Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦
Inadequate cat servant. Husband. Dad. Historian of #CdnImm. Public & oral history. Museums. Bikes. PhD candidate (Hist) @ Carleton. Kjipuktuk / Hfx.
(He/him)
- “Critics don't want any development or jobs associated with development so we are unsurprised by their statement,” the [Nova Scotia Department of Energy] said. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
- Once again, the pathetic & needlessly antagonistic Conservative dictum of communications - there must always be an enemy - explains the petulant tone of this message from our public service. It would have been more effective and less churlish to simply stick with the other part of the statement...
- ... in which they assert, per article, that the budget is a reflection of exploration being more expensive than research. Debatable, but at least a reasoned position that doesn't smear members of the public who are paying for this program.
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Yay, us! cultmtl.com/2026/02/cana...
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Congratulations to Councillor Laura White for adding more parking enforcement staff and more municipal revenue with a unanimous vote!
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
- How to improve Halifax traffic, provincial government edition: 1) Incentivize more drivers to go through two ridiculous bottlenecks to cram more cars onto the Peninsula. 2) Gaze in astonishment when you make things WORSE. 3) Blame bike lanes because you're angry that cyclists keep passing you.
- Collisions on BOTH sides of the Macdonald... One was near the HFX-Side, and that was earlier. But NOW - another collision at the former tolls of the Macdonald. Expect big extended delays #HFXTraffic
- Collisions on BOTH sides of the Macdonald... One was near the HFX-Side, and that was earlier. But NOW - another collision at the former tolls of the Macdonald. Expect big extended delays #HFXTraffic
- Someone on CBC just mentioned that there might be up to a ten percent increase in municipal taxes and questioned if it was worth it. I'm a suburban homeowner. For me, we're talking about an increase of $12 a month. Just let me PAY. Hell, let me pay twice that. Give me my municipal services!
- Ah, reversed digits: $21, not $12. Sigh.
- Muted the radio to avoid hearing Leafs news. As a recovering "fan," every day is a struggle.
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦He literally pulled a "you should smile more" IN RESPONSE TO AN EPSTEIN QUESTION.
- *looks at structural deficit, lost libraries, foreign media ownership...*
- Stephen Harper will be remembered as “a safe set of hands” says Ian Brodie, former chief of staff to PM Harper. Full Interview: youtu.be/7GIZ8_jKkUU
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦CANADIANS. SIGN THIS GOV PETITION. PostMedia owns 80% of Canadian newspapers, from smalltown to the National Post. They're USA-OWNED BY A HEDGE FUND WHO ARE A MASSIVE TRUMP DONOR, Chatham Assets out of New Jersey. It's a threat to our sovereignty! [Don't forget the email confirmation!]
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦in her hospital ward there’s a “suggestion” board just outside the nurses’ station asking how to improve care—i wrote that all staff should be in respirators to minimize nosocomial infection. my note was rather conspicuous as it was the only one in red ink. when i returned hours later it was gone
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦This could be a game changer,too bad Smith and the UCP all but killed renewable energy projects in Alberta. The process discussed would be very viable if it used renewable energy. #abpoli #cdnpoli #lithium www.cbc.ca/news/science...
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦The owner of Cookie Crimes Ice Creamery in Lethbridge posted a video explaining how the talk of separation is affecting his future business plans. vt.tiktok.com/ZSascGAUQ/ #Alberta #abpoli #Lethbridge
- Imagine if the power of anonymous armed federal agents to arrest, detain, and deport people was overseen by an independent party versed in law. That's ridiculous. Limiting the power of secret police is un-American.
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦More evidence that a well-designed basic income will support workers without major disincentives. No study on UBI has shown a meaningful drop in employment, beyond students and new parents. We want those people to focus on school and raising the next gen.
- Man, Albertans have been played so hard by oil & gas. The *industry* is cutting jobs. The *industry* won't build a pipeline. The *industry* has left Alberta with massive industrial cleanup bills for orphaned wells. And this guy is so smart he's blaming Ottawa. 🙄
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦On this day in Canadian parliamentary history - February 3, 1916: The great fire breaks out, gutting parliament. Hansard record of the moment below. Additional image: Library and Archives Canada / C-010170
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- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Judge Reyes starts with a comparison: George Washington versus Kristi Noem.
- Haiti’s TPS continues for now!!!!! And zowie: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.…
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, the Montreal Canadians are hiding from ICE in their hotel. United States cannot host the World Cup. Nations must boycott this. Wherever you are in the world, write your politicians and say they should boycott all games playing in the United States, only play Canada/Mex.
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦100 crashes involving cyclists last year, more than double the number in 2020 and over one third more than 2023. 22% of all injury + fatal crashes in HRM happen to vulnerable road users. Delay has costs docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
- Shoot. Half my sources just disappeared. #HistorianProblems
- All of you people talking about discovery STOP. Let this unfold. Shhhhh. Let him have his lawsuit.
- "...it is fitting and proper that a living institution of the performing arts, designated as the National Center for the Performing Arts, named in the memory and honor of this great leader, shall serve as the sole national monument to his memory..." www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
- This is not being discussed with anywhere near the consideration one would expect to be accorded the living memorial of a murder victim.
- I mean, I'm a practicing public historian; I understand that the public use of and relationship with monuments and memorials can shift radically and sometimes quite quickly. It is not my sense that the body politic of the United States would say, "heck yeah enough about JFK smash that."
- And I note that the centre is authorized by an act of Congress... it is theirs to protect, I hope, from further insult.
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦[This post could not be retrieved]
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Buy 'em while you can, folks. There have been multiple attempts to pull HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT and THEY KNEW from circulation. My publisher has previously refused to provide my books to vendors (including at a 200+-person book launch!) I'm grateful to the stores who made sure readers got them anyway.
- With every revelation about Trump, Mandelson and Epstein, Sarah Kendzior’s books on how this international elite operates are growing more and more important. @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Remembering Catherine O’Hara, O.C. From SCTV to yelling “KEVIN!!!” on the big screen, to the unforgettable Moira Rose on Schitt’s Creek, and everything in between, she made us laugh for decades with her fearless comedy and iconic characters. 📷3614420 (Bryan Adams)
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Le voyagement est aussi affecté → www.danslescoulisses.com/ice-le-canad...
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Brazilian influencer who defended US immigration crackdown arrested by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic is closed to the public from February 1 to 13 (inclusive) for operational and building maintenance. They will reopen on Valentine's Day, Saturday, February 14! ❤️ (Boat School programs still on for registered groups.)
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Elbows down. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Quite a varied list of school closures/cancellations/delays #NSStorm
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Many processes are non-linear in character. So maliciously bad decisions can be multiplicative, rather than simply linear, in their consequences:
- #cat in basket update: Missed!
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦ProPublica has identified Alex Pretti’s killers www.propublica.org/article/alex...
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦In case there was any question that Gaza wasn’t still facing genocide…
- I'm not living in the US, but I would suggest that persistently calling these Kavanaugh Stops is desirable. Let the powerful and corrupt know that they will have a legacy attached to these abuses.
- 4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...
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ICE's self-appointed role in public order will get the administration in trouble faster than its unlawful "enforcement"* activities because violence and human mass combined are the stuff of political nightmares. - Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦I join my City Councilors in calling for prosecution of ICE for this flagrant violation of city and state law. This is illegal, and if ICE does this to families and children on a sunny peaceful daytime protest, I shudder to think what they do without that kind of daylight and public scrutiny.
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦The Earth's surface is 70% water. That water is non carbonated. Therefore, the Earth is flat.
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.
- I know, have met, or have sought meetings with horrible people. Some of them are not considerate of subordinates. Others are mansplainers. A few park their cars very poorly. One used a pen at the archive. Somehow, I am not in correspondence with any infamous child sex traffickers.
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Some very powerful protest songs coming out of Minnesota. Sarah Streitz's “Get Out of Minnesota Kristi Noem” and Penka Jane's “When Gregory Bovino to Minnesota Went” especially good. Listen to them here: www.minnpost.com/arts-culture...
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Dr Glaucomflecken gives tips on what to do if you get pepper spray in your eyes. Speaks volumes about where the US is at. If you're recording ICE, be prepared and watch this video. youtube.com/shorts/z4dy0...
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦DHS should be embarrassed that their ICE agent hires are so soft they can’t handle being videotaped, even while masked, so they resort to pepper spraying women at close range. And we should be proud of the Santa Barbara women who stood their ground anyway.
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦"The case has its genesis in the ill-conceived & incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children" "for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power & the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds" LORD
- NEWS: Judge Biery has ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos. A thunderous rebuke against ICE’s violent campaign in Minnesota. Read the order below. Link: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I approve this message.
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦The fact that this bit of insanity exists has been making me smile for decades 😂😂😂
- I am shocked to find class solidarity along the plutocrats.
- #caturday cat in basket update: The cat is in the basket
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to... www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦If I have the right Nellie Bowles, the partner in question is Bari Weiss
- Parks Canada planned to delete a heritage website — but one proud Canadian hit 'Save' Stephen Taylor read a CBC story about the closure and used A.I. to create a new site #Canada /1 thread www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
- J: I am on fire, keep clear of me
- Tag yourself: I'm Z (I NEED A TUG) #vexillology
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Noah Reid, Catherine O’Hara’s costar from Schitts Creek plays piano and sings a song for her. #Canada A Case of You 🎶 Get out the tissues 😭💔 youtu.be/vOWn4CUsFak?...
- AI assist doing superb historical work....
- Once more: Please charge me appropriate taxes to live in a safe, accessible, vibrant, and interesting city. Please. I want this and will pay for it. I do not want to live in an asphalt hellscape with crumbling libraries and 96-hour snow clearing standards.
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦”Separatists' math doesn't add up, warns Edmonton business leaders” #ableg #cdnpoli #Yeg #Yyc edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦two sources with knowledge of the situation tell @zeteo.com some officials in Trump’s DOJ actually explored if certain instances of anti-ICE activists blowing whistles in Minnesota could be used as evidence in criminal prosecutions of those who “obstruct” operations... zeteo.com/p/don-lemon-...
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers theonion.com/ice-opens-new-super…
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦"When we say homelessness is a terminal condition, it's not virtue signalling or sensationalist." Dr. Andrew Boozary says ER wait times will drop across Canada when governments treat housing as healthcare... 👀 FULL: rtrj.info/012726Boozary 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/012726 #cdnpoli #RealTalkRJ
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Heated Rivalry is now @cravecanada.bsky.social's all-time most-watched series. It's also Pride Tape's tenth birthday! Co-founders Senator @drkristopherwells.bsky.social and Jeff McLean examine the evolution of inclusion in sport... 👀 FULL: rtrj.info/013026PrideT... 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/013026 🏳️🌈
- $40 an hour for a Hugo-winning novelist to train AI...
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦Incredibly sad news. Catherine O’Hara has died. In her role as Moira Rose in particular, she has made me laugh so hard I’ve cried. Such a brilliant actor. www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
- Reposted by Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦A Gwich'in man from Inuvik in the Northwest Territories says he was temporarily detained by United States border agents last week when they demanded he produce blood-quantum documentation.
