Don Cochrane 🇨🇦

Kenney would be a plausible candidate. He speaks (or used to speak) passable French, and he’s a pretty good politician.

He was also a decent minister in that he listened to his senior officials and trusted them. None of this ‘deep liberal state’ paranoia.

I can see him looking through his scrapbook with his grandchildren 30 years from now.

“How come you’re not in any of the history books, grandpa?”

Barrett is horrible.

It’s great timing. Last sitting day before the MPs head back to their ridings until late January. And then his review at the nd of Jan.

But the delegates have to vote in person and so most will be from Alberta. Not sure how much that will matter.

And over in the Canada Conservative subreddit, it’s a flurry of racist comments and accusations of bribery.

Every accusation is a confession.

Yes, the death penalty was on the books until 1999 even though the penalty was abolished in the Criminal Code in 1976.

i believe that the last execution under the NDA was in 1945.

Another Conservative crosses the floor, bringing Liberals 1 MP shy of majority | CBC News Ontario MP Michael Ma announced Thursday that he is leaving the Conservative caucus and joining the Liberals.

Poilievre must be apoplectic.

One more and the LPC have a majority.

It’s a bit inaccurate - the guy in question self-deported, but he was issued with a removal order. Presumably he complied to preserve his chances of coming back.

And I have no idea why they haven’t named the country or government in question. It’ll likely come out. Might be surprising.

They can sentence up to and including life but if it’s more than 2 years you go to a federal prison.

Canada is already a member of the MIRPS Support Platform, along with many other countries and international organizations.

But initiatives such as this will not put a halt to self-selection. Migrants will go to where they have the best opportunities for status and a decent future.

Opinion: A better way to manage the border after the collapse of the Safe Third Country Agreement A Biden-era initiative shows the way forward for managing migration - and Canada could lead such a program without the United States

@dougsaunders.bsky.social is always a good source for migration related reporting.

Indeed, burden sharing within our own hemisphere should be an objective for both the US and Canada. The MIRPS initiative (link in comments) is one of the ways we could get there.

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Canadian military intelligence member charged with espionage, says DND | CBC News A non-commissioned member of the Canadian military intelligence branch has been charged with passing classified information to a "foreign entity," the Department of National Defence revealed late Thur...

“The fact Robar was charged under military law is significant. It means, should there be a trial, it would take place via court martial.”

Administration fails again to indict N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James A grand jury has refused to indict New York attorney general Letitia James, the second panel to refuse to do so, dealing a major setback to President Trump.

Reported moments ago:

Administration fails again to indict N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James

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Opponents of the current administration have to learn that having a big happy march once every few months is not effective protest. Nor is sharing memes and making jokes on late night TV.

It has to be continuous and relentless, and in view of the media.

Rwanda-backed M23 rebels say they have captured key city in eastern DRC Rebel spokesperson claims Uvira ‘fully liberated’ as offensive continues despite Trump-brokered peace deal

The war between Rwanda and the DRC is one of the conflicts that Trump claims to have ended.

Bulgarian government resigns after mass anti-corruption protests Prime minister makes announcement before parliament vote on no-confidence motion filed by opposition

Bulgaria has had a lot of difficulty over the last 35 years, though being admitted to the EU and becoming a full member of the Schengen zone were both huge steps. Corruption has been persistent and is still pervasive, but a new generation - more exposed to what life is like elsewhere - are fed up.

This former inmate says he was assaulted by guards. Maplehurst lost the security camera footage that could corroborate his claims A lawyer described it as a suspicious pattern for the Ontario jail, which was recently criticized for losing footage of abusive mass strip searches.

Your reminder that Maplehurst is a provincial correctional facility. This is Ford's responsibility and I can't believe that his government is not being held to account for the atrocious abuses that have taken place there.

Looks like December.

Should be nice on the ski trails this weekend!

Opposition parties warn PM not to appoint Mark Wiseman ambassador to U.S. Bloc and Conservatives say the financier, a close friend of Mark Carney, isn’t qualified to represent Quebec’s interests in Washington

I’m not crazy about political appointments, but the ambassador to the US is a special case. The US needs to be certain that he or she has the ear of the PM. The foreign service knows this and supports whoever is in that role. Our embassy in Washington is not a one-person shop.

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Guess they already had the concentration of warships there and decided to take their opportunity.

The last few thousand years really picked up the pace.

It always amazed me that Indigenous Canadians were living a very similar lifestyle at the time of contact as they had been living since well before the pyramids were built.

Not to say there wasn‘t progression: knowledge was passed down.

Apparently a warrant had been issued for its seizure. And it has to do with it being used to transport Iranian oil in violation of sanctions.

It’s amazing that the time between the beginning of recorded history and the present represents just over 1% of the time between the use of fire and now. For the remaining 99%, we have to use the fossil and archeological evidence.

Humans made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, discovery in Suffolk suggests Groundbreaking find makes compelling case that humans were lighting fires much earlier than originally believed

When I studied physical geography, I had to get used to geologic time scales.

But the timeline of human existence floats lower than an iceberg, given that recorded history only represents the last 5,000 years, at most.

Humans figured out fire 395,000 years before that.

US forces seize oil tanker off Venezuela coast Move is major escalation of US pressure campaign against South American country’s dictator, Nicolás MaduroUS politics live – latest updates

It always has to be superlatives.

"“We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela - a large tanker, very large, the largest one ever seized actually. And other things are happening so you will be seeing that later and you will be talking about that later with other people.”"

NEWS: Trump officials are worried the ICC may try to prosecute them for war crimes once Trump's term ends, and are threatening sanctions against the ICC to change its founding document to grant them immunity. (via Reuters / link in reply)

Recall petition targeting Alberta Premier Danielle Smith approved | CBC News Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, along with two additional members of her cabinet, are now the latest MLAs to face a recall petition from constituents.

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