A former Washington Post reporter now reports on ICE flights and their associated abuses, funding the work through donations. Seems like a worthy cause.

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

Once POTUS gets a taste for regime, change, the appetite for more becomes insatiable.

OMG! The Powerball WINNER!!! And she's not a Nigerian prince! Aptly named "Leach."

#NovaScotia's lung screening program finds dozens of cancer cases in first 2 years—radiologists discovering small spots of Stage 1 cancer — which is often curable — rather than late stages of the disease. Program set to expand provincewide in coming months www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

@ianausten.bsky.social examines Canada's shift to domestic defense spending: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/w...

Thanks to the American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org for their responsible statement in response to the harmful decision of the USA to rescind the EPA endangerment finding. www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...

The ham sandwich beats Jeanine Pirro again. Congratulations, ham sandwich!

My candidature to replace Buck Martinez as Blue Jays colour commentator: Madison Shipman.

Heartbreaking thread:

The Immigration Board decision to deport Jaskirat Singh Sidhu is a disgrace. He took full responsibility for his mistake; pled guilty at his first opportunity; served a shockingly excessive sentence w/o complaint: and has a daughter who needs complex medical care. www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

The Immigration Board decision to deport Jaskirat Singh Sidhu is a disgrace. He took full responsibility for his mistake; pled guilty at his first opportunity; served a shockingly excessive sentence w/o complaint: and has a daughter who needs complex medical care. www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

In all the media accounts of Bunny Hat Boy, no one has twigged to the fact that Liam Conejo Ramos's middle name is literally Rabbit. (HT:BT)

@kenwhite.bsky.social "When the American Civil Liberties Union fought successfully for the rights of Nazis to march at Skokie, it did not convene a public meeting to ask the Nazis to explain why the Jews were so bad, and it did not portray the Nazis as heroic warriors for free expression."

ICU nurses at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis reject ICE claims that a Mexican immigrant they brought in with a fractured skull and broken facial bones had purposely run into a brick wall. apnews.com/article/immi...

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Video of Alex Pretti, the nurse killed by ICE thugs Saturday, reading a final tribute to one of the vets he cared for at a MN VA hospital: youtube.com/shorts/50rpS...

"The fascists came with chains and war/ To prison us in hate/ And many a good man fought and died/ To save the stricken Faith" – Pete Seeger youtu.be/y096F_jFy3c?...

@yhzweatherguy.bsky.social US media and (some) state officials offer increasingly dire warmings about the big storm now crossing the US. Many of the concerns concern weather conditions that Canadians are used to managing. Here's The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

@yhzweatherguy.bsky.social Jim, the US press is full of dire stories about a huge storm stretching from the southwest to the mid-Atlantic coast, and moving northeastward. Do you expect it to affect us? wapo.st/3YOq9pt

@andrewdesiderio.bsky.social Coyne nails it on Numpty tonight. A Monk debate video. "If we want to have allies, we have to be an ally." I hope PM Carney is thinking along the same lines. youtu.be/fkj9DpEN_HI?...

Some progressives find it more satisfying to condemn fellow Democrats than to stand together against the most dangerous, destructive president in US history.

Nice work, @mark-carney.bsky.social Now how soon can we buy a Xiaomi EV? youtu.be/Mb6H7trzMfI?...

HRM spokesman Jake Fulton says roundabouts are more expensive than signalized intersections. Maybe—If you only consider the largest, most overbuilt roundabouts. Ever been to England, Jake? At small intersections there, roundabouts often consist of little more than a painted circle.

🧵 The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.

Finally, an investment in Sydney harbor for something real, not the mythical container pier that Cecil (and others) used to hoodwink voters for years.

Coast guard selects Sydney harbour for icebreaker maintenance facility #Sydney #NovaScotia #CapeBreton Study to consider Membertou First Nation land next to Canadian Coast Guard Academy www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Our trial is a week away: thenarwhal.ca/rcmp-trial-u...

A chart that says a lot about a lot. #AI is not going to improve this situation, to say the least.

On this date in 1170 CE, my ancestor, Richard Le Breton, and three accomplices, murdered Thomas à Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The assassination was the culmination of a feud between Becket and King Henry II over the prerogatives of the church. Several of my relatives bear Breton's name.

David Frum: sagacious on Trump; knuckleheaded on Canada: www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Untrue in US courts, where they are banned. Mostly false in state courts.

Carbon capture and storage remains deep in the fiction section of the climate solutions bookstore. reneweconomy.com.au/worlds-large...

1. found data that suggests nothing as bad last winter (see below). 2. the historical outage data should be easily found. 3. rather than 'yellow", the warning should have been "orange" (likely significant damage) 4. maybe ECCC & NSPI could jointly use historical data to better predict impacts (AI)

NS Power executives this year decided to ensure they were on the naughty list in effort to get cheap coal

He could start by letting us buy China's excellent electric vehicles, which currently face a 100% tariff his predecessor put in place to appease the United States.

Make that 59,033 customers without power – 12% of NSP's ratepayers.

50,000 Nova Scotia Power customers are now without power. That's 10% of the company's rate payers in the province.

This tariff was imposed in retaliation for Canada's 100% tariff on Chinese made EVs. There's a simple solution here. Drop the tariff on Chinese EVs. Lobster prices and export volumes would rebound, and Canadians could enjoy the excellent EVs produced in China. Cars much better than North American.

hmmmm... Trump talks sanctions on Canadian potash, then drops Belarus sanctions on potash. probably Putin's idea

How prevalent are mass shootings in the ulUS? For two of the students affected by the brown yesterday's Brown University shooting, it was the second time they had been victims of such attacks. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

@radiofreetom.bsky.social shares with too many journalists the unattractive quality of being thin-skinned. If you dish out criticism, you should be able to received criticism more gracefully.

@yhzweatherguy.bsky.social Jim, it seems as though winter hit early and hard in the Maritimes this month. Do you have any wisdom to offer on prospects for Jan, Feb, & Mar 2026? If so, how much faith should we place in a 3-month forecast? (Asking for a friend)

List of investments made this year by our new PM Mark Carney: 🍁 #Canada Australia for Arctic Over-the-Horizon Radar-Canada’s NORAD modernization plan-- www.canada.ca/en/departmen... Defence Industrial Strategy-- www.canada.ca/en/departmen... /1 thread

“Law of War experts debate whether the action, for which Japanese naval commanders were executed as war criminals by the US, is legal when the American government does it.”

Astronomy experts have questioned whether the Moon is made of blue cheese.