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submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Turns out Zelenskyy is good at standing up against dictators.

submitted 21 hours ago • 258 comments

$77 MILLION CUT FROM AISH?! This isn’t just numbers on a spreadsheet—this is people’s rent, food, survival. Disabled Albertans already fight for scraps, and now the gov wants to take even that? Absolutely shameful. Do better. #AISH #Ableg #AlbertaBudget

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Today I stood with Amazon workers from Quebec in calling for a total boycott of Jeff Bezos and his predatory company. C'mon Canada send a message to the oligarchs. www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...

submitted 1 day ago • 97 comments

There is also a mountain of evidence suggesting Russia was behind the Ottawa occupation. Russian state media covered the Convoy first, and more than, any other English news outlet. This isn't hyperbole, it's verifiable. Here's a research paper on the subject: journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/ji...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

I'm sure some folks out there are tired of being reminded, but: If you're a Gen-Xer or elder Millennial, there's a non-zero chance your MMR vaccine has worn off. You may not be protected. Talk to your PCP about a titer test and re-up if you need to, cuz the raw milk moms are trying to kill us all.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

This is cool: scientists have developed a new high-yielding, low-methane variety of rice. 🧪

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Apropos of, I dunno, the moon above and the stars in the sky, Canada does not depend on the US CDC to select flu strains for its vaccine; it relies on WHO. I suspect it does rely in part on the US for manufacturing, though.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Now would be a smart time for the Liberals to loudly crow about building up Canada's vaccine manufacturing capacity and really hammer home that it was conservatives under Mulroney who destroyed it in the 80s.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

we are well beyond anti-trans bigotry and fully into the crime against humanity of persecution. anyone who fails to stand up, say this, and resist it is complicit.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Jaysus Murphy, that’s a lot of new horrors for Not A Friday Afternoon, isn’t it?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Laughed at this petition, then thought: Oh. My. Gods. Is this 51st State bullshit so Elmo can become President/Dictator? www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I'm gonna remind people that I feel pretty strongly that if you bought one of my ebooks legitimately, then you own the book and however you secure that ownership is fine by me mashable.com/article/how-...

submitted 4 days ago • 184 comments

They want us out because they are planning to invade us.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Canadian Farmers speak out against Carbon Capture - The National Farmers Union "opposes the use of CCS projects to extend the social license of fossil fuel corporations to continue with their ‘business-as-usual’ operations.” nfu.ca/prairie-farm... #CDNPoli #ABLeg #CCS #CCUS #ClimateChange

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Billionaires didn't do a billion dollars worth of work. We did. They built their empires on our backs. Let's show them who has power now, through collective action. Invite your friends to the 24-hour Economic Black-out Feb 28: www.facebook.com/events/15512... #Resist #EconomicBlackout #Boycott

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

35% of young women in Germany voted for Die Linke. There is so much potential for unabashed democratic socialism. Canada: take note. Enough of the “toxic niceness” of sanitized progressive politics and the inching evermore toward the right. We can dream bigger than that — and win.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?" Me: "That's the documentation deliverable." Manager: "What's the status of that?" Me: "We're halfway there" Manager: "Why is progress so slow?" Me: "You fired Tommy" Manager: "So?" Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"

submitted 5 days ago • 89 comments

The City of Edmonton's far-sighted investments in LRT and reducing restrictive zoning is paying off handsomely this year. There's nothing that the city could have done to make Edmonton more affordable in the long term. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Data show where in Canada influenza activity is ‘widespread’ www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic... 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

"Putin’s military production is cannibalizing his country’s civilian economy. Inflation has skyrocketed. The only way that Putin wins now—the only way he finally succeeds in destroying Ukraine’s sovereignty—is by persuading Ukraine’s allies to be sick of the war."

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

NIH recently found 1 in 22 ppl who’d had Covid developed ME/CFS. The “mild” form of that disease, as @julialmv.bsky.social’s graph shows, means losing capacity to do 50% of your daily activities. What would you give up? Friends? Time w/your kids? Could you cut work hours in half w/o losing yr job?

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

Perfect post for a Friday night in 2025. #resist

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

My mother tried to tell me that the current premier of NS is a Red Tory and to not worry. lol sob

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Bash Bunny has been proven to be a possible vector of election interference/manipulation.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Finishing rewatching the original 6 Star Wars movies with the fam tonight, and yikes, the prequels have not improved with age.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

🧵A good time to do a roundup of recent Alberta health care scandal stories with some new information trickling out this week. Things are becoming increasingly bizarre.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

This story - the Nova Scotia government's attack on the auditor general - should not be downplayed. It is no exaggeration to say that this is an assault on democracy.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

In 2014, finishing a stint as a baby intern, I blew the whistle about Canadian Geographic providing cover for the oil industry to sneak propaganda into classrooms. A report this week exposes that campaign and much more (and mentions my small role, too!) www.nationalobserver.com/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

Thank you for participating in Pokemon GO! Now that we have years of your location data, we are selling our game to whoever will take it so we can become a military defense contractor. As compensation, please enjoy 100 gems, www.techmeme.com/250218/p34

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

ATTN: Since the White House only posted the Fact Sheet of his ~only the president and AG can say what the law is~ EO, I moved the email of the actual EO, which was sent to the press list from the Office of Communications, into a PDF and posted it.

submitted 10 days ago • 29 comments

NEW: A couple days ago, Breakdown host Nate Pike announced that he was being court ordered to wipe the Alberta politics show from the web as part of a libel lawsuit from a well-connected Alberta businessman. This development should concern all journalists. open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

It's not doomscrolling, it's just artisanal nightmare farming

submitted 10 days ago • 34 comments

Umberto Eco put together a now-famous list of 14 attributes of fascistic states. I'm going to discuss each of them in hopes this helps ppl understand that fascism is not just a buzzword. We're going to go through these by theme, so strap in. 🧵

submitted 12 days ago • 60 comments

While you’re distracted by the Canada/US hysteria, Canada continues to Canada

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

Canada needs to react & implement similar strengthening measures to defend ourselves and our allies. The time is now. #canada #nordicallies #UKallies #EUallies #ukraine #standwithscotland

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Haida Gwaii is such a wonderful and beautiful place. I couldn't be happier for the Haida nation. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

AI is anti-human anti-knowledge trash and is built on plagiarizing, actual artists, academics, and those who have taken the time to become experts don’t be like mark or the billionaires who want you to use machines to replace your humanity so they can monetize your life more efficiently.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

I just signed a petition: Investigate X and Elon Musk for election interference. Sign here: leadnow.ca/campaigns/el...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments