Leave the gun, take the cannoli
Camp North Star, ON
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sɹnoʎ ʎllɐɔᴉʇᴉloԀ retweeted
A family is grieving, and we continue to search for answers.
We’re asking for your help in identifying a dark-coloured Ford Escape with front-end damage involved in a fatal hit-and-run near West Hunt Club and Merivale Roads.
We’re also hoping to speak with the driver of a red pickup truck who may have witnessed something.
Even the smallest detail could make a difference. Please help us bring answers to a grieving family.
🔗 Full details and vehicle images: ottawapolice.ca/en/news/post…
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Une famille est en deuil, et nous continuons à chercher des réponses.
Nous sollicitons votre aide pour identifier une Ford Escape de couleur foncée, dont l’avant est endommagé, impliquée dans un accident mortel avec délit de fuite près des chemins Hunt Club Ouest et Merivale.
Nous espérons également pouvoir parler au conducteur d’une camionnette rouge, qui aurait pu être témoin de quelque chose.
Même le plus petit détail pourrait compter beaucoup. Aidez-nous à apporter des réponses à cette famille éplorée.
🔗 Détails complets et photos du véhicule : ottawapolice.ca/fr/nouvelles…
sɹnoʎ ʎllɐɔᴉʇᴉloԀ retweeted
It’s official: Ontario’s new advertising campaign in the U.S. has launched.
Using every tool we have, we’ll never stop making the case against American tariffs on Canada. The way to prosperity is by working together.
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sɹnoʎ ʎllɐɔᴉʇᴉloԀ retweeted
I think JD Vance’s response, unfortunately, misses the point.
When the Pope says, “God is not on the side of those who wield the sword” (Matthew 26:52), he is not denying the Church’s Just War tradition. He is calling us back to the heart of Christ.
In Matthew 26:52, Jesus says, “all who take the sword will perish by the sword.” He also teaches us to love not only our friends but our enemies (Matthew 5:44), to refuse retaliation (Matthew 5:39), and in the end, He submits to the Cross without violence. This shows a clear direction: the Kingdom of God is not built through force. As He says, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God” (Matthew 5:9).
Christ does not present violence as something that reflects God’s nature. He allows Himself to be killed rather than defend Himself with force. That is central to the Church’s message.
What is Just War Theory? Just War Theory was developed mainly by St. Augustine and later refined by St. Thomas Aquinas. It is not a justification for violence, but a strict moral framework meant to limit it. It accepts that, in a fallen world, the use of force may sometimes be tolerated, but only under serious conditions. There must be a just cause, such as defending innocent life or resisting grave injustice. It must be declared by a legitimate authority. The intention must be right, not driven by revenge, hatred, or conquest, but by the desire to restore justice and peace. War must truly be a last resort, after every serious peaceful option has been exhausted. There must be a real probability of success, so that lives are not wasted in a hopeless conflict. The response must be proportionate, meaning the harm caused must not be greater than the evil being resisted. And even in war, civilians and non-combatants must never be deliberately targeted.
Even with all these conditions, the Church never says that God supports war. At most, it says that moral responsibility may, in very limited circumstances, tolerate the use of force to prevent a greater evil. Peace remains the goal. Violence is never the ideal.
What I find difficult in Vance’s response is the tone toward the Pope. It comes across as though he is trying to correct theological language, as if the Pope is offering just another opinion. But the Pope’s role is precisely to speak into moral and theological questions, especially when they touch on real issues like war and power.
At a deeper level, this seems like a clash between political reasoning and the logic of the Gospel. Christ is the standard, not political strategy, not historical precedent. Everything has to be measured against Him.
So yes, the Church has wrestled with the reality of war. But that does not weaken the Pope’s point. If anything, it makes it more necessary. In a world that keeps finding ways to justify violence, the Church must keep pointing back to Christ, who did not conquer by the sword, but by the Cross.
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THE OTTAWA OUTLAW
His name was Chris Evans, born in 1847 in Bells Corners.
If you drive south on Greenbank Road, past Hunt Club into the NCC Greenbelt, there is a parcel of land that stretches west towards Cedarview Road.
That is where our story begins…
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JUST IN: The most irreversible consequence of this war is not happening in Tehran. It is happening in a barn in Iowa.
A farmer is standing over a kitchen table looking at two seed catalogues. One is corn. One is soybeans. Corn needs 180 pounds of nitrogen per acre. Nitrogen costs $610 per ton on the CBOT March futures settlement as of yesterday, up 35 percent in a month. Soybeans fix their own nitrogen from the atmosphere through root bacteria called rhizobia. They need nothing from the Strait of Hormuz.
The farmer is choosing soybeans. Millions of acres are choosing soybeans. And once the planter rolls into the field, the choice cannot be reversed until next year.
USDA projected corn at roughly 94 million acres for 2026, down from 98.8 million. Soybeans at 85 million, up from 81.2 million. Those projections were published February 19, before urea surged past $683 at New Orleans. The actual shift will be larger. USDA Prospective Plantings reports March 31. By then the seeds will be in the ground.
This is the transmission channel the world is not watching.
A 21-mile strait enforced by provincial commanders with sealed radio orders just rewrote the planting economics of 90 million acres of the most productive farmland on Earth. Not through sanctions. Not through diplomacy. Through the price of a single molecule that corn cannot grow without and soybeans do not need.
Now follow the cascade.
The Renewable Fuel Standard mandates 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol annually. That consumes roughly 43 percent of the entire US corn crop. The mandate is set by the EPA. It does not flex when corn acres shrink. It is inelastic demand consuming a fixed share of a declining supply. When supply tightens against a fixed mandate, the remaining corn reprices upward. Corn above $5 per bushel compresses every margin downstream.
The US cattle herd stands at 86.2 million head, a 75-year low per USDA NASS. Poultry and pork operations face compression from higher corn prices. Feed is the single largest cost in livestock production. When feed reprices, protein reprices. When protein reprices, every grocery shelf in America absorbs the increase.
This is the protein cascade. Corn to feed to meat to eggs to dairy to the checkout counter. Each link tightens because the link before it tightened. The originating cause is a urea molecule that cannot transit a strait because a provincial commander’s sealed orders say it cannot.
The farmer did not start this war. The farmer cannot end it. The farmer responds to the price on the screen and the biology of the two crops in front of him. Corn needs the molecule. Soybeans do not. At $610 the arithmetic is settled. The planter rolls. The season is locked.
Israel just authorised the assassination of every Iranian official on sight. The US has spent $16.5 billion. South Pars is burning. The Fed is holding rates because oil inflation will not break. Gold touched $5,000. Bitcoin is bleeding. China is running exercises near Taiwan. Sri Lanka shut down on Wednesdays.
And underneath all of it, a man in a barn is making the decision that determines whether four billion people pay more for food this year. He has never heard of the Mosaic Doctrine. He does not know what a sealed contingency packet is. He knows what nitrogen costs. And he is planting soybeans.
Full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanak…
Right now, in barns and equipment sheds across the American Midwest, farmers are making the most consequential decision of this war. Not generals. Not senators. Farmers.
At $683 per ton urea, corn economics have collapsed. Nitrogen is the single largest input cost for corn production. At pre-war prices a farmer could justify 180 pounds per acre and expect a margin. At $683 the math breaks. Soybeans fix their own nitrogen from the atmosphere through root bacteria. They do not need the molecule trapped behind the Strait of Hormuz. The seed decision is being made this week across roughly 90 million acres of American cropland. Once the planter rolls into the field, the choice is irreversible. Corn seed in the ground stays corn. Soy seed stays soy. The acreage allocation locks in.
USDA Prospective Plantings reports March 31. That report will tell the world how American agriculture responded to the Hormuz blockade. But the decisions it captures are being made now, in conversations between farmers and agronomists and seed dealers who are looking at nitrogen prices and making the rational economic choice: plant the crop that does not need the input you cannot afford.
Every acre that shifts from corn to soybeans tightens the corn balance sheet for the rest of the year. Corn feeds livestock. Corn feeds ethanol. The Renewable Fuel Standard mandates 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol annually, consuming roughly 43 percent of the US corn crop regardless of price. That demand is inelastic. If acres shift and production falls while the mandate holds, corn prices spike. Feed costs spike. The protein cascade reverses. The US cattle herd sits at 86.2 million head, a 75-year low. Poultry and pork margins that were benefiting from cheap feed compress when corn crosses $5 per bushel.
This is how a naval blockade 7,000 miles from Iowa reaches the American grocery shelf. Not through oil. Not through shipping. Through nitrogen. The farmer cannot afford the molecule. The molecule cannot transit the strait. The farmer plants soy instead. The corn supply tightens. The ethanol mandate consumes its fixed share. The remaining corn reprices. The feed reprices. The meat reprices. The grocery bill reprices.
The decision is not political. It is arithmetic performed on a kitchen table by a person who needs to plant in three weeks and cannot wait for a ceasefire, an escort convoy, or an insurance normalisation that the Red Sea precedent says takes years.
The deepest penetrator in the American arsenal cannot reach a sealed Iranian doctrinal packet. But the fertiliser price it failed to resolve is reaching every planting decision on 90 million acres of the most productive farmland on Earth.
The war’s most irreversible consequence is not happening in a bunker. It is happening in a barn. And by the time USDA publishes the data on March 31, the seeds will already be in the ground.
Full analysis in the link.
open.substack.com/pub/shanak…
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Today is a good day for Americans 🇺🇸 who appreciate our neighbor Canada 🇨🇦 to speak up and show their support.
We are neighbors, friends, business partners, and allies—and there is no better partner than Canada.🇨🇦 ❤️
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CAF Cpl Karine Blais was blown to pieces when the vehicle she was in struck a hidden IED on the front line north of Kandahar City, Afghanistan on Apr-13-2009, while apparently doing sweet fuck all for the United States of America.
She was just 21 years old. 🙏
#CanadaStrong 🇨🇦
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Holy shit! After Megyn Kelly gave a free pass to pedophiles Trump and Jeffrey Epstein to fuck children, this 14-year-old girl just gave Kelly a brutal reality check. 😳👇
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Hi kids .. #HandmaidsTale (the book not the series!) has just been banned in #Edmonton…don’t read it, your hair will catch on fire! Get one now before they have public book burnings of it.
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BREAKING: Mitch McConnell ripped apart Donald Trump’s plan to put tariffs on imported goods. Retweet so all Americans see Mitch McConnell destroy Donald Trump’s economic agenda.
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BREAKING: In an interview with Catholic News Agency, Fr. Bashar Fawadleh, parish priest in Taybeh—the only entirely Christian village in the West Bank—said over 10 Christian families have left Taybeh due to settler terrorism and Israeli military restrictions on movement.
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On Yom HaShoah, we remember the horrors of the Holocaust, honour the millions of lives lost, and celebrate the resilience of the Jewish people.
The antisemitism that fuelled this atrocity persists today—we are committed to confronting this and all forms of hatred.
sɹnoʎ ʎllɐɔᴉʇᴉloԀ retweeted
This isn’t the real video (why would he be speaking in English in the Japanese parliament?)
Here’s the actual video, where you will also note this translation here (calling the U.S. an “opponent” for example) is much more inflammatory.
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I hope I am wrong… but the signs are that we are about to be sold down the river… I wrote this…
unherd.com/2025/04/keep-amer…
sɹnoʎ ʎllɐɔᴉʇᴉloԀ retweeted
Trump’s Liberation Day speech is filled with misinformation. The USA has higher tariff & non-tariff trade barriers than 68 other nations according to @Heritage.
