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Political nerd, lover of music, art & history. Recovering Albertan, splitting my time between Placencia Belize and Collingwood Canada.
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"While the story draws loosely from Macbeth, it has been completely rewritten to elevate Cree perspectives and language." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸

Recognizing the signs of fascism today | Historian Timothy Snyder CBC NEWS youtu.be/7PcxC1p-Z-g

Jay Gatsby: “I’m still really hung up on my ex, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to bother her about it. The fact that I’m no longer with her has no effect on my respect for her feelings."

In the 2000s, the Scottish city of Glasgow established a small violence reduction unit and organized community outreach to young men most involved in a violent lifestyle. The results were a 50 per cent reduction within three years.

Albertans have good reason to be angry: their real wages are down 10%, their minimum wage is frozen, their inflation is worst in Canada, their health care's at risk. None of that was caused by the rest of Canada. My take in today's @TorontoStar: www.thestar.com/business/opi.... #cdnecon

Greece offers Trump fancy wooden horse.

Seeing reports that Liberals have flipped the seat in Terrbonne, Quebec by ONE vote. 😮🗳️

dunno man it's small but in his 1st homily, Leo XIV seems to be coming for American white evangelicals and American Catholics' cozying up to them www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...

Eighty years ago, enemies laid down their arms. Since then, we, Europeans, have built something extraordinary: a Union of peace, democracy, and solidarity. An anchor of stability. Our Union was born as a peace project, and it remains one today.

Hey, Dani vm.tiktok.com/ZMBEgF7jo/

If *this* isn't a 4th wall break, I don't know what is. 😂

Linda McMahon wrote Harvard a letter to which they responded by noting areas that are in need of corrections and then posted it on social media. Great job Harvard!👏👏👏

Alberta’s provincial election will be held by mid-2026. The UCP will manufacture disagreements with Ottawa and off they’ll go. That’s what I just heard from Danielle Smith. This wasn’t a Premier’s Televised Address so much as it was a starting gun for @albertaNDP and @nenshi.

"If you or any other Canadians are not happy living on Treaty lands, they are free to apply for citizenship elsewhere." Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation issues a scathing rebuke of Danielle Smith's talks on a national unity crisis.

#ontario really disappointed #Canada tonight. After being fucked over by Ford for 6 years, seeing people #vote for an even bigger asshole in Poilievre is inexcusable and frankly mind blowingly nuclear stupid. Thanks for screwing a #Liberal majority we really needed you idiots 😡🖕

Carney: You should vote for me because I'm experienced and can handle a crisis. Poilievre: If you don't vote for me, it will usher in a new dark age. Roiling clouds of pestilence will blot out the sun. Pets will lie dead in the street. Jackbooted thugs will seize your car. Smiling will be illegal.

I mean…I guess if the United States health department no longer agrees with germ theory, it no longer believes in germs? Yet another reason - if you still needed one - to eat Canadian chicken - and support the work of the CFIA.

Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."

The Supreme Court says we can and MUST

I remember this from the first season of the Trump presidency

Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Auschwitz — a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps — was not located in Nazi Germany either.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

This is part of the big manufacturing lie: that people can get jobs with no education or training just wielding screwdrivers. Apple cannot make iPhones in the US without an army of tooling engineers, and we don’t even have the tooling engineers here to educate an army of tooling engineers.

The online gambling problem with young men. #gambling #addiction

Save this link. Power & Politics is free and live every day for the duration of the election starting Monday April 7 at 5 pm eastern www.youtube.com/live/M8X0JZa...

Whoever came up with these supposed tariff rates is like Kramer from Seinfeld when he pretended to work at that job "in business"

Here are the new Canada Housing Designs - they are broken down by Province and Territory, some of these little homes are perfect for single people. #Canada #HousingCatalogue #cdnpoli www.housingcatalogue.cmhc-schl.gc.ca

Yes. 🇨🇦

It's not a bad idea to go to the local Walmart or big box retailer and buy lots of consumables now. From toothpaste to soap, anything you can find storage space for, buy before they have to replenish inventory. Even if it's made in the USA , they will jack up the price and blame it on tariffs.

This 👇👇👇

www.independent.co.uk/news/obituar...

Honestly, I’m really worried people are not getting all the information that’s coming out from the campaign for Carney - so many great things and since our schools don’t teach research skills earlier enough ppl aren’t seeing! Important Notice Re Housing Program!!!!

LET’S GO WISCONSIN!

Stacy Schiff is a best-selling, award-winning American historian & biographer. In Edmonton, we also know her as the wife of property developer & philanthropist Marc de La Bruyère of Maclab Developments. Here’s her cross border take on the history of American aggression against Canada.

The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.

Not gonna pretend like I know anything about Carney’s politics because I don’t, but I watched his speech yesterday and he essentially told Trump to fuck off and now Trump’s speaking about him with a modicum of respect. I feel like there’s a lesson in there somewhere.

Note to editors and producers: If an executive order demands action that is illegal or outside of the president’s authority, then you should not describe it as ordering something. You should say it seeks to achieve some outcome and then note it is illegal or beyond the power of the president.

Incredible. ❤️

If there's one thing that domestic violence research has taught me, it's that abusers set up no-win scenarios. They punish you whether you cooperate with them or whether you push back. The only way out is to strengthen ties with people outside of the relationship who can create new, better options.

I think it’d be a nice gesture if we all observed a moment of silence for all the F*ck Trudeau flags that died today after a long, hard-fought battle from the back of all those broke Canadians’ $75K pickup trucks.

French satellite company Eutelsat is replacing Starlink and plans to send approximately 40,000 communication terminals to Ukraine. Their stock has rocketed 390% in the last 3 days as #Tesla $Starlink #SpaceX and #X continue their freefall. www.nbcnewyork.com/news/busines...

Love how “patriots” are ecstatic to become American; how Trudeau in a minority government is a dictator, while they cheer rule by executive order down south; how Canada is communist; all while quoting 1984. Watching doublethink in action is quite terrifying. They are unburdened by self-reflection.

A massive story in Canada is that damn near the entire country is turning on national God Wayne Gretzky because he refuses to stand up for Canadian sovereignty due to his desire to keep getting invites to Mar A Lago. An entire country choosing dignity over star-f*cking. We could take a lesson.