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I am begging YOU to read the book: Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times, by the late Robert McChesney (rest in peace).

We're moving away from Shopify for [reasons below]. Stay tuned as we build out the rest of our new store. www.thenation.com/podcast/poli...

Trans Mountain filed an update with the Canada Energy Regulator on the toll hearing with their oil company customers. The result? Another gift to the oil and gas sector – courtesy of Canadian taxpayers. 🛢️💸

“More, more, keep cutting, cut more!” screams now-bald Carney at terrified barber

The Manosphere is a Death Cult | The Goose youtu.be/a9Zp5o96O0Y

This was a very bad week for privacy in Canada.

The federal government appears unwilling to stand up to the Alberta government and uphold the Canada Health Act Public health care is Canada's greatest social achievement Bill 11 is a clear violation of the Canada Health Act. Alberta wants to kill public medicare #cdnpoli #abpoli

Canadians are not upset enough with what the Liberals pulled yesterday with Bill C-22. Giving the public safety committee 30 minutes to finish clause-by-clause consideration...with zero debate.

Please Use AI

Let’s revisit bill C22 and how it is the beginning of mass surveillance infrastructure: www.badandbitchy.com/p/the-carney...

Chilling details emerged today about the Canadian government’s inaction as Israel kidnapped and abused Canadians bringing aid to Gaza. Israel shot at them, beat them, stabbed them, and left them for dead. One activist called the Canadian consulate between Israel's attacks -- but no help came:

Canada is about to go Full McCarthy against anyone critical of Israel for its horrifically genocidal conduct. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...

5/ There's an official petition to withdraw C-22, sponsored by NDP MP @jennykwan.bsky.social. More than 2,600 Canadians have signed. We need more. Add your name and ask others to do the same while it's still at committee: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Good for Guilbeault. It takes integrity to do this, when so much political momentum is going against climate action. It's a reminder that some things are bigger than party politics. Like the planet. Steven Guilbeault expected to quit Liberal caucus: www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... #cdnpoli

hey so lots going on i know but this right here is a whole fucking slow motion ongoing tragedy

“Respecting the rights of people to privacy” is laying it on a bit thick with Bill C-22 on the horizon

1/ It’s time to build affordable homes, a national network of public grocery stores, electric buses and an east-west clean energy grid. Not massive corporate AI data centres unleashed without any democratic debate. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I've spent the last week deep in the shit that is the state of canadian democracy today and, guys in Ontario, the fact that nothing has been burned down or occupied over Doug Ford's insane attack on democracy is a very, very bad sign. It's a five alarm fire out there.

WATCH: Elizabeth May speaks with reporters about why she’s voting “yes” on the motion to oppose the Liberal Sovereign Wealth Fund. - À VOIR : Elizabeth May s’adresse aux journalistes pour expliquer pourquoi elle votera « oui » à la motion s’opposant au fonds souverain du gouvernement libéral.

Useful thing to use here

You’re asking us to essentially help fund large private companies?! Are you out of your mind lol. These should be publicly built and publicly owned projects, not PPP’s where wealthy private interests are getting even more of our money.

This is literally madness and we cannot let this happen. It will transform Canada in to a shelled out hellscape, in the service of a dead empire's whims.

Ford’s PCs vote to end access to political officials’ records

I hate AI so much. So. Much. Please stop trying to make me use AI. I will never use your ChatGPT, your Copilot, your Grok 🤮 I will die on this hill. It is unethical. It is error prone. It is predatory. It is destroying us. I hate it. I hate it all. I will hate it forever.

My latest: Public funding for private schools growing faster than public schools When analyzed on inflation-adjusted per-pupil terms, from 1999-2000 and 2025-26 B.C. spending on public schools increased by 32% compared to 50% for private schools www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... #bcpoli

New ep of Sandy and Nora is out! We talk about Carney's majority government and how his Red Toryism in a moment of massive change is paving the way for something radical to come next. The only question is whether or not it will be fascist. Plus, we talk Doug Fraud. sandyandnora.com/episode-370-...

Last week, @policyalternatives.ca put together an urgent call for Canada to tax the profits that the oil and gas industry is making off the war in Iran. Yesterday, the best Carney could do was removing tax on average people, further defunding the state. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Today is officially the 30th anniversary of Steamed Hams. On April 14, 1996, "22 Short Films About Springfield" aired for the first time!

Today, the NDP is calling on the Carney government to implement a national ban on surveillance pricing - before it becomes a predatory new normal in Canadian life. Canadians are already being squeezed by the untenable cost of living. It’s time to stop the practice dead in its tracks.

NDP Leader Avi Lewis calls on the Liberal government to ban algorithmic pricing

Carneyan "nation-building" means massive transfers of public funds to the private sector, steep cuts to public services, weakening of climate policy, militarization, and an abandonment of values on almost every social issue in favour of corporate profits.

“We are seeing more evidence every day that Mark Carney is a conservative, and that there are now two conservative parties in the House of Commons.” Read my full statement on MP Gladu’s floor crossing here: www.ndp.ca/news/ndp-sta...

"How did things ever get like this in Canada?!?" - Carney fans in the future, after having praised every single step along the path to things getting like this in Canada

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

SUPER NINTENDO CHALMERS

Yeah that’s cool

One of the best to ever do it

Ridicule as praxis. That's the advice from Dr. Alex Hanna and Dr. Emily M. Bender, authors of "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want," when it comes to Big Tech bros. @samleecole.bsky.social talks to them for the 404 pod. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwBZ...

Avi's father just passed, days after Avi won NDP leadership. In his speech, Avi said his dad had told him, of his dreams of a better world, "not in my lifetime, maybe in yours." Incredible Stephen Lewis lived just long enough to see Avi take that first step in refusing to say that to his own kid:

The main thing AI has taught me is a profound new appreciation for human intelligence (and human writing and art!), particularly that which emerges from longstanding experience, expertise and mastery.

i’m listening

Avi Lewis: "We have shoved Canada Post so far into the market mindset that every few months we have a national conversation about why isn't Canada Post making money. Does the ambulance service make money? Do the police services make money? We're talking about a fundamental public service."

Lewis: “The prime minister is very popular at the moment. He’s a smart guy, and many Canadians still want to give him the benefit of the doubt. That’s fair.” “But I think when you connect the dots, his moves do not add up to the vision that Canadians truly want and deserve in this perilous moment.”

Wab Kinew defends his use of "Epstein class": "When I say the Epstein class should fight the Epstein war, I'm attacking Donald Trump. I'm attacking Jeff Bezos. I'm attacking Mark Zuckerberg. I'm attacking Jeffrey Epstein. I'm attacking Sam Altman."

This speech is really good. He stays firmly focused on how we’re all struggling because of the ultra-wealthy hoarding profits and the monopolies on our groceries, cellphone and internet, etc. “This is more than a rigged economy. It’s a war on working people,” Lewis said.

The difference between these two is racism

All it has taken is fear of Trump and a banker running as a Liberal to get most Canadians on board with abandoning human rights, the environment, international law, government transparency, and public services. I that admit I did not see our values being quite as weak and performative as that.

Trying to compile of list of what a disaster Doug Ford has been. This is largely off the top of my head and it isn't even half of it: