"66 per cent of believe the number of homicides, meaning murder or manslaughter, has increased" We had only 2 homicides in 2025, I believe, in a region of over 700,000 people. The level of dishonesty in our community, misinformation and drama created by WRPS is absurd. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This has been the escalation, created by the Mayor's own approach. She's now out front pretending to be either ignorant or incompetent.

Reallocate WR and GroundUpWR and a host of voices made significant efforts in 2021 to get this under control. It is not. Nobody can claim ignorance and I am so sick of the local leaders gaslighting our community because it cannot be honest about itself. kitchener.citynews.ca/2021/11/24/r...

my attitude the second somebody glosses over progressive enablement of policing and carceral logic

Plus a regional council that acted in an overtly undemocratic manner over the police budget this year. There is not a single Councillor that isn't responsible for failing to reign in police behaviour since 2022. A failure.

The budget is now over $275 million and you are allowing 52 Verkada CCTV cameras to be set up throughout Waterloo. This type of deflection is gross and embarrassing. As responsible for this as anyone else is. Lead. Don't act surprised. People have been very clear about their concerns re police.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Dorothy McCabe advocated against the increasing police budget and identified the reasons it is problematic, 3 years ago...

www.waterloo.ca/news/posts/c... Who declared their community as requiring enhanced enforcement?

Someone asked the city of Waterloo two weeks ago if they knew what the WRPS does with images or data. They did not have an answer, they did not know and were very clear they wanted to pass that responsibility and oversight to WRPS. So as our local rep can you do the FOI for the WRPS policies?

Dorothy McCabe should explain how WRPS uses retained images of the public. If she doesn't have an answer and defaults to ask the WRPS (who hide their policies) then she cannot be taken seriously. Signed an agreement for mass surveillance just 4 months ago. She cannot pretend to be not responsible.

I cannot take the local NDP seriously until they pull their heads out of their ass and remember they should speak out before harm occurs. Stop being so foolish and aloof. People want a serious party willing to stand up. The Green Party is running circles around you because we have zero alternative.

Y'all can't be serious kitchener.citynews.ca/2025/12/11/w...

kitchener.citynews.ca/2025/12/11/w... The mayor and region have empowered them to do mass surveillance for years. They don't understand the tech and cannot explain the policies in place

WRPS has hidden it's AI retention policies from the public and if you ask Dorothy McCabe about the use of that material she won't have an answer

WHO SIGNED THE CCTV AGREEMENT WITH WRPS???? THE MAYOR

Dorothy McCabe Mayor of Waterloo doesn't understand what the role of the police in her own city is. Or is a liar. You can't be this level of involved and pretend shock.

Resign. You signed a CCTV agreement with WRPS and have repeatedly enabled them. What did you think would happen. We are governed by fake progressives and they get awfully upset when you call them out because we have a bunch of conservatives they use to deflect from their own nonsense.

this is the tepid hate, but if your approach to community safety is fueling an online discourse like this, you've lost the plot Of course local politicians love to proclaim online is not real life, forgetting everyone spends a massive amount of time on their phone, in physical space No difference

The Islamophobic and anti-Semitic hate speech that has flooded the local digital ecology as a result of one WRPS scope on a community of students is fueling a community culture of surveillance, criminalization, and paranoia. As WRPS Officer Evans told me: "it's all brown people from Brampton".

The "forbidden" part always gets me. These are bog standard views among the well-off and coddled. They ain't shy about their bigotry and even the more liberal are pretty indulgent of it. Like you'll hear the same rancid shit from drunk realtors at city council open comments. Y'all ain't special.

Waterloo Mayor Dorothy McCabe handed over her city to the WRPS to set up facial tracking CCTV on city property. This adds to their ongoing surveillance of the public, the use of personal images and the policies they follow regarding Briefcam and their AI tools is hidden from public access.

The term "fake news" entered the popular consciousness during the 2016 US election, subsequently triggering an epistemological crisis that prompted the news industry to pour money into initiatives promoting "trust" Now "trust," the supposed solution to "fake news," is used to destroy the news

I don't care how you get there. No it won't be unrealistic, you just populate the administration with the biggest dork losers history has ever seen and let the oligarch engine of late state capitalism and their own greed and incompetence mix into a sludge slurry of shit, people will buy it.

For the final act of the World War trilogy, the smart play is to make the Americans the bad guys. Both times previous they showed up late and took all the credit, so as a bit of subverting audience expectations, let's have them start this one for no reason as the baddies. No just make them fascist.

Timothée Chalamet Under Fire For Dismissive Comments About Traditional Japanese Puppet Theater Form ‘Bunraku’ https://theonion.com/timothee-chalamet-under-fire-for-dismissive-comments-about-traditional-japanese-puppet-theater-form-bunraku/

And the elements of the war crime of denial of quarter from the Rome Statute which the USG regarded to be generally consistent with customary international law and which would likely inform interpretation of the offense under the US War Crimes Act.

From the "High Command Case" at Nuremberg:

Extremely grim news from Texas. Absurdly, a jury has decided to convict all of the defendants on most of the charges, including "Corruptly Concealing a Document" for moving a box of zines. The jury's verdict: www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/v... Background on the case: crimethinc.com/Prairieland

The implications of this verdict will be massive fortworthreport.org/2026/03/13/p...

We have a verdict and we are heartbroken at the results. This is only the beginning. We will continue to fight the remaining charges until every defendant is home.

If you attend a protest, wear black, and use Signal, congratulations you are now a terrorist.

Yeah this is 100 percent accurate as of this court decision. This is so incredibly dangerous and will be used so widely now it really is hard to fully comprehend how badly this appears it is about to go. bsky.app/profile/tris...

a different link medium.com/@kw_ham/hall...

As we wait for more details to emerge from what appears to be an ongoing attack on the largest Reform synagogue in America, we send love and solidarity to the entire congregation and community. Regardless of what exactly is happening, no community should have to live with this fear.

11 hallmarks of hate is used as a legal standard to identify what meets that 'thresehold' in canada - a concept being directly dismissed by growing segments of the community mhgoldberg.com/blog/?p=1162

Here’s my (frighteningly vulnerable!!) follow up on my reporting that exposed a white nationalist active club. On the professional and personal costs of this work:

The Fallout from Reporting on White Nationalism in Canada thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

On International Women's Day, the new group Witches Against Power (WAP) carried out coordinated actions against ICE contractor GardaWorld, vandalizing their Montreal headquarters plus the residences of two board members.

Has the Dr Ian Haws of Guelph discourse started or does it need a little push to note that he was also identified in the WhiteDate, back in January? Anything to get the people in Southwestern Ontario to speak out. @uofguelph.bsky.social canadianinfluencewatchdog.blogspot.com/2026/01/whit...

As a parent, I was horrified when I discovered this dark part of the web. I'm also horrified that this story has not received more attention to warn others. More at www.HateComesToMainStreet.com.

Sometimes, I cannot tell, if I'm the one who is losing their mind (multiple truths)

Did this anonymous email come from one of the 27 members of the Cambridge anti-vaccine moms group? Would we know their name? How many internal leaks does the Catholic board have into an extremist network? How many publicly employed people are in that telegram? Laurier has a few, North Dumfries etc

Campaign Life Coalition goes after a lot of different things but take a guess where Jack Fonseca and Jeff Gunnarsson call home, the damage this small group of losers have already done without community accountability is at odds with the support and solidarity shown at counter protests.

"Four examples of posts from Robyn Adamus within CSA — Cambridge... resharing extremist content from Jeremy Mackenzie" medium.com/@kw_ham/extr...

I'm going to be a broken record on this because the only path offered by every system in my community is: talk to the RCMP But the CBSA officer that harassed elected school trustees, fueled transphobic hate and health misinformation - continues to be unaddressed 4 years into her local organizing

Late last year, a white supremacist dating platform was hacked and its users leaked. One of those users is Royal Canadian Air Force Major Tristan Armstrong, who CAHN has linked to thousands of posts made on far-right forums between 2019 and 2024. 🧵 www.antihate.ca/air_force_ma...

CAHN has identified nearly 200 Canadian users from the data, including teachers, university professors, health professionals, lawyers, and other military personnel. We’ll be reporting on additional individuals in the coming weeks.