EBY: "Pray for Maya in the hospital and her family. Pray for the families, the children who didn't come home. We pray for Tumbler Ridge."

EBY: "Things are going to be different but there are going to be things that are familiar and one of those things is the courage and the bravery and the amazing kids, the students, the young adults, the people of Tumbler Ridge."

EBY: "In those actions, in those heroic actions, are the seeds of the recovery of this community because the future of Tumbler Ridge is in that school."

BC Premier David Eby recounts the story of Tumbler Ridge Secondary School teacher Mr. Deeley and his students. (1/2)

Pierre Poilievre reads a short poem for the victims of Tumbler Ridge.

Pierre Poilievre honours the victims of Tumbler Ridge.

POILIEVRE: "To the students at school, the teachers and administrators, you have witnessed an incredible horror that will be indelibly marked on your memories. Out of that, you have shown incredible, relentless courage."

POILIEVRE: "We've all had that experience when the child leaves your sight for even an instant, that terror. That gives us a tiny, minuscule glimpse at the absolute heartache that the parents who have lost so much are suffering today."

POILIEVRE: "We are a nation with a broken heart, but we are also a nation with open arms. And those arms wrap all of the people of Tumbler Ridge in love. We are all today Tumbler Ridge strong."

CARNEY: "When you wake up tomorrow, and the world feels impossible, know that millions of Canadians are with you ... Because Canada is a community that relies on each other's grace. And may that grace bless us all. "

Prime Minister Carney on Nathalie Provost: "I share her story not because healing is simple. It's not because there's a timeline for grief. There isn't ... But that woman, Nathalie Provost, is proof, living, breathing proof, that it's possible to endure the unendurable."

Prime Minister Carney honours the victims of Tumbler Ridge.

CARNEY: "You held each other as you're holding each other right now. This is grace. It's what we do for each other. It's what we receive from each other. Open hearts when the world falls apart. Tumbler Ridge is full of grace this evening."

CARNEY: "I know that nothing I can say will bring your children home. I know that no words from me or anyone can fill the silence in your homes tonight and I won't pretend otherwise ... We wanted you to hear that Canadians are with you and we will always be with you."

Governor General Mary Simon: "I encourage you to lean on each other, to listen to one another, so that the grief may be easier to bear. Be there for the families. Let them know they are not alone on this difficult journey ... Canada is with you"

Governor General Mary Simon: "With all their brilliance, your children made a lasting mark on this community and on the lives they touched. Your memories of them will continue to shine brightly through this dark time."

Someone at Politico's Canada Playbook definitely has a crush on Jamil Jivani.

COYNE: There's no law that says they have to earn $200k a piece, given how little they actually do for it in the way of actual roles and responsibilities left to MPs HÉBERT: [That] doesn't make them people who collect fat checks while sitting and waiting for a pension to kick in

COYNE: "This is a party that's made great hay out of saying it's only out of touch boomers and Laurentian elites who care about defending the country from Trump. We should be talking about affordability — somebody actually talks about it within the party and they shout him down."

COYNE: "Trump may at this point be living in a parallel world ... given all the other signs we've seen of advanced mental breakdown in his part, I think it's entirely possible that he's simply unaware of the difference of whether the bridge has been closed or not."

Chantal Hébert on CUSMA negotiations: "I think it's pretty clear by now that the current Prime Minister has the backing of Canadians to not agree to turn Canada into basically a client state of the US administration."

RAJ: "If you read the National Security policy, they view Canada as a client state and that is that is how the White House wants Canada to exist. And so everything that Canada does to suggest that it's pulling away from the orbit of the US is a threat to Donald Trump."

Althia Raj on TACO Trump: "Only 35% of Trump's tariff threats have actually materialized since November of 2024."

Andrew Coyne on Trump's Gordie Howe bridge threats: "This is coming at a moment when there's a whole bunch of things happening that are going against Trump's direction. He is rapidly losing altitude ... This may be another marker of his declining power."

Chantal Hébert on Trump's Gordie Howe bridge rant: "In the end there was not a single sentence of his statement that stood the test of reality."

"Dawson was standing at the microphone ... while he was being dressed down by Warkentin ... When it was his chance to speak, some MPs, between six or eight of them, started to heckle him and he abruptly left the meeting, sources said." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Pierre Poilievre on BC mass shooting: "As a father I can't even imagine the phone calls that parents might have received. I can't imagine the heartache and hell that they're living through at this moment. This is a time for all Canadians to unite to support the families and the community at large."

Prime Minister Carney on B.C. mass shooting: "Parents, grandparents, sisters, brothers in Tumbler Ridge will wake up without someone they love. The nation mourns with you. Canada stands by you."

BC Premier David Eby on Tumbler Ridge mass shooting: "This is the kind of thing that feels like it happens in other places and not close to home. The devastation these families face, it's just impossible to understand."

My latest: on Conservative MP Jamil Jivani's recent trip to Washington, D.C. Strategic diplomacy—for whom? canadanownews.substack.com/p/jamil-jiva...

Governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer on the Gordie Howe bridge: "Canadians have paid for the bridge. The bridge was built with organized labor, union labor on both sides of the bridge, including Michiganders. It is a really important part of our economy, the largest crossing in North America."

VASSY: You don't seem to be employing the same kinds of [obstructionist] tactics in the way that you were prior to Christmas, is that because you think you will lose an election given public opinion polls? SCHEER: I just refuse to accept the premise that there's a change in posture.

Andrew Scheer denies Conservatives' new spirit of cooperation is related to fears of an early election: "We make decisions based on principle, not politics."

COCHRANE: You have argued that [C-9] would criminalize certain religious scriptures and texts. SCHEER: The Liberal Minister himself admitted that this would criminalize aspects of those faith-based texts. C:When did he admit that? S: He came to committee. Marc Miller said that.

FORD: "I saw Pierre [Poilievre] at the portrait hanging of Prime Minister Harper, shook hands, said hello, congratulated him for the convention, for getting 80-some-odd percent. But you don't win elections at conventions, you win elections across the country."

Doug Ford on Trump's bridge threats: "There's fiction, what President Trump says, and then there's true facts that people can look up."

Prime Minister Carney on Trump's bridge threat: "I explained that Canada of course paid for the construction of the bridge, that the ownership is shared between the state of Michigan and the government of Canada ... This is a great example of cooperation between our countries."

My latest: on Conservative MP Jamil Jivani's recent trip to Washington, D.C. Strategic diplomacy—for whom? canadanownews.substack.com/p/jamil-jiva...

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Premier Susan Holt on the N.B. government's decision to abandon X: "We've just seen that it used to be a forum for more dialogue and we used to see better engagement and back and forth with New Brunswickers on the platform. But that doesn't seem to be the case anymore."

Mélanie Richer on the opposition opposing just to oppose: "I think what it tells folks at home is: continue to be cynical about politics, because we're not sending people to Ottawa to work together to get stuff done."

Prime Minister Carney's message for Team Canada: "Your country is with you. Canadians are with you. This is your moment, and it’s our celebration of what makes you and Canada great."

Anita Anand on the opening of Canada's new consulate in Greenland: "We're so pleased to be able to stand in solidarity with the people of Greenland to show them that we are partners, that we prefer partnership over pressure."

HÉBERT: "The problem is that Conservative strategists, and I agree with them on this, totally believe that if they're gonna fight [the next election] on the battlefield of Trump, Canada-US relations, etc., they can't win against Mark Carney."

Althia Raj on Stephen Harper's recent speeches: "Stephen Harper has kind of raised the bar and told Pierre Poilievre this is what you need to do if you want to become Prime Minister."

Chantal Hébert on Stephen Harper's recent speeches: "I would say there are many Conservatives this week who left Ottawa with nostalgia in their heart because they didn't feel that their current leader stacks up against Stephen Harper."

RAJ: "It is remarkable the tone shift in the last week. Michelle Rempel Garner was just calling the immigration minister incompetent a few wks ago. Now she's writing a letter saying she's 'writing this in the spirit of collaboration and making Parliament work for all Canadians.'"

Althia Raj on the Conservatives' new spirit of cooperation: "There's not an ounce of me who believes that if the polls showed something different that the leader of the official opposition, Pierre Poilievre, would be acting differently."

HÉBERT: "The last thing we need are for opposition members to suddenly freelance and say we're gonna renegotiate the relationship [with the US] and come home to say 'Donald Trump told me he likes us.'"

Chantal Hébert on the Conservatives' new spirit of cooperation: "Caucus members got different marching orders on how Parliament should work from Stephen Harper and those marching orders went to unity and cooperation."