Christopher Smart 🇯🇲 🇨🇦 @SmartCsmart

Lawyer. Political junkie. Travel, Music and Sports. All the way from Santa Hill JA. Toronto via Jamaica Joined March 2013

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3 weeks ago

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

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a month ago

20 years in the making!

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CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINALISTS ❤️

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3 months ago

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

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Riveting, extraordinary and brutally honest speech by Mark Carney, Canada's prime minister. God, I wish we would have European leaders like this. Here's an excerpt: In 1978, the Czech dissident Václav Havel, later president, wrote an essay called “The Power of the Powerless,” and in it he asked a simple question: how did the communist system sustain itself? And his answer began with a greengrocer. Every morning, the shopkeeper places a sign in his window: “Workers of the world unite.” He doesn’t believe in it. No one does. But he places the sign anyway to avoid trouble, to signal compliance, to get along. And because every shopkeeper on every street does the same, the system persists — not through violence alone, but through the participation of ordinary people in rituals they privately know to be false. Havel called this living within a lie. The system’s power comes not from its truth, but from everyone’s willingness to perform as if it were true. And its fragility comes from the same source. When even one person stops performing, when the greengrocer removes his sign, the illusion begins to crack. Friends, it is time for companies and countries to take their signs down. For decades, countries like Canada prospered under what we called the rules-based international order. We join its institutions, we praised its principles, we benefited from its predictability. And because of that, we could pursue values-based foreign policies under its protection. We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically, and we knew that international law applied with varied rigor, depending on the identity of the accused or the victim. This fiction was useful, and American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes. So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals, and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality. This bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition. Read/listen in full: globalnews.ca/news/11620877/…

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5 months ago

I'm really questioning this @FIFAcom peace prize now.

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5 months ago

Hey @grok

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7 months ago

@krassenstein LOL. I don't think many saw what you did there. We have been learning Arabic numbers up here in Canada forever. It helps us in the fight not to become the 51st state!

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7 months ago

Prayers for Jamaica 🇯🇲

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8 months ago

St Francis of Assi, pray for us.

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9 months ago

@ballondor Modric over Henry will forever prove your award is bought and paid for.

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9 months ago

@AndrewScheer Man, Canada got lucky. I cannot imagine you as PM. Did you ever give up US citizenship? Or pass the insurance broker exam? #goals

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10 months ago

"As a result". Blaming your own people @AirCanada. Who is handling your comms?

Air Canada @AirCanada

10 months ago

CUPE, Air Canada’s flight attendants’ union, rejects agreement to fly Canadians home. As a result, 25 000 additional passengers are going to be stranded abroad.

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10 months ago

Croatia is it...

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11 months ago

"The stone that the builder refuses shall be the head cornerstone ". If you know, you know. #bobmarley

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a year ago

@FlavioVolpe1 It was a great catch from purely athleticism perspective. But Devo, 1992 World Series against Braves because of the magnitude of game for me.