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We cannot leave something as important as senior care in the hands of private corporations that know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

It’s time to bring long-term care into the public and non-profit system where it belongs.

Jim Pattison Developments will not sell Virginia warehouse for use by ICE The company said when it agreed to sell the building, it didn't know it could be used as an ICE detention centre.

Mobilizing works 😊

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The Boss takes on the #ICEstapo #USpol youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...

BREAKING: Another rapid response action! Indivisible Vancouver is leading a protest rally THIS FRIDAY January 30 against Jim Pattison, who is planning to sell one of his warehouses in Virginia to DHS/ICE to become a human processing facility. #boycottpattison #ice #iceraids #protest

Let me try to articulate what I think the central economic issue of the current moment really is.

Sale of Canadian armoured vehicles to ICE agency ‘deeply troubling’: Kwan Anti-armament advocates say Canadian firms shouldn’t be selling armoured military vehicles to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or any other organizations with sketchy human rights re...

For Canadians horrified by ICE's campaign of terror in the US, here's something to do: demand #Roshel not be permitted to export armoured vehicles to ICE. Contact your provincial & federal reps, including Minister Anita Anand. @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social
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@anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social Stop this exportation of Roshel armoured vehicles to ICE immediately. 🛑🧊

Here it is, stabilized and enhanced. Outright fascist murder, anyone still claiming it isn't needs to have their mouth scrubbed with soap and disinfectant. They just all started emptying their guns into his back - at no time was he brandishing any weapon, fighting them or being any threat whatsoever

Murder. Shot in the back three times.

Don’t turn away. Please share.

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

“Emerson does not have a mother today because one of you murdered a woman in cold blood yesterday.”

Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.”

Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.

i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices

People are dying in Trump’s squalid concentration camps | Will Bunch People are dying in ICE detention facilities at nearly 10 times the rate of the Biden years. It will likely get worse.

The ICE deaths we're not talking about

Trump's biggest concentration camp in Texas is rocked by 3 deaths in 33 days - one deemed 'homicide' after a violent encounter with guards. The ICE detention death rate is 10X (!!) Biden's final year

My new column on a crisis www.inquirer.com/opinion/deat...

Yesterday, I drove refugees that had been shipped off to Texas all the way back home to St. Paul

Seeing them reunite with their families reminded me this is their home.

So keep sending them to Texas. I’ll keep driving ‘em back and introducing them to Bucc-ee’s and KC barbecue along the way.

Severe Weather in Canada Caused More Than $2.4B in Insured Losses in 2025 The March ice storm in Ontario and Quebec topped the Insurance Bureau of Canada's list of most expensive weather events in 2025, followed by May wildfires in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

It'S toO exPeNsiVE to Act oN the CliMATe crISis.

"Two decades ago, insured damages seldom exceeded $500 M/yr. But now, annual costs of weather events surpassing the billion-dollar mark have become the norm. "

Jack Smith: "President Trump has sought to seek revenge against career prosecutors, FBI agents and support staff simply for having worked on these cases. To vilify and seek retribution against these people is wrong."

Blumenthal: "Americans should be terrified that this secret ICE policy authorizes agents to break down doors and ransack through their homes, arresting or detaining people without a judicial warrant"

Trump said NATO has never come to the aid of the US. As a Canadian, I can say that is a shameless lie. As part of NATO, Canada came to the aid of the US in Afghanistan. We alone lost 159 members of our Armed Forces.

El Paso medical examiner rules death in ICE camp a homicide Immigration officials initially said the 55-year-old Cuban detainee died of “medical distress” but later changed the cause to suicide. The medical examiner ruled he was suffocated while being restrain...

A Cuban detainee’s death at an El Paso federal immigration detention center was ruled a homicide Wednesday, with the medical examiner finding he was suffocated while restrained, contradicting immigration officials’ claim that he died by suicide.

Honored to have my Zeteo podcast 'We're Not Kidding' nominated for an Ambie podcast award, for Best Interview, but - growing up in the 1980s and 1990s - I never thought I'd ever be competing with Oprah (!) for anything. Lol. Wish us luck!

Microsoft vows to cover full power costs for energy-hungry AI data centers Company responds to community concerns over electricity bills and water use.

It's a sign of the times that Big Tech has switched from greenwashing to datacentre-washing. In actual fact, the AI industry has revitalised fossil fuel and the imperialist credo that burning as much energy as possible is the route to worldly power. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/m...

I think people underestimate how big this is. Like a city-wide strike is not something that has happened in the US for nearly 100 years

Definitely worth poking your head into the report, which is much less about current or ongoing threats (like data centres, which understandably aren't a focus in this context) and more about the massive irreversible failures we should be learning to avoid

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Obviously I'm biased but Avi's campaign is on fire.

Folks are realizing that we can have a national party that represents our values, weaves our movements together and - for starters - pushes Carney to do way better on climate, housing, healthcare, Palestine.

act.lewisforleader.ca/become-an-nd...

🧵Canadian friends: if you want to vote for the next leader of the NDP, you have *just one week left* to buy a (cheap) party membership.

After that, there will be a big English debate and lots of media coverage, but it will be too late to have a say.

Only members can vote for leader.

link below:

A high school classmate of mine, Chad Horn, is in this (6 from L, 3 from B). Still surreal that someone I had classes with was killed in a stupid, aimless conflict for an immature, ungrateful, partner like the US.

Jack Layton ("Taliban Jack" the media screamed) was right: we never should have gone.

Lol.
BTW - you’re not that special dude

Now That I Am Old Enough to Enroll in Medicare, I Am Against Socialized Medicine Now that I have reached the age of 65, I cannot more vehemently express my great relief for no longer having to shop around for expensive health in...

"It makes my benefits less special when everyone can receive them. How am I supposed to enjoy my taxpayer-funded healthcare knowing a two-month-old infant is getting the same?"
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