The Tyee doing apologism for the tobacco is disappointing but not shocking given the quality of their usual output these days.
The Tyee@thetyee.ca · 2d agoCelebrity influence goes a long way, but what’s resuscitating cigarettes and glamorizing smoking most of all is modern life: how much it sucks, writes @harrisonmooney.bsky.social 🚬 thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...
I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.
"if there was a cure to cancer they wouldnt sell it to you, to sell you chemo instead" (actual market): holy fuck these guys mightve cured melanoma BUY BUY BUY
Metro North Capital@metronorthcapital.bsky.social · 5d agoDamn, market really liked those trial results $MRNA
there’s an important lesson in Abdul El-Sayed’s win and Francesca Hong’s loss, and that is that in politics it’s good to be cool and bad to be weird.
The Liberals are once again selling us out to the Americans. Carney never bought into 'elbows up', he just said it to get you to vote for him.
Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦@emmettmacfarlane.com · 2w agoFuuuuuck this capitulating, weak-ass, Neville Chamberlain-level bullshit. Our line should be either Trump drops ALL of his tariffs and his attacks on Canada's sovereignty or we start banning even more American shit. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
We’re beyond grateful to our friends and partners in Mexico for sending hundreds of firefighters to B.C. They’re joining a team of roughly 2,000 wildfire service personnel who are working tirelessly to get these fires under control.
Saw this photo from yesterday of the free bike valet service yesterday in #VictoriaBC for the free Canadian Snowbirds performance over the ocean along Dallas Road. Wow #YYJ you are doing the #cyclinglife great, setting an example for the rest of #NorthAmerica let alone #Canada. #gobbybike #bikesky
A new chapter for health care in BC starts today. The first class has begun at the SFU Stephens Family School of Medicine.
This is actual antisemitism - not because it’s criticizing Israel, but because it attributes agency over all migration to Israel, with no evidence. This is just the Great Replacement conspiracy, and it is ultimately far-right. Such conspiracism is going to destroy the left, if it isn’t policed.
If Polanski can hypnotize people into having bigger breasts maybe he can hypnotize the British nation into having a functional economy
Max Blumenthal: "The country that sits on the largest oil reserves is being controlled by the ZOGosphere."
An important part of the polling conversation is that annexing canada and bombing iran have roughly similar approvals prior to it happening. Which like obviously we shouldnt freak out, its not imminent. But the idea that public opinion can stop the 20% is pretty wild to me!
If the breaking point for Democrats, voters or members of the US military being willing to stand up in support of Canadian sovereignty is whether or not Canada defends its sovereignty with anything worse than harsh language, what is the alliance even worth?
American imperialists like Carl here don’t seem to understand this. But we’re a sovereign country, and invading soldiers must die. Even American liberals cannot be trusted to understand this or genuinely oppose them invading us; and they ask us to trust that we wouldn’t even need to fight back?
Dead Carl@deadcarl.bsky.social · 4w agoWhat precise political benefits do you expect from armed resistance that outweigh the costs in that scenario?
Cenk Uygur blames Israel for the Graham Platner rape accusation and negative Trump stories. "Our media in America is basically run by Israel, so when I see tons of attacks at the same against anyone, whether it's Graham Platner or it's Trump, it usually means the Israeli lobby's pissed..."
MARK CARNEY, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...
Carney government cut nearly half the jobs at nerve centre for managing wildfires: union
The Carney government cut about 50 positions from the federal nerve centre responsible for managing forest fires, the union says.
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Say what you will about soviet economics but at least they read goddamn books
Abandonment Isles 🌐🏴🇱🇹@oosaemitter.bsky.social · last mo.The fall of the Soviet Union knocked a good 10 IQ points from the Western Left.
Yeah. Compare NK & Iran, both on the bomb path; versus Libya who stepped back and Syria who got knocked back. We should ask the French to keep a Triomphant on patrol near St. Pierre & Miquelon for the time being.
I’m not really sure what could have been done to stop N. Korea getting the bomb, but then getting it and the US proceeding to stop fucking with them has really taught the world a pretty bad lesson. All that said, Canada needs nukes.
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · last mo.Nuclear proliferation will be one of Trump’s biggest legacies. Accepted North Korea’s nukes and let Iran out of nuclear restrictions in exchange for nothing in term 1. In term 2, made US allies think they need their own deterrent, now authorizing Saudi uranium enrichment without normal safeguards.
tl;dr: Canadians who think there's a master plan being hatched at the Legion of Doom and this isn't nonsensical flailing are wrong and Americans who think this is reassuring are wrong because it's like saying "Don't worry about the taxi driver, he's just drunk" to someone you're sharing a cab with.
The smol bean-ing of the sinking of a warship by some weird Argentinian fascists and their sympathizers is so weird and disrespectful to their veterans. The captain hated this shit. The ship could have been in port in Buenos Ares, and it still would have been a legal & legit military target.
Pete Marchetto@petemarchetto.bsky.social · last mo.Oh. Right. Okay. ... Well, I'll give that a good thinking about, then. Look, I was of voting age all the way through that wretched war. The two most notable things about it was Thatcher's sinking of the Belgrano to force it into a shooting match, and the fact that the victory reversed...
"If a bird is within 50 feet of a coop, it probably belongs to the owner of that coop, so don't fuck with it. birds further out are probably wild birds, and thus open to be collected." "what if a bird has one leg within range and one leg out?" "what if you shut the fuck up?" Bava Batra.23b7
We actually very much cannot currently power our shipping fleets and a lot of industry and long haul flights with renewables. The technology isn’t actually there yet. This is the exact described problem.
Teeklin@teeklin.bsky.social · last mo.Okay but 80% of global CO2 emissions are coming from just 57 fossil fuel producers. Yes, the emissions are coming from powering things like our energy grid and factories and shipping fleets...but we can power all of those things with renewables if we so choose without impact anyone's personal life.
Pretty important to give American Jews an off-ramp from Zionism, and "actualizing the most deranged gut-level fear in the Jewish psyche" is uhhhhh a pretty horrible way to go about that.
I love that the article says the DCs "may" use up 33 million litres of water per year. That sounds bad until you know Metro Van uses 1-1.5 billion a day. So then SYK goes that's a lot when it in fact is not.
two wrongs don't make a right but what if we did three wrongs
It can mean a movement for Jewish self-determination; or for Israel’s right to exist; or a desire for equal rights for Jews; or supporting all Israeli actions, no matter what; or belief that Jews are superior to non-Jews; or a system of racism and apartheid; or a movement to drive out Palestinians.
According to a new CASJE review of recent surveys, “Zionism” means anything. Or nothing, depending on who you ask. 🧵
What Do People Mean When They Say “Zionism”? | CASJE | GSEHD | GW
CASJE Research Digest Vol 3 Issue 4
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