"[W]e firmly condemn this military escalation, its imperial arrogance, and its openly colonial character." "[W]e call on workers [..] and social movements throughout Latin America, the United States, and the entire world to mobilize against this." #Venezuela #USA #Military #Labour #FossilFuels

Foreign affairs minister Anita Anand just released Canada’s official statement on “the situation in Venezuela”: Does not condemn illegal American military actions, reiterates position that the kidnapped president was illegitimate, calls on “all parties to respect international law,” etc

(PS3) CNN immediately reposted the illegal photo and repeatedly called it “remarkable” without any criticism of it. In fact, it urged all Americans to look at and focus on the picture and left it up for *minutes*. *This* is how lost corporate media is. It is totally in the wilderness ethically.

This feels more like coercion of consent than manufacturing of it

This reality check should be driving all Canadian coverage of Venezuela today. And, the last time a US president mused with invading Canada, he switched to Venezuela right after.

Carney say something about it challenge

the i love canada heated rivalry love affair was cute but yeah this is truly the canada we know

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

8:30 AM, and still no statement from Canada’s prime minister Perhaps the Governor General should knock on the door of Rideau Cottage to make sure he too was not kidnapped by the US military overnight?

As we all said, international law, such as it was, no longer exists. The United States, following Israel’s precedent, considers itself to have the explicit authority to blatantly violate sovereignty anywhere in the world and abduct even leaders of other states. There are no guardrails whatsoever.

Make sure you don’t talk about the $5.3-million Edmonton police surveillance plane. www.theprogressreport.ca/eps-new-surv...

“Canada appears to be the country with the highest average rate of involuntary psychiatric detentions in the western world.” Note this is *before* new forced abstinence measures hit full speed in AB and BC. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

As Canadians, I think it is our civic and collective duty for our 2026 New Year's resolution to simply be striking far more fear into the hearts of the politicians we elected than we currently do when they do stupid shit

Solid start on this by Michaud, Kolla, Rozinski, Guta pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38642543/

some in-depth comprehensive research on Postmedia’s years-long propaganda campaign against people victimized by economic inequality would actually be helpful

Moving into David Frum’s house to start an open-pit mine in his living room. Confident he won’t stand for “the country’s courts…inventing new obstacles to development.”

Was discussing this at family Christmas. People really need to learn to distinguish between discomfort and danger. And media need to stop reporting on discomfort as if it's actual danger.

It is fascinating to me that people think that folks who mask need to explain it to... Anyone. Like, do you want people to give you the murder board explanation of our chronic illness? Talk about our parent or kid with cancer? It couldn't be less of your business.

Today’s news story from @kimsiever.bsky.social Alberta strikes at highest level since 2002 So far this year, Alberta has seen 9 different strikes in both the private and public sectors, the highest in over 20 years. albertaworker.ca/news/alberta...

The story of America becoming an economic and cultural backwater for an entire generation is about to be written, but as history, not as speculative fiction.

People in NS are empathetic to those struggling through poverty for 3 key reasons I can name: Proximity to it (personal/family exp), Two-way rural-urban flow, Close generational connections. Few people act removed from poverty the way they do out west. Postmedia is working to change that.

To save you a read, the two "threats" are garbage and swearing. If that makes you scared, that is your own problem, not someone else's. Where is the actual danger here?

Being "nerd-coded" now is not about being... detail-oriented, interested in non-standard things, enmeshed in a community of enthusiasts. It is now an explicitly eugenic belief that you belong to a higher form of human being and are beyond traditional morality

I think it's interesting to consider how giving your company a name from fantasy or science-fiction went from indicating playfulness and innovation to, effectively, a guarantee that you will be amoral if not actively evil

Interesting choice of archival images in David Frum’s ‘Good Intentions Gone Bad,’: a nameless Indigenous woman in a blanket, superimposed like she is on the edge of a cliff, looking towards the past: and the colonial 101: ‘our intentions were good but they just want more and more. Enough is enough.’

"Microsoft are protectors of Canadian sovereignty" is astonishing mental gymnastics and it gets worse the more you think about it

"The war on drugs is a war on workers and the labour movement must fight back. This is a call to action." briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie...

Bloomberg Analysis: 15 People Have Died in Crashes Where Tesla Doors Wouldn’t Open Note: Tesla said on a new safety page on its website last week that when a serious collision is detected, "doors will automatically unlock for emergency access." GIFT LINK: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

However, the Globe continued down this route, despite being provided evidence by @davidpugliese.bsky.social

ICYMI Canada’s prisons plan to experiment on prisoners with opioid withdrawal treatments that may constitute torture. The move appears linked to lobbying by the pharmaceutical company holding the patent. Hundreds of experts are sounding the alarm. drugdatadecoded.ca/150-experts-...

Statement from Postmedia standing behind David Pugliese in response to this @theglobeandmail.com story: “The documents tied to these allegations have been independently discredited by multiple major media organizations” @davidpugliese.bsky.social

ICYMI Canada’s prisons plan to experiment on prisoners with opioid withdrawal treatments that may constitute torture. The move appears linked to lobbying by the pharmaceutical company holding the patent. Hundreds of experts are sounding the alarm. drugdatadecoded.ca/150-experts-...

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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

This story pairs well with another Ximena wrote two years ago, about how local airbnb slumlords in Calgary spend their time organizing against lifesaving services for unhoused people. thetyee.ca/News/2023/12...

It's best to understand that fascists see hypocrisy as a virtue. It's how they signal that the things they are doing to people were never meant to be equally applied. It's not an inconsistency. It's very consistent to the only true fascist value, which is domination.

decades-long manhunt finally ends

Stories about officers misusing police databases to look people up who they shouldn't are incredibly common. And yet, when I asked VicPD for copies of any audits they'd done to look for unauthorized database use, they said "no audits have been conducted" over the six-year period I asked about. (1/2)

Went back further. An officer looked up their tenant. Another looked up a contractor. One officer "had a habit of running names of friends and relatives." Another looked up their ex 20 times. All told that's about 50 officers with substantiated complaints of misusing police databases. But why audit?

Here are excerpts from OPCC reports of BC officers caught misusing police databases. They looked up family members and exes, a woman an officer "was interested in," a nurse, and a convocation speaker. Some officers used databases for a "business venture." But VicPD doesn't audit database use. (2/2)

Last year, Alberta had the highest percentage of people living in food-insecure households of all the provinces. Only Northwest Territories and Nunavut were worse. proof.utoronto.ca/2025/new-dat...

Alberta drug deaths were released today & updates are still being made back to Apr/2023, from 199 to 201. I will keep emphasizing: Alberta drug fatality reporting should include a caveat that counts increase 13 to 33 percent after updates. The govt counts on this oversight for propaganda.

New from me: I asked Edmonton’s new police chief about photos obtained by @carrietait.bsky.social et al of his predecessor, Dale McFee, at Oilers playoff games with Sam Mraiche/government ministers edmontonjournal.com/news/dale-mc...

jfc

He never disclosed that he’d visited Epstein in that column and did a lot of hand waving to insist that he and his fellow elites had nothing, nothing at all to do with him.

David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov. He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.

The Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia said Eby was “undermining public confidence in the justice system” and his comments “reflect a troubling national trend in which politicians use the courts as punching bags to score political points.” @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

Once again, this account is the most useful thing I can name on bluesky!