Daniel Ansari 🇨🇦

🇨🇦 PM Carney: We stand with the Jewish community against hate.

I live an hour north of Minneapolis and they’re here too. They’re rounding up workers in chicken processing plants and breweries.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

UK universities are cutting tens of thousands of staff because of a 6% drop in international enrolments.

Canadian univerities are looking at drops of 50% and are cutting nowhere near as many staff.

Yet.

Canada poised to name its first foreign interference commissioner | CBC News Canada is set to name its first foreign interference commissioner. Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree says he informed opposition leaders Monday of the government's proposed candidate.

Months overdue, but good to see this *finally* happening.

Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.

Very sad news.

Dyscalculia Network in-person Conference in Luxembourg! Guest speakers, Prof. Christine Schiltz and Dr. Vera Hilger. -https://www.eventbrite.com/e/empowering-educators-in-dyscalculia-tickets-1976454922879?aff=oddtdtcreator #dyscalculiamatters #dyscalculia #dontforgetdyscalculia

As I just said on radio Trump was always going to come for Canada. He has an imperialist appetite and wants to grow USA territory. No deal with him will ever be worth the paper it’s written on. We need to make it hard to take our country by standing up to him and #BuyCanadian 🇨🇦

UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies Conference invites submissions from all researchers using @clscohorts.bsky.social data.

Conference: 22–23 September. Submissions by: 8 April. cls.ucl.ac.uk/events/cls-c...

Photo looking down on a number of bluish stones covered in crochet of different designs in white and yellow

Margaret Oomen, contemporary Canadian textile artist who creates 'Little Urchin Crochet Covered Sea Stones' #WomensArt

A photo of a side street in Toronto, Canada. There is about 18 inches of fresh snowfall. Cars parked along the sides of the road and completely cover with only side mirrors showing.

Toronto got a bit of snow. 👀

#Canada
#Toronto

After a friend told me things aren’t that bad, I remembered my father’s colleague in Germany who, with a sweeping gesture in a lovely restaurant, said 1930s Germans sat here happily refusing to see the rise of evil because they had no stomach for fear.

He taught me to develop a stomach for fear.

Canada!

Now is a good time to contact your MP and also Evan Solomon and Mark Carney to tell them that, as a sovereign nation, we don't need US data, tech and AI contracts.

Stop them signing up for more American tech control of vital Canadian data and infrastructure!
www.ourcommons.ca/members/en

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

The Trump administration warned European allies that the U.S. would pull back its forces from parts of the globe to prioritize its own interests and defense of the Western Hemisphere, signaling that they can no longer depend on the U.S. to deter Russia.

Deaths, detentions and deportations of American citizens in the second Trump administration - Wikipedia

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”

- Daniel Kahneman

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

Trump lässt morden, zerschlägt den Rechtsstaat, droht Nachbarn mit Einmarsch und verwandelt die USA in eine Autokratie. Und wir schenken ihm dieses Jahr die Teilnahme an einer mehrwöchigen Dauerwerbesendung namens Fußball-WM? Diskutiert das eigentlich jemand oder fahren wir da einfach hin?

If the will of one man is all it takes to invalidate the U.S. constitution in one year, there can be no trust placed in the U.S. for generations after that man is gone.

From the summary federal execution of another human being in the street to the Mad King's tariff threats, Mark Carney should be addressing Canadians directly this weekend.

i do not know how this goes on for three more years

Trump knows Carney spanked him at Davos and is now having a predictable petty despotic meltdown. But what he will never understand is that in doing so he is proving the points Carney made in his landmark speech.

Going to need a Trump free day very soon. Speaking for a country and maybe a rest of the world. Just to work on some self-care project. We have our own issues. Christ. Tiresome.

Bild: Multiple german politicians are now pressuring Germany to bring back more than $100 billion in gold from the U.S. because trust in Washington is falling.

CBC put together a collection of contrasting clips from Carney's and Trump's speeches at the World Economic Forum.

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

Pay attention 🇨🇦

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YouTube video by YYZChap72 Bruce Cockburn - The Coldest Night Of The Year (Toronto)

This is the kind of night we hunker down and stay off the roads.
People in Minneapolis are in the streets defending democracy and defying fascists. They are heroes.
On the coldest night of the year.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mwc...