#Carney #Dairy Carney says no to supply management changes. Even if we did allow more US dairy in Canada (to keep Trump happy) would anyone buy it? I know I wouldn’t even if it was cheaper. Don’t need hormones and antibiotics in my dairy. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

I take serious issue with the US trying to bully Canada into making changes to our rules, regulations and trying to overrun our markets with American products. The US can promote their own businesses and markets and tell us to not intrude on their laws, that is fine, that's them, /1 thread

The Europeans - EU - EURO - NATO are in flux. The question is what will the EURO do? 12-17-2025 youtu.be/4wkLrwcFpwc?...

🚨 “Only a quarter of hospitalized children with a known vaccination status had gotten the latest flu shot, the researchers found.” The Flu shot is available for free at most pharmacies. Super easy to get. #Ottawa #Flu #Ontario www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

The Contrarian

Health officials are urging everyone six months of age & older to get vaccinated! 3 children dead from flu complications in two weeks: CHEO ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/12/15/3...

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

It’s only December 15th and already 3 children in Ontario have died from influenza A-related complications. Most of the winter respiratory spread pathogen season is still ahead. NOW is the best time to practice a layered approach to protecting yourself and others. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

For everyone on the Ottawa area. #Ottawa #Flu

I watched “All in Family “ as a kid in the 70’s. Rob Reiner was such an incredible talented person.

Flu blamed in deaths of 3 children in Ottawa this month. There’s still time to get vaccinated folks. This flu season looks like a bad one. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Some of the best movies ever made were by Rob Reiner. They made us laugh and think: The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men. And he was a force on screen as well in All in the Family and so many films. What a tragic loss. Words fail with news like this.

The wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time... Canadian politicians have rarely been this tone deaf or out of touch with our current national reality... Existential threats require everyone to get on board & he just doesn't get that... For the CPC, it's "Dump him or die" time...

"And his mockery of concrete initiatives that are going to deliver for Canadians is exactly what's wrong with his approach. He'd rather mock and insult than actually roll up his sleeves and get solutions built for Canadians." - Justin Trudeau #cdnpoli

Let’s be real people, no BS, just don’t go, it is now an authoritarian country and you are risking detention or worse going there. #BoycottUSA What are your rights as a Canadian if asked by a U.S. border agent to see your social media? #Canada www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

I could never understand why they were allowing these ads promoting addictive behaviours and now it’s become excessive. I’m proud of Hellebuyck for taking a stand against it.

Not an unpopular opinion at all. At least with me. Those ads, and the betting that goes along with it, disgust me.

Ukrainian President Zelensky has just posted a video from the outskirts of Kupyansk, a city Putin claimed Russian troops captured three weeks ago. Just the edge of the city - but still an incredibly brave thing for Zelensky to do, with drones in constant operation over the city...

www.thewhig.com/opinion/trum... The Trump administration’s recently published national security document is not so much a strategy guiding American foreign policy as it is an imperialist, ham-fisted attack on the rules-based international order and traditional allies of the United States.

"You've now seen it with your own eyes." "I think the whole world should know we will not just give up our territory.”

For many Canadians, this was the beginning of the end of a fair, reasonable conservative alternative in Canada and now, the Conservative Party is against women’s rights, vaccine science, scientific freedom (Harper muzzled scientists) etc. You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. #Canada

Fair framing. This version of the US really shouldn’t lecture other countries about corruption…

New US security strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says www.bbc.com/news/article...

www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic... Canada flu season: lab tests up 60% in last week of November

Here’s the air-raid situation in Ukraine tonight. Note the icons of cruise missile-carrying planes in the air to the east, as well as missile-capable ships in the Black Sea. The white circles are Russian drones currently in the sky. All indications are that this will be an hours-long attack…

If you are in a public space. WEAR A MASK. N95 or KN95 at minimum.

“The moves are part of what the national security strategy lays out as ‘a ‘Trump Corollary’ to the Monroe Doctrine to ‘restore American pre-eminence in the Western Hemisphere.’” Cc @mark-carney.bsky.social, @globalaffairs.canada.ca Hope we have more elbows to raise?

Sounds like a loud night ahead for Kyiv and western Ukraine…

Remembering Neil Armstrong as the super moon shines bright tonight. Have a look outside and #WinkAtTheMoon

🚨 Important story from Charlie Angus. Why Canada Has a Stake in Hegseth’s War Crimes. open.substack.com/pub/charliea...

“we must all now confront the reality that the Brexit deal we have has significantly hurt our economy” Keir Starmer

Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’ The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...

This full-speed realignment with Europe is the primary value-add of having Carney in charge. He knows Europe and is known there.

🇨🇦 Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Canada will join EU's Security Action for Europe programme-unlocking billions in defence opportunities for Canadian businesses. Canada becomes the only non-European country with preferential access to EU's $244B defence procurement initiative. #CdnPoli 🇨🇦🇪🇺

I’ll take “Real results over empty 3-word slogans” for $1000 🙌🏻 Thank you PM Carney for your knowledgeable, measured, and respectful leadership. You’re solidly, and calmly navigating Canada in very turbulent economic and geo-political times. 🇨🇦💪🏻 #CanadaStrong #cdnpoli

www.thewhig.com/opinion/ukra... Ukraine and allies scuttle pro-Kremlin peace plan | The Kingston Whig Standard

Bird flu poses risk of pandemic worse than COVID, France’s Institut Pasteur says www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

It would please me to no end if canadian intelligence played some tiny role in assisting. 🇨🇦♥️🇺🇸

“Thanks to immunization, a child born today is 40 per cent more likely to see their fifth birthday than a child born 50 years ago.”—@WHO www.thewhig.com/opinion/vacc...

Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.

🇨🇦🇺🇦 Zelensky: I had a good and important meeting with Canada’s Special Representative for the Reconstruction of Ukraine. Key topics: Ukraine’s reconstruction, support in ensuring our energy resilience and restoring infrastructure. We are counting on Canadian businesses' involvement.

Unpopular opinion here: The overdose of betting ads, integration into the programming & scripts of the hosts has made Hockey Night in Canada virtually unwatchable.

Now do long covid effects. Then do cuts to education and to supports for educators and students. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦

Am I the only one who baulks when journalists suggest Zelenskyy’s position in peace negotiations is undermined by the corruption scandal ‘whirling around’ him - what barefaced hypocrisy - the current White House is full of corruption and grifters that knock Ukrainian corruption into a cocked hat!!

Trump’s latest proposal for a Ukraine peace deal has triggered alarm in European capitals.     Partly because they were cut out of drafting it, and mostly because, in the view of one official, it amounts to nothing more than Putin’s wishlist. 🔗 politi.co/4445lxl

The Witkoff-Dmitriev plan puts Zelensky in a familiar spot. He can accept Moscow’s terms, or Ukraine can keep fighting a war few think it can win. It’s the same choice Ukrainians faced in February 2022 - so don’t expect the answer from Kyiv to be any different this time. My analysis

This is great news! "bolster the nation’s defences by creating a civil force made up of 300,000 volunteers" "The plan calls for a “whole of society” approach ... ranging from low-intensity natural disaster response to high-intensity large scale combat operations.”" www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

This is Trump, its always been Trump. And now we have incontrovertible evidence of what Trump thinks. It is not pretty. Here is the conclusion of the piece.

'A source in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office said the plan was delivered to Mr. Zelensky only “after Witkoff agreed it with the Russians” and that the White House was now urging Mr. Zelensky to accept it.'