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JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"

I am calling on the Minister to summon the Israeli Ambassador and demand a formal written explanation. Anything less risks normalizing the mistreatment of Canadian parliamentarians and citizens abroad.

Worth noting National Post Editor-in-Chief Rob Roberts did not put out a similar statement defending National Post columnist Adam Zivo when I asked Roberts about Zivo’s public statements alleging he worked for a foreign spy agency while he was writing for the National Post Didn’t deny it either

Statement from Postmedia standing behind David Pugliese in response to this @theglobeandmail.com story: “The documents tied to these allegations have been independently discredited by multiple major media organizations” @davidpugliese.bsky.social

DOJ’s Epstein Files include a “manager’s report” from the Broward Center for the Performing Arts for a 2005 David Copperfield performance Audience complained the magic show was “sophomoric” and “amateur” One woman complained because she couldn’t find her husband after the “final disappearing act”

The story of how a Canadian intelligence operator ended up charged with spying for Ukraine has its roots in another saga - that of a Canadian journalist accused of being a Russian asset (something the journalist vociferously denies). Reporting by me, @stevenchase.bsky.social and Robert Fife

I don't doubt Russia would (and does) threaten people for all kinds of reasons, but I don't get why they'd break into houses or level death threats at people who received 40-year-old KGB documents about David Pugliese that are riddled with factual errors? www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

We're thrilled to be joining forces with University of the King’s College and the Canadian Media Lawyers Association to launch Lawyers for Reporters Canada! HT @lionpubs.bsky.social @vancecenternyc.bsky.social caj.ca/launch-of-la...

Parliament hasn’t resumed a study into Indian interference: “For that study to essentially now just evaporate as though it never happened is a problem … Sikh activists who [testified] for that committee were doing so after putting themselves at great risk and publicly speaking about these issues”

Sikh Federation Canada Calls Out Carney Government For Failing to Hold India Accountable for Foreign Interference Sikh community calls for “accountability and transparency” as federal government looks to restart relationship with India pressprogress.ca/sikh-federat...

Gaur að leita að Ísfirðingi, einhver ykkar að hlusta á hann?

If anyone has any contacts in Iceland, please let them know that Eric needs their help to do some investigative journalism:

1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.

Canada Needs More Non-Market Housing to Address Housing Insecurity, Experts Say The Federal Housing Advocate’s new report reaffirms what housing advocates have been pushing for years pressprogress.ca/canada-needs...

Quebec Liberal Leader Pablo Rodriguez to resign amid ongoing crisis nationalnewswatch.com/2025/12/17/c...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has a searchable database of "criminal aliens" it has arrested, which it calls the "Worst of the Worst." You can filter by country and learn that a number of them are Canadians: www.dhs.gov/wow?combine=...

Insane story about Jack Posobiec threatening a reporter over a Pentagon official's cuckolding books on Goodreads. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Filled out the World Press Freedom survey this morning Reminder that "freedom of the press" goes beyond a right to publish whatever you want It also means laws to protect journalists from abusive lawsuits, protect sources and editorial independence, access to public info, unionized newsrooms, etc.

Quoting @davidwcochrane.bsky.social on Power & Politics tonight: “It was a year-end interview pitched by Mr. Jivani. The OLO, to my knowledge, didn’t know about it. Didn’t necessarily sanction it. I got a lot of texts and calls from Conservative MPs today saying ‘what’s going on here?’”

Israeli soldiers accused of physically assaulting a female Canadian member of parliament: “An Israeli officer came up to me and he was yelling at my face and said, ‘Go away,’ and he pushed me … I said ‘Don’t touch me, please.’ And he said, ‘I’ll touch you as much as I want,’ and he pushed me again”

Mark Carney needs one more Conservative MP to defect to the Liberals so he can secure a majority Jamil Jivani is disappointed he's not in the governing party and is publicly begging Carney to put him to work Liberals – think we found your path to a majority government: www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

“A delegation of 30 Canadians, including six Members of Parliament, was denied entry [by the Israeli government] into the West Bank early on Tuesday. …each delegate was asked to sign a form declaring they acknowledge they are a threat to public safety, which they declined to do”

Something to be said about how a wide swath of right-wing alternative media basically revolves around managing ideological narratives in the wake of mass-killing events

Why is Jamil Jivani suddenly doing a media tour building his personal profile and centering himself like this?

Why is Jamil Jivani suddenly doing a media tour building his personal profile and centering himself like this?

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Member of German far-right AfD party charged with making Nazi salute at Reichstag: "The suspect allegedly 'greeted a party colleague … at the east entrance to the Reichstag building with a heel click and a Hitler salute' in June 2023, the prosecutors said in a statement issued on Monday"

Trump on Rob Reiner: He was a deranged person… Trump derangement syndrome. I was not a fan. I thought he was very bad for our country.

So Trump is asserting Reiner’s son murdered his father because he was angry about his father’s views on Trump? And… He doesn’t actually condemn his supporters murdering their parents..?

“Family friends told The Times that Rob and Nick got into an argument on Saturday evening at a party at Conan O’Brien’s home and that many people noticed Nick acting strangely at the party.”

Religious extremists always want to polarize society into in-groups and out-groups They want to trigger backlashes against others who look like them because they think it drives more people to their side People like Ahmed al Ahmed complicate narratives that seek to perpetuate cycles of violence

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Jesse is on the record confirming he’s aware of Caryma’s behaviour and the LSO’s findings that Caryma engaged in “anti-Jewish harassment” He characterized it as “allegedly harassing behaviour” and said she was “merely criticized” by the LSO (The LSO is the body that regulates lawyers in Ontario)

The holiday spirit must have filled the heart of Tamara Lich’s probation officer given her attendance at what appears to be a Rebel Media staff Christmas party despite her 12-month house arrest sentence:

Huh, Canadaland’s special source for its latest podcast series was also apparently present at a Rebel Media “team training” session this week:

“And we should support parties, movements, and intellectual and cultural figures who seek sovereignty and preservation/restoration of traditional European ways of life…while remaining pro-American,” the document says” www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...

Leaked files ‘show US wants to persuade four nations to leave EU’ The countries seen as targets to follow Brexit are Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland, according to leaked details of the US national security strategy www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

It seems like every year (winter) we get a story of people stranded overnight on a Via train. If that doesn't erode confidence in this method of travel, I don't know what does.

Other than the obvious privacy / civil liberties issues, I’m curious how the US imagines this working logistically? How does one provide the US gov’t “five years of social media” for screening? What if your account is set to private? Do they want to see DMs too? Should I export each post as a PDF?

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

Whoa, we have a floor crossing! Conservative MP Michael Ma is joining the Liberals. He’s in the Markham-Unionville seat, in the Toronto suburbs

I'd certainly have been thinking about stomping off and hiring a taxi or something. In decent weather—not last night, admittedly, which was snowy and blowy—I'd have been, like, "I could even WALK it if I have to."

This was my reaction. I grew up in Brockville and it’s a real easy drive to Ottawa. Keeping the passengers on the train overnight is awful.

Not sure those unfamiliar with the geography of Eastern Ontario appreciate how absurd it is Via forced passengers to sleep overnight at the station in Brockville Brockville is only an hour and a half drive from Ottawa. Via couldn’t get buses to shuttle them back? How is there no contingency plan?

The most embarrassing thing about Via is that Via never thinks it should be embarrassed.

someone at VIA thought that this is an acceptable outcome. This country needs massive investment in its passenger rail capacity.

After the 2023 comms debacle I called on the Liberals to take VIA fixes seriously. The Liberals are still in power and VIA is still the same and I have a very hard time convincing my mom to take the train up from Windsor to see her grand kid.

Via Rail’s quality of service is far, far below international standards – Canadians need to stop normalizing this: “Via Rail passengers arrived in Ottawa more than 12 hours late on Thursday, after “serious mechanical issues” forced them to spend the night sitting on a train in Brockville, Ontario”

He should keep the word queer out of his transphobic mouth.