Opinion: Canada’s free-trade agreement with the U.S. has no free trade, nor is it an agreement Withdrawing from the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement may sound like a radical proposal. It is not. It simply acknowledges reality

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

The Miners The men who would strip the future for parts.

sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-miners

The Private Equity Hatchet Man Leading the Lost Boys of DOGE If Tom Krause is looking for government waste, ‘he should look in the mirror,’ says an ex-employee.

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I'm gonna share this cartoon again simply because Jeff Bezos' Washington Post tried to censor it.

Trapped Echo The search for something real, even when it’s not.

sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/trapped-echo

Merry Xmas and
Happy Hanukkah and
Happy Holidays y’all

Why have so many people been killed or gone missing in Dawson Creek, B.C.? A Fifth Estate investigation into a sudden spike in deadly crime in a small northern B.C. community has revealed key details in the final moments victims were last seen alive and unearthed communitywi...

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Syria has made a curious transition from US ally to violator of human rights | Mehdi Hasan Mehdi Hasan: In the war on terror America was happy to send suspects to Syria. Now the US cries torture

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Vous devez lire cet article! www.journaldemontreal.com/2024/11/28/l...

As environment minister, I thought we had forged an unlikely alliance to save the planet. It turned out to be a sham Former Canadian environment minister Catherine McKenna on what she learned in four years leading Canada’s fight against climate change

I thought hard about how to express what needs to be said. The climate crisis is accelerating as is energy transition. 🇨🇦 is blessed with natural & human resources to build the future. But the oil sands are taking us for fools. Time to be on the right side of history. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Israel’s war in Gaza amounts to genocide, Amnesty International report finds Human rights group says Israel ‘brazenly, continuously and with total impunity … unleashed hell’ on strip’s 2.3m population

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

FYI PM @justintrudeaupm.bsky.social

I'm just about to pass out on the operating table when a Blue Cross bean-counter pounds on the door of the surgery like a guy with diarrhea at Starbucks.

"Almost done in there?"

Sorry to unload so many link clips at once but today's news is kind of the entire premise of Hell World. www.welcometohellworld.com/the-rube-gol...

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The suspect list has to be endless

Yeah, we bad

Some countries could learn from them

European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.

"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"

Again

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I think it's imperative that we focus on the midterms. Shit will be broken but we might still be able to vote.

I pity the peeps who’re convinced Trump will be gone in 4 years. If I was an unethical character, I’d target them mercilessly with any and all scams and retire very wealthy

A List of Things People Blamed on Short Skirts

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That’s the rub. Doctorow has stated he won’t move over bc Bluesky isn’t portable (just like Xhitter isn’t). I get his point, but Xhitter is such a racist misogyny fascist cesspool I can’t do it anymore. Gotta be public somehow, or something

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Elno can enjoy his empty empire. This is like when blackberry suddenly went from topdog to nothing. Should be fun to watch.

Childhood Trauma: Losing My Father — JOHNATHAN S. PERKINS My father died suddenly on January 27, 1998 at the age of 44. I was 11 years old. In the months and years that followed, I journaled my thoughts and feelings, as part of the grieving process. Today, I...

My dad died suddenly in our Mississippi living room in 1998. Days prior, he’d lost consciousness at a conference in downtown Jackson.

Even with his familial history, white MDs failed to check his heart—I wrote about the experience. This is your trigger warning. johnathansperkins.com/blog/2019/9/...

Here's why bird flu fears are intensifying Efforts to contain the virus are falling short. A teenager in Canada is in critical condition after an unexplained infection. And the arrival of flu season has scientists on edge.

Those who are ambivalent or even hostile about masking will feel different should H5N1 mutate into the next pandemic. The mortality rate is likely less than the 50% often quoted but is probably at least 10-15% or which is serious. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Almost done transferring from Xhitter. Elno can enjoy his place with the remaining bots and assholes.