Canada Resists
@canada-resists.bsky.social
Concerned Canadian citizen and professor. Interested in world politics, US politics, and US-Canadian relations https://substack.com/@canresist?r=53y6ng&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile
PBS is under attack from Congress and the White House. Now it’s waffling on whether to show a film that has “trans themes.” @engber.bsky.social reports on the fate of the movie “Break the Game”:
PBS Pulled a Film for Political Reasons, Then Changed Its Mind
A window into how the network is handling the new Trump era
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Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
washingtonpost.com
Sounds like Poilieve who plans to penalize publically funded universities in 🇨🇦for their 'wokeism' which he uses to describe institutions that protect concepts of academic freedom & freedom of expression Stuff of authoritarians 1/2 www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada/... #TimbitTrump #NeverPoilievre
‘Woke ideology’: Quebec professors denounce Poilievre’s pledge to end certain university research funding
Campaign promise is an “intrusion on university autonomy and academic freedom.”
montrealgazette.com
Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov · last yr.Says the guy whose charity was shut down by the state of New York for making illegal campaign contributions.
Maybe Mike and Rudy should become roommates to save on rent.
Republicans Against Trumpism@rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · last yr.NEW: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell told a federal judge Wednesday that he has no money to pay the thousands in sanctions imposed in a lawsuit over his false election fraud claims. “I'm in ruins," “I don’t have $5,000 or 5 cents,” Lindell said. SAD!
US Faces $6 Billion Loss as Canadian Tourism Nosedives Forward bookings from #Canada 🇨🇦 to the U.S. have fallen by more than 70% for every month through to the end of September compared to the same period last year. #ArtOfTheBANKRUPTCY #MOG8 #ElbowsUP www.newsweek.com/us-canada-to...
US faces $6 Billion loss as Canadian tourism nosedives
Some Canadians are boycotting the US as a trade war between the countries continues.
newsweek.com
The Trump administration has quietly doubled down on its decision to stop sending emergency food to children starving in Bangladesh, Somalia, and other countries. Without urgent intervention, these children might die within months, @hana-kiros.bsky.social reports.
Emergency Food for 3 Million Children Is Stuck in DOGE Limbo
Elon Musk said he would preserve lifesaving aid to foreign children. Then the Trump administration quietly canceled it.
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The White House basically gave Boasberg no choice. And unless they start cooperating very quickly, possibly even if they do, they’re looking at criminal contempt like a freight train. That’s going to raise some tricky issues of penalty, but the underlying finding should be secure. What total jerks.
A top adviser of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was escorted from the Pentagon on Tuesday as part of an investigation into an unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information, a U.S. defense official said.
Top Pentagon Adviser Dan Caldwell Put on Leave in Leak Probe
Dan Caldwell, who has accompanied Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to meetings with foreign officials, was escorted from the Pentagon.
nytimes.com
Wading into the trade war, Hong Kong said that its postal service will no longer send packages to the U.S.
Hong Kong Suspends Packages to the U.S., Wading Into the Trade War
The move comes before President Trump’s planned imposition of new tariffs on small packages sent to the United States from Hong Kong and China.
nytimes.com
The demands placed on Harvard by the Trump administration are internally contradictory, @chatterton.bsky.social writes. Their confrontation with the university is “a crusade for so-called freedom that is completely destructive of liberty and independence.”
Trump’s Harvard Whiplash
The demands the Trump administration is placing on the university are internally contradictory.
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Some major public institutions in Canada, including a pension management firm and a leading hospital, are advising staff against traveling to the US.
Avoid US or Take Burner Devices, Canadian Executives Tell Staff
Some major public institutions in Canada, including a pension management firm and a leading hospital, are advising staff against traveling to the US, marking a greater erosion in the country’s longsta...
bloomberg.com
Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
Prosecutors say the operation was aimed at gathering information to foil lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry over damage communities have faced from climate change.
Climate activists were hacked. There was a link between the victims and an alleged attacker
Prosecutors say the operation was aimed at gathering information to foil lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry over damage communities have faced from climate change.
npr.org
"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in. The attempts were 'near real-time'... "Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts..." www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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The case of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a brutal prison in El Salvador is a test for the limits of presidential power — and the rule of law. Listen to "The Daily."
Trapped Abroad: The Man at the Center of a Constitutional Standoff
The case of a man mistakenly deported to a brutal prison in El Salvador is a test for the limits of presidential power — and the rule of law.
nytimes.com
'There’s a reason why pharmaceutical tariffs are zero. It’s because tariffs can create disruptions in the supply chain, leading to shortages,' said the chief executive of Johnson and Johnson on.ft.com/4jvT49Q
Fantastic initiative substack.com/@leslyejoyal...
Leslye Joy Allen, Historian on Substack
I love to post about my hometown of Atlanta’s Library Dads which is made up of young Black fathers who routinely take their small children to the public library. “Books, Bonding, and Brotherhood” I ...
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Van Hollen: "If the president gets to shred the Constitution and ignore the Supreme Court in this case, it is a very short path to the president ignoring court orders in other cases. So every American should care about this."
Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process. Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.
Canadians: Did you know you can vote right now?! We just got back, and we were the only ones there. Check your location: www.elections.ca/home.aspx
Elections Canada - Home page for the 2025 Federal Election
Find all the information you need to know to vote in the 2025 federal election. You will learn whether you are registered to vote, where to vote, what your riding is, who the candidates in your ridin...
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In a new report, Sarah Stillman investigates deaths related to starvation, dehydration, and neglect in county jails across the U.S.—a crisis that at times has been covered up by private health companies and government officials. nyer.cm/hMT7u9R
In defiance of the Supreme Court & without any evidence, the White House claims that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a “terrorist,” who was “sent to the right place.” This is a blatant LIE. He is innocent. He cannot be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. He must be brought home.
Breaking News: The White House is said to be planning to ask Congress to rescind $1.1 billion in federal funding from public media, including NPR and PBS.
White House to Ask Congress to Rescind Funding From NPR and PBS
The Trump administration plans to ask Congress to rescind $1.1 billion in federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides some funding for public media in the United States...
nytimes.com
Ann Coulter’s endorsement of Pierre Poilievre is another great reason to vote for Mark Carney 🍁
