Meanwhile in Cape Breton ...

Pete Hegseth is doing to Christianity what Al-Qaeda did to Islam.

And - to “keep our souls on a roll” - we need to repeat to ourselves that we survived the 80s, so we can survive the present, with, better lessons learned globally.

"Pop Stars To Stage Concert For Peace"
April 15, 1988
#History #OTD #BruceCockburn #1980s

And god said wtf when she saw trump imaged as Jesus

And God said, wtf!

"Vance" is a useful new verb in the English language, and one consistent with our Latinate heritage.

Compare:

➡️ ADVANCE: To move something forward.
⬅️ VANCE: To cause a situation to decline or devolve.

In a sentence:

"Donald Trump's second term vanced the American economy."

I think he’s suggesting Carney’s support is too soft. I agree that it is.

Trump’s weak grasp of history, art, architecture -everything—shows how private school can fail in more ways than perpetuation of social inequality.

Speaking of the opposition, in the latest Angus Reid polling Claudia Chender now has a higher approval rating than Tim Houston.

One thing non USAians don't ever factor in when doing the "why no revolution" thing is that you and I and almost every other person in almost every other nation on earth aren't tied to our jobs for our healthcare. Healthcare is but one of the many ways that the US system controls its citizens..

The Liberals add another floor crosser. What does that mean for the parliamentary math? The Liberals have recruited another Conservative MP to cross the floor, all but ensuring the party will emerge from the April 13 byelections with a two-seat majority.

Contest Announcement: What current non-Liberal MP would Carney not accept into the Liberal caucus? Explain your reason. www.ipolitics.ca/2026/04/08/t...

Avi Lewis -- too idealistic and principled for Carney's "Values".
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I'm simply amazed that a Pentagon official knew about Avignon.

As Israel eyes executions, Canada targets Palestine solidarity In late March, the federal government moved to dissolve Samidoun, the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, an international group of organizers and activists long targeted for criminalization by t...

Ottawa says Israel’s new death penalty law “dehumanizes Palestinians.” In the same week, it dissolved Samidoun and escalated its crackdown on Palestine solidarity at home. Owen Schalk argues Canada’s actions contradict its own rhetoric and help sustain the very system it claims to oppose.

Trying to process the implications that Donald Trump cannot even win a surrender.

When a so-called Liberal party starts embracing floor crossing Covid deniers, Convoy lovers, and Trump supporters, all in pursuit of a majority government, politics has failed.

Big exhale everyone. It turned out to be TACO TUESDAY again. (Or maybe just his latest stock market scam)

Leonard Cohen - The Future (Official Live in London 2008) YouTube video by LeonardCohenVEVO

"The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul." Leonard Cohen, prophet as well as poet. music.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wlb...

Avi Lewis isn’t breaking the NDP—he’s reclaiming it Avi Lewis is not an outlier severed from the NDP’s roots, as some critics have recently suggested. Rather, many of his ideas can be traced back through decades of NDP history, and in some cases all th...

Avi Lewis strikes fear in the defenders of the status quo, not because he’s out of touch with NDP history, but because he’s firmly rooted in it, writes @christoaivalis.bsky.social.

Power has many forms in the Canadian parliamentary system. CF dental care, pensions and most of the original social safety net. As well keeping other parties at least partially listening to folks. And who knows? It’s an uncharted world ahead!

A robust green energy sector is not potentially growing wealth?

If nothing else, it raises alternatives and maybe enlarges that Overton window. If his statements were non threatening, he wouldn’t have evoked such immediate panic (the reactions of Rosie Barton’s convention “pundits” LOL -
And even her initial tone in reaction to Lewis’ win)

And in this world, where would they flee (unless they’re among the Billionaire Bastard Class )?

My father Stephen Lewis is spectacularly uninterested in social media, so I’m posting this myself (though he has read it and is prepared to suffer the indignity of all I'm about to reveal). When he was Canada’s ambassador to the UN from 1984-88, Dad was truly shocked by the regularity of open, vitriolic antisemitism in the cocktail parties and ambassadorial receptions that surround that crucial but flawed institution. For this reason (among others) he’s always been the one in our family with the deepest atavistic fear of antisemitism. He was sympathetic to the idea of Israel as a refuge longer than the rest of us. This is no longer the case. Like so many Jews who for decades adopted the dominant narratives of Zionism, he can no longer defend the current actions of the state of Israel. He now regards Israel as a rogue state, committing genocide and other crimes against humankind, which ought to be opposed by every tool and tactic in Canada's diplomatic arsenal. To return to the personal, seven years ago my Dad was diagnosed with a vicious cancer and was given as little as 3 months to live. It’s a sublime understatement to say that he’s a fighter - but he has persevered in life with a tenacity familiar from his political, diplomatic and humanitarian pursuits. Which brings us to this morning, when at 87 years old, he spent an hour standing at the side of the road in his old riding of Scarborough West. Standing up as a Jew against genocide. Standing up for justice for Palestine. Standing up on the right side of history, where the vast majority of humanity currently stands. I’ve never been prouder, never more humble before the stubborn principle and insistent moral clarity of the guy I’m so lucky to call Dad. People of Canada: don’t stop talking about Palestine. Starvation as collective punishment can never be forgiven. Burning and burying children alive can never be defended. Stand up against genocide until we make it stop! Thanks Dad.

Pictures of Stephen Lewis at a protest against genocide.

Here a story Avi shared on facebook last year about his father showing up at a protest against Israel's genocide.

Years long into a cancer battle Stephen Lewis still showed up to fight for human rights.

Naomi Klein on the importance of Avi Lewis becoming NDP leader YouTube video by The Breach

My full interview with @naomiaklein.bsky.social in the moments after her partner Avi Lewis became leader of the federal NDP

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1btI...

Three quarters of data centre sites planned in Alberta are in high water stress areas Canada’s National Observer analyzed the locations of 38 data centre campuses proposed in the province, and found that three quarters of them are in regions where water use is already in shorter supply...

Only about 50 people live in the hamlet of Indus, Alberta. So, when one of the largest data centre complexes in the country — the Beacon AI Centres Indus Project — was proposed in its backyard, there was little prospect of organized opposition in the hamlet.

But no one factored in Thomas Shrake.

Such colonial behaviour. “We won’t listen to you, we’ll shut you out.”
Little wonder the West is in decline.

What the world can learn from Cuba’s climate fight Cuba contributes little to global emissions, yet faces some of climate change’s harshest impacts. Bob Hackett’s journey through Cuban farms and climate programs explores how farmers and communities ar...

Canada has long shared a unique relationship with Cuba. It’s time for Carney to match his rhetoric about middle powers standing up against great power bullying with concrete action. Cuba’s experience offers lessons—and warnings—for us all.

If ever AI video generation was justified, this may be it.

Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg is developing a personal artificial intelligence agent that can perform some of his CEO duties autonomously, according to a report.