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Things money can't buy, on this very good day for democracy, and for the Democrats.

submitted 6 hours ago • 26 comments

Canada should vocally support the other targets of Trump’s wrath. Our prime minister should meet with their leaders to show solidarity. We’ve seen how our supposed allies won’t speak up forcefully in our defence to avoid damaging what’s left of their relationships with the US. We should be better.

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

Andrew Lawton at his worst, called the Commemoration of Polytechnique Massacre a " Fake Holiday" promoted by "Feminazis." Doug Ford had the decency to reject him as a Candidate. But he is running for PierrePoilievre in London. #cdnpoli

submitted 10 hours ago • 43 comments

Renewables produced 92.5% of all new electricity in 2024. Despite US regression, and Doug Ford's obsession with nuclear and gas, the renewables age is upon us. #onpoli #climate #energy #gorenewable www.theenergymix.com/renewables-d...

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

We’ve lost so much: “People who will never know John Thornton’s name will owe him a debt because they have reliable, credible, independent news in their communities. Their communities are smarter, better, and healthier.” www.cjr.org/news/john-th...

submitted 7 hours ago • 20 comments

Disgraceful shit from CTV.

submitted 11 hours ago • 40 comments

The message Bell Media is sending journalists is don’t attract attention to yourself, don’t stand out from the crowd, don’t be different You need to conform, you need to assimilate, you need to change who you are to appease a bunch of angry kooks that don’t believe in equality or democratic values

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

Pierre Poilievre wants to put more people behind bars—peddling a false promise of safety with his tough-on-crime agenda. @desmondcole.bsky.social breaks down why mandatory minimums, a harsher war on drugs, and tougher bail and parole rules won’t make people safer. breachmedia.ca/on-criminal-...

submitted 19 hours ago • 16 comments

I’m all for plans to build a ton of housing, but there’s a fundamental problem with the notion the market is going to do it. Developers aren’t going to build homes to the degree that would cause the value of their investments to decline, and the economy is fundamentally different than post-WW2.

submitted 22 hours ago • 7 comments

"Fox promises to take good care of hen house; farmer suspicious but tells chickens he's powerless to do anything." #cdnpoli #cdnmedia

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

A dangerous precedent. This is a cowardly folding by CTV. The right instigated an online troll attack campaign, offering no evidence of their claims, and the network folded. Viewers and Rachel deserve better.

submitted 11 hours ago • 28 comments

submitted 11 hours ago • 12 comments

Really incredible to have CTV, an entire broadcast news outlet, say they 'don't have the bandwidth' to deal with the type of harassment that Rachel Gilmore deals with as an individual journalist all the time.

submitted 11 hours ago • 17 comments

I’m devastated, but I’m also angry. I’m angry because this is an attack on press freedom. If opportunities can be stripped from journalists simply because enough people repeat the same bad-faith narrative, how can anyone withstand the career impact of doing work that matters?

submitted 10 hours ago • 173 comments

It's rare in defamation cases that you can draw a straight line between someone lying about you and you losing work. But, um, not in this case.

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

What happened to @rachelgilmore.bsky.social is not just about CTV caving to Conservative pressures. There’s a larger issue: #cdnmedia are pushing out any female voices, voices of colour and Indigenous voices that aren’t centre-right or right. Even then there is very little representation

submitted 10 hours ago • 11 comments

Absolutely pathetic move from CTV

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

To be super clear: CTV Your Morning approached @rachelgilmore.bsky.social to do a weekly segment CTV announced on national TV she would be returning each week Then CTV cancels her segment after Poilievre’s staffer denounces the announcement on X pressprogress.ca/ctv-cancelle...

submitted 11 hours ago • 40 comments

CTV: As part of our commitment to journalistic integrity, we've decided to cancel a fact checking segment because one political party threw a tantrum Fuck all the way off CTV & CPC #cdnmedia #cdnpoli

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

Fascinating, because the French right is militantly anti-DEI, but if there's anything the French hate more than 'le wokesime' it's being told they can't be 'le woke' by 'les Yankees' How long til Mathieu Bock-Cote is defending DEI in the Journal de #Montreal as an integral part of Quebec culture?

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

lol holy shit

submitted 18 hours ago • 38 comments

CTV News folds like a cheap umbrella when Poilievre campaign complains about a fact checking segment What a dogshit company of insufferable losers. #cdnpoli #cdnmedia

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

I spoke to @sonjfatah.bsky.social, associate chair of TMU's journalism school, who said this illustrates the threat political pressure campaigns pose to press freedoms in Canada: “It’s a sacrifice of a journalist ...They don’t want to have to deal with the reaction from the trolls.”

submitted 11 hours ago • 21 comments

It's incredible how CBC News uses the English Language in such a way to avoid saying that Israel kidnapped and then killed a teenager www.cbc.ca/news/world/w...

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

Two CPC candidates in the same day

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

At this point in the Liberal Party’s utter capitulation to Israel’s genocide, I can’t be too surprised to see Corey Hogan running for them less than a year after he played a key role in the University of Calgary’s violent suppression of students’ free expression.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

This is hilarious The “socialist/environmentalist” party that’s always being attacked for its allegedly anti-business platform has a nearly $1 million election war chest While the “conservative pro-business” party is struggling to pay off the debt left by Denis Coderre Chef’s kiss #Montreal

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

The corrosive idea that research excellence resides mainly in the US Ivy League schools, while Canadian researchers are "good enough" drives me mad. Canadian universities produce world-class PhDs. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

Oil’s share of total energy demand fell below 30% for the first time ever, 50 years after peaking at 46%. www.iea.org/reports/glob...

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Doug Ford may talk a good game about deending #Canada & #Ontario in Trump's trade war, but the fact is no one is more responsible for Ontario's energy & economic vulnerabilities than Ford Renewables = energy security + sovereignty Latest @desmog.bsky.social #cdnpoli www.desmog.com/2025/04/01/d...

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Conservatives removed him much faster than Liberals did Chiang. 🤷🏼‍♂️ This guy is still on Windsor city council (worst mayor in Canada but council not far behind).

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

Where has this Jagmeet been? THIS IS WHAT WE WANT TO SEE! #cdnpoli

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

The NDP candidate for Calgary Confederation, Keira Gunn, has fully endorsed the Vote Palestine platform, which includes a call to “protect freedom of expression on Palestine.” votepalestine.ca

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Did Mark Carney just lap the NDP on affordable housing? Not so fast. www.davidmoscrop.com/p/did-mark-c...

submitted 19 hours ago • 9 comments

Canadian women to Poilievre: Ew. #cdnpoli

submitted 13 hours ago • 45 comments

I can't believe that The Conversation published this crap - at least they noted that their book was self-published ( a sure sign of the seriousness of their scholarship). Won't be publishing again with this platform.

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

“Not only are Poilievre’s comments creepy, they’re also deeply dishonest coming from a career politician who’s voted against countless social programs and done little to improve women’s lives.” The only clock whose time is running out is Pierre Poilievre’s An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social.

submitted 14 hours ago • 15 comments

Jagmeet Singh a devastating quote on Poilievre today lmfao “I don’t think any woman wants to hear Pierre Poilievre talking about their body. Period.” 💀🤭

submitted 14 hours ago • 28 comments

The Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians has put out a statment calling on governments at all levels to halt any plans to close supervised consumption services. #yyc #ableg #reddeer caep.ca/wp-content/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

We’re going to annex Canada and invade Greenland but we can’t request return of an innocent man from El Salvador.

submitted 17 hours ago • 838 comments

Canada Proud is really good at April Fools #cdnpoli

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Don't believe the 'Captain #Canada' hype If #Ontario is even more vulnerable to the United States during a trade war, no one is more responsible than Doug Ford Latest @desmog.bsky.social #cdnpoli www.desmog.com/2025/04/01/d...

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

On tomorrow's podcast ep I quote an academic paper that looks at the debates surrounding federal politics in 1962-63 when Diefenbaker was blamed for not upholding our NATO commitments for refusing to arm Bomarc missiles with nuclear warheads.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Oh. I wonder…never mind

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment