Power is out from the storm that just rolled through, who knows for how long, so I’m eating all the ice cream before it melts in the fridge. You can never be too careful.

Having run the gauntlet of cancelling a Sirius XM Canada subscription recently - which REQUIRES a phone call - I would totally support federal legislation to make one click subscription cancellation mandatory. www.commondreams.org/news/mamdani...

Mamdani Announces 'Click-to-Cancel' Rule to Combat Subscription Traps, Junk Fees | Common Dreams

"If you can sign up with one click, you can cancel with one click," said New York City's democratic socialist mayor.

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$3-billion for a gas turbine plant, $18-billion for a previously shelved hydro generating station, GHG emissions and impacts on the watershed be damned. Manitoba could roll out an awful lot of grid scale solar, wind + battery storage for that kind of money, and incrementally at that. Wab is con.

Bartley Kives@bkives.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What we now know is while Kinew was making these statements in the fall, senior officials in his government were speaking to energy advisors at global financial services company Rothschild & Co. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Public transit should be free.

Winnipeg Free Press@winnipegfreepress.com · 2mo ago

More than 11,000 bus rides have been denied since a Winnipeg Transit crackdown began on riders who don’t pay fares.

The Fourth Estate is in sad shape, and not just in America.

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · 3mo ago

Trust in American journalism is at all time lows and it boggles my mind how my industry peers believe rubbing elbows with people who for the last decade called you enemy of the state, who spy on you, who lie to you daily, is good for the industry or society. History will not look kindly. (1/2)

Pete Kegbreath really is as dumb as a stump.

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4mo ago

Make this make sense.

It’s all a performance for Canada’s culture clown. provincialtimes.ca/adams-jivani...

ADAMS: Jivani’s Bible stunt was a gift to the Liberals and a disservice to Religious Conservatives

The Bible stunt was proof that the CPC has lost the plot.

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Damn, it sure would be awful if a theocratic rogue state had access to nuclear weapons.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Hegseth: "May almighty God continue to bless our troops in this fight. To the American people, please pray for them every day on bended knee with your family, in your schools, in your churches, in the name of Jesus Christ."

Put it in the Uffizi.

CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Italy beats the USA 8-6

Danielle Smith and her UCP minions are Maple MAGATs in everything but name. Free societies don’t suppress authors and ideas. Read banned books, and pay attention to school board elections. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

By the book: Alberta schools pull at least 160 titles from shelves to meet provincial order | CBC News

Alberta school divisions complying with a provincial order have removed dozens of graphic novels from their shelves, from illustrated versions of literary classics to coming-of-age memoirs and dramati...

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Ben Mulroney is living proof that you can’t fix stupid, but you can syndicate it.

Most of the footage you see from ICE observers in Minnesota comes from the core cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. I talked to observers in the northern suburbs, who say they're taking on the same mission in very different conditions. (1) share.google/ei9giIFLsuEJ...

Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved

After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.

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I’m old enough to remember when people took Royce Koop’s opinions seriously.

Dale Smith@journodale.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I get that this is the start of Stephen Harper Nostalgia Week, but seriously? Housing prices doubled under Harper. Defence spending fell below 1% of GDP. "National identity" only mattered if you were an "old stock" straight white guy. Anything "better" was because the world wasn't going to shit.

Good to see. Doubling or tripling Canada’s electrical capacity will be no mean feat. w.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/21/news/federal-electricity-strategy-ottawa-carney

Ottawa plotting a high stakes clean energy strategy

After dismantling many of the climate policies put in place by the previous government, Prime Minister Mark Carney has quietly directed his government to craft a national electricity strategy.

nationalobserver.com

Live feed: www.youtube.com/live/l_7JA-3...

BREAKING: ICE SHOOTS ANOTHER IN MINNEAPOLIS, TEAR GASSING OBSERVERS AT SCENE

YouTube video by MeidasTouch

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Thanks for the 54% price increase, Adobe.

Evergreen cartoon.

There’s journalism, then there’s @cnn.com appearing to do journalism.

CNN@cnn.com · 9mo ago

Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise questions about Trump’s on-the-job performance.

There’s not nearly enough outrage about the fact that Original KD isn’t, in fact, the original. The pasta is inferior.

EDITORIAL | Inuk man's suggestion to release #Marineland belugas into the wild is better than killing them in capitivity #Nunavik #Nunavut #Iqaluit #Inuit nunatsiaq.com/stories/arti...

Releasing Marineland’s belugas into the wild beats the alternative

Life in the state of nature is “nasty, brutish and short,” according to English philosopher Thomas Hobbes. That’s why 30 captive-born beluga whales at the Marineland amusement park in Niagara Falls, O...

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I’m going to miss NY Yankees fan reaction videos tbh

If you read only one thing today, read this letter written from prison, where she has been languishing for several months, by the awesome Georgian journalist Mzia Amaghobeli. She dared to speak the truth to the Moscow's puppets. EU leaders don't have her courage. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

From my prison cell in Georgia, I implore Europe not to abandon us to Russia | Mzia Amaglobeli

My fellow journalists are putting their lives in danger every day, but we refuse to surrender to a regime that threatens Europe’s own security, says imprisoned Georgian journalist Mzia Amaglobeli

theguardian.com

A federal judge in Oregon has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from deploying the National Guard in Portland.

Federal judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from deploying troops in Portland

A federal judge in Oregon has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from deploying the National Guard in Portland. U.S.

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Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 10mo ago

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance However, they are weaker than they look…

Given the coverage of my piece published yesterday in the leading French daily @lemonde.fr, I felt I should release a slightly expanded version for subscribers to my IR blog #TenzerStrategics. Thank you to the newspaper for giving me permission to do so. tenzerstrategics.substack.com/p/any-restra...

Any Restraint on Europe’s Part in Responding to Russia’s War Would Encourage Aggression

For Our Own Security, It Is Time to Stop De-Escalating

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This f*cking guy. “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis

Raw Story@rawstory.com · 11mo ago

MAGA influencer Benny Johnson called on President Donald Trump and his administration to 'wield the sword' against the enemies of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk during Kirk's memorial service in Glendale, Arizona, on Sunday.

Manitoba is recruiting. “Calling all U.S. health care professionals looking for new and exciting career opportunities in Manitoba, Canada!” www.practiceinmanitoba.com

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Progressive conservative would be more accurate. Politics abhors a vacuum. “At the partisan level, Carney has created a degree of unrest in his own caucus and portions of his base… There has been such an obvious shift to the political right that Carney is routinely described as a “conservative.””

Crawford Kilian@crof.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Canadians Are Cooling to Carney via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Waning crescent Moon (28% illuminated) with earth shine on the unlit side, accompanied by Jupiter in the morning sky.