Today's file: Hanover County, Va, opposes sale of warehouse property owned by Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Developments to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for processing facility. Can't nix sale but will explore legal options and hopes DHS will reconsider www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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the Tesla stock in your S&P500 index fund now directly supports this bullshit too, to the tune of $2b in the recently-closed XAI round

Haitians in Springfield, Ohio lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. There will very likely be a major ICE incursion the next day. Haitians in Springfield were the targets of Vance’s lying during the campaign. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/28/t...

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...

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

For those not familiar with "destructive scanning", this means Anthropic would buy up millions of physical books, use “hydraulic powered cutting machines” to chop them up, scan the pages on “high speed, high quality, production level scanners,” then send the pages to recycling companies!!!

"Our food system has been consistently seen as one of the safest in the world," said Lawrence Goodridge. "With these cuts, we are going to start to see more illnesses, more hospitalizations [and] more deaths due to contaminated food in Canada." www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/28/n...

this is the sort of thing that basically confirms to me that the US will likely interfere on behalf of the separatists, primarily because they think they can own the Liberals in doing so

This is very concerning Long-term care waitlist in BC triples since 2016 Between 2016 and 2025, the number of people waiting to be admitted to long-term care rose from 2,381 to 7,212, an increase of 200% #bcpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Longtime Save-On-Foods president Darrell Jones officially enters the increasingly crowded race for the B.C. Conservative Party. Running as an affordability candidate when you are literally the face of grocery prices across the province will be an interesting dynamic!

Reminds me of a very similar bit of training female members of the British secret service were given during WW2: "Don't ask a man who works for their government what's happening. Confidently tell him something you know to be inaccurate, and he will be forced to correct you".

Drug poisonings are best prevented by providing access to regulated alternatives and other harm reduction measures. Adding more ambulances and fire trucks is not going to solve the problem. #yegcc #drugsky edmonton.citynews.ca/video/2026/0...

If you're a nail polish person, the MN-based small polish maker Atomic Polish is selling Ice Out, and 100% of the proceeds of it are going to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund

This is the union that Save-On-Foods workers belong to, encouraging Jim Pattison to do the right thing (he has refused). #BCPoli #CdnPoli

A Gwich’in man from Inuvik was travelling w/ his wife & children from Costa Rica to Canada. Detained at airport while transiting through US. Had his passport, status card, etc. ICE agent who detained him stated that status card was worthless b/c “They hand them out like candy up there” #indigenous

Hiding behind “it’s just business” is the new “I was just following orders” defence #boycottpattison #bcpoli #iceraids

Wondering if we should now start tagging the @nba.com / commissioner in all these news stories?

In which I - back on my energy policy BS - try to parse a cabinet order signed by the energy minister last month and the new BC Hydro contracts it created 😵‍💫 Basically, North Coast transmission line customers can be exempted from a decades-old BC Hydro policy meant to protect all ratepayers...

BREAKING: Grizzly Affair — American tech company’s networking gear is powering Russian battlefield communications in Ukraine. The company is Ubiquiti, #$UI, a $34 billion Wi-Fi giant whose founder became the youngest owner of an NBA Team in 2012. youtu.be/Fp5m0AzwsPk

TL;DR: Memphis Grizzlies owner Robert Pera's company Ubiquiti #$UI appears to be openly violating arms embargoes to sell Wi-Fi antennae to the Russian military so their drones could precisely locate and bomb Ukrainian civilians in what the UN calls "crimes against humanity"

HUGE moment for the EU car market as battery EVs overtake petrol cars for the first time ever But there's no "natural" demand for EVs amirite? Article by @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...

Canada/IRCC has chosen to make it difficult for Palestinian students — 134 from Gaza accepted into Canadian universities for graduate degrees/PhDs — to get here. Article + interactive map of where students were accepted & their programs, by @ericwickham.ca pressprogress.ca/gazans-accep...

SCOOP Meta has started blocking links to ICE List on Facebook, Instagram and Threads www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

Nova Scotia is adding about 1000 megawatts of onshore wind power to the grid to help get off coal and reach 80% clean electricity by 2030 – and bring jobs and investments into our communities. Most of this clean energy is coming online this year. Take a look at a wind farm being built.

The terror that ICE and CBP have inflicted on the children of the Twin Cities is, by itself, a crime of scandalous proportions that will forever stain this country's moral fabric, and all those responsible should never know another day of peace. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Despite some concerted efforts to effect the contrary, solar + wind + nuclear accounted for ~100% of global electricity generation growth in the first 11 months of 2025.

"Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs."

perfect time to do recrim 🙃

“If I were a CEO, I wouldn't want my name or my company's name, my brand, associated with what's going on in the States right now.” www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

A Canadian-made armoured vehicle was spotted on Minneapolis streets the day ICE murdered Alex Pretti. The company that sold ICE that monster as part of a $10 million deal? Roshel. What’s more: Canada’s government brought Roshel’s CEO on a trade mission SIX DAYS AFTER Renee Good was murdered.

It’s here, isn’t it. 🚨Mass evacuations in Victoria, Australia as the state set to break its temperature record. 🚨’Temperatures that used to be seen just once in a generation’. 🚨Expected to see 30C/86F at midnight, 24C/75.2F at 4am, a stunning 49C/120.2F in the afternoon #heat #climatecrisis

victoriabuzz.com/2026/01/rece... - Honestly the bigger point in this poll is that an over whelming majority (70%+) Support Fixed, Mobile, or Intersection speed Cameras.. #bcpoli #yyjpoli

It's the third week of trial in our case against the RCMP for arresting photojournalist Amber Bracken. World Press Freedom Canada says "Its implications could shape ... whether journalists can safely observe and document conflicts without fear of arrest." worldpressfreedomcanada.ca/who-decides-...

Canada's federal government is subsidizing an Ottawa tech company that provides wiretapping tools to ICE, the agency leading President Donald Trump’s violent mass-deportation campaign. thelogic.co/news/exclusi... Exclusive by @davidreevely.bsky.social in @thelogic.co #cdnpoli

Just as a follow-up to this, here is a picture of the letter I sent my MP. I will post the text in the alt-text below if you want to copy use it as a basis for your own letter to your own MP. You can find out who your MP is here: www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en

Hundreds of workers responsible for pollution prevention, weather forecasting, conservation and environmental disaster response are set to be cut from ECCC as Prime Minister Mark Carney's government takes a chainsaw to the public service. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/23/n...

These are the same people who spend all day posting about Roman soldiers or the Knights Templar, by the way.

The Toronto Raptors have beaten the Oklahoma City Thunder to retain the belt (1 game).

Brutal. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

these guys are LARPing like siege commanders talking about "supply lines" rightoids literally cannot comprehend the idea of a community caring for their own; these people live in Minneapolis their supply line is a five minute drive to the grocery store

Lot of conservative dudes out there telling on themselves by being astounded by a level of ”logistics” that the average mom has to manage every fucking day

tfw when the imperialism is boomeranging

it’s that time again

I wrote for The Star about Carney delivering a pivotal speech about new global partnerships, then immediately laying off the very people who build said partnerships www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

been thinking about 2016 a lot, and not cuz of the silly throwback trend.

I've reached out to all Canadian companies listed here to ask if they intend to continue working with ICE: Hootsuite Roshel Garda Jim Pattison Developments I've also reached out to @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social's team for comment on export permits for Canadian sale of armoured vehicles to ICE.

not surprising but still wow

Join Democracy Rising in a protest against Hootsuite's involvement with #ICE. @Hootsuite.com is a #Vancouver tech company providing social media services. Their customers include the Department of Homeland Security and ICE.

This is important. And partly why the entire rightwing infrastructure from GOP to Heritage to Manhattan to ALEC were so terrified of 2020. Millions of the folks marching for racial justice and demanding a racial reckoning were *white*