Mary's Elm

Wow, Elmwood-East Kildonan... What an absolute honour. I'm still processing what just happened!!

City councilor by-election results showing Emma Durand-Wood in the lead

Let's go!!!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 #Winnipeg #LocalElectionsMatter

#AHouseOfDynamite is pure nightmare fuel. The scariest part? Real life didn’t cast a thoughtful and compassionate Idris Elba as president. It cast Donald Trump.

Susan Delacourt: What Mark Carney won’t say about his budget is the real story The prime minister is warning of sacrifices to come, but he won't say what that means.

In which @susandelacourt.bsky.social makes the point that it was exceedingly odd for Carney to address university students to tell youth to get into the skilled trades.

This is a deep dive into our challenges -- that should be even clearer this morning. If you don't have time to read it today, save it for a weekend read.

#CdnPoli

Trumps doesn't care about balls and waltzes. He's not building a ballroom. It's a throne room.

"Our task is to build a wide and deep movement, as spiritual as it is political, strong enough to stop these unhinged traitors. A movement rooted in a steadfast commitment to one another, across our many differences and divides, and to this miraculous, singular planet."

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

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Carney welcomed industry lobby, ignored environmental groups: records | The Narwhal Records show resource industry lobbyists had regular access to Prime Minister Mark Carney in his first 100 days, while environmental groups were shut out

New analysis of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first 100 days after the federal election show oil and gas, mining and other industrial groups made up about 60 per cent of lobbying records. Environmental groups couldn’t get a word in. thenarwhal.ca/carney-natur...

"Poilievre pushes for white supremacy, social inequality and exclusion". There, fixed it for you.

YouTube video by APTN News Manitoba advocate says Indigenous children disproportionately affected by wildfires | APTN News

Young people need to be better prioritized by the provincial government when it comes to wildfire preparedness and response, says the Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth.

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

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The loss of empathy is the start of barbarism

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

“For all his talk of reconciliation, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s push to accelerate the next wave of nation building has exposed a familiar fault line: when economic ambition collides with Indigenous consent, ambition usually wins,” writes Wendy Kaur. thewalrus.ca/a-subjugation-fi...

One of Manitoba’s highest honours, the Order of the Buffalo Hunt, has been bestowed upon a long list of groups that battled the flames during the worst wildfire season in decades.

Not that rare, dear.

Rare white beaver wows Ottawa-area wildlife watchers | CBC News Ottawa wildlife photographers have captured stunning images of a rare leucistic beaver.

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They have.

Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?

How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy? www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

Free Greta!

“All I Want for My Birthday Is to Fuck Another Mayfly,” by a Mayfly I’m going to keep this brief. Tomorrow I will shed my nymphal skin and exoskeleton and burst forth in all of my winged adult mayfly glory. I’ll hav...

"If it’s not clear by now, allow me to spell it out for you: I JUST WANT TO ENGAGE IN SEXUAL REPRODUCTION WITH A FEMALE MEMBER OF MY OWN SPECIES BEFORE THE LIGHT OF MY CONSCIOUSNESS IS EXTINGUISHED FOREVER."

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If your business can't afford to pay a living wage, you can't afford to be in business. You deserve bankruptcy.

The publication of Silent Spring, more than anything else, was the beginning of the modern environmental movement. Carson was attacked when she made the science accessible to a general audience, something that has become fashionable again. #RachelCarson

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Opinion | We Are Not Going to ‘Solve’ Autism. And That’s OK.

“What matters most to Isabel isn’t finding someone to blame, since she likes herself the way she is. What matters to her is continuing to build a meaningful life with the social supports and opportunities that were unavailable to people with autism in the past.” NYT gift article

Opinion: Why EV mandates are necessary

My piece in today's @winnipegfreepress.com: why EV mandates are necessary. Ford, GM & Stellantis practice malicious non-compliance focusing on expensive luxury EVs so they can claim there's no demand. But other countries have ALREADY hit 100%! #EVmandates.
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