When a shooter opened fire in City Hall, Michael Elliott cracked jokes about it on Twitter. Now, he's running to be a councillor in Tim Cartmell's party. This defender of the Thin Blue Line wants to bring that ideology to city hall this October #yegvote

Mandate letters for Alberta's justice and public safety ministries are out, and this leaps out. "Setting clear policing priorities by working with the Minister of Justice to create a policing priority framework that directs law enforcement to focus on the government’s priorities..."

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Italian workers forced their leader, a fascist political descendant of Mussolini, to deploy her navy for an explicitly anti-fascist operation. Time to start picturing societal infrastructure as one giant anti-fascist sledgehammer.

It appears that there is an increasingly high chance Israel will be banned next week from UEFA due to its genocide in Gaza, which would in turn effectively end its hopes of qualifying for the World Cup. I have heard this independently confirmed from another source. www.thetimes.com/article/11e9...

I remember having an argument in 2010 with an old friend who had just graduated journalism school and was siding with Sun News in its push for a national broadcast license on the basis that “a diversity of views is healthy in democratic society.”

Italian workers forced their leader, a fascist political descendant of Mussolini, to deploy her navy for an explicitly anti-fascist operation. Time to start picturing societal infrastructure as one giant anti-fascist sledgehammer.

A second Italian military ship has joined the flotilla. My personal opinion. Countries of all European nations should join the flotilla and sail into Gaza and break the siege and boot Israel out.

They've lost the 9yos

Need to start saying the other part of this out loud: countries backstopping Israel’s genocide must also be isolated — the US first among them. Canada should pull out of hosting the World Cup w/ the US, and Mexico should refuse to host it w/ either one, until the weapons and support stop.

Same day that Spain and Italy announced they'll be launching warships to accompany the Flotilla, Israel is now asking if they could kindly just drop off the baby formula at the nearest port

Wow — Italy and Spain have now both officially announced they're sending military ships to support the Gaza aid flotilla

The UCP government lies all the time, and when it can’t lie it delays, redacts, deflects and distracts. We’re now on “delays.”

Premier Tim Houston’s conservative old boys in Nova Scotia are dismantling democracy, & the regulations that protect people & the environment, as fast as they possibly can. With their “super majority” - with 23% of eligible votes - what will be left of N.S. when the conservative old boys are gone?

New! Danielle Smith's former Chief of Staff personally oversaw the hiring of two family members of embattled healthcare MHCare CEO Sam Mraiche to government policy advisor roles while multiple contract scandals were unfolding. Part 1 of 3! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli open.substack.com/pub/thebreak...

You know, just another morning in the studio, sipping my coffee, talking to a doctor who has just returned from working in Gaza and had a front row seat to a real-time genocide. And now, here's your weather...

The link previously alleged between Marshall Smith and Jitendra Prasad, star of this story, isn’t mentioned here but worth reiterating: (From @jonnywakefield.bsky.social)

No one could have foreseen this. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

The war on people with chronic pain was already driving mass death from opioid de-prescribing — the root cause of fentanyl’s market domination — so if you’re now feeling it because they’re coming for Tylenol, show a moment of solidarity to people who need opioids to manage life!

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff... Do you support or oppose "defund the police"? Support - 21% Oppose - 74% Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services? Support - 54% Oppose - 41%

If you’re hearing the ad about beer taxes being too high in Canada, note that it’s astroturfing by multinational-run Beer Canada. Here’s its board - Coors, Budweiser (Oland), Sleeman. beercanada.com/board-of-dir... Taxes aren’t too high. Moreover, get foreign companies out of domestic policy.

Flotilla legal stream in about 45 minutes.

🚨 Breaking | 9 attacks have been reported targeting at least 5 boats of the #GlobalSumudFlotilla in international waters!

This is a probe. The IDF is dipping its toe in the water. If the public reaction is muted Israel very well may blow up a bunch of these ships for the “crime” of bringing food and medical supplies to starving/suffering children.

Just had the terrifying realization that trump is normally reading from a teleprompter.

Again, the escalator and teleprompter errors were the result of Trump's people screwing up, so this is a great example of how the right works

On Friday, CBC News reported that a major education reform document prepared for the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador contains at least 15 fabricated citations that academics suspect were generated by an AI language model—despite the same report calling for "ethical" AI use in schools.

Kidnapping and holding someone hostage as bait

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

Longueuil pigs just murdered a teenager over being together with other teenagers in a group. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

if only there was a way to capture the power of wind and move it across the land to drive people's fans, for money

Cartoon by Suhail H. Naqshbandi

I’m not clear if Candice Malcolm’s point is that she thinks Ben Mulroney’s actions are a fireable offence similar to her example of Evan Solomon or that Ben Mulroney should be defunded just like CBC? Or is she suggesting Ben Mulroney is above criticism because he’s a “mainstream conservative”?

Dua Lipa firing her manager is iconic, but let’s also hear it for all the journalists who have fired their pro-genocide employers in the last two years. Moral clarity over genocide hush money.

New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

not a bad idea to get ahead of this thing, just in case anyone was planning to start a terrorist org and name it the short form of ‘antifascist’

The Time of the Great Disemboweling has come. Or maybe, just another sunday for Gwar.

Imagine trying to cancel GWAR

I did a deep-dive into Ben Mulroney's extracurricular activities: At the same time as Mulroney is filling-in as host of The West Block, he is also working for two registered lobby groups and as an adviser to several companies – some of whose CEOs he's interviewed on Global News 640 Toronto radio

Losing track of the various standards we apply to political media people at lower versus higher levels, so just to refresh: if you're young or have expressed partisan left views, ever, you have no place in the news business. If you're old and Conservative, have at 'er. Have I got that right?

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

Recognition of State of Palestine by Canada, France, UK etc is not only performative it is dangerous. It doesnt commit to ending genocide or implementing arms embargo and sanctions. Plus, explicitly calls for demilitarization of Palestine and disarming resistance. Reviving Oslo is not an option!

ICYMI: Ellen Gabriel and I published a new piece on resisting Canada's "elbows up" colonialism, for @canadiandimension.bsky.social: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

I've been trying to understand why this isn't generating as much fury as it should, and i think it's because there is a fundamental belief among many americans that the military can pretty much do whatever (which isn't entirely inaccurate.) that said, what the actual fuck.

White man *sexually assaults 66 children* Media *uses a picture of him hiking for the press release*

“The U.K., along with others, will be under the spotlight of ‘What has recognition changed?’” added Mr. Daniel Levy, who once worked as a peace negotiator for Israel. “The answer will be nothing, and pressure will again intensify to take more consequential measures.”

"Israel is more vulnerable than ever to divestment and sanctions." "That is what Netanyahu himself was saying when he talked of the need for Israel to take on some aspects of an autarky." "Israel can't do that, it simply doesn't have the internal resources." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide

Why do we allow media to call a jail for kids where children get sexually assaulted a “youth centre”?

Ah yes, the notwithstanding clause was definitely included in the constitution to avoid having to wait a little while for a court to rule on whether a law is constitutional