Patrick Canning 🇨🇦

Carney complied in advance on Iran and look what it got us.

The concept that Mark Carney is the smartest man in every room is false. He has shown himself to be very weak on understanding law and foreign policy and men need to stop mythologizing him.

Poilievre calls out PM Carney for his absence during debate on Iran war Prime Minister Mark Carney was absent from a debate on the U.S.-Israel war on Iran as opposition parties continued to question the government’s position on the conflict.

Carney skips debate on Iran, which was inspired by his own lack of clarity.
Can't wait for the Carney-splainers explanation on this one, because it looks like he just doesn't care, and that the purpose of the debate was to "let people air their grievances," not to change anything.

There it is.

Too bad nobody suggested this, like, 20 years ago

Yes. Let's make it wrong to murder people.

You'd have to look at the whole picture of actions to determine complicity, not just one thing.

As I recall Art 3(e) of the Genocide Convention covers "complicity." It's a broad term, but if you look at the caselaw on complicity it certainly seems to line up with US actions, which go way beyond just supplying weapons and money, and include use of the UNSC veto to shield the actions.

Vladimir Putin wrote the playbook on this distinction and then wonderful puppeteers put it to a song 🎵 I think you will all enjoy 😊

Sums it up. At least Switzerland came out and said it was illegal

Trump flip flops after an undisclosed call with his boss, Putin. Obviously Putin told him to continue the war.

Maddow: Trump admits what the attack on Iran is really for YouTube video by MS NOW

He's a puppet with too many strings. I guess in between the call with the reporter (war ending soon) and the incoherent press conference (not ending) - he had a long call with Putin. See @maddow.bsky.social at 5:34 in video below.
My question is: how does the Iran war benefit Putin?

March 9, 2026 It has become clear that Trump had no plan in Iran other than to strike it, knock out the leaders he didn’t like, and hope the Iranian people would rise up and put in place new leaders he could deal w...

March 9, 2026

I taught a course at a local Uni on Indigenous people and the criminal justice system for a few years, and it ended up being about how over (and under) policing of Indigenous people is completely oriented to getting resources out.

My lesson of the last year: they will NEVER hand it to us, they will NEVER give us permission to build a just world.

We have to make it ourselves. As Bruce Cockburn said, "we're gonna kick the darkness till it bleeds daylight."

I'm taking a little social media break, with gratitude to you all.

Exactly. People ask me what I say to climate deniers these days and I say, nothing. Time to ignore them. We're too busy fixing the situation.

Yeah, they don't have to hand us our dream, we can just take it, or make it.
I find myself quoting Bruce Cockburn a lot these days, "we're gonna kick the darkness till it bleeds daylight."

That’s the million dollar question. No one to my knowledge, has received a reply from @seanfraser.bsky.social into their inquiries about why he has not directed an investigation to be opened.

So where's the Canadian investigation?

Isn't the plan to stick with oil and gas no matter what, and no matter how bad a choice that may be?

Oil bad. Sun good.

Any questions?

damn, guilty on count #2! I gotta change that..

so great it hurts.

And also - I have committed to buying more books than I can actually read, so I'm always surrounded by options.

Trying to build in a daytime reading window, like "silent reading" class in school..

Yeah, there have been some great research on how reading promotes slower brainwaves associated with deep thinking and creativity. It certainly works for me to settle my mind, I usually read two or three books at bedtime, the first one or two non-fiction, and then a fiction story to wash it down.

Books!

Nice! I've really gotten back into books just as a way to balance the doomscrolling, it fosters such a different way of thinking and being.

In Search of A Better World A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, the CBC Massey Lectures by internationally renowned UN prosecutor and scholar Payam Akhavan is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights ...

I started reading this a few weeks ago, by Iranian-Canadian lawyer and professor Payam Akhavan. He was lawyer at the ICTY and ICC, and other tribunals. His story is the human side of atrocity, Iranian history, and war crimes trials.

I don't think I could have picked a more apt book for today.

Whoever's keeping records for all the future trials of these maniacs better hire more staff.