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The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information: The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated. The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words. These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canada’s heritage for this generation and future generations. The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation. We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project.

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The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes.
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Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time

What's that you say!

It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women.

www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Ms. Omar, visibly shaken after the assault, insisted to her staff and security that she would continue. She asked for a napkin and told them: "Just give me 10 minutes. I beg you. Please don't let them have the show." Ms. Omar then turned the crowd. "Here's the reality that people like this ugly man don't understand," she said. "We are Minnesota strong, and we will stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us." Someone in the crowd later thanked Ms. Omar for staying and continuing after the assault, which had shaken not only her but the entire room. "I learned at a young age you don't give in to threats," Ms. Omar said.

Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

"Less patriotic than a literal separatist party" is certainly a look for Canada's Conservatives.

Lotta people get mad at me when I criticize Democratic messaging but THIS IS HOW DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE TALKING. Like normal people using normal language to communicate normal human emotions about the fucked up situation.

THIS.

What this underscores is a fundamental truth that while none of the rest of us need supremacists in our spaces, and are just fine without them, supremacists need the rest of us or they collapse against each other. Without them we're fine. Without us they've got nothing.

This reminds me of a recent video I saw from The Rest is Politics podcast after they had the UK Green leader on. Saying they were terrified of his economic understanding. Asking who his graduate level economists were etc. it's obvious things aren't working for most people. Maybe we need new ideas!

A screenshot of a Facebook post where a person named Andy ask the Well now “What the hell is transgender?” The Royal Canadian Air Force account response with “That’s a pretty big question asked in a pretty small way, Andy. ‘Transgender’ putting describes someone whose gender – who they know themselves to be – doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. It’s not new, and it’s certainly not a fad. People have lived this experience for as long as people have existed; we’re just finally talking about it openly. You don’t have to fully understand it right away, most learning takes time, but we can always start from a place of respect. That’s how decent folks handle things they’re still getting used to.”

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

Polymarket tweets: "BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all New York elementary school students to learn Arabic numerals." Laura Loomer replies: "You know things are bad when you can't tell if this is real or a joke. Dear God. It's real. Isn't it?"

when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor

*supervillain with a heart of gold voice* Well well well

An essential precondition for authoritarianism is the neutering of sources of real news.

If we are willing to pay lots of money to have a super capable machine in our homes controlled by Elon Musk we actually don’t deserve to survive as a species.

this is accurate along multiple dimensions

they’re getting dumber and more right wing but they are now smarter and more left wing in comparison to the people they see on twitter all day (stupid nazis) which also leads them to be even more prone to dismissing criticism from the left

I'm really not sure I get the anger about the new Game Pass pricing. It was an insane deal before now, and it is still a good deal today. If you play like 3 of the big launches a year it more than pays for itself. I understand the hatred for streaming rises ( I'm there too), but gp is a deal!

The truth will set you free, but first, it will get you mad.

I spoke extensively with the Crimson reporter. She understood the strength of the evidence, and it shows.

Odds ratios can be eye-glazing, but let's just say that when 2.5 million kids are studied, and it's still not possible to detect added risk from taking acetaminophen...there's no added risk.

LoL at how just one shell casing has the words "ANTI-ICE" written on it.

Why would someone doing this to "send a message" write it on a single casing... of a bullet you didn't use?

Totally seems real.*

(*real = fake).

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS IN THE UK: THE FACTS 1 IN 3 will experience domestic violence. 2 WOMEN are murdered by a partner or ex-partner every 8 days. >90% of perpetrators of rape and sexual assault are known to their victims. 1 IN 2 rapes against women are carried out by a partner or ex-partner. >90% of stalking perpetrators are known to their victims. 1 IN 3 adult survivors of rape experience it in their own home. Women who are denied public funds (NRPF) are: 3X more likely to experience VAWG. 1 IN 2 victims of stalking are stalked by a current or ex-intimate partner. END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN Hibiscus Southall Black Sisters WOMEN FOR REFUGEES

If we serious as a country about tackling violence against women and girls we would be tackling the causes of abuse by partners or former partners and not 100% focus on asylum seekers. According to 2011 census analysis, 96% of white British women have a white British partner.

A regular reader called me authoritarian and intolerant for writing that, which neatly lays out the pattern: the right spirals into unreasonable and dangerous spaces, but if you say so, you are authoritarian and intolerant of their views. That's basically their whole free speech issue in a nutshell

I had no wish for him to be murdered, but I’ll harshly judge anyone who flies their flag at half staff for that hateful extremist or talks about honoring his memory. There was no honor in his life.

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR

MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

All I'm saying is if this happened to someone like Hasan or something Fox would be running a Biggest Hasan Fails edit with fart noises added

As I begin my commute, I once again am reminded how crazy it makes me that people have video calls without headphones on public transit.

Hugh Bonneville started his live ITV London News interview on Downton Abbey by talking about Gaza.

No joke. Homeschooling should be illegal.

Noone gives this take the other way round, do they? No one advises conservatives that calling their enemies communists, extremists, anti-semites, Britain haters etc. "doesn't work"

Because political name calling plainly *does* work, if done regularly at sufficient volume with a big enough platform

I don't care why anyone still goes to bat for "good cops", they're just doing it because it's easier than confronting the crushing reality that America is owned by the police, who also happen to be the largest and most powerful criminal force in the country.

I am unsurprised by the Hockey Canada rape case verdict. After the acquittal of Bassam Al-Rawi, who was caught raping an unconscious passenger in his taxi, it was made perfectly clear that in Canada the legal punishment for women who get very drunk is that anyone is allowed to rape you.