Pam Sword 🇨🇦
@pamsword.bsky.social
Former newspaper editor/writer/web specialist, cat, word and plant enthusiast.
Cause some good.
Free 🇵🇸. Slava 🇺🇦.
Cause some good.
Free 🇵🇸. Slava 🇺🇦.
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his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...
Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis
Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.
www.startribune.com
January 8, 2026 at 7:09 PM
his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...
CBC news readers: It’s pronounced KAH-Nay Corso, not CANE Corso. It’s an Italian breed so that would have been the clue to look it up.
(Sadly in the current context) Cane means dog, Corso translates to guardian. dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronuncia...
(Sadly in the current context) Cane means dog, Corso translates to guardian. dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronuncia...
How to pronounce Cane Corso in English
How to pronounce Cane Corso. How to say Cane Corso. Listen to the audio pronunciation in the Cambridge English Dictionary. Learn more.
dictionary.cambridge.org
January 7, 2026 at 6:39 PM
CBC news readers: It’s pronounced KAH-Nay Corso, not CANE Corso. It’s an Italian breed so that would have been the clue to look it up.
(Sadly in the current context) Cane means dog, Corso translates to guardian. dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronuncia...
(Sadly in the current context) Cane means dog, Corso translates to guardian. dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronuncia...
Pretty much all the headlines on the Maduro story use “captured” as the verb. It only makes sense in the context of indirectly quoting Trump, which most are doing. This is very bad. If you are writing headlines, ask yourself: “Am I whitewashing clear violations of international law?”
The US struck Venezuela and captured President Nicolas Maduro, who was taken out of the country, President Trump said. It is the first such direct intervention by the US in Latin America since the invasion of Panama in 1989 reut.rs/4qsMC72
January 3, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Pretty much all the headlines on the Maduro story use “captured” as the verb. It only makes sense in the context of indirectly quoting Trump, which most are doing. This is very bad. If you are writing headlines, ask yourself: “Am I whitewashing clear violations of international law?”
Two hours after this was posted (just before 7 a.m. AT), there’s just one (Toronto Star). What a commentary on newsroom staffing.
If you want a sense of the state of Canadian news gathering right now, I don't think any Canadian news sites have a story up about Venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 10:56 AM
Two hours after this was posted (just before 7 a.m. AT), there’s just one (Toronto Star). What a commentary on newsroom staffing.
Americans gotta be more careful about what they export to Canada.
Spiked 60 Minutes CECOT story, link here is.gd/paU8Ko via @jasonparis.bsky.social
@theonion.com @markhamillofficial.bsky.social @nytimes.com @aoc.bsky.social
Spiked 60 Minutes CECOT story, link here is.gd/paU8Ko via @jasonparis.bsky.social
@theonion.com @markhamillofficial.bsky.social @nytimes.com @aoc.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Americans gotta be more careful about what they export to Canada.
Spiked 60 Minutes CECOT story, link here is.gd/paU8Ko via @jasonparis.bsky.social
@theonion.com @markhamillofficial.bsky.social @nytimes.com @aoc.bsky.social
Spiked 60 Minutes CECOT story, link here is.gd/paU8Ko via @jasonparis.bsky.social
@theonion.com @markhamillofficial.bsky.social @nytimes.com @aoc.bsky.social
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The government of Canada needs to directly address why a 95 year old human rights expert and former UN Special Rapporteur was treated as a threat to national security for coming to speak about Israeli genocide.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
November 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The government of Canada needs to directly address why a 95 year old human rights expert and former UN Special Rapporteur was treated as a threat to national security for coming to speak about Israeli genocide.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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I don't give a DAMN what your political inclinations are, behaviour like this is completely and utterly unacceptable!
Grow the hell up!
Uderstand that there is a time and a place to express your displeasure. A Remembrance Day Ceremony honouring our fallen is neither!!!
Grow the hell up!
Uderstand that there is a time and a place to express your displeasure. A Remembrance Day Ceremony honouring our fallen is neither!!!
November 13, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I don't give a DAMN what your political inclinations are, behaviour like this is completely and utterly unacceptable!
Grow the hell up!
Uderstand that there is a time and a place to express your displeasure. A Remembrance Day Ceremony honouring our fallen is neither!!!
Grow the hell up!
Uderstand that there is a time and a place to express your displeasure. A Remembrance Day Ceremony honouring our fallen is neither!!!
At least the switch to standard time tonight gives us an extra hour to be sad.
November 2, 2025 at 4:32 AM
At least the switch to standard time tonight gives us an extra hour to be sad.
Well, that sucks. There was nothing to apologize for. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/w...
Carney Says He Apologized to Trump Over Ad Reviving Reagan’s Tariff Criticism
www.nytimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Well, that sucks. There was nothing to apologize for. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/w...
Fewer kids than last year. But I’ve eaten a mini bag of chips and got two big hugs from an adorable four-year-old banana so Halloween has been a big success so far.
October 31, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Fewer kids than last year. But I’ve eaten a mini bag of chips and got two big hugs from an adorable four-year-old banana so Halloween has been a big success so far.
New sky art from Nova Scotia pilot Dimitri Neonakis, who impressively writes in cursive with an airplane better than many of us do with a pen #bluejays
October 31, 2025 at 12:35 PM
New sky art from Nova Scotia pilot Dimitri Neonakis, who impressively writes in cursive with an airplane better than many of us do with a pen #bluejays
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Hey, if he's angry about what Reagan said about *tariffs*, wait til he learns what Reagan said about *Immigration*
In short, Reagan made it clear that the orange one is completely full of shit on two major policy positions, Tariffs and Immigration,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R8Q...
In short, Reagan made it clear that the orange one is completely full of shit on two major policy positions, Tariffs and Immigration,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R8Q...
The last speech of Ronald Reagan as president was on immigration
YouTube video by Montclair Immigration Network
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Hey, if he's angry about what Reagan said about *tariffs*, wait til he learns what Reagan said about *Immigration*
In short, Reagan made it clear that the orange one is completely full of shit on two major policy positions, Tariffs and Immigration,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R8Q...
In short, Reagan made it clear that the orange one is completely full of shit on two major policy positions, Tariffs and Immigration,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R8Q...
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In the middle of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Canada 1) contracted to buy missiles from an Israeli company and 2) planned to send Canadian troops to Israel for training on how to use them.
Absolutely unconscionable and an egregious violation of international law.
www.readthemaple.com/canadian-for...
Absolutely unconscionable and an egregious violation of international law.
www.readthemaple.com/canadian-for...
October 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
In the middle of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Canada 1) contracted to buy missiles from an Israeli company and 2) planned to send Canadian troops to Israel for training on how to use them.
Absolutely unconscionable and an egregious violation of international law.
www.readthemaple.com/canadian-for...
Absolutely unconscionable and an egregious violation of international law.
www.readthemaple.com/canadian-for...
One of the best stories in Canada right now started as a joke when NL musician Dave Whitty mused that if 4,000 ppl gave a regular guy (him) $1, he could go see his beloved #BlueJays play in the World Series. Well, guess what? gofund.me/4f5dd4659 And his FB for more www.facebook.com/share/1Bj6PP...
Donate to GET WHITTY TO THE WORLD SERIES, organized by Dave Whitty
Help Send Dave to the World Series
(For Real This Time)
I don’t need a private jet or … Dave Whitty needs your support for GET WHITTY TO THE WORLD SERIES
gofund.me
October 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
One of the best stories in Canada right now started as a joke when NL musician Dave Whitty mused that if 4,000 ppl gave a regular guy (him) $1, he could go see his beloved #BlueJays play in the World Series. Well, guess what? gofund.me/4f5dd4659 And his FB for more www.facebook.com/share/1Bj6PP...
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This is what No Kings Day felt like 🐸🐔🦄🐿️✨
“Tʜɪs ɪs ᴡʜᴀᴛ Dᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏ ʟᴏᴏᴋs ʟɪᴋᴇ!“ 🗣️✨
This country belongs to the people.
#StandTALL 🚀🗣️
(Prints at www.Nikkolas.Art)
“Tʜɪs ɪs ᴡʜᴀᴛ Dᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏ ʟᴏᴏᴋs ʟɪᴋᴇ!“ 🗣️✨
This country belongs to the people.
#StandTALL 🚀🗣️
(Prints at www.Nikkolas.Art)
October 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This is what No Kings Day felt like 🐸🐔🦄🐿️✨
“Tʜɪs ɪs ᴡʜᴀᴛ Dᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏ ʟᴏᴏᴋs ʟɪᴋᴇ!“ 🗣️✨
This country belongs to the people.
#StandTALL 🚀🗣️
(Prints at www.Nikkolas.Art)
“Tʜɪs ɪs ᴡʜᴀᴛ Dᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏ ʟᴏᴏᴋs ʟɪᴋᴇ!“ 🗣️✨
This country belongs to the people.
#StandTALL 🚀🗣️
(Prints at www.Nikkolas.Art)
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People are waking up to the enormous environmental impact of data centres the tech bros have been forcing on the world during the environmental crisis
The planet is on fire. We have to stop them!
www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...
The planet is on fire. We have to stop them!
www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...
Thirsty AI data centres are coming to Canada, with little scrutiny or oversight | CBC News
Canada is poised to join the data centre boom. But as such projects face greater scrutiny around the world, there is little debate here about what this will mean for the country’s water.
www.cbc.ca
October 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
People are waking up to the enormous environmental impact of data centres the tech bros have been forcing on the world during the environmental crisis
The planet is on fire. We have to stop them!
www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...
The planet is on fire. We have to stop them!
www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...
Sky writer Dimitri Neonakis’s latest. Hopefully it brings some luck. #BlueJays @flightradar24.com
More pix and a video on his FB page www.facebook.com/share/r/17T1...
More pix and a video on his FB page www.facebook.com/share/r/17T1...
October 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Sky writer Dimitri Neonakis’s latest. Hopefully it brings some luck. #BlueJays @flightradar24.com
More pix and a video on his FB page www.facebook.com/share/r/17T1...
More pix and a video on his FB page www.facebook.com/share/r/17T1...
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WHEW, baby. If *anyone* understands this moment....it's Scotland (shout out to the Travelers).
Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.
October 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
WHEW, baby. If *anyone* understands this moment....it's Scotland (shout out to the Travelers).
Since much focus lately seems to be on who should or shouldn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, I’ll say that the Palestinian journalists who have reported from inside this war zone, this genocide, for the past two years , tirelessly and at grave personal risk, deserve every award on the planet.
BREAKING: Prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi has been killed by gunmen in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, making him one of more than 270 journalists killed since Israel’s war began in 2023.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p49p9n
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p49p9n
October 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Since much focus lately seems to be on who should or shouldn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, I’ll say that the Palestinian journalists who have reported from inside this war zone, this genocide, for the past two years , tirelessly and at grave personal risk, deserve every award on the planet.
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These brave young women are from St. John’s, N.L. so I hope our regional media will pick up this story.
The three remaining Canadian volunteers from the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social boat Conscience, Sadie, Nikita & Devoney, along with dozens of other #FreedomFlotilla volunteers, are now free & in Jordan, on their way home (plus, they can now end their hunger strike!)
#FreeThemAll #FreePalestine
#FreeThemAll #FreePalestine
October 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
These brave young women are from St. John’s, N.L. so I hope our regional media will pick up this story.
Three young Canadians from N.L. who were aboard the Gaza aid flotilla yet to be released from “notorious” Israeli prison. This FB post says they have been on a hunger strike and will be deported to Jordan soon.
October 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Three young Canadians from N.L. who were aboard the Gaza aid flotilla yet to be released from “notorious” Israeli prison. This FB post says they have been on a hunger strike and will be deported to Jordan soon.
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Unbeknownst to most or long forgotten is that on October 8 and October 10, 2023; Hamas offered the same deal that’s being pitched as Trump’s “Gaza Peace Deal” which would have handed all hostages over to Israel in exchange for Israeli troops not entering the strip, Netanyahu refused the proposal.
October 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Unbeknownst to most or long forgotten is that on October 8 and October 10, 2023; Hamas offered the same deal that’s being pitched as Trump’s “Gaza Peace Deal” which would have handed all hostages over to Israel in exchange for Israeli troops not entering the strip, Netanyahu refused the proposal.
These 3 young women from N.L. are among the Canadians abducted by Israel as they tried to break the blockade of Gaza while delivering food and medical supplies.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
October 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
These 3 young women from N.L. are among the Canadians abducted by Israel as they tried to break the blockade of Gaza while delivering food and medical supplies.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Two parliamentary petitions to reject C-2:
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
#cdnpoli #stopbillC2
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
#cdnpoli #stopbillC2
Carney is trying to create Trump-style borders and surveillance with his Strong Borders Act. Demand he respect our rights & treat people with care and dignity. Withdraw Bill C-2! #stopbillC2 act.gp/40oxP2E
Tell Carney: We don’t want Trump-style borders & surveillance state!
Sign this petition to defend our human rights and privacy
act.gp
October 8, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Two parliamentary petitions to reject C-2:
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
#cdnpoli #stopbillC2
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
#cdnpoli #stopbillC2