NEW: Israel has targeted and killed 5 journalists since March 28, including one with a double-tap strike. They've practically made it military policy to eliminate reporters, yet Canadian news media barely even reports it, let alone condemns Israel. I go into the ongoing tactic this week:
The pundit and columnist class meltdown from folks who have never supported the NDP honestly suggests to me that the NDP is doing something significant that’s worth paying attention to.
Those who defend power tend to screech the loudest when power is genuinely threatened.
Tragedies like this highlight #OttCity’s refusal to take even small measures to increase street safety.
For example: last month, Council received a @en.ottawa.ca staff report claiming that allowing right turns on red is somehow *safer* for pedestrians. #VisionZero
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The RCMP’s "Native extremism program" is a jaw-dropping betrayal. Wiretaps & secret dossiers were used to target leaders fighting for their rights—not security threats.
I’m calling on the Public Safety Minister to release all files & hold public hearings. Accountability now. ⬇️
Bank Street is 40km/h through the Glebe, then changes to 50km/h through Centretown. That is a ridiculous speed for an urban mainstreet.
Out of control & zero self reflection
I am begging my fellow Canadians to take a break for a second from obsessing about American corruption to focus on our home grown versions.
Ford is a corrupt crony goon who has done countless shady backroom deals. He wants to remove one of our most powerful tools to hold him accountable. Fuck that!
West Asia absolutely needs, and can create, a regional security framework that removes and prohibits any US military bases going forward. This is a *minimal* condition for regional peace and stability.
Seeing that no press freedom orgs have rushed to defend and help @rachelgilmore.bsky.social makes me ask, for the millionth time, what do CJFE, PEN, etc even do? Why exist at all when you do fuck all to fight censorship and intimidation?
It’s absolutely ridiculous what Rachel has to put up with time and time again for her work, and how little institutional support she receives when targeted by far-right grifters and neo-Nazi thugs. Our media and journalism orgs need a wake-up call.
NEW: Canadian editorial boards watched U.S.-Israeli forces slaughter Iranian school children, and then endorsed the war anyways.
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The US and Israel are bombing schools, hospitals (nine hospitals) and other civilian facilities in Iran. They have massacred over 700 civilians, including nearly 200 children. Absolute genocidal monsters.
It is wild that European countries want to join a war that was started illegally by and for a man who is wanted for war crimes and genocide by their *own* institutions.
Our boy is extremely high on his own supply.
The mayor needs to yank Shelley Carroll off the police board today. This is bananas. Here’s a gift link. Are there any elected officials in Toronto standing up for residents? She must go.
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Two weeks ago I wrote a column about the egregious escalation in violent Toronto police corruption in one of the biggest daily newspapers in Canada. I wrote that they are bullies & the chief should be fired. I take none of that lightly. 1/3
Why is Doug Ford changing OSAP?
It's simple: he is trying to balance the post-secondary books on the backs of low and middle income students and their families.
His changes to OSAP will cost students up to $3500 more per year in debt.
We deserve affordable education.
James Talarico: The only minority destroying America is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. We are focused on the wrong 1%.
The culture wars are a smokescreen. They want us looking left and right at our neighbors instead of looking up at them.
Oh man, if only Canada had an AI minister whose entire job is dealing with AI and thinking about AI and who could do something about AI companies disregarding the safety of Canadians and potentially hindering investigations of crimes on Canadian soil. Alas.
This is completely backwards. Like in so many European countries, post-secondary tuition in Canada should be free!
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Wrong in principle? So is asking nurses and teachers to subsidize billionaires’ capital gains.
Canada does not suffer from a bloated federal workforce. It suffers from an elite political class unwilling to defend and strengthen the programs the public most needs, and that form a core part of Canadian identity.
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This is how empires behave when they sense decline. They stop pretending. They discard norms. They test how far power alone can carry them.
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It’s funny to hear this report list all the ways Chinese data collection could be a threat when the US does the same things and poses a much greater threat given Trump’s 51st state comments. There’s only a brief acknowledgement at the end that the US isn’t trustworthy either.
Is it normal, in a Canadian city, for the police to beat and tear gas hundreds of people for more than an hour, injuring six, to protect a company providing guards to concentration camps, and for it not to be in any major local or national news media the next day? Asking for a friend.
Higher fees = higher debt = less access for the students who need education most. That’s not fairness, that’s austerity. Make tuition free!
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Yeah this is one of those things that just has to stay in your mind whenever you cover RCMP
Premier Kinew and Minister Asagwara aren’t leaving seniors at the mercy of the market, they’re stepping in to save these precious elder care beds.
This is exactly what we mean when we say that the role of the government is to goddamn govern.
When it comes to Ontario, I'm all in.
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