I am starting to find that I am losing the sense I had of being "up to speed" with what is going on with regard to climate and environment, Canadian politics and Geopolitics generally. This week anyway, I'm unsure I even want to get that sense back at my age.
Government leaders of the world, stand up: this really is a Hill to Die On. Are you going act to bring the guilty to justice. Or will you let violation of these innocents go unpunished? These crimes can not be allowed to stand. Your legacy is your action or inaction. news.un.org/en/story/202...
I have lived in Chile since 2022.
As a Canadian I have used the term the same way. I am merely letting you know how people who are born and educated in Latin America understand these terms America and American. They may say "Vivo en america, ¡soy americano!" without lie or misunderstanding.
In Latin America the education system teaches world geography with 6, not 7, continents.
Within this frame, using "American" or "Americano" to refer to yourself as a citizen of the USA is wrong and sounds arrogant. I thought you'd find this interesting if you weren't aware.
Heather, did you know that for Chileans, "America" is all of both contents North and South, and Americanos are the people who live there? I am told this is also the understanding of all Spanish-speaking South and Central Americans. Bad Bunny reinforced this perspective in his performance.
A quarter of Canadian families are facing food insecurity even when most have a breadwinner working a permanent, full-time job, new research suggests.
@isaacphannay.bsky.social reports. 🥬 #canlab #canpoli
I've been quiet here for months. The increasing chaos has me being increasingly quiet.
The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.
All my life I have appreciated the pain and the relief of dawning conciousness, which art can sometimes provoke. Thank you Ai Weiwei. Art costs a great deal in human terms, especially for the artist.
Life-saving idea! Pass it on!
I don't doubt that there are Many of Trump supporters in rural Canada. 20%, 30% is a lot! Is that in every community, everywhere in rural Canada, in all those elections? But her claim is that in every rural community in every part of Canada, in 2016, 2020 and 2024... a pluraĺity in every case.
Cecil, can you please point to a reputable source supporting your claim that all of rural Canada would have voted for Trump in each of the elections he contended in? This would change my mind about some things.
The United Nations rights office says the vast majority of people killed while trying to access aid in the past six weeks in Gaza were in the vicinity of US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
One unexpected consequence of this research may be that we may find new ways to signal directly to the brain stem of crocodillian humans like Trump. Apologies if that offends alligators.
We’re losing the farmland that feeds us at an unsustainable rate. The bill MPP Brady and I put forward would permanently protect our farmland to ensure that hundreds of years from now Ontarians can still rely on Ontario food and farmers to feed us.
Now is the time to protect our farmland.
From more heatwaves, extreme weather events, droughts, and floods, the evidence is clear: the world is feeling the impacts of the #ClimateCrisis.
Join the fight for #ClimateAction by accessing the latest news and data: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
I’m looking for too notch YouTube video editors who believe in our cause of using truth and humor to fight fascism.
If this is you, please respond with a link to your highlight reel. If interested I will follow back and message you!
Doesn't the world in June 2025 needs a new Planetary Compact? One in which membership confers near-immediate significant economic, health and security benefits. Making aggression immediately costly. If freed from USA hegemony, could it be initiated by Canada/South Africa/Brasil/France/and ? in Asia?
The G7 backed Ukraine.
Trump blocked the joint statement.
He flew home early, called Putin, and demanded Iran surrender.
This isn’t neutrality.
It’s a pivot - away from allies, toward power.
And the world sees it.
Imagine a world where:
💻 Your device is truly yours
📱 You speak freely without fear
🔐 Your privacy is protected
That's the future we're fighting for at EFF. Stand with us for our 35th anniversary!
the horrors of this genocide are beyond what words can hold..but among its many impacts is the erosion of my faith in humanity. but seeing kids create art rooted in empathy + resistance, with a teacher guiding them - has offered a small but powerful glimmer of hope. i am sincerely touched.
Very very disappointing. Why is he going this route? I hoped Carney was sincere when he so recently declared Canada would take up the mantle of champion for the international rules-based order.
I have sent a few postcards in recent years, but most of these i haven't done in decades. Of course, zero is my answer as well.
This Trumo-appeasing behaviour makes me ill.
I was just remembering you, and here I find you cheffing.
Susanna, my father was born Cologne in 1928 and left it with his family after his best friend's father, the Jewish MD living next door, was taken away as he watched, never to be seen again. That was in 1934. Dad dedicated his life to justice.
@boldnewme.bsky.social reports Bonhoeffer said stupidity is a greater enemy than malice because it can not be reasoned with. My my German-born father and Canadian superior court judge was a great admirer of him. I will have to find this 2024 film centered on his part in the plot to stop Hitler.
That's wonderful!
