Executive coaching, career counseling. Author/Owner AFS Publishing. (see @dj_author) Queen's Grad. Living a more considered life. 🇨🇦 The CFL.
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.” – Bertrand Russel
Doug Jordan retweeted
He should be banned for life. Completely unacceptable and unprofessional behaviour. Refund all the ticket holders and send Sanchez-Ortega the bill.
Johnston is destroying the unique Canadian version of football. It’s a travesty.
As a long time season ticket holder I won’t be renewing next year.
128 YARDS LIKE A METEOR ☄️
Janarion Grant (@JanarionGrant) gives CFL fans another taste of glory before Commissioner Stewart Johnston sends this play the way of the dinosaurs🦕 🦖
#CFL #Argos #PullTogether
Doug Jordan retweeted
Police said I can’t talk politics on a sidewalk outside of a school but teachers can talk politics inside a school if it’s about “trans” child mutilation, residential school ghost stories, being on stolen land, white racism, Palestine…
Doug Jordan retweeted
There is something deeply unhealthy happening in our public discourse.
When people question government policy, they are called extremists.
When they raise concerns about immigration or social cohesion, they are called racists.
When they question public-health decisions or speak about vaccine injuries, they are called anti-vaxxers.
When they challenge the constitutional status quo or discuss Alberta’s future, they are called traitors.
These labels are rarely intended to encourage dialogue. They are used to end it.
But questioning government is not extremism.
Challenging existing laws is not lawlessness.
Discussing constitutional change is not disloyalty.
And disagreeing with government policy does not make someone dangerous.
In a healthy democracy, citizens are free to question authority, challenge prevailing ideas and advocate for change. That is not a threat to democracy. It is democracy.
The real danger is a political culture that silences legitimate concerns, punishes disagreement, disparages citizens and treats them as enemies simply because they refuse to conform.
We will not rebuild public trust by ignoring this reality. We will rebuild public trust by listening, answering difficult questions and addressing the substance of their concerns.
Dialogue does not weaken a country. Refusing to have it does.
Doug Jordan retweeted
🇨🇦 Canada didn’t lose its common sense overnight.
It was acknowledged, consulted, reframed, sent to committee and eventually replaced with a framework.
So I went looking for it in its natural habitat.
PLANET CANADA: THE CURIOUS DECLINE OF COMMON SENSE
Five progressive Liberal specimens. One increasingly bewildered country.
An Attenborough styled mockumentary nobody commissioned, about political creatures we somehow keep funding.
Researchers remain hopeful that one day they may accidentally solve something.
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Doug Jordan retweeted
Can you believe that Google Maps changed the names of Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway and Langevin Block in Ottawa?!
How dare they!
Oh wait, we’ve been doing this dumb renaming stuff to ourselves for the last decade!
Read more here.
torontosun.com/opinion/colum…
Doug Jordan retweeted
The rhetoric of people has become so nonsensical about this topic that its hard to take much of it seriously...
They'll call you MAGA, Traitor, whatever it may be for talking about the very real problems we have economically, with productivity, investment, and lack of good policy priorities. These problems were the straw that broke Justin Trudeau's back... and Canadians were well aware of them prior to his resignation. We were united in restoring the promise this great country offered. Then Mark Carney, Trudeau's economic advisor stepped in.
Through strategic messaging campaigns, he managed to convince a lot of Canadians to forget about the same problems we have today (only now worse) and distract them away from what we were once united in holding power to account to fix.
While incredibly sad to witness, it was brilliantly orchestrated. I suppose the difference between myself and everyone else who forgot is that I have never got distracted... I never stopped holding power to account to fix it. As Mark Carney frequently says "control what we can control". Yet somehow many people don't realize that restoring the good policies and rescinding the bad are in fact what we can control.
You can call me whatever name spikes your dopamine that day. You can blame a foreign leader for the economic conditions this same Liberal Party generated over the last 11 years... But if anything, I'm simply following the very words of reassurance our Prime Minister frequently says to try and calm us from the doom and gloom he is responsible for not taking action on to fix.
Perhaps you should question why those who are calling for domestic action, change, reform, and a better plan than this are the ones called "traitors"...
I'd view those encouraging our managed decline to be far more harmful to our future than those using their voices to talk about the reality of the conditions we face. If you get that upset about the messenger... surely, you must have more disdain for the people who created the message?
Doug Jordan retweeted
As a 50 year old born and bred Canadian, I want my position on our current insanity abundantly clear.
Do I support or approve of everything that Trump does? Absolutely not. Until he does more damage to Canada than the Liberals, my position remains.
I love my country but hate my government. I don’t want us to suffer any more but will not deny we are already suffering and have been for a while.
I would still take up arms to defend my country if needed but not against 🇺🇸. That version of my Canada died long ago.
I refuse to overlook more than a decade of Liberal incompetence, negligence, hypocrisy, corruption and damage by blaming it on 601 days of Trump. I also find it difficult to defend my government and fellow citizens that did not and will not defend me. It’s tough to find unity with those who have destroyed our country and spirit, let our enemies in yet want me destroyed for pointing it out. I assume millions of other Canadians feel the same.
Since late 2015 and the election of the Idiot King, Canada has slid backwards on almost every economic, cultural and lifestyle measure. Every statistic, fact and dose of reality proves it. This slow boil is unassailable.
Trump didn’t cause this, he exposed it. Now he is the perfect squirrel to distract from it.
Until Liberals admit this, we are in for more pain.
I prefer “Buckle Up” over “Elbows Up”
Trump and 🇺🇸 did not…..
-Double our debt in a decade
-Drastically increase crime
-Open our borders to hostile immigration
-Turn 🇨🇦 into a fentanyl, drug cartel and money laundering powerhouse
-Allow 🇨🇳 to interfere in our elections
-Fatten up an already bloated bureaucracy.
-Create a health and healthcare crisis
-Create a housing crisis
-Drastically increase food bank use
-Destroy our reputation
-Destroy our military
-Decrease our GDP
-Kill 74k 🇨🇦 since 2018 waiting for “free” healthcare
-Kill 13k 🇨🇦 with fentanyl since 2015
-Allow 29k fugitives from justice to reside in our country.
-Allow rampant corruption, waste, fraud and abuse
-Drive extreme inflation.
-Drive away billions of international investment.
-Allow murderers to walk and mischief makers go to prison
No, all of that has been accomplished by your idiot Liberals with your support in the span of a decade.
Great job.
Re Carney: ‘My concern isn't his intelligence. It is his faith in technocratic government: the belief that if we assemble the right experts, programs, regulations, incentives and billions of public dollars, government can steer the economy toward the desired outcome.’
I’ve been trying to put my finger on the fundamental difference between Pierre Poilievre’s vision for Canada and Mark Carney’s.
For me, it comes down to a simple question:
Who should make more of the decisions about your life, you or Ottawa?
Carney is obviously an intelligent and accomplished man. My concern isn't his intelligence. It is his faith in technocratic government: the belief that if we assemble the right experts, programs, regulations, incentives and billions of public dollars, government can steer the economy toward the desired outcome.
Hayek warned about this problem decades ago.
The knowledge required to run an economy doesn't exist in one place.
The farmer knows his land. The contractor knows his costs. The shop owner knows her customers. The young couple knows what kind of home they can afford. The entrepreneur sees an opportunity that no bureaucrat sitting in Ottawa could possibly anticipate.
Millions of Canadians make these decisions every day.
Government doesn't need to make those decisions for them. It needs to stop making so many of them harder.
That's where Pierre's vision makes more sense to me.
Lower the barriers to building homes.
Develop Canadian resources.
Encourage investment instead of driving it elsewhere.
Let people keep more of what they earn.
Reward work, production and entrepreneurship.
Maintain consequences for people who repeatedly victimize others.
And recognize that government eventually has to live within financial reality just like every Canadian household does.
Pierre won't get everything right. I don't expect him to. I've never believed politicians should be treated like saints.
I'm interested in direction.
Do we want another decade of increasingly complicated government programs trying to manage the consequences created by previous government programs?
Or do we start removing the barriers that prevent Canadians from solving problems themselves?
That is the case Conservatives and Pierre Poilievre are trying to make.
Pierre believes that Canadians are capable of running their own lives.
Give people freedom, clear rules, genuine competition and consequences for bad behaviour, then get government out of the way where it doesn't belong.
Carney's instinct seems to be improving the people running the machinery.
Pierre's better instinct is reducing how much machinery Canadians have to fight through in the first place.
I'll take that vision of Canada.
Doug Jordan retweeted
Food is crushing families, but taxes are the bill hiding inside nearly every other bill.
Income tax before you spend. Sales tax when you spend. Fuel taxes, carbon costs, payroll taxes, property taxes and business taxes all get folded into the final price of groceries.
Government does not stock the shelves, but it takes a cut at every step along the way.
Conservatives should stay conservative (National Post), Jul 25, 2026
‘The Conservatives failure to turf the Liberals in 2025 becomes more and more costly the longer this [identity politics] undergrowth lasts.’ epaper.nationalpost.com/arti…
Doug Jordan retweeted
This is an excellent commentary by Stephen LeDrew regarding Carney.
“When it’s talking about getting serious work done, I think we may have a Prime Minister who doesn’t know politics, who thinks he’s running a bank, who has given all kinds of benefits to certain friends…he doesn’t have the character necessary to be a successful Prime Minister to lead this country out of the malaise that it’s been in since 2015”
Doug Jordan retweeted
If only commentary like this was shared by our MSM machine. They would maybe get a true sense of who he really is. Instead we have bought & paid for organizations who steer Canadians away from who the actual problem is, the Liberals & their leadership.
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Canadians were told that 215 children lay in unmarked graves at the former Kamloops residential school. Twelve million dollars in public funds was provided specifically to investigate those claims, recover remains, and bring children home to their families. That work has not been done. Basic reporting requirements were waived. No meaningful accounting has been provided.
If those children are buried there, then the work of identification and recovery must proceed without delay. Families deserve answers. The country deserves the truth. If the claims cannot be substantiated after years and millions of dollars, then the public is owed a clear explanation of what happened to the money and why the investigation never advanced.
Access to Information #cdnfoi #ATI
@GCIndigenous waived requirement that Kamloops First Nation @Tkemlups explain how it spent $12.1 million in federal funding for “exhumation of remains” at Residential School.
There was no attempt to exhume graves.
blacklocks.ca/waive-accounti…
@jonkay @FrancesWiddows1 @Aaronpete_ @TerryGlavin @MandyGullMasty #cdnpoli
Doug Jordan retweeted
American Congressman Randy Fine has had enough. In a Newsmax interview, he called for deporting New York City’s Muslim mayor Zohran Mamdani and other Muslim migrants who came not to integrate but to wage jihad.
The fearless congressman exposed how Mamdani runs a nonstop Hamas propaganda campaign. Instead of telling the truth about the war Muslim terrorists started on October 7, 2023, he actively helps Hamas escape accountability for crimes against humanity committed in Islam’s name.
Israel didn’t start the war. The only genocidal acts were by Gazan Muslims on October 7, when they invaded Israel, murdered over 1,000 Jews, and kidnapped hundreds more.
The Muslim mayor of NYC and other so-called moderate Muslims deliberately lie about Islam’s Nazi doctrine to gaslight Westerners into welcoming more and more jihadists.
Stop the Islamization of America!
Hamas are the Nazis, not genocide victims.
Share this and follow if you support deporting all Muslim supremacists from the U.S.!
I usually agree with much of what LWM posts but he’s off base on this one.
Canadians expect their national symbols (and 24 Sussex is one) to be maintained. Trudeau (and even Stephen Harper) abrogated their responsibility for shallow political reasons.
The media spin on 24 Sussex is darkly hilarious.
Canadians are sleeping in tents in public parks, rent is breaking working families, and Ottawa’s big moral emergency is apparently whether the prime minister’s official mansion gets a national makeover.
Well OK. Nobody is saying Carney should bunk with rats. We’re saying maybe, just maybe, a government presiding over a housing crisis should read the room before launching another prestige project for the political class.
Pierre Poilievre said it exactly right in his press conference. The average Canadian could not care less about polishing up a politician’s residence while they’re watching their own rent, groceries, taxes, and mortgage payments eat them alive.
This is Ottawa in one picture: citizens in tents, elites in committees, media pretending the real scandal is that Canadians are too cheap to fund the mansion.
Fix the country first. Then worry about the Prime Minister’s roof.
#cdnpoli #HousingCrisis #24Sussex #Carney #Poilievre
Canadians WERE gullible idiots. Many still are.
Great piece by @HadleyFreeman in Britain’s @thetimes about the Great unmarked graves social panic of 2021-26. The story makes Canadians look like gullible idiots, but it’s a valuable international case study in mass hysteria & journalistic incompetence
thetimes.com/article/e3548a3…
