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🇨🇦 TOP CIVIL LIBERTIES GROUPS CONDEMN ALBERTA'S USE OF #NOTWITHSTANDINGCLAUSE 🇨🇦

In a joint statement, #Canada's leading #CivilLiberties associations united to sound the alarm over Alberta's plan to use the clause to shield three #anti-trans laws.

From the CCLA, BCCLA, and LDL
#CdnPoli #AbLeg

Happy Hallowe'en friends!

On this day in 1933 my Slovakian great grandma was 3 days into her Canadian immigration journey and saw trick or treaters out the window of a train when it stopped in Winnipeg.

She got very scared and thought Canada was a spooky, weird place!

It is 🎃

Holy Smokes. Ireland just elected a left-leaning female president and she's awesome!

A former psychologist, former barrister, former competitive badminton player, ran so many marathons she lost count, and comes from a family of 14 siblings raised by a single father. 🫣 🇮🇪

This is unconscionable
@mark-carney.bsky.social

An ink drawing of three anthropomorphic cats. One hangs onto a rope with both paws, just able to keep its chin above the rope. Two other cats, however, on either side of the cat are giving it a boost. All the cats are smiling suggesting friendliness and joy. Large text at top reads "Hang in there, comrade!," a play on the popular "hang in there, baby" cat poster of the 1970's.

"Hang in there, comrade!" I don't regret playing on the "Hang in there, baby" poster for today's #inktober #inktober2025 #RedInktober

⭕️ BREAKING: CNN reports that Israel will not release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya as part of the ceasefire deal.

“The occupation refused to release Dr Hussam Abu Safiya,” a Hamas official told CNN on Friday.

💔💔💔💔

Scientists use AI to detect ADHD through unique visual rhythms in groundbreaking study #Science #HealthandMedicine #MentalHealth #AIResearch #ADHD #MentalHealthAwareness

I love your poems!

Two pictures of swans with cygnets on a lake, and a poem. Title: Seven reasons not to eat swans. An immigrant’s poem. Poem text: Swans, we know, are hard to snatch, much too big for hand-held nets. That’s why we as immigrants would rather catch some sun than swans. Swans, notoriously vicious, do not make for tasty dishes. That’s why we as immigrants choose eating mushrooms over swans. Swans look well after their young, teach them, carry them along. That’s why we as immigrants like right-wingers far less than swans. When a swan acts like an anus, it’s not planned; not truly heinous. That’s why we as immigrants choose fighting fascists over swans. Swans give nature their full backing, don’t dump rubbish, don’t do fracking. That’s why we as immigrants hate Reform UK more than swans. Swans believe in right of movement, see open borders as improvement. That’s why we as immigrants would never think of killing swans. Swans don’t engage in punching down, unlike Reform UK’s chief clown. That’s why we as immigrants might punch Farage, but not hurt swans. Signature: @toomanysquirrels.bsky.social, 25/09/2025

Hello. It's my first post. Have a #poem.

#UKPolitics #poetry

Canada’s Parliament just gave Charlie Kirk a standing ovation.

You can oppose political violence without rewriting the legacy of a man who did a lot of harm to vulnerable and marginalized communities.

But Canada’s politicians, some media and many employers don’t seem to entirely understand that:

The standing ovation in Parliament today to honour Charlie Kirk was one of the most embarrassing things I’ve ever seen from that building, and I gotta tell you, that list is long

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

substack.com/@karenattiah...

Petition: Lower the Voting Age to 16 Support the BC Greens' call to lower the voting age to 16 in British Columbia and introduce civics education, giving youth a real voice in their future.

I just signed this petition from the BC Greens! bcgreens.ca/petitions/vo...

Imagine if this was your child or grandchild. This has been going on for 77 years.

ICLMG analyzed the federal parties’ promises & their positions & actions regarding #nationalsecurity since the last election.
Here are their actions re the #repression of #landdefence & of anti-genocide #protests.
More at iclmg.ca/info-card-2025 #CanadaElection2025 #cdnpoli #dissent #stopthegenocide

Episode 53: Goodbye Ashtrey — Crackdown Podcast We lost another soldier from the front lines. Trey Helten, longtime manager of the Overdose Prevention Society and all around harm reduction hero on the Downtown Eastside, has died at 42. Trey saved h...

Goodbye, Trey. A @crackdownpod.bsky.social eulogy for another fallen soldier in this never-ending drug war. 💔RiP friend, comrade, punk-rawker extraordinaire. See you on the other side, brother. www.crackdownpod.com/episodes/epi...

people whose job is to deal directly with the lies and violence police perpetrate against marginalized groups do not like police, news at 11

CTV got rid of @rachelgilmore.bsky.social because an email inbox got too full. It only gave her more time to discover and expose rot.

It's breathtaking to watch autocrats weaponize the civil rights movement on behalf of the putative safety of Jews in order to send people who are opposing genocide to literal death camps - and Jews who oppose this are labelled terrorist sympathizers.

related:

Poilievre pledges to use notwithstanding clause to allow longer sentences for multiple murderers Legal experts criticized the Conservative Leader’s proposal to revive a law that permitted judges to stack parole waiting periods

Michael Spratt, an Ottawa criminal-defence lawyer, pilloried the proposal and said that all of Mr. Poilievre’s criminal justice policies “rip up” the Constitution.
“That is just unbecoming of a leader, unbecoming of a serious politician …,” he said.
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/91472a3...

Sean at work this evening.

Sean meeting another person who works at City Hall (for now)

Stop cutbacks, fund libraries.

Your new City Councillor @seanorr.bsky.social has had a busy week:

“Launched a campaign to restore public library hours, did some intensive training at City Hall, met some folks who I’ll be sharing a workplace with — and now back to the dishpit.”

#FightForVancouver #vanpoli

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence t...

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Linocut with two otters swimming together. One otter has the text Revolution on its back, another has the text Love on its sale. Between the two a text reads "Made for each otter".

Vintage style poster. An ocean liner flies lots of LGBTQIA+ flags. A text announces "Compagnie Révolutionnaire Anarchique, Queer express Choose the pride line".

Cyanotype with a blue-footed booby carrying a sign reading "Not weird just wired differently".

Digital poster featuring a black cat carrying a giant box of matches. The text reads "I burn with love for revolution and social justice, all against oppressions

Hi #PortfolioDay!
I'm Loki, a neurospicy artist who makes vintage and progressive illustrations.

I distribute my creations in free digital versions (because I'm an anarchist) or in prints for purchase (because I like to survive)

👉 social.lokipropagand.art

#Art #Prints #Vintage #Anarchy

Art Nouveau-style poster featuring a cute, plump rabbit. He is wearing a straw hat and carrying a scythe with a drop of blood dripping from it. The text reads ‘We're coming for you and your friends, so flee, bourgeois, flee’.

Flee bourgeois, flee!

A new Art Nouveau visual, fresh off the tablet. Soon available as prints and free downloads if you feel like it.

#Art #ArtNouveau #Anarchy #Revolution #Rabbit

Hey man Europe isn't going to stop fascism

A great way to stop retail theft is to lift people out of poverty and make them feel supported by their community

How was popcorn discovered? An archaeologist on its likely appeal for people in the Americas millennia ago Corn has its roots in Mexico about 9,000 years ago.

A good guess for the origin of popcorn is that drying corn began as a useful way of preserving and storing food.

And then one day some fell into the cooking fire 🌽🔥