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In Sutcliffe & Carney’s push for RTO to “save” downtown, can someone please explain why small businesses elsewhere in #Ottawa benefiting from WFH don’t matter? Why is Carney only worried about big downtown landlords? Or is this magical thinking where somehow more money overall will be spent?

LOL. No.

Roger Stone on 1/24/25: “A well-timed pardon of former [Honduran] President Hernandez…cld be the final death blow to Castro w/ national elections set to take place later this year. Castro’s regime cld be upended” in a major “victory for…Próspera” (the network state project backed by Peter Thiel) 1/

Hearing the too-small-to-matter argument more and more in Canada lately, including from some now in federal government, so this column from overseas seems timely. www.irishtimes.com/environment/....

Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market

JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics

The thing about Trump stories is that they always have that extra layer of stupidity that you’re not expecting. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

One year, 4,464 calls, 92% required no police intervention. The Alternative Neighbourhood Crisis Response (ANCHOR) in Centretown is sending the right people to help in cases of mental health or substance use crises. It represents the de-tasking of police and it works. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It's really not OK from a political or moral standpoint that it took 10 years, many of them with Democrats in control of the WH or Congress and 3 prez campaigns against Trump, to get Epstein emails like this out in the open, @ryanlcooper.com writes. prospect.org/2025/11/13/h...

I know that this information has been floating around for some time now, but if anyone needs some dots connected, here goes:

I like how the standard line from all these people is: “I regret associating with Jeffrey Epstein.” Yeah no shit! Of course you do!

NEW: Whether you measure it by number of supporters, fundraising ability, or by the size of its militant groups, the white nationalist movement in Canada has never been larger or more of a threat.

A crucial diff betw Trump and this guy -Trump says the same thing, and has for decades. (Central Park 5, shithole countries, 'low-IQ') But he has made it pro-wrestling schtick -Vance is like S Miller, Vought, Musk, etc in coming across as a pure creep MAGA msg w/o main 'entertaining' messenger.

My contribution to TPM's 25th Anniversary edition: One reason we bloggers don't have the oomph we used to is bc of Trump's trolls. talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/witho...

November 17, 2021 www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...

it's been pretty revelatory that in order to do Kirk the kindness of painting him in a wholesome light here on the hour of his death, one must go to gymnastic lengths to avoid any mention of his literal statements and beliefs which is pretty odd for a celebrated debater

Canadians, you need you to know this.

All of our governments are complicit in this, and we should NEVER let them forget it.

@alexcosh.bsky.social at @readthemaple.bsky.social has been reporting on Canada's arms shipments and sales to Israel for over a year - they have published a lot of details about this that the CBC has overlooked.

There’s so much to be said about how cynical, how bloviating, how utterly beyond the pale this is, but the thing coming up for me most is the audacity to put such conditions on a symbolic gesture that actually does nothing to address the immediate mass starvation and genocide of an entire people.

Carney is setting conditions on the recognition of Palestine he knows cannot be met. Israel decides if there will be elections and since they oppose a Palestinian state there will be no election Carney is playing a cynical game here, playing for fools. Don't fall for it

1/ Important: "Epstein was actually still on the Mar-a-Lago membership logs up to 2007. ... That of course is a year after Jeffrey Epstein's arrest in Florida." So Trump didn't kick him out for many years after knowing Epstein 'stole' Virginia Giuffre from MAL in 2000. 🧵

Watching the establishment pivot on what Israel is AND HAS BEEN DOING to Gaza is maddening. Are we gonna get any retractions or apologies villainizing the college protestors WHO WERE CORRECT THE ENTIRE TIME!?

The government of Canada is adamant — with certain, shifting caveats — that it has not allowed arms shipments to Israel since January 2024, and yet Israeli import data and publicly available shipping records appear to contradict that claim. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Last week, Pierre Poilievre and Conservative MPs attacked the Crown prosecutors in the Tamara Lich / Chris Barber convoy trial What's maybe more remarkable is Poilievre only did this after far-right influencers called him out and began questioning his leadership I broke this down for @thestar.com:

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Shipwrecked Synthesizers: How Electronic Music Came to Cabo Verde The story of a ship carrying electronic instruments headed from B'more to Rio de Janeiro marooned on the colonized islands of Cabo Verde. https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/shipwrecked-synthesizers-how-electronic-music-came-to-cabo-verde/