I was pleased to join Minister @Sflecce for the announcement of the proposed Northern Shield Energy Corridor today. This ambitious project would connect Alberta's oil sands to Sarnia-Lambton, reinforcing our community's position as one of Canada's most important energy hubs.

Our government has removed nearly six percent of Ontario's red tape burden to make life easier, help businesses succeed and put technology to work. Check out our progress in the 2026 Burden Reduction Report: ontario.ca/page/2026-burden-…

He kidnapped his own children, boarded the Titanic under a fake name — and when the ship began to sink, he gave them to strangers. His name was Michel Navratil, a 32-year-old tailor from Nice, France. After his marriage ended and his wife was given custody of their sons — Michel Jr., 3, and Edmond, 2 — he took the boys over Easter weekend and bought three second-class tickets. He traveled as “Louis Hoffman” and told people he was a widower. On the night of April 14, 1912, the Titanic hit an iceberg. Michel carried his sons to the lifeboats. Women and children could go. He could not. He placed the boys in a boat. Before it disappeared into the dark, he told three-year-old Michel: “Tell your mother I loved her.” He never left the ship. The boys were rescued by the Carpathia. They spoke only French. Nobody knew who they were. This is the real photograph. It was taken after the rescue in 1912. Look at the writing at the top: “Louis & Lola? — Titanic Survivors.” People thought they were a boy and a girl because of the curls and the little dresses — that was common for young boys then. They were both boys. Michel is on the left. Edmond is on the right, holding the toy. Newspapers called them the Titanic Orphans. Miles away, their mother, Marcelle, saw their picture in a paper. She came to New York and was reunited with them on May 16, 1912. Michel Jr. became a philosophy professor and lived until 2001. Edmond became an architect and died in 1953. Their father had taken them without permission and lied about his name. But in his last minutes, he made the choice that saved them both. He let them go so they could live. ❤️🙏

We’re getting shovels in the ground for new and upgraded long-term care homes across Ontario.🙌   As part of our $6.4 billion plan, we’re building PeopleCare in Stratford to deliver 288 long-term care spaces right here in Perth-Wellington. 🔗 news.ontario.ca/en/release/1…

Today, I operated on a little girl who desperately needed O-negative blood. We didn’t have enough in the blood bank. But her twin brother had the same blood type. I explained to him that his sister needed his blood. That she was very sick, and that his donation could save her life. He listened quietly. Then he looked at his parents and said goodbye. At the time, I thought he was simply frightened. I never imagined he had misunderstood what I meant. We took the blood, and everything went smoothly. A little while later, he looked at me and asked: “So… when will I die?” I froze. He genuinely believed that by giving his blood to his sister, he was giving her his life. He thought he had just said goodbye to his parents for the last time. I gently explained that he wasn’t going to die—that he had only given a small amount of blood, and his body would replace it. Thankfully, both children are going to be fine. But I’ll never forget that little boy. He was willing to give his life for his sister without hesitation—not because he fully understood what was happening, but because he understood one thing perfectly: She was his sister. And she needed him. They were twins. And for one little boy, saving his sister was worth everything.

It was an honour to join the members of Bothwell Legion Branch 252 last Sunday for their Drumhead Service, marching alongside local firefighters, Army and Air Cadets, and members of the community to the cenotaph. The service marked the opening of Legion Week — a special week to recognize the important work of The Royal Canadian Legion, remember those who served, and continue to support Veterans and their families. This year is especially meaningful as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of The Royal Canadian Legion across Canada. I’m proud to see the Bothwell community come together to honour this important legacy and keep remembrance at the heart of our community. Lets continue to support our local legions across #LambtonKentMiddlesex for the rest of Legion Week!

On November 20, 2015, Islamist militants stormed the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali, taking roughly 170 hostages and killing 20 people. Kyle Morgan, a Delta Force operator then serving as a special operations advisor at the US Embassy, received word of the attack and of Americans trapped inside. He moved toward the hotel, linked up with a small group of US personnel, and helped enter the building under fire, smoke, and grenade blasts to locate and extract hostages floor by floor. Morgan later described kicking through doors into a smoke-filled conference room to pull out a man who was barely hanging on, then fighting through a stairwell contact where he came face-to-face with the attackers. He stayed until he accounted for the last American he was looking for. For his actions that day he received the Distinguished Service Cross, the Army’s second-highest award for valor. He has said it was the longest day of his life and the reason he was there. The years after Mali brought a different fight: concussions, PTSD, addiction, and a near-fatal overdose. Morgan has been open that the hardest rescue was his own. He credits faith and sobriety with rebuilding his family and now leads Blu Bearing Solutions, teaching a protector mindset to law enforcement and civilians.

St. Thomas gigafactory operations delayed to 2029; EllisDon tapped as general contractor ctvnews.ca/london/article/st…

At thirteen, Tommy Flowers Jr. walked into a British government office carrying an observation he believed could matter to the war effort: something was wrong with a code used to protect military communications. The intelligence officer who first encountered him assumed the boy was playing a prank. Then he saw Tommy’s calculations. Within an hour, the laughter had stopped. It was January 1944. Britain remained at war. London was still marked by the destruction of the Blitz, while behind closed doors, military communications were being protected by some of the country’s most closely guarded cryptographic systems. Tommy was never meant to know anything about them. He was a schoolboy from Camden Town, the son of a postal telegraph engineer and a seamstress. Yet mathematics seemed to come naturally to him. He noticed patterns quickly and had an unusual ability to remember numbers and sequences. Books fascinated him. He enjoyed memorizing timetables. By the age of seven, he could work through difficult multiplication problems mentally. At nine, he had taught himself chess and was already defeating adults. By eleven, he had moved on to mathematics texts intended for university students. Then the war brought a glimpse of cryptography into his everyday life. Tommy’s uncle worked as a telegraphist. Occasionally, he brought home practice cipher sheets that were used to train operators. The material was not intended for a child to study. Tommy studied it anyway. While other children were playing outdoors or reading comics, he would sit at the kitchen table examining columns of letters and numbers. He wanted to understand the hidden rules behind them. Soon, he had grasped the basic idea of how the cipher worked. Then he noticed a problem. The process used to generate its keys contained a repeating mathematical weakness. Given enough messages and the right circumstances, parts of the key could potentially be predicted. Tommy did not know the terminology that professional cryptographers would have used to describe the flaw. He only knew that the system did not behave the way it should. He showed his uncle. The response was immediate. His uncle told him to stop looking at the sheets. Tommy did as he was told. But the problem stayed with him. Months went by. By January 1944, Britain was preparing for the invasion of Europe. Tommy’s father was away serving, and the thirteen-year-old could not shake the concern that soldiers might be relying on a system he believed could be compromised. Eventually, he decided that someone in authority needed to hear about it. Tommy boarded a bus into central London. He entered a government building flying the British flag and asked the receptionist whether he could speak to someone responsible for Army codes. She laughed at the request. Tommy did not leave. A junior officer eventually overheard the exchange. Perhaps amused by the persistent schoolboy, he agreed to see what Tommy had to say. He brought him into an office, put paper in front of him, and asked him to explain the problem. The officer even gave him a biscuit. Tommy began writing. When the officer returned to examine the calculations, the situation changed. This was not a child's fantasy. Tommy had found a real weakness in the cryptographic system. A telephone call followed. Before long, the thirteen-year-old was being questioned by senior cryptographic specialists associated with Britain’s secret codebreaking establishment. For nearly two hours, they questioned him. How had he learned about the system? Who had taught him? Where had the cipher material come from? Was anybody else involved? Tommy told them exactly what had happened. His uncle had brought the training sheets home. Tommy had become curious. No one had recruited him. No one had instructed him about what to search for. He had simply studied the system until a mathematical pattern caught his attention. The specialists went through his reasoning themselves. Tommy was correct. There was, however, something he did not know. British analysts had already identified essentially the same weakness several months earlier, and the cipher was already being replaced. That fact did little to diminish their interest in Tommy. Professional cryptographers working inside one of the world's most sophisticated intelligence organizations had reached the conclusion through their own work. Tommy had arrived at the same discovery while sitting at a kitchen table. He was thirteen years old. The government then investigated the circumstances. Officials searched the family home. Tommy’s uncle was questioned and reprimanded for removing training material from authorized facilities. Tommy himself received a serious warning about secrecy. Then officials presented him with a document. He was required to promise that he would never discuss the cipher, the weakness he had discovered, or what had happened inside the government office. Tommy signed. Then he went home. With another biscuit. British intelligence, however, did not simply forget about him. Officials quietly kept track of his academic development. Two years later, when Tommy was sixteen, representatives of the organization that would eventually become GCHQ approached him. There was no laughter this time. They offered him a place in a government training program. Tommy accepted. The boy who had once walked into Whitehall with a mathematical concern went on to become a signals analyst and, eventually, a professional cryptographer. By the 1950s, he was working full-time inside Britain's secret intelligence world. His career continued for more than four decades. During the Cold War, he worked on Soviet communications. He watched intelligence work move from manual calculations toward computerized cryptanalysis and helped train later generations of specialists. For most of those years, almost no one outside those government buildings knew what his work actually involved. His wife knew only that he worked for the government. His children regarded him as an ordinary civil servant. When Tommy retired in 1994, his colleagues presented him with a commemorative book marking his career. Even that could not simply go home with him. Its contents were considered too sensitive. Tommy died in 2019 at the age of eighty-eight. Only after his death did his family learn more about the remarkable career he had kept largely hidden for decades. The promise he had made as a child had endured throughout his life. Decades passed in silence. And somewhere within the archives lies the beginning of that extraordinary story: a sheet of paper covered in the careful calculations of a thirteen-year-old who entered a government office in the middle of a world war and calmly explained that Britain had a mathematical problem. They examined his work. They gave him a biscuit. They warned him never to discuss what had happened. Then they waited for him to grow up. -Damn, That's Interesting

Canada's National Shame Canada's so-called "Medical Assistance in Dying" is out of control, with horrific abuses that are often only covered by international media and independent bloggers. Meanwhile, when foreign Parliaments debate the issue, everyone agrees that they cannot allow what has happened in Canada to occur there. One day there will be commissions of inquiry, and our grandchildren will ask us how we let this happen.

Perhaps it wasn’t until the damaged buildings were pulled down around it, that you realise just how close St Paul’s Cathedral came to being destroyed in the Blitz… #London #History #blitz

A school bus carrying 65 children started drifting into oncoming traffic after the driver suddenly lost consciousness. Most of the kids didn’t even realize what was happening at first because they were looking at their phones, playing games or wearing AirPods. But five rows back, 13-year-old Dillon Reeves noticed the driver’s hands drop from the wheel and the bus begin swerving into traffic. He didn’t hesitate. Dillon jumped up, ran to the front, grabbed the steering wheel and slammed on the brake, bringing the 15,000-pound school bus to a stop before it crashed. Then, with terrified kids screaming behind him and the driver still unconscious beside him, Dillon yelled for someone to call 911. All 65 students made it out without a single injury, and the bus driver was treated at the scene and later made a full recovery. That’s the kind of young hero people should know about.

Terry Strada was holding her four-day-old baby when her husband called from the 104th floor of the burning North Tower. “Terry, a plane hit the building.” Tom Strada never came home. Their children were seven, four, and four days old. Twenty-five years later, at Ground Zero, she read his name and turned to the leaders in front of her — Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden, and Vice President Vance. “How can it be 25 years and still we have no justice for the role that Saudi Arabia played in your murder?” “For 25 years, administration after administration, including leaders in front of us here today, chose to protect the Saudis instead of standing with the 9/11 families.” “One betrayal after another.” The crowd cheered. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudi. Families have spent decades in court. In August 2025 a judge let the lawsuit proceed. Saudi Arabia denies responsibility. A wife answered one last phone call. Then she spent a quarter-century raising three children without their father — and asking why. 💔🙏

Back in Ottawa with my Conservative colleagues @Roman_Baber @ArpanKhanna @AndrewLawton on the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. 🇨🇦

Today at Queen’s Park: Premier Doug Ford is set to hold a cabinet meeting to “to assess progress in implementing the government’s plan to protect Ontario” This comes as the massive EV battery plant in St Thomas faces a 2 year delay - on top of the other EV sector delays and cancellations. Several ministers including Finance, Economic Development, Treasury, Transportation and Energy expected to speak. #onpoli

OPP Provincial Constable Bruce K. Crew Badge 1869 died in the line of duty in Goderich Sept 25, 1983 when he was struck by a police cruiser during a high speed pursuit. A Coroners Inquest of PC Crew's death resulted in pursuit safety guidelines for police in Ontario. Bruce is always remembered for his service and sacrifice. #HeroesInLife

“The premier gave Oosterhoff the tasks of improving security, sovereignty and self-reliance in the agri-food sectors, emphasizing “quicker, faster, immediate” as a way of operating.” With @fordnation and @BillRosenbergPC @paulvickersmpp, we are working to grow agriculture and food processing, create good jobs, and deliver new market opportunities - to Protect Ontario. farmtario.com/news/rmp-fundi…

From forestry and agriculture to tourism, mining and manufacturing, rural Ontario helps power our economy, contributing $117.8 billion to our GDP and supporting 1.2 million jobs. This Rural Ontario Week, discover local attractions, trails and parks close to home. Visit Quetico Provincial Park, one of Ontario’s great natural treasures, and experience all the Northwest has to offer.

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Thank you @iPoliticsCA! This recognition belongs to Brampton residents. Your push and our shared advocacy got Ottawa and Queen's Park to listen. Together we won federal bail reform to keep repeat violent offenders off our streets, and moved lawful access forward so police can act fast on extortion. Next, we're putting more officers on our streets, investing in new safety technology, and pushing to stop stolen cars from leaving our ports. We won't let up until every family in Brampton feels safe. Full story: ipolitics.ca/2026/09/04/insi…

Another productive discussion with @EDA_ONT’s leadership and @Rae_Matt on our plan to cut regulatory red tape continue making generational investments in new generation, transmission and storage, as we prepare our grid for rising electricity demand. Given the broader imperative to protect Ontario's economy, we also discussed our intention to enhance procurement policies to buy and build more Ontario-made.