The United Steelworkers have just announced the passing of their president emeritus, Leo Gerard Gerard, who was born in Creighton Mine, Ontario near Sudbury, was the second Canadian to head the international steelworkers union

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.

In rambling eulogy, US President rejects grieving widow’s plea to follow Jesus Christ’s example and love one another

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Every dumb guy who cracked jokes 20 years ago about how global warming would only be an improvement to the weather in Canada is just getting slushy winters and swarms of wasps in the summer instead

“This year in Ottawa has felt more waspy than usual … While hard to know what effect climate change is having on wasp populations, what is certain is that species such as the European hornet are increasingly being seen creeping north to the Ottawa Valley from the US with increasing temperatures”

The Pentagon is implementing new guidelines that will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump in a social media post Saturday ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) and chided her for not going after his other perceived political enemies quickly enough. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This is blatant political retribution: “Sinclair [company with right-wing ownership that runs of a network of ABC affiliates] wants Kimmel to apologize to Kirk's family and make a ‘meaningful personal donation’ to them and Kirk's nonprofit Turning Point USA”

Statement from MP Jenny Kwan, said that none of NDP’s MPs participated in the standing ovation. Kwan denounces political violence, but “anyone with a platform should always be mindful that political rhetoric that is incendiary, racist and dehumanizing is unacceptable.” thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...

CBC’s About That w/ Andrew Chang does a really good job explaining the FCC’s role in the Jimmy Kimmel purge and why that is very bad here:

The campaigns targeting Canadian doctors who want to discuss the health crisis in Gaza @brishti.bsky.social pressprogress.ca/campaigns-ta...

HonestReporting Canada didnt answer questions. But there’s a few other receipts in this article. It was a privilege to work with my editor @goldsbie.bsky.social to untangle the threads and bring all the evidence to the forefront. Give it a read: pressprogress.ca/campaigns-ta...

Oh wow. This is….mortifying lmao

BREAKING: A federal judge struck Donald Trump's $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times over its content, giving Trump 28 days to file an amended complaint reut.rs/46psF8U

A conference on refugee healthcare lost sponsors, and a talk for employees at Canada's public health agency was cancelled, after Palestine advocates were labelled "antisemitic." A look at the campaigns targeting doctors who want to discuss the health crisis in Gaza: pressprogress.ca/campaigns-ta...

As a nation, we need to pause and ask ourselves if this is who we want to be? Can Canadians look ourselves in the mirror and live with the knowledge we *disappointed* the ambassador of a country that threatened to annex us and run our economy into the ground? [pause] Ya, actually, I’m ok with it

At least he's finally getting the message: "The ambassador says the elbows up expression is anti-American"

LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.

The anonymous liars who created this website falsely accused @rachelgilmore.bsky.social of “supporting political violence,” when she was actually warning about right-wing retaliation for Charlie Kirk’s murder It sounds like the anonymous liars behind the site could be facing lots of legal problems

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

When *squints* Karl Rove is the voice of reason…

Between the purge of late night comedians, Trump allies buying up TV networks, Hollywood studios and social media platforms, and news organizations getting slapped with multi-billion dollar lawsuits, there is a full-court press to dismantle the information systems propping up American democracy

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

Sinclair, run by right-wing media mogul David Smith, says suspending the Jimmy Kimmel show isn’t enough. It is going to run a tribute to Kirk during Kimmel’s time slot. Sinclair stations will run not consider putting Kimmel back on air until he apologizes and donates to Turning Point USA

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We in the USA are a cautionary tale. One other piece of advice, curb the power of the wealthy and keep money out of your politics.

One takeaway for Canadians watching what’s happening in the United States right now is that we need to put more pressure on governments / parties to strengthen democratic institutions and the fourth estate You can also defend democracy by supporting the work of journalists and civil society groups

1. Yes, from a purely legal perspective, Trump's new $15 billion lawsuit against the NYT is a joke. But this lawsuit, and others like it, have a real impact on the news coverage you read about powerful people. The purpose is to send a message and discourage critical reporting.

Reporting on Jimmy Kimmel getting purged should make clear Disney did this *after* the FCC chair explicitly threatened them

Kimmel. Colbert. Suits against the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and 60 Minutes. Extorting settlements from CBS, ABC, and others. Blocking the AP's access to the White House. 🧵

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Between the purge of late night comedians, Trump allies buying up TV networks, Hollywood studios and social media platforms, and news organizations getting slapped with multi-billion dollar lawsuits, there is a full-court press to dismantle the information systems propping up American democracy

Of course he is.

Canadian Substacker Sam Cooper is apparently submitting his articles to a conspiratorial far-right blog that was once accused by US intelligence of spreading propaganda created by people linked to sanctioned Russian entities: toronto.citynews.ca/2022/02/15/u...

The Canada Strong and Free Network believes in “free speech, open debate, and real journalism” They also believe in crushing the lying mainstream media for failing to advance narratives that align with their political views

"The Tesla board has managed to avoid what could have been a tricky investor vote on requiring political neutrality among executives after the Securities and Exchange Commission ruled the electric vehicle manufacturer could exclude a shareholder proposal on the matter from its 2025 annual materials"

Responding to reaction of video of members of Carney’s front bench giving Charlie Kirk a standing ovation in the House of Commons, Liberal MP Ernie Klassen clarifies he did not personally participate: “No, I did not stand. Neither did many of my Liberal colleagues.”

I've received many messages from concerned constituents over the past 24 hours, asking me about the standing ovation connected to Charlie Kirk in yesterday's session in the House of Commons. Please see my statement on the matter.

New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Canadian journalist Rachel Gilmore’s online posts following his killing, warning that his death could radicalize the far right, was met with a torrent of online abuse, including death and rape threats. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

Last week’s assassination of U.S. political commentator and conservative advocate, Charlie Kirk, quickly spread across social media, fueling grief and outrage.

After all, the reason Carney is sitting in the Prime Minister’s Office is because progressive swing voters made a strategic choice to lend him their votes — they didn’t lend Carney their vote to appease Trump, impose austerity or roll back workers’ rights. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

What happened after Canadian journalist @rachelgilmore.bsky.social posted about the potential repercussions of Kirk’s murder: doxxing and violent threats thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

"A number of right-wing influencers and convoy personalities in Canada were also seen sharing or interacting with Williams’ fake posts before they were taken down, including a senior adviser to Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre."

Jesus Christ. A standing ovation — from Liberals too — for Charlie Kirk in the Canadian House of Commons. You can (and should) oppose political violence without doing all this, you know.

It's been 5 days since he was shot. Just how long are these gas stations supposed to keep flags at half-mast for?