The right wing freakout about The Odyssey is kind of amazing. Now they're all mad that Odysseus doesn't go snorkeling off a yacht.

‘Conduct of the worst sort’: Canadian lawyers and child sexual misconduct. youtube.com/shorts/KXYzV...

I feel like headlines should not be uncritically reporting that the State of Israel is suing the New York Times for defamation when it is also “not clear how, or if, such a claim by the Israeli state against the US newspaper could be pursued” www.bbc.com/news/article...

I appreciate some people might not understand the implications of Mark Carney’s Bill C-22 But Carney supporters arguing we should aspire to emulate how electronic communications are regulated in *squints* the United Arab Emirates, Cuba, Oman, Qatar, Venezuela, Iran, China and Russia..?

So, journalists deal with sources and whistleblowers who share information through encrypted messages due to very real threats of retribution and risks to their livelihoods and personal safety What I would be hiding is information that could expose whistleblowers or potentially get sources killed

Countries where Signal is no longer available: • Russia • China • Iran • ...Canada? "Secure messaging service Signal, which uses end-to-end encryption, is warning it would withdraw from Canada if asked to compromise its users’ privacy under Bill C-22"

I wasn't aware foreign countries can sue for defamation?

Is Christian nationalism rearing its head in BC? At a debate last month, a BC Conservative leadership candidate affirmed, "Christian values have an absolute place in this party." pressprogress.ca/christian-na...

“Do unto pipelines as you would have done unto you” - Jesus

X derives its power from newsmakers and influencers choosing to post their content there If official and influential accounts stop posting there, it’ll just turn into right-wing influencers yelling at each other and everyone else will get bored and leave

There’s an NHL playoff livestream blackout on CBC Gem, so I’m watching some guy livestreaming himself playing the Sabres on NHL 26 for PS5 over YouTube Canadiens are losing that game too

Separatist organizer David Parker is stonewalling investigators following allegations his org misused Alberta's list of electors www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... w @mattscace.bsky.social

If Jamil keeps talking like this, he’s going to flip the Bluesky users with weird anime avatars vote

"I never thought leopards would eat MY face," sobs politician, who encouraged leopards to keep eating faces and hold province-wide vote on face-eating

Alberta's separatist leaders are musing openly about staging a coup to oust Danielle Smith and takeover the UCP:

Combined with the investigation into alleged corruption at Toronto Police Services, freaking yikes. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Canada might have a problem with its out of control police forces with no oversight or accountability but I guess no elected politician thinks its a problem so

"Asked if it had any message for the public — and its own members — in response to a recent wave of gender-based misconduct allegations within its ranks, the Ottawa Police Service declined to comment." Not acceptable.

Canada has little control of its police. The lack of accountability is very similar to elsewhere. The police call efforts to oversee them: micromanagement or politicizing policing. All policing is political, the only question is who are making the decisions of the who, how, what of policing.

This is the *FIFTH* Ottawa Police officer at the centre of allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse of power in the last few weeks

ANNOUNCEMENT After two years of accountability failures, nine of us are suing the Calgary Police, City of Calgary & University of Calgary for brutality & Charter violations suffered May 9, 2024. We will provide a public statement at UofC TFLD Quad, 12:30pm today. drugdatadecoded.ca/for-immediat...

Going to take the position that this is the ugliest house in Ottawa (55 Old Sunset Blvd overlooking Dow’s Lake) I like modern architecture and am not offended by how out of place it is in the neighbourhood, I just think it looks indistinguishable from a bank / dentist’s office in Barrhaven

The federal government is spending more than double this amount keeping Canada’s journalism industry “afloat” too even though informing people about their democracy and other matters of public interest is not a big money maker either

Huh: “Building more units didn't solve the city's housing crisis, says Ren Thomas, an associate professor at Dalhousie University, who argues the vast majority of housing is market-driven and the boom prioritized high-profit units that many residents couldn't afford.”

Are you enjoying your 10c/litre holiday from the federal excise tax on gasoline (starting April 20)? The avg Cdn price fell 10c that day. But since then it's risen 20c. So the avg price now is 10 cents higher than BEFORE the 10 cent tax cut! (Data from gasbuddy.com) /2

The Campus Conservative kid who showed up to my 2nd year Canadian Political History course in a full suit and tie and repeatedly interrupted the professor with irrelevant anecdotes and off-topic political speeches in an apparent effort to filibuster the lecture would agree with these findings

Liberal MP Erskine-Smith loses nomination battle for Ontario provincial byelection nationalnewswatch.com/2026/05/09/l...

NEW: Alberta independence leader calls on supporters to join Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party and nominate separatist UCP candidates ”It’s time now to join the UCP,” Alberta separatist leader Mitch Sylvestre told @pressprogress.ca

Um: "I saw him tell one crowd in Mossleigh, Alberta that he thinks there are Chinese communist soldiers in Canada in part because he saw six Asian men in West Edmonton Mall wearing new coats."

I went home recently to write about Alberta’s separatists. What I found was a movement wildly, dangerously disconnected from reality. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

No clue how Meta’s algorithms are making this happen, but my Facebook feed is currently flooded with posts from Russian foreign ministry accounts and other weird pages I don’t follow celebrating Russian “Victory Day”

Youre just saying this because we had a public feud and you lost in embarrassing fashion

Absolutely damning confession. No credible person would ever compliment @ericwickham.ca

I need definitive proof this statement wasnt written with AI

My public statement:

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre met with the disgraced former BC school trustee Barry Neufeld today pressprogress.ca/this-man-is-...

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre met with the disgraced former BC school trustee Barry Neufeld today pressprogress.ca/this-man-is-...

I spoke to Mitch Sylvestre, the self-described “leader of the Alberta independence movement” Now that they've collected signatures calling for a referendum, he says their next step is to focus on stacking UCP nomination votes to put forward separatist candidates

First two “organic” posts appearing in the Facebook feed this morning: • Alberta separatist influencer • Russian Embassy in Washington DC (Neither of which are pages I follow)

I spoke to Mitch Sylvestre, the self-described “leader of the Alberta independence movement” Now that they've collected signatures calling for a referendum, he says their next step is to focus on stacking UCP nomination votes to put forward separatist candidates

Twitter is saying Elon posted as his mom while trying to post as his dad

Jason Kenney says he is retaining a lawyer after an Alberta separatist group doxxed his home address on a Zoom call (Screenshots from the Zoom call were released by the Alberta NDP)

"Comparable democracies ... all subject political parties to comprehensive privacy laws. Instead of following suit, Canada’s Bill C-25 is currently slated to require only a minimal list of elements political parties’ privacy policies should include, with no binding external review or oversight"

Disappointed @lefthandstu.bsky.social failed to recognize the presence of the most important person in the history of Ottawa (Daniel Alfredsson) and instead zeroed in on two complete randos (the prime minister and the prime minister's spouse)

German SPD, Greens, and Linke will stop posting on X. An important step and signal. X and its owner have long become a megaphone for the far right, a venue that is actively used to encourage abuse and violence. It‘s simply shameful how many in politics, media, and academia still actively post there.

The Libertarian Party of Canada elected a new leader this weekend At first glance, their new leader appears very on-brand

Breaking News: Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, is in a Florida hospital in critical condition, his spokesman said.

If you're wondering why some people are very afraid after the posting of their personal information contained in the Elections Alberta voters list, check out the top of this story. 1 thetyee.ca/News/2023/05...

Ahead of municipal elections this fall, the Mayor of Ottawa is hawking yet another "best city" ranking based largely on data sourced from a dubious Eastern European website called "Numbeo" More info on Mark Sutcliffe's favourite Serbian website here: pressprogress.ca/quality-of-l...

Ahead of municipal elections this fall, the Mayor of Ottawa is hawking yet another "best city" ranking based largely on data sourced from a dubious Eastern European website called "Numbeo" More info on Mark Sutcliffe's favourite Serbian website here: pressprogress.ca/quality-of-l...