For anyone wondering if public pressure works. Bravo to all Canadians who said “no” to a Canadian-based company being involved in fascism.

It’s fascist totalitarianism. We must never let this dystopia come to Canada.

👏 👏 I have never understood why right-wing extremists seem to have a monopoly on patriotism, when they are literally the ones seeking to break apart and leave the country. Can’t have it both ways.

The plot thickens.

I’m not sure how much notice this has received but the Assembly of First Nations in Canada has issued a travel advisory for the United States after reports that Indigenous people are being increasingly questioned and detained by ICE. www.instagram.com/p/DT-_SacDEH...

A very pathetic and unacceptable statement from a Canadian-owned group selling a property to ICE. This will damage Pattison and his family of businesses in B.C.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

More of this, please.

The traitors in Alberta haven’t really thought this through. Exporting products wouldn’t get easier as an independent country. Fantasyland egged on by the separatist Smith and her cronies, suffering a victimhood of their own making. apple.news/AA_Et4uiOSnu...

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

Mayor Alto and I are trying to find the funds to hold a proper Canada Day event this year, amidst a challenging budget, and we're also asking the Province to cost-share it, as other Province's do in their own capital cities. It's important that we celebrate our country. vicnews.com/2026/01/26/v...

We cannot have climate action without housing and we cannot have housing without climate action. The two things are inextricably connected. www.timescolonist.com/local-news/v...

Community safety update from Pandora.

Congratulations to my mother, Cindy, for becoming a Canadian citizen! I was honoured to accompany her during her online citizenship ceremony, which was very moving for both of us. We are proud Canadian immigrants who are grateful every day to be part of this incredible country. 🇨🇦 🍁 ❤️

Revolting racism.

Seeing the impact on my kids and their friends, I’m strongly supportive of this move. apple.news/Aa3eafY2MR-2...

Longterm, we need to move away from the status quo of burying resources (“garbage”) in the ground, towards reuse, recycling, thermal conversion, and other strategies of a circular economy. I won’t support an expansion of Hartland beyond 2050. vicnews.com/2026/01/21/s...

When Trump eventually croaks, I am throwing *the* biggest party at my house and *everyone* is invited.

Iceland rn.

This week, I have a motion before Victoria City Council, with @davethompsonvic.bsky.social, that seeks endorsement of a resolution that would go to the Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) and formally request that the Province allow local governments to regulate the emissions from existing buildings.

🇮🇷At least 5,000 murdered during Iran's nationwide protests, official says. #Wrlfpoli🌐 f24.my/BgCI

I’m down at 825 Fort Street with @davethompsonvic.bsky.social for the opening of the new mixed-use rental-commercial building. Thanks to Salient and Robert Fung for making it happen.

Polls like this make me so frustrated. The Liberals and, even moreso the NDP, have GOT to figure out how to reach young people. There is zero reason Conservatives should be polling like this except for their opponents clearly not understanding or embracing what they should stand for.

Terrible, terrible news. My heart goes out to these people. Rail travel is generally very safe in Europe, so something has gone very wrong here. apple.news/AyhCripZNRK2...

Anyone else dealing with the endless cough? I’ve become a platinum-level Ricola customer.

It’s now illegal to have an accent in the US.

I’m trying to think of a more pathetic and embarrassing thing has happened in world history. I’m drawing a blank.

Casey Michel, on the oligarchs who want Greenland newrepublic.com/article/2051...

The problem with America is Americans. They asked for this.

This is great, but boy are we living in the dumbest of times. Next up….nuking the moon?

I have questions on what the implications of this decision will be.

Same-sex marriage has been legal nationwide for 25 years!!!

SD61 has adopted a new ward system for electing 9 School Board members. Personally, I oppose this decision because it will weaken Victoria’s influence at the table, although I do support First Nations having their own representation on the Board. This move follows the Province firing the Board.

Pathetic. By what right would they remove people from a public town hall for expressing their Charter rights? RCMP should not be following those orders, which are illegitimate.

Yessssss

We need to continue boycotting America. Don’t travel there and don’t buy their products. In a less feckless world, there would be sanctions placed on the US for its lawlessness. It’s no better than any other repressive regime.

A totalitarian regime.

Bob Weir. Damn. 😭 RIP to the legend of legends.

Literally the ICE X feed is quoting a KKK song. The US is now a white supremacist regime. It’s no longer bombastic to say so. The deeds and actions prove it so.

Our grandchildren will scarcely believe the idiocy through which we’ve lived. The Trump regime will rank alongside Ivan the Terrible, the mad King George III, and Caligula for depraved lunacy.

We evacuated our kids out of Minneapolis this weekend and my spouse reports that as she drove them out of town she saw "multiple freeway exits where people are being pulled over." It feels like the Twin Cities is being subjugated by a hostile occupying force.

Here’s the thing about the madness in the US - Congress has the power to stop it at any time. But they don’t, because they aren’t feeling the pressure. They follow the polls closely. Red districts are still red and blue are still blue. Too many Americans are either happy or apathetic.

As you navigate the madness of modern life, and this moment in particular, remember that you’re not alone in how you feel. As Vonnegut put it: “I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.”

The Democrats should borrow a page from Canadian democracy and appoint a shadow cabinet. Hold daily press conferences saying what they’d do differently or reverse. Shadow Defense would explain that Greenland, if invaded, would be immediately returned. Shadow Health would restore vaccine science

We’re living in AI dystopia already, and young people are the biggest victims. The billionaires don’t care because they think they’re immune to the law. What’s happening on X is truly revolting and criminal. It needs to be regulated out of existence in Canada.

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The Trump regime is something that US voters did to us — to the world, to themselves. Every day a new horror, from rollbacks on environmental protections, to anti-vaxx lunacy; from assaults on immigrants to thefts of foreign oil. Now Europe and NATO must defend Greenland against threats. Madness.

Is this what Trump meant when he said we are "running" Venezuela?