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If you get the chance, visit @MarilynGladuSL’s timeline. It’s a real treasure trove of hypocrisy.

@baystreetamber @inthemoneypod @ericnuttall great day to catch up if you haven’t seen this one yet. Thanks for swag @baystreetamber 🛢️💰👀 need some @Ninepoint now 💰🛢️👀🤞

But @LichTamara was charged with mischief and the prosecutors tried to get a 7 year sentence. Canada is broken.

She ate lunch alone for 730 days straight. What this 16-year-old built from that pain now protects millions of kids worldwide. Seventh grade. Natalie Hampton carried her tray through a packed cafeteria and felt it — that specific, suffocating dread of not knowing where to go. She'd already learned what happened when you approached the wrong table. The silence. The turned backs. The whispered laughter that followed you all the way to the empty table by the wall. The one everyone could see. The one that said: nobody wants her. For two full years — 730 consecutive lunches — that table was hers. Alone. The bullying went further than whispers. She was shoved into lockers. Four physical attacks in two weeks. She came home with scratches and bruises. When she finally reported it, school administrators sent her to counseling — to find out what she was doing wrong. The isolation grew so heavy she was hospitalized for anxiety. Then ninth grade came. A new school. And almost overnight — everything changed. Students welcomed her. She made friends within weeks. She finally knew what safe felt like. But she couldn't stop thinking about the kids still sitting at the wall table. Right now. Today. She remembered what she'd needed most during all those lunches. Not a teacher. Not a pamphlet. Just one person saying: "You can sit with us." So at 16 — with zero coding experience and "a lot of enthusiasm," as she put it — Natalie built exactly that. She called it Sit With Us. The idea was simple and genius: students sign up as "ambassadors," keeping their table open. Other kids privately browse available tables on their phones before ever walking into the cafeteria — and show up knowing they're already welcome. No public rejection. No moment of judgment. Just a guaranteed seat. Within 7 days of launching: 10,000 downloads. Then the world found her. NPR. The Washington Post. CBS News. Messages from Morocco, Australia, the Philippines, France — kids who'd been eating alone for years, finally finding a place to belong. Sit With Us now operates in 30 countries. "Even if it helps one person," Natalie said quietly, "it was worth building." She turned 730 lunches of loneliness into a lifeline for millions. That's not just survival. That's transformation.

🚨BREAKING: The Liberals have adopted my amendments to rein in the sweeping “Powers of a King” clause in the Budget Implementation Act. This provision would have concentrated immense power in the hands of a few, without proper safeguards. I stood firm for transparency, accountability, and the rule of law — and today we’ve secured real protections: public consultation, parliamentary oversight, clear limits on ministerial authority, and full transparency for Canadians. Importantly, these changes still allow Canada to foster innovation and support responsible regulatory sandboxes — but now with proper democratic guardrails in place. Thank you to every Canadian who signed my petition, wrote to my office, and made their voice heard. Your engagement made a real difference. This is a meaningful step to protect fiscal integrity, democratic institutions, and responsible innovation in Canada. #cdnpoli

Mark Carney at Davos, January 21, 2025: "We knew that the story about the rules-based order was partially a fiction... We knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused and the victim." "This fiction was useful... So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals. And we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality." "You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination." Remarkable candor from a sitting Prime Minister. The establishment always knew the rules only applied when convenient. Speaking of rules applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused: Three years ago, this same man published a letter in the Globe and Mail calling the Freedom Convoy "sedition" and "treachery," demanding protesters and donors be "punished to the full force of the law" and have their finances choked off. Five days later, the Emergencies Act was invoked, bank accounts frozen, and disabled grandmothers were stomped on in the streets of Ottawa. FINTRAC had already advised there was no suspicious financial activity. CSIS and the RCMP reported no violent extremist threat. Two courts have now ruled the invocation illegal and a violation of Charter rights. The man who helped build the public case for crushing a lawful protest now leads the country. I'm glad he's ready to acknowledge that international rules have long been selectively enforced fictions. I'm waiting for him to offer the same clarity about what was done to Canadians during the declared pandemic, and all of the other fictions Canadians live with.