Holy. Fucking. Shit. What a great week for anti-racism in Canada. Residential school denialism has been added to Bill C-9, criminalizing denialism. About fucking time. Free speech don't mean inventing shit. First Nations in Canada were harmed for GENERATIONS. It will take a generation to repair.

Trump is placing tariffs on Canadian goods over alleged ‘forced labour’?!! Umm, USA, your economy is based on forced labour, starting with open slavery, to your “exception” in the 14th amendment allowing prison forced labour and now we are hearing about Neo Group doing the same with ICE detainees…

Rare win at SCOTUS!

‘If something goes wrong, you can’t simply surface’: Maldives tragedy shines light on dangers of cave diving

Democracy is not supposed to work like this. Doug Ford shuts down debate, rejects amendments, blocks opposition bills, and rushes massive omnibus legislation through Queen’s Park. Ontario deserves better than a government that treats accountability like an inconvenience.
#onpoli

Graham Thomson: "Smith is saying 700k Albertans signed different petitions to get this referendum going. No, the Forever Canadian petition, in other words, let's stay in Canada, got more than 400k people, but they wanted a vote in the legislature. Not a referendum."

windsorstar.com/news/falling... 17% youth unemployment in Ontario The loss of hundreds of acres of farmland each and every day in Ontario. A healthcare system that is in shambles in Ontario. The closing of hundreds of post-secondary programs in Ontario. Folks are noticing. #ONpoli #cdnpoli

Bill Kissinger of Death Penalty Corner gives an account of the torturous attempt by the state to execute Tony Carruthers yesterday in Tennessee.

Shapiro: I was shocked when we discovered that within minutes of presenting ourselves as individuals who were in distress, this chatbot began dispensing medical advice. When pressed further, it said, “Hey, here’s my medical ID number.” That is against the law in Pennsylvania, and so we took action

My latest piece in Law360.ca - not paywalled.

Another interesting piece in Law360: Some evidence matters and some doesn’t: A reflection on research in the criminal justice system

Great piece critiquing a recent OCA decision and pointing to flaws in the literature used to support the Reid Technique - and what techniques might be far more effective.

DEATH PENALTY REPORT 2025: EXECUTIONS SURGED TO HIGHEST RECORDED FIGURE IN 44 YEARS

John le Carré described Boris Johnson as a "mob orator" who fired up people with nostalgia and with anger. He said "What really scares me about nostalgia is that it's become a political weapon. Creating a nostalgia for an England that never existed, and selling it as something we could return to"

One year ago today

I have a really grim counterpoint that I really hope people take seriously. They HAVE picked another market. They have decided that their elite few are worthy customers, and they do not need you anymore. Microsoft? Nvidia? Samsung? Apple? OpenAI? Tesla? Meta? They're all trading with each other.

How to avoid the horror of walking through a spiderweb, according to the National Park Service

Gas just spiked .30¢/l here in Calgary to $1.85. The best time to decarbonize our economy was 20 years ago. The second best time is right now.

"No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices." Edward R. Murrow, who died on this day in 1965

One’s been a fan of political cartoonists for one’s whole, long and happy life. Mr. @deadder.bsky.social is the best ever. 🤭

NEW: @nathaliemarechal.net and I wrote for the @bostonglobe.com about the new push for "age verification" (aka mandatory online ID checks) in Massachusetts and how it will hurt kids and help Trump. Send this to people you know in MA and tell them to send it to their state senators & the governor!

Happy Earth Day!

Earth Day is every day. We just celebrate an anniversary of this day. #ClimateBrawl

Why is the Smile Demon there -- no, wait, never mind, it's fine

This is very Christian coded too - growing up, the youth ministers I knew were calling Jesus "Prince of Peace" all the time.

On #EarthDay, take a mental step back & try seeing Earth through the eyes of the Artemis II astronauts—as a tiny, fragile, water- & cloud-covered sphere brimming with the only known evidence of life, orbited by a pock-faced rocky satellite & circling a star in a tiny corner of a vast universe 🌍🌎🌏

She once used the phrase “low carbon oil”

““The idea suddenly that it is OK to say, ‘We are going to blow stuff up, we are going to bomb you back to the stone ages, destroy your civilisation’ – normalising that kind of language is really dangerous.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

The economic damage caused by Brexit may be almost double the 4% impact assumed by the OBR, the Resolution Foundation has revealed.

If he thought he could use our money to buy himself a private jet just imagine what's on his phone records he doesn't want us to see.

IHR and ECPM are reporting that Iran’s executions in 2025 totalled at least 1,639 people.

Ran into old friend I'd heard has cancer. She's refusing radiation and chemo because "it's all from the COVID vaccine", and that mistrust now extends to cancer meds. I will NEVER forgive public health for downplaying COVID, leaving the goal wide open for all this garbage.

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

Phil Berger has ruled the North Carolina Capitol with an iron fist, pushing voter suppression and gerrymandering GOP-favored election outcomes. While his anti-voting record just cost him his Senate seat, there remains potential for more power grabs this year, Billy Corriher writes.

“Ford is trying to take over chunks of Ontario by putting his appointed pals as regional chairs! It’s absolute lunacy! People need to stand up and see this for what it is: it’s move to a Kleptocracy and a threat to our democracy!”🚨 🔗 youtu.be/t9H_MTDbW-k?si…#Onpolili @michauvanspeyk.bsky.social

McConnell saw Trump with complete clarity but suggested he was someone else’s problem. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...

After Trump's latest shocking threats, Keir Starmer faces a choice. Withdraw US access now to UK air bases, or risk letting British soil be used to commit war crimes.

U of Minnesota has named a new School of Nursing scholarship after Alex Pretti.

Trump and Hegseth halted funding for research to get blood to wounded U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy sailors: "When someone is wounded and survival depends on the availability of blood, this software would have made that survival more likely. Now it will not." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/s...

So came up in another post let’s talk EPA reorg. Does it make sense for someone doing applied science (experiments) to all of a sudden now approve chemicals? With no experience whatsoever in the field?

Thanks for your help. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled last week that it’s unconstitutional to automatically sentence someone to life in prison without the possibility for parole for a killing they didn’t participate in or personally commit.

The original transposition results in 48 UCP seats and 41 NDP seats The UCP minority's boundary suggestion would be 57 UCP and 32 NDP

nothin' suspicious about this at all

Bahahahahaha

“‘All I’m going to say is that I stand by my decision,’ she said… “Much of the audience at the board meeting broke into cheers and applause after her statement. Chants of ‘shame’ were heard as board members voted to fire her...” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Pam Bondi wanted a graceful exit from the Justice Department. But President Trump wanted her gone.