Here is Lowell Green in his own racist and bigoted words:

Lowell Green was a racist demagogue who used his CFRA radio show as a soapbox to rant about immigrants and target racialized communities in Ottawa Contrary to Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe's eulogy here, Lowell wasn't proud of Canada – he wrote an entire book about how it wasn't white enough for him

Defeating car culture is the only way to rescue government budgets everywhere.

"Almost paradoxically, Sequoyah’s numerals could not succeed because they had not yet succeeded, and came into existence in a social context where a prestigious, common notation had been adopted almost universally."

The fact that this tragic event in Tumbler Ridge immediately inspired calls for restrictions on gender-affirming care and trans rights at large in Canada should raise huge alarm bells for trans people and our allies, writes @melwoods.me

The surprisingly modern look of cyclist Gabrielle Etéogella, 1896. "Organizers were sent to Paris to recruit riders, who were provided with free travel to England, discounts on first class rail travel and free hotel accommodation.[5] Adverts may have also been placed for the racers –

We are Devo. D-E-V-O

In the Toronto Star I write about Toronto Police's violent corruption scandal. Will it move the needle on police reform? It's a dramatic escalation in a long history of police intimidation, bullying their critics & broken trust. I argue 3 big things have to happen, including firing this chief.

the amount of time it is taking for these relatively podunk snow banks to melt is really throwing into relief for me how fucked up it is that we are managing to melt the glaciers

The first Inuit led university is set to open in 2030 and will contain a capacity for 100 students and 80 staff members. It will be set up to advance Arctic education for future generations of northern students.

Add it to the list of reasons why he should be shunned.

The only biosphere in the known universe capable of supporting human life is being turned into a hell planet because most of Earth's governments refuse to stop trying to satisfy the insatiable greed of a plutocracy composed of people who already have more money than they could spend in 20 lifetimes.

The latest from journalist @justinbrake.bsky.social from the courthouse in #Vancouver where photojournalist Amber Bracken and @thenarwhal.ca are suing the RCMP. Stay tuned for more from Brake covering the #pressfreedom case for Ricochet & @independentnl.bsky.social. www.tiktok.com/@ricochetmed...

"Our use-case with ICE does not include tracking or surveillance of individuals using our tools... Our technology makes public conversation visible at scale." AND HOW DO YOU DO THAT EXACTLY I WONDER translation: "we really need the money and we're the good guys here, actually, so go fuck yourself"

They're not cancelling the contract. Which, putting aside the lack of morality and ethics that demonstrates, feels like a stone cold stupid business decision.

Two of my neighbours missed the green bin pick-up because theirs weren’t visible / accessible from the road. 311 says it’ll be at least a day before workers can come back for them.

Brilliant!

It’s meeeeeeeee! Let me know what you think.

According to the largest union in Canada’s federal public sector, workers in the government’s health, transportation, foreign affairs and public safety departments have all been told their departments will start to see layoffs. @isaacphannay.bsky.social reports. #canlab

A few to choose from. Elected official responses will vary widely.

Carney is also diverting research funds to AI and defence and to concentrating funding into a small number of "star" researchers rather than funding our community properly. Exactly the same playbook as Harper.

Anti-Trump conservatives still don’t get it.

June 21, 2024: Doug Ford abruptly shuts down the Ontario Science Centre, insisting that the roof is unstable and won’t withstand the next winter. January 26, 2026: After the latest and greatest dumping of snow in Toronto, the building is fine. Almost as if winter was never the issue, eh?

I've reached out to all Canadian companies listed here to ask if they intend to continue working with ICE: Hootsuite Roshel Garda Jim Pattison Developments I've also reached out to @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social's team for comment on export permits for Canadian sale of armoured vehicles to ICE.

Yes, and as @rachelgilmore.bsky.social notes there are three other Canadian companies doing business with ICE: Roshel, Garda and Jim Pattison Developments. This can no longer continue in the name of economic activity as usual. bsky.app/profile/rach...

There is not a lot Canadians can do about ICE, but we can ask Parliament to investigate Canadian companies doing business with them, like Hootsuite. Call or email your MP - or contact the INDU House committee MPs. Will post link below. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

ICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the Očhéthi Šakówinnto be taken this month. Statement from Standing Rock:

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

Hell yeah. Women athletes always lead. Let’s see the men follow this afternoon/evening.

But at least they'll be subject to a 100% tariff

Brampton-made ICE armoured vehicles on American streets. Roshel is collaborating with racist, expansionist, authoritarians.

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The U.S. Treasury Secretary called for part of Canada to secede and join the U.S., and there's so much going on hardly anyone even had time to notice.

Years from now, it'll be difficult to explain the things people in media were wailing about before all this. Sophomores writing underconsidered op-eds about cultural appropriation. Protests against demagogues on campus. YA drama. "Mobs" on Twitter. These were the threats to free society.

Canadian-built Roshel armored vehicles are being used by ICE right now in Minneapolis, including in today's operation where ICE murdered someone else. I wrote about this company in December. And we know this thanks to the work of World Beyond War Canada. noraloreto.substack.com/p/canadian-b...

i’m here again to point out that Doug Ford thinks it’s fantastic that we’re equipping ICE

Trump: “If Governor Carney thinks he is going to make Canada a ‘Drop Off Port’ for China to send goods and products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken … If Canada makes a deal with China, it will immediately be hit with a 100% Tariff against all Canadian goods and products”

‘What sparked Carney’s intervention was not Sudan, Venezuela or Gaza. It was the US threat to Canada and Greenland. A western prime minister took umbrage only when the US, under President Donald Trump, threatened to treat the prosperous West in the same way it has long treated the Global South.’

Toronto! Tickets are now available to the general public for our live show on Thursday, February 5th at the Hot Docs Ted Rodgers Cinema, presented by @cycletoronto.bsky.social. Take that, Doug Ford! boxoffice.hotdocs.ca/websales/pag...

I cannot tell you how absolutely infuriatingly this stuff comes across to Europeans. When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.

Perhaps Trump going full eugenics for a second straight day will cause the media to realize they need to make it a headline.

The contrast between this and Carney’s speech could not be more alarming or shocking.

GREENLAND [In all-caps] The Contrarian , by @deAdder Substack: open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...

Let the historical record note that the business elites at Davos repeatedly laughed during a fascist speech that declared intent to annex another country’s land, promoted election conspiracies and railed against the free press

Trump is now confusing Greenland and Iceland: "They're not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland has already cost us a lot of money."

Trump: "Canada gets a lot of freebies from us. They should be grateful but they're not. He watched your prime minister yesterday. He wasn't so grateful. But they should be grateful to us. Canada. Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that, Mark, next time you make your statements"

So Matt @weratedogs.com took a break from 15/10 pups and created this amazing reflection on resistance to the murderous forces running amok in Minnesota. Yeah. The adorable dog guy.

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...