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🚨 LIVE AT 11amET TOMORROW 🚨 Carney left a mark on the world stage, the Conservatives locked in Poilievre’s leadership (then their MP went on a rogue U.S. trip), and an NDP MPP jumped to the Liberals. @parismarx.com and @supriya.bsky.social help me break down our chaotic politics. GET NOTIFIED:

The cosplaying is giving me full-body second hand cringe. Physically uncomfortable watching this 🥴

There are 130 Palestinian students who have been accepted into Canadian universities — but unlike other countries, Canada is doing nothing (or worse) to help them get here. Advocates issued a fresh warning this week: these delays can be deadly.

This is exactly it. We have terrible "expert" commenters on the air because they answer the phone and are always available. It's why the so-called "Canadian Taxpayers Federation" can continue their astroturf grift, or why "Democracy Watch" keeps making itself look credible (when he's really not).

I should probably make a TikTok about this at some point. I forget that people don't know this and it's actually like.....extremely important for understanding our information ecosystem haha

I can verify this is exactly how it goes. At Bell, Corus, Rogers, wherever.

Oof this is too real. As a weekend Digital Editor at CHEK I was told "you're basically also a producer" because it was just me and the weekend anchor and maybe a VJ if we were lucky. I was constantly thrown into stories completely unprepared and then scolded if I didn't get "the right voices."

In case you're wondering why major news channels keep booking the same (sometimes idiotic) men again and again on their 24-hour newscasts, here's some insider intel:

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Lmao. Now the Conservative Party is fundraising off of this disproven lie. Stay classy! Just landed in my inbox:

JD Vance's Conservative MP bestie, Jamil Jivani, seems to be going rogue. Yesterday, in a video with no CPC branding, Jivani announced a trip to the U.S. to help Canada get a trade deal. But uh, I don't think anyone asked him for this. So why is he doing it? My guess: he wants Poilievre's job.

Jeffrey Epstein a financé le projet d’un Québécois d’extrême droite www.ledevoir.com/actualites/s...

“Journalists are civilians under international humanitarian law, and targeting them is a war crime — but Honest Reporting Canada routinely celebrates these strikes.” @jsource.bsky.social j-source.ca/honestreport...

I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.

Whatever you think of the Washington Post at this moment, here's a chance to support the dedicated, hard-working journalists who were just laid off. If you have the means, your donation is most welcome. If you don't, a kind thought and maybe spreading the word to others is support enough 💙

Fuck Jeff Bezos. My god. These billionaires are destroying everything that makes the world good and fair.

After applauding the killing of Renee Good, the Toronto Sun’s former parliamentary bureau chief Bryan Passifiume has re-emerged from a month-long exile Now appears to be filing stories every two hours throughout his workdays for the Sun:

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So uh, do these Conservative MPs and influencers think their supporters are stupid? Because I'm not sure why else they would keep spreading the blatant lie that the 'legacy' or 'mainstream' media just admitted it has the prime minister's 'back.' Oh well. I guess it's time for a fact check!

I knew it

You've probably heard by now that the Conservative Party convention voted to keep Pierre Poilievre on as their leader. What you may not have heard about, however, is the *other* stuff the delegated voted on over the weekend. Some of it is...predictable. But some of it is downright concerning:

“Two influencers I’d never heard of joined us and the conversation lost whatever shreds of sanity had still been clinging to it. I bid Pleb adieu and wandered back into the lobby.” I am crying. This is an incredible piece from @arnokopecky.bsky.social:

Over 3,400 journalists were laid off in 2025

Dawg 💀

Canadians horrified by what ICE is doing should realize the RCMP uses the same tactics domestically against Indigenous people and yet barely anyone speaks up. Journalists have been arrested just for trying to cover it

My god………….lol

Such a pleasure to speak with Mohamed Hashem for @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social’s Real Talk It’s not just the US, folks. Far from it. youtu.be/nYXUZZu_isg

This isn’t okay :(

Conservatives are about to decide whether to keep Pierre Poilievre on as leader. It's a big moment at a convention that has already featured "content creators" accredited over actual journalists. Far-right losers are also protesting outside, trying to push for Trump-like mass deportations:

Oh my god, no :( this is so sad.

Um…bit bold to call the story I broke on Tuesday a “Star analysis” with zero credit to me! This is such a bummer. I worked really hard on this one.

I go to one fucking movie and come back online to the prime minister cuddling Hollander and joking with premiers about “topping”

“There’s no topping Premier Kinew” Carney says. Was not familiar with his game!!!!

It’s easy to imagine agents of state violence — like ICE — as uniquely evil. But history shows, under the right conditions, most humans are capable of horrors. It’s only in confronting that reality that we can begin to inoculate ourselves against it. @yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social helps explain:

Today I will be joining @rachelgilmore.bsky.social on Bubble Pop to discuss how ordinary individuals become agents of state violence, how language and institutions shape that process, and why it matters right now. Tune in at 11 AM EST.

🚨LIVE AT 11AM ET TOMORROW🚨 How do ordinary people become agents of state murder? @yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social joins me on Bubble Pop to grapple with this defining question of the current political moment. Get notified: www.youtube.com/live/PNqCmxF...

(This is the STAND BY FOR NEWS news ☺️)

🚨Want to know which Canadian companies are profiting off of ICE and Trump’s violent mass deportation agenda? Well I just spent the last few days digging into exactly that. Here are the companies I found, how much they’re making, and whether they’re getting Canadian taxpayer dollars. Sneak peek:

Important correction: last night on my stream (and we clipped it for YouTube), I said the NDP wasn't going to publish the ballot-by-ballot results of the leadership race. It turns out that I had bad/outdated information! The NDP reached out to clarify:

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They should’ve let her get at least one in

I de-gremlined myself and I’m going live on YouTube, Twitch and TikTok! Might preview my investigation so far, we’ll see 😉 LIVE UNTIL 9pmET 💅 TWITCH: twitch.tv/rachel_gilmore YOUTUBE: YouTube.com/@AtRachelGil... TIKTOK: www.tiktok.com/@rachel_gilm...

This piece is almost done, but I haven't put makeup on after being a total research gremlin all day, and I have my usual livestream in a little over an hour. That means I can't pump out this video today -- but trust me, it'll be worth it tomorrow! This is gonna be a big one :) Sneak peek:

More than 100 Gazans have been accepted to Canadian universities. Canada isn’t letting them in. pressprogress.ca/gazans-accep...

These pigs are completely out of fucking control www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Trying out this UpScrolled thing if anyone else is on there! share.upscrolled.com/en/user/3000...

A Canadian-made armoured vehicle was spotted on Minneapolis streets the day ICE murdered Alex Pretti. The company that sold ICE that monster as part of a $10 million deal? Roshel. What’s more: Canada’s government brought Roshel’s CEO on a trade mission SIX DAYS AFTER Renee Good was murdered.

My god. Just made a really disturbing discovery in my research for today's video. Filming ASAP. But the impunity is making me feel ill, truly.

I've spent my day tracking down Canadian companies that have direct or indirect contracts supporting ICE operations. So far, I've found NINE. I've reached out to all of them. I plan to publish my video on this tomorrow, detailing the companies, contract amounts and purposes.