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This morning at 8 am, my child's teacher told me it was already 33 C inside the classroom. Members of the Ontario government have air conditioning in their offices, yet they're not doing basic repairs in Toronto schools, let alone protecting our kids from extreme heat. thelocal.to/ontario-educ...

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Tech leaders ready launch of Canadian social-media platform Gander to buck U.S. dominance #GanderSocial A new social-media platform built by Canadians, for Canadians, & operated in #Canada, will publicly launch in #October with support from some of the /1🧵 www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...

submitted 16 hours ago • 44 comments

Some U.S. media (such as the Washington Post here) trace U.S.-Iranian animosity back to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, conveniently forgetting that the CIA helped overthrow a democratically elected Iranian government in 1953, forcing Iranians to endure decades of the Shah’s brutal rule.

submitted 1 day ago • 187 comments

The last time Conservatives ran Canada, they sold off key industries and locked us into a 31-year deal with China. CBC covered it all — following the money and exposing the truth. That’s why they want it gone. Defend the facts. Defend the CBC. #SaveTheCBC #CdnPoli #SellOut #NoMAGAinCanada

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

People should just admit that they're pro war, no need to do tortured "if I were a pansexual disabled autistic Palestinian woman from Jabalia I would support the entire Gaza Strip being eradicated" bit. Nobody actually believes this shit.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.

submitted 1 day ago • 295 comments

reminded of how when India decided to go ahead and develop the bomb one of the things they discussed was how to handle US reaction & they decided that Clinton could be handled by simply making sure there were good looking women in the delegation when he came to yell about it...and they were right

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Welp.

submitted 1 day ago • 2250 comments

For the kids: "Shock and Awe" was an actual, for-real US military doctrine premised on the idea that Iraqis were so primitive that a display of American military power would stupefy them into an immediate submission to American dominance. This is the nonsense American military strategy is based on.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

This. Renewables are resistance.

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I will never.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

In Bell, CA an entire community stood up against ICE, including the local police and the fire dept. The fire truck appears to not allow ICE vehicles to move forward nor remain and pushes forward to escort them out. A police car also helped with escorting. /

submitted 2 days ago • 480 comments

this used to be the home of alex jones productions and now it is a place where dogs go to learn manners, in case you're worried that progress isn't possible

submitted 3 days ago • 96 comments

Robert May has taken the GOP’s ‘family values’ initiative in a very dark direction.

submitted 3 days ago • 428 comments

That army parade was straight outta Spinal Tap.

submitted 8 days ago • 1086 comments

Schrödinger's parade - the crowd was both sparse and dense.

submitted 8 days ago • 1447 comments

Trump throwing a military parade for himself despite never serving in the military is a metaphor for his entire existence.

submitted 9 days ago • 44 comments

Another story in the Guardian that should have been in an American paper …. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 10 days ago • 33 comments

The plunder of our seas by industrial fishing is a monstrosity in which almost everyone unwittingly collaborates. For decades this truth has been deliberately hidden from us. Now at last the consensus is cracking. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 10 days ago • 38 comments

They’re trying to silence us with fear and force. But “darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.” On 6/14, we show them what resistance looks like. Peaceful, unshakable, and everywhere!

submitted 14 days ago • 237 comments

Thinking about that time Senators Warren and Blumenthal wrote a letter to Joe Biden asking him for policy to stop Trump from deploying the National Guard against Americans.

submitted 16 days ago • 36 comments

Canada has seen a surge of American doctors seeking to move north in the months since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.

submitted 24 days ago • 54 comments

Colin D'Mello | Global News #cdnpoli Premier Doug Ford, who’s set to grow Ontario’s debt to $500B by 2027, accuses the Liberals of “bankrupting” the province.

submitted 27 days ago • 41 comments

Israeli forces forced Palestinian detainees to strip, kneel on freezing floors, branded them, starved them, and unleashed dogs on them. Nurse Lana Abugharbieh heard it all firsthand—and treated their broken bodies in Gaza. Read her testimony: 🔗 www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

Calling out Conservatives vm.tiktok.com/ZMSYSJLBC/

submitted 31 days ago • 25 comments

Doug Ford lied to the people of Ontario about the Science Centre. Canadian media are apparently bored with the story. #onpoli

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

watching accounts get deleted within minutes of liking or sharing their posts bluesky you can always just stop

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

“As of May 2025, Pierre Poilievre has been identified as a central figure in the spread of disinformation within Canadian politics.” cultmtl.com/2025/04/pier...

submitted 37 days ago • 17 comments

we can all help. and sharing, reposting, donating - all ways of telling the folks in Gaza, we see you, we hear you, you are not alone in this

submitted 37 days ago • 4 comments

You can’t make this up

submitted 41 days ago • 1370 comments

Mohammed al Bardawil, a young witness to the attack on medics who we interviewed in Gaza, was killed at the weekend when an Israeli gunboat fired on Rafah beach. His father Saeed asked our colleague Bilal Shbair today for a photo of them together when Bilal interviewed them.

submitted 41 days ago • 5 comments