Matt Gurney
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Journalist. Husband. Dad. Tweets my own. Co-founder @the_lineca. Tried Twitter retirement, and failed. The flesh was weak.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Earth, Sector 001
Joined September 2010
We must find the Israeli soccer fans who caused tonight’s chaos in Montreal.
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Liberals: *walk into room holding a sword and a big jug of gasoline. Slip on banana peel, dump gas on selves, impale selves on sword, collapse to ground, sword causes spark, explode into flames*. Jagmeet Singh: *narrows eyes, observes, shakes head* . “Not yet.”.
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A lot of politicians and staff follow me. I’m sending this tweet directly to them. This is the moment, below, that, with hindsight, you may one day wish you’d taken more seriously. This. Right here. You won’t have surprise or shock as an excuse. You’ve been warned.
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I think Singh actually comes off looking the worst today, yeah.
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As many of you have likely heard by now, TVO has essentially shut down its journalism operations. Most of the team there has been let go. I was a freelancer, and was told by management today that my column there will end. And that's okay. I have a few words to offer, though.
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I’m not loving the trend in Canadian society of the police explaining to the public that it’s better that they do not arrest people flagrantly breaking a kinda serious law.
Officers were at the Eaton’s Centre to respond to a protest where threats were directed to a member of the public, not to police. The victim chose not to pursue the matter. TPA members are working each day to ensure protests do not escalate & we are grateful for their efforts.
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Hardest thing I’ve ever written, now live at @the_lineca. “What I Saw Hamas Do”. “All that’s left is a mass of pulverized viscera or remains burnt into little more than carbonized ash. But sometimes you can tell they were kids because of the pyjamas.”
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How fucking stupid are we? This fucking stupid.
Federal government looking to cut $1 billion from National Defence budget.
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Any cabinet minister who doesn’t demand (in public, if privately won’t work) that the PM resign is failing the country. It’s beyond the point of no return here, guys. Every day he is PM is bad for Canada. Because: it’s going to keep getting worse.
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This is correct. Trudeau isn’t to blame for Trump. Trump is Trump. Trudeau is to blame for leaving Canada in a weak place to respond to Trump. Too many Trudeau supporters are pretending to not understand this. Loyal to the end, I guess.
It's not Justin Trudeau's fault that Trump is unhinged, rancid, amoral, fascisistic loon, but the chaos Trump's exploiting today? A lot of that IS at his feet.
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CUPE 3906 strongly rejects any suggestion that their overt celebration of a massacre of a thousand Israelis should be construed as celebrating the massacre of a thousand Israelis.
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Can someone please unplug Canada for ten seconds and then plug us back in.
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I don’t even know what to say. The proposal is insane. What the hell is going on with them?.
LPC House Leader Karina Gould sought unanimous consent to strike Anthony Rota's comments about Yaroslav Hunka from the record and the CPC denied it. CPC MP Marty Morantz says “deleting the words from Hansard would only have one purpose, to try and forget what happened" #cdnpoli
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Freeland slips a knife in on the way out the door.
See my letter to the Prime Minister below // Veuillez trouver ma lettre au Premier ministre ci-dessous
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Oh my God, Pt. II. I could write a whole other column about this. But I won't. I'll just say this. 1. Saying we'll just bring in more foreign doctors if tax changes drive out ones we already have is not a good answer on its own merits. You're admitting it's a problem. 1/3.
Incredible. Minister admits capital gains increases could cause family doctors to leave Canada. Not to worry, though, she says, we’ll just bring in more foreign trained docs.
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You might have seen the government and its supporters telling everyone that our embassy in Israel was "operational" over the weekend. That seemed like a weird choice of words. I thought they were trying to bullshit Canadians. I was right. I can prove it.
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I don’t quite know how to explain this. But I purchased these two tall boys at my local convenience store and was immediately overcome by this desire to riot, pillage, burn, etc. Weird. It never happened before. Wonder what’s changed.
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Looking forward to the Canadian Coast Guard’s three-in-the-morning confirmation that the Titanic has sunk.
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I don’t know what the fuck they are doing.
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Israel has been making video/audio recordings of the Oct. 7th attack available to journalists. You've probably read about this — the first briefing, to foreign media in Israel, was written up extensively, in part because of how shocked/upset the media was. I've seen the video.
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Quick social poster turnaround time from the CPC. Really don't know what the hell O'Connell was thinking this morning, but this is an absolute gift to the opposition parties. Utterly unforced error.
If you needed a single sentence to show this government is on its last legs, there it is.
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What does it take to get fired from a position in the Canadian federal government?.
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It wasn’t long ago in our country that we had serious people counting the number of characters in tweets to check if they might have been a coded Nazi message. This dude just goes on TV to pledge more Jew slaughter and millions of North Americans won’t take it seriously.
Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad: We Will Repeat the October 7 Attack Time and Again Until Israel Is Annihilated; We Are Victims - Everything We Do Is Justified #Hamas #Gaza #Palestinians
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Trudeau is going to be so fucking mad when he finds out the letter he wrote to caucus eight weeks ago, wherein takes he responsibility for his mistakes, announces major staffing changes, and articulates his plan to defeat the CPC, is still sitting unsent on Zita Astravas's desk.
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There has been this absolutely wild delusion floating around among Liberal supporters that the reason they're getting pummelled in the polls is because they have bad comms. People don't know all the good they're doing. Bullshit. This government is failing because it's all comms.
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CUPE will endorse this by the end of the day.
Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad: We Will Repeat the October 7 Attack Time and Again Until Israel Is Annihilated; We Are Victims - Everything We Do Is Justified #Hamas #Gaza #Palestinians
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Coincidences happen. The day the NYT is running a profile of Joly, I'm publishing this. She has to go as foreign affairs minister. Now. Today. But whatever her failings, they're just downstream of probably the "original sin" of the Trudeau-era Liberals. (Link below in thread)
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Extremely fucking duly noted.
In response to backlash over a message of solidarity with Palestinians, the Executive of CUPE Local 3906 stands united against colonial occupation and state violence and has developed the following statement with profound care. Read in full here:
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I’m still processing this. It’s bonkers. It is simply not sustainable for the PM to take a position that PP is being irresponsible by not getting a security clearance but also that the guy with the security clearance sent as PP’s emissary to be briefed didn’t have a need to know.
Poilievre's chief of staff Ian Todd has security clearance and has been briefed. Trudeau asked why in briefings Todd never told about Conservative parliamentarians at risk of being compromised by foreign interference. He suggests because Todd doesn't have a "need to know."
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Can someone please unplug the federal NDP leader and then plug him back?.
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I wrote about the prime minister years ago that he often gets himself into trouble when he tries to do something bold and dramatic. I don’t think he fully thought through the end point of what he did today. But read Poilievre’s statement. He figured it out real quick.
Now you have to name names.
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Just think. In a few weeks, the Canadian federal cabinet is going to have to experience all that we’ve been through over the last 24 hours when their staff finally brief them on all this.
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Sometimes, when something pisses you off, it's best to cool off for a while. Other times, you should just write a column, and hope that people agree with you and share it. Who agrees with me?. Matt Gurney: The police have given up. They've surrendered.
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"Mr. Speaker, I have just been informed that China has landed four tank divisions on the B.C. coast.". *Jagmeet Singh stands up, takes a deep breath*. "Let's talk grocery bills.".
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The fact that Rota doesn't feel that he must or even should resign is, in and of itself, an interesting and telling comment on where our politics is today.
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Someone should get a thread of hastily deleted tweets today by Canadian politicians and other public figures going.
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For the sake of 40 million Canadians, including and especially Marco Mendicino himself, we need to demote this guy into the least meaningful job the government has, as soon as possible. Somewhere where he'll never have to be noticed or humiliate himself again.
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Oh my God.
She knows exactly what they said. The Whitehouse even issued a statement. This is your government people. Right here.
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Something I don’t think has been said often and bluntly enough is that a lot of Canadian politics for the last few years suddenly makes a lot more sense once you realize the people left running the Liberals, both as a government and a party, just aren’t very good at their jobs.
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I know most people don't care about guns as a policy issue, but if you care at all about good government, the idea of banning a series of items for purchase but not having a list to share of what those items is absolutely insane. Absolutely insane levels of incompetence.
"We have banned 324 firearms effective immediately.". "Cool. Since it's effective immediately, could you share the list immediately?". "No.".
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Poilievre weirdly served up a big softball for the LPC comms guys with this one and they responded exactly as I would have.
What Pierre Poilievre says: "I never really talk about left or right.". What Pierre Poilievre does:
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It's entirely possible they've kicked us out but we just missed the email.
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If Kinew was federal NDP leader Trudeau would be long gone.
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I said a yesterday to a friend that it is pretty amazing that the Liberal caucus is full of such gormless weasels that we're actually doing a cabinet shuffle just to buy time for the PM to reflect and realize he's screwed. Books will be written about their utter lack of garumba.
#Breaking Justin Trudeau will shuffle his cabinet tomorrow morning according to two sources who have spoken to Global News.
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Forty million people are now a sitting duck for the incoming Trump 2.0 term because one man wouldn’t quit and 150 of his colleagues wouldn’t fire him. It’s a disaster for us. The only measure of justice is that it’ll be a disaster for them on an additional level.
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"Our PM has a habit of occasionally letting his combative instincts get the better of him. The man has a weakness for showy, dramatic gestures, and loves to try and seize the big moments. Sometimes they blow up in his face.".
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This is because I bought two Ontario craft beers at a local convenience store.
@mattgurney I am quite frankly tired of self righteous alcoholics like yourself that don’t see how bad this will be for public safety and the healthcare system. They’re going to overwhelm EMS entirely.
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This is a great example of what @cselley once said about Canadian Liberals: they sincerely believe that they are not the kind of people who would ever do the thing they are currently doing.
Beyond troubling to see another mass shooting in Canada, now in Winnipeg. And we've lost so many police officers. Might it be the anti-social 'burn everything down' far-right attitude we're seeing creeping in from the US? And the 'creep' on the Canadian side? Pierre Poilievre?.
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The idea that you'd be charged for shooting an armed man breaking into your home, while he's inside your home, is nuts. This isn't some Wild West-style vigilante stuff. This is "armed intruder is in your home and you defend yourself."
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I am worried. There is no way to say it other than bluntly. Things are about to unfold that are going to be horrific and considerable portions of our population are going to be in direct opposition as to what it means and how and why it matters.
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If anything else in this country was as doomed as the Trudeau government it would be repeatedly urged to consider MAID.
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I think the next few decades are going to be an “outside context problem” for Canadian political leadership. This country does not have the frame of reference to understand what is going to be happening in the world and I think we’re gonna get steamrolled by reality.
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I worry a lot about what’s happening down south but never forget that Canadians have been hugely lucky to have the neighbours we do.
🤝Help is on the way. A HUGE thank you to the San Diego County Water Authority for helping source this piece of feeder main pipe. It is currently being transported from San Diego to Calgary and will be arriving this week. ❤️ Stay classy, San Diego. ➡
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How fucking hard is it for our politicians to strike this apparently magical balance between strongly condemning the astonishingly cruel savagery we saw in Israel today while also hoping that the inevitable and necessary military response causes minimal collateral damage?.
My earlier tweets on this have been deleted because of the harm and confusion they caused.
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I have been critical of CPC comms lately — because they're awful — but this? This is a very, very good political ad.
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I’m not going to guess what’s going to happen. But I’ll repeat what I said before. Trudeau waited too long to accept reality. The caucus waited too long to force his hand. There isn’t time left to save much. Maybe a bit. But. It much. They chose this. For all of us.
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So purely in terms of abject, sheer ridiculousness and mortification, is this a new record in Canadian politics? It’s not the biggest event or incident, obviously. But just like in terms of how twisted and bizarre a fuckup this is? What else can match this?.
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I've already addressed that narrative many times. I think it's delusional. A Trump win is a political nightmare for the LPC, on two fronts. 1. Trump makes Poilievre look more normal, not scary. 2. The LPC is already exhausted and overstretched. Their lives just got WAY harder.
@mattgurney Maybe you can address the current narrative that a Trump win is positive for Trudeau and the LPC. Would like to hear your views on this….
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World has been changing fast for years. Canada hasn’t kept up. It’s going to change faster now. We are sitting ducks.
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Oh. I’ll add this. Prorogation is legal and valid and fair and I don’t buy the arguments that the GG can or should refuse it, if asked. I also think that, in this time and context, putting the government into sleep mode for months is fantastically reckless and selfish.
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And that is why we are trimming the defence budget.
Our world is marked by geopolitical turbulence, unpredictability and uncertainty. The tectonic plates of the world order are shifting beneath our feet. And, the structures that are built upon them are fracturing. Bad actors seek to re-shape the very rules that have kept us safe.
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I'll say this as neutrally as possible: It's going to be fascinating to see how Liberals and other Liberal-friendly observers balance these two facts: Trudeau brought the party back from near-death 10 years ago, and spent the last 18 months killing it again. Weird legacy.
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While the U.S. was distracted by the Niagara operation, we successfully seized half of Michigan.
The folks at Fox News aren't super solid on where Canada is, so perhaps best to leave this one to the actual news organizations.
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Hang on. So PM says CSIS made no recommendation. Wasn't it just like yesterday when we were being told, including by the PM himself, that it wasn't the job of CSIS to make recommendations/tell him what to do? He was fairly adamant on that point, as I recall.
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This is gross. I dunno how some of these people are going to ever come back to reality. They're gone.
A video is being shared widely on social media that depicts a protester in Belleville yelling "you're a pathetic Jew" at least twice to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Protest is essential to any democracy, but hatred spreads when it is tolerated. We urge any media sharing the
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Super excited for paying all the retaliatory tariffs we're going to impose with my 50-cent Canadian dollars.
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New from me at @the_lineca: "O’Toole and Trudeau both had their chance to comment on Wednesday, and only one of them sounded like a dignified statesman willing to put the national interest ahead of partisan bitterness. It was not the prime minister." .
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It’s amazing to watch smart people devote lots of time and energy to complex theories, some of them outright conspiratorial, that explain Canadian failures and dysfunction when the simple answer: our institutions are broke man and our political class pathetic — is right there.
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I’ve been saying, and touched on this in my column yesterday, that I think a lot of people out here are defaulting to their usual, well-established Middle East takes without grasping that this time is very different. And a lot of those people are going to end up looking bad.
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Guard over on the left is secretly terrified he’s about to be made housing minister.
We’re bolstering security at our border by strengthening the @CanBorder and the @rcmpgrcpolice’s tools to combat drug trafficking and illegal migration. Learn more about our Border Plan:
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They aren’t lost. They weren’t stolen. His staff have them. They just haven’t told him yet.
Justice Minister Lametti has lost two government cars to thieves in recent years.
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Matt Gurney: What I got wrong about Poilievre, now live at @the_lineca. I thought he'd steer the party into oblivion. He's on course to win the biggest majority in my living memory. I was wrong. But about what? I asked around.
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Here is a tidbit. On the stand today, the PM said that he can only imagine the reaction if he said that he didn’t know things because he’d just let his chief of staff know the things and decide instead. WE DON’T HAVE TO IMAGINE THAT!!!!! THAT’S A THING THAT KEEPS HAPPENING!!!!!.
My column is going to be like 15,000 fucking words.
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I find it fascinating how the prime minister woke up one day and decided to give his harshest critics a ton of completely valid (political) ammunition to use against him. I don’t pay a ton of attention to Saskatchewan politics and I don’t know much about Moe, but he’s right here.
Trudeau has provided a carbon tax exemption on home heating for families in one part of the country, but not here. It’s unfair, it’s unacceptable, and here’s what we’re going to do about it.
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Being angry about Poilievre speaking on an airplane PA system makes about as much sense as when people were angry at Trudeau for being in the pics for that wedding party. Which is to say it’s stupid. Stop it. Get help. All of you. You’re ruining it.
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The panicky late-stage Liberals are going to accidentally destroy what’s left of Canada’s media because they’re too far into their bunker to realize, or admit, they’ve screwed up.
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I've seen "Canada should have nukes" floating around a few times today among some of the dimmer accounts here. I have no problem with the idea of Canada having nukes, morally. But can you even IMAGINE the Canadian Nuclear Weapons Development Program?. We can't do trains.
@mattgurney I remember a notorious comment troll who said Canada should have a nukes to protect ourselves from the US. And honestly, he had a point. It’s baffling that our most anti-American nationalists are also militantly opposed to strengthening the Canadian Forces. (Pun intended.).
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Canada: "Hey, allies, we're having some problems with India. And a quick little Nazi incident we're hoping you'll overlook.". Allies: "Yeah, okay. No problem. Hey, you're going to live up to that promise you just made us, again, right?". Canada:.
Plans for Canada defence dept budget cuts comes just weeks after Liberal Govt agreed with other NATO allies on a pledge to make the alliance's defence spending benchmark of 2% of GDP an "enduring commitment."
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Having done a fantastic job saving Canada's media, Pablo Rodriguez will now devote his energy to our airports and trains.
NEW: @globeandmail confirms what was first reported by CBC abt tomorrow's cab shuffle. 7 ministers out: Mendicino, Lametti, Fortier, Alghabra, Murray, Jaczek & Bennett. New roles for many incl Pablo Rodriguez (Heritage to Transport) & Pascale St-Onge (Sport to Heritage) #cdnpoli.
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The greatest single failure during the convoy crisis — among many! — was the failure of the Ottawa police, as the first responding agency, to understand what was happening, and to allow the convoy to entrench itself, physically and psychologically. Something to mull over.
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Next round of Liberal announcements:. - The hell with childcare. - AR-15s for All. - OAS age is now 93.
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I like this statement. I haven’t seen any from government members. Did I miss some? Or nothing yet?.
The elimination of Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, means justice for countless families that have lost loved ones at the hands of this genocidal terrorist. The people of Israel, Lebanon and the Middle East have suffered for decades as a result of his violence and terror,.
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Gosh these people are really committed to advancing the cause of an independent Palestinian state.
Imagine you are Jewish and you and your children live in Montreal. How would you feel after seeing your city descend into chaos like this?
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I’ve been talking with a lot of colleagues lately, as you’d imagine, and for what it’s worth, I’m hearing over and over a perfect reflection of exactly how I’m feeling: torn between covering the normal daily news, and the sense that we’re balanced on the brink of something awful.
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If the RCMP can procure Blackhawks in a matter of weeks maybe they should also buy a bunch of tanks, destroyers, submarines and air defence systems and gift them to the military.
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This is … uh … a take. Mr. Dong remained in the Liberal caucus for years. Only left well after this became public. And many prominent Liberals were very loud and proud in saying he’d been wronged and would be vindicated. Until they suddenly stopped saying that.
Trudeau asked if he knows of Liberal parliamentarians at risk of being compromised by foreign interference. Yes, he says. What actions were taken?.He cites hearing's focus on Don Valley North. "There have been actions taken and choices made based on information I had . ".
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I need somebody the prime minister still listens to to remind him that the incoming American trade negotiating team Mr. Trump will assemble is entirely capable of reading Canadian news and knows everything that happened here today and they will be using all of it against us.
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Anyway. If anyone is wondering why I'm sharing this, it's because a really good group of people are feeling pretty awful right now, and none of them can really defend themselves or speak on their own behalf in public. I can. I hope it helps.
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The politicians won’t be any help. But I hope every major police force in the West plays attention to what’s happening tonight in Amsterdam and asks themselves how ready they would be if it happened, right now, in their jurisdiction. Think now. Assess now. Plan now. Prepare now.
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There's another moment like that, but I want to reflect on that one more before I share it. But yeah. The total video, a bit over 40 minutes, is probably the saddest thing I've ever seen and ever hope to see. More to come. Thanks for reading. END.
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