Louise in Ontario🇨🇦

❗️IRGC Aerospace Force commander Seyed Majid Moosavi threatened Iran will no longer fire missiles with warheads lighter than one ton, with strike frequency, wave scale, and range all set to increase. #Iran

"If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.”
Dolly Parton

Currently at UNHQ:

UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous:

“There are not many wars [in recent history] that were started by women, but it’s women and girls who suffered as a result and had to show resilience. It is women who are last to really recover.”

Banning the graphic novel of 1984 is a bit on the nose.

The Hunger Gap A gulf in public understanding prevents us from seeing how and why our food supply is at risk.

In 2023, I sought to explain to a parliamentary committee what a structural collapse of the global food system would look like, and why this this is plausible - even likely. I think the likelihood has just ratcheted up a notch. I beg you to read and understand. Thanks
www.monbiot.com/2023/03/09/t...

Lebanon: Israel Unlawfully Using White Phosphorus The Israeli military unlawfully used artillery-fired white phosphorus munitions over homes on March 3, 2026, in the southern Lebanese town of Yohmor.

www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...

Israel and the US appear to want to do to Tehran what they have done to Gaza: reduce a busy and complex society to a toxic wasteland.

a picture of a huge, low, heavy cloud of black oil over Tehran

This is the cloud of oil currently hovering over Tehran, released when the US bombed the city's oil depots. A stew of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds is raining down into the city right now. 1/2

It's early days, but Mark Carney's decision to wholeheartedly support the US and Israel's illegal war on Iran could go down as the worst foreign-policy decision in Canadian history.

I can't think of another decision in my lifetime that goes so hard against Canadian interests.

The Arrogance of Ignorance. What I have learned in 45 years of interviewing experts about peace and war, and how it applies to the tumult of these past nine days.

What I've learned in 45 years of reporting on the military.

And why that makes the current reckless folly even worse than it looks.

(Most before paywall.)

fallows.substack.com/p/the-arroga...

No bank balance can filter the air you breathe. No luxury purchase can cool a burning planet. The climate crisis is teaching us a hard lesson: without a healthy Earth, currency is just paper. True wealth is a stable climate, clean water, and thriving ecosystems.

holy shit

Jesse Morse, MD: "Huge new study finding from COVID. 20 months after infection “In cardiovascular disease patients, T lymphocytes remained 72.9% below baseline for 20 months post-infection.” That’s absolutely insane. A 73% persistent drop in the body’s ability to fight infections. This includes your ability to fight cancer…"

A friend sent me this, posted on the other site.

Link to the paper:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@fitterhappieraj.bsky.social

unitednations # Top 10 countries that have achieved gender equality: 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 9. 10. There are none.

Reuters: Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Iran's late supreme leader, named his successor, Iranian state TV says

Khamenei had long been considered a contender, even before an Israeli strike killed his father at the start of the war, and despite never being elected or appointed to a government position

US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to Fox: “On Friday, there was $100 million of gold that came from Venezuela to the United States.

“The people of Venezuela are gonna be putting up a statue of Trump as a great liberator.”

Even though the entire regime was left in place and nothing changed.

Ontario Liberal Leadership 2026 The 2026 Ontario Liberal Leadership Election. A moment of opportunity to choose new leadership, shape the future of our party, and build what’s next for Ontario.

#Ontario Remember to become a member by September 6 so you can help elect a viable candidate with a real chance of defeating Ford ( there will be non-viable candidates too, so choose wisely)

leadership.ontarioliberal.ca

A notorious RCMP unit shaped B.C. universities’ reaction to Palestine encampments ⋆ The Breach From Fairy Creek to university campuses, CRU-BC is positioning itself as the go-to police force for repressing dissent

breachmedia.ca/a-notorious-...

This is an excellent, brief video compilation highlighting the fact that a COVID pandemic was not inevitable.

It was preventable, allowed only by the arrogant incompetence of medical infection control leaders who saw outsiders as rivals for *their* turf.

Watch Martin's video below, then...

❗️Beyond the uranium, administration officials tell Axios there has also been discussion of seizing Kharg Island, a strategic terminal responsible for roughly 90% of Iran's crude oil exports. #Iran

The Semantic Slide: How ‘Partners’ Became ‘Allies’ While Canadians Wait for a Flight Home In the quiet, wood-paneled rooms of Global Affairs and the Department of National Defence, words are never just words.

You have to parse Carney's statements word by word, and Axworthy reads him very closely. The Semantic Slide: How ‘Partners’ Became ‘Allies’ While Canadians Wait for a Flight Home open.substack.com/pub/lloydaxw...

🙋🏼‍♀️ Agree
Signed, a sleepy grandma

This is how it’s done….

Workers in the US have more in common with workers in Iran than with their own billionaires and politicians.

Alberta's announcement signals a pre-emptive refusal to recognize potential future rights to decide on MAiD.

Who is being protected? Rethinking Alberta's MAiD announcement https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-who-is-being-protected-rethinking-albertas-maid-announcement ⦸ @calgaryherald.com
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Norwegian counterterrorism police have cordoned off the US Embassy in Oslo following reports of a blast.

James touched on Iran’s water crisis and the stuff going on with the Kurds yesterday here:
www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...
Trust journos like him who have been covering this stuff for awhile, because they won’t just be typing up whatever bullshit anonymous White House sources are saying.

🧵 Since we seem to love maps here, a small geography question:

Why do we call it the “Middle East”?

The answer actually says quite a lot about who originally drew the maps.

Allies fear Iran war will leave them without US weapons they bought European and Asian countries worry the Pentagon is burning through munitions so fast that it won’t have enough to send the weapons they have purchased.

One of the many costs in European and global security from the Iran war.

"American allies are watching in disbelief as the Pentagon reroutes weapon shipments to aid the Iran war, angry and scared that arms the U.S. demanded they buy will never reach them."

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...