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A premium example of what the United States does in the light Canada does in the dark
CTV News reporting that Canadian company Roshel is producing armoured vehicles for ICE
CTV News reporting that Canadian company Roshel is producing armoured vehicles for ICE
December 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A premium example of what the United States does in the light Canada does in the dark
CTV News reporting that Canadian company Roshel is producing armoured vehicles for ICE
CTV News reporting that Canadian company Roshel is producing armoured vehicles for ICE
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The fix was in from the beginning. You don't have construction timelines this tight to your decision point of you didn't know it was a sure thing.
December 1, 2025 at 2:15 AM
The fix was in from the beginning. You don't have construction timelines this tight to your decision point of you didn't know it was a sure thing.
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"The Ontario Skills Development Fund— one of Ford’s signature programs and now perhaps the biggest scandal to hit his government since the Greenbelt — is rotten to the core."
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Star Editorial Board: Doug Ford’s skills training slush fund is a disgrace. It’s also a sign of a much deeper rot in his government
It suggests Ford has established a system where public money is being handed out not based on need or merit but on who you know or who you pay
www.thestar.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"The Ontario Skills Development Fund— one of Ford’s signature programs and now perhaps the biggest scandal to hit his government since the Greenbelt — is rotten to the core."
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
September 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.
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"Selling Out Is Bad" is a valuable concept and despite all the baggage and bullshit and elitism it could contain it's actually really good to reinforce the ideal that having integrity when it matters, especially when it hurts, is what good/cool people do. Should be adapted instead of jettisoned.
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
January 16, 2025 at 7:05 AM
"Selling Out Is Bad" is a valuable concept and despite all the baggage and bullshit and elitism it could contain it's actually really good to reinforce the ideal that having integrity when it matters, especially when it hurts, is what good/cool people do. Should be adapted instead of jettisoned.
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Time to post it again.
May 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Time to post it again.
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Wild how Ontario, Nova Scotia & Alberta think banning or ripping out bike lanes will reduce congestion. When you remove alternatives to driving, you don’t get fewer cars—you get only cars. Congestion doesn’t vanish, it multiplies. #bikelanes #cdnpoli
August 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Wild how Ontario, Nova Scotia & Alberta think banning or ripping out bike lanes will reduce congestion. When you remove alternatives to driving, you don’t get fewer cars—you get only cars. Congestion doesn’t vanish, it multiplies. #bikelanes #cdnpoli
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The Handala freedom flotilla is carrying onboard prosthetic limbs for the Palestinian children in Gaza. They were 3D-printed in Canada. Gaza has the highest number of child amputees per capita in the world because of Israel’s genocide.
July 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The Handala freedom flotilla is carrying onboard prosthetic limbs for the Palestinian children in Gaza. They were 3D-printed in Canada. Gaza has the highest number of child amputees per capita in the world because of Israel’s genocide.
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"When Carney agrees to not charge taxes to the wealthiest tech companies on the planet, he is saying: here — Canadian taxes will subsidize your operations. Don’t worry about it. We don’t need your money to pay for our services. We don’t really need those services at all."
Carney is placing Canada on a collision course with fascism. My latest at Substack.
noraloreto.substack.com/p/carney-to-...
noraloreto.substack.com/p/carney-to-...
Carney to defund Canada
We've seen this movie before
noraloreto.substack.com
July 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"When Carney agrees to not charge taxes to the wealthiest tech companies on the planet, he is saying: here — Canadian taxes will subsidize your operations. Don’t worry about it. We don’t need your money to pay for our services. We don’t really need those services at all."
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It is so fucking insane that it is essentially illegal, and wildly socially taboo in every corner of power in this country, to not want some random other country's army to be able to massacre civilians every single day for years.
Revoking an artist's visa for their speech, no matter how controversial, doesn't make us safe.
The government should not be policing the artistic or political expression of citizens, visitors, or anyone else.
The government should not be policing the artistic or political expression of citizens, visitors, or anyone else.
State Department Revokes Bob Vylan's Visa Over Glastonbury Performance
The Department of State revoked Bob Vylan's U.S. visa following their performance at Glastonbury, where the duo advocated to 'free Palestine.'
www.rollingstone.com
June 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
It is so fucking insane that it is essentially illegal, and wildly socially taboo in every corner of power in this country, to not want some random other country's army to be able to massacre civilians every single day for years.
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hey man. i just wanted to let you know that i saw you wearing a "you don't mess with the zohran" shirt last week, and when i told my 75 year old grandmother about it later, she let out some of the most racist wails i've ever heard in my life. so if you could maybe apologize to her, and also the IDF,
June 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
hey man. i just wanted to let you know that i saw you wearing a "you don't mess with the zohran" shirt last week, and when i told my 75 year old grandmother about it later, she let out some of the most racist wails i've ever heard in my life. so if you could maybe apologize to her, and also the IDF,
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the current administration is disappearing people left and right with zero accountability but this is what Dem party leaders are losing sleep over smfh - these fuckers should never know peace for the rest of their natural lives
Hakeem Jeffries on Mamdani: "'Globalizing the intifada' by way of example is not an acceptable phrasing. He's gonna have to clarify his position on that as he moves forward."
June 30, 2025 at 12:08 AM
the current administration is disappearing people left and right with zero accountability but this is what Dem party leaders are losing sleep over smfh - these fuckers should never know peace for the rest of their natural lives
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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
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New data shows the populations of BC, Ontario, and Quebec declined by 9,000 people in the first quarter of 2025 due to anti-immigrant policies. I'm assuming that means the homeless population has declined by 9,000 as well since housing is about "supply and demand" - right? Right?
June 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
New data shows the populations of BC, Ontario, and Quebec declined by 9,000 people in the first quarter of 2025 due to anti-immigrant policies. I'm assuming that means the homeless population has declined by 9,000 as well since housing is about "supply and demand" - right? Right?
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people have already covered all the "yes, it was stupider than you could possibly imagine" so i want to bring up the fact that much of it was something of a looped, enhanced version of the stupidity that gripped America during Desert Storm. a true peek into the ongoing Robocop-ification of America
I was too young to be ware of the Iraq invasion debate but was it this degree of stupid? It can't have been this stupid.
June 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM
people have already covered all the "yes, it was stupider than you could possibly imagine" so i want to bring up the fact that much of it was something of a looped, enhanced version of the stupidity that gripped America during Desert Storm. a true peek into the ongoing Robocop-ification of America
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Hey remember when the Israeli military fired live rounds at international diplomats including Canadians and Carney did fuck all
June 19, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Hey remember when the Israeli military fired live rounds at international diplomats including Canadians and Carney did fuck all
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Racist piece of shit.
It’s their land.
It’s their land.
CHCH News
Ontario P.O.S.Premier Doug Ford says he is willing to give First Nations what they want for their support in developing mines, but they cannot "keep coming hat in hand all the time to the government" for more money.
Ontario P.O.S.Premier Doug Ford says he is willing to give First Nations what they want for their support in developing mines, but they cannot "keep coming hat in hand all the time to the government" for more money.
June 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Racist piece of shit.
It’s their land.
It’s their land.
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A major concern is what happens when these powers fall into the hands of overtly Xian nationalists like those PP would have in a Cabinet.
June 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
A major concern is what happens when these powers fall into the hands of overtly Xian nationalists like those PP would have in a Cabinet.
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“‘Elbows up’ turned into stares of disbelief at measures posited by Carney’s Liberal government. It’s one of the most profound political reverses on the Canadian public, proving that while Carney charms us in front, he is stripping our rights behind our backs.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Canadians said no to Trump – so why is Mark Carney pushing a Maga-inspired border bill? | Erica Ifill
If it goes ahead we will see the construction of a surveillance state that is in some ways worse than the US, writes political columnist Erica Ifill
www.theguardian.com
June 14, 2025 at 2:29 AM
“‘Elbows up’ turned into stares of disbelief at measures posited by Carney’s Liberal government. It’s one of the most profound political reverses on the Canadian public, proving that while Carney charms us in front, he is stripping our rights behind our backs.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The world isn't silent on Gaza - this is by far the most vocal I have seen the general public on a political issue in my lifetime. I have also never seen a bigger difference between the anger of the public and the inaction of specific institutions and governments. That's the crucial disconnect.
June 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
The world isn't silent on Gaza - this is by far the most vocal I have seen the general public on a political issue in my lifetime. I have also never seen a bigger difference between the anger of the public and the inaction of specific institutions and governments. That's the crucial disconnect.
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i think most white americans who have never been Policed don’t realize that you are always already a criminal.
the second anyone with institutional power believes you to be, needs you to be, or wants you to be a criminal you are and always have been.
the second anyone with institutional power believes you to be, needs you to be, or wants you to be a criminal you are and always have been.
the last few days has been a reminder that people really want to believe that not only is there this real thing called a “criminal,” and that if they need to, anyone can just prove they aren’t one
do people not realize that the past four decades of US policing legislation PR and practice have made the allegation that someone is a “gang member” entirely subject to the whims of the state
April 17, 2025 at 2:10 AM
i think most white americans who have never been Policed don’t realize that you are always already a criminal.
the second anyone with institutional power believes you to be, needs you to be, or wants you to be a criminal you are and always have been.
the second anyone with institutional power believes you to be, needs you to be, or wants you to be a criminal you are and always have been.
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The most striking thing about the LA protests is how many people just dropped everything to show up and yell at federal agents. There are people in suits, and carrying dogs, and wearing flip flops or bike helmets.
These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.
These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.
June 7, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The most striking thing about the LA protests is how many people just dropped everything to show up and yell at federal agents. There are people in suits, and carrying dogs, and wearing flip flops or bike helmets.
These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.
These are not people who planned to do this today. But there they are.
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the fact most reports are leaving out that he was killed protecting his husband during a homophobic hate crime where his dead dog's skull was placed in their mailbox as a threat is leaving some important details out i think
Jonathan Joss, the voice actor for John Redcorn in “King of the Hill,” has died after being shot by a neighbor in Texas. He was 59
'King of the Hill' Voice Actor Jonathan Joss Fatally Shot in Texas
Actor Jonathan Joss -- best known for his work in the animated series "King of the Hill" has died after being shot by a neighbor in Texas, TMZ has learned.
www.tmz.com
June 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
the fact most reports are leaving out that he was killed protecting his husband during a homophobic hate crime where his dead dog's skull was placed in their mailbox as a threat is leaving some important details out i think
loving these little lingering storms in the distance
May 31, 2025 at 12:52 AM
loving these little lingering storms in the distance
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Yesterday Minister of Defence David McGuinty at the CANSEC conference gave a message to arms dealers to "prepare for accelerated federal spending." This should absolutely alarm us all. What are we doing? www.cbc.ca/news/politic... 🧵
Defence minister tells arms makers to prepare for accelerated federal spending | CBC News
Defence Minister David McGuinty pulled out all the stops Wednesday in his first major public speech to enlist the country's top arms makers in the Liberal government's plans to accelerate military spe...
www.cbc.ca
May 30, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Yesterday Minister of Defence David McGuinty at the CANSEC conference gave a message to arms dealers to "prepare for accelerated federal spending." This should absolutely alarm us all. What are we doing? www.cbc.ca/news/politic... 🧵