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I own one of the largest electric utilities in North America and fourth largest hydroelectric producer in the world, generating clean power for millions of customers in the northeast.
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Here's why Minneapolis reminds me of what I once saw in Ukraine
When the government asserts authority in ways that a growing share of the public experiences as arbitrary or vindictive, it begins to lose legitimacy.
When the government asserts authority in ways that a growing share of the public experiences as arbitrary or vindictive, it begins to lose legitimacy.
Here's why Minneapolis reminds me of what I once saw in Ukraine
kyivindependent.com
January 24, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Here's why Minneapolis reminds me of what I once saw in Ukraine
When the government asserts authority in ways that a growing share of the public experiences as arbitrary or vindictive, it begins to lose legitimacy.
When the government asserts authority in ways that a growing share of the public experiences as arbitrary or vindictive, it begins to lose legitimacy.
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“The strong do what they can" is what Athens said right before destroying itself. New piece on the Carney Doctrine, Vaclav’s grocer, and American hubris.
hegemon.substack.com/p/the-strong...
hegemon.substack.com/p/the-strong...
The Strong Will Suffer What They Must
Vaclav's Grocer and American Hubris
hegemon.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:54 PM
“The strong do what they can" is what Athens said right before destroying itself. New piece on the Carney Doctrine, Vaclav’s grocer, and American hubris.
hegemon.substack.com/p/the-strong...
hegemon.substack.com/p/the-strong...
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Quite the statement from the Prime Minister of Poland
January 20, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Quite the statement from the Prime Minister of Poland
“If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem” J Paul Getty.
The world owns lots of 🇺🇸 debt right now. We are the bank, being held hostage.
The world owns lots of 🇺🇸 debt right now. We are the bank, being held hostage.
January 20, 2026 at 2:14 AM
“If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem” J Paul Getty.
The world owns lots of 🇺🇸 debt right now. We are the bank, being held hostage.
The world owns lots of 🇺🇸 debt right now. We are the bank, being held hostage.
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pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
January 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM
pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
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Do Canadian MPs actually connect with the public on X?
I looked at RTs and views for every tweet* sent by Liberal MPs yesterday
Out of 46 tweets, 21 Liberal MPs racked up a combined 475 retweets
34% had zero RTs. Only 17% got more than 10 RTs
3 tweets accounted for over half of all engagement
I looked at RTs and views for every tweet* sent by Liberal MPs yesterday
Out of 46 tweets, 21 Liberal MPs racked up a combined 475 retweets
34% had zero RTs. Only 17% got more than 10 RTs
3 tweets accounted for over half of all engagement
January 12, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Do Canadian MPs actually connect with the public on X?
I looked at RTs and views for every tweet* sent by Liberal MPs yesterday
Out of 46 tweets, 21 Liberal MPs racked up a combined 475 retweets
34% had zero RTs. Only 17% got more than 10 RTs
3 tweets accounted for over half of all engagement
I looked at RTs and views for every tweet* sent by Liberal MPs yesterday
Out of 46 tweets, 21 Liberal MPs racked up a combined 475 retweets
34% had zero RTs. Only 17% got more than 10 RTs
3 tweets accounted for over half of all engagement
Apparently it’s snowing in Paris.
Here’s a song for that!
Source: YouTube share.google/wqf2uqIx8szw...
Here’s a song for that!
Source: YouTube share.google/wqf2uqIx8szw...
Paris - Montréal
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
share.google
January 5, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Apparently it’s snowing in Paris.
Here’s a song for that!
Source: YouTube share.google/wqf2uqIx8szw...
Here’s a song for that!
Source: YouTube share.google/wqf2uqIx8szw...
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It's well past time for Canadian government officials to get off of X, @jameswsthomson.com writes. This latest — disgusting — incident is just one more reason.
Canadian government officials, what are you still doing on X in 2026?
The platform's own chatbot started posting sexualized material of children and other people who couldn't consent. With no moral bottom in sight, it's well past time our officials found other ways to c...
www.nationalobserver.com
January 2, 2026 at 8:45 PM
It's well past time for Canadian government officials to get off of X, @jameswsthomson.com writes. This latest — disgusting — incident is just one more reason.
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In the time honoured tradition of year-end posts, here is a hodgepodge list of garbage-social-media-and-social-media-adjacent stories that came across our desks in 2025. In no particular order.
(Feel free to add yours to the list.)
(Feel free to add yours to the list.)
December 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
In the time honoured tradition of year-end posts, here is a hodgepodge list of garbage-social-media-and-social-media-adjacent stories that came across our desks in 2025. In no particular order.
(Feel free to add yours to the list.)
(Feel free to add yours to the list.)
I’m worried that 🇨🇦 will be getting to experience the 🇺🇸 imperialism that Latin America has suffered from for many decades. Pieces falling into place: new Monroe Doctrine, USA seizing Venezuelan oil tanker today, gearing up for war / regime change there, new potash tariff threats.
Potash: the US will get it from their new best friends, Russia.
Oil: US refineries of Alberta crude can also process Venezuelan crude. US threats to tariff anyone who buys Venezuelan oil will tank the price and make it easier to replace 🇨🇦 oil.
The USA is intent on destroying Canada.
Oil: US refineries of Alberta crude can also process Venezuelan crude. US threats to tariff anyone who buys Venezuelan oil will tank the price and make it easier to replace 🇨🇦 oil.
The USA is intent on destroying Canada.
December 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I’m worried that 🇨🇦 will be getting to experience the 🇺🇸 imperialism that Latin America has suffered from for many decades. Pieces falling into place: new Monroe Doctrine, USA seizing Venezuelan oil tanker today, gearing up for war / regime change there, new potash tariff threats.
Loi 2 is forcing clinics (“GMF”) to close, with private companies Biron and Telus Health already offering to buy them. Legault is a businessman first and he’s making our healthcare system into a business, where his wealthy friends will profit and working class Quebeckers will suffer.
Quebec: Assemblée Nationale petition against loi 2, which will make healthcare worse and force doctor's office to close. Clinics are mostly funded by doctors themselves, so if you cut their pay as deeply as planned, there's nowhere for that ops money to come from. www.assnat.qc.ca/fr/exprimez-...
Pétition : Demande visant à abroger la Loi visant principalement à instaurer la responsabilité collective quant à l’amélioration de l’accès aux services médicaux et à assurer la continuité de la prestation de ces services - Assemblée nationale du Québec
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www.assnat.qc.ca
December 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Loi 2 is forcing clinics (“GMF”) to close, with private companies Biron and Telus Health already offering to buy them. Legault is a businessman first and he’s making our healthcare system into a business, where his wealthy friends will profit and working class Quebeckers will suffer.
Just cancelled Spotify. Easy switch to Apple Music and it already seems better.
Don’t stream fascism. Spotify is running recruitment ads for ICE, helping tear families apart. Cancel your subscription and make Spotify listen — the power belongs to the people: indivisible.org/canc...
November 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Just cancelled Spotify. Easy switch to Apple Music and it already seems better.
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Exgoose me? You’re funding Gander how?
We're inviting Canadians to become co-owners.
Over 1.5k Canadians have invested from $255 to $10K or more, totalling $1.2M so far!
Become an owner! Tell friends, family, frenemies... anyone who wants better socials in Canada 🇨🇦
frontfundr.com/gandersocial
We're inviting Canadians to become co-owners.
Over 1.5k Canadians have invested from $255 to $10K or more, totalling $1.2M so far!
Become an owner! Tell friends, family, frenemies... anyone who wants better socials in Canada 🇨🇦
frontfundr.com/gandersocial
November 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Exgoose me? You’re funding Gander how?
We're inviting Canadians to become co-owners.
Over 1.5k Canadians have invested from $255 to $10K or more, totalling $1.2M so far!
Become an owner! Tell friends, family, frenemies... anyone who wants better socials in Canada 🇨🇦
frontfundr.com/gandersocial
We're inviting Canadians to become co-owners.
Over 1.5k Canadians have invested from $255 to $10K or more, totalling $1.2M so far!
Become an owner! Tell friends, family, frenemies... anyone who wants better socials in Canada 🇨🇦
frontfundr.com/gandersocial
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Ahem.
We give you Gander. The app. On a phone.
Not public yet… but it’s real, in our hands, and soon in beta.
The timing is a bit nuts… given we just opened investment to all Canadians (at frontfundr.com/gandersocial) but we’re over the moon.
Amazing what can get done with community.
We give you Gander. The app. On a phone.
Not public yet… but it’s real, in our hands, and soon in beta.
The timing is a bit nuts… given we just opened investment to all Canadians (at frontfundr.com/gandersocial) but we’re over the moon.
Amazing what can get done with community.
October 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Ahem.
We give you Gander. The app. On a phone.
Not public yet… but it’s real, in our hands, and soon in beta.
The timing is a bit nuts… given we just opened investment to all Canadians (at frontfundr.com/gandersocial) but we’re over the moon.
Amazing what can get done with community.
We give you Gander. The app. On a phone.
Not public yet… but it’s real, in our hands, and soon in beta.
The timing is a bit nuts… given we just opened investment to all Canadians (at frontfundr.com/gandersocial) but we’re over the moon.
Amazing what can get done with community.
On Stupidity, written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran minister executed by Hitler’s regime:
fee.org/articles/die...
fee.org/articles/die...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the "Stupidity" That Led to Hitler’s Third Reich
While awaiting execution, Bonhoeffer recorded a number of his thoughts in a work we now know as 'Letters and Papers from Prison.' One of these essays, entitled 'On Stupidity,' records some of the prob...
fee.org
October 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
On Stupidity, written by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran minister executed by Hitler’s regime:
fee.org/articles/die...
fee.org/articles/die...
Personally wait times for the Groupe de Medecine de famille are not too bad, but the problem is they push private ($$) clinics very hard. Even calling the GAP to make an appt for something that is covered by RAMQ, I was told not to bother because the GMF will only refer me to private clinics.
Quebec is one of the provinces where access to a regular health-care provider is among the lowest in the country, according to data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) released Thursday.
Quebec among provinces with lowest access to a regular health-care provide
Quebec is one of the provinces where access to a regular health-care provider is among the lowest in the country, according to data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) released Thursday.
bit.ly
October 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Personally wait times for the Groupe de Medecine de famille are not too bad, but the problem is they push private ($$) clinics very hard. Even calling the GAP to make an appt for something that is covered by RAMQ, I was told not to bother because the GMF will only refer me to private clinics.
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A Canadian Social Media platform is getting ready for Beta testing, if you want to be a part of it, sign up here ⤵️
I have signed up. #Canada #GanderSocial
I have signed up. #Canada #GanderSocial
After a long bit of toiling, we're proud to announce the launch of Gander Social—a project to bring a new kind of social to Canadians.
Canadian owned and hosted, a feed you control, privacy-first, consent-based, respectful by default.
Join the Early Access program: gandersocial.ca
Canadian owned and hosted, a feed you control, privacy-first, consent-based, respectful by default.
Join the Early Access program: gandersocial.ca
Gander: The Social Media You Want, Built for Canada
Fun, private, and ethical. We're changing the way social media is done around here, all without your data taking an unexpected trip south.
gandersocial.ca
May 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
A Canadian Social Media platform is getting ready for Beta testing, if you want to be a part of it, sign up here ⤵️
I have signed up. #Canada #GanderSocial
I have signed up. #Canada #GanderSocial
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Spontaneous applause for Ukrainian President Zelenskyi at the funeral of Pope today in Rome. russia wants to convince us that we're all alone in this fight. We are not.
Video: Acyn Twitter.
Video: Acyn Twitter.
April 26, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Spontaneous applause for Ukrainian President Zelenskyi at the funeral of Pope today in Rome. russia wants to convince us that we're all alone in this fight. We are not.
Video: Acyn Twitter.
Video: Acyn Twitter.
I am looking forward to hearing exactly what our 🇨🇦 leadership candidates think of this so-called peace plan. Clear, unequivocal condemnation of this unacceptable deal is the only right answer. But what weasel words will our mini-Trump come up with?
US 7-point “peace plan” presented in London:
1 Crimea is 🇷🇺
2 End hostilities at front line
3 🇺🇸 lifts all sanctions against 🇷🇺
4 Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant will be transferred to 🇺🇸. 🇺🇸 begins energy cooperation with 🇷🇺
5 No sec guarantees from 🇺🇸
6 🇺🇦 will not join NATO
7 Minerals deal to be signed
1 Crimea is 🇷🇺
2 End hostilities at front line
3 🇺🇸 lifts all sanctions against 🇷🇺
4 Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant will be transferred to 🇺🇸. 🇺🇸 begins energy cooperation with 🇷🇺
5 No sec guarantees from 🇺🇸
6 🇺🇦 will not join NATO
7 Minerals deal to be signed
April 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I am looking forward to hearing exactly what our 🇨🇦 leadership candidates think of this so-called peace plan. Clear, unequivocal condemnation of this unacceptable deal is the only right answer. But what weasel words will our mini-Trump come up with?
Watching the debate.
Poilievre: we should override charter to punish mass murderers more harshly.
Carney: that’s a slippery slope, bad idea. “Not where you start, it’s where do you stop?”
Poilievre: BUT WHAT ABOUT CAR THIEVES?!?
Dumbass you just proved Carney’s point.
Poilievre: we should override charter to punish mass murderers more harshly.
Carney: that’s a slippery slope, bad idea. “Not where you start, it’s where do you stop?”
Poilievre: BUT WHAT ABOUT CAR THIEVES?!?
Dumbass you just proved Carney’s point.
April 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Watching the debate.
Poilievre: we should override charter to punish mass murderers more harshly.
Carney: that’s a slippery slope, bad idea. “Not where you start, it’s where do you stop?”
Poilievre: BUT WHAT ABOUT CAR THIEVES?!?
Dumbass you just proved Carney’s point.
Poilievre: we should override charter to punish mass murderers more harshly.
Carney: that’s a slippery slope, bad idea. “Not where you start, it’s where do you stop?”
Poilievre: BUT WHAT ABOUT CAR THIEVES?!?
Dumbass you just proved Carney’s point.
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Ovechkin dedicates his record-breaking goal to the brave men and women bombing Ukrainian hospitals
Ovechkin dedicates his record-breaking goal to the brave men and women bombing Ukrainian hospitals
NEW YORK CITY – Alexander Ovechkin has scored his 895th career goal, surpassing Wayne Gretzky’s record and making him first all-time among NHL superstars with terrible personal politics.
www.thebeaverton.com
April 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Ovechkin dedicates his record-breaking goal to the brave men and women bombing Ukrainian hospitals
PP has been screeching for an election for months, and when we have one they drop 5 idiot candidates in a week! You’d think they would be prepared no? Don’t they vet these losers? What kind of dumbasses are running the Conservative Party? And they want us to trust them with the whole damn govt?!
April 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
PP has been screeching for an election for months, and when we have one they drop 5 idiot candidates in a week! You’d think they would be prepared no? Don’t they vet these losers? What kind of dumbasses are running the Conservative Party? And they want us to trust them with the whole damn govt?!
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Leonard Cohen
March 31, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Leonard Cohen
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The circus is indeed the right place for clowns! And Montreal circuses (cirques) are the best!
March 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The circus is indeed the right place for clowns! And Montreal circuses (cirques) are the best!