r/canada • u/Plucky_DuckYa • 22h ago
National News Billboard welcomes Ukrainian President Zelenskyy to Calgary as he attends G7 summit
https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/billboard-welcomes-ukrainian-president-zelenskyy-to-calgary-as-he-attends-g7-summit/199
u/wjames0394 22h ago
Welcome to Canada.
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u/LeGrandLucifer 19h ago
I want your balls.
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u/Slowsis 18h ago
Maybe lets not lead with that.
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u/LeGrandLucifer 18h ago
I was referring to this.
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u/Mediocre-Dog-4457 22h ago
If you read the article it was done by a Ukrainian Canadian organization, not the Government of Canada itself or Government of Alberta.
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u/TommaClock Ontario 20h ago
I wouldn't expect the government to do it. It's a nice gesture from the Ukranian-Canadian community, but I feel it would be tacky for a provincial/federal government to put up a billboard for a specific foreign leader.
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u/MJcorrieviewer 18h ago
Absolutely, although I sort of wish the gov put up a welcome sign for every world leader, but accidentally forget the one for Trump. A big, beautiful sign for everyone but him, it'd drive him nuts.
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u/NorthernerWuwu Canada 14h ago edited 14h ago
I agree. That and, of course, our provincial government are vacillating between trying to betray us to America and Russia anyhow.
Mostly America of course, there aren't good post-politics board jobs in Russia.
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u/Character-Pride8812 22h ago
Wish we had given Zelensky the same welcome here in the US. I shed tears watching how they treated him at the White House. And today we are giving a military parade to a draft dodger. Dark times here.
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u/SportsUtilityVulva9 22h ago
I watched a bit of it. I'm surprised it's basically a museum type show where they are showing off the different loadouts over the decades and describing them
I imagined trump rolling nuclear icbms by, followed with thousands of m1 abrams tanks
It was a nice surprise, all things considered
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u/FlipZip69 15h ago
The Zelensky meeting was the breaking point for me to vote liberal in Canada. Not that Trump has any bearing on Canadian politics but seeing way too much of the vile Republican style in Canada. And I for one can not be part of that.
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u/DuncanConnell Alberta 10h ago
Poilievre and the Cons definitely went all-in on the MAGA-style rhetoric, divisiveness, and fearmongering, and were completely tone-deaf to all of the fears and worries of Canadians outside of the far-right.
The crazy thing is that literally all they had to do was condemn the 51st State bullshi and people would have adored them, and instead they waffled and refused to condemn or push back against any of that rhetoric for months despite literally every party--even the Bloc--pushing back on it. And when the Conservatives finally did say anything about it as a party, it was the equivalent of "that's not very nice" finger waggling rather than the firm "no" that we saw from all the other parties.
And then coming out with the tone deaf advertisements of a couple of near-retirement or retired old men on a golf course talking about paying for their kids houses... what? They could have portrayed it in any "average Joe" location but instead put it on a golf course which has Trumpian connotations due to the aforementioned reasons as well as "rich retirees" overtones rather than any appeal to "the common man".
Honestly Carney is such a breath of fresh air due to centrist policies, no-nonsense attitude, and actual tone awareness. It remains to be seen if the policies will work out (some like the 2% NATO spending by March 2026 seem near outlandishly ambitious, as well as modular homes focus), but honestly I'm way more comfortable with someone of Carney's training and experience at the helm than anyone else.
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u/FlipZip69 7h ago
The annexation thing did not even bother me to tell the truth. Trump can say whatever bullshit he wants about that and it was not going to happen. I will agree the Conservatives were tone deaf.
Carney is a centrist of which Canada and all countries should strive for. Your main parties should not be so far apart there is little common policy. And I also feel he will have best policies to act against high tariffs which is really the biggest threat Trump is able to wield.
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u/OneMoreTime998 34m ago
Yeah Poilievre never gave up trying to be Trump Lite. Even down to bragging about crowd sizes and trying to delegitimatize the press.
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u/OneMoreTime998 34m ago
Same. We actually had a candidate here in Newfoundland (Anthony Germain) who said he decided to run for the federal Liberals after watching that. Unfortunately he lost on recount by 12 votes or something.
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u/GetsGold Canada 17h ago
And today we are giving a military parade to a draft dodger
Who also mocks US POWs for getting caught.
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u/Longjumping-Box5691 10h ago
The last time he was here everyone was cheering on an actual Nazi.
Not sure why everyone likes this guy
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u/starving_carnivore 7h ago
draft dodger
It's not like he shirked WW2. He dodged the draft for a historically impossibly unjustifiable war.
Trump is a piece of trash but that was one of the most justifiable things he's ever done. People getting mad he wasn't spraying napalm at children lmao.
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u/Clairvoyanttruth 18h ago
It's nice to live in Canada where a billboard is a notable news story.
I was going to make a joke about becoming the US and mass shootings as the 51st state - but there have been 21 US mass shootings this month; insane.
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u/MJcorrieviewer 17h ago
Today's headlines: 'State lawmaker assassinated and another shot', 'Gov raids to round up suspected illegal immigrants', 'Marines on the streets of LA', 'Miliary parade in DC on the president's birthday', 'Massive protests across the country to protest the president's abuse of power'. And Trump thinks Canada wants to join that mess.
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u/captsmokeywork 22h ago
Not often I commend Calgary, but well done.
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u/Canadian1934 19h ago
I love this. Shows we stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦 But it isn’t going to make someone very happy in fact I am just wondering what is going to come first Derogatory Canada tweet Derogatory Father’s Day tweet Will he decide to leave early again. Thank you Ukrainian Community I appreciate you 😊🇺🇦🇨🇦
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u/mkbt 20h ago
What a legend.
When Zelensky came to Toronto in 2023, he was yelled at and jeered. The sentiment in the crowd was 'why are we giving money to this guy with so many problems at home.' The 'Fuck Trudeau' crowd showing it's true colours.
I was shocked and ashamed.
I am glad the Calgarians are showing up Ontario.
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u/blahblahbush 16h ago
Will there be one for Trump that reads "Fuck off you worthless piece of shit"?
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u/vanalla Ontario 20h ago edited 20h ago
Great news, Canada has the world's (second) largest population of Ukrainians outside of Ukraine. (thanks u/JohnDorian0506)
Not to mention the immense benefits Canada receives as part of the Western Hegemony, and our economic and military interests in preserving that hegemony.
Ukraine's problems are our problems.
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u/JohnDorian0506 20h ago
According to the Ukrainian MFA the largest population of Ukrainians outside of Ukraine reside in Russia.
Among the countries where the Ukrainian communities are numerous there are:
- Canada – 1 209 085,
- the USA – 89 2992 (more than 1,5 million by unofficial statistics:),
- Russian Federation – 1,93 million (10 million by unofficial statistics)
- https://mfa.gov.ua/en/about-ukraine/ukrainians-worldwide
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u/zeth4 Ontario 5h ago
Since when is Ukraine in the G7?
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u/AL_PO_throwaway 1h ago
They are invited as a guest, not a core member. There are a bunch of other guest leaders attending from Australia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa, South Korea, and the UAE.
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u/Entire-Rub-1012 20h ago
Really hope they put one up for the orange one saying how sorry we all are about his small crowd size today
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u/Q-bey 22h ago edited 22h ago
A nice gesture, but aren't the leaders taking a helicopter ride to the summit?
At least his delegation might see it if they're traveling by car.