Mechanical engineer-in-training based in St. John’s NL. Politics, tech, sports. Views are my own.

Joined August 2025
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Exciting news St. John’s… I’M RUNNING! the Tely! 😆 Thanks to all who organised and volunteered with the Mews 8k. Lovely course for a beginner like myself. Get out & move your body - health is wealth! #nlwx
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This is one of these times where I wish I was wrong. But, as with the MoU, the cold, hard, immutable facts don’t care how good your comms are. The PCs are steering us towards destitution again. But hey, at least they circlejerked in their AGM video! #comebackstory
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Some highlights from the S&P credit outlook downgrade: 1. Specifically names change in gov delay of MoU as contributors towards negative outlook 2. Specifically says that the post-2014 gov (Liberal!) took necessary action to stabilise fiscal situation 1/
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3. Highlights risk of oil-based economy - relying on oil revenues is too risky long term 4. Calls into question PC’s executive competence - can they get anything done? (no) 5. Harbinger of things to come. S&P is one of 3 bond rating agencies - others will follow
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This is one of these times where I wish I was wrong. But, as with the MoU, the cold, hard, immutable facts don’t care how good your comms are. The PCs are steering us towards destitution again. But hey, at least they circlejerked in their AGM video! #comebackstory
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Credit outlook downgraded from “stable” to “negative”. A result of gov’s mismanagement since taking office in October. Higher borrowing costs to prop up the lies they told. Bond markets don’t care that you have slick comms. NLers will pay the price. For All Of Us! #nlpoli
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It is an inextricable fact - backed up by historical data - that every time the PCs come into office, provincial finances go in the tank. Executive incompetence. We’re now in a weaker position to negotiate with Quebec, because we are primed for cascade failure. Thanks Tony!
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Ben Oates retweeted
the two worst people you know are fighting
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I like watching takes that make JJ McCullough’s fuzzy head explode. His is a worldview only possible if you never go east of the Rockies. #cdnpoli
Replying to @JJ_McCullough
We don't really share a culture
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Extremely rich of the gov to say the opposition is engaging in “personal attacks”. No - it is legitimate, and important, for people to critique the involvement of former MF officials. Have they learned their lesson? I hope they have - fOr All oF uS #nlpoli
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Hoo boy. A political party that needs to post a self-flattering circle jerk is not a confident or competent political party. Grievance politics does nothing to help NLers. But; don’t interrupt the enemy when they’re making a mistake… it’s gonna be a fun 3yrs 🙂‍↕️ #nlpoli
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So *that’s* why they lost 🤓 #nlpoli
En haut du Centre Bell avec Pierre Poilievre ! 🔥🔥🔥 Upper deck vibes with Pierre Poilievre at the Bell Centre. #gohabsgo 🔵⚪️🔴
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Oh my God. First Whelan, now Outhouse. “We will not let them deflect” you’re the government you twit Brutal. #nlpoli
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The Premier doesn’t realise he’s the Premier. Answer the godforsaken question - why is Des Whelan on the tit & out of the family care circuit when he’s not giving a single bit of healthcare advice? JMJ.
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Ben Oates retweeted
Canada has decided to move forward with Saab GlobalEye as its new airborne capability for Airborne Early Warning and Control. I look forward to welcoming Canada into the GlobalEye family. GlobalEye is a highly modern and capable system that now has earned the trust of a fourth country, in addition to Sweden, France and the UAE. By operating Global Eye, Canada strengthens its ability to safeguard their sovereignty while contributing to NATO’s collective defence, including being a vital asset for surveillance and control of the Arctic region. As the GlobalEye is based on the Canadian Bombardier Global 6500 platform, GlobalEye is already creating jobs in Canada, and working with the Canadian supply chain. This decision ties our two nations even closer together.
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I seem to have burrowed into the head of whatever room-temperature IQ runs the Republic of NL accounts. Good - they’re a coward hiding behind anonymity. Every NLer has indulged in the fantasy of an independent NL; most of us just outgrow it in favour of reality. #nlpoli
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I would like to personally start fundraising today for whichever future candidate has the best chance at beating Keith Russell. He’ll lose anyways, but I want to break him & his ego. Don’t care who it is; that electoral skidmark needs to be gone. #nlpoli
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It is not the Liberals’ fault Conservatives in Alberta only support Canada when their side of politics wins
I’ve said this before, and I’m going to say it again, because nothing has changed. I said it about the sovereignists in Quebec. Now I’m saying it about the ones in Alberta. The federal Liberals have created more separatists than the people actually leading the separatist cause. Let that sink in. The folks running the campaign for separation could not recruit as well as Ottawa has recruited for them. They’ve handed them the best argument they’ve got. And this isn’t a fluke. It’s a pattern. When you spend ten years treating a province like a problem instead of a partner, this is what you get. Policy after policy that lands like a punch. An economy told it’s the villain of the story. You do that long enough and people stop getting angry and start getting serious. They stop complaining and start asking a different question. Would we be better off on our own? Once ordinary people are asking that out loud at the kitchen table, something has already broken. I watched this exact movie play out in Quebec. Years of Ottawa talking down to people, and the separatist numbers climbed. Now look at Alberta. An idea that used to sit on the fringe is suddenly something a real share of Albertans say they’d consider. That didn’t come from the premier. That came from a decade of being ignored. So here’s my honest suggestion to the federal Liberals. Sit this one out. Your party did enough damage over the last ten years. This is why we are where we are today. If you can’t say something positive, if all you’ve got is another shot at the premier of Alberta, then please, just stay out of it. You’ve helped enough already. 🇨🇦
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Much like the PCs prior to forming gov, Carolina hasn’t been tested until now - and the results in the face of pressure are quite something…… 😆 #gohabsgo

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Now that Steve Outhouse has left the province, seems message discipline & cohesion has gone out the window for the PCs…. #nlpoli
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