“The extent of Canada’s problem with far-right extremism stared me in the face on an ordinary Wednesday night.” 🇨🇦
After The Tyee published @rachelgilmore.bsky.social’s report on a white nationalist club meeting at a Montreal gym, today she reports the fallout.
We're all sorcerers with innate magic. Corporations would like us to forget that so they can sell us what we're already capable of doing on our own.
"No" is the most powerful spell we know. It destroys dragons. Keep casting it.
Be careful with AI. 😬
Ah, right. Followed you on EH! 😊
I don't see an app ready to download yet. I see EH!, but not Gander.
I didn't think Gander was up yet.
NEW FROM ME:
While US and Israeli forces launched strikes against Iran this weekend, Global News' The West Block host Ben Mulroney reposted video of fighter jets that had been miscaptioned as American F-15s attacking Iran
I double-checked. Ben was actually sharing footage from a video game
😄
Today, BC's opposition supported the introduction of a bill to abolish the province's human rights tribunal and repeal its human rights code.
It didn't even pass first reading, but here's some important background on the guy for whom BC's right is now going to bat:
pressprogress.ca/barry-neufel...
Very dystopian stuff:
Canadian political candidates are getting pitched on signing up their supporters for apps that scan social media for negative comments about them, use AI to come up with counternarratives then post AI-generated comments defending them from their real human supporters’ accounts
Heads up folks: @thetnholler.bsky.social posted an AI-generated video this morning that was a deepfake of the captain of the U.S. women’s hockey team, and they seem to be promoting it as if it’s a real video. So watch out for that and don’t spread fakes.
If democracy can fall in one of the world’s oldest and most established republics, it can also happen here. https://macleans.ca/politics/canadians-love-a-conspiracy-theory/
A Rolling Stone investigation found that CDC officials allied with RFK Jr. circumvented critical scientific and ethical safeguards in a rush to fund research that might loan support for sweeping changes to the U.S. vaccination schedule.
More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
This a great piece of investigative journalism. @rollingstone.com
This should be required reading for scientists and ethicists.
Ethics matter, especially in science.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
One of Canada's top indie "news" outlets is standing by the decision to platforming a dude who is so thirsty for mass deportations, even *Jason Kenney* called him racist.
Now that dude's hateful group is ecstatic about this "huge development."
Yikes!
Billionaires who lobbied Trump to halt Canadian bridge praise EZ-Bribe App
It never would have occurred to me that we could have telescopes capable of seeing a change in redshift of a galaxy over time as the univeral expansion accelerates. That's mind-boggling.
A&W feels like a Canadian company, even though it was founded in the United States.
In fact, Canada has nearly double the number of locations that the USA has.
So why is that? This is the story of A&W in Canada.
youtube.com/shorts/9mB0j...
deadder.substack.com/p/melania-th...
Video shot by bystanders and reviewed by The Associated Press appears to contradict statements by President Donald Trump's administration, which said agents fired "defensively" against Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care nurse, as he approached them. https://to.pbs.org/3Z2wtK3
I've reached out to all Canadian companies listed here to ask if they intend to continue working with ICE:
Hootsuite
Roshel
Garda
Jim Pattison Developments
I've also reached out to @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social's team for comment on export permits for Canadian sale of armoured vehicles to ICE.
BREAKING: A woman who led an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted service at a Minnesota church has been arrested, Attorney General Pam Bondi said.
The challenge of finding our place in today’s fragmented world should start with embracing our own fragmentation. https://macleans.ca/politics/canadas-new-global-identity/
And whats the bad news?
A combat-wounded veteran's eight-hour detention by federal agents in Minneapolis raises concerns about due process in ICE facilities.
deadder.substack.com
