victory, and makes the cost of aggression higher than expected, the balance of power can change.
Opinion: Canada can learn lessons from asymmetric warfare
Ukraine and Iran are both standing up to dreams of empire. We can do the same
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There is a *trump ave* in Ottawa in the Central Park neighbourhood. I hope to God that it is up for a name change!
If you are interested in a story of a Canadian family's struggle to survive in the 1800s to early 1900s on the rugged Nova Scotia coast, this might interest you. It is somewhat of a prequel to Helen Dacey Wilson's two books of Tales from Barrett's Landing about the same family in the 1930s and 40s.
This is what Carney has stated he’s trying to emulate:
This is utter garbage and nonsense! All spending is approved by Parliament and available to all Canadians online in the Main and Supplementary Estimates with actual expenditures published in the Public Accounts. Parliamentary Committees discuss it all. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Liberals lack transparency with big-ticket summer spending announcements, critics say | CBC News
Tens of billions of dollars' worth of announcements by the Liberal government this summer has critics and analysts calling out a lack of detail on Ottawa's spending plans.
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Mark Carney says Canada already has everything it needs to build a stronger, fairer and more prosperous country. His message from Prince Edward Island: look within, build with what we have, and believe in Canada’s potential. #cdnpoli
Canada is in a deadly serious moment unlike anything we have seen in a century. We need political leaders to offer a vision of how respond to the threat while offering ways that our nation can move forward. Claiming that the PM's priority is supporting Trump's war machine is a total falsehood.
"PM Carney said that of all the commodities Canada has in abundance, trust might be the most valuable." He’s not wrong. In a trade war with the U.S., Canada needs a strategic response from cooler heads. Premier Ford is not that person.
Winnipeg Free Press@winnipegfreepress.com · last wk.RED DEER – Prime Minister Mark Carney suggested Wednesday that Canada’s reputation as a reliable supplier could take a hit if it started using energy exports as leverage in trade talks with the United States.
It won't be universally popular but it's probably the best course of action. We need the hard currency that energy exports and potash bring to build our economy so that we can expand to other markets. #CanadaSky www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Carney says he doesn't 'see the value' in using energy as leverage in U.S. trade talks | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney says that he doesn't "see the value" in using Canadian energy exports as a bargaining chip as U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening further tariffs on Canadian goods.
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Another stunning example of exceptionally lazy, petty and useless journalism! www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Security for Prince Harry's visits to Canada topped all internationally protected persons | CBC News
Canadian taxpayers spent more to protect Prince Harry during his visits to Canada over a five-year period than for any other internationally protected person who visited Canada during that time. An RC...
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Canadians endorse taxing him at 75%, maybe even 90%! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Shopify CEO appears to endorse giving more votes to wealthy Canadians | CBC News
The billionaire CEO of one of Canada's largest companies has come under fire for seeming to endorse stripping voting rights from some and giving more votes to the ultra wealthy. Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke...
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My parents, gparents, ggparents, gggp, deeply distrusted the usa based upon countless betrayals starting with being cast out like garbage loyalists during the revolution to the suffering from the Great Depression. We built a great Canada over 121yr w/o free trade. 38yrs of free trade was useless!
David Moscrop@davidmoscrop.com · last wk.If there was ever any doubt, the Gordie Howe Bridge fiasco proves it: You can't trust Trump's America, or any deal within this administration's orbit. thewalrus.ca/the-gordie-h...
American woman, stay away! We don't need ya woman, bye bye, bye bye! www.nyctourism.com/northern-nei...
NYC's Northern Neighbour Deal
Discover the best of New York City from the locals who know
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Canada must immediately threaten tariffs on hurricanes that pass through usamerican territorial waters!!! www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
Trump threatens Canada with increased tariffs over wildfire smoke
U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to increase import tariffs on Canada over the 'unnecessary invasion' of smoke from the hundreds of wildfires that have destroyed communities and forced peopl...
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Right on! 💯 The bigger the company, the more inefficient and as they become monopolies they get lazier and even more inefficient. They can raise prices indefinitely, pay themselves big salaries, and even ask for government assistance because they are “too big to fail”.
M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁@barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · last wk.Public Service bloat and efficiencies are a myth. Instead, the Federal Government should aggressively press private enterprises, which are rife with bloat and inefficiencies, to become leaner, more cost effective and pass savings to consumers. ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...
Public Service bloat and efficiencies are a myth. Instead, the Federal Government should aggressively press private enterprises, which are rife with bloat and inefficiencies, to become leaner, more cost effective and pass savings to consumers. ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...
Can't manage parks 'with magic': Observers decry Parks Canada cuts
Parks Canada is committed to cutting about $140 million in operational spending over the next three years.
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Using statistics to support the bad idea of driverless cars! The standard for driverless cars should be a proven "0" ZERO accidents before they are deployed, "0" ZERO. If there is even one solitary accident, then they all get pulled. Screw this absolute BS! www.cbc.ca/news/world/w...
Waymo’s driverless cars involved in 68% fewer crashes than human drivers, U.S. study finds | CBC News
Waymo driverless cars were involved in 68 per cent fewer crashes than human drivers over a three-year period across four U.S. cities, according to new data from the U.S. Insurance Institute for Highwa...
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