1/7 🇨🇦 TOP CIVIL LIBERTIES GROUPS CONDEMN ALBERTA'S USE OF #NOTWITHSTANDINGCLAUSE 🇨🇦 In a joint statement, #Canada's leading #CivilLiberties associations united to sound the alarm over Alberta's plan to use the clause to shield three #anti-trans laws. From the CCLA, BCCLA, and LDL #CdnPoli #AbLeg

Happy Hallowe'en friends! On this day in 1933 my Slovakian great grandma was 3 days into her Canadian immigration journey and saw trick or treaters out the window of a train when it stopped in Winnipeg. She got very scared and thought Canada was a spooky, weird place! It is 🎃

Holy Smokes. Ireland just elected a left-leaning female president and she's awesome! A former psychologist, former barrister, former competitive badminton player, ran so many marathons she lost count, and comes from a family of 14 siblings raised by a single father. 🫣 🇮🇪

This is unconscionable @mark-carney.bsky.social

"Hang in there, comrade!" I don't regret playing on the "Hang in there, baby" poster for today's #inktober #inktober2025 #RedInktober

⭕️ BREAKING: CNN reports that Israel will not release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya as part of the ceasefire deal. “The occupation refused to release Dr Hussam Abu Safiya,” a Hamas official told CNN on Friday. 💔💔💔💔

Scientists use AI to detect ADHD through unique visual rhythms in groundbreaking study #Science #HealthandMedicine #MentalHealth #AIResearch #ADHD #MentalHealthAwareness

Hello. It's my first post. Have a #poem. #UKPolitics #poetry

Canada’s Parliament just gave Charlie Kirk a standing ovation. You can oppose political violence without rewriting the legacy of a man who did a lot of harm to vulnerable and marginalized communities. But Canada’s politicians, some media and many employers don’t seem to entirely understand that:

The standing ovation in Parliament today to honour Charlie Kirk was one of the most embarrassing things I’ve ever seen from that building, and I gotta tell you, that list is long

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

I just signed this petition from the BC Greens! bcgreens.ca/petitions/vo...

Imagine if this was your child or grandchild. This has been going on for 77 years.

ICLMG analyzed the federal parties’ promises & their positions & actions regarding #nationalsecurity since the last election. Here are their actions re the #repression of #landdefence & of anti-genocide #protests. More at iclmg.ca/info-card-2025 #CanadaElection2025 #cdnpoli #dissent #stopthegenocide

Goodbye, Trey. A @crackdownpod.bsky.social eulogy for another fallen soldier in this never-ending drug war. 💔RiP friend, comrade, punk-rawker extraordinaire. See you on the other side, brother. www.crackdownpod.com/episodes/epi...

people whose job is to deal directly with the lies and violence police perpetrate against marginalized groups do not like police, news at 11

CTV got rid of @rachelgilmore.bsky.social because an email inbox got too full. It only gave her more time to discover and expose rot.

It's breathtaking to watch autocrats weaponize the civil rights movement on behalf of the putative safety of Jews in order to send people who are opposing genocide to literal death camps - and Jews who oppose this are labelled terrorist sympathizers.

related:

Michael Spratt, an Ottawa criminal-defence lawyer, pilloried the proposal and said that all of Mr. Poilievre’s criminal justice policies “rip up” the Constitution.
“That is just unbecoming of a leader, unbecoming of a serious politician …,” he said. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/91472a3...

Your new City Councillor @seanorr.bsky.social has had a busy week: “Launched a campaign to restore public library hours, did some intensive training at City Hall, met some folks who I’ll be sharing a workplace with — and now back to the dishpit.” #FightForVancouver #vanpoli

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Loki, a neurospicy artist who makes vintage and progressive illustrations. I distribute my creations in free digital versions (because I'm an anarchist) or in prints for purchase (because I like to survive) 👉 social.lokipropagand.art #Art #Prints #Vintage #Anarchy

Flee bourgeois, flee! A new Art Nouveau visual, fresh off the tablet. Soon available as prints and free downloads if you feel like it. #Art #ArtNouveau #Anarchy #Revolution #Rabbit

Hey man Europe isn't going to stop fascism

A great way to stop retail theft is to lift people out of poverty and make them feel supported by their community

A good guess for the origin of popcorn is that drying corn began as a useful way of preserving and storing food. And then one day some fell into the cooking fire 🌽🔥

West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, and the cosmetics brands Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

First tulips opened in my Vancouver garden

I'm a nerd doing nerdy stuff on a deadline and ran across this really cool resource on land and maritime borders. If you spent hours as a kid pouring over atlases, you'll like this - even though borders are fake! sovereignlimits.com/data

Look up at the moon right now if you’re in North America! Lunar eclipse! Blood moon!

Need to get US personnel off Canadian military bases too

"Some members of the Columbia University community leapt at the chance to get young people they claim are 'supporters of Hamas' detained and deported. Several people on a large WhatsApp group, Columbia Alumni for Israel—with over 1K members, incl parents & Columbia professors—welcomed Trump’s plan."

It is wild that “free speech” has been redefined to mean “explicit government viewpoint discrimination” with so little pushback

Anyone in Ontario able to provide some knowledge here?

straight up funny, actually

"The country has lost one of its leading experts on migrant detention" and my daughter's best friend lost her mother. Love to Colm, Orla and Olivia. Thank you to the Canadian Council for Refugees for sharing this tribute to Jenny Jeanes who was always kind and welcoming. ccrweb.ca/en/in-loving...

'I have questions': UBC staffer speaks out after being detained by RCMP via @ubyssey.ca ubyssey.ca/news/ubc-sta...

UBC is.. not sending their best 😬

Yuval Abraham, an Israeli filmmaker says at the Oscars that America's foreign policy is not helping the situation in Gaza. www.indiewire.com/awards/resul...

So relieved NO OTHER LAND won, I was worried. If the Oscars are actually important in any way it’s to platform speeches like this. The fact that this movie doesn’t have an American distributor is shameful.

No Other Land just won an Oscar without US distribution. Absolutely legendary for them, this film and its message. The most important award of this year, hands down.

NO OTHER LAND won an Oscar without a US distributor. Stunning. #Oscars #NoOtherLand

Overjoyed to be rooting for Julian Brave Noisecat for an Oscar!

I’m proud to have walked two dogs on my own today! My broken ankle is healing slowly but surely.

Canada commits to sharing a percentage of Vancouver YVR Airport ground lease revenue with Musqueam #news 📰 #UNDRIP