Proud father of 5 great kids with my loving wife @YorkShari; Recreation Professional, Track and Field fan and volunteer; Hockey official and fan.
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Stuart York retweeted
In 2013, columnist Paula Simons asked why Canada bothers with “an unelected upper house, full of entitled toffs who can’t be turfed.”
In 2026, Senator Paula Simons - unelected, Trudeau-appointed, paid nearly $200k a year by taxpayers until 2039 - calls it “truly vile” when Albertans put that same question on a ballot.
I guess appointment is a hell of a conversion experience. I think Charles Adler had the same conversion.
What’s actually vile is that she sits in that high chamber pretending to speak for Alberta. It is a joke to think Paula Simons represents the culture and can-do attitude of this province. The great majority of Albertans would never - that’s right, never - vote for her or her grifting pal Kris Wells to represent them anywhere. #ableg #cdnpoli
Questions pending in October 19 referendum by @Alberta_UCP are "truly vile," says Senator Paula Simons, a Liberal appointee. One question seeks abolition of @SenateCA.
blacklocks.ca/calls-referend…
#cdnpoli #abpoli
This 100%. Government has no inherit right to run programs, even in public good fields such as education and health. Gov't should ensure conditions for citizens to access what they need and want, not provide them.
The purpose of government, and the public services it delivers, is to create value for society and serve the people who fund it. That is the social contract.
Our Constitution speaks of “Peace, Order, and good Government.” Those are not empty words. Government must be competent, responsible, transparent and accountable for the outcomes it produces.
Public institutions should make our communities safer, our economy stronger and our lives better. When services become costly, dysfunctional and unresponsive, citizens have every right to demand answers and better results.
Citizens do not exist to serve government. Government exists to serve citizens. Public servants and elected officials are entrusted with public authority and public money, and that trust carries an obligation to deliver value.
Somehow, we have lost sight of that most basic principle. Government has become focused on preserving and expanding its own institutions, budgets and authority, rather than proving that it is actually delivering better outcomes for the people it exists to serve.
Stuart York retweeted
The memo was leaked. People noticed. The backlash was immediate and widespread — in Canada and in the United States.
CBC later adjusted the guidance for 9/11 specifically. That does not erase what the original directive said, or what it revealed about how they think.
thewarrenkinsella.substack.c…
Stuart York retweeted
The most ridiculously climate-alarmist headline?
"Canada is on fire, underwater and overheating"
Reality: 1) Canada fire is below average
2) Canada has lost 0.002% of land over past 30 yrs
3) Warming saved many more Canadians from cold deaths than added deaths from heat
Refs:
1) gwis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/apps/g…
2) nature.com/articles/nclimate…
3) thelancet.com/journals/lanpl…
nationalobserver.com/2026/07…
xitter.cf/BjornLomborg/status/20…
The most ridiculously climate-alarmist headline?
"Canada is on fire, underwater and overheating"
Reality: 1) Canada fire is below average
2) Canada has lost 0.002% of land over past 30 yrs
3) Warming saved many more Canadians from cold deaths than added deaths from heat
Refs: 1) gwis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/apps/g…
2) nature.com/articles/nclimate…
3) thelancet.com/journals/lanpl…
nationalobserver.com/2026/07…
Stuart York retweeted
If by calling me a “climate denier” you mean that I don’t think the government of Canada can control the Earth’s climate, by taxing the shit out of us, then yes, I am a climate denier.
Stuart York retweeted
Mark Carney has presided over the worst first year of economic growth in Canada by any prime minister since at least 1963, with real GDP shrinking by 0.5%, but 60% of Canadians think he's doing a good job of managing the economy. financialpost.com/news/econo…
Stuart York retweeted
It's just a fact that Carney's popularity is thoroughly detached from anything he's done in his first year in office. In no meaningful way is Canada's economic situation "improving," and yet he is being warmly rewarded by voters for... trying, I guess? It's an odd phenomenon.
Canadians support Mark Carney’s management of the economy, even though he’s presided over the worst first year of growth for a prime minister since at least 1963, a poll showed. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Stuart York retweeted
There are 7,500 tankers in the world moving oil every day without issue.
North America had a problem with one 40 years ago with a drunk captain and a single hull.
Let's quit pretending we need to ban tankers for environmental reasons
It's about ideology
Stuart York retweeted
This sounds a lot like "there is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada".
Unity DOES require uniform respect for democratic principles like freedom of speech, respect for rule of law, freedom to worship without persecution, etc.
Without those foundations, pluralism fails.
Stuart York retweeted
In today's episode of Canada's justice system is a joke:
A British Columbia man, Orlan Marcel Dennis, shot his wife in face and killed his son.
He also extensive criminal record of assaulting his wife and daughters.
He got a sentence 'discount' because his parents went to a residential school and had Indigenous upbringing aka crime, drugs and alcohol.
How the F does this even make sense??
Where did all these people who pretend to care about the missing Indigenous women disappear of a sudden??
There are serious cultural issues there we need to address.
Stuart York retweeted
I made a whole video about this bill that did quite well. It’s wild how little attention Premier Legault’s brazenly unlawful attempt to write a Canada-hating constitution for Quebec got, versus how much attention Alberta’s powerless and irrelevant “separatist movement” gets.
Quebec constitution bill dies ahead of provincial election theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
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Carney continues to roll out the plan that he laid out in his book "Values".
Want to see where this will take us? Just look at Quebec since the 1960s.
Then they had a "quiet revolution". They were upset that the anglophones were running all the good businesses. Premier Jean Lesage "modernized" the province. He expanded government role in everything, nationalization dozens of industries, reformed education, and emphasised protecting the French language.
The result? They chased away entrepreneurs and real capitalists, and the province has been stagnating every since.
Quebec has resources, cheap energy, an educated population, universities, proximity to the largest market on the planet, access to tidewater and more. Yet it continues to underperform. It's an economic basket case. It's is literally one of the worse performing jurisdictions on the continent.
It's unionized, politically mis-managed, and has an unproductive populace, addicted to welfare.
Carney wants to model all of Canada after our worse performing province.
PM Carney unveils multibillion-dollar food strategy meant to expand choice, lower prices ctvnews.ca/politics/article/…
You missed separatist movement of 80's that gave way to Reform w Manning "The West Wants In", which was Lead not Leave. The Charlottetown Accord was not enough for the West & I wanted to vote against it but I voted for it to give Canada another chance. 30 yrs - no progress.
For decades, Alberta has tried reform within Canada: the Firewall Letter, the Fair Deal Panel, the equalization referendum, and more. So when people say “Lead, not leave,” it’s fair to ask whether we’ve already been trying that for generations. #Alberta
Stuart York retweeted
20 years ago, An Inconvenient Truth put climate change at the center of global debate, shaping politics, influencing leaders, and inspiring a generation of activists.
Two decades later, we can assess not just its impact, but its accuracy. Many of the film’s most alarming predictions did not materialize, while many of the policies it inspired have proven costly and ineffective.
The lesson? Panic is a poor guide for public policy. Focusing on innovation, adaptation, and economic development can do far more to help both people and the climate—at a fraction of the cost.
financialpost.com/opinion/bj…
Stuart York retweeted
Hey Jasmine…
Black pilot here.
I think you missed the plot.
Then again, that’s becoming a pattern.
I graduated from West Point.
I went through Army flight school.
I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache.
I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.
Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color.
Nobody lowered the standards for me.
Nobody looked at me and said, “Let’s check a diversity box.”
That’s what people like you don’t seem to understand.
Suggesting that Black pilots, Black engineers, Black doctors, or Black leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.
I didn’t want a different standard.
I wanted the same standard.
And when you’re flying into combat, the American people don’t care what race the pilot is.
They care whether the pilot is qualified.
Merit isn’t racist.
Excellence isn’t discriminatory.
And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.
Stuart York retweeted
Now that Carney included Omar Alghabra in the Council for combating antisemitism, it is time for a quick resume:
Omar Alghabra was born in Saudi Arabia to a Syrian family, immigrated to Canada in the 1980s, but brought his virulent antisemitism with him as luggage. Upon his arrival, he worked for CAF (Canadian Arab Federation) – a group so antisemitic that their federal funding was taken away by the court.
For nearly 20 years Alghabra has been almost consistently elected to the Canadian Parliament. He held various positions, such as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade Diversification.
At the same time, he often stated that Hamas and Hezbollah are not terrorist organizations and should be removed from the Canadian terrorist entities list. He tried to censor Canadian journalists, who call Hamas a terrorist organization. Alghabra publicly mourned Yasser Arafat. In his Arabic interview he expressed disappointment that Canadian Muslims are insufficiently vocal in demanding Sharia law in Canada.
Alghabra called the Toronto officials to boycott Jewish charity events and opposed the collaboration between the Canadian police force and Israeli anti-terrorist units (obviously, if you don’t consider Hamas and Hezbollah – terrorists, no anti-terrorist work is required either).
Even following the October 7 massacre, even when directly questioned, Alghabra refused to condemn Hamas, but he uses every opportunity to label Israel “brutal and cruel.”
I wonder who the rest of the Council members are.
Stuart York retweeted
It's insane that the @SenateCA human rights committee voted 7 to 1 to criminalize Indian Residential School “denialism.”
Asking questions about how public funds are spent isn't downplaying the impacts of Residential Schools.
What I find even crazier is that Indigenous people may be the ones going to jail for questioning the governments narrative!
Isn't a referendum the ultimate form of consultation? Unless you mean bureaucrats and a select few people meeting ad nauseum to come up with worthless piffle. Consultants, lawyers and band leaders get rich and status quo prevails.
