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I just want to say I’m very proud of how my little site performed tonight and I hope some of you have found it useful. This is something I’ve wanted to do for a longggg time and can’t believe I made it happen.

So, we can relax. Chow’s relected, with what looks like a slightly more aligned council too.

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Wab Kinew on what could come after the Indian Act

Wab Kinew calls on Ottawa to abolish Indian Act: "I'm not sure if that lines up with your vision of Canada, that we still have a race-based form of identification in this country. It's long overdue that we have a relationship with Indigenous peoples that reflects who we are as Canadians today."

A collaboration of nations is taking place in Ottawa as chiefs sat down with the prime minister and premiers to discuss national issues. Hear about the tough topics and why many are calling this an historic moment, tonight on APTN National News. Watch live: www.youtube.com/@aptnnews

This is a pretty big deal. I'm hoping the commitment to craft an Indian Act reform/replacement *with* actual Indigenous involvement will help Carney avoid the fiasco that PET kicked-off with his White Paper thing back in the 60s.

Ontario, be sure to get out and vote in your municipal elections today!

PM Mark Carney says he has asked his ministers to work with First Nations to move Canada beyond the Indian Act. He also announces his government is providing more than $2.5B in funding over 5 years to bolster emergency preparedness in First Nations communities. #cdnpoli

We'd make a fortune tariffing the amount garbage the US sends our way on a daily basis, and I don't even just mean the physical kind.

Microsoft Is Offering 60,000 Employees Money to Just Go Away https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-is-offering-60000-employees-money-to-just-go-away-2000830711

Kinew tells Carney to abolish the Indian Act at meeting with chiefs

It's election day in Ontario, don't forget to get out to vote

EU & Canada 🇪🇺🇨🇦 Building an alliance for the future Montréal, 29-30 October 2026

Prime Minister Mark Carney promised to find new ways to “share in the wealth” from major projects with Indigenous communities amid concerns about a lack of consultation as Ottawa pushes to fast-track developments to boost the economy.

On an average weekday, buses in Brampton Ont. carry about 226,500 people. The key to getting people to ride them, reports Jonathan English. They need to be able to show up at the stop and know that a bus will be along in a few minutes. www.begiant.ca/stories/plac...

Scoop: Dubai’s DP World Ltd. is set to unveil a deal backing potential development of Canada’s port of Churchill, a northern outpost that Prime Minister Mark Carney aims to expand for exports to Europe and other markets. The UAE Crown Prince happens to be visiting Ottawa today and tomorrow:

It would be extremely short-sighted and a terrible miscalculation for Carney's team to accept a deal now, only for Trump and crew to turn around post-midterms and blame Canadians for their wipeout and slap new tariffs back on us or worse.

Destroying the UN seems like an impeachable offence, but Americans are too stupid and Congress too cowardly to do it. France and the UK should veto this. This has been the regime's plan all along. Destroy the UN's legitimacy and its charter and replace it with his corrupt "Board of Peace".

WSJ saying Trump team promoting Orban for UN Sec Gen. Hell no. www.wsj.com/opinion/vikt...

A European defence figure was critical: “UK has chosen a model that makes defence financing conditional on joint procurement, striking at the heart of national sovereignty. France and Germany can’t even agree on a fighter jet” Europe needs “armaments in its inventories, not IMF-style” defence org

Company with a fascist past embraces its fascist future.

The ownest of own goals.

NEW from me: Last year, Mark Carney set a goal to double Canada's non-US exports by 2035. Today, he's already halfway there In response to Trump's tariffs & threats, Canadian businesses, consumers, & even tourists are taking difficult steps to decouple from the US🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/how-canada...

NEW: Britain is walking away from joining the Canada-led intl Defence, Security & Resilience Bank FT revealed last month that UK was exploring proposal, incl option to merge DSRB with the Multilateral Defence Mechanism (MDM), a separate UK-led intl defence initiative www.ft.com/content/1f79...

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Elon Musk routinely inserts himself into Canadian politics. Despite this, Canada’s political class continues to use Twitter — legitimizing him and his far-right talking points. Canadian politicians need to make a choice: either they support Elon Musk, or their constituents. It can’t be both.

I know not everyone that works at Shopify is a hateful homophobic Nazi, but I find it hard to respect people who don't have the self-respect to stand up and quit working for one. And I know quite few people who work or formerly worked at Shopify.

Over on The Other Site, the City is being attacked for posting two men pushing a stroller. Tobi and suggested that a Bradford mayoralty would result in a city wouldn’t post that kind of content I dared to ask why and have been getting bombarded, but nothing compared to what City staff is getting.

Not only did the City have to lock replies, the wife of Stephen Miller, Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, took the time to mock the move. We have people, including a local tech leader, throwing the city under the bus for American culture war nonsense.

Olivia Chow could've run a campaign focused on standing up to Queen's Park — she didn't, and now we have to live with the potential consequences, writes senior editor John Lorinc. @johnlorinc.bsky.social #TOpoli spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

Toronto really, really needs a mayor who will not only be there for, but adamantly push for our streetcar network to be fixed. And our 10-point plan is the perfect place to start.

The election of our discontent, final column. Hardest one to wrote. Had to rewrite it from scratch to get the argument clear. City elections are a catch-all for angst that isn’t directed to the place where change can actually happen. It’s a kind of dysfunction. I hope you’ll read & share it.

This is an accurate headline. The US has not cancel tariff. It simply swapped out what's being tariiffed. It's all a shell game to manipulate/placate voters in key states such as Maine. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Mélanie Joly on Stelco: "[Cleveland-Cliffs] cannot champion and take credit for American tariffs that are hurting workers on both sides of the border and then turn around and say that market conditions have changed. You can't have your cake and eat it too."

Expel US diplomats and the US ambassador. The US regime is gaslighting us while meddling in Canadian politics and trying to breakup our country, the very thing they accuse us of doing.