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There's perhaps no clearer example of Canadians protesting with their wallets than the massive drop in visits to America Canadian tourist spending in the US has fallen 24% since 2024, mirrored by a 24% rise in non-US tourism spending.

Serbian leader Aleksandar Vučić concedes defeat in fiercely contested parliamentary election

Remember, this all started with Kevin Falcon kicking John Rustad out of the B.C. Liberals for retweeting climate science denialism

DAVID EBY ANNOUNCES HIS RESIGNATION AS LEADER OF THE NDP

Your periodic reminder that the DSA's official positon is that there should be an immediate end to military support to Ukraine as it defends itself from a genocidal imperialist invasion and that Putin was forced to commit war cimes by "the expansion of NATO." international.dsausa.org/ukraine/

“Vancouver, grow up.” Video by Bob Mackin of Colleen Hardwick last night insulting the intelligence of anyone who voted for Ken Sim four years ago or Pete Fry now. I wonder if her base will ever change their opinions on whether this rhetoric has been an effective way of expanding her support.

Humiliating and dangerous: Trump has now finally just made America an ally of the Kremlin and is aiding Putin in his war against an American friend and partner. Shameful betrayal of a US friend, and pathetic submission to a US enemy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Meanwhile, price monitoring shows that the price of diesel in the US has a no correlation with Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries. The ⬆️ in US diesel prices does have a very strong correlation with Trump's illegal and idiotic war on Iran. (2/2)

Mind-boggling. The sovereign citizen wallet inspector asked, and the tax agency just handed it over.

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

This chart in this morning's NYT is awfully misleading. Suggested edits in red to avoid any confusion.

Look, Zelensky signalling that the US has cut off all warning of Russian missile attacks on Ukraine.

Russian bot traffic has dropped to nearly 0 after Ukraine struck a Yandex data center in Vladimir, Russia

The Yandex datacenter in Vladimir received drone sanctions, and is currently being migrated to the cloud. According to the Yandex status board, all Yandex services are completely unavailable in Russia. Maybe targeting our datacenters was a bad idea. Enjoy your digital detox.📵

I agree with the 2026 Vancouver Police Department that you need to centre data when talking about crime and perceptions, and do it through long-term trends instead of short term fluctuations or individual stats. But that’s not how the 2020-2022 VPD talked about crime and perceptions.

Germany's right-wing AfD and left-wing BSW are preparing their first joint resolution in Saxony-Anhalt, calling for an end to military aid to Ukraine, the removal of sanctions on Russia, and the restoration of economic ties. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

BC NDP saying Conservatives must drop North Island candidate Anna Kindy, who said natural immunity (getting COVID-19) superior to "experimental" vaccines. Reportedly received disciplinary letters from College of Physicians and Surgeons. Served as party's health critic for 2 years. 2022 video:

yeesh www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

A city council candidate running for Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim’s ABC party is being sued by a company she helped co-found, which alleges she and two others misappropriated company funds. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Residential School denialism is done in the service of white supremacy and they are very, very clear about this link.

This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat

An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.

I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...

Ossoff: Blanche is a joke and a hack. These folks are not just corrupt, they're clowns. Here you have a Kremlin connected Russian oligarch giving massive cash gifts to the president's son…

AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...

Every day, I start my afternoon by reporting Russian attacks: on apartment buildings, private homes, shopping malls, civilian cars, gas stations, first responders, hospitals, civilian infrastructure, trains, buses, markets. ​By this time, we usually know how many people were killed overnight.

I am surprised to find I agree with pretty much everything Jen Gerson says in this interview. www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4GW...

you HAVE to get on board with beanie babies. beanie babies are going to leave you behind. you must devote your time to studying all the new beanie babies and how it impacts yuor life. also theyre alive and im in love with iggy the iguana

We’re under a ballistic missile attack here in Kyiv. Very loud. At least we were spared of attacks during Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff’s useless visit. 🤷🏿‍♀️

KALLAS: I’m happy to see Witkoff and Kushner visited Kyiv for the first time. What it meant for Ukrainians was 3 days of no bombing of civilians. That’s positive side. But we don’t see that Russia is really interested in peace because they still haven't made a single concession.

These snivelling cowards. Canadians will not forget that America treated Putin's Russia like its best friend and us like an enemy. Ever.

It is. And having grown up in Ukraine where we had these type of questions and joking answers for decades until they hit us, this isn’t funny or entertaining at all.

This is a good example of what @ntusikov.bsky.social and I have been warning about for years: US tech companies are uniquely susceptible to extra-legal US government pressure (Google isn’t compelled to change Lake Ontario’s name.) Because of this, they represent a direct threat to Canadian autonomy.

Americans hear "51st state" as Trump trolling. Canadians hear it as an existential threat to their sovereignty. That gap in perception is why Carney can't afford to look conciliatory, even if the economics of retaliation don't add up. This isn't just a trade war anymore.

There are a lot of you who seem to be overly concerned about people being rude to you when the people in question are a bit miffed that we're upending the global order and currently threatening to invade their country using a playbook from 12 years ago that is still currently ongoing

"Why negotiate at all?" Because if you glibly say no deal, every mayor, MP, employer, union in the many tariff affected cities will think you aren't taking this seriously. Going through the motion shows who the problem is.

I see some are stunned, so I’m just gonna repeat : YES RUSSIA BOMBED A SHOPPING MALL IN UKRAINE TODAY. YES WITH PEOPLE INSIDE. AND THEN AGAIN, WITH FIRST RESPONDERS. YES THERE ARE KILLED AND WOUNDED, MANY .

Sometimes in the Criterion Closet you can tell they’ve sent a list ahead of time because the movies they pull are set out on the shelf just a little bit and that is CHEATING. If you step into the Closet you must be prepared for Serendipity to take hold. Anything less is cowardice

it's crazy how the Canadian news is wall to wall coverage of impending tariff doom and Americans just seem to not care?

nice piece on trans and enby film variety.com/2026/film/fe...

lol. yes. just diplomacy harder 🙄

There’s “off the charts” and there’s France’s absolutely bonkers June & July 2026 temperatures (see black line below). Bad things are happening. Fast.