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Ontarians. I’m BEGGING YOU. Please, for the love of all that is good. PLEASE, VOTE.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Lock him up! “I think I was pretty clear… I said I was, and then I wasn’t, and then I went ahead and did it!” #cdnpoli #onpoli

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

If anyone you know is considering voting for Ford, or any of his unqualified clapping seals, please remind them that during the convoy occupation Ford went on a snowmobile weekend and did exactly NOTHING to support our nation’s capital. #FireFord

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

Doge / Dux / Duce / Fuhrer

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

It’s all a bit late in the day for Mitch McConnell to discover his conscience

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Alright Ontario voters- yup, that’s you. Remember these details and facts when you go to vote this month. ⬇️ #VoteDougFordOut

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The "revival" (sic) of the death penalty. This is evil. www.justice.gov/ag/media/138...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

To be clear, Canada was founded upon colonialism, treaties negotiated in bad faith, and genocide. The rage and fear many Canadians feel now with the arbitrary tariff war from the US is an echo of the devastation colonialism has wrought upon Indigenous people. I hope & pray Canadians hold ... 1/2

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

submitted 20 days ago • 615 comments

The UN Charter was drafted in 1945 by people who had learned the lessons that the aggression, isolationism and tariff barriers of the 20’s and 30’s had led the world into a conflagration. Article One makes it clear: threats of annexation are illegal. So are unilateral tariffs.

submitted 29 days ago • 16 comments

Hey Canada. If you’re watching this happen in Trump’s United States, remember Canada’s right-wing PM Stephen Harper did similar things, including muzzling and misrepresenting scientists. If you don’t want even worse things for Canada, think carefully about giving Harper’s protege Poilievre power.

submitted 22 days ago • 11 comments

It’s time for us Ontarians to vote for our priorities; not for a downtown Toronto MegaSpa! Check out how much your city/riding is chipping in for the Ontario Place MegaSpa, and tell your rep you’ll be voting for someone who puts your priorities first at ontarioplaceforall.com/vote! #topoli #onpoli

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.

submitted 64 days ago • 1056 comments

tldr: Kids are getting sick at unprecedented rates because covid is damaging their immune systems, while governments fail to take the necessary steps to reduce viral infections by making indoor spaces safer.

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

“The reality is that people are dying from COVID in our hospitals, and we really are doing very little to prevent them getting ill and getting infected. And we wouldn't do the same for any other infectious disease,” Vipond said. www.stalbertgazette.com/local-news/o...

submitted 69 days ago • 15 comments

I've seen a child with tetanus, I've treated near fatal infections after chicken pox, and I've pronounced children dead from COVID whose parents refused to have them vaccinated. We have lost our minds... and are about to lose so many of our precious children.

submitted 71 days ago • 1224 comments

THREAD on the practice of "SIN-EATING" 🧵 In 19th-century Britain, it was customary during a funeral to provide biscuits for mourners to take away. They were often wrapped and sealed in black wax. Here you see an example of a funeral biscuit wrapper from 1828. 1/9

submitted 74 days ago • 52 comments

"It was largely on the basis of Toronto’s Sunnybrook disaster on April 13,when nine health workers caught SARS, that the CDC decided in favour of the precautionary approach and opted for airborne precautions." - 2006 Canadian SARS Commission

submitted 1615 days ago • 1 comment

The deal seems to be that people can largely live like in pre-pandemic times as long as we accept getting miserably ill maybe twice a year (especially during family holidays), accept heightened risks of long-term health problems, and let old/vulnerable folks die. Doesn’t seem like a good deal to me.