LE Bailey

Protect Canadian democracy: Sunset C-4! 🇨🇦’s political parties are using Bill C-4 to permanently exempt themselves from basic privacy law. We have days to force the House to accept the Senate’s sunset clause compromise. Tell your MP: respec...

🇨🇦’s political parties are using Bill C-4 to permanently exempt themselves from basic privacy law. We have days to force the House to accept the Senate’s sunset clause compromise. Tell your MP: respect voter privacy, sunset Bill C-4! openmedia.org/C4Sunset-bsky @openmedia.org

Begging journalists to start getting in his face and asking what the government SHOULD fund beyond cops and military.

Critics Slam Carney’s Plan to Jump-Start Canada’s Economy via Military Industry Canada’s prime minister faces blowback for his plan to hike Canadian arms companies’ profits by 240 percent in 10 years.

In my latest for @truthout.org I ask the question that nearly no journalists in Canada are asking: why on earth would we pour tremendous resources into building up our military given crumbling social conditions?

truthout.org/articles/cri...

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

Gotta love how academic books don't earn you money, but LLMs can make money off of stealing them in the aggregate and if you write enough, they can also profit from stealing your personality after you are dead.

Transness is transgressive because it disrupts the way society is organised on a micro level as well as a macro one (bc the two are continuous), but this is also the source of its transformative power. By existing in a trans way, you profoundly shape the social world around you.

Canada ‘abandoning’ international law with support for U.S. strikes on Iran, say former diplomats Though Canada's approach to Iran has been 'well-aligned' with the United States for many years, Prime Minister Mark Carney's government has been reluctant to condemn any suspected violations of intern...

However one reads the Davos speech, this is correct IMO: Carney is abandoning int'l law in the Middle East, which he can’t even say applies to Iran & which will make it harder for him to claim it applies to acts of aggression in Ukraine, Taiwan &, of course, Canada www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...

Oh and just remember - once you’ve decided a minority’s human rights are up for debate, you’ve decided HUMAN RIGHTS ARE UP FOR DEBATE.

To everybody who framed all of this as “The Trans Debate,” well done! You’ve opened the door to The Anybody Debate.

no nazi shit
No Nazi Shit
NO NAZI SHIT
NO FUCKING NAZI SHIT

Statement by Prime Minister Carney and Minister Anand on the situation in the Middle East "The Canadian government is closely following Iran- related hostilities throughout the Middle East and urges all Canadians in Iran to shelter in place. Canadians in the wider region should follow local advice and take all necessary precautions. Canada's position remains clear: the lslamic Republic of Iran is the principal source of instability and terror throughout the Middle East, has one of the world's worst human rights records, and must never be allowed to obtain or develop nuclear weapons. Canada and our international partners have consistently called upon the Iranian regime to end its nuclear program, including at the 2025 G7 Leaders' Summit in Kananaskis and with the United Nations' reimposition of sanctions in September. Despite diplomatic efforts, Iran has neither fully dismantled its nuclear program, halted all enrichment activities, nor ended its support for regional terrorist proxy groups. Canada stands with the Iranian people in their long and courageous struggle against Iran's oppressive regime. Canada has listed the lslamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity, and has sanctioned 256 Iranian entities and 222 individuals in response to the regime's repression and its violence both against its own people, and persistently, beyond its borders. Canada reaffirms Israel's right to defend itself and ensure the security of its people. Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security. The Canadian government urges the protection of all civilians in this conflict. We will take all possible measures to protect our nationals and Canadian diplomatic missions throuahout the reaion.

Mark Carney is an imperialist.

a progressive income tax? sorry kiddo, that betrays a "utopian" desire that can only ever end in tragedy. but a relentless program of constant wars, occupations, and genocides fast and slow, for oil, land, and fulfilling the commands of a blood-hungry god? thats just Adults in the Room doing Policy

Canada should not declare ‘permanent rupture’ with U.S., Poilievre says Closer ties with China are not a replacement for the U.S., Conservative Leader says in speech

To put this speech in terms of the three options Canada faces w/r/t the US, Poilievre favours the Second Option: deeper US integration. Carney, meanwhile, is pursuing the First Option — reactive changes w/o upsetting existing Can-US dynamics. Which leads to integration by inertia.

Archives matter - but not to the Carney government. Canada has only ONE federal funding program for community archives, and they just killed it. Gone.

@wgreaves.bsky.social

www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

Our elected representatives just gave Government Ministers the ability to suspend Canadian law for a period of up to 6 years no matter who is in government. We are headed to a reasonable facsimile of 🇺🇸/ authoritarianism as fast Carney can and Canadians don’t have a fucking clue.

Eight of 10 people using Winnipeg Transit to get downtown unhappy after system overhaul, BIZ survey reveals Tefere Kahsay has few options: downsize, move his store to another location or close the business. He rang through a couple of customers at an otherwise-empty Graham Convenience Store. One man, perhap...

“People with disabilities were most likely, in the Probe survey, to believe nearly every aspect of the transit system is worse.”
This has been the experience of Project SEARCH students dependent on Public Transit to get to/from their placements.
Downtown is just harder to plug in to.
#Winnipeg

This is what I need cis folks to understand.

It's been a decade.

Imagine living TEN FUCKING YEARS watching as a blatant, artificial campaign to erase your personhood, your identity and your safety chugs along, increasing in power every single day, and most people don't care or dismiss it

Her License Was Invalidated For Being Trans — Assigned “I wish I could convey to them that the people they’re hurting are real human beings,” says Juniper, 24, of Witchita Kansas.

Many news outlets are reporting that some trans Kansans received letters warning that their licenses were being invalidated overnight.

This morning, Evan Urquhart spoke with a trans woman who found out on Bluesky that it would be illegal to drive her car.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Opinion: By threatening to get rid of prison librarians, Canada is not going by the book Eliminating educational programs and the jobs of federal prison librarians hollows out potential rehabilitation services – not to mention Canada’s humanity

Another casualty of Mark Carney’s ideologically driven government spending cuts: prison libraries.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.

CBC public radio in 🇨🇦 today ran a story on an Indigenous nation winning land back, but it opened with & was 2/3rds focused on poor settlers who aren't sure what's gonna happen to their house. The interviewer pointedly asked the chief if she had empathy for them, and noted she didn't say "yes."

In the name of journalistic integrity, go fuck yourself.

so it turns out that the identity verification provder persona, with its well documented links to peter thiel from the epstein files and palintir, is keeping all data of targets and linking them to intelligence databases and watch lists, exactly like you suspected

vmfunc.re/blog/persona

Large rally outside city hall

At city hall this morning. They won’t let me take pictures inside today. So this is the rally before I walked in.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

*pinches nose*

Time for your quarterly reminder that degenerate is a Nazi term, indicating the literal degeneration of a gene pool. Things this referred to: interracial marriage! Queerness! Disability!

It pretty much indicates they don’t think you’re human!

It’s not a cutesy way to say “leftist”

I wrote a whole dissertation about showing ID and where you have to do it and where you don’t, bc it is an important aspect of regulating and harming trans people

Many many ID checks are basically just scenes of deputizing random govt and private agents to accost whoever they think is suspicious

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

Basically, your Charter right to free expression won’t apply downtown

Just going to leave this here:

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

The more people that sign, the faster this becomes a thing the government has to deal with. Please. I beg of you, don't let this pass you by. Help us make sure Canada remains an accepting and open place for all.
Closes Feb 16th, 26.