Robert J. Talbot

“People want to be seen. Their history acknowledged, their culture cherished, their contributions appreciated. If you want people to wave your flag, you have to be willing to wave theirs, too — even metaphorically.”

The only thing more powerful than hate is love. ♥️

#BadBunny

BC Separatists Met in Campbell River. So Did Pro-Canada Protesters | The Tyee ‘People were coming out of the woodwork to say that this is ridiculous.’

With separatism talk popping up in her small B.C. town, Monica Judd said she wanted to send a message.

My story today: thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Will Canada be holding talks with secessionist movements in Vermont and the US Pacific Northwest?

Thucydides is as Thucydidoes.

Graphics showing google searches for the term Thucydides peaked in late January.

If nothing else, Canadian PM Mark Carney got people to google Thucydides...

‘A militia that kills’: uproar in Italy over ICE security role at Winter Olympics Milan mayor says agents ‘not welcome’ in co-host city and Italy can take care of security itself

Vance and Rubio are planning to go to Italy with ICE agents as bodyguards.
ICE is truly the regime's political police.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

John Manley on Canada moving on from CUSMA: "I think we did perfectly well before we had the Canada-US free trade agreement. It came into effect in 1989. We were a very successful country at that point ... We'd like to have it. We don't need it. We can move on without it."

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Red and white Unity.

#Greenland
#Denmark
#Canada
#UnitedforGreenland

It is equally easy & possible to write, "Trump weighs violating US treaty commitments under the UN and NATO by seizing the sovereign territory of one of our closest allies" You don't have to normalize & sanewash reality. Other purely factually accurate, more serious choices remain readily available.

www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

Conservationists oppose proposed new road through Wascana Conservation Park | CBC News Ducks Unlimited Canada and the Wascana View Action Committee say a road through the wetlands would damage the local ecology and present flooding concerns.

I oppose this extension of Prince of Wales through ecologically sensitive land. It's a huge spend for some convenience and we can't afford it. Quit promoting #CarCulture. #InducedTraffic #FundTransit #yqrcc

It’s an American Obsession. It’s Based on a Total Lie. We Have to Stop Before It’s Too Late. The truth about what's happening on America's roads—and how we can stop it.

“The phenomenon is known as induced demand. The result is an endless cycle in which congestion leads to highway expansion, which invites more trips, which brings back traffic…The pattern is so inevitable that economists have dubbed it the iron law of congestion.” #InducedTraffic

Oh wow. Thanks for the kind words!

#FIFA

Highway filled with cars

Busy urban arterial filled with cars

Bike-lanes don’t cause traffic congestion.

Car dependency, dumb land-use sprawl, too many (& bigger) cars being driven too much taking up too much space, highly subsidized driving costs, and not enough choices in how to get around, ALL cause traffic congestion.

Think about it. THAT’S common sense.

#cdnpoli Make it so Canada.

A 355-year-old Royal Charter that survived the blitz sold for $13m in Canada The Hudson’s Bay Company Royal Charter - considered one of the country's founding documents - will be donated to Canadian museums and archives.

“The Archives of Manitoba, the Manitoba Museum, the Canadian Museum of History and the Royal Ontario Museum will have joint possession of the document.”

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Allowing doctors to practise in both public and private systems solves what exactly? What Alberta is proposing may sound good superficially, but it makes no sense in the Canadian context

Picard’s point on AB’s new “dual practice” plan: evidence shows letting surgeons bill public & private won’t fix wait times, it likely lengthens them, drains staff from public hospitals, adds red tape, and undermines access.

A solution in search of a problem. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/70a7e73...

It is first, a bad day for Ontario cities and all the people who live in one.

YouTube video by CBC News Saab fighter jet deal could create thousands of Canadian jobs: CEO | Power & Politics

#cdnpoli 🇨🇦📢

@buttigiegdem.bsky.social 👀⤵️

m.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6y...

🇸🇪ish defence firm Saab wants 🇨🇦 to buy & build its fighter jets. Saab CEO Micael Johansson says jet manufacturing could create up to 10,000 jobs over 3 to 5 years.
'It's up to 🇨🇦 to decide,' Johansson tells Power & Politics.

Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.

As the provincial government looks at banning automated speed cameras, a new report shows that vehicles belonging to cabinet ministers have been regularly caught by automated speed cameras, in some cases going 30kph over the speed limit.

"I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities." -- Charles Schulz

For sure.

Regulation. The housing sector desperately needs greater regulation in order for anything to get better.

Montreal has been THE North American model of smart, strategic street transformations into people-places. Each year has seen ambitious new moves that build on the years before — incremental, but NOT “slow” because they’ve been making big moves step-by-step.

Permanent Ste Catherine is a GREAT move.

Embassy of Canada thanking Costa Rican firefighters for their support ❤️❤️

Want To Make Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane Research from New York City notes that newly installed protected bike lanes do more than keep bikers safe--they raise the income of the stores they are in front of.

“Local stores next to the protected bike-lane have seen a 49% increase in sales, compared to an average of 3% for Manhattan as a whole.”

(Among MANY other public benefits.)

Want To Make More Money? Build A Business On A Bike Lane.

#CityMakingMath via @fastcompany.com
#BikeLanesMeanBusiness

Yes please!!!