James Howe

The first is that the Liberal government screwed the pooch on immigration; this is now a fairly consensus opinion — and one we’ve talked about at some length here at The Line. It’s no particular mystery to us why the longstanding pan-partisan consensus on immigration is breaking. In short, we’ve taken on far too many, especially temporary foreign workers and questionable international “students,” without any real plan for how to improve basic infrastructure or social services to compensate. The problem, here, is a real one. And all of the provinces — not just Alberta — are struggling to keep up. That acknowledged, it is nothing short of appalling for a government to blame immigration for its own fiscal mismanagement especially when that same government has been welcoming and even demanding that immigration until all of five seconds ago.

I'm getting very tired of this framing. The only reason there is "consensus" that the Liberals screwed up immigration is because we are allergic to holding any premier to account for a) demanding more immigration; b) doing fuck all about housing and healthcare; and c) let scam colleges run amok. 1/

I'm a Canadian watching in Kenya

Does McCormack have the same type of crossing as proposed for Fairway?

Danish PM on Facebook this morning:

“I am happy to live in a country where there is free and equal access to healthcare for everyone. Where insurance and wealth do not determine whether you receive proper treatment. The same approach exists in Greenland. Happy Sunday to you all”

“She has a message for other tourists considering a trip to America:

“‘Don’t go – not with Trump in charge. It’s totally out of control over there. There’s no accountability. They don’t seem to need a reason for detaining you.’”

Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

The CBC made this clever & cute video that uses kids to explain the rules of curling:

My tweet from Twitter: Please protect all the trans people in your lives in Canada right now.

The most blatantly corrupt gangster government in American history. Where are congressional Republicans on this stuff? Nowhere to be found. Vote them ALL out.

​A screenshot of a post from the account Acyn featuring a video of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC). The text of the post quotes AOC speaking about the humanitarian crisis in Cuba, drawing parallels to Gaza. ​She describes a "new era of depravity" where innocent civilians are starved or deprived because their political regimes are found "objectionable." She emphasizes the need to defend human rights, mentioning the risk of hospitals running out of fuel and children being put in harm's way. The video thumbnail shows AOC walking through a hallway while being interviewed by a reporter holding a microphone. ​Would you like me to help you draft more QRTs based on these specific images or provide a deeper summary of the AOC video?

The United States is purposefully blockading Cuba from accessing fuel that powers everything from grocery stores to hospitals. People will die. Children will die. What's being done to the people of Cuba is monstrous.

The people in power were ok with it in Gaza and now they're doing it to Cuba.

Fuck ICE

When I'm ready to travel to the United States again, I look forward to going to Minneapolis.

Having food banks is a choice.

Social assistance instead of universal basic income is a choice.

It's time we started making new and better choices.

Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores.

TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.

Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.

Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

Man, 75, charged in fatal collision that killed a 3-year-old in Cambridge A 75-year-old Cambridge man charged in death of three-year-old Violet MacDonald after being hit by a pickup truck.

A 75-year-old Cambridge man is charged in the death of three-year-old Violet MacDonald who was hit by a driver in a pickup truck in December. www.therecord.com/news/crime/c...

Why would anybody want to vacation in the country where they're doing ethnic cleansing and shooting dissidents in the street?

The idea of replacing locally elected leaders of regional government with provincially appointed ones is insane. Bonkers. Appalling.

I had a relative who literally hid with Anne Frank in that attic. If you cannot be accused of exaggerating, it’s too late. Once they’re marching kids into gas chambers, it’s too late.

38-year-old driver killed in fatal flyover crash remembered as loving sister and daughter The driver who was killed Monday morning after her car drove off the Highway 7/8 flyover has been identified as a Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada employee.

38-year-old driver killed in fatal flyover crash remembered as loving sister and daughter

my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt

The overpass never should have been reopened until the snow was removed that contributed to the first incident. A woman lost her life because someone decided the overpass was safe enough if the lanes were clear even though that has already been proven false.

"Deutschmann said the road crews that clear the snow have experience working on the roads and are aware of the potential dangers.

“There could be some element of driver error. But ... [that] would have ended up with them hitting, if it was clear, hitting the barrier and not being launched over."

Just heard a journalist in Minneapolis talk about a 12-year-old girl who has been hiding inside from ICE for weeks.

Do I even have to say what that evokes? We all feel it, right?

I'm not going to applaud the government for funding food banks because food banks are by definition, a policy failure 🙃

Black graphic with text "ICE out of Minneapolis NOW"

ICE and CBP agents are out of control and put everyone in danger.

We're calling for ICE agents to withdraw from Minneapolis, and for Congress to rein in ICE’s abuses in our communities.

"Videos analyzed by The New York Times appear to contradict the accounts of federal officials, who said Mr. Pretti approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and the intent to 'massacre' them. Video footage shows Mr. Pretti stepping between a woman and an agent who is pepper spraying her. ...

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

The latest on ICE in Minnesota Live updates on ICE enforcement in Minnesota, with the latest developments and links to deeper reporting as events unfold.

Woman tells Minnesota Public Radio that the man killed today was helping vehicle traffic get around the area where ICE agents and observers had started to gather and "next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/live-updates....

People want to have their basic needs met.

They want to be paid a living wage.

They want to stop being nickle and dimed by powerful corporations who control so much of our lives.

They do not want Venezuela.

They do not want Greenland.

They do not want masked thugs terrorizing our communities.