Glen McGregor

I’m looking at a way to dual post on both platforms. Working on it.

Some interesting points raised here about Carney’s retail political skills. His recent op-ed in the Globe was lacklustre and I remember his scrum in Nanaimo, where he refused to answer entirely predictable questions about potential conflicts with his corporate roles at Brookfield and Bloomberg.

"I have no hopes for 2025. Humanity is disappointing. We killed the Earth. Villains triumph and the innocents suffer. I imagine these trends will continue."

incredible -- the NYT ran fluff "what i hope to see in 2025" blurbs from CEOs and economists, and then this guy

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...

Anti-LGBTQ+ Activist Who Ambushed Justin Trudeau During Family Ski Trip was Subject to Peace Bond, Banned From Entering School Emily Duggan, failed school board trustee candidate who runs 'Moms Against the Norm', filmed video telling Justin Trudeau to ‘get the f—k out of BC’

Anti-LGBTQ+ activist who ambushed Justin Trudeau during family ski trip was subject to peace bond, banned from entering a local school

Emily Duggan, who filmed a video telling Trudeau to “get the f—k out of BC,” is a twice failed BC school trustee candidate

www.convoywatch.ca/p/anti-lgbtq...

Dave Parker rightfully named to the Hall of Fame. Not for hacking darts in the dugout.

Uh…

To be clear, this has nothing to do with X’s ownership or the perceived political skew of either platform. I just want to keep the bot running until the @WeAreTheDead roll call is complete. About 7,800 of the 118,000 names of military dead are still to be posted.

I’m hoping X will lift the rate limit on @WeAreTheDead but I’m not confident. So it will continue on both X (with limited posts) and Bsky until the full list of war dead names have been posted (estimated to take until mid-Oct. 2025).

(I could pay $200 USD monthly to keep @WeAreTheDead tweeting more but I’ve already sunk a lot of my own $ to pay for server time and database hosting for the bot, dating back to its launch in 2011.)

X now limits automated accounts to 500 posts per month. To post hourly as @WeAreTheDead does requires as many 744 monthly.

Because of new rate limits imposed by X, I’m trying out a beta version of the @WeAreTheDead memorial to Canadian war dead over here at bsky.app/profile/wear.... The X version is still running but won’t be able to post as often.

Court resumes Pat King case with Judge Hackland shutting down Zoom feed because court is moving to discussion of bail, which is subject to automatic publication ban. So no more posts on this.

Yes, Hon. Charles Hackland, has previously served as regional senior judge for Ontario Eastern region. He’s a very well-known and experienced jurist.

In anticipation of the inevitable “biased judge” comments, Justice Charles Hackland is a long-serving veteran jurist who has served in the past as regional senior judge in the Ottawa courthouse.

The decision was long and took a while to read so the court decided to take a couple of breaks during.

Pat King now faces a maximum penalty of ten years in prison on the mischief charges but the judge could sentenced to time served. He spent ~five months at the Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre in 2022 before he was granted bail.

Court is breaking for lunch, will return to discuss bail/sentencing. Expect the former to continue and latter to be put over to later date.

(We are not expecting a sentencing hearing today.)

Court on another break but: Freedom Convoy figure Pat King has been found guilty on five of nine charges, including mischief and disobeying a court order.

*finding of guilty

Freedom Convoy figure Pat King is found guilty on two counts of mischief, (but not on intimidation charges). Judge says he was an organizer and encouraged other protestors.

Hackland says Crown has proven King committed mischief beyond a reasonable doubt. Voila! “There will be funding of guilty (on mischief) counts.”

King actively participated in blockage of steets, and told followers to resist. Hackland says it justifies finding that he was organizer and counselled protestors, incited continuation of mischief.

Before injunction, Hackland says, King actively encouraged horn honking, and implored protestors to “hold the line.” Also called CBC journalists he met on a walk-about “scum,” Hackland notes.

Hackland said evidence of King encouraging this is “overwhelming,” from his “bear hug this city” post onwards. (This is not good for King.)

Hackland says study in evident found air horn noises was very significant and that evidence shows convoy planned to grid lock city, to pressure PM to change covid rules.

Hackland now getting into analysis of mischief charges, says King “enthusiastically counselled” ongoing horn honking that was “malicious conduct intended to disturb” people in their homes and at work.

Ayotte told court he had gone for several walks around “red zone” and didn’t see anytime being aggressive.

The judge now on testimony by City of Ottawa official Kim Ayotte, who said he’d been told by police that convoy would leave after a few days. He also explained placement of barriers that could be moved for trucks that wanted to leave.

Another convoy supporter who testified for defence, told court the protest was “the greatest thing (he’d) ever seen.” Another who testified it was “best, most loving” event.