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It's hard to overstate what a disaster Kash Patel is. See the many disturbing details here, from @vermontgmg.bsky.social, an expert on the FBI. "The longer this chaos continues," he writes, "the more likely we’re going to face a catastrophic intelligence failure." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Kash Patel, the FBI's agent of chaos
The biggest little scandal in Washington right now is how bad Patel is at being FBI director.
www.motherjones.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"'For small towns like ours this will be a big deal,' Clearwater Mayor Merlin Blackwell told The Tyee. Some residents, he said, could see double-digit property tax increases next year to make up for reduced pipeline taxes."
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BC Residents May Have to Cover a Property Tax Break for Pipelines | The Tyee
After lobbying, BC Assessment slashed its appraisals of the industry’s infrastructure.
thetyee.ca
October 29, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Federal agents delayed and threatened to shoot an ambulance driver trying to take a protester from ICE facility: report
Federal agents in Portland delayed ambulance from going to hospital: report
www.independent.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
"The email, shared with CBC News from both students, tells the class that their subsequent two weeks of classes would instead involve "an in-person campaign" and they were told to meet at Tamara Jansen's campaign office in the City of Langley."

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
International students allege private college made them campaign for Conservative candidate | CBC News
Two international students formerly enrolled at Pacific Link College in Burnaby, B.C., allege their school compelled them to campaign for a federal Conservative candidate in a 2024 byelection. The col...
www.cbc.ca
September 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"Disney and ABC have pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! off air “indefinitely” after FCC chairman Brendan Carr threatened to pull the broadcast licenses of any station that aired his show."
www.theverge.com/news/780471/...
Jimmy Kimmel Live pulled ‘indefinitely’ for joke about Charlie Kirk’s killer after FCC threat
ABC folded.
www.theverge.com
September 18, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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I find myself growing grim about the mouth
August 20, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Negotiating land claims would be a great way to disclose to future property owners that the land might not be theirs to sell.

The True Threat to Private Property? Ignoring Indigenous Title via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
The True Threat to Private Property? Ignoring Indigenous Title | The Tyee
The Cowichan decision isn’t an ‘unintended consequence.’ It’s the predictable result of generations of political inaction.
thetyee.ca
August 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"The real problem is FTSE Russell. They failed to muster the backbone to prevent Trump from manipulating their system, and now Canadian pension savers are holding the bag. Canadians would be within their rights to boycott the Russell indexes until FTSE addresses this."

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Your Pension May Be Fuelling Trump’s Hate Machine | The Tyee
Truth Social is a bad investment by any measure. Here’s how to cut its Canadian lines of support.
thetyee.ca
August 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Here's where you can watch Awdah Hathaleen's acclaimed 2024 documentary, No Other Land.

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No Other Land 2024 : Basel Adra : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
No Other Land is a 2024 documentary film directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor about ethnic cleansing by military in...
archive.org
July 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM