Alison Munson

Alex Pretti’s Parents Say Federal Government Is Silent on Investigation www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/u...

If Brazil can reject Trump, the Broligarchs and right-wing authoritarianism, so can we.

🗳️🇨🇦 CBC projects Olivia Chow has won a second term as Toronto mayor! Alvin Tedjo wins Mississauga, Tito-Dante Marimpietri is projected to win Oshawa, and housing advocate Chiara Padovani is projected to unseat Frances Nunziata. What should local leaders tackle first?

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star

Trump admin arrests Colorado priest. Incarcerates him for over a year. Judge orders him released without charges. They release him without the wheelchair he needs -- other prisoners have to bodily carry him out. He's now being tested for latent TB: www.newsfromthestates.com/article/colo...

Our taxpayer dollars have funded this white supremacist trillionaire who is using his winnings—some half a billion dollars—to try and shove Republican candidates down our throats and avoid investigation and prosecution. www.americaamerica.news/p/how-long-c...

Every 5 year old has tried this one 🙃

This admission alone is an impeachable offense

Rest in Peace, Julio. Another teen lost to bullying and ICE. 💔 www.centredaily.com/news/nation-...

Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia. I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.

“The province produces 90 per cent of Canada's maple syrup and more than 70 per cent of the world’s supply.” “The PPAQ says it's not time to panic. That said, we are hoping for an exceptional season so that we can replenish the reserve." 🍁

A poll by Nature in 2025 showed that 75% of researchers considered leaving the country due to research disruptions, funding cuts, etc. Other countries are offering our scientists opportunities to do research. If you want people stay, vote blue in November. 🧪 apnews.com/article/trum...

This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

wow

Nearly 2 in 3 U.S. adults younger than 30 who plan to vote in midterms say their main motivation is to oppose Trump and his policies, according to a new Harvard Youth Poll. 77% disapprove of Trump's handling of the economy — including about half of young Republicans.

OUCH. Bloc Québécois MP @patbonin.bsky.social absolutely clears the environment minister in this clip on Bill C-39. My translation: “It’s sad to see the minister who is giving the impression of wanting to convince herself that the bill that’s directly under her purview isn’t a disaster.

🚨 The federal government is trying to steamroll ahead with major projects by weakening nature protections through Bill C-39, The Bulldoze Nature Bill. #ProtectNature @greenpeaceca.bsky.social Email your MP to tell them to oppose the Bulldoze Nature Bill: act.gp/47x9jje

Pleased to share our paper in @funecology.bsky.social authored by Morgane Dendocker, examining root #traits of temperate tree seedlings. We excavated more than 300 seedlings from 7 temperate tree species to investigate the drivers of variation in root traits related to water uptake.

Nation shocked as Alberta makes good decision

Toronto advocates are putting their bodies on the line to protect a bike lane the province wants to rip out - and and to fight a wave of anti-bike lane sentiment that this writer warns is sweeping the whole continent. @usa.streetsblog.org

“The 56-year-old Mexican man who died Saturday while in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody was a lawful permanent resident in the country, the agency said in a statement a day after The Texas Tribune reported about his death.”

The decisions and actions taken by the White House, for Russia and against Ukraine and others, constitute a vast and systematic pattern, clearly intended to help the Russian war effort, undermine Ukraine's fight for national survival, and harm other democracies that stand in Moscow's way.

Why are Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China pushing to delay the release of the IPCC’s seventh assessment report (AR7) on climate science? 🤔

A Trump-Putin-Xi meeting would revive the oldest illusion in great-power politics: that the world can be settled by deals among the strong. But the war against #Ukraine isn't about three capitals. Countries are not bargaining chips, and their futures are not for others to decide.

Canadians are uniting to oppose Carney's MAGA-style attacks on workers www.hilltimes.com/2026/10/15/r...

Poland’s foreign minister says US has contributed nothing to Ukraine’s defence since January 2025. EU now pays for US weapons, enriching US defence manufacturers, while Trump threatens to cut off supplies unless Ukraine stops striking Russian refineries.

De Adder

Crazy this is not obvious to Wall Street: every democracy saw what Musk did to Ukraine last week and confirmed security need for Starlink alternative. Those alternatives will not just serve defense needs, but also be viable commercial alternatives, crushing any hope of SpaceX's monopoly projections.

And also, this: Do they imagine that, as a Muslim man in America, El-Sayed has never considered how he'd answer that particular question? That he doesn't know how the Christian Right might respond to an Arabic name? Do they, in their wildest fantasies, think that this will be a surprise to him?

Meanwhile at a tRump rally......

just «wow»

October 17th: No Kings: Vote early: .. (cartoon David Horsey) #politics

Republican politicians are *obsessed* with schoolchildren coming home a different gender because of pro-trans teachers, WHICH NEVER HAPPENS. But they are completely indifferent to schoolchildren not coming home *at all* because of guns, WHICH HAPPENS ALL THE TIME!

“Pro-life” apparently comes with an execution clause.

We could choose another way but instead we choose, time and again, dead kids.

NEW: The order to throttle Starlink (Starshield) came from the White House to the Pentagon. I still think Elon was involved, though. He’s currently a Pentagon employee as well www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Helen Branswell, whose reporting on infectious diseases and public health drew acclaim, dies at 69 of complications from cancer. Veteran Canadian journalist’s coverage was marked by clarity and nuance at times of crisis. www.statnews.com/2026/10/13/h... via @statnews.com #journalism

this is an SNL cold open come to life. she can barely read

Concluding the meeting with the American delegation in the US two days ago, after receiving a tirade of threats from Trump officials, Ukraine's Budanov turned when leaving and said, "We are now going to burn every last Russian refinery and every last port to hell. All of it, down to the final one."