“If you’re not talking to your kids about socialism…” 🤪 JC these people are looney tunes.

What is happening in Darfur is utterly devastating, made more painful by how we all saw it coming. You can’t really say you didn’t know, but if you didn’t, read this: An atrocity foretold: How the RSF siege of El Fasher turned into genocidal slaughter www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...

“Who benefits from this legislation? And — this is really important — who is paying for these tax breaks? What programs will suffer so the wealthy can continue to put their thumb on the scale of Ontario politics?” www.thespec.com/opinion/colu...

“This is so problematic it’s tough to know where to begin. On one hand, yay women! On the other, low-scoring? Less than? What? How does it advance women for them to be linked with low-scoring programs?” open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

Awww. Canada… ❤️❤️❤️❤️

It’s the only motivating factor, across history. Economic crises leads to population revolts. Fed people don’t revolt.

AI is the invasion of the body snatchers.

We’re running out of places to look. The fish rots from the head. Resignations are in order. Beginning with Doug Ford.

“Look up, it’s the Greenbelt, look down, it’s Ontario Place, look right, it’s fast-tracking alcohol sales, look left, it’s speed cameras and municipal outcry, look behind, and it’s the Skills Development Fund. Look ahead and it’s just more of the same.” www.thespec.com/opinion/colu...

“The results are clear: when drivers know that automated speed enforcement cameras are in place, they slow down,” the letter read. “This means fewer tickets, lower costs, and safer roads for everyone." www.thestar.com/news/gta/for...

Watching Question Period today, the Ford government sidestepping accountability for their botched Skills Development Fund. Piccini has no credibility. Liberals call for resignation.

"This is very clearly anti-parent legislation because speed cameras are primarily used in school zones to keep children safe. It is baffling that our premier has chosen to attack a road safety measure that primarily is targeted to help little kids." www.thestar.com/news/gta/wit...

The grift from the Ford government keeps on giving. Failure to act decisively on Greenbelt grifting signalled lax intentions by the Ford govt for any ethics breach. Ethics? What ethics? This is government! Any grift is a good grift! open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

Suck up, Vance. @lartist.bsky.social

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

reading this book in october on a beach day in new york city really drives (pun intended) the point of this book home. congrats @brooklynspoke.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social !

Build the wall

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

Concerned about press freedom when criticism of Israel's government is often condemned as antisemitic? One of the more vocal & aggressive pro-Israel groups in Canada often intimidating media is the ironically-named HonestReporting Canada. Help by asking CRA to audit them! bsky.app/profile/marg...

Are you ok with Israeli meddling in Canadian newsrooms? Ok with the harassing of journalists? Justice Peace Advocates and Writers Against the War on Gaza Toronto have launched a campaign to urge CRA to audit HRC activities. Find out more: open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

Excellent & comprehensive post about this mess. I encourage you to read it in full. But I'm asking myself how we define the term 'political violence' denounced by many (yet put into daily practice by the US admin), and how/why Cdn politicians decide hateful US extremists are worthy of condolences.

The Canadian government's complicity in Israeli genocide is deplorable.

The killing of Charlie Kirk was wrong and there is no excuse for it. There is only trying to understand it. He didn’t deserve to die, he deserved to be exposed. open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

Ford has no backbone when it comes to standing up to the demands of drivers. None whatsoever. … It’s been nothing but wah, wah, wah against the “war on the car.” Like a baby. margaretshkimba.substack.com/p/speeding-c...

“These are the front-line workers who we expect as a society to fix the problems we see on the streets driven by poverty and drug addiction, and to protect the vulnerable from neglect and exploitation.” Pay them. www.thespec.com/opinion/colu...

Catching up on unfinished work. It’s been a summer of starts and stops. This one catches up with Epstein and the Alberta book ban open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

In an international effort "organised by Reporters Without Borders (RSF)..., more than 250 news outlets from over 70 countries will simultaneously black out their front pages..., and interrupt their broadcasting [today] to condemn the murder of journalists by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip."

I did not know Air Canada flight attendants volunteered their services to Air Canada. What else can you call it when you work for free? How about wage theft? open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

Meanwhile, a picture in a locked attic room decays and degrades daily.

Bottom line is that we shouldn’t have to be told. And when told, we should see the logic of it because we’re serious people. open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

"We have to engage in continuous quality improvement, not just in arms and strategy but in the professional competencies of honour and integrity. Especially honour and integrity. Otherwise, they are just goons." And they need to be demonstrated, right from the top.

Is it enough to help turn the culture around, keep out the riff raff? open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

It’s not enough, but it’s a start. open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

And I can see why! Hamilton Spectator columnist @margaretshkimba.bsky.social had an excellent essay back in June on this distressing topic as well, including the role of the Ontario Hockey League: margaretshkimba.substack.com/p/hockey-can...

“If these young men believed themselves innocent of the charges before them, that what they did that night was typical for a night on the town with the team, they could have taken the stand and said so.” www.thespec.com/opinion/colu...

Today on our site, @drlorileeoates.bsky.social shares a special issue of Atlantis Journal that she co-edited with @sritamabarna.bsky.social on Gender & Climate Justice. The issue is open-access. niche-canada.org/2025/07/30/g... #envhist #climatejustice #gender #openaccess

The impunity of the ultra-wealthy is a grim reality, and the public’s awareness that such crimes have occurred, and that perpetrators have been shielded from accountability, has helped fuel wild conspiracy theories.

“My name’s Dwight and I’m a rural landowner in Alberta. 12 years ago, I was forced to host a gas well on my land on the condition that the industry close and clean it up when the well stopped producing. 🚨That never happened.🚨” #MAS #OrphanWells #abpoli Credit: CTV’s W5; Amber Bracken / The Narwhal

Trump is losing his base over the “Epstein Hoax”. What would it take to scratch Doug’s Teflon surface? RCMP investigation? ❌ Ontario Place? ❌ Science Centre? ❌ Expedited Booze buyout? ❌ Pissed off First Nations? ❌ What? 🤷🏻‍♀️ open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

A/C, David Suzuki, Climate Nihilism and the urban boundary. Summer living. open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

Margaret @margaretshkimba.bsky.social captures the essence of how satire can effectively highlight important issues while engaging the audience in meaningful conversations about politics: www.thespec.com/opinion/colu... #supportsatire

People are outraged at the cost of the Barton-Tiffany shelter coming in almost 3x over budget But is it a true accounting of how much it costs to house the homeless? What else are we hiding in these costs? open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

“There’s a cognitive dissonance between what I believe to be humanity, how I was raised with compassion and empathy for my fellow humans, and the reality of what I see. I’m forced to live in this state because the government is failing in its purpose. So, yeah, it makes me angry.” 💯