Mary Lou Klassen

Take action to demand a budget for the people! This Tuesday November 4th, the Carney government will drop their new budget. It is expected to be a devastating budget that will steal tens of billions of dollars from health, education, public servic...

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Opinion | What I Learned as a Liberal Faculty Adviser for a Turning Point USA Chapter

I haven't posted here in a while ... I need to get back to this platform. I did find this article very timely and helpful. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/o...

It is time for Doug Ford to end electricity separatism Doug Ford took a major first step to end Ontario’s electricity separatism. Now we need to expand the Manitoba-Ontario-Quebec east-west grid

Doug Ford took a major first step to end Ontario’s electricity separatism - now he must move quickly to increase grid capacity. Send your message here.
#onpoli #buycanadian #cdnpoli #renewableenergy
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Can you spare a minute to help Mary Lou Klassen? Defend the Internet Archive

I just learned about this challenge for Internet Archive. If the Wayback machine is threatened, we will lose access to a huge part of history -- especially in this era when governments seem to think they can delete things on a whim. Please sign! chng.it/yN5v8nhGTS

Opinion: Radio-Canada Silences, Ridicules Green Party Leader – The Rover I’m writing this carefully, weighing every word.  I hesitated — a lot. Because I’m a both a freelancer and a mother, because I know that in this

I get that this is a two-way race between banker and crypto bro, but why is our public broadcaster being so dismissive of the Green Party, openly mocking his proposal to attack the rich on live television. This is by one of our new contributors, Marie-Élaine Guay.
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Haiti: MSF withdraws from two medical facilities in Port-au-Prince as widespread violence intensifies | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ... Following the targeted attack on March 15 against a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) convoy travelling between its Turgeau emergency centre and its Carrefour trauma hospital and ...

#Haiti: Doctors Without Borders is withdrawing from Turgeau emergency centre and Carrefour trauma hospital for three months due to an attack on March 15 and escalating violence in the area.

Our staff cannot keep risking their lives to provide care.

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Port Huron, MI. Blue Water Bridge to Canada in background. River on right, and protesters marching along metal railing on left. Fishing pole with bell on railing in center.

Port Huron, MI. Blue Water Bridges to Canada in background. Wide shot of protesters marching toward bridge, red heart shaped art to the left.

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Port Huron, Michigan! We marched our river border with Canada to the Blue Water Bridge that connects us, and waved at our friends protesting on the other side. 500+, in a very red county! #HandsOff

China spent 4.5% of its GDP on the energy transition last year, more than double the global average.

Other big countries are spending more on their militaries than on the energy transition.

- BloombergNEF

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking of going to Trump’s America: don’t do it Just before the graphic artist Rebecca Burke left Seattle to travel to Vancouver, Canada, on 26 February, she posted an image of a rough comic to Instagram. “One part of travelling that I love is seeing glimpses of other lives,” read the bubble in the first panel, above sketches of cosy homes: crossword puzzle books, house plants, a lit candle, a steaming kettle on a gas stove. Burke had seen plenty of glimpses of other lives over the six weeks she had been backpacking in the US. She had been travelling on her own, staying on homestays free of charge in exchange for doing household chores, drawing as she went. For Burke, 28, it was absolute freedom. Within hours of posting that drawing, Burke got to see a much darker side of life in America, and far more than a glimpse. When she tried to cross into Canada, Canadian border officials told her that her living arrangements meant she should be travelling on a work visa, not a tourist one. They sent her back to the US, where American officials classed her as an illegal alien. She was shackled and transported to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention centre, where she was locked up for 19 days – even though she had money to pay for a flight home, and was desperate to leave the US. Continue reading...

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre

He 100% does mean this.

Finding common ground, yet standing firm, AND respect for the electoral process.

Opinion | When Benjamin Franklin failed to make Canada the 14th colony Canadians weren’t enticed by the colonists’ noble goals. Why would they want to join now?

Here's a great article (should be free) about why Canadians refused to join the USA in the 1770's. wapo.st/4c2i1Ye

Vote Compass - 2025 Canadian Federal Election Use this interactive survey designed by political scientists to calculate your alignment with the candidate platforms.

If you're wondering how your priorities stack up with the parties' plans, CBC has a quick tool that will help you figure that out!

And ICYMI, yes 🇨🇦 citizens can vote even if we don't live in Canada. Here's how: travel.gc.ca/travelling/l...

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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Reduce The Risk: Keep CTS Sites Open!

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FIRST PERSON | I swapped a life of comfort in Bangladesh for an empty fridge and blizzards in Canada | CBC News Mohammad Akib Hossain had a privileged upbringing in Bangladesh, but left home to study in Canada. Looking after himself brought him a new sense of perspective.

In a time of turmoil, Mohammad's story is so hopeful! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Maybe the Liberals should start supporting electoral reform.

Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.

The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

Justin Ling: Please: Anyone but Doug Ford His stunning failure to address the crises in housing, health care, education and more mean he is unfit to lead, writes Justin Ling.

Please: Anyone but Doug Ford.

Ford is uniquely unqualified and unsuited to be a leader for this moment. His years in office have been defined by shortages — a lack of homes, doctors, teachers, jobs, skilled workers, subways, buses, and bike lanes. #Opinion

Just signed.

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Dramatic gray storm clouds

God give us the serenity
to turn off the news
when we should,
the courage
to watch it
when we must,
and the wisdom
to know
we can make
a difference
#SerenityNow
#StormsOfLife

Does anything about it make sense?

Gazans' joy at ceasefire dims as they visit ruined homes and dig for the dead On foot or riding rickshaws, many Palestinians exhausted by war in Gaza began returning to the ruins of their homes on the third day of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, shocked by complete destruction.

On foot or riding rickshaws, many Palestinians exhausted by war in Gaza began returning to the ruins of their homes on the third day of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, shocked by complete destruction reut.rs/40ETZy9

Amipotence vs. Omnipotence - John Cobb - For The Love of Wisdom and The Wisdom of Love My heart sank when I heard that John B. Cobb, Jr. died on December 26, 2024. I'm told that he died peacefully, surrounded by family. John was one of the

In tribute to John B. Cobb, Jr. and his recent passing, I'm posting this essay. To my knowledge, it's the last theological essay he wrote. thomasjayoord.com/index.php/bl...

The six stages of climate denial are: It’s not real. It’s not us. It’s not that bad. It’s too expensive to fix. Aha, here’s a great solution (that actually does nothing). And — oh no! Now it’s too late. You really should have warned us earlier.
— Katharine Hayhoe

“If the Father’s plan had been merely to save individual human souls, bring them to heaven and let the Earth and all creation disappear, Jesus would probably not have spent so much effort confronting and trying to change unjust human structures in society. 1/3

I keep feeling angry about why white evangelicals voted Drumpf.