Vaccination rates in Canada are falling dangerously low, exposing citizens to risks from diseases like measles that had been previously eliminated in Canada for more than two decades. 1/ r.pebmac.ca/https://www....

A lot of Canucks feel pride at a Canadian astronaut on a moon mission. The Carney government is milking this opportunity to associate itself with those good feelings while cutting nearly a third of all funding for Canada's space agency. www.canada.ca/en/treasury-...

Google AI summaries provide users with hundreds of thousands of wrong answers every minute and tens of millions every hour in a neverending cavalcade of misinformation.

I don’t want to understand the US president, but we live in the long shadow of his malignant venomous incompetence, so I try. I currently think this hideous moment that we’re in is illustrative of that sad vile loser being obsessed with, or defined by, a lethal transgression fetish. 🧵 1/

PM Mark Carney has thus far offered only two kinds of public response to Trump war crimes: • Tepid "all parties" statements that both-sides war crimes, placing aggressor & victim on equal moral footing • Statements of support for Trump actions or that target and criticize only the victims 🧵 1/

It is firmly established in international law that it is illegal to target health care facilities and health care workers. Here it is in the Geneva Convention IV of 1949, Article 18, protection of civilian hospitals. 🧵1/ ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treat...

While food banks are at their breaking point with record numbers at their doors, gigantic handouts to an industry already making $3 billion every single day should definitely not be this government's priority. 🧵1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yet more evidence of Mark Carney's deep respect for indigenous people as he mocks a woman with severe mercury poisoning at a public event. r.pebmac.ca/https://www....

Health organizations beg Mark Carney to defend the Canada Health Act in the face of obvious and extreme violations. Canada's PM says nothing on the topic for months, being far more interested in appeasing and rewarding the culprits with policies they want. www.healthcoalition.ca/health-coali...

Without stating any intention of doing so during the election, the Carney government has enormously expanded military spending. This is an investment that may help some Canadians to *feel* safer, but not one that will help Canadians *be* safer. A Canadian national security 🧵 1/

Most Canadians don't know that we have an exit tax, so if we choose to tax billionaires and they declare that they're going to leave the country they get taxed anyway. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Not for the first time, the Canadian government has blocked entry to Canada for someone who was coming here to speak in defence of Palestinian rights in year three of a livestreamed genocide. This time, the person denied entry is a member of the EU parliament. 🧵1/ r.pebmac.ca/https://www....

Fossil fuel shills lie that natural gas expansion is good climate news by serving as a "bridge" away from coal use. Research consistently verifies that methane is more harmful to the climate than coal, with short term greenhouse impacts that are 33% worse than coal. 🧵1/ r.pebmac.ca/https://news...

Canada has revoked the visa of Rima Hassan, a member of European Parliament who was to come and speak about Palestinian Liberation. Meanwhile, we allow genocidaire members of the IDF tour the country with impunity.

Mark Carney is embarrassing on the world stage by making his personal support for the very worst international actors a long term problem for Canada's reputation. The consistent message is that it's fine if the USA or Israel target you for unprovoked attacks, but unacceptable if you fight back.

If Mark Carney is playing "diplomatic 4d chess" on the world stage, as his most devoted partisans tirelessly insist, then why exactly does his approach consistently display a double standard so glaringly obvious that any six year old could readily identify it? Anyone?

The government of the USA and the government of Canada aren't seeing eye to eye about everything, but one area where they continue to march in lockstep is their tireless dedication to worsening the global climate crisis as rapidly as possible. 🧵1/

Received draft report on long term climate projections today as part of ongoing work on the Climate Ready Mine Program. The research was enormously hampered by a giant hole in climate data collection triggered by Harper government. The collective cost of willful ignorance compiles for generations.

Maybe it's just me, but when I look around at the current state of international geopolitics, I don't immediately think "What we need right now is fewer diplomats, fewer international affairs experts, and less funding for international diplomacy." 🧵1/

The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) tells us 80% of small businesses in 🇨🇦 need Canada Post for shipping goods, invoicing, &/or payments. Many can't switch to private couriers due to far higher costs, especially for rural or remote shipping. www.canada.ca/en/treasury-...

Carney voters: is this really what you wanted? It sure as hell isn't the "caps, not cuts" to public services that he campaigned on. These numbers come from the treasury board's spending plans for 2026-27 as detailed on the government's own official public website: www.canada.ca/en/treasury-...

Carney's message is to give up on the idea of a better world. Trump bombing Iran without provocation is just how the world is. Let's "deal with the world as it is" by being complicit, not by opposing it. Claims of "pragmatism" are Carney's "get out of ethics" card. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

The international rules based order is not dying. It is being killed, and Mark Carney is one of the people actively engaged in knifing it.

Carney fans, rationalize away! "In its latest budget, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government said it would partly rely on AI to eliminate 40,000 public service jobs" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Another clear display of Mark Carney's super obvious double standard that condemns the victims of Trump and Netanyahu's war crimes, while failing to condemn or even mention the criminal activities of the aggressors, just dropped. Let's look at what's missing from his most recent statement. 🧵1/

If a right wing US entity wants to feel some love from their Canadian equivalents, there are very few ways that seem more effective than to publicly declare that they'd be happy to see the USA annex Canada. Violently if necessary. Apparently, Canada's cons really love talk like that. 🧵1/

Mark Carney's very good at things that mean success in the banking industry. Speaking calmly and authoritatively. Putting the rich first. Making unilateral top down decisions. He's clearly not good at non-banking-industry skills like dealing with bad behaviour from people you can't simply fire. 🧵1/

This will generate *checks notes* 80 permanent jobs. Carney is on pace to cut 26,000 public sector jobs. The primary tenants are *American* AI companies Cerebras and CoreWeave. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It floors me that Republican outrage over Epstein files, Iran war, destroyed relationships with traditional US allies, ICE killing citizens in the street on camera & stratospheric cost of living rise *combined* is still smaller than their freakout over that one time when Obama wore a tan suit.

When at first you don't succeed at inflicting serious violations of basic rights on Canadians, try try again. At least, if you're Mark Carney. Who cares if Canadians rejected these violations the first time? He didn't become prime minister to listen to citizens, but to make top down decisions. 🇨🇦🧵1/

Trump's goldfish like attention span imagined he could easily conquer Iran in a weekend, forget them when he got bored, & turn to Cuba. He's bombing people who've mastered keeping grudges laser focussed for generations. He's flipping out because facing consequences he can't duck is new to him.

For millennia, effective use of power understood that carrot & stick in tandem work far better than either on its own. Trump's all stick. Carrots are woke or weak, fuck the carrot. Allies, enemies, everybody gets the stick. Positive reinforcement's completely beyond his grasp as a basic concept.

Canada's grocers used the pandemic as an excuse to price gouge enormously. This year it'll hurt particularly badly. We near the breaking point. 🧵1/ This spreadsheet compiles public data from several years of Loblaws financial statements to track the numbers: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Carney fans, rationalize away! I'll get you started. *Technically* paying the $1 billion bill for a Norwegian company isn't handing them money directly, as such, per se, sensu stricto. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/newfo...

C-2: combined atrocious privacy violations with attacks on immigrant human rights. After pushback, it's withdrawn. The exact same rights violations are then re-tabled as C-12. Now, the same privacy rights violations resurface, too, with a parliamentary majority to ram it through almost in reach...

The problem with white supremacist assumptions that no one with brown skin could possibly be competent is that it fills your positions of power with clueless dumbasses who proceed to massively underestimate foreign competence, miring you in wars you can't win. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl-s...

Too good not to share.

Mark Carney's cult-like partisans will be twisting their logic into ever more convoluted pretzels trying to justify his obvious "Ethics for thee, but not for me" policy that continues the flow of weapons parts and ammunition from "not involved" Canada to Israel for use in their war crimes.

Canada belatedly suggests that the USA & Israel should comply with international law. At the same time as the Carney government votes down a bill that pleads with it to comply with international law. "The rules based order just up & died. Such a shame." says a guy actively stabbing it in the back.

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Someone needs to explain to Mark Carney that you don't have to personally pull the trigger to be an accessory to murder. The ship of "Canada not having any involvement in what's happening in Iran" has already sailed. Carney already involved Canada. He already aligned Canada with Trump/Netanyahu.

I note that even with a free gift link, WaPo won't permit me to read the article without creating an account and giving them at least some of my personal data, but the "News flash: Water is Wet" quality of the headline alone is more than enough to confirm what many millions were already thinking.

Leaders around the world appear to be struggling to respond to an American administration that is no longer constrained by pretending to care about human lives, the law, or the cost of its hubris. trib.al/TNOqWQK

substack.com/home/post/p-... Important essay from @natebear1.bsky.social #iran #petrodollar #environmentaldestruction #warcrimes #substack #nsfw #acidrain #gaza

Having spent his entire career in boardrooms where top down executive decisions are unilateral edicts never to be questioned, Carney repeatedly flounders whenever confronted by the need to pretend to care about things like parliamentary procedures, public opinion, or any form of accountability.

Great work from @nolore.bsky.social here: Critics Slam Carney’s Plan to Jump-Start Canada’s Economy via Military Industry truthout.org/articles/cri...

Carney seeking stronger economic ties with rights-abusing regimes is awful, but expanding them into a poor justification that may drag Canada into the middle of an illegal war quagmire using a change in terminoloogy is fucking abysmal. lloydaxworthy.substack.com/p/the-semant...

Western countries backing what the US and Israel are doing in Iran aren’t just going to lose legitimacy in the eyes of their domestic publics, but are shredding any notion a new alliance of middle powers or whatever can defend any semblance of an international order.