And just like that …

This passage nearly broke me.

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“A report by the CBC revealed that Pierre Poilievre hired the team behind Canada Proud to ‘boost his messages online.’ The organization has since been caught running disinformation campaigns targeting Mark Carney. Canadians deserve to know every last detail about Poilievre‘s ties to Canada Proud.”

Right-wing extremist violence is more frequent and more deadly Right-wing violence accounts for 75%+ of U.S. domestic terrorism deaths since 2001.

“Based on our own research and a review of related work, we can confidently say that most domestic terrorists in the U.S. are politically on the right, and right-wing attacks account for the vast majority of fatalities from domestic terrorism.”

People made an impact so hard Disney has to try to trick people into staying.

CEO be sweating.

This is an excellent article and summary of the use/abuse of the notwithstanding clause, important reading for not just Albertans, but all Canadians.

"...the thrall of a moral panic imported from the US"

There was no meeting scheduled today. The first meeting of this committee this week is on Thursday. This is bullshit theatre designed to make people angry, and we used to shame MPs who engaged in it. Quoting MP Larry Brock: UNBELIEVABLE. Parliament is back, but Liberal members of the Justice Committee are MISSING IN ACTION.

Over in the Bad Place, Conservative MPs are faking committee meetings to make people angry.
I wish I were making this up.

Hiding the truth.

I've never said the following about one of my articles; but I'll say it now...because I am convinced it is true: Unless you understand this...it's all but impossible to understand how Trump has been able to do this.

Once you consider that:
The shooter of Charlie Kirk was identified as a white male, & then multiple black universities received multiple death threats,

Then you must conclude that:
The threatened violence has NOTHING to do with revenge, but rather is simply a convenient pretext for racial violence.

NEW: Shame on the Wall Street Journal for moving forward without details about their single-source reporting on this. The ATF is now saying the "internal law enforcement memo" about "transgender and anti-fascist ideologies" has NOT been verified and DOES NOT match their information.

As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle

Wow

Trump's Misleading Claim on Canadian Dairy Tariffs - FactCheck.org To support his plan to increase tariffs, President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that the Canadian government charges U.S. farmers a 250% or 270% tariff on dairy products exported to Canada. That's...

Trump has lied about a 400% Tarriff for a long time.

Debates commission unaware Rebel News registered as advocacy group, official says | CBC News The head of Canada's Leaders' Debates Commission said he "wasn't aware" that organizations linked to Rebel News had registered as a third-party advocacy group with Elections Canada before allowing its...

🧵 An important story for those who may have missed it.

#EzraLevant is one of the most toxic malignant actors in 🇨🇦 politics. Dark money funded, Roger Stone-like dirty trickster, who pushes 🇷🇺 propaganda, & is partners with #PeterThiel in toxic disinformation pipeline #Rumble. #Elxn2025 #Debate2025

Pierre Poilievre is a flat out fraud and liar. Taxwise, Canada is in the MIDDLE of the OECD pack, NOWHERE NEAR '43%.' I am SICK and TIRED of Poilievre's continual streams of BULLSHIT - and ALSO with crappy media letting him get away with it.
#MakeItAMarkCarneyMajority
#MakePoilievreAPaperBoyAgain

Exactly this

Right-wing outlets win legal battle to attend the leaders' debate | CBC News Two right-wing media organizations have won a legal battle to obtain accreditation for their representatives to cover tonight's election debate.

For those asking why the post-debate scrums are stacked with far-right alternative media personalities, the answer is they obtained a court order to attend these things

US shuts down office combating Russian disinformation, Rubio says Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on April 16 the closure of the State Department’s office responsible for countering foreign disinformation, citing concerns about free speech and the rights of...

US shuts down office combating Russian disinformation, says Little Marco Rubio

kyivindependent.com/us-shuts-dow...

French-language leaders’ debate live: Greens disinvited to federal faceoff; Rebel news wins fight to send five reporters as other outlets limited to one Watch tonight’s debate here with real-time commentary from across the Star’s newsroom.

Ahead of this evening's critical — and chaotic — Canadian election leaders' debate, the debate commission has given right-wing conspiracy news outlet Rebel News *five times* as many spots for its (fake) journalists as actual news outlets. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

WATCH: @jessicatarlov.bsky.social cuts through Judge Jeanine’s gaslighting and delivers the inconvenient truth about #KilmarAbregoGarcia to Fox’s audience (and her complicit colleagues)

"The real problem is these Covid mandates! They're ruining our lives and destroying our country!" "Okay." "The real problem is Trudeau! He's ruining our lives and destroying our country!" "Okay." "The real problem is the Carbon Tax! It's ruining our lives and destroying our country!" "Okay." "The real problem is the Liberal Party! They've ruined our lives and de-" "Have you ever considered that maybe the real problem is you?"

Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings.

Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Smart move.