"At some point if the ship doesn’t turn around, maybe it will start taking on water or listing badly or hit an iceberg, or perhaps the iceberg has been there all along and is named Donald Trump."

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip "I would suggest the NDP deal with their leadership issue or the whole party is going to meet its demise as a whole and I believe if that happens it would take decades to recover"

Years before Alberta even became a province, First Nations signed Treaties guaranteeing their rights to the land in perpetuity. A century later, and First Nations are in court this week, using their Treaties to mount one of the strongest challenges to Alberta separatism, writes @readtheorchard.org

Brutal.

Trump can only be removed under the 25th Amendment with the actions of this Republican vice president, this Republican cabinet, and this Republican-controlled Congress. So, if you're asking what Democrats are doing today, I'm not sure you understand how this all works.

I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

Right-wing groups and think tanks had a private audience with Alberta's premier and education minister in February to discuss education policy. Check out what our access to information documents show. zurl.co/P25Fl

@adampolsen.bsky.social: By discussing amendments before legal review and before consultation with the rights-holders, Premier David Eby didn’t just make a policy choice; he set the Overton window. He defined the spectrum of public debate unilaterally. #bcpoli #DRIPA

America, we really need to have that talk.

New Westminster had the highest per-capita death rate during the 2021 heat dome. City council just passed a motion requiring landlords to have one "cool" room in all rental units. Reporting by @kehyslop.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

A growing body of research links the arts to improved physical and mental health — fueling efforts to integrate creativity into care, from dance classes to hospital-based arts programs. https://reasonstobecheerful.world/art-for-health/

After lobbying by a mining group, the B.C. government is reviewing conservation measures across the province. Conservationists worry it could water down protections and derail new protected areas. thenarwhal.ca/mining-lobby... #bcpoli

“The NDP will start winning again because we will become that beacon to the 99%, illuminating the darkening sky of these terrifying times with the energizing light of collective struggle,” Avi Lewis says. It’s about coming together to build “a government that works for the many, not the money.”

The pundit and columnist class meltdown from folks who have never supported the NDP honestly suggests to me that the NDP is doing something significant that’s worth paying attention to. Those who defend power tend to screech the loudest when power is genuinely threatened.

An investigation by the fifth estate has found the website known as Entropy, which launched in Calgary, is in fact a safe haven for white supremacists and other extremists seeking to monetize the hateful content they livestream to online audiences. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Rogan and Poilievre are talking shit about people who impose their will on others. Poilievre specifically emphasizes trusting people to build their own lives. Frankly rich, given conservatives across Canada are controlling the lives of trans kids and intervening between them and doctors.

You absolutely cannot separate the artist and the art without contributing to the persecution of trans people. Boycott everything Potter.

How do white nationalist groups in Canada recruit people to their cause? A new report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue shows the ways they’ve using otherwise healthy activities — male bonding, fitness, martial arts, time outdoors — as gateways to radicalization. Here’s more:

This one is just about trains :) #WeLoveTrains

A top-tier law firm in Toronto was secretly contracted by the Israeli Ministry of Justice to lobby the federal government—over wine labels. In our latest investigation, Anas Ambri reveals how wines from illegal settlements in the West Bank became a flashpoint in a larger PR battle.

Canadians! Are you blinded by headlights that are too bright or too high? Take the Transport Canada survey! tc.canada.ca/en/corporate...

I wrote an email to the mayor and council in New Westminster to support the proposed Tiny Homes Village for our homeless neighbours. You can read the letter in my alt text. Please feel free to write your own to [email protected]

This is the story btw (this report is fine, but is being decontextualized and amplified on X). It's reserve land, the 50 year lease is expiring, the Nation has previously warned they may not renew, they are now giving 2 years notice and waiving pad fees until then cheknews.ca/residents-at...

if we’re fomenting rage against First Nations because people are being given two years notice to vacate their expiring leaseholds on reserve land then we’ve kind of lost the plot

Last night I went to the B.C. Housing led meeting on the “Tiny Home Village” proposed on 20th Street in New West. The meeting was filled with coordinated attendees who came to spread misinformation drilled into them by the bigoted chaos agents known as NWP in #newwest. Some of the misinfo incl: 1/

The same police unit that arrested Wet'suwet'en land defenders and surveilled Fairy Creek demonstrators was monitoring the Palestine solidarity movement on BC campuses A big investigation for @breachmedia.ca breachmedia.ca/a-notorious-...

By spewing out “AI slop,” sites are making it harder for people to separate fact from fiction. And in the process, they are eroding the already fragile trust the public places in the media. @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...

100 accounts are behind majority of conspiracy theory content in Canada www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/25/n... "...analyzed over 14 million social media posts from accounts in Canada, and found that 87% of conspiratorial claims come from influencers." Those on "X were the biggest culprits."

A landmark Indigenous and Black multi-generational affordable housing bldg was vandalized last night in #newwest with anti-Black, anti-Indigenous & anti-Muslim slurs. This behaviour isn’t disconnected from comments coming from a specific councillor about who is & isn’t the right “demographics” here.

‘Militantly illegal police conduct’: Conviction shatters years of protection for #ThunderBay police sergeant. The guilty verdict exposes not just one rogue officer, but a culture of corruption and systemic racism inside the TBPS. New from @jonthompson.bsky.social: ricochet.media/justice/poli...

A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks. "So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."

I am sickened by this news. Alarm bells have been going off about AI corporations since they launched — their lack of accountability is untenable. The government must step in with regulations. In the immediate, a rigorous investigation into OpenAI and a moratorium on AI data centres in BC. #bcpoli

The 2026 British Columbia Budget shows that the province is working MUCH harder to prioritize spending for retirees than for younger and future residents. Read our full analysis: www.gensqueeze.ca/2026_bc_budg... #bcpoli

SOGI Is Under Attack. Educators Say It’s Never Been More Needed, by @kehyslop.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

The #BCBudget2026 left the NDP government looking adrift, aware things have gone wrong but without a real idea what to do about it. Instead, they kicked the problems down the road in the hope that something will miraculously happen that makes them go away. @pwillcocks.bsky.social writes. #bcpoli

Thanks to @thewalrus.ca for this reprint of my piece on anti-trans hate and misinformation being pushed out online in response to the tragedy in Tumbler Ridge. thewalrus.ca/tumbler-ridg...

When I was in Grade 4, an elderly extended family member asked me about ‘violent Somalian gangs’ at my elementary school based on things she heard on Lowell Green’s radio show I was like “ma’am, I don’t know what your radio is telling you, but we just play pogs and talk about Power Rangers here”

"That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." —Carl Sagan Voyager 1 captured the "Pale Blue Dot" image #OTD in 1990. 🧪 🔭 🔵 Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The way parents have been pushing back on divisive narratives and showing compassion for everyone impacted is a true show of community. It says so much about Tumbler Ridge.

Moved by his ancestors, Ken Johnston walked 265 kilometres through southern Ontario, following the Underground Railroad path of early Black settlers. @balkissoon.bsky.social tells the story behind the story in our latest newsletter: thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-o...

“The fact that this tragic event in #TumblerRidge immediately inspired calls for restrictions on gender-affirming care and trans rights at large in Canada should raise huge alarm bells for trans people and our allies.”

Bogs, bugs, freedom and loss: walking alongside Ontario’s early Black settlers: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-nort...

My Cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star

BREAKING: We’re dropping our agreement with the BC NDP. To renew our agreement, we asked for material action. Eby’s NDP plainly refused. So we’d like to share a new agreement with YOU. We agree to fight for affordability, take on the establishment, and stand with the working people of BC, always.

Can't believe I haven't yelled into the bsky void about one of my fav independent media newsletters: @unrigged.bsky.social. This collection goes beyond the news cycle and helps me see broader trends unfolding across the country, province. Makes me better at my job and a better member of society.