#cdnpoli Canadians don't need to make Americans & their media look silly. No one can do a better job than Americans & their media are already doing. It's a special kind of silly to destroy one's country & economy & choose an intellectually deficient, mentally unbalanced, convicted felon as leader

This is a blatant lie and distortion of how the not for profit Canadian Healthcare system developed in the provinces. Let me explain thread in a brief summary 🧵:

In 1964 the Royal Commission on Health Services, chaired by Justice Emmett Hall of Saskatoon, recommended that Canada should adopt national medical insurance; Hall stated that the demonstrable success of Saskatchewan's medical insurance system played a role in this decision.

Merry Christmas from aboard ViaRail’s “Canadian”! Boarded at Melville SK Dec 24; get to Toronto Dec 26. Slept like logs last night! Meals in the dining car are off the rails (see what I did there😂) White linen service, stellar views, & well stocked bar car rolling along the rails. All aboard boys🚂

It happened pretty fast. The federal cost sharing was implemented in 1966 and all ten provinces had implemented by 1971. The 1984 federal act revised the programs somewhat but only took 5 years for all provinces to design and adopt UHC. Not easy and not perfect but a lot quicker than you suggest.

Wrong Mark. By 1971, Canada effectively had universal healthcare, all provinces had implemented comprehensive, publicly funded medical insurance plans following federal encouragement and cost-sharing - the 1984 Canada Health Act later solidified national standards.

Contrary to what the Hallmark Channel might make you think, holiday movies haven’t always been so whitewashed, writes Soraya Roberts. In this 2017 story, she traces the political underpinnings of Hallmark’s homogenized brand of “good, clean fun”: thewalrus.ca/the-unwatchable-...

“I loved hanging out with Rob. We had a natural affinity for each other,” Martin Scorsese writes in his appraisal of his friend Rob Reiner.

Rick Steves steps in to save Seattle-area hygiene center serving homeless residents. "If we don't have [$2.25 million] for a whole county to give homeless people a shower and a place to get out of the rain and a place to wash their clothes, what kind of society are we?" www.npr.org/2025/12/21/n...

In Icelandic folklore Jólakötturinn, the Yule Cat, comes to eat those who do not wear their new clothes for Christmas. In this image, you can see somebody did not put on their new Christmas sweater. Or perhaps even more unfortunately, no one got them one! More ... 👇

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen: “We know we can never match the sacrifice of the Ukrainian people, but we will support their fight for survival, for their country, their land, and their right to live without fear, for as long as it takes.”

Carol of the Bells sounded after the Christmas greeting by King Charles. It was performed by the Songs for Ukraine choir and the Royal Opera Choir.

December 25th. The day the Fellowship departs Rivendell to destroy the One Ring. Whatever you celebrate, may you have the courage to take the first steps to defy and endure against the dark, and rekindle light into the world.

Russia (USSR did it too) plays the same game in the Canadian Arctic & near Alaska. It's to check response time. A retired RCAF captain told me that Russian pilots pointed to their watch & gave a thumb up. Canadian pilots reponded with middle finger pointing North. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

NATO fighter jets were scrambled after Putin ordered Tu-95MS strategic bombers on a Christmas sortie toward northern Britain, according to the Mirror. The aircraft flew over the Norwegian Sea, prompting an air policing response amid concerns over a deliberate show of force near UK airspace.

"Let the markets decide!" Cry the capitalists. Until the market doesn't choose them. Source: CTV News search.app/CaLzo

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Merry Christmas. As per tradition, here’s the story where I almost died with my family and a reminder to check your carbon monoxide alarms.

Have you seen the claim that Indigenous men killed 70 per cent of murdered Indigenous women? It's false, and relies on inaccurate data and racist assumptions. #cdnpoli #MMIWG www.nationalobserver.com/2019/06/07/a...

Four people struck, one killed. Driver not arrested, only comment is that he "remained at the scene" Police and media never fail to construe the driver as an inactive participant who did the right thing globalnews.ca/news/1159069...

Canada’s team is on it.

Some great festive news. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Annexation and genocide. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Sir John A. Macdonald was the architect of Indigenous genocide in Canada. Rebelling against controversial historical figures is merely re-evaluating history. For too long we have whitewashed the sins of our founding fathers. A reckoning was owed, and still is. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Canada leads the NATO brigade in Latvia. Germany is the lead nation in Lithuania. The United Kingdom is in charge of the deployment in Estonia. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

An important heads up! But maybe a little light on underlying causes and possible solutions. I'll provide my perspective on things in this mini-thread. 1/

Quick list of the 26 Alberta politicians facing citizen recall petitions www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

CBS News issues takedown orders for axed ‘60 Minutes’ story after it ‘mistakenly’ aired on Global app

No. Increasing a police presence in schools creates unintended outcomes, including racial profiling and increased suspensions, expulsions, and arrests. In combination, these can feed a “school to prison” pipeline — which, by any definition, decreases school safety. www.thetrillium.ca/insider-news...

Masks now required for patients, visitors at 4 Edmonton hospitals

Canada enters the chat. We are on the side of Greenland. Is this all going to end in a war? Hegseth ain't up for the cold ya know. www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...

Finland to expand its reservist force to 1 million. The government will raise the upper age limit for reservists from 60 to 65 years, effective January 1, 2026, adding around 125,000 reservists over the next five years to strengthen national defense.

When customers choose faster shipping and earlier delivery dates, the system shifts from optimized routing to whatever gets the package out fastest, and that means higher emissions, said Sreedevi Rajagopalan, a research scientist at MIT. https://to.pbs.org/48R6NFY

The Atlantic suggesting, without evidence, that Canada's Global TV broadcasting the '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT that CBS distributed to it may have been an act of "treachery." 🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

#Saskatoon ‘Fell in love with him instantly’: Saskatoon firefighter adopts dog he saved during icy rescue www.ctvnews.ca/saskatoon/ar...

1) Of course they are using queer/trans activism as their bogeyman, and of course they chose a trans activist in the photo 2) Of course Jason Kenney retweets this shit.

I also wonder how much this investigation cracked open some individual cases www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

France showing up in Greenland today to underscore solidarity 💪 #Cdnpoli

Nico is taking a break from decorating to wish you all a very merry Christmas.