Hugh Ferguson

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IT consultant in Ottawa, Linux fan, follow Cdn politics. Twitter refugee

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2026-02-14 18:40:31 UTC

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meanwhile Bloomberg floated an article (whether remotely true is another story) about Russia's "willingness" to go back on the US $, which would be a massive blow to China's currency ambitions. Methinks there is a campaign to separate the two. But to be clear, the real target of the US is China. EU forging stronger ties with China is born out of the US treating its EU allies with utter contempt.

2026-01-04 01:16:58 UTC

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Maduro opposed the bankers. Carney is a banker. What do you expect?

2026-01-03 20:31:10 UTC

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and predictably, Poilievre could be relied upon to cheer on the invasion, screaming "down with socialism", showing how offside he is generally with Canadian popular opinion. The attack on Venezuela to secure Venezuelan crude is an attack on the Canadian oil patch as AB bitumen is identical to VZ heavy crude. Perhaps this is why Carney was so open to a new pipeline from AB thru BC to tidewater to serve Chinese and Japanese markets.

2025-09-13 23:54:49 UTC

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are you referring to Putin's desire for personal revenge or Russia, the country, wanting revenge against the USA?

2025-07-26 20:24:05 UTC

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any group of Goy doing that would have been deplaned AND arrested.

2025-07-17 22:08:27 UTC

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probably

2025-07-16 22:32:21 UTC

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it never was about Iran having nukes....that was just the premise. It probably had more to do with the vote of non-confidence in the Knesset 24 hrs before the first sorties against Iran.

2025-07-04 22:11:23 UTC

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normal??? Obviously one govt dept doesn't know what the other is reporting:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadians-ice-detention-1.7577584

2025-06-12 14:56:58 UTC

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do the Americans really think that Russia will honour the deal for rare earth minerals when the US goes to collect, when they are found under territory that Russia claims?

2025-04-12 00:02:51 UTC

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if Brits and Europeans absolutely need to visit the US, my recommendation is to fly through Canada. Yeah, you will be forced to change planes and go through 2 immigration lines, but the benefit is that Canada won't deport you to El Salvador for saying bad things about Trump. Also, from Canada, you pre-clear US customs on Canadian soil. That means if the US has a problem with you, they have to get through the RCMP first. Better yet, just visit Canada.

2025-04-05 17:33:51 UTC

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so maybe this is how the CONS seem to have so much money when the max donation is less than $2k per person per year.

2025-03-16 00:15:29 UTC

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in Canada, I bring this up at every meeting where the choice is between a Canadian s/w vendor, or Microsoft. Problem is, Microsoft makes it easy for users not have to think.

2025-03-16 00:13:11 UTC

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maybe they think that Albertans are lapsed Americans

2025-02-24 17:31:56 UTC

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Trump to Ukraine: What's yours is ours, what's ours is ours, you owe us $billions, and we want your left eye and right kidney.
Zelensky may win re-election due to Trump. He revived the Liberals in Canada by threatening the country with annexation

2025-01-31 22:15:42 UTC

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in the meantime, please make sure you spread the word that there is a provincial election in Ontario. The PCs so badly don't want people to know about it (except for their supporters) they aren't even putting up *their* campaign signs.

2024-12-27 13:51:48 UTC

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and the billion $ question is exactly who controls Bitcoin. Even the guy credited with coming up with it denies it.

2024-12-27 00:24:47 UTC

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perhaps now is the time to start stocking up on Gold. But notice it's not the Russian Govt using bitcoin, it's Russian companies. A bit of a difference. Trump is proposing actually having the US *govt* hold a certain number of bit coins. Either way, something smells.

2024-12-19 21:03:53 UTC

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that should be enough to get every Canadian to vote ABC

2024-12-19 15:27:41 UTC

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does that include Android phones and tablets?

2024-12-19 00:32:35 UTC

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and here I was thinking that this pic was about chaotic telecom infrastructure courtesy of Bell and Rogers.

2024-11-16 00:47:19 UTC

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would retweet the f*ck out of this and quote tweet if possible. For now, you will have to settle for a boost.

2024-11-10 14:11:49 UTC

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it feels like such a separation would be the best thing....not just for America, but for its nervous northern neighbour as well.

2024-11-08 22:05:53 UTC

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well, that works for his agenda, which is to get Canadians to vote against their economic self-interest and to continue doing so.

2024-11-07 23:10:57 UTC

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he's planning on calling it as soon as the $200 bribe cheques arrive. My take is that he wants to get another 4 year mandate *before* PP gets in, and capitalize on anti-JT sentiment, and the fact people don't know difference between Fed and Prov elections

2024-11-07 22:58:02 UTC

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if you are in Ontario, start first with the Ontario MPP candidate most likely to beat the PC party and Doug Ford. Ford is likely to call an early election (timing it for winter) hoping that people won't know the difference between Federal and Provincial. Remember, it's the Provincial govt that is responsible for most of the day to day stuff that actually touches you. Think Healthcare, Education, Public Transit...and province can bypass city hall if they feel like it.

2024-11-06 18:18:57 UTC

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we desperately need a non-aggression pact between Liberals and NDP - both at Federal level, but even sooner, here in Ontario.

2024-11-06 01:20:55 UTC

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I watched the CBC feed for a bit (being a good Canadian). Watched as it went 90:3 to 90:27 in the span of about 5 minutes, and Adreienne Arsenault reminding us that so far no surprises. Have a few shots of rum with those snacks.

2024-11-02 20:33:01 UTC

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probably it's that your body has forgotten how to compensate for alcohol. i.e. the art of acting sober while intoxicated 😁

2024-10-26 13:03:40 UTC

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good words from Jordan, but they need to end their co-operation with Israel for them to have any meaning.

2024-10-26 00:05:34 UTC

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he wants Trump. So does Elon Musk

2024-10-24 13:55:57 UTC

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more to the point, their individual wealth stands to benefit (through the stocks they own in Raytheon, Lockheed et al). By that measure, they have much to lose if Iran launches a counter-strike that manages to overwhelm the THAAD system that Raytheon built. Ultimately everything that is happening comes down to stock prices and US $ supremacy.

2024-10-24 13:23:01 UTC

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if the US were to end support to Israel, watch it happen less than a week before the election - long enough to resonate with voters, short enough to prevent #AIPAC and arms lobby from pivoting.

2024-10-22 22:50:38 UTC

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so this US election really is "Battle of the Billionaires"
It feels a little bit like Aliens vs Predator

2024-10-22 13:36:27 UTC

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we have to wait and see what happens in Saskatchewan. If it goes NDP, you might see Doug Ford call off his plans for an early election. So far, in 2 provincial elections, the vote has been decidedly against the incumbent.

2024-10-21 22:08:34 UTC

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yep, and the Canadian corp media are mirroring Russian and Indian media and blaming Trudeau. Meanwhile, PP doesn't want to do his security clearance. I wonder what would happen if he were denied clearance - would that be made public?

2024-10-21 21:47:28 UTC

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Modi is a nationalist Hindu leader who has gained popularity bashing Muslim and Sikh minorities in his country. He's Harper's kind of scum. He sent his goons both here and the US to assassinate Sikh activists who are citizens of both Canada and the US. Even if someone is racist AF, this should be seen as a massive violation of our sovereignty.

2024-10-21 21:40:46 UTC

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a fact that Modi, Harper, and Poilievre are counting on

2024-10-21 16:33:16 UTC

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best part is that it's not even paywalled

2024-10-21 14:02:33 UTC

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OK then so those still defending Israel are those on #AIPAC's payroll

2024-10-21 13:56:26 UTC

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I'm curious if ANYONE is still defending Israel's so called right to "self defence"

2024-10-14 22:49:36 UTC

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that would be the main motivation for Russia to involve themselves in our elections. They want North America dysfunctional. Mind you, the west has been interfering in Russia and elsewhere for eeons, so I suppose turnabout is fair play.

2024-10-12 00:13:25 UTC

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see your point. They have nothing to lose either way. The most likely outcome is that Harris will get presidency, and Republicans will gain control of Senate and House. Then, RNC can finally get rid of Trump....he was a useful idiot, but Vance is their guy...he's young AND evil. And he will be there in 2028.

2024-10-10 14:10:58 UTC

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at least the CBC picked up that a) he made that sh*t up, and b) he was changing his story after the Coroner's office stated nobody died anywhere near where he said that he saw it.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/john-rustad-fatal-overdose-1.7348135

2024-10-05 00:13:57 UTC

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and withholding funding would have meant the provinces inviting US health care firms in to offer for-profit healthcare....for those in the provinces who have the money

2024-10-05 00:07:25 UTC

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but practically speaking, what could he do? The Harperites discovered that the provinces were the key to dismantling health care. That's why they invested so much into taking down Wynne even though life in Ontario really wasn't that bad....compared to now.

2024-10-05 00:05:56 UTC

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OK, I am guilty of mixing provincial and federal. Crombie vs Stiles, I can gladly take a back seat to NDP. Federally, VERY different story. Singh is either so ignorant he cannot hold office, or dishonest enough to be a member of CPC.

2024-10-04 23:48:42 UTC

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I know....that's why I backed Ted Hsu. But then, that's the #YGK in me

2024-10-04 23:47:38 UTC

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just get rid of Singh and maybe we can hash something out. Just get someone who at least knows where provincial and federal responsibilities lie.

2024-10-04 23:46:30 UTC

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and they should be lucky to have her back. Really hoping for a non-agresssion pact between Crombie and Stiles for the election which is coming sooner than later. Ford needs to get re-elected before PP comes to power. PP and Ford are in a race, but Ford has a majority and can trigger an election any time

2024-10-04 23:44:45 UTC

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yep...even in the CBC, where Harper was able to make a flurry of appointments before relinquishing power. The media is working for the oligarchs to "inform" our opinion. NDP and Liberal voters UNITE!

2024-10-04 23:41:49 UTC

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good that both of them are gone. I'm afraid that the Zionists are so well embedded, even if the NDP comes to power, their peeps will still be there. Look at the Ontario NDP censuring one of their own (and kicking her out of caucus) for the audacity of asking for a ceasefire.

2024-10-04 23:32:16 UTC

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yeah, Eurasia's article had a certain pro-Israel look to it. About the only sentence I agree with is this one: "The address by Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was an object lesson in both hype and hypocrisy."
I agree because Turkey has consistently been publicly critical of Israel but quietly supplying them with oil and whatever else they need. if Turkey were to be consistent with Erdogan's words, Turkey would blockade ANY trade with Israel. They don't

2024-09-30 00:29:41 UTC

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but for Canada's sake, let's still hope Americans don't vote Trump.

2024-09-29 22:25:58 UTC

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what on EARTH would the US National Guard be required for outside the US? Did they run out of regular force troops? National Guard is usually only deployed internally and functions a bit like our military reserves.

2024-09-29 20:31:05 UTC

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another reason the US wants to ban TikTok

2024-09-28 00:02:59 UTC

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"on the face of it" is the salient point.

2024-09-27 17:12:29 UTC

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one big irony of Doug Ford's premiership is that Rob Ford got elected under a "stop the gravy train" slogan. Doug Ford has got the longest and largest gravy train that Ontario has ever seen

2024-09-26 02:50:40 UTC

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and I agree with them. It would be like the Boston big dig, but with more Mafia

2024-09-23 19:58:27 UTC

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I still think walking away from Iraq was far easier than walking away from Israel. There is something so central to the core of the American deep state that makes this piece of real estate super-important to them. According to myth, Satan makes his last stand in Israel

2024-09-22 18:55:35 UTC

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those laws only apply to regular folks, not the oligarch class.

2024-09-19 19:09:10 UTC

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the Israel lobby is still very powerful in this country...so is the US lobby (or the threat of invasion). We're lucky the US even allowed us to abstain.

2024-09-18 18:43:52 UTC

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in my view, he never had the temperament to be PM. Ed Broadbent would have been perhaps one of the best PM's we never had.

2024-09-18 13:11:34 UTC

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I can totally see NDP marketing ops pushing this. The NDP (and, well, really, the left in the west) has largely abandoned working class men. To me, this is the NDP trying to win back the support of working class men by appealing to their reptile instincts (something that the CONS are wildly successful at doing).

2024-09-17 21:14:07 UTC

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what the byelection results do show is a) the NDP is not out, but they would still be lucky to hang on to all their seats if an election happened, and b) that the Bloc is proving to be an alternative for Quebecers, and now they have leverage. In fact, both NDP and Bloc have leverage they didn't have before, which they would lose if PP won his majority. Overall, I think the LPC, NDP, and Bloc can find a lot of common ground.

2024-09-17 21:10:17 UTC

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he's not there to govern for Canadians, he's there to govern for US multinationals who want our resources.

2024-09-16 00:23:37 UTC

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and unlike Kiss army which consisted mostly of boys aged 7-12, Swifties appear to be mostly of voting age.

2024-09-15 23:59:20 UTC

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Swifties...the new Kiss army

2024-09-14 23:57:38 UTC

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patios, much safer than indoors. Especially with a bit of breeze

2024-09-11 23:18:39 UTC

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problem with a short selling move is that it only works if the rest of the market panics and joins in the selling. You are essentially betting that the stock will go down in price by "selling" shares in advance with the agreement you purchase them at some point in the future. If the stock instead rises, you're the one going bankrupt.
If someone had a trillion dollars, they wouldn't care...they would either have collapsed the value of Tesla, or they'd *own* Tesla.

2024-09-11 22:17:12 UTC

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okay...that's more a beta move

2024-09-11 22:16:50 UTC

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if I had a big enough bank account, I'd short sell SpaceX and Tesla so as to bankrupt the bastard.