Mgt, evaluation, perf planning, measurement + reporting practitioner, consultant and teacher. Mission: to have interesting conversations with thoughtful people.
Joined August 2012
- Tweets5.4K
- Following91
- Followers427
- Likes3.2K
Steve retweeted
All of Donald Trump's HATE of Canada and Mexico and look who shows up when our country is burning to help us?
Steve retweeted
Hey @PeteHegseth - go to hell.
veterans.gc.ca/en/remembranc…
Hegseth on Afghanistan:
I was a captain in Afghanistan, and we would go to the headquarters in Kabul, and there would be 50 flags at the headquarters.
It was a beautiful thing to see 50 different countries contributing to the NATO alliance and the ISAF mission there.
Except there were like maybe five that contributed. It was actually closer to one or two that, by the end, were actually involved in kinetic operations.
In fact, the ISAF patch, we would joke that it meant "I Saw Americans Fighting."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Over 1100 non-American soldiers from 31 US-allied countries were killed fighting in Afghanistan, approximately 1/3 of the total combat deaths.
t.co/x4tGhxJiFG
The logic of this argument suggests a fanatical take on the world. Why assume that each leave voter would convince one stay voter? Do you assume the leave side’s position is so strong that it will inevitably win out? Didn’t go that way in Quebec w a bigger starting % over 45+ yrs
Levant has to be called out for this BS. Is he referring the foreign funded insurrectionists who illegally occupied our capital, harassed downtown residents & caused hundreds of millions of economic damage over 3 weeks? & BTW ‘the party’ didn’t act. The Govt of Cda finally did.
..and Canada along with Europe..
Imagine if Europe, in the days after 9/11, had cleared its throat and announced: We have struck a tremendous deal with Osama bin Laden. We have lifted the sanctions on his organization, so he is now free to trade on the open market and bankroll his war against the United States. Bush must step down. The man has no cards.
Has he even looked at his hand?
But no. Europe did nothing of the sort. Europe did not sit down with a mass murderer and come home gushing about what a strong and reasonable fellow he turned out to be.
Europe laced up its boots, flew to Afghanistan, stood shoulder to shoulder with the Americans and hunted that bearded wretch through every godforsaken mountain in the country, because that is what you do when a friend gets hit, and handing the attacker a shopping list while telling the victim to surrender is what you do when you have lost your mind.
Any vestige of real journalism or responsible political commentary has vanished for Levant. His insular rhetoric & ginned up personal attacks ring completely false. Carney has done more for Canada pre-politics via his service as B of C head alone than any leader since Pearson.
Steve retweeted
Maybe now Cdn Conswervatives will stop saying things along the lines of, "How can we believe that's what really happened if Carney won't show us the text of the deal they walked away from?" "Why should we believe that Lutnick threw a wrench in the works, show us the text."
"Lutnick Throws the Future of U.S.-Mexico Trade Talks Into Further Doubt" share.google/YCB36qc3EcCd3ow…
"A senior Mexican official said that every time both sides get close to a deal, the Trump administration brings up something else that it wants"
Steve retweeted
And yet, they keep doing the same thing, blaming Carney for grocery and gasoline prices, claiming he's corrupt, etc. What part of "it isn't working" do they not understand? It's mind-boggling.
Steve retweeted
This whole 'get a deal, any deal and do it now' narrative CPC have been pushing since the last election really shows that the Conservatives would be the worst choice for Canada in negotiating anything for the country......sounds like they'd fall for any pressure tactic out there
Steve retweeted
Trump in his rally speech tonight: "China makes the windmills, but try finding a wind farm in China. There is no such."
Here's a map of wind farms in China, which has by far the most wind capacity in the world and continues to install far more than any other country:
Ahh Levant World ..all blame, shame and defame. Direct contradiction to election results ? Calling MPs who choose to leave a failingly led political party ‘corrupt’ ? What a sorry excuse for a political pundit you are Ezra.
Steve retweeted
At least the Brexiteers still have @AndrewScheer
Yikes!😳
Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades.
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
ms.now/news/trump-midterms-o…
Steve retweeted
New analysis reveals that Trump's tariffs raised prices on consumers and increased price inflation significantly.
Without the tariffs, it's estimated prices would've fallen.
Steve retweeted
Poll modeling shows Doug Ford's PCs could win another majority government on just 34% of the vote.
First-past-the-post bails out unpopular governments while the rest of us suffer.
We need proportional representation so governments always represent a broad majority.
Yeah I found it in seconds.. and note the % was just under 33 back then - not the record low 28.. the point is things are getting worse under FPTP and they need to change! @FairVoteCanada
Steve retweeted
You know.....just flat-out lying isn't going to serve you well.
If you had played the WHOLE clip of your exchange, people would see the PM respond & slap you down with all the projects where shovels are ALREADY in the ground....but of course, integrity was never your strong suit
Steve retweeted
Quebec’s election saw one of the most distorted election results in Canadian history: the PQ won 46% of seats with 28% vote, while the CAQ got zero seats with over 500,000 votes.
Read our write-up to see how proportional representation fixes this. fairvote.ca/06/10/2026/parti…