So, becuase of the costs of new build rental units, landlords with older units are raising the rents to match. 😠 This is why there are so many homeless. Greedy landlords. 😠 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Just when you think they might be improving…

#maddow Tulsa Gabbard here's a little wake up call. Three things that cannot be hidden for long. The sun, the moon, and the truth. – Buddha

Six months-long exposure taken using a pinhole camera containing photographic paper. It tracked the Sun’s movement in the sky from winter to summer solstice. Each curve shows one day and stretches of cloudy days can be seen as dark patches. #solarcan 🔭🧪

Vaccines work. We do not live in a vacuum. Get vaxxed for your family, friends, neighbors and because it is the right thing to do. So sick of navel-gazing, self-centered walking freaks.

Today is the anniversary of the Canadian Health Act, a cornerstone of our universal public health care system. Will you take 5 minutes to share a story in the comments about what our public health care means to you — and tag Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Minister of Health Marjorie Michel?

Only in Canada! The Liberals, Conservatives, and the Bloc all agreed to reallocate some of their funding to the NDP to help them function until the next election. Damn, I am glad I live in a functioning democracy! #Canada #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Completely on point.

NEWS: Huge first win for Mayor Mamdani’s tax-the-rich plans in NYC. Mamdani just secured a deal with Gov. Hochul to create the state’s first-ever tax on $5 million+ second homes owned by ultrawealthy out-of-state residents.

The rise of far-right authoritarianism just got kicked in the nads. Hard. Viktor Orbán, a puppet master of the rise of the far-right, just lost the election in Hungary. Everyone who cares about the rise of the far right should care about this — but shouldn’t get complacent. Here’s why:

I live this quote…

#CapeCod #Poetry #Painting #Spring It is morning, and again I am the lucky person to be in it Mary Oliver 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

How will Avi Lewis pay for his big ideas? Taxing billionaires and corporations. “Banks made $70 billion in profits last year…Grocery baron Galen Weston alone is worth $20 billion,” Avi says. “The money is there my friends. We need a government with the courage to go and get it for all of us.”

Edward Gordon (American Artist, born 1940) "March", 1970. Oil on Canvas, 53.3 × 43.18 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Canada carried out the overnight annexation of Alaska, the op was developed over recent months in coordination with Inuit rebel forces and backed by Nordics, Greenland & NATO. Captured US troops to be deported within 2 weeks, military equipment and bases under Canadian control.

In all seriousness though, elder millennial jokes aside, I think it’s important to resist the media framing of any mainstream resistance to the status quo as just the shrill nonsense of middle-aged women with nothing better to do. This isn’t the first time they’ve run out this playbook.

Wab’s doing numbers with this one

🤯 30-40% of Gulf energy infrastructure destroyed, take up to 3 years to fix everything. Everything is about to get much worse #Cdnpoli #Energy www.france24.com/en/france-co...

"Research done by Richard Gray, the Canadian Grain Policy Research Chair, showed that $370 million in taxpayer investment in wheat breeding results in Canadian benefits reaching $11.8 billion. The AAFC research cuts, however, could harm the work of the Canadian Grain Commission" #CDNpoli #CDNag

I did write this, but it’s spot on.

Reminder to tell TSA they’re not getting paid but ICE is getting overtime for those travelling today, be sure to keep morale high and avoid TSA spitting in their break room lunches

The blood is always on the same hands.

No power yet after our mega storm, but I still got out for an adventure

Dean Blundell’s Substack today is a MUST-READ: Trump spent 14 months tariffing allies, threatening to annex Canada, mocking NATO then launched a war nobody asked for. Now he’s DEMANDING those same allies bail him out. #USDemocracy #Pinks open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

Canada entering the chat with no lies detected!👊🏾🔥🔥

Start this video at 5:15. Watching it will make every 🇨🇦ians happy and proud right now. Go on 🇨🇦. You deserve the hit of dopamine and serotonin. 😁 #Canada #CanadaSky #Denmark #Norway #Finland #Iceland #Sweden www.youtube.com/live/q0HkAYp...

Canada’s wildland fire agencies want better masks to stop smoke. If only it were that easy, Good article, but doesn’t even scratch the surface of all the toxins absorbed through your skin on the fire line.

They are so comfortable with sex crimes, why should we be surprised that war crimes aren’t a stretch

I'm no economist, but I'm pretty sure there are a LOT of variables behind this difference, a few of which are: cost of raw ingredients, exchange rate, large minimum wage differences, specific location, etc., etc.. Also — a Big Mac in #yeg today is $6.79, not $7.81 CAD. Farm that rage 🙄. #cdnpoli

Liive Now #cdnpoli cpac.ca/headline-pol...

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:

we need drones now though. Use the downturn in the auto sector and build ASAP. It's been 12 months already since elected. bsky.app/profile/osin...

Such a loss

Great day today at the St. Charles Women Empowering Women Event. So many amazing women in our community

If you don’t want to be called out for being a Nazi, don’t be a Nazi.

NOEM: I would disagree with the judge CROCKETT: I'm sure you would, but can you tell me whether or not you have a law degree? NOEM: A what? CROCKETT: A law degree NOEM: No I do no- CROCKETT: Okay

Max Scherzer's daughter wrote a heartfelt letter to the Blue Jays - and put a stamp on it. I wrote about why her parents never sent it. www.nytimes.com/athletic/708...

Changes to 911 system will provide more options for callers, information for responders #Canada Text and image sharing among the features of new system planned for 2027 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"The growing white nationalist "active club" movement poses a risk for "extreme violence" in Canada, according to an internal Public Safety Canada brief obtained by CBC News."

Ontario's tire recycling sector is 'broken' the industry says, as the circular tire recycling economy circles funds back to corporations and importers while leaving millions of used tires in potentially dangerous and environmentally hazardous piles all over Ontario www.sudbury.com/local-news/m...

According to Phoebe Stephens, an associate professor at Dalhousie University, groceries could become more affordable by improving the regional supply chain and increasing the volume of locally produced food. #NewBrunswick #PrinceEdwardIsland #NovaScotia /1 thread www.ctvnews.ca/business/inf...

Interesting breakdown of the SOTU from CBC’s Andrew Chang www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Hilary stands up for what’s right.

4 of the 5 are from Minnesota and three of the five have the same agent Ben Hankinson who is also from Minnesota

Kinda amazing that Trump shits on Canada and Mexico every day, and there's the Mexican-American captain of Canada's Toronto Maple Leafs, Auston Matthews, standing behind him as he defiles an Olympic Gold Medal He hates your mother and your fans Auston Matthews but - you do you: be a collaborator

Finally an American Governor doing something about rampant gun violence.

Yes, please tax them. There are 902 American billionaires. Any single one of them could fund PBS and NPR forever without losing their billionaire status. LITERALLY ANY OF THEM.

Sports are political. Following the USA’s hockey wins at the Olympics, the White House revisited an old tweet from Trudeau that asserted our sovereignty. They shared that post with an image of an eagle attacking a Canada goose. But they messed up Because in that story, the goose came out on top.