Former army officer, husband, father of seven, grandfather of three. Strategy, national security, foreign policy, history.
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It speaks volumes that a foreign influence registry is not at the centre of this election.
The Conservatives learned over the last two elections that the CCP/UFWD will hammer them if they talk about it. SITE and RCMP have shown themselves impotent, a slight improvement from last election.
The Carney Liberals, as with the Trudeau Liberals, know that they benefit from the CCP/UFWD boost. For years, they've delayed Conservative bills for a foreign influence registry in the Senate and HoC. They were briefly forced to pretend to consider a registry last year, but quietly didn't.
A Carney win will solidify the CCP/UFWD hold. Who knows, it may render them safe from a registry for good.
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CBC’s Peter Armstrong lobbed Champagne a gentle “what if growth stays soft and jobs keep eroding?” The minister babbled with the usual script: investment super-cycle, Major Projects Office, capital budgeting as a historic shift, Canada has more fiscal room than other G7 countries, the world is about to discover us claims
No follow-up
Canadian Club chats are not cross-examinations; Armstrong played the facilitator role as expected
The real test is what Armstrong does afterward. He has Champagne’s full case—capital budgeting as a historic shift, operating balance then pure capital borrowing, fiscal room others lack, growth that arrives with a lag. He also has the public counter-evidence: Q3 slowing sharply, two months of job losses, and the PBO’s finding that the operating target is hit mainly by classifying grants and tax credits as “capital” while total deficits, borrowing and the debt ratio keep rising
A reporter who can still be critical will treat the claims skeptically as claims, note that the accounting change does not constrain real borrowing or interest costs, and ask what evidence would force a pivot. If the piece instead centres the vision and soft-pedals the data and the PBO, then the Canadian Club pantomime was the reporting @armstrongcbc
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I interviewed a young man who was kidnapped at the Nova music festival and spent almost 800 days in captivity in the tunnels beneath Gaza.
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“Indigenous dialects should be recited aloud at Remembrance Day observances, according to a First Nations recommendation to the Department of Veterans Affairs.”
No, they shouldn’t. It has nothing to do with “reconciliation”. I am entirely sick of disrespectful garbage like this and I can tell you I’ll never vote for any politician who supports it.
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🚨🚨The Liberals are doing something very dangerous with Canada's finances.
They are taking the NATIONAL DEBT and subtracting the PENSION SAVINGS of Canadians to make our debt look smaller.
That's almost a trillion dollars in pension assets!
And they're using that smaller number to justify borrowing $733 billion more.
And when Canadians ask if this is responsible, the government points to our pension savings.
But here's my question:
Can the government use Canadians' pension money to pay off its debt?
If the answer is yes, Canadians deserve to know.
And if the answer is no, then stop using our pension savings to make the debt look smaller!
#cdnpoli
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When you drastically change the population makeup of a country through rapid mass migration, the state must become more authoritarian to preserve order.
Congratulations lefties, you got what you wanted.
How did @nswpolice go from community based law encorcement to this intimidating paramilitary force.
Not the same organisation I joined.
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Chinese Gordon rode into a slave traders' camp ALMOST ALONE. 🐪
Inside, an army. ⚔️
He had come to tell them the slave trade was over. 🇬🇧
China's Emperor had once offered him a fortune. He refused it. 💰
Egypt offered him ten thousand pounds a year. He took two thousand.
In less than a year, he caught sixty-three slave caravans. ⛓️
Britain remembers how he died at Khartoum.
It forgot what he did there.
His statue stands on the Embankment in London. Most people walk straight past. 🏛️
The other half of his story has waited a hundred and forty years.
Help us tell stories like his: proudofus.co.uk/support
Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧
Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧
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Today I was repeatedly beaten over the head with metal weapons, by a horde of unhinged African savages.
Why? I stepped in as one of them targeted a small woman, which led to a horde attacking, with just two of us defending her.
Such African vermin have no place in Europe.
Remigration has never been more necessary.
Footage will be published soon for @GbResistance.
Myself & @WillColeshill have just been attacked by third world savage Congolese migrants in Paris.
It started because we were documenting the demographic replacement in France.
They went to attack our female friend and we stepped in to defend her.
This is why we need Remigration
📽️: @LukeWSchmidt
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Religious hate crimes, you say?
This Islamophobia Awareness Month, we must shine a light on the abhorrent hatred and discrimination Muslims continue to face.
In the last year alone, religious hate crimes targeting Muslims rose by 15% in England and Wales.
This is utterly unacceptable. London will always stand against hatred, prejudice and discrimination.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
UK security agencies still assess Islamist extremism as the largest terrorism threat. MI5's Islamist-related caseload remains roughly 75% of its counter-terrorism work, according to recent threat assessments.
isdglobal.org/digital-dispat…
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NEW COLUMN: Appointment of Carney’s Wife Raises Concerns
PM Mark Carney’s wife, Diana Fox Carney, is now Canada’s new “Ocean Envoy.” No competition. The fisheries minister just appointed her.
Was she really the best candidate? Quite a coincidence if so.
Conservative MPs asked for her mandate and the costs. Liberal MPs, who now control parliament's committees, voted it down.
Canadians deserve answers.
Yet another example of Carney’s constructed majority throwing its weight around in Ottawa. And there’s more than a hint of arrogance in it.
winnipegsun.com/opinion/koop…
#cdnpoli #cdnpolitics
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Canada should follow Alberta's lead and end DEI policies in every province and at every level of government.
theepochtimes.com/opinion/co…
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I’ve now lived in Japan for seven months, and I think it’s time to have an uncomfortable conversation about who this country is actually built for.
Everywhere I look, Japanese people own the homes, the businesses, and occupy almost all positions of institutional power, even though my people were vital in building this country.
As an immigrant my lived experience is consistently deprioritized and often times ignored. Generational wealth has been blatantly given to one group (Japs). While also the language requirements (Japanese) disproportionately benefiting them, effectively laundering privilege through the supposedly neutral concept of “communication.”
I’ve been doing the work for seven months, and yet I’m still expected to do additional work to understand my electricity bill, and why I myself should be paying the bill. When I raise these concerns, people ask whether I’ve considered learning the language, which places the burden of dismantling the system on the person least able, or frankly interested in learning their language.
This isn’t about wanting special treatment, it’s about asking the question of why I have not been given a centrally located apartment in the quaint historical district of Kyoto.
I’m not claiming to have all the answers, but after seven months here, I understand that dismantling these bigoted structures take time. I just expected these Japs would take more initiative.
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BREAKING: Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates makes $445,000 a year.
She called school choice "racist" yet sends her kid to a private school.
Not a single child is proficient in math in 50 public schools in Chicago.
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"When pressed... to provide an answer and say what kind of cost associate membership would involve, [Canada's International #Trade Minister] would not directly answer. 'There’s an opportunity cost not doing more with Europe... To be honest with you, it’s fast growing.'”🙆♂️
‘It’s about the opportunities’: Trade minister insists EU summit will bear fruit ctvnews.ca/politics/article/…
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The Liberals are criticizing Conservatives for sharing clips from Heritage Committee.
Canada is a democracy and Canadians have a right to see what their elected representatives are saying and doing in Parliament.
So yes, I will continue sharing committee clips with Canadians. They deserve to see exactly what goes on in Parliament.
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🇬🇧Mary Ellis delivered a Wellington bomber. The ground crew searched it because they didn’t believe she was the pilot.
They looked through the aircraft from nose to tail. She had flown it there.
During the war, she was Mary Wilkins, a farmer’s daughter from Oxfordshire who joined Britain’s Air Transport Auxiliary in October 1941.
Her job was to deliver aircraft where they were needed.
That meant learning to handle very different machines, and then climbing into them and flying them across Britain.
In her later recorded testimony, she described navigating delivery flights without radio assistance, finding unfamiliar airfields, and switching between aircraft types.
The variety was extraordinary. Spitfires. Wellingtons. Mosquitos. Hudsons. Over her ATA service, she ferried around 1,000 aircraft of 76 different types to 210 airfields. Among them were 403 Spitfires.
Then, in the summer of 1945, came something very different: the Gloster Meteor. She became one of only two ATA women to ferry Britain’s first operational jet fighter.
Every aircraft delivery was a flight someone had to make before the machine could begin its next assignment.
Mary made around a thousand of them.
Mary Ellis died on July 24, 2018, at the age of 101. Let’s remember her.
For more WWII stories, follow @Vanguard_WW2
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JD Vance's cousin, Nate Vance: I came to Ukraine to do humanitarian work. Then I saw how the Russians behaved.
Bucha is what pushed me to join the Ukrainian army.
I was there after its liberation. I decided: if I found a unit, I would go and serve. 1/
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Everyone must pass Ms Rachel’s purity test. Everyone bow down or be shunned. Grim.
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> Move to country that has been white for thousands of years
> Complain that the country is too white
So unbelievably tiresome. It’s like moving to Japan and complaining that it’s too Japanese
