Do we really want to wait until the Alberta separation referendum next year to start dealing with our largest newspaper chain being 66% owned by a *Republican* New Jersey hedge fund and our largest social media platform being a rw *Republican* one that creates & spreads child sexual abuse material?

The ethically challenged Evan Solomon and Mark Carney power dance may lead to the end of Canada Morning File by me

Very nice to see someone else is thinking more than one step ahead! We can fight Musk/X now on favorable ground, or during a secession referendum when he'll be trying to split our country. If our politicians won't do it because it's right and just, maybe they'll do it out of self interest?

Watch my two-part interview with @smohyeddin.bsky.social here:

So @evansolomon.bsky.social, any comment on this use of AI? So @mark-carney.bsky.social, is this a good fit for government communications? So @juliedabrusin.bsky.social, as my MP, what do you make of this? So @liberal.ca.web.brid.gy, you all campaigned on accountability so what now?

Yes, Mark, but America is doing precisely all this too and you haven’t made a peep 🫤

They want us to think mental health issues are not related to our economic system.

Dear CBC and Government of Canada: Why are you still committed to promoting this platform with your exclusive content?

A proliferation of sexual deepfakes on X has prompted other countries to investigate Grok, the platform’s AI software, but, so far, Ottawa remains silent. www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...

More recently, I had the chance, in a committee hearing, to raise the issue of the CBC’s commitment to X. Here’s what CBC’s top executives told me about why the CBC isn’t on Bluesky or Mastodon. youtu.be/lJUeQZlvD-E?... #cdnpoli

You're left with the impression the White House is run by a deranged and confused elderly man who desperately wants everyone to fear him while surrounded by an inner-circle of sleazebags and arsonists who are pushing his buttons to pursue their own random agendas

I am still waiting for @support.bsky.team to explain how the murder of Renee Good by an ICE agent is not trending on that platform. Apparently, someone has been given marching orders to downplay the entire incident.

When some bank tells you who they are .... "[Scotiabank CEO] Scott Thomson said the “Trump Doctrine” – a recent adaptation of the 1823 Monroe Doctrine – would be a positive development for growth."

If some digital magazine was pumping out thousands of kiddie porn pix per hour in Canada, the Canadian HoC would be in an uproar and vote unanimously to have it shut down & prosecuted, yet the same HoC and whole of gov expects us to go to the X kiddie porn site to read their messages to us.

We have to deal with the root of the problem. #AbolishBillionaires

Carney's post on X about Maduro's kidnapping was all: Well we didn't like him anyway. Carney and Poilievre prefer Trumper Machado who is an admirer of Thatcher and openly invited Trump to invade Venezuela. Prior to winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Machado won the IDU Bush-Thatcher Award for Freedom.

Carney’s weak response to Trump’s attempt at regime change at the behest of oil corporations is predictable. When a government like Carney’s and Eby’s—which cares only about enriching fossil fuel executives—are faced with the hard choices, they’ll choose corporate power over working people. #bcpoli

It is baffling how, after Donald Trump openly and continually threatened to militarily invade and annex Canada, Canada's Liberals can tacitly condone Donald Trump's military invasion and takeover of a foreign country. What the fuck about leopards and faces do these dumbshits not understand?

In light of today's events, some are questioning the legitimacy of the FIFA Peace Prize awarded to Trump

Statement from Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre: “Congratulations to President Trump … Down with socialism. Long live freedom”

2 weeks ago, Trump said: 'We want it back': Trump demands Venezuela return 'land, oil rights' to US. Hugo Chavez nationalized Venezuela's oil fields in 2007.

New report from @ccpa: Canada’s 100 highest-paid CEOs have smashed every compensation record on the books as average workers fell behind due to inflation. #inequality #wealthtax Part 1/2

Last March, Danielle Smith presented Mark Carney with the following list of demands on behalf of oil&gas corps in Alberta and he has pretty much fulfilled them all now, except for the first one :

To understand Wonder Valley, you need to know about the dream to repurpose a Cold War missile defence site as a data centre. I've been doing some in-depth research. /more

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them" - Maya Angelou

This is such a damn good thread and the only thing I think I can add is that it is really whiplash-inducing to see how many formerly centre-left climate-aligned folks have in the past few months leapt to centre-right tech-aligned. Not sure if it's despair, stewing in Musk's X-swamp, or just honesty

The perfect pair!

True leadership is saying “If we don’t do this horrible thing, someone else will so we might as well cash in”

13 Ways Carney has weakened Canada's climate policy:

Canadian gov is suspending its ban on single use plastics exports because "the plastic sector generated $35 billion shipping single use plastics in 2023" and "single-use plastics are a global market & removing Canadian product means customers will find another supplier." We'll be hearing this a lot

Banksy Christmas card from 20 years ago of Mary & Joseph on the road to Nazareth blocked by an Israeli wall. In 2005 Banksy traveled to Palestine, where he painted 9 images on the West Bank wall.

I believe this is the official and eternal platform of the Liberal Party of Canada 👇🏼

Merry Christmas, Alberta Thoughts on why 2026 may not be a Happy New Year. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli markhamhislop.substack.com/p/merry-chri...

What Smith embodies is something political theorists increasingly describe as libertarian authoritarianism, a paradoxical but now well-documented phenomenon in which the language of freedom is used to justify the concentration of power, the erosion of democratic norms, and the dismantling ...

Jamil Jivani is running FB video ads for his Restore the North tour going nationwide in 2026, kicking off at the U of Calgary with "special guest" Danielle Smith. It's an obvious leadership bid vid - cheering crowds of young people waving Canada flags...

Vaccines eliminated measles last century in Canada in 1998. Convoy & their camp followers the CPC bring it back in 2025.

2025 marked #Canada’s worst year for #measles infections in decades www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/1...

CBC: 'Too much regulation, not enough action': Carney rebuffs Trudeau's climate policies. 12 Trudeau climate policies that Carney has rescinded:

Unifor Local 222 hosted Polievre yesterday for an all Chairperson meeting: "Applying maximum pressure to PM Carney is the most effective and responsible action we can take. Pierre absolutely supported union foundational fundamentals and committed that Chinese EV's will always be tariffed."

Trump 🤝 Millionaire Democratic homeowners with "No Kings" signs in their front yards

For all of Postmedia’s faults, of which there are many, it’s pretty commendable how unequivocally they have stood behind a journalist subject to a former Conservative MP’s “false” and “unhinged” conspiracy theories (Even sitting Conservative MPs distanced themselves from Chris Alexander’s claims)

When I'm accused of naivety for thinking the world can change for the better, I use this very example. I'm not old & in my lifetime, smoking went from absolutely everywhere, to "smoking sections", to the current reality. It took education, new laws, & peer pressure. All of it - no silver bullet.

* Buy the Gripen * Re-instate the Digital Services Tax * Lower tariffs on overseas EVs * Bring back the Foreign Investment Review Agency * Keep out American dairy * Cut the cord

Thieves dressed as Santa and his elves steal $3K worth of goods from #Montreal grocery store Group claims responsibility for Robin-Hood style grocery store theft /1 thread www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

When a US tech giant uses its products to steal money &/or private info from people in US & your country (that is, "enshittification"), no one is allowed to give your people the tools to escape these scams bc of "anticircumvention" law. What country will be first to legislate "circumvention law"?

12 ways Carney has weakened Canada's climate policy since his election: And do not imagine, Canadian media, that we we have missed you all publishing various polls saying that 59% of us no longer prioritize a liveable planet in order to manufacture consent for this.

"Pierre? Are you ok in there?" "Leemeealone." "[sigh] Pierre, come out; let's talk." "You guys are gonna replace me." "No! Jamil just... wants to help." "Help to steal my party!" "[sigh] Pierre, it's not *your* party and... Pierre?" "Whut." "Are you shaving your head?" "I AM NEVER LEAVING STORNOWAY"

My first ever fundraising video. Support independent, not-for-profit media. Just don't ask me how many takes before I got it right 😂. youtu.be/K_3dd9MBjuI?...

Before the chorus that Australia is proof that "strict gun laws don't work", remember that the gun murder rate in Australia is 6,000% lower than in U.S. #USpoli