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We’re protecting existing affordable rental housing, to make sure Canadians can stay in the communities they call home.

"Impunity breeds...cynicism, and cynicism undergrads autocracy." "The first blow against autocracy is the refusal of cynical complacency." (No paywall. Support The Guardian.) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The people trying to bring us down say "your one purchase won't matter." They say it's cheaper and easier to give up and buy American. NO. We choose Canada. 🇨🇦 ✅ THIS WEEK: Buy something Canadian you've never tried before, and if you love it, tell us about it in the comments ⬇️ #BuyCanadian

Communities have been terrorized. The men who killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good have seen no accountability. Yet Republicans in Congress want even more billions for ICE at the cost of SNAP and Medicaid. Tell them no. act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-yo...

The vice president of the United States is just standing up here saying people should feel sorry for domestic terrorists who were given free and fair trials and were then convicted in a court of law. Absolutely despicable.

All together now! ... "But Nige did take five million quid, and Nige would take five million more!" 💥💥💥 #RefUKkers

Pure joy!

Relevant 22 years later

Trump fires all 24 members of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s governing body Dismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence. www.science.org/content/arti...

Those of us in the pro-democracy movement can and should hold both of these positions. 1. We unequivocally reject violence. 2. We will unequivocally oppose efforts by this administration to use last night as an excuse to try to suppress criticism and criminalize dissent.

You know how piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre’s 🍁MAGA band of KuKluxKonvoyers, anti-vaxxers, gun cultists, anti-abortionists and Alberta separatists keep saying 🇨🇦Canada under PM Carney isn’t taken seriously anymore? Well, just watch Lawrence O’Donnell on 🇺🇸US network television: youtu.be/7gamzMLB8rw?...

Our plan is creating more certainty, more security, and more prosperity for all Canadians.

44 years ago today, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was signed into law. It laid the foundation for a stronger, more just Canada. It is up to us all to protect the values of freedom and equality enshrined in the Charter — to keep building a better Canada, for all.

Trump is reportedly being sidelined by his own military leaders amid escalating tensions with Iran. As he renews war crime threats against Iranian civilian infrastructure and claims of a “deal” fall apart, Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz and says, as of now, they plan to skip any talks.

This is the reason the stock market is completely disconnected from the real economy.

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Why we get our lumber from Canada and SHOULDN’T be plundering our National Forests

Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United. No Supreme Court ruling or constitutional amendment needed. Here's how it works. https://youtu.be/p1fPbGHe3xE?si=QZRQImV8KYD5Y90r

WATCH THIS: This is still possibly the most comprehensive interview I’ve done on smart urban transportation for better cities. Filmed in Vienna for a planned Paris-based documentary that never got finished, but he put it on-line for me. Watch it, quote it, and please help spread it around. Thanks!

Pleased to see our Prime Minister standing with international law against the proposed war crimes being planned by Donald Trump and his gangster regime. nationalnewswatch.com/2026/04/07/c...

"Responsibility". How's that for a stated priority of gov't? Astonishingly awesome, IMO. PM Carney leadership: We 🇨🇦 have a great responsibility - protecting, being the caretakers of what we inherited. 'This is the responsibility that gov't is acting on with focus and unwavering determination.'

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Was this insider trading?

No Kings. Find your event for this Saturday, March 28th. www.nokings.org #NoKings

"Not paying taxes is a scary thing to do. Nevertheless, many war tax resisters never face consequences," writes @claravondrich.bsky.social.

If you work in healthcare directly with patients, and have been thinking about 🇨🇦 Canada, keep reading. Then visit healthcareinfusion.org and nanaimoinfusion.ca Canada believes in evidence-based care and treating patients like humans, not line items. Come to Canada. You already have friends here.

The insidious globalization of Project 2025 has been seen in 1000 news items over the last few years. It is certainly creeping into Canada (via Poilievre). Beware.

OMG. Read this concise description of demented rambling. Explains why I cannot tolerate listening to you-know-who.

The members of the Irish-language rap trio Kneecap have joined an international aid convoy to Cuba. The musicians are part of a group of public figures and aid organisations descending on the island by air and sea this week with medicine, water, food, solar panels and other supplies. (RTÉ News)

PM Carney getting the real work done. ♥️🇨🇦

"The chain of events -- the disabling of counter-terror; the war on Iran; the terror attack; the attempt to cancel elections -- might not be completed. The last piece that has to fall into place is ... Our reaction." "Let me cite lesson 18 of On Tyranny: 18. Be calm when the unthinkable arrives...."

oh my god? i mean i know fox crossed the rubicon a long time ago but…oh my god? youre supposed to be a “news” network and oh my god?

"The only ones who need to be worried right now is the Iranians who think they're gonna live" -Pete Hegseth, Very Normal Guy

In a phone interview with Israel’s Channel 12, Trump demanded President Herzog to give Netanyahu a pardon “today,” saying he doesn’t want Netanyahu distracted by anything other than the war with Iran. He called Herzog “a disgrace”, who “promised me 5 times”, adding: “Tell him I’m exposing him.”

Wise words by Spanish PM.

🧵 Providing some context on the current situation: This past Friday, February 27, 2026, Oman’s Foreign Minister joined Face the Nation to share a critical update on the ongoing negotiations at that time. ⬇️

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

ICE recruits should be the first ones shipped off for “war.”

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1.5 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. The military industrial complex is cheering today.

Americans voted for him. How does one vote for a 34 convicted felon and put him in the White House. Please explain.

Marco Rubio, parroting Putin puppet Trump, puts invader Russia and defender Ukraine on the same moral level. The monsters in the Trump regime would argue that a rapist and a rape victim should "come to an understanding" and "end the violence" while the assault was underway.