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What ex-security officials think of Pierre Poilievre’s top secret security stance - National | Globalnews.ca Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre argues that accepting classified intelligence would stop him from holding the Liberal government to account.

Richard Fadden, former CSIS director and national security and intelligence advisor to Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau - regarding Poilievre not wanting to get his Security Clearance #PoilievreIsUnitToLeadAnything #cdnpoli

globalnews.ca/news/1098961...

Ending The Vote Split. One Riding At A Time SmartVoting.ca is a one stop tool voters in Canada can use to see who is the best party to vote for in their riding to prevent a Conservative win.

Psst. I made a thing.

Tired of the vote split in Ontario and all of Canada? Let’s change that.

Announcing www.smartvoting.ca! A one stop tool for you too see your riding and who to vote for to make it not Conservative anymore.

Updated daily! Follow us at @smartvoting.ca as well.

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years

Making America Great Again!

because they have trained themselves to think of politics as a social game in which they are participants, and not as something that determines whether people live or die

Billionaires Should Not Exist Yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.

Read our op-ed here ⤵️

Imani and Alice have each also done more by themselves to materially help people than any dozen vote blue shitposters. Anybody who participates in this dogpile cares more about revenge than they do about solving any of our actual problems. Absolutely vile behavior

I laid the wreathe for Canadians murdered by Nazis in the Abbaye d'Ardennes.
Our young lie in fields all over Europe.
They fought to free others from evil.
For Elon Musk to give the fascist salute and say it's time to "get over nazi guilt" - Fuck him.
And fuck those who say Canada should bend.

oh that's what tf I'm talking about

Susan Faludi talks about this in "Backlash" too: In the '80s tons of men were told 'we can't hire you because we have to hire a woman' even though companies weren't hiring very many women. Managers were just too chickenshit to tell men they weren't qualified.

Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America a book by Talia Lavin Esquire Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 The acclaimed author of Culture Warlords investigates the rise of the Christian Right over the last half-century that lays out the grim vision evangelicals are en...

just a reminder that despite somewhat dismal sales numbers, people who've read my book said they found it important and clarifying, and emotionally resonant, and thoughtful, and well-written. and i hope you'll consider buying it as we move into the era it describes:
bookshop.org/p/books/wild...

There are five million people between Gaza and the West Bank and none of them are allowed to travel freely, nor are they granted their basic freedoms and human rights.

Every single one of them is a hostage held by Israel and the United States.

THOUGHTS ON THE EVE OF 2025

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
THE BEST LACK ALL CONVICTION WHILE THE WORST
ARE FULL OF PASSIONATE INTENSITY."
- W. B. Yeats

YouTube video by Charlie Angus Charlie Angus on State of Democracy In a Beavis/Butthead Parliament

Democracy around the world is an unprecedented crisis.
Canada's Parliament is becoming an increasingly dumbed down and vicious place.
This is my speech on the failure of leaders to step up at this time.
It has become a Beavis&Butthead Parliament.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHPL...

Keeping people homeless is more expensive than housing.

Is it possible the wealthy don’t know that?

No.

So why do it?

Because fear of homelessness keeps us working.

More children were murdered in Gaza today by the Israeli military. Their deaths are added to the children murdered yesterday and the day before. They were loved. The world failed them.
Every night I light a candle and offer tobacco.
These are war crimes and we must hold the criminals accountable.

“The Ford Govt aims to remove bike-lanes in #Toronto & obstruct or prohibit their installation elsewhere in Ontario. Now advocates are taking it to court.”

Good.

We already know that they know this will injure & kill people while making traffic worse. It’s also stealing Canadian Charter Rights.

While it wouldn't be this specific movie for me, this is something I COMPLETELY understand.

Me too. ❤️

today’s Carol of the Day goes out to @gunstreet.bsky.social (whose birthday was yesterday) and to all the other “Bruce Springsteen and Clarence Clemons are one of rock and roll’s greatest love stories” stans

find someone who looks at you like Bruce looks at Clarence on the cover of “Born to Run”

December 6 1989
Never forget.
Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz

Even for "moderates": Every accusation is a confession.

I feel like many of the people upset about "echo-chambers" are the same people who complain when people in another city do not automatically speak English, accept US dollars, or complain the food is too spicy

Pierre Poilievre is either a compulsive liar or he has completely lost his mind.

More aid workers have been killed in 2024 than in any other year, U.N. says Bloodshed in the Middle East has been the single biggest cause of the 281 deaths among humanitarians globally this year, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

More aid workers, health care staffers, delivery personnel and other humanitarians have been killed in 2024 than in any other year, according to the UN.

A total of 281 humanitarian workers have been killed.

230 were killed by Israel.

Fascism isn’t an isolated event We must transform society to defeat it

What it comes down to is this: just opposing Trump isn’t enough.

A narrow vision won’t defeat fascism in the long haul, and much more expansive organizing that propels us towards a better world is necessary both to beat fascism and to improve our lives.

Link: www.jphilll.com/p/fascism-is...

@roxanegay.bsky.social seems to always be the voice of reason when folks have lost their minds. Everyone should pin this post.

Ford government to ban lawsuits against province if cyclists are hurt or killed on streets where bike lanes were removed Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria tells cyclists: for your own safety, stay off Bloor, Yonge and University when bike lanes are removed.

This is proof they know what they're doing will kill or injure people. This is a malevolent gov't. Treating it as rational is a pantomime of some fantasy benign and good faith politics of yesterlore that doesn't exist. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...