Sharon Boughton 🇨🇦

I think Greta Thunberg deserves a @NobelPrize and more.
But what she really wants is an end to the starvation, maiming and killing of Gaza’s entrapped and helpless civilians, - and of course the respect and care our Earth requires

Clients of lobby firms connected to premier, his nephew given tens of millions in training funds Groups represented by a lobbying firm owned by the premier’s campaign manager got more than $100 million in grant money, a Trillium analysis has found

NEW: Clients of lobby firms connected to the premier and his nephew were given tens of millions from the Skills Development Fund.

Clients of Rubicon — a lobbying firm owned by the premier’s campaign manager — got more than $100M, records show.

www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

A Word About the Most Important Voting Bloc in America Meet the self-interested majority (who know "a man is not a piece of fruit")

The fact that a vast majority of Americans agree on a wide array of issues and yet our political leaders advance none of them illustrates just how broken our system is. Power has shifted from the majority to a monied-few. How do we win it back? I have some thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

"Blue medical masks and cloth masks are great at helping a sick person keep their germs to themselves. 🚨Only a proper fitting respirator, like an N95, KN95 or CAN95, protects the wearer from germs, especially diseases like COVID-19 and measles, which travel through the air."

😮 Pigs flew today!

One of the cities on their list is Seattle.
The city eight of our close relatives are leaving to emigrate here, to Australia, in 1.5 weeks.
I wish they'd left already.

Husband's American cousin & her family, 6 kids, are on their way here to Australia now. Dual citizen thanks to her father's foresight. Not what they envisaged until recently but they don't want their children growing up in the new America. Australia will gain two professionals & 6 bright kids

Yeah hard to imagine on-shoring to the US is cheaper and higher quality.

Writer Dan Conway left The Daily Memphian after editors rejected his column for criticizing Trump’s unconstitutional military incursions into US cities. Here was his post.

sciencebasedmedicine.org/groupthink/

I'd love to see the private polling the Ford PCs have on his hardline stances to "protect jobs".

Also, if I was a Ford flack, just after bad press about a 'slush fund' for donors last week, a pugilistic Ford taking on bad guys to protect Ontarians would be great timing for image management. #OnPoli

Covid drinking 'left more children with fetal alcohol condition' A Newcastle consultant says about 900 affected babies are born in the region each year.

Oh look everybody, now the reason kids can’t tie their shoes or say their names properly is because their parents got loaded during lockdowns. 🙄

Not the Covid brain damage. No.

Greta Thunberg in Greece:

I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.

Personne n'a de #COVIDLong mais par contre, tout le monde a un "brouillard mental", des problèmes de mémoire et oublie ses mots...

Pourquoi avec toutes les preuves scientifiques qu'on a sur le #SARS-CoV2 on continue de collectivement fermer les yeux ?

(article en anglais)

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

Why are billionaires

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Many American Jews sharply critical of Israel on Gaza, Post poll finds Most Jews say Israel is committing war crimes — and 39 percent say genocide — while often distinguishing between the country and its leadership.

Reject the conflation of Judaism and the Jewish people as a whole with the actions of the state of Israel.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Marco Mendicino: How Canada’s new defence agency will build national strength In a column for CTVNews.ca, former cabinet minister Marco Mendicino applauds Canada's new Defence Investment Agency, saying it will serve as both a catalyst for faster, smarter defence procurement and...

Riiiiiiiight. It will transfer massive amounts of public money to private weapons contractors, including in the US, and will come at the expense of public services and public sector jobs.

www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

I strongly object to the comparison many are making these days between Stephen Miller and Joseph Goebbels.

I think it's deeply misguided, and unfair, to compare them.

Goebbels was a far better propagandist, and didn't execute much policy.

Miller far more closely resembles Heinrich Himmler.

Governor Whitmer was almost kidnapped by armed thugs. Governor Shapiro‘s house was set on fire. Nancy Pelosi‘s husband was violently attacked by someone looking for her. Melissa Hortman was assassinated in her home with her husband and dog…and now this. The left is the victim, not the perpetrator.

Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.

To be fair, who among us hasn't been caught doing 70 in a 40 when we were running a little late for a ribbon cutting at a new private healthcare clinic or to pick up a bag of donations from real estate developers?

Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.

You've got to be kidding...

Multiple vehicles assigned to Ontario cabinet ministers have been slapped with over $3,300 in speeding-related fines -- many of them caught on automated speed cameras. Average: 17 km/h over the limit.

This is all @isaaccallan.bsky.social & his FOI skills.

#OnPoli

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

Insightful. “Disabled people, and people with Long COVID, have been calling ourselves canaries in the coal mine for a reason. We may have been harmed first and worst, but we are warning you that COVID is dangerous because our bodies are made of flesh and blood - hearts and brains- just like yours.”

PACO @PacoOnPause I don't know a single conservative with Long COVID, but I know a fair amount who are being spiritually attacked. Quote Mikhaila Peterson @MikhailaFuller · Oct 4 Hey, as you know @jordanbpeterson has been really sick. A lot of people have been asking for updates so here’s one. He’s recovering slowly day by day but I won't lie, it's slow and scary. He won't be back for another few months at least, probably longer. We’re not entirely sure

Mikhaila Peterson @MikhailaFuller Hey, as you know @jordanbpeterson has been really sick. A lot of people have been asking for updates so here’s one. He’s recovering slowly day by day but I won't lie, it's slow and scary. He won't be back for another few months at least, probably longer. We’re not entirely sure what’s going on but it looks like possibly severe CIRS and a LOT of bad luck. Or we’re getting spiritually attacked. Or both. To be perfectly honest, I think a lot of this is spiritual. My newborn Audrey almost died of heart failure for no reason in June, dad got sick and came to stay with us in July, then needed a hospital and the same day he went to the hospital by ambulance, my newborn turned blue (again) at home for a different reason not heart related and went a different hospital by ambulance. Within 3 hours of each other. It's been one thing after another in an otherworldly type of way.

I need someone to explain to me like I'm a child how these people can live in a world where Long Covid doesn't exist but being spiritually attacked does. And I went to a bunch of witch shops yesterday joking I needed a spiritual cleanse cause I'm cursed.

Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Office of the President Dear Dartmouth community, As many of you know, Dartmouth was one of nine universities asked by the White House to give feedback by Oct. 20 on a draft of its “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” I am deeply committed to Dartmouth’s academic mission and values and will always defend our fierce independence. You have often heard me say that higher education is not perfect and that we can do better. At the same time, we will never compromise our academic freedom and our ability to govern ourselves. Best, Sian Leah Beilock President

It appears that my employer, Dartmouth, one of the Trump 9, has said no to the compact. All the better given that our president is cited within it. But she’s saying no. Count the small victories when they come.

Not a surprise at all!

Great.

Now let’s find out where the $4 billion in pandemic funds went.

We are done with this shit!

Brace for more concessions.