After Australia kicked kids under 16 off a host of social media platforms in December, France is leading the charge in Europe with a bill that would prohibit social media for under-15s as soon as this year. Here are five things to know 👇 www.politico.eu/article/five...

As First Ministers met this week, we were united in calling on Parliament to pass C-14, our new Bail and Sentencing Reform Act, quickly. Our new government tabled this bill to keep repeat and violent offenders out of our communities — and the sooner it passes, the better.

Topple this regime.

En réunion cette semaine, les premiers ministres ont demandé l’adoption rapide du projet de loi C-14 sur la mise en liberté sous caution et la détermination de la peine. Notre projet de loi vise à protéger nos collectivités des récidivistes et des délinquants violents.

Trump and his cabal need to be decimated!!!

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

Trump is pressuring Minnesota to make a deal with the devil. They should stand firm | Claire Finkelstein

Israeli air strikes killed 32 people including children in Gaza on Saturday, according to the Palestinian territory's civil defense agency, as the military said it had attacked in response to a Hamas ceasefire violation. u.afp.com/S2SK

The New Yorker: Trump’s Profiteering Hits $4 Billion www.newyorker.com/news/a-repor... archive.ph/u57yI

Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Howard Lutnick face new scrutiny over Epstein ties https://aje.news/zskjme

US DOJ has released another 3 million pages of documents from the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein files that include thousands of references and photos of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Bill Gates and others in the Trump administration. This is not over. Many documents not released. youtu.be/zOufIzbMr-4

RIP Catherine O’Hara By #MichaeldeAdder CanadianPoliticalCartoonist

No water, no heating, no power, -15 degree weather outside. It is not on the front pages of your newspapers, but Ukraine is living through a humanitarian disaster right now because of Russian bombardment and the world has barely noticed.

Toronto-based 2SLGBTQI+ community centre and charity The 519 wants to discuss Ottawa’s safe third country agreement with the United States. The agreement says individuals must claim refugee protection in the first “safe country” they enter. Read our report: zurl.co/8gcoM

🇬🇧 Britain's former prince Andrew was again engulfed Saturday by the Epstein scandal, after newly released files included photographs of him kneeling on all fours over a woman lying on the floor. ➡️ u.afp.com/S2S8

🇩🇰 Between 8,000 and 10,000 people have joined an emotional silent march in Copenhagen, organised by Denmark's Veterans' Association to protest Donald Trump's comments downplaying the role of non-US NATO troops in Afghanistan. ➡️ u.afp.com/S2SB

Aviation analyst 'flabbergasted' by Trump's latest tariff threat John Gradek, a faculty lecturer on aviation management at McGill, says Trump's comments demonstrate a misunderstanding of the plane certification process. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

🇵🇸 🇮🇱 Israeli air strikes killed 28 people including children in Gaza on Saturday, according to the Palestinian territory's civil defence agency, as the military said it attacked in response to a Hamas ceasefire violation. ➡️ u.afp.com/S2Sh

Remember: ICE is no longer an immigration enforcement agency. It's a right wing social media influencer account with guns and camps.

‘One of the greatest comic talents’: tributes paid to actor Catherine O’Hara

Wow, Pierre Poilievre got 87.4% of the vote last night. Impressive! There was no one else on the ballot. So 12.6% of the diehard CPC membership who paid $1000 to be at the convention voted for nobody rather than voting for Poilievre.

On this day in 2012, Leonard Cohen released his 12th studio album Old Ideas. The album went #1 in 11 countries, including Canada, #2 in Australia, the UK, Sweden and Denmark, and #3 in the USA. It went platinum in Canada and won two Junos including Artist of the Year.

I wrote yesterday about Kevin Warsh, saying what everyone who really follows monetary debates knows: he's a bullshitter who uses big words to make incoherent arguments that always amount to stimulus for Republicans, austerity for Dems 1/ paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-bad-heir...

Huge thanks to @pkrugman.bsky.social for the invite to be on the show — really fun conversation on all things trade policy, tariffs, and global weirdness. Also confirming for family record-keeping purposes: this is indeed my “talking to a Nobel Laureate” face.

The killings continue Israeli military strikes hit an apartment building in #Gaza City on Saturday morning, killing three children, their aunt, and grandmother #warcrimes #Palestine #genocide youtube.com/shorts/Fkt4C...

🇯🇵 🇬🇧 Britain and Japan agreed to strengthen defence and economic ties, visiting Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Saturday, after his bid to forge closer links with China drew warnings from US President Donald Trump. ➡️ u.afp.com/S2Sp

🇫🇷 France is ditching US platforms Microsoft Teams and Zoom citing security concerns Its domestically developed video conferencing platform will be used in all government departments by 2027. #natsec #digitalsovereignty #france www.euronews.com/next/2026/01...

Cuba's leader says US president's threat to impose tariffs on countries providing oil is 'fascist, criminal, genocidal' https://aje.news/ifizuj

Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

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Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.

This is creepy as hell. Will Musk be asked by reporters to explain this?

Children raped and killed. American citizens shot in the street. Immigrants illegally shackled, tortured, killed. Journalists arrested. While a $300 million ballroom is constructed and a trash documentary released.

Hell, yeah. “I’ve got white skin, so I’m using my privilege to speak for my friends and neighbors. We’re telling them to stay home and stay safe, and we’re coming out and fighting for them.”

Portland, Maine www.pressherald.com/2026/01/30/l...

Credit to boom99.7 #Ottawa #Canada for this wonderful tribute to Catherine O’Hara, rest easy Queen, you will never be forgotten #CatherineO’Hara #NationalTreasure

Canadian Armed Forces member died in Latvia

Minneapolis MN 1/30/26 FUCK ICE! ICE OUT!

Remember Trump's perennial complaint that other countries are taking advantage of US by not paying their fair share? Secretary General says the UN is on the verge of “imminent financial collapse,” b/c member states to aren't paying their dues, led by far by the US, which is $2.2 billion in arrears.

Treason doesn't get a free pass. Not on my watch. It's time to shine a light in the dark hole where the quislings hang out. We stand for Canada. True, north, strong, free of interference.

Poilievre just told #CP26 "There's never been a referendum crisis or a national unity crisis when Conservatives have been in power It's an interesting coincidence isn't it" False. BQ was the product of Mulroney's time in office. Borden - WWI conscription crisis. Sir John - Louis Riel. C'mon man.

More misreadings of Cdn history from Poilievre's #CPC26 speech: "We don't fight each other because of religious or sectoral differences." Manitoba Schools crisis, Orange Order in Ontario, WWII "None is too many", Japanese internment, Komagata Maru ...

Elon Musk had more extensive ties to Epstein than previously known, emails show

Le Canada est plus grand, plus fort et plus prospère lorsque nous sommes unis.

Canada is bigger, stronger, and more prosperous when we’re united.

Simon Marks' American Week @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social youtu.be/M2iJb8NYWss

In comparison, life expectancy at birth in the EU is 81.7 years.

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