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Roderick Mackin retweeted
🚨NEW: Democrat Scott Colom has won the Mississippi U.S. Senate race, defeating GOP incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith. He is the first African American to represent Mississippi in 145 years.
RETWEET to congratulate Senator-elect Colom on making history!
Roderick Mackin retweeted
Trump and Putin, and Witkoff and Dmitriev and Kushner need to be told: No. You have no business telling NATO or Ukraine or the EU what to do or how to do it. There is nothing to negotiate. Get out of Ukraine.
Roderick Mackin retweeted
Wrong.
Carney’s right on this one.
He banned Russia from playing in the world junior hockey championships in Calgary in December.
The court of arbitration for sport overturned the decision and told Canada they must allow them to play so Mark Carney said I might not control sports but I ultimately control who comes into this country and revoke their visas.
He's holding teenagers responsible for the decisions of adult politicians. These kids work their whole lives for this and for many this will be it. For a very few this is a stepping stone to greater things like the NHL.
This Communist Leader is taking that away from them to get an emotional response. How low can a Liberal go?
Pretty low apparently.
THEY'RE KIDS FFS!!!!
Carney says Russia, Belarus not allowed to compete at World Juniors tsn.ca/hockey-canada/article…
Roderick Mackin retweeted
My take on the midterms: To restore the stature of the United States around the globe, Congress would do well to start with an effort to decouple the Trump-Putin alliance. Slava Ukraini.
nationalpost.com/opinion/ter…
Roderick Mackin retweeted
Right-wing reactionaries gonna go wild over my plunging neckline
BC Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson has vowed to repeal SOGI, calling it a “lightning rod for division.”
@vancolour explains why he thinks that reasoning is just not good enough in today’s BC Election MOment, exclusively on Sitka Media 👇
Roderick Mackin retweeted
As they say, the first casualty in war is the truth.
This is true with culture wars too.
Roderick Mackin retweeted
Carney Owned the Room: Trump Saw It, Felt It, and Still Denies It -
At the United Nations, the difference between Mark Carney and Donald Trump wasn’t subtle — it was impossible to ignore.
Carney moved through the building like someone the world actually needed.
Delegates stopped him constantly, pulling him into side conversations, asking for guidance, and inviting him into discussions that weren’t even on the schedule.
Nations wanted his insight because it carried WEIGHT.
His presence shaped the agenda, not the other way around.
Trump’s experience was the opposite.
He followed a rigid schedule to adhere to his listlessness, attended the meetings arranged for him, and watched the rest of the building flow around Carney instead of him.
The isolation was visible.
And while Carney was intercepted by countries extremely eager to challenge the United States’ direction, Trump was left standing with only the official, pre‑planned sessions — the kind that feel more like protocol than actual influence.
It’s no surprise now that this is dynamic fed resentment on Trumps part.
When one man is being pulled into real global decision‑making in hallways and side rooms, and the other is being ushered from space to space with assistants trying to explain to Trump what to do next, the jealousy writes itself.
Textbook Trump.
Today, that divide echoes in Canada’s political climate.
Despite boisterous claims about a “liberal” government, conservatism has blended into the system in a way that distances Canada from Trump’s America.
The world sees Canada as stable, cooperative, and now rapidly moving away from the chaos that defined recent U.S. politics.
Whether people like it or not, the shift is happening — and the UN’s reaction to Carney versus Trump showed EXACTLY how clearly the world recognized it.
America is withering on the political vine of democracy, while Canda is flourishing into an incredible global respected power.
Trumps anger and weakness as a leader is on full display for Canadians and the world to witness now.
#canpoli
#cdnpoly
#Canada
#MAGA
#CPC
#trump
Roderick Mackin retweeted
/2 I’m a federal Liberal but the BC NDP can be trusted to be centre enough (unlike their national branch). Plus, they’re really the only valid progressive option here and Eby is doing just fine (Horgan was great, sadly) working in lockstep with PM Carney.
Roderick Mackin retweeted
remarkably, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is turning himself into the leader of the free world as Trump aligns America with autocratic thugs.
nytimes.com/2026/09/22/world… via @NYTimes
Roderick Mackin retweeted
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a week like this in terms of transformative economic policy for Canada coupled with extraordinary visibility and global interest
Roderick Mackin retweeted
Mansbridge: Do you think Poilievre cares at this point about what Jivani says?
Hébert: There are MPs who are saying we can't put up with this anymore. We can't sit in a caucus that has freelancing for the pro-MAGA side so publicly and in defiance of the leader.
Roderick Mackin retweeted
You can read the full story here:
Ukraine spy chief: Putin will exhaust Russia’s capacity by 2028
thetimes.com/article/db2f093…
