Breaking the fourth wall out of sheer exasperation, and people in charge refusing to acknowledge reality. This one is really capturing the year we’ve had.

It’s going to be a fierce competition this year

'The prison demands that we be alive on their terms – but now it’s on our terms, and we have the power that they hold over us in our hands, in our bodies and in our empty stomachs. I wish I could convey how much energy resistance brings you.' #HungerStrike www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Via Robert Reich:

After the devastating loss of the 3 children in Ottawa, it was urgent to get info out re the additional ways avail to protect one’s loved ones from serious illness as we enter the holidays… and to remind young fams this amt of sickness ISN’T normal. #VaccinePlus ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/12/21/s...

Well, 2025 has been terrible, so should be some good contenders this year! Even headline writers need to laugh so they don’t cry.

Thanks to the indefatiguable Marc Belanger at @rabble.ca's RadioLabour for having me on his show this week to discuss the myths and realities of AI and the future of work: rabble.ca/podcast/the-.... Algorithms aren't the enemy, financialized greed is the enemy. #canlab /2

Honour the Winter Solstice by sharing this “Winter Solstice Prayer and Sweetgrass Offerings” to honour and bless our children on the longest night of the year and the eve of the submission of the First Nations plan to permanently end Canada’s discrimination in child and family services.

Trump's One "Yuuge" Mistake Carney, Hodgson, Smith, Eby, Canadian oil CEOs are making the same mistake #bcpoli #abpoli #cdnpoli markhamhislop.substack.com/p/trumps-one...

The comments about Carney’s failures being the result of “misdiagnosis, overconfidence and hubris,” when combined with his evident faith that the Market Will Provide, are particularly clarifying. Gift link:

Lichen collage on lakeside rock. Northwest Territories, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

NDP campaign review says Blame: -Campaign environment -Trump -Journalists asking abt polling -Candidates’ unrealistic expectations -Riding assoc execs failure to lower candidate expectations -NDP base’s aversion to fundraising & defeatist attitude Not: -Senior party officials -Campaign decisions

Yup. O&G rakes in the profits, rest of us pay the bill.

Reject any motherfucker who tells you we need to abandon a vulnerable population or person. They’re either a fascist or a fascist-in-waiting.

“These forests are so special,” he said. “They deserve more than us. They deserve the devotion of all of the people of British Columbia. They deserve better than just 20 of us. They deserve all of us.”

“Public money must come with public responsibility. If taxpayers are being asked to shore up strategic industries in the middle of a global trade war, then workers cannot be the ones left carrying the insecurity, the fear, the lost wages, and the shattered plans for their families.”

The federal government’s 2025 progress report on its Emissions Reduction Plan shows Canada’s climate progress is well off track and needs immediate policy delivery over the next six months. Read our full statement ⬇️ climateinstitute.ca/news/canadas...

The Ranch View 1 Erin Elizabeth Ross 2024

Great infographic from "Countering the Climate Change Counter Movement: Six lessons from Canada's climate delays" (pub Dec 11, 2025) Infographic: ars.els-cdn.com/content/imag... Full paper (FREE PDF available): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“a profound lack of judgment”

The real people living Toronto’s homelessness crisis

Thank you to everyone who participated in our Carvykti® email writing campaign! You sent over 5,000 letters to Ministers of Health and provincial and territorial representatives across Canada, urging them to return to negotiations and ensure access to this life-changing treatment.

Experts from Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Yale, Duke, Columbia & the former CDC Immunization Director sound the alarm on the Trump administration’s push to rewrite the childhood vaccine schedule. They explain how these moves threaten families, public health, and science-based policy itself.

Bill C-15 affects inter-library loans in Canada. Speak up to protect our libraries:

The way to read the Canada-Alberta MOU is that Carney is using the Trump effect as political cover to pursue the deregulatory agenda he’s long wanted. I spoke with @naomiaklein.bsky.social who called it a classic example of the shock doctrine.

Canada's grievous lack of badly needed affordable housing goes hand in hand with a massive oversupply of overpriced condo units that sit empty. Both of them spring from the same cause: putting our trust in private enterprise to manage basic public needs. A Housing in 🇨🇦🧵 1/

Carney's American pipeline. He seemed thrown off by the lack of cheering. Thanks @kainagata.bsky.social and @dogwoodbc.bsky.social

🔥 The climate emergency is here and now. Are governments acting with real urgency? Our 12-minute video explains the 6 Markers of Climate Emergency Action. Watch the full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJdK...

One of my go-to doom-scrolls. eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-weal...

A thread on the MOU. MOST IMPORTANT: Carney's move signals to the rest of Canada, and the world, that it's OK to keep building more fossil fuel projects. Other countries will use this to justify doing the same. Our children are watching, to see if we care about their futures. Do we? 1/22

This is important. Please share. "What do Ontario NDP, Liberal and Green MPPs have in common? Pharmacare... ...This morning, we sent a letter to the Premier and Minister Jones calling on our province to join the national plan for birth control and diabetes." #OnPoli #OnHealth

Top 5 articles on CBC News right now

What a great interview.

'...46 per cent of those with stable housing said they would “most likely be homeless without #foodbank support” and they were able to use money they would spend on food toward rent and housing.' www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A horrifing story. This is the harm caused by alt health and wellness. It’s a magnet for grifters and sociopaths like Danyan Goodenowe and Jana Horsnall, who should be in prison. And shame on the Sask gov’t for letting this place operate.

Listening to Elizabeth May decry the Alberta-Canada MOU less than 2 weeks after voting for the Liberal budget based solely on Carney’s unconvincing assurance that Canada would meet its commitments under the Paris Agreement is making my head explode.

This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec. You can find my full statement below.

There's a part of learning, which generative AI completely turns into dogshit, which is *doing something you could not have done before* Whether it's drawing, playing an instrument, solving a physics problem, organizing an essay, you find yourself doing easily what previously you found overwhelming

Another case of someone not being able to access an approved, effective drug. Other provinces have access or made exceptions, but this man will be denied treatment because he lives in Manitoba. He had been getting it free from drug company and was able to work a full day w/o rest. Heartbreaking.

Many of Ontario’s ‘most vulnerable’ are not receiving proper care, ombudsman says

Back in school, I wrote an essay about how two-tier healthcare would improve access for everyone. It makes intuitive sense: create a second line and the original one gets shorter, right? A better look at the evidence and arguments like Picard's changed my mind. 🧵

It makes me wonder if, since SAVING LIVES didn't work as an argument, keeping insurance rates lower might?

'AXIS OF OBSTRUCTION' . . . #cop30

“Sunnybrook has been using donations from private hospital funders to add another doctor to the overnight rotation” “Sunnybrook says it has brought down the wait to see a doctor in the emergency department by about 30 minutes.” No kidding. Almost like our healthcare system needs more funding.

More reporting from the G&M on the situation with myeloma (blood cancer) patients being unable to access new, *approved*, life-saving treatment modality. Really good overview of drug approval & access process. Jas’ experience similar to my own family members’. To take part in email campaign see ⬇️

"Unfortunately, the 'good' models, the more realistic ones, are the ones where the AMOC weakens most... even for an intermediate emissions scenario, the probability of shutting down the AMOC is way above 50%... we will probably pass the point of no return for an AMOC shutdown in the next 10-20yrs" 😱

The number of Carbon Capture and Storage #CCS lobbyists infiltrating #COP30 🐍 is higher than the combined national delegations from the G7 countries (481).