That “what, nothing happened just now” attitude as he barrels right through the blunder is absolutely stunning. Lips confidently flapping away making important sounding noises; no care at all for what’s coming out of them. Blatant puppetry.

Dirty deeds

Reminds me of Kenney’s performative poop-swim last year.

While swimming in a body of water that’s off-limits and unsafe for humans or pets is not advisable, experts think Kennedy’s act signifies more.

“The reason we’re concerned is not just that he’s doing it himself, we’re concerned [about] the precedent that he might be sending to disobey regulations that are intended to protect the public,” Malaty Rivera [an infectious disease epidemiologist] said. […]

“Not to mention the fact that this is a very eerie time where we’re seeing the dismantling, the defunding of the actual agencies that are intended to create these guidelines to protect people, including at EPA,” […]

“Just earlier this month, EPA announced it’s going to split up the main arm devoted to scientific research — they were going to essentially gut the team that is responsible for assessing health risks from chemical exposure.” - Huffpo, May '25

ty!

You can accuse them of many things / But not that we don’t know what they have in store for us
And history has already shown us / It gets even worse if you do nothing and stay silent
Don’t be afraid, take matters into your own hands / They look dangerous, but we’ll take them down
Coordinate with each other, start training / If you fight together, it can work

See now that’s just wholesome.

Well worth the read this morning, OP. Besides the Elections Alberta info, TIL:

72 year old Robert Deer was convicted of manslaughter in 2012 “and sentenced to serve the remaining four and a half years of a 16-year sentence [for the murder of Jack Beauchamp over a property deal]. The […] hit man [Deer hired to murder Beauchamp], Mohamed Karim […] received life in prison with no chance of parole for 18 years for second-degree murder.”

Of the $30,315 raised by the consortium, at least $25,150 came from corporations or individuals directly related to Deer. […]

One of the defunct corporations that donated $5,000 to the consortium’s campaign is Flash Communications Inc. Registered in 2018 and struck in 2022, its directors are Robert Deer and Krystal Meer.

Deer acknowledged that Meer is the daughter of Jonathan (Dave) Meer. In 2011, a judge sentenced Meer to 15 years in prison for masterminding a terror campaign of violence and intimidation, which included, according to CBC, “arsons, telephone threats, Molotov cocktails and paintball gun shootings — against four former business associates, using his son and his son’s friends as ‘foot soldiers’ to carry out the acts of violence.”

Good that cbc changed the headline.

What immediately comes to mind when I read “convoy”:
-a tweet from André Bear showing convites in Ottawa banging on indigenous drums and chanting Yabba Dabba Doo
-Diagolon members smuggling guns at the literal Gun Smugglers Saloon in Coutts
-that covid-snot-covered hot tub
-freezing cold children sleeping in loud, polluted trucks for 3 weeks. The “convoy” repeatedly called their kids The Littles, and it was fucking weird

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“I’ve shaken the hands of American firefighters in northern Manitoba who are helping us out,” said Premier Wab Kinew, whose province has endured a deadly and devastating wildfire season in which thousands of people have been forced to evacuate from their homes.

“I would challenge these ambulance chasers in the U.S. Congress to go and do the same, and to hear how much the American firefighting heroes who are here — how much they love our province.”

“This is what turns people off politics,” added Kinew. “When you’ve got a group of congresspeople trying to trivialize and make hay out of a wildfire season where we’ve lost lives in our province.” 2025, CBC

The O&G politicians did this finger-pointing war-drum-banging media blitz last year too. Remember?

People were sharing info about nurdles, orphan wells, lobbying etc, and we’re all trying to organize responses to help the people and places that need it. And suddenly… there were all the “ambulance chasers” and culture warriors north and south of all our shared borders, ready to make the most of our collective tragedy while draining energy and empathy from our collective FEEDS. United Statesian Cons said “your smoke is touching my border” and Canadian Cons were like “no but we’re friieends and WE helped you out” [important to note that not a single one of these windbags has ever done anything to fight any of the fires currently burning].

And here they are doing it again.

idgaf what King Trumptrumptrumpingofftowar has to say about anything. And I hate Captain Canada DoFo for amplifying that shit, posing for PR while Ontario burns (in part because of his anti-environment aggressively interventionist Lord-Of-The-Manor governance).

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We’re not allowed to charge less either. Just 2 months ago, the tolls were set to be half what you’d pay on the Ambassador (the only place anyone’s going to find those “compared regional averages”).

At this point, I’m just assuming the USofA’s “regional economic development fund” is the Moroun family’s piggy bank.

If I’m understanding this correctly, we paid the full cost to build GH, and now the USA gets half the income AND we’re not allowed to charge less than the Ambassador (only 2 months ago, the plan was tolls would be half the price).

Has the billionaire Moroun family finally been appeased?

High school history books should have a chapter about this filthy saga. Land of the freeloaders: The battle for a new cross-border bridge (2015)

Gotcha. I wasn’t looking for it and obviously don’t know when I see it. Thanks for taking the time to let me know

Anyway, just because I find something helpful doesn’t mean I need to share it on the internet, and I don’t want to help slop proliferate, so I’ll delete.

Have a good night.

The headline made me hope for a minute we were turning it into a museum, affordable housing, gifting it to a local housing co-op, or shelter program or something.

At least it’s a fundraiser. Good move in that regard, and very smart to make the donor list public.

For anyone scrolling by curious about the history of 24 Sussex:

The 34-room mansion was built on a cliff overlooking the Ottawa River in the mid-19th century by a lumber baron as a wedding gift for his third wife. The government expropriated the property in the 1940s to consolidate Crown ownership of the lands along the river, but then spent several years unsure what to do with it.

[…] The first prime minister to move in, Louis St. Laurent, did so reluctantly in 1951. Before then, Canadian leaders did not have any fixed address in Ottawa.

[…]

A rapid succession of prime ministers and opposition leaders in the late 1970s and early 1980s caused public outcry for repeatedly redecorating their official residences to suit their tastes using public funds. Mulroney, elected in 1984, tried to cool the controversy by establishing a council to advise on future changes to the houses (the NCC took on the responsibility in 1988).

But soon enough Mulroney was caught up in the so-called Gucci-gate scandal, when it was revealed in 1987 that the Progressive Conservative Party paid C$308,000 to refurbish 24 Sussex and Harrington Lake, the prime minister’s country home outside Ottawa.

[…]

It was labeled a classified heritage building in 1986, but some argue its historical value was lost when it was gutted in 1950.

In the meantime, ironically, 24 Sussex continues to cost taxpayers money. One news report from 2016 pegged the maintenance costs at C$180,000 over five months, including for electricity and snow removal. - 2023 politico

For anyone who doesn’t know, a decent primer on what “the 60s Scoop” refers to: https://www.theindigenousfoundation.org/articles/the-sixties-scoop

Are you one of the investors she expects to fund her new company?

Has she paid you yet for the social media work you’ve already done for her company?

has almost finished investor funding… plus a percentage of the company. If the company works

Careful.

If you have a percentage of her company, are you also on the hook to pay her if it goes tits up? Is there any way you end up in debt if her company fails?

IME they don’t care if they tank their businesses and lose investor money. Claiming bankruptcy ruins poor people, but rich people somehow just give themselves a golden parachute, file the bankruptcy papers like clocking out on a normal workday, and they move on to the next thing. They don’t mind losing other people’s investments, because it’s just money. Meanwhile the staff show up to abandoned offices with locked doors.

Get another set of eyes on that contract if you haven’t already. Any richie-rich would, and if she’s weird about it, it’s possibly a sign she’s messing with you.

Other talks include “Build-a-Cult,” moderated by the founder of the Christian networking site Pray(dot)com

They’re so straight-forward with their Peers. It’s almost refreshing.

I swear, I hear it in my sleep: paidforbythegovernmentofontario ding-dingding-ding

“Don’t go – not with Trump in charge. It’s totally out of control over there. There’s no accountability. They don’t seem to need a reason for detaining you. […] I worry about young people going out there for the World Cup – I really do. I imagine a group of young guys getting drunk at a game, getting arrested. I could see them easily ending up in the same place as I did. They’d find some reason to detain them. If it can happen to me, it can happen to anybody.” - Mrs. Newton, 65, was on holiday in the USA w a British passport and a tourist visa

“Florida is no longer a safe destination for international tourists. With the FIFA World Cup 2026 coming to Miami, travelers may face unprecedented risks of racial profiling, wrongful detention in inhumane conditions without consular access, and heinous human rights violations—regardless of legal travel status.” - https://floridaimmigrant.org/fifa-26-travel-advisory

Absentee councillor Brad-Brad campaigning for mayor again. This is our reminder he doesn’t give a single, solitary fuck about wasting the city’s money (or the World Cup). Tedious little puffed-up douche.

When asked about Bradford’s claim that Toronto is the only city to resell its tickets — which runs contrary to what the City of Vancouver told CBC News — Isha Chaudhuri, his spokesperson, said the practice is “wrong anywhere.”

translation: we got our “Chow’s a scalper” talking point out there; dgaf about facts

https://www.progresstoronto.ca/bey-letter-to-toronto

As concerned Beaches–East York residents, we urge Torontonians to reject Brad Bradford. It is important to note that, when given the chance to vote for Brad for Mayor in 2023, he came in 8th place in our riding.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/cambridge-protest-call-for-mayor-resignation-pride-speech-interrupted-9.7227087

“Liggett is a bigot” is a brilliant protest sign.

About 100 protesters gathered at Lower Main St. in the Galt area of the city at 3 p.m. and have marched to Cambridge City Hall. […] Causarano-Bolton said Grand River Pride has been “really struggling” with their relationship with the city, citing its lack of transparency behind Cooper’s reprimand and sensitivity training.

[Mayor Bigot, sorry] Liggett told CBC News if she were to apologize that would be between herself and Mills.

I was curious if aptn ever got their interview with Mark after publishing this in April 2025. I found one from July when he took a trip home, but nothing in there regarding his dad’s work.

CBC also did a decent overview on this in Apr '25 (for anyone looking for more info about Robert and the day school).

Along with the quotes from former students in OP’s link, this really thoughtful piece from the authors cited in the cbc news report was worth the read imo, if anyone’s interested. Again, April '25.

Outlets involved in the residential school denialist movement—e.g. Western Standard, Rebel News, Woke Watch Canada etc.—have published articles trying to link Mark Carney, by association, to his father’s residential school denialism. Ironically, many of these pundits claim that residential school denialism does not exist. Yet, in the same breath, some are going so far as to speculate whether the Prime Minister himself might be a residential school denialist because he has said little about his father specifically or truth and reconciliation generally.

Many of the articles present facts about Robert Carney’s connections to schooling systems for Indigenous Peoples; however, they do so in misleading and dishonest ways that twists the complex truth about colonialism and schooling in Canada.

Even broken clocks are right twice a day; that’s also a fact, but we don’t set our watches to them to tell the time, lest we be misled. […]

[O]ur task is to guide public understanding with nuanced, historical work that promotes empathy, understanding, healing, and justice.

In that spirit, here is what we know about Robert Carney’s involvement in colonial education.