For the morning crowd, my Loonie Politics column: On Venezuela and Canada's Vichy voices #cdnpoli

New from me at @xtramagazine.com: This is the year we need to rebuild grassroots democracy #canqueer #cdnpoli

Roundup post: Framing headlines to privilege the lie #cdnpoli

For the late/west coast crowd, my Loonie Politics column: On Venezuela and Canada's Vichy voices #cdnpoli

Well this turned out to be pretty alarming.

For the evening crowd, my Loonie Politics column on the Vichy Canadians who signed onto Trump's invasion of Venezuela when they should have known it was never about democracy or human rights #cdnpoli

Genuis is a crybully who lies to pretend he's the victim. I have been on the receiving end of his little bullshit act. Of course, CP framed this in his favour while egregiously both-sidesing what happened rather than simply pointing out he didn't book a room like he was supposed to.

Anne Applebaum hosts a new season of “Autocracy in America,” reporting on the sweeping changes unfolding in our country and preparing you to think about what might happen next. Listen to the new season this Friday wherever you find your podcasts: theatln.tc/Zffsxj8n

Driver erasure can take you some strange places. Vehicles have agency now.

The minister of digital asbestos is committed to doing the absolute least possible about regulating deepfake porn/CSAM machines.

It's not the Harper-era board, which is long-since gone. It's the prevailing ethos is legacy media. Canadian Press is just as egregious in its both-sidesing, and everyone is paranoid about Poilievre ordering another boycott like what happened with that CTV piece.

Because CBC will always egregiously both-sides everything in order to avoid being called biased, even though they're still going to be called biased anyway.

The #SCC has granted leave to hear the case of the Ontario Place Protectors vs the Ford government.

New column from me at Loonie Politics: On Venezuela and Canada's Vichy voices #cdnpoli

Roundup post: Twenty years of ignoring a warning #cdnpoli

Missed in all the drama out of the US: the US is withdrawing from the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF), an org that looks for long-term opportunities to counter terrorism. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Have you talked to your leader about his demand the government "get out of the way" of development? Protecting source water seems like government regulation that could impact development. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/fir...

Karoline Leavitt Explains Why Canada Will Be Conquered youtu.be/TnHpZw9qPTY

Chrystia Freeland resigning her seat on Friday. #cdnpoli

Fresh new #Robyn! Plus album date announcement!

The hardest part of writing this take on Miller and Greenland and realism is trying to figure out how to insult Miller best. saideman.blogspot.com/2026/01/step... He isn't dumb but he does stupid stuff. He isn't ignorant, but he does like to ignore important stuff. He is educated so schmuck it is.

This reporting does call out the fact that the moral panic started over queer and trans materials. #canqueer

Roundup post: Immediately approve what pipeline? #cdnpoli

My dude. You are literally inventing a conspiracy making Doug Ford do bad things when he's really just a shitty person who does bad things and doesn't need an evil organization to blame it on. Stop inventing conspiracy theories about the IDU. It's not pulling anyone's strings.

Alberta's book ban didn't go away. Delayed implementation got implemented. #canqueer

My *extremely Canadian* explanation/theory for this is that GAC Coms couldn’t not get itself together in time to sign on. bsky.app/profile/luke...

That minister is just a digital asbestos hype man and he doesn’t want to regulate because the tech bros told him it will “stifle innovation” and he credulously believes what they tell him.

Once again, I ask: Approve what? Which route? With which proponents? With what consent from First Nations rights-holders? There's nothing to approve. Not even a line on a map.

Position less than clarified. Carney's calculus on milquetoast communication around NATO alliances & international law places a baffling faith in securing a Cda/US trade deal that's worth anything the day after it's signed.

Deep down America's allies know that only Americans can put a stop to the madness. The fact that they can't or won't is why the damage to our partnerships will last far beyond this President.

ICYMI, my Loonie Politics column: In 2026, Mark Carney need to get the provinces in line over their data #cdnpoli

Roundup post: Freeland's botched departure announcement #cdnpoli

He's just a big, stupid child.

This reeks of bullshit. (This guy was pro-ostrich farmers, which gives you an indication of his politics. I highly doubt the Liberals would go near him with a bargepole).

For the late/west coast crowd, my Loonie Politics column: In 2026, Mark Carney needs to get the provinces in line over their data #cdnpoli

For those Canadians cheering on Trump's military action in Venezuela, it might be worth recalling that you live in a country that Trump wishes to bend to his will through "economic force" and in a region that Trump says the US must "dominate."

ICYMI, my latest for National Magazine:

For the Monday crowd, my Loonie Politics column: In 2026, Mark Carney needs to get the provinces in line over their data #cdnpoli

Here is a preview of the #SCC's upcoming move this summer.

*Canada shifts nervously*

Sunday dinner was @nigella.bsky.social’s slow-cooker Moroccan chicken stew (using the oven method as I have no slow cooker and I really don’t want one).

For the late/west coast crowd, my weekend Loonie Politics column on Carney's plan to build requiring better data from the provinces, and why that can't wait #cdnpoli

This has some good context.

Oh this is interesting: Prime Minister Mark Carney just had a call with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado

ICYMI, my Loonie Politics column: The faux debate over Carney's future Senate plans #SenCA #cdnpoli

Parliament sitting on January 4th? Can you imagine MPs without their six-week constituency breaks?

Those grifters are angling to be on an expert panel and want you to only think about competing on taxes and then pursuing even more austerity, ignoring everything else the US is doing…yes even on this weekends oil play

Take a moment and have a think about all those grifters that want us to compete with the US on their tax policy ignoring all their other policies that go with that tax policy as those it can be magically disentangled. It’s important that you do since @mark-carney.bsky.social promised reform