“I’m not playing cards,” — Volodymr Zelensky. A quote for history.
Glen E. McGregor
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Glen E. McGregor
@glen_mcgregor
Journalist covering Parliament Hill for @CityNewsTO. Wearer of lanyards. Won’t engage with anonymous/fake name accounts. [email protected].
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Born December 31
Joined May 2008
- Tore up my knee playing softball. I will need an MRI but Ontario requires I get an ultrasound first. How that's going...
- Protest organizer Chris Barber taken into police custody on Albert Street, in the last hour.
- This is the audio landscape in a residential area of downtown Ottawa this morning.
00:00 - I was doing a live hit with @MSNBC this afternoon when our crew was mobbed. One guy actually spit at us, others called us Nazis. MSNBC had to cut it off almost after it began. Then they chased us down the street to our bureau.
00:00 - Lutnick chimes in that the H1B visa fee will be $100,000 *every year* not a one-time application fee. This seems insane but massive opportunity for Canada to scoop up top engineering talent.Trump signs an EO on H-1Bs raising "the fee that companies pay to sponsor H1-B applicants to $100,000"
00:00 - In emotional video tonight, protest organizer Tamara Lich seems to accept she is going to jail soon.
00:00 - The Crown has laid new charges against Ottawa protest organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, now jointly accused of: mischief, counselling mischief, intimidation, counselling intimidation, counselling obstruction of police, and obstructing police.
- As US booze gets elbowed out of provincial liquor stores, Big Bourbon is getting worried.
- Ottawa protester organizer Tamara Lich has been denied bail, will remain in custody until trial.
- Defence minister Bill Blair, on CBC, just said the government and DND are examining whether they will acquire all 88 F-35 fighter jets on order, or whether “other investments” might be better for Canada. “We are being compelled to look at options.” Wow.
- At the Under Armour store at the Tanger outlet mall in Kanata.
- 158 Canadian Forces members (and seven civilians) died in Afghanistan avenging the 9/11 attacks on the US. I don’t find jokes about the “Governor of Canada”/51st state amusing. Curious to see when this kind of stupidity gets an appropriate response from our government.I just left Wayne Gretzky, “The Great One” as he is known in Ice Hockey circles. I said, “Wayne, why don’t you run for Prime Minister of Canada, soon to be known as the Governor of Canada - You would win easily, you wouldn’t even have to campaign.” He had no interest, but I think
