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We need to talk about the separatists selling out our city and province. MAGA operatives came to Calgary to help carve up our country. Meanwhile, separatist leaders went to Washington promising our water, our oil, and our land. If you want to live in the United States, move to the United States.

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Here’s what The Counteroffensive is reading today: Ukrainian train reserves are almost depleted after Russian attacks on railways. Ukraine is now looking to Europe whose railways have the same track gauge as Ukraine’s to supply additional rolling stock.

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CAT OF CONFLICT: Ally’s Compot the cat feels extremely exhausted after the latest strikes on Kyiv.

Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Ukraine may decriminalize porn to boost its budget, but critics warn it could lead to exploitation. But it would be transformative for Sofya, an OnlyFans creator who has used the platform to raise money for the military.

Guess which other narcissistic, mentally unstable authoritarian leader called for an arch and a ballroom to be built as grand monuments to his glory. I'm sure it's just a coincidence . . .

My high school calculus teacher came to our event🥹 Thank you Mrs. McDonald!

You’ll love this one. In this video I explain three reasons why Trump’s cult is finally beginning to collapse. And it’s his own fault lol 😂

#goodlunch

Mineral? You can fuck me up again, any time.

Remake RoboCop but give him a really loud CPU fan.

How about politicians, Nigel? Do you think that MPs and party leaders who consort with and promote rapists and paedophiles should also be jailed ... meme via The Raging Left

We have noticed an increase in the number of used tires we are seeing along farm roads in the #Greenbelt. Farmers we know have told us there has seen an increase in the numbers over the past year. Now we know why, yet again #Ontario it is because of Doug Ford. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Note that in the past, the members of the advisory panels were mostly, if not all, distinguished physicians, pharmacists, and scientists who were experts in the field. If you are curious as to whether there is ANY rationale for approving these peptides, this answer from chatGPT is helpful.

These peptides are “research-grade” and supporting data were primarily animal and in vitro results. Typical large scale blinded clinical trials for safety and efficacy have not been done. This is the Wild West.

Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.

CTV News: "Ford has called the expense claims “unacceptable” and has said that he has directed the MPPs to pay back “every single penny.” Only problem Doug Ford is that they work for you & you didn't even know what they are doing with taxpayer money. Why Ford? www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

3 families got a knock on the door this weekend telling them their soldier isn’t coming home. Trump called it the golden age of America the same weekend. Gas prices are climbing again b/c of his war. That’s the Epstein class playing with lives. #RepublicanCostOfCorruption

Toronto’s public bikeshare is completely world class. Half the price of NYC, more winterized than Montreal, well integrated with transit.

We just won a months-long halt to the illegal merger between Paramount and Warner Bros.    Stopping this merger while our case proceeds is a critical victory in our efforts to uphold the law and protect the film and television industries.

I mean, we knew this. A *majority* of Canadians benefitted from the federal carbon pricing scheme due to how the rebates were structured. Mark Carney didn't just hurt the climate fight, he took your money.

Politically homeless? Hope you're sitting down,

The Fourth Circuit Says Border Agents Can Search Your Phone By Hand, No Suspicion Required | Electronic Frontier Foundation www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

‼️ The area of ​​the fire is 500 square meters: due to the strike of Russian drones on the trade facility, the buildings are damaged, goods are burning. Emergency services are working on the spot, - Zaporizhzhia OVA

“We are volunteers with experience who have been here since the very first day, doing what we know best—cooking for people.” – Chef Ángel Lozada, Cocinando por Venezuela After last month’s earthquakes, Venezuelan chefs & volunteers came together with 1 shared purpose: feed their communities. (1/4)

NEWS --> Three men who were in the van with the victim of the ICE shooting in Texas are potential witnesses, but they're now under pressure to self-deport, a rep for the families tells me. They remain in detention even as ICE's story falters. Details in this piece: newrepublic.com/article/2129...

I don't know what to call the specific political tendency represented by Ryan Grim, Ken Klippenstein, Matt Stoller, Michael Tracey, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, and Zaid Jilani, mostly because words sort of fail, but it isn't "the Left."

The compromise I'm willing to make here is calling them Strasserites: but that requires understanding that this is a disease specific *to* the left: hating liberals more than fascists, obsessed with defeating liberalism, while believing an alliance with "working-class" fascist fans is possible.

Mexico's president Sheinbaum, condemned the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo as another tragic death of people whose only offense is not yet having proper documentation; the government is preparing legal action and UN involvement over killings and abuses by the United States.

Disappointing data on meningitis vaccine preventing Neisseria gonorrhoea infections Then again negative trial data is as useful as positive findings, so that we focus resources most effectively #IDSky www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Alberta’s new Meta #DataCentre will require more electricity than the entire city of Calgary — and with current policy has pushed it to be powered by natural gas. Other jurisdictions are pairing data centres with #renewables, but AB is focused on locking in increased gas usage. buff.ly/vkunKyg

mitch mcconnell is brain dead. the USA were humiliated in the world cup. nigel farage just shat his pants on national television. a dark covenant has been made. pray for the soul who gave us this sacrifice.

Weapons used by Ukraine have proven superior Winning back the Black Sea And appears to be gaining back part of Crimea Congratulations Ukraine! united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...

“Mr. Poilievre’s dismissive, attack-dog rhetoric only reinforces why he may never become a resident of 24 Sussex.” 🤷🏼🤫🤷🏼

Punk kids, maybe, but more likely it's the same kind of person who chops down & defaces speed cameras (co-signed by Premier Ford). The idea that motorists shouldn't be inconvenienced for one second is a bigger problem than one off graffiti though. This in a construction zone w people working...

Trump is starving Cubans to death. In this episode, Meidas Canada host Charlie Angus speaks with journalist Ed Augustin who is on the ground in Havana about the brutal impacts of the Trump boycott on the island. youtu.be/W7aNFgJvclI?...

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Trump’s looming defeat in Iran is a personal and political crisis. My latest for The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/08/trump-iran-defeat-personal-political-crisis

OMFG RFK Jr's adviser Kulldorff, the anti-vaxx activist who co-authored the kooky Great Barrington Declaration—which pushed for mass infection instead of mass vaccination—is leading a HUGE effort, along with Bhattacharya's NIH, to prove vaccines are "helping to fuel an epidemic of chronic disease"

www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti... “Provincial funding austerity is shrinking the public hospital capacity required to ensure patients receive timely access to care” @alonghurst.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

Oh... what's that? N95s are recommended now for #hantavirus? www.who.int/docs/default...

Taken together, these findings support a scenario of initial zoonotic introduction followed by subsequent human‑to‑human transmission during the outbreak. virological.org/t/preliminar...

I would not wait for evidence to start mitigating risk. Human faecal aerosol needs to be managed, as well as respiratory aerosol.

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.