My mom reminded me that milk safety was foundational to why the Women's Institute was formed. Pasteurization has always been a feminist issue!

Just had a great conversation with @heathermcpherson.bsky.social for the podcast. With video! We want to do the interviews with all candidates before any are released so stay tuned to hear it ....

Next police budget should at minimum be cut by this amount. Year after year WRPS received rubber stamped budget increases with very little pushback from politicians. This is what happens when cops think they can do whatever they want and take as much money as they want from tax payers.

Interesting to see some of the Mayor's critiques (all valid, in my opinion) of the WRPS lately. While Vrbanovic would still no doubt consider himself a big supporter of the police, he clearly has concerns about their approach to some things recently. www.therecord.com/news/council...

Just got my Public Lending Right money from Canada Council. And for the firs time ever, it's pretty good money ($1500). This is thanks to you taking my books out at the library. Keep doing it! And do it for your favourite authors! Even if you don't read the books!!

I wouldn't expect anything other than this from the PAO but, could you at a bare minimum state that when there is evidence of corruption, everyone, including all these hard-working members mentioned, benefits when steps are taken to address it? www.facebook.com/PoliceAssoci...

"It happened with Muslim Americans after 9/11, for example. It's happened with young Black men for decades, and now it seems to be happening with transgender people as well," he said. "The perceived pattern is speaking more to the politics of the moment than to any actual causal relationship."

A literal genocide laundering racket funded by Israel's government itself.

All of my group chats are responding to Homan’s announcement by asking everyone to double down because: 1. ICE is still out there and abducting people today. We can’t trust the occupation is over until we actually see it. 2. People are going to be in an economic crisis for a very long time.

It's remarkable how often the loudest people complaining that journalists are liars and biased are also the first people to share whatever random bullshit pops up in their social media feeds when there is a mass shooting or terrorist attack

I write about policing and urban design in my book. Policing makes us less safe, but urban infrastructure and design can certainly make us more safe!

This should be required reading for anyone working on Tumbler Ridge today.

NEW from me today: Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come. xtramagazine.com/power/tumble...

"A girl living in central Minnesota alleges that immigration authorities separated her from her family and detained her overnight in a hotel, where she was forced to share a room with federal agents" www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

nothing will convince me shit like this isn't partly downstream from watching Bradley Cooper shoot an Iraqi kid with tears in his eyes

If someone kidnapped my kid and then took him to McDonald’s that person is still a kidnapper

New Behind the Bastards 👑🇨🇦 Robert concludes the story of Romana Didulo, for now, with the tale of her ill-fated invasion of a small Canadian town. @iwriteok.bsky.social @prophiphop.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

Canada must help Cuba. Here is my latest about Canada's long and deep relationship with the island nation, and how Carney's Davos speech turned out to be all talk and no action. noraloreto.substack.com/p/canada-mus...

Rep. Thanedar asks Lyons and Scott if they think Trump will pardon them and Noem. Scott: "I don't need a pardon from anybody." Thanedar: "You better hope so because you will be held accountable for the absolute disregard of the law your agencies have shown over the past year."

STOP BEING REASONABLE WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE BUILDING CONCENTRATION CAMPS, TORTURING CHILDREN, ENGAGING IN DOMESTIC STATE TERRORISM, AND COMMITTING MURDER

the actual Republican parents who support the politicians pushing for this think the effort and money they spent parenting are wasted if their kids turn out different from them. You eliminate that possibility by eliminating the public existence of other kinds of people.

This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

There are 3000 Canadians currently in Cuba and we cant be bothered to do something to help Cubans.

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

At the height of swine flu Indigenous bands in Canada were begging Stephen Harper for more resources and support and he sent them body bags

I hope they plan to appeal because that is not a precedent that should be floating around. Can you imagine if this was a precedent in Minnesota?? Anyone ICE isn't assaulting or killing would be sued for literally blowing a whistle.

A Canadian jury convicted a protester of criminal assault for sounding an electronic whistle at a Conservative MP: "Superior Court Justice Charles Hackland told the jury there were no legal precedents for the assault charge: assault with a weapon normally involves touching someone with that object"

Im not particularly young. You managed to copy and paste hundreds of words of my work but not the two words that constitute my name.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

The medic told me that they had treated at least four children that day, adding "I’m never ever going to forget the sounds of those kids wailing in pain hacking up a lung in full panic mode. It was one of the worst things I’ve ever seen in my 8+ years of street medicine and EMS work."

Amazing night with @sandela.bsky.social and @nolore.bsky.social! I finally got to see two huge influences on my politics and understanding of the world in real life.

Tonight! Guelph! We are bringing you Sandy and Nora Talk Politics LIVE! It'll kick off OPIRG Guelph's symposium, which you don't want to miss. And it's free! See you tonight. symposium.opirgguelph.org/2026-symposi...

How many YEARS have I been railing against this Food Professor fraud?! Yet local and national media treat him as an authority, instead of the galoot he is.

this unprecedented momentum behind a single issue sure might be a useful fulcrum to try and wrench this country back from over the brink

a distressingly common bluesky experience is posting “This is conspiratorial nonsense” and having many people respond with, essentially, “ok but I believe it”

Crazy that terfascism is connected with fascism fascism!

fun fact the military didn't look into this at all when they were studying tear gas back in the 1960s but in addition to stuff like irregular periods, there's evidence tear gas exposure can be linked to miscarriage more than enough data to suggest caution share.google/SoozTodiv791...

death by preventable disease is an inevitable and even desired outcome of concentration camps. in every era of concentration camps people have died of typhus, which is a disease of privation and enforced crowding. this illness is intentionally inflicted

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Conservative Christianity is designed to control children not protect them.

The unspoken rules for protest in the US have been, for decades, that if you have a big tame sign-holding march, it's safe to bring your kids. If you're not perceived as threatening their power, they'll leave you alone. Which means they perceive their unpopularity as a threat to their power

i love a free country, where the president's secret police can shoot out the windows of random citizens with impunity

this is the apartment complex they shot at today...

you love to see it

A cabinet minister rushed over to me the other night and ask ... how's your health? Given how specific the question was, I said, good! The cancer is ---" and his face dropped. "Ah, you didn't know. You were just asking me randomly." Very funny moment.

what if I told you that child abuse and unthinking deference to the patriarch ARE "family values"

"The host of Fear Factor serves as a propaganda minister for the host of The Apprentice, who is president of the United States" I cry in 2005 as they drag me into the cushioned paddy wagon

NO CBC. This is not how drugs work and it's not how you do news. This is Fox-style drugs reporting. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...