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Melanie Joly does a great job in this interview. I myself was so frustrated with Amanpour’s seeming incredulity. No. Attacking our economy and our sovereignty is not a joke. Yes. This is the end of an era. I am so impressed that Joly kept her cool. I don’t think I could have done so.

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Akim Aliu has some strong words about PK Subban. x.com/Dreamer_Aliu...

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

It takes a special kind of politician to do what Scott Moe did today. Announcing yourself as the worst kind of surrender monkey mere hours before a lame-duck PM negotiated a far better deal than the one you urged everyone to meekly accept takes real talent. Top shelf.

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

Getting out of the immediate moment of crisis was always a prerequisite. But we're a very dumb country if we allow this Sword of Damocles to continue to be hung over us. Keep buying Canadian, keep diversifying trade, keep thinking about a world with a less reliable America. Let's learn something.

submitted 31 days ago • 17 comments

For those Canadians cancelling streaming services (you know why) don’t sleep on the free BC based www.knowledge.ca. Lots of great content

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My 2025 hobby is helping my pals de-centre tech from their lives. Acquire CDs, records, DVDs, paper books, reference books, magazines, dictionaries, etc. Go to the library! Going analog is a small way to stop relying on tech bro monsters & helps preserve knowledge they're literally deleting.

submitted 32 days ago • 140 comments

Hey, @nytimes.com. Go fuck yourselves.

submitted 32 days ago • 12 comments

This. Trump’s actions have nothing to do with fentanyl or migrants. They are pure acts of aggression intent on forcing submission by a sovereign nation. This is war. The US is now a failed state. Any Canadians intent on appeasement need to give their head a shake. Vive le Canada! 🇨🇦

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

🇨🇦 I urge you to grow a vegetable garden this year if you can. 🌱

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

This is not a trade dispute. It's a declaration of war on Canada with the weapon being 25 per cent tariffs that will devastate our economy and standard of living. This is not the behaviour of a friend, a partner or ally. The United States is none of these right now.

submitted 33 days ago • 8 comments

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

submitted 33 days ago • 601 comments

Straight-up Orwellian.

submitted 36 days ago • 249 comments

Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors

submitted 39 days ago • 455 comments

What’s good for Canada is good for Alberta.

submitted 50 days ago • 12 comments

The internet was a mistake.

submitted 51 days ago • 14 comments

Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized, open source Instagram competitor that has had skyrocketing signups in recent days: www.404media.co/meta-is-bloc...

submitted 52 days ago • 222 comments

I honestly think this is the sort of blunt rhetoric we need from the Opposition in Alberta. Don't accept the premise of the UCP's absurd spin and then hit the reason right on bullseye. They are fucking assholes and they don't give a shit about a single Albertan who isn't a major donor.

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

When discussing things, e.g. in energy and climate, that need to be done by 2040: That's not the distant future anymore. It's as far away from today as 2010 is.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

The vacuum of leadership standing up for Canada is so severe that I’m now (sharp intake of breath) sharing a Doug Ford clip? The threat of recession caused by tariffs cannot be understated. Our federal leaders need to get serious. To start, publish a list of retaliatory tariffs. Project strength.

submitted 58 days ago • 13 comments

Sitting down to compose a hopeful message for 2025 is a tough ask given the year we’ve just had. Even glib sentiments are hard to come by. The defeat of pro-democracy forces in the US presidential election still weighs like a heavy anchor on my attempts to move on. 1/11

submitted 64 days ago • 46 comments

The new doc that recently dropped on Phil Collins as a drummer was really well done - www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdGm...

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

I'm in. Let's Save the CBC. @savethecbc.bsky.social

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

The 2024 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

submitted 74 days ago • 45 comments

a short thread of Nicolas Cage resembling various philosophers 1. Spinoza

submitted 77 days ago • 90 comments

Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory is released _today_. You can buy a copy, or, you can read it FOR FREE via Project MUSE. Please spread the news to your colleagues, your friends, your syllabus makers. muse.jhu.edu/book/123276

submitted 86 days ago • 17 comments

If you watch something today please take time to watch my thoughts on the crisis facing Canadian democracy. We are in deeply uncertain times and parliament is failing to step up beyond dumbed down partisanship. Democracy is not meeting the crisis of the time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHPL...

submitted 91 days ago • 88 comments

Vichy Alberta

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Remember when we gave up our 50yr to public domain? So that CUSMA could finally be signed? I do. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

46 years ago today, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot. WKRP's Les Nessman was on the scene that fateful day.

submitted 102 days ago • 118 comments

Difficult to describe what a dangerous moment we are in. The owner of Twitter/richest man in the world/closest adviser to the next US president is promoting a far-right Tommy Robinson (!) documentary to his 200 million followers. This is the mainstreaming of violent, Islamophobic fascism.

submitted 102 days ago • 633 comments

Pay attention to how coverage of Trump is changing. Pay attention to how entertainment changes. There are lessons to learn here about how capitalism works and what is real and what isn’t.

submitted 109 days ago • 10 comments

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 109 days ago • 1170 comments

There are currently only 22 films streaming on Netflix made before 1980 and not a single one made before 1960, with the oldest film on the platform currently being PSYCHO. I know I’m a broken record but: buy physical media, support your local library, etc etc

submitted 110 days ago • 297 comments

This needs to be watched by every Canadian.

submitted 110 days ago • 13 comments

So badass. I've watched this video so many times today. 😂

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I know they have to be diplomatic about it, but as a Canadian it would be nice to hear something from our government that assured us they are watching these U.S. cabinet announcements and taking the necessary precautions.

submitted 111 days ago • 1 comment

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” Hannah Arendt The Origins of Totalitarianism

submitted 112 days ago • 8 comments

Hi everyone. The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

submitted 112 days ago • 2412 comments

The Guardian is abandoning Twitter (X) "We think that the benefits of being on X are now outweighed by the negatives... This is something we have been considering for a while given the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform"

submitted 113 days ago • 18 comments

TREAT YOURSELF A ROUND OF SAUSAGE

submitted 114 days ago • 50 comments

Great list of indigenous follows here for you - journos, artists, writers, academics…

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i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same

submitted 120 days ago • 601 comments

www.popehat.com/p/and-yet-it...

submitted 120 days ago • 189 comments