Health care, fiscal, labour, and international issues. The usual disclaimers.
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Doug Allan retweeted
Jun 12
This is what a holocaust looks like.
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China🇨🇳 vs the United States🇺🇸:
China produces more cars annually than the US, Japan, Germany, India, and South Korea combined.
China’s shipbuilding industry has an estimated capacity over 200 times larger than the United States’.
China now installs more industrial robots annually than the rest of the world combined.
China consumed over 10,000 TWh of electricity in 2025, the first country in human history to cross that threshold. The United States generated about 4,430 TWh. China is now using well over double America’s electricity.
China poured more cement between 2011–2013 than the United States used in the entire 20th century.
China graduates roughly 4 times as many STEM students per year as the United States.
By purchasing power parity (PPP), China’s economy is now dramatically larger than America’s, often estimated at roughly $46 trillion vs $32 trillion.
China now produces more commercial ships than the rest of the world combined.
China has over 50,000 KM in high-speed rail, the US has almost none.
China produces roughly half of the world’s industrial goods in key sectors like steel, shipbuilding, solar panels, batteries, and cement.
China’s container ports dominate global trade. Shanghai alone moves vastly more cargo than any American port.
China has become the largest trading partner for 157 countries, surpassing the United States in commercial reach.
China added 315 GW of solar capacity in 2025 alone. The US added 43.2 GW in the same year. China installed over 7 times more solar in a single year than the United States.
Chen Weihua: ‘The US🇺🇸 has clearly UNDERESTIMATED China’s🇨🇳 power.’
‘If you look at the tariff war against China during the first year of Trump 2.0, the US has clearly underestimated China’s power.
China is now much more powerful than it was eight or nine years ago during Trump 1.0, in terms of economy, technology, renewables, EVs, and even military power.
China is the biggest trading partner of 120 countries. China needs global trade. China is a beneficiary of globalisation. But you’ve also heard of the dual circulation policy, China is making great efforts to expand its domestic market and stimulate domestic consumption.
There’s much to be done, but that doesn’t mean China cannot survive without foreign markets. We still want an open global economy where countries can trade freely.
That’s still China’s mindset. That’s why we have been investing in infrastructure from Africa to Latin America to Asia, to build connectivity.
Connectivity to improve the living standards and wellbeing of local people, but also to facilitate international trade.’
—@chenweihua, former EU Bureau Chief of China Daily, on the latest episode of Going Underground
Watch the full interview in the quoted post below👇
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Jun 9
Doug Ford's public hospital crisis deepens.
The Perth & Smiths Falls Hospital is experiencing critical inpatient capacity pressures due to a shortage of available beds. The Emergency Department remains open but patients are being triaged.
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Doug Allan retweeted
Jun 4
trump's revolution is failing
but the american people are going to continue to demand one.
i explain why with @ezraklein
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50 layoffs at Barrie's Royal Vic hospital as demand surges. It's facing a $7.8 million funding shortfall. barrietoday.com/local-news/w…
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Stop the hospital cuts. The Ontario Council of Hospital Unions and CUPE Local 5852 protesting Doug Ford cuts at Scarborough Health Network. By-election in Scarborough is coming up.
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Stop health care privatization! Build our public hospital services. Ontario Health Coalition rally on Queen now. Heading up to Queen's Park to tell @fordnation
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US ambassador doesn't understand why Canadians might be annoyed: we are going after all nations, he assures us.
They really are dumb. cbc.ca/news/politics/hoekstr…
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Doug Allan retweeted
May 22
Zelensky's new state hero, Andrii Melnyk, in July 1941: "We collaborate closely with Germany and invest everything in this collaboration...we believe that Adolf Hitler’s new order in Europe is the real order, and that Ukraine is one of the avant-gardes"
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⚡️ Remains of 20th century Ukrainian military leader Andrii Melnyk brought to Kyiv for reburial.
"Today, Ukraine is bringing home not only an outstanding figure — we are restoring a part of our own historical memory," the statement from the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ reads.
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What greater hypocrisy? The US Navy has killed 194 people in extrajudicial strikes across the Caribbean & Pacific since Sept 2025. None posed any threat to US security. Yet the same US govt indicts Raúl Castro for defending Cuban airspace against U.S.-based terrorist groups.
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Doug Allan retweeted
May 20
The abominable treatment of civilians aboard the flotilla, including that which is documented in footage shared by Itamar Ben-Gvir, is unacceptable.
Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs has directed officials to summon the Israeli ambassador to demand assurances regarding the safety and security of Canadians involved.
Canada has already imposed strict sanctions on Mr. Ben-Gvir, including asset freezes and a travel ban, in response to his repeated incitement of violence. The protection of civilians and respect for human dignity must be upheld everywhere, at all times.
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Doug Allan retweeted
May 14
Un 14 de mayo de 1938, la selección de fútbol de Inglaterra hacia el saludo nazi antes de un partido en Berlín, que iban a jugar contra la Alemania nazi, como muestra de respeto a Hitler.
El gobierno británico ordenó a los futbolistas hacerlo en el ambiente de concordia con los nazis, de hecho, apenas unos meses después, los británicos junto a los franceses, firmarían el Acuerdo de Munich donde colaborarían con Hitler y les regalarían los Sudetes de Checoslovaquia.
Este era el bando de los países capitalistas aliados realmente... y no los cuentos de Salvar al Soldado Ryan que edulcoran la realidad.
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‘Under immense strain’: Wait times at Ontario emergency rooms have spiked over past 5 years, study says
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Last year, China installed three times as much wind power capacity as the rest of the world combined, even as its turbine exports jumped. All of the world’s six largest wind turbine manufacturers are Chinese.
Canada is speeding up pipeline construction. nytimes.com/2026/05/05/busin…
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Doug Allan retweeted
May 3
Ford CEO Jim Farley: We should not let Chinese EVs into the US.
Jim himself drove a Chinese Xiaomi Su7 and has been to China 6-7 times a year.
He said, "It's the most humbling thing I've ever seen. They have far superior in-vehicle tech."
Can't win, so they ban.
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