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5 more First Nations join legal challenge against Bill 5 and C-5 | CBC News
Five more First Nations have joined a court challenge against new federal and provincial laws aimed at fast-tracking development saying they threaten Indigenous rights.
Who are the Toronto police officers accused of assisting organized crime? Here’s what we know so far | CBC News
A major corruption probe by police in York Region has led to the arrest of seven active Toronto police officers and one retired officer, accused of assisting organized crime. Here’s what we know so fa...
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This Council is unbelievable.
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5 more First Nations join legal challenge against Bill 5 and C-5 | CBC News
Five more First Nations have joined a court challenge against new federal and provincial laws aimed at fast-tracking development saying they threaten Indigenous rights.
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Co-payments pose a threat to all accessing health-care, citizen or refugee, pitting the wealthy against the poor, regardless of 'status'.
They should be withdrawn, completely, in favour of pharmacare for all.
Stop punching down on refugees.
'...Now that we can abandon any pretense that the U.S. upholds international law, we should put our efforts into strengthening the world body that actually does uphold international law - and does so on behalf of the world community, not just the privileged western part of it':
There's enough leeway in this 'suspension without pay' for cops for it to be considered almost meaningless, but I am glad it's re-entering however briefly the public conversation.
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No trust. A $94b increase.
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How're we supposed to have a 'net-zero goal' AND 'economic growth'?
'...But more than any of the other options, including the Barton cabins, permanent housing is what [Curtis Mcgonegal]'s after.
"I don't want to be in the system at all"'.
'...It remains unclear what is wrong with the $139-million, 6.2-hectare facility designed to trap toxic coal tar and other pollution, but a bay restoration group says it has been told by the federal government that no pollution is leaking out of the steel-walled containment structure...'.
'...Here, Carney is the classic Liberal: for power and the exercise of it.
Perhaps this ruthless efficiency means Carney would have found a way to climb the greasy pole absent Harper's hand. Whatever the case, Canada can only hope he uses that power as effectively as Harper did...'.
'...Ultimately, Canada's food insecurity crisis isn't caused by a shortage of food; it's caused by a lack of income.
Until wages, income supports and social protections align with the real cost of living, millions of people will continue to face impossible choices at the grocery store...'
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Lawyer Charles Roach dies with citizenship dream unfulfilled | CBC News
Toronto civil-rights lawyer Charles Roach, who refused to take the oath of citizenship, because of his opposition to the monarchy, has died with his decades-long dream of becoming a Canadian unfulfill...
If I had to hold up the most heavily fortified bank in America, I'd take a gang of poets. The attempt would probably end in disaster, but it would be beautiful.
- Roberto Bolaño, "The Best Gang" (translated by Natasha Wimmer)
'...Police didn't clarify if caltrops are illegal or a prohibited weapon in Canada.
"That determination would depend on the facts established through the investigation and is not something we can speculate on while the matter remains under review," Kimber said'.
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Are they doing this for the United States, too?
This'd be good for the teens, at very least.
Wrote this piece on the proposed AI data centre in Nanaimo, BC for the Watershed Sentinel.
watershedsentinel.ca/article/data...
Data Insecurity | Watershed Sentinel
A proposed data centre in Nanaimo raises concerns about water use, power demand, and climate impacts as BC expands digital infrastructure.
That's a great start. Then, continue with this place's 'border services' agency'.
'None is illegal on stolen land'.
Could this be used to open and fund more warming centres, on a temporary basis as we warm toward the vernal equinox? Those'll bring new life, absolutely, by sustaining life.
Males Are the Secondary Sex
Don't believe me? Let me walk you through it.
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That's a good start. Keep going.
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"Conservative lucidity loves “clarity” because it sees this as synonymous with the truth of conservative beliefs, and demands “clarity” as a way of insisting upon them."
I did a blog article on this kind of use of "clarity" a while back, and I still think it's one of the most insightful things I've written
www.newwaysministry.org/2025/04/11/c...
Clarity about “Clarity”: Conservative Lucidity vs. the Common Good - New Ways Ministry
Sometimes calling for “clarity” is also a way of demanding a walk-back when Church leaders say things with which they disagree.
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Nope. More public transit would be better.
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They should have to sit a year as an Independent before being allowed to join the party they wanted to join.
Exposed skin doesn't care about the number of degrees Celsius.
‘Worst-case scenarios’: How Democratic election officials are preparing for potential Trump intrusion in the midterms | CNN Politics
Democratic election officials are preparing for potential federal government intrusion in the midterms, as President Donald Trump’s appointees escalate their efforts to find evidence for his long-debu...
If labour barriers are going to be brought down across provinces and territories, there'd better be an equal if not stronger push to honour seniority in these varying professions.
Tom Cooper's opinion article in today's 'paper reminds me of the push-back in the courts from Concerned Kirkendall against the HART hub on Aberdeen Ave:
'...sometimes the most responsible choice is not waiting for certainty, but refusing to look away while people are falling'.
'...Nevertheless woe to you, rich men, that have your comfort. Woe to you that be full-filled, for ye shall hunger. Woe to you that now laugh, for ye shall mourn, and weep. Woe to you, when all men shall bless you; after these things the fathers of them did to prophets...'
(Luke; Wycliffe trans.).
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What some people think will happen: "If I quit X, I would only be ceding that online space to the right"
What actually happens: Conservative influencers threatening to sue Maxime Bernier's PPC into "oblivion" because they have literally no one else left to beef with
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The Clintons agreed to be deposed after the House Oversight Committee voted to hold them in contempt for not complying with subpoenas.
Bill Clinton And Hillary Clinton Will Testify On Jeffrey Epstein This Month
The Clintons agreed to be deposed after the House Oversight Committee voted to hold them in contempt for not complying with subpoenas.
Thanks be to God.
It's not just 'rural' churches. It's 'downtown' churches with the amount of congregants equal to said 'rural' church, too. Give 'em all back to sovereign Indigenous peoples and let's get the churches back into houses and catacombs.
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...like seagulls at the Walmart parking lot.... that's what THAT was. Wow. What. A. Time.
20 after 5, here we come. Ah well. 'Sufficient unto the day...', and all that jazz.
Cop Just Out Of Frame [Propagandhi] (Acoustic Cover)
YouTube video by Lamonta
Busy day in Ontario politics: NDP deputy leader Doly Begum resigns to run federally for federal Liberals (oof for Marit Stiles, big oof); Nate Erskine-Smith announces he'll run in the by-election to replace Begum in the provincial legislature and will contest the Ontario Liberal leadership race.
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I'm reminded of what
@daanis.ca wrote in 'Becoming Kin', that immigrants come to join existing political orders, whereas settlers 'come to impose a way of living on existing peoples' (178):
All immigrants aren't settlers (and none is illegal on stolen land).
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We need more warming buses for impoverished people.
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The Woodchipper — Hamilton Public Library
The Woodchipper — Ollmann, Joe, 1966- — A long-time city maintenance worker keeps pulling an accident prone newbie's fat out of the fire or maybe in this case, an arm and another arm and a leg out of ...
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#hamont library and farmers' market are forced to reduce their budgets. 6 security personnel are thus reduced to 2. People are blamed for their public-health crises in the library. Downtown policing is increased from 4 cops to 6. Police chief writes an op-ed on it. The wealthy and propertied cheer.
I'd rather be rescuing more dogs than paying for more policing services.
Just to start, that ticket should be withdrawn.
The teenagers’ names are Sam and Ben, but to the federal immigration agents they interact with daily, the two boys wielding cell phones and taking down plate numbers are a duo known as “the brothers.”
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