Congrats, indeed.

The Parliamentary Press Gallery used to love scrapping with the Prime Minister’s Office. So why is the PPG saying nothing when the Trudeau PMO is lying to its face? My column for the @OttawaCitizen on an institution that has no more fight left in it ottawacitizen.com/opinion/co…

Calgary will be going to Stage 4 water restrictions for about a month after 16 new trouble spots were found. Remember the I told you that based on the first set on inspections they did back June it has high probability that there are many more faults in it. The City can't even interpret their own data properly. Now we are going back to square one, draining and repairing again. Instead of doing it at all at once back then and inspecting it properly. Such a colossal failure. The very reason we pay taxes to begin with.

Good afternoon from Norway..Reine

I just got a message from a Calgary fire-fighter regarding this pilot project. Hi Marty...I am a firefighter here in Calgary, and I have some pictures and background on this whole electric fire truck. Naturally, I can't speak out publicly, without risk of reprisal from my superiors. I think it's a ridiculous idea, as do many others. I am particularly upset to see how much money is being wasted on a "pilot project". But hey...what do I know? I had a chat with the contractor who is doing the infrastructure installation, and they told me it's at least $100k, and that is just their labour , not including the costs of the new transformers, wiring, etc, inside the station. It has an electric motor, but it is backed up by diesel engine, so in my mind, what's the point? The extra cost, maintenance and possible failures in cold weather are real concerns. But my biggest issue is the fact that we, as firefighters, are constantly telling the public to be careful with lithium batteries in scooters, skate board, e-bikes, etc, due to the increased fire risk from thermal runaway. I have dealt with smaller fires caused by laptops, robot vacuum, scooters...but I have also fought a fire in EV that was EXTREMELY difficult to put out. To place a battery that the size of a car inside a firetruck...and then park it inside a fire station, with the crew quarters right above it, worries me. I think this is a dumb idea ...to put it bluntly. Anyway, just thought I would share my thoughts as I cannot do so publicly." P.S. I won't post a screen shot of the original text, and a changed the wording, so they can't use AI to analyze who might have sent it.

Thread of the most beautiful train stations on Earth 🧵 1. Antwerp, Belgium

This is 8 years of Justin Trudeau. These are all FACTS. Shocking, but READ THEM, all of them. ❌ Under Trudeau, business investment has plunged by a third, while government spending nearly doubled to almost half of GDP. ❌ Government workers in Canada are growing almost four times faster than the private sector, and one in three Canadians now work for the government, raking in 30% more in salary and benefits than the taxpayers they lord over. ❌Since 2019, Canada’s had the worst growth out of 50 developed economies. ❌ Inflation-adjusted Canadian wages have been flat since 2016. ❌ incomes are West Virginia level, house prices are Los Angeles level, and Canadian taxes are half way to the Soviet Union. It’s not rare for a middle-class family in Canada to pay half their income in taxes. ❌ 1.7 million Canadians — roughly 1 in 10 households — are on welfare. ❌ since the pandemic, Canada’s official food inflation is up 25%, and energy is up 30% -- partly thanks to a carbon tax. ❌Canadian bankruptcy filings jumped 40% last year, while CIBC reports nearly half of Canadians have zero emergency savings. ❌ According to StatsCan, Canada’s violent crime rate is up 40% since 2014. Canadians want this gov't gone but are being held being held hostage until 2025 as an Ipsos poll found 7 in 10 Canadians agree that “Canada is broken,” — rising to 8 in 10 of those between age 18 and 34.Angus found that 42% of Canadians are considering moving to another country. mises.org/power-market/canad…

NEW: Calgary is delaying its move to ease water restrictions to Stage 1. Three more wire snaps were found (total of seven) and some issues were discovered with pumps at the Glenmore and Bearspaw plants. #yyc @CTVCalgary

Why is Justin Trudeau pushing Chrystia Freeland off a political cliff? And why is Mark Carney's name in the story? 🧵 Canadians woke up to reports from top reporter Robert Fife that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was actively considering turfing his most loyal foot soldier, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, from her role and replacing him with carbon-tax proponent Mark Carney. There is much to unpack here, but starting with the following point is critical: this is a purposeful leak made by the PMO and is as close to a formal announcement as it gets.  Fife's article cites an anonymous source, but it was almost certainly someone highly placed in the Prime Minister's Office with a mandate to purposely leak this information. There is no possible, logical way that Mr. Trudeau's PMO - which functions in a constant state of media lockdown - would randomly and without purpose leak this type of damning information to Mr. Fife, Canada's most devastating and well-read investigative reporter. Nothing short of a full-throated, proactive declaration of support for Ms. Freeland from Mr. Trudeau himself will prove otherwise. So why did they do it? 1/

Warren Buffett: I can end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says any time there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for re-election. It needs to go further. Politicians should get no raises or pension while there is a deficit and no balanced budgets. Thoughts?

The cats just can’t believe their eyes😂 xitter.cf/WonderW97800751/status…

As much as last night was an indictment of the Democratic Party for misleading party members and the country about the mental acuity and health of the president, the media deserve far more derision and scorn. I and others were repeatedly criticized by the media for questioning the competency of the president. Among other false accusations, I was accused of spreading misleading videos which clearly showed Biden’s deterioration. Do you remember the heavily excerpted and edited @POTUS Biden @60Minutes interview where the interviewer covered for the president by saying he was ‘very tired?’ @60Minutes knew. The @nytimes knew. @CNN knew. @MSNBC knew. Left wing media have had total and complete access to the president, his staff, and his administration. They all knew, but they told you otherwise. They outright lied to you. When Robert Hur, the special counsel who deposed the president, said that the president was not fit to stand trial and therefore chose not to bring charges, the media described him as a tool of the Republican Party and character assassinated him. When the @WSJ recently published a several-thousand-word, carefully researched, front page piece on the president’s mental and physical health, it was described by left wing media as outright propaganda. Now consider who has been feeding you propaganda. A favored technique of some of the most evil leaders in history was to mislead the people by constantly repeating the Big Lie. The Big Lie is so audacious that people accept it as truth because it is repeated so often that how can it be that something so important and material could be an outright falsehood? In this case the Big Lie was our president’s fitness for office, let alone a second term. A media organization is not supposed to be a branch of the Democratic Party. The media have a profound obligation to tell the truth to the American people, particularly about something as critical for the country as the president’s mental and physical health. People very close to me, my closest family and friends, trusted the media on Biden until the @CNN commentators finally owned up to the truth about Biden last night. For months I have been accused by many friends and family of being misled by an @X-based ‘right wing echo chamber.’ The sad reality is that one of our most important institutions, the so-called ‘Fourth Estate,’ fourth only after the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners, has destroyed any remaining credibility it has. Consider how your perception of @POTUS Biden and @realDonaldTrump has been manipulated. The media can no longer save itself. A suggestion. Rely on empirical data as much as possible. Listen to what someone actually said, rather than a headline summary or article about what someone said. Get your news from people who have a track record of telling the truth, people who do so at significant personal cost like whistleblowers. I follow broad constituencies on @X on multiple issues. That has led me closer to the truth. Citizen journalism has been a much more accurate representation of reality. Thank you @elonmusk for saving this platform. It gives us a fighting chance to save our democracy.