Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦

Sanguinet St., Montreal
Philip Surrey
1971

Dark Money, US Think Tanks and a Canadian TV Network | The Tyee The News Forum grows while broadcasting a lot of talking heads tied to the libertarian billionaire-backed Atlas Network.

A conservative Canadian broadcast news network is incorporating propaganda from U.S. dark-money-funded think tanks directly into its regular programming.

Christopher Holcroft writes. #canpoli #CdnMedia #uspoli

Thank You Thank You Thank You!!! I happened on this channel a couple months ago and was astounded to learn it has must-offer status as a 'news channel.'

Congrats on the W, buddy!

Late Afternoon Glow, Vancouver
Henrietta Mabel May
1964

Minneapolis nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. “Through countless acts of courage and solidarity, the people of Minneapolis have challenged the culture of fear, hate, and brutality that has gripped the United States ... Their nonviolent resistance has captured the imagination of the nation and the world.” The editors of The Nation magazine.

The bravery, resilience and sacrifice of many in our city to protect and support vulnerable communities show the world Minneapolis’ values. We’re honored the city was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize – and it’s because of your courageous solidarity to promote democracy, human rights and peace.

LNG Canada’s facility in Kitimat, B.C., burned more than 1.7 million cubic metres of gas on a single day in September.

While that day was an outlier, documents obtained through a freedom of information request reveal the facility consistently burned 15 times more gas per day than expected.

Outside in the evening. An office building with video and the words "Palantir Powers Fascism" projected at top. Below, a crowd of people with signs and candles memorializing people who have died at the hands of ICE.

Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #AbolishICE #ICEOut #Palantir #PaloAlto

We can hope that the full Senate will reject this atrocity of a bill.

In keeping with tradition on Budget Day, my shoes tell a story.

#Budget2026 #NewShoes #NWTpoli #CDNpoli #OpenNWT #FinanceMinister

Over the past 12 months, Canadian governments, investors, pension funds, corporations, etc. have increased US bond holdings by 27%, or 100B USD.

Why are we increasing our financing of US government debt at a time when the US government is so antagonistic towards Canada?

Budget Session is coming up in less than a month, so I thought it would be a fun #TutorialTuesday to show folks who the GNWT Budget Cycle works. Tune in at 1.30 PM (GMT) on February 4th for the first day of Budget Session.
#Budget2026 #NWTpoli #CDNpoli #Finance

What could possibly go wrong?

Deepfake sexual abuse is violence. We must protect Canadians, especially women and young people, from exploitation. Platforms and AI developers have a duty to prevent this harm. Our government is continuing to advance responsible AI, including introducing Bill C-16, the Protecting Victims Act, to amend the Criminal Code to include deepfakes as intimate images for the offence of publication of an intimate image without consent. We will keep Canadians safe by amending the criminal code and holding abusers accountable.

The minister of digital asbestos is committed to doing the absolute least possible about regulating deepfake porn/CSAM machines.

While posting from a neo-Nazi AI-creating-child-porn site.

Elizabeth Renzetti: Big tech is misogynyst. How else to account for fake nudes attracting $20 billion? Here’s how we fight back Canada needs to change the culture of digital design. Criminalizing deep fakes isn’t enough

Misogyny has been built into tech forever because it replicates the way we live, and it's a money maker. We need cultural change and the time to start was yesterday. Or twenty years ago. And the time for Canadian officials to get off X is now
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So we have government saying journalists are using X, and journalists saying governments are using X. Both of which are true, but neither of which *needs* to be true. Things can change! We can have better things!

Maybe *social media* is the real problem?

This is a dangerous and irresponsible response.

Cheering the illegal abduction of a foreign head of state and celebrating U.S. control over another country is wrong.

Canada cannot pick & choose when international law applies. If the rules only matter when it’s convenient, they don’t protect anyone

Abysmal statement from Canada on the illegal US action in Venezuela.

It doesn’t matter how much you dislike Maduro, that doesn’t justify a violation of international law and the UN Charter. You can’t call on “all parties” to respect international law and not call out US lawlessness.

Canadian government officials, what are you still doing on X in 2026? The platform's own chatbot started posting sexualized material of children and other people who couldn't consent. With no moral bottom in sight, it's well past time our officials found other ways to c...

It's well past time for Canadian government officials to get off of X, @jameswsthomson.com writes. This latest — disgusting — incident is just one more reason.

Here are 10 of my favourite photos I took in 2025:

Cars travel on the ice road between Dettah and Yellowknife.

Final hours. We're $27,000 short of funding the Climate Solutions Reporting Project.

This year, we reached 10% of Canada. Got cited in Parliament. Built Civic Searchlight.

We need to finish what we started.

But we can't do it without hitting this goal TODAY: www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/124263

This is why they want us talking about day care scams.

renaming mar-a-lago "black lives matter, trans rights are human rights, and no human is illegal" and then getting mad when kid rock declines to perform there

Northern Lights
Tom Thomson
1917

The header for an Atlantic article that reads: “The decision to recognize the indigenous claim to Canadian land is a misstep, David Frum writes: ‘Just when Canada most urgently needs to jump-start the country’s economic growth, the country’s courts are inventing new obstacles to development.’” The illustration is a photograph of an Indigenous woman who is wrapped in a blanket. She is looking away from some modern buildings in the background. No name accompanies her photo.

Moving into David Frum’s house to start an open-pit mine in his living room. Confident he won’t stand for “the country’s courts…inventing new obstacles to development.”

A morbidly inclined sheep, who likes to hang around in graveyards, detests parties and owns original pressings of the entire classic run of Leonard Cohen LPs from 1967-1974.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

oh brother, another bad post from political influencer beltway brian. i am furious at beltway brian all of the time. i share screencaps of beltway brian's posts with people who have no idea who he is. i hate all of beltway brian's posts and i read all of them every single day, including weekends