"To not even be able to have any comment on it whatsoever is just unacceptable." Five former US officials criticise Pentagon silence on deadly Iran school attack and potential war crime: www.bbc.com/news/article... #Iran

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

No sugar-coating the Court’s decision today. Real talk. @allinwithchris.bsky.social

Hey 🦋 friends! We need CPPIB to GET OUR 🇨🇦PENSIONS OUT OF PALANTIR !!! Please sign + share the @leadnowca.bsky.social petition 👇- let’s see if we can reach 15,000 signatures!

Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by normal driving, account for 28% of microplastics entering the environment globally. Heavy vehicles eg SUVs/EVs especially. Via @us.theconversation.com

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Great infographics!

It’s #EarthDay across #TurtleIsland, and as Keepers of the Lands, and Water Keepers, my people strive to not only protect that which Creator gave us but to preserve, and educate others on the importance of this being the only planet we all share with Mother Earth’s creatures. 🪶🙌🏽🦬🐻🦌🦅🦉🦊🦫🐺🦆🐟🐬🐋

First Nations leaders are condemning Premier David Eby’s plan to suspend parts of #DRIPA as a step backward that will increase uncertainty for all British Columbians and create political problems for the NDP. Andrew MacLeod reports. #bcpoli

This is essential reading for every single British Columbian, and by extension Canadian. #bcpoli #dripa #firstnations https://dripafacts.ca/en/

NEW - Former NDP minister and BC’s first First Nations woman elected to the legislature, Melanie Mark, says legislation to suspend DRIPA is coming,and she’s breaking with her own party to say it. #bcpoli #dripa​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ #cdnpoli

This Tax Day, Americans across the country are sending money to an administration that is turning around and using that $ for illegal wars and tax breaks for the rich. It’s a broken system that we must urgently reform.

c'est dur de se concentrer sur les arts avec le monde qui brule autour mais... faut ben danser pour la revolution non? #handmade #artisanat

Israel’s deadly policies in the WBank are increasing daily ““He is allowed to be here, and you are not,” the soldier is heard telling Sivoni. According to the activist, the soldier also told him, “That’s how it is, because I decide who stays and who doesn’t.”” www.timesofisrael.com/year-long-id...

Perhaps the best explanation for the timing of the claim (which is filed under the investments provisions of the CPTPP) is that it's a warning: i.e. approve our revised application for Grassy Mountain - or else. A classic case of regulatory chill. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

We call ourselves "intelligent," yet the humblest fungus can decompose waste and build soil, a tree can harness solar energy, and a wetland can purify water—all without toxic byproducts. True intelligence is learning from these systems, not bulldozing them.

A tale of two nations

Carney has announced he’s temporarily dropping the relatively small gas tax. He didn’t need to do that, with Poilievre in a free fall. And all it does is fuel the idea that gas taxes drive gas prices, which they obviously don’t. This was a mistake, similar to letting the carbon tax be reframed.

ERASING HISTORY: U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro asks court to vacate seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and Proud Boys leaders Ethan Nordean & Joseph Biggs, despite jury findings of coordinated efforts to stop the transfer of power.

“Basic income has been shown to reduce health care costs, including an 8.5% reduction in hospitalizations. As Dr. Danielle Martin [the newly elected Liberal MP in today’s by-election] has so pointedly said, “If we discovered a drug that reduced hospitalizations by 8.5%, we’d put it in the water.”

Landmines are coming back to Europe - quietly. Countries like Poland are already moving toward using them. Others may follow. They don’t stop killing when wars end. We can still stop this, but we need to act now. action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-04...

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

I needed a good news story today and thought you might like it, too.

TY @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social for sharing your statement on Lebanon on @bsky.app & @markkersten.bsky.social for this comment. Right now, #Canada is complicit in war crimes b/c of our connections to Israeli & US govts. Yes to strengthening democracy, but NO to US/Israeli weapons trade

I wrote and posted this to Instagram a couple of days ago and it became my most-read poem ever. I’m honored I get to feel big feelings alongside you all. I’m posting it here too and want to use this space more consistently. Hello friends ❤️

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

terrible ce n'est pas un pays qui offre l'asile

Kevin O'Leary is building the world's largest AI datacenter in Alberta Canada. It will consume 24 million cubic meters of water annually (460,000 people's lifetime consumption) and set back 20 years of carbon emission reductions (including all gains made by phasing out coal) unless it's stopped

Big news - ABP, the largest pension fund in the 🇳🇱Netherlands, has ditched Palantir! As recently as January 2026, its investment in Palantir = ~€825M. This is a great precedent, and adds momentum to pressure around the 🌏 (see posts above) for pension funds to divest. CPPIB + BCI, it’s time! 16/x

If you are just as horrified as we are that CPP + BCI + other pension plan investment managers in Canada have big $$ in firms like Palantir that enable the Gestapo/ICE (see above thread), please consider signing + sharing this petition! ⬇️ 15/x

@mark-carney.bsky.social @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social @avilewis.ca @elizabethemay.bsky.social @mariamstenergard.bsky.social @devantmette.bsky.social Can we stop idiocy, war crimes? Please, at least, speak out.

The 2026 Iran war has killed: 🇮🇷 At least 2,076 people, maybe over 6,000 🇱🇧 1,238 people 🇮🇱 34 people 🇮🇶 23 people 🇺🇸 15 people 🇦🇪 11 people 🇰🇼 9 people 🇶🇦, 🇵🇸 4 people each 🇧🇭, 🇴🇲, 🇹🇷 3 people each 🇫🇷 1 person And also, gasoline costs more.

Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday condemned what he called Israel’s “illegal invasion” of southern Lebanon, which he said is a violation of territorial sovereignty. Carney told reporters in French in Wakefield, Que., that a ceasefire is necessary.... globalnews.ca/news/1175352...

Over 100 U.S. experts in international law published a letter critical of the U.S. government: ▪️“….clear violation of the UN Charter… ▪️”…serious concerns about violations of international human rights law & international humanitarian law” ▪️”…potential war crimes.” chrishouston.ca/stories-of-p...

Tehran Peace Museum calls for action, justice & accountability chrishouston.ca/stories-of-p...

Adding to our thread about pensions + Palantir, here’s a timely @stand.earth report looking at investments by 🇨🇦 banks + pension funds in Palantir and other firms that work with ICE. For example, BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans have $149 million in such fIrms!!! @richardbrooks.bsky.social 14/x

#abpoli #cdnpoli #climateactionnow #CPP @mark-carney.bsky.social

So sad that Canada lost one of its great statesmen. I had the privilege of being on the receiving end when Stephen Lewis was pressuring Canada to do more to fight the AIDS epidemic in Africa. Always on the left side of issues and the right side of history. We shall miss his moral leadership.

«Le communautaire à boutte» culmine à Québec après deux semaines de mobilisation et de grève. Le mouvement demande des conditions de travail dignes. Combien gagnent les employés du communautaire et quels sont leurs avantages sociaux? Mon reportage➡️🎧 ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...

Les milliards de la guerre : des compagnies pétrolières empocheraient près de 120 millions $ de surprofits par jour. www.franceinfo.fr/economie/les...

Today the Quebec government passed Bill 9 -- just another in a long line of bigoted pieces of legislation that legalizes descrimination against people who wear religious symbols. I wrote about the impact of these pieces of legislation and the rise of the far right here: thewalrus.ca/in-quebec-ci...

There is a rise in Marines filing for conscientious objector status in response to Middle East deployments. MARINES. staging.democracynow.org/2026/3/23/pr...

I just wish there was room in the Alberta NDP for people who wish the province wasn't run by and for oil and gas executives

Today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered the Israeli military to "further expand" the "existing security strip" in Lebanon. That's dressed up language for a violation of Lebanese sovereignty and what can become illegal annexation of Lebanese land.

"Working to build on and support those people, and also to help them develop skills ... as Canadians for resisting non-violently should the U.S. decide to continue in its very threatening behavior," - @tonymcquailndp.bsky.social, via @cknxnewstoday.bsky.social cknxnewstoday.ca/midwestern/n...

My sign for tomorrow. #NoKings

Fascism fears the people most of all. More than anything else, they’re cowards. #NoFear #NoKings

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Demand that CRA Investigate HESEG Foundation and the Gerald Schwartz and Heather Reisman Foundation . Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/cra-...