Ford says no one in Canada is scrutinized like he is after backtracking on $28.9M private jet purchase | CBC News Ontario Premier Doug Ford told reporters Monday that "no one in the country" is more scrutinized than he is, as he explained his government's rationale for buying a $29.9-million private jet before qu...

He wants to legally shield himself from scrutiny. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Trump's trans healthcare ban is affecting Americans in Canada • Celeste Trianon U.S. international students studying at McGill now need to contend with the fact that if they are transgender, they can't get trans-specific healthcare on campus until they turn 19.

SCOOP: McGill University's on-campus doctors are now refusing to prescribe hormones to trans youth and adults under age 19... if they're U.S. citizens.

They claim liability issues, but this isn't the first time U.S. EOs have interfered with Canadian doctors.

My report: celeste.lgbt/en/2026/04/d...

An expanded version of my presentation on the case against the proscription of Palestine Action that I presented at the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) annual conference at University of Sussex has just been published in Critical Legal Thinking. criticallegalthinking.com/2026/04/10/t...

Ford skirts public consultation on freedom of information bill On Thursday, government House leader Steve Clark revealed that Bill 97, the Plan to Protect Ontario Act, would bypass the traditional public consultation process and go straight to third reading and f...

The current FOI act allows the public to request government records — and has compelled the province to disclose documents revealing the Greenbelt land scandal, the Skills Development Fund controversy and others.

The changes would restrict access to those kinds of records.

UCP move reveals potential for a Smith-friendly electoral map Danielle Smith has said she will appoint a UCP-led committee to redraw election boundaries. The move could lead to partisan gerrymandering — and a proposal by two UCP MLAs provides a roadmap for a par...

“If the government were looking to design a process that would allow them to gerrymander districts, this is one approach."

So campus speech. Much viewpoint diversity. Very marketplace of ideas.

by the way, what a kick in the teeth this is for the stonewall staff/volunteers who've been on the receiving end of abuse from the vicious online hate mob Rowling actively encourages

*stares directly at the camera*

This week had BBC headlines on migrants "faking" being both LGBTQ+ and survivors of domestic violence.

The stories were poorly-reported, the opposite of trauma-informed, and had sensationalized headlines.

I am floored and deeply unsettled to see some colleagues see them as a positive.

Linda Yaccarino replies to a Zohran Mamdani tweet to say that taxing rich people's penthouses is "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen"

Zohran Mamdani said he's going to start taxing rich people who buy luxury housing in NYC but don't actually live in there, and the former CEO of Twitter/X called it "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen."

Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record. “If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”

As Mother Jones originally reported, Taylor Cadle was 12 years old in 2016 when she told a sheriff’s deputy that she had been sexually abused by her adoptive father, Henry Cadle.

Instead of arresting the abuser, Deputy Melissa Turnage charged Taylor with filing a false police report.

Anti-hate poster has no home in Ohio classroom, says school district The poster, which included a rainbow flag, counts as 'instruction that includes sexuality content' according to the board.

An Ohio school district made a teacher take down a "Hate Has No Home Here" poster because they said it violated a state law against teaching about sexual orientation or gender identity without parental permission reason.com/2026/04/15/a...

« Et puisque nous sommes dans une époque où la propagande écrase l’information, ils sont nombreux à y croire, sans trop s’intéresser aux faits ».

Dixit le propagandiste en chef qui alimente à temps plein les vérificateurs de faits.

Je peux pas croire qu’il n’ait pas ri en écrivant ça.

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Government inaction isn't surprising as such but wild that I don't think I've heard any leading politicians even acknowledge the AMOC stuff? All well and good setting ephemeral net-zero targets decades in the future but actually staving off approaching societal collapse would also be nice.

Things can heal. And get strong once again.

Professor, students sue University of Alberta board over dismantling of pro-Palestinian encampment The lawsuit alleges the school violated the plaintiffs’ s. 2 Charter rights

Professor, students sue University of Alberta board over dismantling of pro-Palestinian encampment www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/general... The lawsuit alleges the school violated the plaintiffs’ s. 2 Charter rights

What Hungary’s Election Actually Means for LGBTQ People Breathing Room is not Liberation On Sunday, Hungarian voters turned out in record numbers, the highest since free elections began in 1990, and handed Péter Magyar’s Tisza Party 138 of 199 parliamenta...

I wrote about how Hungary's election creates breathing room for the LGBTQ community but not liberation. The next few years will require substantial work to undo the harms of 16 years of Orbán's systematic targeting of the LGBTQ community.

www.thedissident.news/what-hungary...

People treating gambling odds as if they’re useful information about the likelihood of the specified outcome is a crime against math.

She's right. Again.

I stand with Greta. ✊

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Police have arrested hundreds of people during a mass vigil in central London opposing the government's ban on the campaign group Palestine Action. [Carlos Jasso/AFP]

More than 1,000 people gathered in Trafalgar Square for the demonstration on April 11, 2026, with many holding signs reading, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” [Carlos Jasso/AFP]

Protesters call for the lifting of the ban on the Palestine Action group, which the High Court has struck down, ruling that it violates free speech protections. [Carlos Jasso/AFP]

Police removed numerous demonstrators in central London, including an elderly man in a wheelchair and an elderly woman using walking sticks, both of whom were escorted away by officers. [Carlos Jasso/AFP]

More than 500 people arrested at London rally for Palestine Action https://aje.news/bviyrc

"Intellectual exchange requires accountability, and it is both cowardly and hypocritical for speakers at a state-funded and brazenly partisan gathering to keep the public from knowing who said what."

Rappel d'utilité publique ⤵️⤵️⤵️

Des milliers de demandeurs d’asile invités à quitter le Canada à cause d’une toute nouvelle loi Les concernés reçoivent ces jours-ci une lettre du fédéral les informant de leur inadmissibilité au statut de réfugié.

Le gouvernement Carney tue.

www.ledevoir.com/actualites/i...

The federal government has ended funding for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

See how Indigenous leaders are standing up for the cause, tonight on APTN National News.

Watch live: www.youtube.com/@aptnnews

I... uh... wha... huh.

Kind of sad that 10 years after the TRC, this edition had to include a section on what residential school denial is.

Thousands of small fish defy gravity to climb Congo waterfall A species of small fish has been observed by the thousands climbing a vertical waterfall 15 metres (50 feet) tall in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a behaviour ​that illustrates the surprising an...

Find your inner Parakneria thysi.