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Are you fucking KIDDING me??
One of Canada’s largest MAGA owned papers isn’t even to be subtle with this disgusting un-patriotic false headline right before #CanadaDay2025
Don’t buy @TheTorontoSun or any media owned by America.
We must protect our sovereignty. #Cndpoli 🇨🇦💪🏻
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Uncertainty is magic, not a problem to be broken down and controlled.
But in Canada, we try to manage it with structure: boards, grant programs, job titles. We hire “community leaders” after the magic has already started, then expect them to guide it.
That’s not leadership. That’s cleanup.
Brad Feld’s “Give First” philosophy is a reminder that real momentum comes from people who show up before they’re paid, before there’s a clear outcome. People who give because they care, not because they were hired to.
That’s the disconnect I wrote about in the $100B piece: we reward institutions with prestige, while the people who help founders in the earliest days get no upside - no equity, no carry, no path.
And yet, there’s hope.
Toronto Tech Week showed what’s possible when we loosen control. Distributed, grassroots, electric. Builders leading from the front.
And this fall, Waterloo Tech Week is picking up that torch — a student-led, decentralized celebration of what makes the region great. No gatekeepers. Just energy.
If we want the next $100B to stay here, we have to stop confusing hierarchy with leadership.
We have to embrace uncertainty. Trust the people already building. And make room for the magic.
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Two key qualities to avoid when choosing an executor that don’t get nearly enough attention.
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🇨🇦Hey ladies,
I promised to share @PierrePoilievre's costed platform details, released today, to highlight any support for women's health, prevention of gender-based violence, support for child care, and support for economic opportunities for women (all priorities within @MarkJCarney's plan).
Some fast facts...if I missed anything, I know you'll tell me 😉.
Poilievre's plan is weak for Canadian women (and, yes, I've searched all 30 pages so I didn't miss anything). Oh, and don't even get me started on his commitment to defund the CBC.
He has one mention of tougher crimes for anyone accused of gender-based violence (good). However, the focus is not on prevention, but on tougher sentences after the fact.
That's it. That's all. It's like women and kids don't exist.
Moreover, I realize many high-profile tech / AI leaders in Canada want Poilievre to win...I don't get this at all.
Between his inability to engage in an intelligent conversation about AI in a recent podcast episode (The Knowledge Project) and his lack of focus on our tech / AI industries and infrastructure, his government-only work experience is blazingly apparent, as if he has missed the tech / AI revolution of the past decade (and he is oblivious to the threats coming from our southern border).
What are some of his top 15 priorities in the opening remarks of his costed plan? He plans to bring back plastic straws, remove health labels, and cut down on produce packaging (see below).
This is an unserious plan.
I know, I know, some of you will yell at me on X for the next 24 hours, but please don't dismiss what I'm seeing with my own two eyes and hearing with my own two ears.
Poilievre's priorities include:
**Scrap the Liberal plastics ban, including the ban on straws, grocery bags, food containers,
cutlery, and other single-use plastics
**End new labelling requirements for natural health products
**Axe the planned food packaging tax on fresh produce
**We will save by defunding the CBC
Hey ladies 🇨🇦👇🗳️
It's a relief to see @MarkJCarney's plan to:
🤰Fund women's health priorities
♀️Protect women from gender-based violence
🚸Strengthen child care
👩💼Unlock economic opportunities
If/when @PierrePoilievre releases his plan, I will share how it supports women.
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It’s been a challenging week for everyone and I’ve done my best to give you a wide range of assessments because that’s my job now.
If you’re looking for a really good practical assessment this is the one. Scott Galloway on The View. He brings it down to no nonsense kitchen table impacts that everyone can understand.
🎥 TikTok - vm.tiktok.com/ZNdNvnBRo/
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨
Uncovered footage of Conservative Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper thanking former Governor of the Bank of Canada Mark Carney, who is now Prime Minister, saying he has done a “tremendous job” and “Canada has a lot to be proud of”
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Someone call the cops James from the @westernstandard just got body bagged by Prime Minister @MarkJCarney for asking a very stupid but predictable question! Ha ha ha #Cdnpoli #Housing
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Seriously?
Their market died during brexit.
Mark brought it back.
Peepee is a maga propaganda machine on this maga owned rag newspaper.
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For everyone’s reference from the U.S. border patrol here’s the fentanyl numbers
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BREAKING: Canadians are sharing this Video on X with the hashtag #ourLeaderIsSmarterThanYours
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It bears repeating, Trump supporters are the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet. 😳👇
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Dear MAGA: He’s Not Here to Help You
Let’s talk straight. You voted for Trump because he told you he was on your side. Said he’d fight for the "forgotten men and women" in small towns, working-class folks scraping by. Said he’d bring back jobs, cut costs, and make life easier.
Now? Your heating bill just doubled, food prices won’t stop climbing, and your town’s only health clinic just shut down because funding dried up. But don't worry, the king maker's still getting his billions in government contracts, untouched.
That Medicaid you relied on? Slashed. Those food assistance programs? Cut. Your energy assistance for winter? Gone. Meanwhile, he hands out more tax breaks to billionaires who wouldn’t toss you a nickel if you were starving on their doorstep.
And jobs? Oh, you mean the ones he killed with his trade tariffs? Steel and aluminum got slapped with taxes, so now your factory’s paying more to keep the lights on. Your wages? Stagnant. The cost of everything else? Sky-high. But don’t worry, he’s still holding rallies, telling you it’s all someone else’s fault.
He cut the safety nets YOU paid into. He gutted services YOUR families rely on in less than a month. But he kept the subsidies flowing to billionaires like his boss who has racked up over $136 Billion since election. You see the grift?
You weren’t forgotten, you were conned. Time to wake up and unite. It's the only way we can save our constitution, salvage what remains and rebuild our nation.
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Good recap.
Trump’s a moronic fraud.
So lets recap:
- Trump announces tariffs.
- Allies turn against the U.S., launch boycotts on U.S. products and boo us at events.
- Markets nosedive.
- Trump caves.
The "deals":
- Mexico agrees to do the same things they always do at the border to help the U.S. (including under Biden)—but ALSO get Trump to agree to work to stop weapons trafficking from the U.S.-Mexico.
- Trudeau agrees to do the same things they always do to help the U.S., but also says he'll name a 'fentanyl czar' (despite the fact that barely any fentanyl at all comes from Canada to the U.S.)
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🇨🇦 The whole country is talking about Trump's tariffs coming tomorrow, and for weeks, you haven't been able to show any leadership on this issue.
Just more divisive language and unserious political sloganeering.
Such a missed opportunity to show maturity and unity 🇨🇦 #Canada
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Today, Ontario's Financial Accountability Officer revealed that Ford's Boozedoggle will exceed $1.9B. That's right billion with a "B". The same cost to hire 1,400 family doctors. We can't afford Ford more years.
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Big day today for Jennifer Moss! books have begun shipping and Amazon can get you a copy by tomorrow AM!
Work has recently undergone profound changes, not all for the better. Study after study confirms a widespread sense of employee unhappiness in the workplace.
Our relationship with work has evolved, and leaders need a guide to navigate our complex, ever-changing world.
"Why Are We Here?" will be their manual. The new book from bestselling author @JenLeighMoss is available now where books are sold.
mybook.to/whyarewehere
