“A new auto strategy, set to be released next month, will prioritize made-in-Canada vehicles and give companies that build vehicles domestically preferential market access.” Chinese brands are not expected in Canada until 2027, with the eventual goal of having them partner to build EVs in Canada.

Prime Minister Mark Carney has been asked to join Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” for Gaza’s reconstruction. And so far Carney hasn’t ruled out joining — in fact, CBC is reporting he’s going to accept. When you hear the details of this “board,” you probably won’t be happy about that:

This chart by @nathanielbullard.com is one reason data centers are driving up our electricity prices. Tech companies usually build data centers close to cities, where accommodating their GW-scale power demand entails costly reinforcement of wires or transformers. Utilities pass those costs on to us.

There are lessons for provinces from the US experience with data centres. They consume vast quantities of water & power. This causes consumer power rates to go up, way up in some cases. I'm proud that BC has taken a precautionary approach to them being built. edition.cnn.com/2026/01/18/b...

Thanks for the hat tip, @ottawacitizen.com 🎩 "Credit to PressProgress for doing the legwork that the mayor, a former journalist, should have done"

You must learn to hate the aristocracy as much as it hates you.

By refusing to act, the Republican Congress is complicit in attacks on U.S. citizens exercising their First Amendment rights. In the face of constitutional violations, inaction is participation, not neutrality.

Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder. " Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..." www.al.com/news/2026/01...

Donald Trump has not assembled a “Board of Peace” for Gaza. He has assembled a Board of Occupation. The future of Gaza is not up to Trump, Blair or Netanyahu. That is up to the Palestinian people.

Keir Starmer did everything he could to be US poodle and his strategy has ended in total humiliation. Both him and Farage are puppets of a hostile foreign nation. It's obvious that if someone is a bully - you don't just keep appeasing them. Disastrous strategy by Labour.

Canada's big six banks made $70 billion in profits last year on the backs of working people. So I went to Bay Street to ask bankers whether it’s time for a wealth tax. If you agree, become a member of the NDP and let’s fight for it together: avilewis.link/join youtu.be/KfNEsh9Hx6s?...

My take on the Iran protests, the brutal crackdown, US and Israeli involvement, and more. It's time for us to be morally and politically consistent.

you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review

"Trump Escalates His War on America as Dems Debate What Words They Can Say" Trump is launching increasingly violent invasions of blue cities while Democratic elites are concerned some might say: ‘Abolish ICE.’ Important reporting from @swin24.bsky.social & @andrewperez.bsky.social for Zeteo:

Canada’s going to start getting some Chinese EVs! I just hope this quota deal is the first step to getting BYD to set up a factory in exchange for broader access.

Other cities and states on Trump’s hit-list need to join in. Minnesota should not be standing alone.

1. These companies continued to advertise on X as Grok generated nonconsensual sexualized images of kids (and adults). We contacted all of them for comment. All 37 either declined to comment or did not respond. NFL Shein NBA Outback Steakhouse Burger King ESPN (Con't)

Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents. Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center. Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.

The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained

A predatory class, which demands not just the shirt off your back, but the skin as well. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Racism is back! In pog form!

Legault is leGONE montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...

Golfers really are the most morally bankrupt sportsmen out there. Rip up all the courses, rewild them and use them as public spaces for everyone to enjoy

We’ve adopted a new policy clarifying how we’ll be using digital platforms to share our journalism Going forward, we will expect any platforms we use to demonstrate basic commitments to user safety, information integrity and democratic values Learn more: pressprogress.ca/journalistic...

American journalists need to stop running headlines that are leaks from officials in this administration. I get obtaining leaks make you feel ~special~ but publishing their claims without independent verification means you are literally behaving as the administration's propaganda tool!!!!!

Wild to see a politician immediately go to work and beginning to help people. If the past few years have shown us everything, it's that the Democrats just didn't try. Turns out this was possible the whole time. You can tear down the White House if you want to! They just didn't care.

Legault resigns to spend more time privately hounding minorities

www.byteseu.com/1712752/ "Canadian universities work so well that they are increasingly being treated as utilities or commodities, w a focus on price w/o considering quality. This is most severe in Ontario, where the government has frozen tuition since 2019, w only modest funding increases."

They murdered someone. Why are you pretending they didn't murder someone.

open.substack.com/pub/krassens... Doesn’t add up.

X is claiming it’s restricted the ability to generate explicit deepfakes with Grok, and plenty of media outlets are parroting it without checking. But it’s still easy to get Grok to generate the very same “undressing” photos causing this scandal in the first place.

Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash. Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.

HEY HEY it's NEWS 'O CLOCK. 'EARTH MUST DIE' is coming out on the 27th of Jan, which is alarmingly soon! Please pop over here and wishlist it, and do share if you're able. Thank you. store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...

This week will mark 100 days since the "ceasefire" began. But for Palestinians in Gaza, has Israel's firing actually ceased? The evidence shows Israel has continued indiscriminately killing, injuring and displacing Palestinians -- including more than 100 children. Here's what's been happening:

One-in-five local constituents in Mark Carney’s Nepean riding work in the field of public administration www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recen...

this is like the wargames nerd equivalent of an anarchist feeling patriotic while reading about the Union Army during the Civil War

My take of "Do not put surveillance shit in your house" is now in battle with "make sure you have surveillance shit in your house to counter the police's misuse of shitty surveillance tech". www.404media.co/cop-used-flo...

1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement: She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵

Canada's Auto Industry Just Got A Wake-up Call From Trump Should Canada drop the 100% China EV tariff's we put in place to match the US? #elbowsup #boycottusa #FuckTacoTrump #canadastrong #CanadaSky #never51state #canadaunited #political www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox__...

If there’s a better obituary for an evil cartoonist than an A.I. generated version of his character that fucks up the defining detail of its design, I can’t think of it. No notes. 👨🏻‍🍳 💋

EV sales in 2025 grew 212% YoY to 18.5 million units to about 1/4 of the whole market Mazda sells about 3 EVs a year, and a rotary range extended thing isnt where the market is going So no, EV demand has not dropped, shit EVs wont sell for sure, so dont be lazy

Musk's Grok Is Abusing Women and Children. Our Government Needs to Act via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

Just received the following response from the Director of Communications for the Office of Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe to my questions about the credibility of this website: "I was not able to do further looking into the company. I don't have a quote for you”

Elon Musk's "everything" has morphed into a digital equivalent of Times Square in the late 1970s: seedy, unsupervised and inherently unsafe. It's time for Canada's elected officials to leave it behind — and embrace a new technological future. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/12/o...

A number of people on this platform have been claiming that it's not up to government to shorten people's time on remand, however far beyond the statutory limit that time extends. Well, take it from a very eminent retired judge. It is. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

AIPAC spends hundreds of millions buying primaries across the country. Now they’re trying to buy mine.

FACT-CHECK: A new ‘quality of life study’ celebrated by Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe is actually sourced from a dubious eastern European website While Sutcliffe claims the new 'study' proves Ottawa is the ‘most liveable’ city in North America, experts say the Serbian website’s data is unreliable

Oh no 😬 @ctvnewsottawa.bsky.social got spun by Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe and ran a story about the “study” based on data from a dubious Serbian website The website carries a disclaimer that the data is unvetted and they don’t guarantee it is “accurate or reliable”

Much of the pain you feel is white middle class people experiencing dangerous America that nonwhite, LGBT+, and foreigners always have It’s not that things fundamentally changed. They were revealed. Your feelings are valid. Though it’s probably time to listen more to those who aren’t shocked.