Gone to the dogs 🇨🇦

Keeping up with the UCP government's democratic transgressions can be difficult.

But not impossible.

Here’s a running list since Danielle Smith became premier. 🧵👇

How sweet it is!

Motherfucking wind farms…

The Secret Police Are Here While the Professional Moderates Clutch Their Pearls

Very good work. Read it and act.
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-secret...

The Revolution Will Be Cognitive This 4th of July, it’s not about fireworks — it’s about defending your mind from manipulation, coercion, and control.

ICYMI: I published a declaration of cognitive independence laying out some basic rights that we need to be fighting for in the face of the unprecedented threats we’re facing from the modern era of cognitive warfare.

Don’t wait to lose your freedom to fight for it.
open.substack.com/pub/weaponiz...

Everyone’s mad that we backed down on the tech tax. But here’s why this might be the smartest move we’ve made.

Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995

America has fallen.

The Rule of Idiots In the last days of all empires the idiots take over. They mirror the collective stupidity of a civilization that has detached itself from reality.

A very cogent analysis of the current moment.

chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-rule-o...

"Have you committed a felony and are trying to visit Canada?" #elbowsup

St. Louis Cardinals on a five-game winning streak; Vatican Cardinals tweaking MAGA noses with a progressive American Pope. Go Cardinals!

That's my Prime Minister! Dignified. Articulate. Measured. And as the reddening face and body language of the other guy indicate (~1:25 on), he has been rebuked -- albeit in the kindest possible Canadian way. #elbowsup

Liberal Bruce Fanjoy topples Pierre Poilievre in Carleton | CBC News Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is projected to lose his longtime rural Ottawa seat to Liberal Bruce Fanjoy.

The schadenfreude is strong this morning. Enough with the rage-baiting and pitchfork politics of right-wing populism.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is awesome! And with that in mind, go vote, if you haven't already!

My fellow Canadians! This 'Canada-as-the-51st-state' bullshit isn't going anywhere. Vote like your future depends on it. Mark Carney is the man for the moment, not Skippy the slogan boy.

Hilarious! My dog looks a lot like this one, but has nowhere near the zen required.

Let's go!!!!!!!!!

A message to Canadians and a wake-up call to Americans You do your worst and we will do our best.

Appreciate the sentiments expressed here and echo them: why aren't more prominent Americans denouncing the insane threats to Canada's sovereignty? This is not a drill, people! steveschmidt.substack.com/p/a-message-...

YouTube video by Jim Cuddy Jim Cuddy "We Used to Be the Best of Friends"

Hello folks. Jim Cuddy here. Due to our troubles with our neighbours in The States, I was inspired to write a little song. It’s called “We Used to Be the Best of Friends”. youtu.be/b5jgJZWG7aY?...
#USA #Canada #Tarrifs

With Trump declaring war on Canada, and everyone scouring labels to buy Canadian, what better time than to read Canadian, too! Here's an oldie-but-goodie, a border-straddling odyssey to blow your mind....

#ElbowsUp

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#Books
#BookSky
#Canlit

THE MOST DEPLORABLE MOMENT IN AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY Who Will Stand Up to the Traitor Regime?

Here is my latest reflection.
The attack on President Zelenskyy shattered the last of our wishful thinking.
Many countries hoped that if they fawned over him, he would pick on someone else.
Now we know: that we either stand up or get dragged into the abyss.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-washin...

I also love this line from the Leonard Barden Foreword to 'Spassky's 100 Best Games,' Bernard Cafferty, (1972).

"Boris and his wife were divorced in 1961; they had become, as Boris puts it, 'like bishops of opposite colours'."

(IFYKYK)

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YouTube video by Vonzi0000 Boris Spassky simultaneous exhibition Zurich 2009

The great chess champion and gentleman-sportsman Boris Spassky died on Thursday. I love this footage of him taken at a 2009 simul in Zurich. Still with the moves and that amazing head of hair!🧵 1/2

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg9U...

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

"...and we knew of the implacable force of one man's refusal to submit. The authorities knew it too. They had long since abandoned any idea of basing their calculations on Communist dogma."
-Vladimir Bukovsky, To Build a Castle, 1978 🧵 3/3

"Therefore each individual who refused to submit to force reduced that force by one 250-millionth of its sum. We had been schooled by our participation in the civil-rights movement, we had received an excellent education in the camps..." 🧵 2/3

"We had grasped the great truth that it was not rifles, not tanks, and not atom bombs that created power, nor upon them that power rested. Power depended upon public obedience, upon a willingness to submit." 🧵 1/3

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#Books
#BookSky

This tracks.

YouTube video by Blue Rodeo Blue Rodeo - "It Could Happen To You" [Official Video]

So it's tariffs, eh? Well. Feeling pretty Canadian about that this morning.
#BuyCanadian
#BoycottAmerican
#TrueNorthStrongandFree
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCFj...

Re-upping this. It’s not about fentanyl, at least not for Canada.

This is about bullying a smaller neighbour into being the “51st state”.

It’s the end of a longstanding friendship across countries and peoples. There will be no return to how things were after this act of aggression.