404 media once again proving why they deserve your subscription dollars. they punch far above their weight for such a small team.

I assumed they used hired goons for this type of thing.

"According to email correspondence reviewed by CBC News, the volunteer campaign work was framed as a component of their digital media course, with one campus director suggesting it would even help them get permanent residency"

my favorite subgenre of Halloween decoration is “skeleton of things that absolutely do not have skeletons”

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

A coworker moved to Canada & a friend moved to the UK most likely in anticipation of something like this disrupting visa holders.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Paying for the privilege to having your eating habits be monitored and marketed to.

so speaking of government suppression of speech extending to arts and popular culture

If you are wondering why Rebel News and the Sun are running non-stop coverage of staged thefts at LCBO locations... Getting rid of the LCBO is part of the bust out. There's a Weston on the board to make sure the ultimate beneficiary is Loblaws. www.corruptario.ca/fords-obsess...

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Robert Redford on Richard Nixon's death. Not much changes, I guess.

GUD BOI

Massive anti hate crowd in the pits. Small Canada first group is on the run.

Lovely animated trailer.

If you pay attention to tech regulation efforts, it’s become quite clear that people other than the tech companies are doing much of the opposing, using talking points designed to benefit the companies — making you wonder whether they’re behind it. Investigations are finding they certainly are.

Looks like they’re potentially having some consolidation of the media issues down there.

A controversial $165 billion data center campus in New Mexico revealed numbers about its water consumption publicly for the first time. Filling up the four data centers would use 10 million gallons of water, and the ongoing consumption would be 7.2 million gallons every year.

Doug Ford wants to control admissions criteria at Ontario universities, and which non-tuition fees students pay once they’re on campus. It may not seem overtly political, but Bill 33 is part of a broader right-wing crackdown on campuses, writes @royinori.bsky.social. thelocal.to/bill-33-onta...

Donald Trump has increased his net worth by $3 billion over the last year, mostly thanks to crypto. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

All it takes is a little push back?

“The story of Ontario’s crisis in post-secondary education is, first and foremost, a story of provincial neglect.” thelocal.to/ontario-post...

The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity. As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.

Something smells off here… because this type of crime seems organized with police reluctant to deter.

Toronto Police put major resources into ticketing cyclists inside the park adjacent to this camera & are currentl running a 3 week blitz on scooters. It’s a crystal clear msg to Toronto.

🚨REPORT: A new investigation shows Meta buried evidence that kids weren’t safe in its “Metaverse.” If this was their M.O. for virtual reality, why should we trust their chatbots?

It's getting harder to shock America, but Trump managed this weekend with a crude, fiery threat to wage war on Chicago But a massive street protest Saturday, backed by a strong governor, shows Chicago isn't having it Did Trump pick the wrong fight? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

Our rose-coloured maple leaf-shaped glasses keep us looking at Trump, when Doug has ended democracy here in a way Trump has not been able to achieve. Trump dreams and plots to achieve the murder of democracy that Doug has completed. We're leaders when it comes to corruption.

especially proud of that line

Immediately adding this into my lexicon.

“And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.” Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe’s THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH starring Vincent Price.

"Evidently China is farther along in its project than I realized, because Xi has reached the point where he no longer humors Trump. Which means that the Chinese believe America’s decline is terminal."

“Bizarrely, what once stood out as one of the most dehumanising aspects of the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century, namely their tendency to spy on their citizens, … is fully normalised, even celebrated, in societies that have made data-gathering a core aspect … of how their economies work.”

This is basically an admission & should lead to impeachment & prosecution.

Excellent news here in Canada: There will be an overhaul of the Ontario vaccine registry to tackle measles resurgence and modernize Ontario's outdated vaccine records. The Covid-19 vaccine registry has been very helpful. Keeping track of all routine vaccines is very smart. Elbows and sleeves up 🇨🇦💉

Wow! So while I still wish this case would’ve gone to trial, and believe the amount given per work should have been EVEN higher, $1.5 billion in settlement AND the destruction of infringing datasets is still a fantastic start! Congratulations to all those involved as these things are not easy!

Canada’s economy is in shambles and the Carney government’s response is to double-down on the temporary foreign worker program, a wage-suppressing, worker-exploiting scheme the UN calls a “breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery.”

Audit Metrolinx & their hundred VPs.

CUPE says that Air Canada wants to “reinforce the gender pay gap” by offering pilots, most of whom are men, a 26% wage increase”. Flight attendants were offered just a 12% wage increase for some & an 8% for others.

Destroying the planet because we don’t want to “burden the automakers”

Popped by to see if the line for the Criterion Closet was reasonable and no it was not. Snakes up one side of the street and continues on the other.

Canada loses an astonishing $15 billion every year to tax havens. Jared Walker & @silasxuereb.bsky.social argue that this money could fund public services, but successive governments have let corporations shift profits offshore—while regular Canadians pay the price. breachmedia.ca/canadas-hidd...

"For now, I glean a glimmer of hope from the rulings over the past week, and I give major props to the federal judges who are saying the truth in no uncertain terms: President Trump is lying and illegally seeking to grab power that he does not yet have."

"Our team will continue further engagement & discussions with him & other leading U.S. policy figures soon, regarding Canada's economic & security relationship with the United States." Conman Carney at it again. These are the people they want to speak to?

Rents in Canada remain unaffordable for low-to-moderate income households, costing in some cities more than what two people, making minimum wage, can earn together. New report by @marclee.bsky.social + @davidmaccdn.bsky.social breaks down the issue. #canlab

Did you think it was a one-off? LOL, no. www.corruptario.ca/byrne-and-te...

Pretty sure that’s not legal…