Fear. It’s the oldest tool of power. If you’re distracted by fear of those around you, it keeps you from seeing the actions of those above.
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Robert 🇨🇦 retweeted
🚨 Legendary actor Sir Patrick Stewart has died at 86.
For millions, he was Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek. For another generation, he was Professor Charles Xavier in X-Men.
A career spanning more than SIX DECADES, from Shakespearean theatre to two of the biggest franchises in entertainment.
Stewart died at his Los Angeles home following a battle with Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia, according to reports.
One of the most recognizable voices and commanding presences in film and television.
Rest in peace, Sir Patrick Stewart.
Writer: Oliver
Robert 🇨🇦 retweeted
"This was filmed last Thursday at Riverside Veterinary Clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The officer is Sergeant Alan Briggs. He's 44 years old. Twelve-year veteran of the Colorado Springs Police Department. The dog is Bruno, a nine-year-old German Shepherd. They were partners for eight years. Bruno joined the force at fourteen months old. Trained in narcotics detection and patrol support. He and Alan were paired in the spring of Alan's sixth year on the force. From that first week, Alan said Bruno worked like he'd been waiting his whole life to do exactly that job. Eight years. Hundreds of calls. Bruno never missed a shift. Earlier this year, Bruno began slowing down significantly. A serious illness had progressed through his system over several months despite treatment. By October, Bruno had stopped eating consistently. Stopped lifting his head fully when Alan came into the room. The veterinary team sat with Alan two weeks ago and walked him through what was coming. Alan requested that Bruno's final day be spent at home first. They drove to their favorite trail in the morning. Bruno walked as far as he could. Alan carried him the rest of the way. At the clinic that afternoon, Alan sat down on the floor rather than placing Bruno on the examination table. He said he didn't want Bruno's last position to be somewhere unfamiliar and cold. He held Bruno in his arms on the floor, back against the wall. The vet, Dr. Melissa Horan, prepared the procedure. She told us she's been practicing for nineteen years. She has learned to give families as long as they need. Alan leaned down and pressed his face against Bruno's head. He spoke to him quietly. Told him he had been the best partner anyone could ask for. Told him he didn't have to hold on anymore. Bruno lifted both front paws. Slowly. The way a person reaches up when they want to be held. He wrapped them around Alan's shoulders and pulled himself closer. Alan held on. Dr. Horan told us she set down what she was holding and waited. She said: "I've been in this room for a lot of final moments. What Bruno did in that moment was one of the most deliberate things I've ever seen an animal do.
Robert 🇨🇦 retweeted
🚨 Has anyone bothered to check who was advising Ottawa BEFORE Carney announced up to $1.6 BILLION for Cohere today? Because I did, and the dates deserve considerably more attention than the patriotic sales pitch.
♤ AUGUST 14, 2025: Radical Ventures co-led an investment in Cohere.
◇ OCTOBER 2, 2026: Carney appointed Radical Ventures co-founder Jordan Jacobs to his AI advisory council.
♤ TODAY, OCTOBER 29: Ottawa announces up to $1.6 billion for the company Jacobs' firm backs, twenty-seven days after announcing his appointment.
☆ Did Jacobs help shape that decision, and who kept his firm's financial interests out of it? Or did they even try? An investor advising his government before it invests OUR money in a company HIS firm backs deserves scrutiny. Show us the recusal records!
♤ SEPTEMBER 26, 2025: Ottawa announced its AI Strategy Task Force to recommend Canada's next AI strategy. Members included Cohere's chief AI officer, Joelle Pineau.
◇ TODAY: Her employer receives that investment commitment of up to $1.6 BILLION.
☆ How do we know her recommendations weren't designed to benefit Cohere, and where is the record showing someone checked?
♤ AUGUST 19, 2025: Ottawa signed an agreement exploring Cohere's AI for government operations and improved public services.
◇ DECEMBER 23, 2025: CanadaBuys records a non-competitive contract for Cohere's North platform for the Industry Department, with a listed total of $965,790.
☆ Its executive helps advise on strategy, the company gets government business, and now Ottawa announces it will become an investor. Who independently checks whether taxpayers are getting the best deal? After SDTC, "trust us" should come with the audit attached.
Now the "sovereignty."
♤ SEPTEMBER 16, 2026: Cohere announced its combination agreement with German AI developer Aleph Alpha, planning headquarters in Toronto AND Berlin.
◇ TODAY: Germany's Schwarz Group leads Cohere's financing round, while its STACKIT cloud business plans to run Cohere's AI.
Carney himself cited Cohere's German partnership as an example of the EU alliance strengthening sovereignty. And tomorrow, OCTOBER 30, Solomon and EU executive vice-president Henna Virkkunen are scheduled to announce a digital-cooperation partnership… So…
☆ What control are Canadians buying, who can access government and personal information, and what can Canada actually enforce?
Carney could spare us another expensive accountability excavation by publishing the terms, independent assessments and conflict safeguards NOW. Show Canadians how private interests were kept out of public decisions, without making us spend years extracting the paperwork.
And given Carney and Solomon's shared history and experience with art transactions, they'll understand why I'd like to inspect this arrangement before admiring the picture they’re selling.
#ThinkForYourself #cdn
#MakeHypocrisyShamefulAgain
#StopElectingIncompetence 🇨🇦
Robert 🇨🇦 retweeted
Who can make this make sense?
Carney: Trump putting tariffs on Canadian industries like steel and aluminum is NOT ACCEPTABLE.
Also Carney: I welcome EU’s carbon tax on our steel, aluminum and iron industries.
Canadians, can you see it now? Carney didn’t become PM to get a deal with Trump, make Canada an energy superpower or even build affordable homes.
Carney became PM to further his net zero/green energy agenda (and grow his personal net worth via Brookfield’s extensive stake in green energy).
“The future of trade does take carbon into account, Carbon is trade”
Carney and Ursula over the next several days will introduce their plan to soak businesses, industries and their citizens out of even more money & it will all be under the guise of “fighting the climate”
CBAM will make life less affordable, but Carney will claim it’s making businesses “more competitive”
These are not good people.
Robert 🇨🇦 retweeted
Canada’s sovereignty being handed over to the EU in a single 2 minute clip.
Policies being made with the EU?
Parliament to Parliament ties?
Court to court integration?
Mark Carney either has to bring this to the people to vote on or resign.
I am a North American, I’m not a European and I want absolutely nothing to do with this globalist takeover of our Country.
Robert 🇨🇦 retweeted
EVERYONE keeps missing the mark, here‼️
It doesn't matter what anyone calls it because it's not about Canada joining what has been happening in Europe, but about Canada being a part of (and party to) what is being developed. No one seems to be getting this.
This is about MUCH more than just strengthening our economic partnership. It's about streamlining the digitization and amalgamation of absolutely everything.
In particular, it's about achieving Net Zero by 2050.
Once you understand that UN agencies are telling us that we're not on track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals or meet the targets under the Paris Agreement, and that individuals are going to have to take on more responsibilities, you'll start to see what it is that's being prepared for us.
Do you realize what this means when you add on digital IDs and things like carbon labelling?
Can you see what they're doing? You should be able to see it - it's all happening right out in the open.
Mark Carney was on the Taskforce that created this report. Not one single person, anywhere, cast a vote for this. They're doing this whether we want it or not.
I see this as the most serious and dangerous thing that our government has ever done.
Robert 🇨🇦 retweeted
She is getting over a Billion in tax payers money with absolutely zero monitoring or transparency of where the money is going. My guess is right into the Carney's offshore bank account.
Conservatives call out Liberals over Diana Fox Carney's unpaid ocean envoy role
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Robert 🇨🇦 retweeted
Hello new immigrants to Canada, welcome!
I’m not sure how much you learned about Canada before you showed up at our borders with 47 members of your immediate family, so I’ve put this list of “things-to-know” together for you.
Canadians keep different types of pets at home, including cats and dogs and sometimes pigs or skunks. Often we will walk our pets. If this offends you, you’re welcome to go home.
Many Canadians enjoy bacon. And ham and sausage and other parts of pig. Sometimes they will send these meats as part of their children’s lunch to school. If this offends you, you’re welcome to go home.
On Oct. 31 every year, a large number of Canadians participate in activities for Halloween, including dressing up, going trick-or-treating and decorating their homes. If this offends you, you’re welcome to go home.
Canada is home to people of many different backgrounds, cultures and religions. Canada allows everyone to practice their religions and enjoy their cultures, so long as they don’t impede on the freedoms of others. If this offends you, you’re welcome to go home.
Canadians practice various religions, and a number of them pray. They pray in places of worship or their homes or in other private, safe places. They don’t pray where they’re blocking traffic and impeding emergency vehicles, which is against the law here. If this offends you, you’re welcome to go home.
Canada allows for same-sex marriage, and allows people to love who they choose. If this offends you, you’re welcome to go home.
Canada has laws against rape, including sexual contact with children. If this offends you, you’re welcome to go home.
I promise I will never move to your country, and try to get your country to change its laws or customs or values to accommodate me.
And I promise if you try to do that here, I will do everything in my power to try and have you removed.
Canada has warmly welcomed new immigrants for decades, including my grandparents and the parents and grandparents of many people I know. None of them tried to turn Canada into the countries they were fleeing.
Attempting to change Canada isn’t immigration. It’s invasion. And we won’t accept it.
Robert 🇨🇦 retweeted
🔥THE CARNEY ETHICS SCREEN THAT LEFT OUT 1,900 BROOKFIED COMPANIES.
Yup, you read that right. 1,900 companies, owned by Brookfield, were reportedly left off Mark Carney’s ethics registry.
Yet, the ethics commissioner told Canadians Carney is complaint.
How in the hell can anyone certify a conflict of interest screen when the list leaves out 1,900 businesses tied to the company Carney led before becoming PM?
Did Carney lie to the ethics commissioner?
It looks like, in Canada, we need a watchdog to oversee the watchdog.
Will Canadians get answers and accountability or will the Liberals block this committee too?
💥REPORT: Canada's Ethics Commissioner implicated in a Mark Carney/Brookfeild cover-up.
Despite the Ethics Commissioner's claim that Carney is compliant, 1,900 Brookfield-owned businesses were omitted from the registry, casting doubt on the integrity of the ethics screen.
How can the Commissioner confirm Carney's compliance without a fully vetted list?
This revelation raises serious questions about the effectiveness of the conflict-of-interest screen and the transparency of Carney's financial interests.
Robert 🇨🇦 retweeted
🚨 BREAKING NEWS!
🇪🇺🤝🇨🇦⚖️ : European Commission, President Ursula von der Leyen, says Canada can work towards being an associate member of the EU, if we give up our sovereignty & independence.
🤖 Close policy alignment (Ai, Climate).
⚖️ Similar governance, including work sharing with the EU at a Parliamentarian & judicial level.
💳 Close alignment on programs.
🦅 Note the lack of diversity in the audience. Not one of the 619 First Nation Chiefs attended, wearing their various head dresses (At end of clip).
🤥 So Mark Carney lied. Deeper ties with the EU doesn't mean we will be more independent, nor sovereign. Which is what I warned from the start.
⛔️ No way will the EU agree to give Canada all kinds of rights, without extreme conditions.
🇪🇺 We would be ruled and micro managed from Brussels and Davos.
🇺🇸 We would have way more freedom in the USA than under the thumb of this deal with the EU.
Robert 🇨🇦 retweeted
Carney's ethics screen names 103 Brookfield companies. Brookfield's own COO told MPs it owns about 2,000.
That leaves roughly 1,900 that aren't on the list.
Yesterday at the ethics committee, Michael Cooper asked the Ethics Commissioner a simple question: has Carney ever given your office anything on those other 1,900?
"No."
Has your office asked for it?
"No, we have not."
His reason: the whole system relies on what the PM chooses to declare.
A year later, the list looks exactly the same.
The PM gets to write his own ethics screen, and nobody checks his homework? 🤦🏻♂️
Trust, but verify, eh? 🇨🇦
In other words, out sovereignty is at risk. What say you Elbows Up crowd?
Ursula von der Leyen, in Montreal today:
“And this is why we’re discussing the idea of Canada becoming the first associate member of the European Union.”
“It means close alignment of policies”
“It means close alignment on governance”
“The cooperation could also entail parliament to parliament between or two parliaments. And court to court.”
WTAF? Who voted for this?
Robert 🇨🇦 retweeted
How long will this theatre go on?
While Canadians can’t afford food and homes, Mr. Carney has distracted for months with big talk about “Associate Membership” with Europe. Now, Europe has rejected it.
For the next two days, we will be distracted again from the cost-of-living crisis with wall-to-wall media coverage on yet another grand theatrical meeting to sign a bunch of meaningless declarations filled with big words (catalyze, anyone?) and promises to meet again to talk more. No one’s mortgage or grocery bill will come down.
We already have a free trade deal with Europe, Mr. Carney. Get the 9 countries who have not ratified it to do so. And get EU countries to let our beef into the continent and cancel their planned carbon tariff on Canada. Otherwise stop wasting your time and our money. Both are running out.
Robert 🇨🇦 retweeted
🚨🚨New personal record for Carney:
Carney and entourage drop $175,000 on airplane food during one international trip.
Beef tenderloin with demi-glace sauce.
Veal escalope with lemon and capers.
Truffle risotto.
Seabass fillet.
Crème brûlée.
That’s what Carney and his entourage ate on one trip to China, Qatar and Davos.
The bill: $175,248 for airplane food.
That’s his most expensive airplane food trip yet.
"Spend less" lol
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And when is GFANZ failed, Carney saw another opportunity. Prepare to pay Canadians.
“The future of trade does take carbon into account, Carbon is trade”
Carney and Ursula over the next several days will introduce their plan to soak businesses, industries and their citizens out of even more money & it will all be under the guise of “fighting the climate”
CBAM will make life less affordable, but Carney will claim it’s making businesses “more competitive”
These are not good people.
Robert 🇨🇦 retweeted
What Carney promised to fix fast — and still hasn’t
Carney promised free trade inside Canada by Canada Day, doubled housing starts toward 500k/year, fast major projects, US trade certainty, and a skilled workforce and 18 months later:
* Interprovincial barriers & labour mobility still drag growth. Federal exceptions cleared and some goods mutual recognition done, but ~200 provincial ones remain. Workers still don’t move freely (easier in the EU). Hyder: “We’re still in our own way more than we need to be on provincial trade barriers… The fact that we still can’t move labour around in this country is really problematic. There’s easier movement in the European Union, 27 countries, than there is in Canada.”
* Housing scale-up is nowhere near the promise. Build Canada Homes committed funding for ~19k affordable units; only ~2–2.3k under construction. Starts haven’t doubled; 500k target walked back.
* Major projects and risk-averse bureaucracy. Special agencies (Major Projects Office, defence, housing) are short-term bypasses. Hyder: “We are just not a risk society. Our government is not a risk society. Our bureaucracies are punished for risk… Those [special agencies] are not sustainable in the long haul. At some point we need to have our full arsenal of government working.”
* US trade certainty incomplete. No full deal. Focus on 232 tariffs with industry supports and diversification (e.g. UAE), but tariffs persist and USMCA review looms. Hyder: “If there were a mutually beneficial deal available, then there’s something that they can do… North America is putting the puck in its own net. We’ve got to get something done sooner rather than later.”
* Workforce utilization and skills. Population growth near-flat. Credential recognition and deploying people already here remain slow—Hyder called this “job one”
Announcements and money have moved; the structural fixes (true internal free trade, systemic speed, actual housing volume, stable trade rules) have not arrived at the “light speed” promised by Carney
And the media continues to look the other way @goldyhyder
Robert 🇨🇦 retweeted
Members of Commons #ethics committee question why MP @LoriIdlout escaped penalty for multiple violations of Conflict Of Interest Code. “How many times does someone have to violate it?”
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#cdnpoli @liberal_party
Robert 🇨🇦 retweeted
#BREAKING The Ethics Commissioner told MPs today Carney's screen is run by Carney's own people, he never sees the internal reviews, and he never asked about the Brookfield firms left off the list.
Robert 🇨🇦 retweeted
Mark Carney sees Canada as a future ‘hub’ for Europe’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, and he'll do anything to get that launched
This is his insane Net Zero plan in action
He's trading the US trade tariffs for the EU's carbon tariff and hoping we won't notice
He's known about this since December
Is this why he pulled the US deal 😏
This man is diabolical
Hold on a second. Canadians have been told, for months, that a key tenet in the Prime Minister's whole trade strategy is "walk away from Washington, pivot to Europe". Now we find out his own officials told him in December 2025 that the pivot runs straight into a wall?
The EU's carbon tariff hits Canadian steel, iron and aluminum, the same metals already hit by U.S. tariffs. And even though, with great fanfare, the Prime Minister is forging ahead with some kind of "associate membership" for Canada in the EU, an exemption is "not currently possible." In other words, he sat on that detail for 10 months, until an access to information request forced it out days before he hosts the Canada-EU Summit.
So the plan is: turn down the August terms that were agreed then disagreed to in three days with the U.S., tell workers Europe is the answer, and quietly know Europe is putting up its own border charge. According to the @CBCNews report, that charge is close to $900M a year in exposure in Newfoundland and Labrador, $792M in Quebec, and adds up to $150 more per tonne of steel by 2034.
And recall that he weakened the carbon price in his Alberta deal while knowing that, with it, he made an EU exemption even harder to get.
What kind of diversification is it if you're trading one tariff wall for two and hoping nobody reads the memo?
