This petition calls on Ottawa to enforce the Canada Health Act, attach strict transparency rules to federal transfers, and stop provinces from hiding the true costs of privatization. Sign protect health care, education, and infrastructure from costly privatization. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Brilliant. Haven't seen these before. A solar-powered, e-ink bus sked that refreshes every 30 seconds with the latest bus wait times, at a bus stop. So simple, effective, cheap.

Paul Krugman gets it. He knows that legacy media is enabling our slide into autocracy, citing as example the fact that Karen Attiah was fired for refusing to canonize Kirk, while "Ezra Klein has faced no consequences ... for declaring that Kirk did politics 'the right way'." 🔥

y'all this is my first-ever comic, be nice (commission for @naldodrinan.bsky.social) #art #comic #ttrpg

This whole thing. Go read pages 95-100. Still plenty of fight in the old beast.

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better." Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better. Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand. We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

Been quietly pleased at the changes in tone with the Truth and Reconciliation stuff this year. It's always felt like the news has been *apologetic* for including this in their news cycles. This year it's feeling a lot more sincere, at least in places. It's the work of generations.

Missing from this is just because Trump has stopped talking about the 51st state does not mean he's stopped coveting our country. When asked, his WH press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said he still thinks Canada would be better off being a state. 1/2 John Paul Tasker, CBC:

Can't say this enough. Aesthetics over function is an indicator. Courtesy over honesty is an indicator. If they're more concerned over you swearing than about the human rights violations you're talking about as you swear, you're in fash country.

Who’s your favourite Jedi? (Wrong answers only.)

Opening up 90s/00s park, a park entirely made of stupid consumerist shit like Walmart and Blockbusters and toy ads that these fuckers get so nostalgic over, and then on opening day locking the gate behind them so the rest of us can make society better than this shit.

i do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

🕊 Quick pauses = quiet power.  Life doesn’t always give us hours, but even 10 minutes can restore us. Take a walk,  💬 Which of these quick breaks do you practice most often?  #SlowLivingTips #QUIETribeLife #MindfulBreaks #IntentionalLiving #CozyCanadianMoments #RestIsRadical

Canadians can see how the extremist playbook is tearing apart Europe and the United States. MAGA MAPLE have been setting up the ground for it to be unleashed here. The hate storm is coming. We need to call this guy out for his manipulations and rage baiting.

Chrome's adblock dying has really just shown how bad ads have gotten now huh This appeared and fullscreened my window, hid my cursor, for clicking on a youtube download link lol old people are just not built to handle this

I can’t tell you how much good could be done right now by average citizens socially cold-shouldering anyone tangentially working for ICE.

All the coolest people embrace sincerity and enthusiasm.

"In some places, French postal workers now pick up prescriptions, return library books, and deliver flowers. Last year, only twenty eight per cent of La Poste’s revenue came from sending mail." Services can evolve in positive ways to meet new and growing needs.

DHS is barely 20 years old. It was thrown together by a bunch of unsupervised interns in the chaotic wake of 9/11 (that's barely an exaggeration if you read about how inexperienced so many of its creators were). It can easily be disassembled as well. We don't have to live like this.

Danielle Smith is an O&G lobbyist with a side hustle as premier. #DanielleSmithIsUnfitToLead #DanielleSmithIsLyingToYou #AdrianaLaGrangeIsIncompetent #EndUCPCorruption #CorruptCare #abpoli #ableg

sketches from last session with Ben's group... SO MANY EMOTIONS AAAUUGHHH. couple sessions ago I met the cutest elf ;-;! whenever I made a joke she would punch me in the arm and send me across the table, and then run to me apologizing... sadly she died last session... Ben couldn't save her (aaaaaaa)

new scam going around where they hire you for a job but pay you less than the value your labor produced

22. The days of oil are over. Oil extraction is now becoming so expensive that oil prices would need to be above $80 per barrel for US shale extraction to be profitable. Meanwhile solar PV costs less than an equivalent of $20 per barrel oil. Oil’s chances have gone up in smoke. Literally.

Most Alberta minimum wage workers aren’t teens and haven’t been for a long time. When they say raising minimum wage isn’t necessary because it’s “mostly kids” earning afterschool money, they are plain wrong. As of Oct. 1, we’ll have the lowest minimum wage wage in Canada. Some #AlbertaAdvantage, eh?

I have heard good arguments against saying stuff released by the American government in these shootings is fake but have you considered: This is a BLACKS RULE-type situation.

The degree to which lifelong #StarWars fans do not at all understand the themes and messaging is absolutely wild. Esp the Original and Prequel trilogies and the Clone Wars era Someone was surprised that the Clone Wars TV show feels anti-war

Shana tova u’metuka / Good and sweet new year this Rosh Hashanah Did you know griffins were important symbols for Medieval German Jews?

NEW: Did you know a judge has ordered Rudy to pay his former lawyer $1.6M? Plus, a J6er is suing the DoJ alleging he was dosed with estrogen in prison. @libradunn1.bsky.social and I cover it on today’s Cleanup on Aisle 45. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

OMG, I DIDNT KNOW THE WINGS WERE KEPT UNDER THE SHELL! I thought the shell was the wings. Courtesy of National Geographic

They've lost the 9yos

“Prasad, a former procurement official with Alberta Health Services, represented Alberta Surgical Group in negotiations with the health authority in the summer of 2022, while he was paid by AHS to advise it about contracting with such private providers” www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

There's no guarantee that these lessons stick for them, but the lesson for *us* is that they respond to shame and consumer anger. They are more scared of us than they are of the regime. If we keep it up, we'll win.

I decided that anytime I repost some of [the horrors] going on out there, I want to post something that's less negative too. I scribbled a bunch of portraits for a TTRPG I'm running recently, please have one! Lionel's glad you showed up, and hopes you're doing well today.

Happy Rapture Day to all who celebrate 💋

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

it's that time of year

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

No particular reason

If your apocalyptic fantasy doesn't give a shit about your vulnerable neighbors, your fantasy is actually about having an excuse to be an awful person.

If you think things are rough, let me tell you a little story re:my HOA: My neighborhood HOA was very chill... so chill I never heard from them. Until suddenly the board sold us out to a management corp who jacked up our fees & vowed to crank up "enforcement" (sound familiar? it gets better) 1/n

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

Relaxing Tea Better Fucking Work https://theonion.com/relaxing-tea-better-fucking-work-1819579209/

A lot of folks assume that populism and libertarianism go hand in hand. On the surface, both appear to be anti-establishment. With the rise of populists like Trump and Smith to positions of power, though... ...and the backlash from libertarians in their base, rifts are developing in RW parties.+

This won’t be trickling down.

Look who came with

These people don't care about actual governance. They're happy to lie, cheat, and prevaricate, and don't care if it harms the nation or their constituents. All that matters is that they win.