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This musician taught an octopus to play the piano The task required hundreds of hours of problem-solving and patience. Musician Mattias Krantz said it was worth it.

Animals are not dumb. We are the smartest animal, but there’s no monopoly there. Never forget that and behave accordingly.

After death of 18-year-old Niagara woman, her family told Thorold cemetery won't accommodate Muslim burial | CBC News The family of a young Niagara woman who died in a car accident has been told she won’t be buried in their local cemetery because it won’t accommodate Muslim burial traditions, their imam says.

Oh my Thorold! If you have a Catholic cemetery section you can’t refuse a Muslim cemetery section. Has anyone on City Council gone to school?

Australia’s world-first social media ban begins as millions of children and teens lose access to accounts Accounts held by users under 16 must be removed on apps that include TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, Kick, Twitch and Threads under ban

Australia’s culture is standout when it comes to safety of all kinds. This is a great experiment. Let’s see how it goes.

Snowplow operator who drove through Palestinian protest no longer doing city work The city said it is working with companies that provide winter maintenance services to review protocols for operating in areas with high pedestrian traffic.

This Athena Niggenaber is a pearl.

She drove her snowplow and middle finger through a crowd, lost work, and is now begging for donations! “Sorry,” not being part of it.

Massachusetts Church Keeps Anti-ICE Nativity Scene, Defying Diocese Leaders

Just like the German Catholic Church collaborated with Nazis, now American Catholic Church supports ICE.

‘That’s how I speak’: Prospective mom testifies about giving CPR to dying boy, defends calling him ‘loser,’ ‘moron’ “Not the greatest words, I understand,” Brandy Cooney testified in her own defence on Monday.

Lawyer pro tip: If your client regularly calls her child a “fuckface” and “douche” and has mused out loud about killing him, perhaps don’t ask her to testify that she loved him.

Opinion | This Is the 21st-Century Arms Race. Can America Keep Up? Innovations in A.I., synthetic biology and quantum computing are set to change war.

It’s almost touching when the @nytimes.com publishes deep policy think pieces, forgetting that the White House they meekly criticize does not read.

Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Speed cameras are smart. Doug Ford is not.

Trump on a ladder at the Statue of Liberty spray painting “Somalis are garbage” over “give me your tired, your poor…” Michael de Adder

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More Canadians, including children, detained in U.S. for immigration violations, new data show Immigration crackdown south of the border increasingly ensnaring Canadians with no criminal record

Lawyer pro tip: DO NOT TRAVEL to 🇺🇸 with your 🇨🇦 children!

A Canadian toddler was jailed for about two months.

A Canadian teenage girl was jailed with an adult man.

The Americans have become beasts, fellow Canadians. Goons. Animals. Don’t risk it.

In ‘conspiracy theory’ videos, prospective mom blamed Children’s Aid for boy’s sudden death, claimed she was being ‘persecuted’ “I know I didn’t do it," Becky Hamber told the camera in one of several videos she shot after her initial arrest.

The women who said they hated their Indigenous child, who didn’t take him to hospital when sick, who called him a douche, and who abused him to death now claim they’re being framed *because* he was Indigenous. Bitches.

The U.S. citizens getting caught in Trump’s immigration crackdown Latinos describe being detained and assaulted by officers who want to know: “Where were you born?”

Irony: the more aggressively Trump and ICE act out White Supremacy, the more they prove the idea of White Trash.

He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over. Karl Bushby is expected to finish his globe-walking expedition by September 2026.

Indomitable

Althia Raj: Mark Carney is quietly giving sweeping new powers to his ministers Sneaking a change of this magnitude into a 600-page bill that will not get parliamentary scrutiny raises a red flag, Althia Raj writes.

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Coun. Tim Tierney apologizes, brings corrupt practice case to an end Tim Tierney, the Ottawa city councillor representing Beacon Hill-Cyrville ward, apologized in court Wednesday and agreed to give up two months of salary to resolve …

A councillor who was at the centre of a corruption trial in 2019 has an op/ed in the Citizen today, suggesting that downtown councillors that are critical of ballooning police budgets are responsible for crime rates attributed to the housing and addiction crises.

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Nothing says “I love you” quite like murdering your child and then asking for gift cards, right?

From the Karla Homolka school of parenting: meet Becky Hamber and Brandy Cooney!👇🏼

Video of Boat Strike Shows Survivors Waving Before Fatal Follow-Up Attack

Remember America’s savage “take no prisoners” policy the next time foreigners take American POWs.

Thousands of Outaouais residents could lose their doctor next year as doctors look to leave the region | CBC News The group representing family doctors in the Outaouais says nearly 40,000 people could lose their primary physician next year as Quebec's Bill 2 takes effect.

Quebec screws Gatineau people out of healthcare, so Ontario gets the burden of caring for them. Bad neighbour.

Evil Danielle Smith tried to intimidate a judge.

She failed, to choose a word, “bigly”.

Judge says proposed referendum on Alberta independence would be unconstitutional | CBC News An Alberta judge says a referendum proposal on Alberta separating from Canada goes against Charter and and Treaty rights, in a decision given less than 24 hours after the provincial government introdu...

HAHAHA! Alberta secessionists failed again.

Danielle Smith tried to legislatively squash a court hearing desired by First Nations—pure racist shitfuckery on her part—so the judge raced out his decision before her bill passed.

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Make the unbreakable vow: When the FIFA World Cup comes, we will share every illegal bootleg video possible.

Don't diss Temu. That might be the only way to get vaccines soon.

If America invades Canada, they will be murderous and wanton. Because America’s military is literally run by war criminals now.

This Mississauga man faced a two-year wait for a family doctor. He created a system that found him one quickly — and helped hundreds of others A new AI-driven platform aims to connect patients to a family doctor with a few clicks, identifying what clinics have availability.

When one twenty-something bro with a brain 👍🏼 outdoes the whole Ford Government💩.

Most any pharmacy can get you jabbed. You don’t need to see your doctor.

Friends, please go get your FLU VACCINE if you have not.

This is turning out to be a bad year, for kids especially, and the peak of cases is likely still a month away.

Don’t be like brain-worm, roadkill-eating guy. Be 🇨🇦 not weird 🇺🇸. Get vaccinated.

I personally want to thank Jacques Gallant and the @thestar.com for covering this story. Jacques is in the courtroom daily swallowing this poison to report it to Canadians. He deserves a prize.