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President @canadianpeacemuseum.ca. Newspaper columnist. Humanitarian teaching (U of Toronto) and consulting at @humanitarianassociates.org. Worked for @redcrosscanada.bsky.social 🇳🇵🇱🇧, @who.int 🇾🇪, @msf.org 🇨🇦🇵🇬🇳🇬🇪🇹🇹🇷🇵🇰 🌐 chrishouston.ca
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I love the CBC. But the framing of today’s debate normalizes Trump’s dangerous threats. Don’t frame this as “comments on becoming the 51st state”. It’s abhorrent threats to violently annex, to criminally invade. www.cbc.ca/radio/checku...

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"Civilian Review and Complaints Commission shames RCMP for detaining journalists and threatening arrest" of @ricochetmedia.bsky.social's Jerome Turner The apology took FIVE years. Article via @aptnnews.bsky.social by @karynpugliese.bsky.social. cc @rsf.org www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

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"Donald Trump was recruited by KGB with codename 'Krasnov', claims ex-Soviet spy" By Christopher Bucktin of the UK-based tabloid newspaper, the Mirror. www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...

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Canada just won the 4 Nations Hockey tournament. But congrats to all those who took part, especially Finland and Sweden.

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Canada just won the 4 Nations Hockey tournament. But congrats to all those who took part, especially Finland and Sweden.

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Great work, @hockeycanada.bsky.social communications team.

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I learned today that Tesla Motors was co-founded in 2003, by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. I mistakenly thought it was founded by Elon Musk. I now note how widely this myth is restated by media. www.businessinsider.com/tesla-cofoun...

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"Her job is to remove homeless people from San Francisco's parks. Her methods are extraordinary" (My notes: Amanda Barrows spent months and years building trust with people and helped them find the solutions they needed on their own terms. Good work!) sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/g...

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"The Netherlands says it will return more than 100 Benin Bronzes that British troops looted from Nigeria in the late 19th Century and which ended up in a Dutch museum." OK good. And now all museums please. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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www.hrw.org/news/2025/02... Outgoing Exec Dir. @tiranahassan.bsky.social was appointed in 2023 "Her departure reflects differing perspectives from those of the Board, with regard to the leadership’s relationship with the Board, & the role of the Board in discharging its fiduciary responsibilities.

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So I understood republicanism to be defined as being not governed by a monarchy. Friends in the US, do you define that the same?

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I learned today that Tesla Motors was co-founded in 2003, by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. I mistakenly thought it was founded by Elon Musk. I now note how widely this myth is restated by media. www.businessinsider.com/tesla-cofoun...

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"Her job is to remove homeless people from San Francisco's parks. Her methods are extraordinary" (My notes: Amanda Barrows spent months and years building trust with people and helped them find the solutions they needed on their own terms. Good work!) sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/g...

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My good friend @wim-laven.bsky.social writes: Dear Friends in Canada, I have good news and bad news. I’m sorry that your neighbors to the south have not been as neighborly as you deserve but let me explain and contextualize while I apologize. chrishouston.ca/stories-of-p...

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Bravo Pearson Airport fire fighters and Endeavor Air flight attendants. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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It’s not too late to improve the situation until we’re all dead. This is another of my own key takeaways from reading a lot of history.

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The NGC 602 star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way. Source: chandra.cfa.harvard.edu/photo/2024/n...

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This week, I wrote about Dave Maris, an artist based in rural Maynooth, Ontario. His work "Truth & Reconciliation" represents Canada at the United Nations Geneva Headquarters. Read about his decades of climate activism and speaking truth to power: chrishouston.ca/stories-of-p...

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Much of the Canadian media is owned by large corporations, especially U.S. ones. An independent press is a hallmark of democracy. Here's my comprehensive Starter Pack of independent Canadian media outlets. go.bsky.app/7ce9PDR Here's the same accounts as a List bsky.app/profile/did:...

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This week, I wrote about Dave Maris, an artist based in rural Maynooth, Ontario. His work "Truth & Reconciliation" represents Canada at the United Nations Geneva Headquarters. Read about his decades of climate activism and speaking truth to power: chrishouston.ca/stories-of-p...

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"The US government is trying to bring back nuclear safety employees it fired on Thursday, but is struggling to let them know they should return to work." www.bbc.com/news/article...

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"The US government is trying to bring back nuclear safety employees it fired on Thursday, but is struggling to let them know they should return to work." www.bbc.com/news/article...

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BREAKING: on the same fucking front page

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Frederick Douglass was the most important leader of the Civil Rights movement in the 19th century. Harriet Tubman was an escaped slave who helped around 70 others flee to free states, often to Canada, via the Underground Railroad. Below: Douglass' 1868 letter to Tubman In our replies: links

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I'll save you the read: they are too big, too inefficient, and because they are American. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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From 2021: @propublica.org Donald Trump Built a National Debt So Big...That It’ll Weigh Down the Economy for Years "The combination of Trump’s 2017 tax cut and the lack of any serious spending restraint helped both the deficit and the debt soar." www.propublica.org/article/nati...

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A few days later...

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I don't want to link to the platform, but I did this screen shot myself to verify. Trump's latest post is worrying:

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