First One to Grow a Spine .... wins!

💰💰💰 '80% of donations to Reform in the past year have come from donors or companies based overseas. In comparison, Labour and the Conservatives received just 0.15% and 3.57% of their donations from people or companies based abroad over the same period.' #pmqs www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Cleveland-Cliffs CEO: “I bought Stelco because I could not afford anymore having Stelco flooding the market here in the United States to the detriment of my own company” David Cochrane: “Am I understanding you correctly there? It was a defensive acquisition?” 🎥 Credit: CBC News

This will definitely stop climate change, even more effectively than banning schoolbooks that mention it. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

New details about another rape allegation against Trump, this time from a former Miss Switzerland.

Trump’s presidency is a wealth transfer from the bottom to the top

Qatar’s $400 Billion Footprint in the U.S. WHY?? Qatar: Islamist autocratic regime State Sponsor of Terrorism Sheltered Al-Qaeda Patron for Taliban Patron of Hamas Main patron of the Muslim Brotherhood Largest foreign funder of U.S. higher education www.fdd.org/analysis/map...

👇 Grim. Disinformation in practice: Threats, actors, mechanisms, and constraints according to those fighting it misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/disi... "Nearly all practitioners expect disinformation to become a greater threat, and only 13% believe institutions will be able to contain it."

⚠️ AI orders more medical tests. A costly pressure‼️ Comparative Cost of Care Recommended by Large Language Models versus Treating Physicians ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... "The care these [AI] systems recommended cost substantially more than physicians’ documented care..."

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Multiple lawyers, including renowned Joel Bakan, confirm that the Bradford plan to commercialize water in Toronto very much opens the door to privatization: www.thestar.com/news/gta/cit.... Shrill denials from Bradford and his billionaire backers are a clear tell. #toronto #canlab

Oh so a country *can* choose not to make the same mistake twice

Fantastic column from Dr Andrew Boozary on strategies to end homelessness in Canadian cities in today’s Globe and Mail @uhn.ca @uoftpress.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com @ubcmedicine.bsky.social @providencehealthcare.org

Good one by Andrew Coyne this week. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-alberta-premier-danielle-smith-is-targeting-immigration-but-what-do/ #abpoli #cdnpoli #andrewcoyne

A gift article from Globe and Mail columnist Andrew Coyne who lays out the facts to shred the UCP's attack on immigrants. Immigration isn't out of control in #Alberta or anywhere else in #Canada. New #Canadians don't disproportionately burden the system. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/903019f...

Here's how private equity killed your local mall.

“A gaping wound of earth” 🌎 😕 Google illegally knocked down 250,000 trees in Finland to build a data center. @nonewdatacenters (From the Guardian)

The Pentagon has quietly created a secretive agency, the Technology Support Office, to develop cyberattacks, supply-chain sabotage and deception tactics aimed at slowing adversaries’ military technology programs, Politico reports. No doubt to be used against Europe and Canada

His wife and father in law had what appeared to be criminal money laundering deals in Azerbaijan detailed in this 2017 article so this would not be shocking to anyone paying attention. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

Kushner appeared to transfer large sums from the account to other people, including a warlord, a mercenary and a former hit man.

Princes and Thieves, a book by investigative journalist Matthew Cole, says Dutch intelligence hacked the phone of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner and watched him access a Dubai bank account holding hundreds of millions of dollars that came from a bank in Azerbaijan, Vanity Fair reports.

it's like Jesus always said: we must starve women to death

Jared Kushner’s hacked iPhone revealed he promised MBS and MBZ he would push their agenda with Trump if they participated in a secret fund, with the two royals initially discussing over $10B before ultimately placing at least $2B into his accounts. Paywalled, use archive. archive.ph/FHGAt

🎰 CBC Investigates reports Ontario's estimated problem gambling cases have risen from 43,000 to nearly 130,000, while gambling-related suicides tripled after online betting expanded. These trends demand scrutiny. Should advertising and app incentives face tighter rules?

🇨🇦 CBC News reports the CRA awarded a $12M security contract to a Canadian subsidiary of a U.S. multinational over the veteran-supporting Commissionaires. The bids differed by less than 1%, according to the non-profit. Should federal contracts prioritize Canadian social benefits?

The 22 mins had this sketch cooking for a while right? They even knew Alberta wouldn't vote to leave Canada. 😂😂😂

The @reuters.com headline isn’t the $80B loss. It’s what that money is buying: a shot at the $15.7 trillion US labor economy. Not billions. Trillions in wages. If AI captures that, who pays the people? That’s why we need basic income. (13:00) youtu.be/FS_hLDTDI1w?t=781

“Russia’s engagement with Alberta separatism is covert, doctrinal, operational, and sustained.” “Several lines of evidence link Russian-aligned information infrastructure to Alberta separatist narratives.” “U.S. engagement is overt, escalating, and in some environments, converging with Russia.”

This has been the fundamental mechanism through which political media operates my entire life. The right makes a bunch of noise about a fake scandal, the mainstream media "covers the controversy," & normie voters get the vague impression that Dems are constantly involved in scandal.

Where are the Newcastle Reform UK 'protect women and girls' Councillors calling out these thugs - oh sorry, I didn't notice, they're all white ... "The vile North East thugs who subjected women to unthinkable degrading behaviour" via Newcastle Chronicle www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...

Same here👇🏼👇🏼 not a peep from Reform o'r " save are wimin n chidren" lot!!

Exactly 10 years ago today: Hillary Clinton said Vladimir Putin would rather have "a puppet as president of the United States.” She absolutely nailed it. 🔨

Scoop: We looked over the shoulder of a Chinese-speaking hacker as they used AI agents to compromise more than 100 sites, including digital properties belonging to tractor maker Deere and home appliance firm SharkNinja. Almost *entirely* autonomous hacking. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Althia Raj on Bill C-39: "The Conservatives are not saying anything because they're like, well, we would not get away with passing this bill. So at least the Liberals will give us, eventually when we come in power, this legislation that will prove helpful for the projects that we want to get done."

Althia Raj: A closer look at six controversial powers inside Mark Carney’s Building Canada Strong Act

🇨🇦⚡️- Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a "serious incident" caused a major fire at CFB Wainwright in Alberta.

No ISBNs in Canada for AI writing. This is a fantastic policy, and every country should do the same. www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

Ford threatened to cut U.S. power exports. Now Ontario is buying electricity from New York. CBC News reports critics blame cancelled Canadian clean-energy projects and reliance on U.S. gas. Was building Canadian energy independence less of a priority than trade-war theatre?

Ford’s office is declining any comment, following news that Ontario just contracted for 600 MW of dirty electricity from the U.S. Remember Ford's public threats to cut off Ontario electricity to the U.S.? Tough talk, no action. www.youtube.com/watch?v=deF7... #onpoli #elbowsup

😡😡😡 “Meta employees acknowledged in internal communications that the Instagram accounts of Brazilian ​President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were hindered by ‌restrictions during [Brazil’s] election” & that Meta “recommended the profile ​of challenger…Flavio Bolsonaro” & “his ​WhatsApp channel…” 1/

PM Mark Carney pledged to ‘Buy Canadian.’ Since then, $7.8 billion in contracts went to American corporations. www.ndp.ca/stop-buying-...

Records obtained by the Star through freedom of information legislation reveal that iGaming executives were concerned when researchers reported problem #gambling rates significantly higher than expected, and quietly decided the research would be kept confidential.

Water companies in England failed to report more than 50,000 sewage dumpings within the time required. Water companies routinely ignore laws, have 1,200+ criminal convictions, no exec prosecuted, no licence cancelled. Customers fleeced, human health damaged, environment harmed. Govts do nothing.

🏥 CBC reports 55% of 1,649 Alberta doctors surveyed say they'd move to another province if Alberta separated from Canada. Just 15% say they'd stay. The medical association also warns of funding & patient-care uncertainty. Should voters get a detailed health-care plan before considering separation?