My most law-and-order chud opinion is that mens rea shouldn't exist for automobile offences. Getting in the driver's seat and operating the vehicle should be sufficient proof that you had care and control of it.

John Michael McGrath@jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 6h ago

Canadian courts, man. Motorist drives his car into an intersection past multiple visible red lights, kills a child, and two lower courts declare the "momentary" lapse in attention sufficient to avoid conviction; a bare majority of the SCC orders a new trial. decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-...

Credit where it’s due: the Canada-EU joint statement is meaty. 44 substantive sections. They’ve put the work in Everything from the ICC and UN, to cyber, labour mobility, space, AI, the Arctic, drug smuggling and more www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

Joint Statement: Canada and the European Union building together an Alliance for the Future

Today we, the Leaders of Canada and the European Union (EU), at our 21st Summit in Montréal, launch the Canada-EU Alliance for the Future to create a common prosperity and economic security space.

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The federal government commissioned an industry-dominated task force on the pharmaceutical sector. By Joel Lexchin www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Is Canada about to give the pharma industry its wishlist? | CCPA

The federal government commissioned an industry-dominated task force on the pharmaceutical sector

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I’m not interested in coming into the mentions of the fuckwits who piss and whine about how voting is ontologically evil to yell at them, but I refuse to be kind if they try to demand moral absolution from me for failing to do the bare minimum that was required in 2024 to save millions of lives.

Just going to reshare my defence of the welfare state…

The state should be there when things go wrong in our lives

Some years ago, just after I had become a parent for the first time and got a job I probably shouldn’t have got, I was stopped in my tracks…

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First National security strategy in 20 years just dropped www.canada.ca/content/dam/...

Civil disobedience is preferable to civil war, and civil war is preferable to tyranny (even though is sucks very, very badly)

Louder for those in the back The UCP's gerrymandering should be of concern to every Canadian, no matter what political affiliation Because if Smith & the UCP can gerrymander Alberta, then your provincial government can gerrymander your province This needs to be challenged #cdnpoli #ableg #abpoli 🇨🇦

Naheed Nenshi@naheednenshi.bsky.social · 2d ago

In Canada, we don’t allow rigged elections. But the UCP keeps breaking democratic norms by giving themselves the power to redraw Alberta's new election maps. It's a blatant attempt to cheat in the next election. We will always fight for fair elections.

Once again the media is describing things the government is itself explicitly planning to do as mere allegations emanating from the opposition.

National Newswatch@nationalnewswatch.com · 2d ago

Alberta Opposition NDP says UCP cooking riding boundaries ahead of election nationalnewswatch.com/2026/10/28/a...

I can assure Europeans that none of us cared what we call this, and jettisoning the term does the federal government a favour given the misunderstandings it was causing in day-to-day discourse. www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...

EU set to scrap ‘associate member’ offer for Canada

A group of countries including Germany, Italy, Greece and France all objected to mentioning associate membership in a joint EU-Canada statement.

politico.eu

RCMP lay 42 charges against P.E.I. "Progressive" CONSERVATIVE Party's official agent related to 2025 donations. #cdnpoli Donations made in excess of what the act permits, record keeping in terms of receipts, failing to make reports & knowingly making false reports." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

RCMP lay 42 charges against P.E.I. PC Party's official agent related to 2025 donations | CBC News

An investigation centred around donations made to the P.E.I. Progressive Conservatives has resulted in police laying 42 charges against the party's official agent.

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I think there may be people who haven’t heard of this incident, since the movie hasn’t been made yet, so:

Janne M. Korhonen@jmkorhonen.fi · 9mo ago

So I just learned about the 1986 airplane hijacking attempt in #Oulu, #Finland, and now you too are going to. Because I burst out laughing in a train reading about it. It has: ✔️beer (lots)! ✔️hijinks! ✔️weird occult Nazis! ✔️✔️✔️"HYPNOTIC-MAGNETIC GAZE!" Why oh why this isn't a movie yet! (a THREAD.)

You really just need to hang someone who does this

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 3d ago

Jared Kushner was allegedly paid $50 million by a foreign government to get former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson fired. trib.al/gANTbMx

Cleveland-Cliffs' self-described position is that they bought stelco with the intention of producing less steel. I dont see how we arent forcing the harshest penalty possible

Scott Robertson@sarobertson.bsky.social · 3d ago

Cleveland-Cliffs CEO: I bought Stelco because I could not afford anymore having Stelco flooding the market here in the United States to the detriment of my own company. David Cochrane: Am I understanding you correctly there? It was a defensive acquisition?

Every Ukraine backer who argued Trump would not be so bad, Trump could be persuaded to back Ukraine, that Trump was getting irritated with Putin, that the US just wanted peace--should have the basic decency to admit that they made it all up. Trump was with Putin, always.

Sure seems like ICE had three deaths in 24 hours, knew how bad it would look, and are trying to draw it out so people won’t notice.

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Israel has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Occupied Palestinian Territory amid continuing genocide in Gaza, UN Commission of Inquiry finds

NEW YORK – Israel has committed war crimes and the crimes against humanity of extermination, persecution, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, intent...

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Many complicated reasons for this but at some point we are going to have reckon with the fact that our economic movers and shakers seem *apathetic* at best to democracy and are nigh untouchable via our current systems

Lewis Wade 🗃️@wadehistory.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's very, very telling, I think, that the markets are so concerned about the pro-democracy incumbent winning

Putin: “Russia is exploring the possibility of cooperation with the US in the Arctic.” Just a reminder of Trump’s lies that he wanted Greenland to keep Russia out of the Arctic.

"This was identified early on as the likely outcome." From the Spanish-American War to the Banana Wars, the heavy hand of US business interests has always influenced, if not outright controlled, US policy in the Americas.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 5d ago

In August, President Trump announced he had signed the “biggest oil deal in world history.” ProPublica reviewed the deal and found it gives a small group of people largely handpicked by the Trump administration long-term control of the enterprise.

This is a reasonable summary of where we're at. Our non-US trade has declined substantially (although thats mostly in the gold) and even excluding gold, we have increased exports to other countries, so far the strategy is working. But we need to get moving on manufacturing

How Canada is Decoupling From the US

In Response to Trump’s Tariffs, Canada Has Successfully Boosted non-US Trade to Record Highs—But it Remains Deeply Tied to America

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May 7, 1945, gathered for a service. Chaplain George “Chappie” Wood addressed his remarks to the people of Ludwigslust: 1/n “The crimes here committed in the name of the German people and by their acquiescence were minor compared to those found in other German concentration camps

BC nobly sacrifices good governance to teach one man about hubris

BC nobly sacrifices good governance to teach one man about hubris

VICTORIA - The electorate of British Columbia – a province with a population of roughly 5.7 million – has officially and heroically voted against its own self-interest with the sole intention of teach...

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The recent Starlink / Starshield incident in Ukraine has created a dangerous precedence for the US export industry, many haven't yet grasped. The sudden deactivation respectively curtailing of those systems without warning not only cost precious lives, but also equipment worth millions.

Whether it is Starlink, the F-35, Tomahawk missiles or HIMARS. All those systems run on software and in many cases can only properly operate with recent updates. You don't even need have a kill switch.

Trump and Musk have given the best reason why not to buy American. Customers - governmental and private alike - around the globe will take note of this and act accordingly, and I wouldn't be surprised if this won't be limited to US military products only.

Here is where I want to focus in. The Biden administration tried to return to normal, to reset back to historic norms under the belief/assumption that Trump 1 was some sort of historical aberration. 1/

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · 7d ago

History doesn't reset the day after Trump. It's not automatic back to normal, yay democracy won. We will still have a republic that is gravely wounded and bleeding out. Defeating the current assailant doesn't mean you've stopped the bleeding. The wounds are still there and still potentially fatal.

Turns out the Biden admin was the aberration. A brief interregnum where an admin fiddled as the US smoldered before it was reignited into a conflagration that is burning everything to the ground. None of the actual leaders & planners for the events of 6 January 2021 were held accountable. 2/

And so an American Rubicon was crossed. The revolt against the constitution & constitutional order never ended. It was rolled into the GOP's 2022 midterm campaigns & Trump's 2024 presidential campaign. And it eventually paid out w/his reelection & GOP majority control of Congress. 8/

This 🧵 isn't meant to demoralize, it's not meant to critize Andy's point, which is the only correct one. Accountability must come & it must be swift, severe, transparent, & final! 19/