Canadian. Old. Old as God. If I believed in any deity. I do not. Lefty. Very.
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This is the third such incident to be uncovered in two months. We are going to be spending billions on the Canadian military - they need to go beyond words of outrage and demonstrate that they are taking steps to address this. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
From @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social: “If you’re under 65 and not high risk, the window to get a Covid-19 vaccine is right now—before the FDA label changes (possibly this Friday). Once it happens, access will be limited immediately.”
A New Zealand mom and her 6-year-old son took a short trip to Canada. Now they’ve spent three weeks locked in ICE detention over a paperwork error. This is cruelty disguised as policy. 💔🧒✈️
The lower the pressure in the center, the harder it draws in air around it, and the faster that air swirls around the eye, strengthening the hurricane. What powers all this? Warm water. And the water is warmer than ever, thanks to human-caused climate change.
In 2023, Tennessee added new steps for residents who lost their voting rights and wanted to regain them. The steps cost money. A resident of Nashville would have to pay $159.50 to petition a judge to regain their rights.
Union Station
The appropriate way for a US president to greet Vladimir Putin.
Peacefully ain't going to cut it against maga.
Ross Douthat: Chickening out is brave actually
Introducing animals can be a challenging and unpredictable process because just like people they all have their own distinct personalities and likes and dislikes. Wallace just got here a few weeks ago but fortunately has already incorporated so peacefully with our other highlands Babs and Savannah!
Videos show armed agents in tactical gear, a crowd of locals and what appear to be smoke devices deployed.
Also: if you simply must do crimes, don't broadcast your criming on social media
If the Canadian conservative party want to win future elections, they must fire PP himself. He has decent support within the party, but non-conservatives detest him and will never vote for him. Many people voted against the conservatives because of him. People I know. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
We're back to the same basic question we have to ask about all contracts with the US. How do we trust anything Americans promise? The answer of course is, we can't. This is a dumb dumb dumb idea. SDI 2.
Pet Corner, brought to you by The Shady Rest Pub in Qualicum Beach! Meet Zero and Bunny, a pair of adorable male guinea pigs looking for their forever home. nanaimonewsnow.com/2025/05/20/g...
This representative image reveals the alarming amount of space debris surrounding Earth. It is estimated that more than 128 million fragments are orbiting, including about 36,000 objects larger than 10 centimeters. Many of these remnants come from over six decades of space activity, starting with👇
In an attempt to protect Netanyahu, Trump's sanctions have far broader implications for the ICC and its investigations of other countries' possible crimes. apnews.com/article/icc-...
Dumb conservative MPS didn't fire him when they got the chance. They'll regret that. There were as many voters deliberately voting against PP personally as there were in favor of the liberals.
Like that great idea to invoke the Notwithstanding Clause? No thanks. Your so-called great ideas put you back in the opposition. #cdnpoli
This year's budget has been approved by the City of Nanaimo, featuring a 7.8 per cent property tax hike. nanaimonewsnow.com/2025/05/13/n...
#Kelowna - City of Kelowna hosts free build-your-own air purifier workshops www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna...
#SurreyBC - Surrey council voting on mayor's health motion tonight www.surreynowleader.com/local-news/s...
The voting section of the U.S. Department of Justice has only three attorneys left on staff, according to an estimate provided by a group working to support the department’s remaining staff.👀 www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Civil war has restarted in Libya with fighting between government and paramilitary forces spreading across the capital, Tripoli. Earlier Abdel Ghani al-Kikli, leader of the Stability Support Authority, was assassinated at the 444th Combat Brigade’s base during a meeting.
This is a great project. Support your local shelter if you're able to. I donate hats and baby/kids blankets whenever I can. 🧶
Met Office issues yellow thunderstorm warning for parts of England and Wales
Asked if he would vote to suspend habeas corpus, Sen. Barasso said the president will “follow the law.” Asked a third time if he'd suspend habeas corpus, explicitly asking for a yes or no answer; he replied that he didn’t believe the suggestion would make it to Congress thehill.com/homenews/sun...
Help. My baby son looks like a sex pest.
I’m with my mother who has Alzheimer’s. If you are lucky enough to have a mother who remembers your name, don’t take it for granted!
With a foreign government apparently set to gift a U.S. President a ~luxury plane~ it's maybe time to look back at how SCOTUS has been all in on the MAGA (Make America a Grift Again) project 🧵 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
😳Today’s Tennessean front page: www.tennessean.com/story/news/e... As @GovBillLee and the @TNGOP refuse to act.
SCOOP: House Democrat Ritchie Torres is seeking an investigation into reports that Trump plans to accept a jet worth roughly $400 million from Qatar to serve as Air Force One, @andrewsolender.bsky.social reports.
Upset by tariffs and President Trump's insistence on making them the 51st state, Canadians are boycotting the U.S. Without them, the Rubber Duck Museum can't stay afloat. So, it's moving to Canada.
AHOY THERE! KITSAP COUNTY OPERATES FASTEST & 2ND LARGEST FERRYS FLEET IN WASHINGTON IT IS THE SLOWEST BOAT WE SALUTE - CARLISLE II, THE LONGEST CONTINUOUSLY OPERATING FERRY IN THE PNW. BUILT IN 1917 SHE HAS PLIED THE BREMERTON - PORT ORCHARD RUN SINCE 1936. NICE VIDEO: youtu.be/d1-7zSSinuM...
10 May 1939 | A French Jewish girl, Monique Cofman, was born in Mont-Saint-Aignan. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 8 November 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 773 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.
Koalas face death, attacks and starvation as blue gums chopped down in Victoria
Me: The cat barfed on the bed again Wife: So you’re going to clean it up? Me: It was more of an observational comment
10 May 1910 | Leon (Leba) Rajbenbach, a Polish Jew, was born in Warsaw to Pinkhus and Braindel. He emigrated to France where he worked as a merchant. During the war he lived in Paris. In 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.
Regime troops and collaborator police forces slammed one of the victims to the ground and attacked US citizens attempting to intervene or who asked them to identify themselves. The family was eventually disappeared. #3E #endimpunity
Russia does not disclose its war losses. Since 2022, Mediazona, BBC News Russian and a team of volunteers have tracked confirmed deaths using open sources. Our latest update brings the verified toll to over 107,600, including more than 5,000 officers: en.zona.media/article/2025...
Just spoke with my CDC sources: They said a domestic cat in Idaho infected with H5N1 has developed mutations that could enable the virus to infect mammals, including humans. These mutations echo past jumps.
Oops.
The new Pope didn't tweet once in 2024. In 2025, he's posted 5 times, in which he: - Criticized JD Vance's views on Catholicism and Jesus - Posted an article opposing Trump's immigration policies - Retweeted twice about the Pope's health - Retweeted a criticism of Trump & Bukele's laughter at KAG.
West Virginia coal miners lose black lung screenings after Trump slashes worker safety agency NIOSH
Almost six years to the day since their last performance in Nanaimo, the Canadian Forces Snowbirds are coming back this summer. nanaimonewsnow.com/2025/05/08/a...
Exactly where do you put the cream cheese on that? There's no room!
MFP reporters would like to talk to federal workers in Mississippi who have lost jobs as a result of DOGE. If you or someone you know has lost a job or know of a program that has been cut and would be willing to speak to our reporters, please email us at MFPtips@proton.me
on a day of dark AI stories this may be the darkest one
NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
Combined flu and COVID-19 vaccine is looking good (for adults 50+)! jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
“Child malnutrition rates are rising, the few functioning hospitals are running out of medicine, and warnings of starvation & disease are growing louder. “Yet the US & European countries…have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence.” Full article👇
This is a searing editorial in the Financial Times. The West’s Shameful Silence on Gaza. If this had been written by students, and not the Editorial Board of the FT, they would be getting snatched off the streets by ICE.
World Central Kitchen says it no longer has the supplies to cook meals or bake bread in Gaza. wck.org/news/gaza-up...
In this edition: Ukraine's government registers draft law to tax digital platforms, fulfilling IMF commitment; Parliament again fails to advance judicial reform bill tied to EU assistance.
The Federalist Society continues to be the only group brave and open-minded enough to discuss the questions other groups are too smart to address
Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi, received threats after the school hosted U.S. House Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a Texas Democrat and fierce critic of President Donald Trump, as the keynote speaker for the historically Black college’s graduation ceremonies on Sunday.
Biden could and should have stopped Trump years in advance, by getting the trials set up quickly. He did nothing. I don't want to hear biden's whining now. www.cbc.ca/news/world/b...
If you keep the articles behind the paywall that I can't read, There's no point in me following you. Bye.
There's no seismic shift involved. The majority of Americans are racist and uneducated. That's been true for centuries.
I really thought we had gotten away from blaming the victim in in rape cases. Not from what I'm reading in this story. The victim seems smart and truthful. The defense lawyers seem like a load of scum. www.cbc.ca/9.6751073
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Nanaimo council. No long-term vision at all.
⚡️Russian soldiers executed 3 unarmed Ukrainian POWs in Donetsk Oblast, prosecutors say. The execution of prisoners of war is a breach of the Geneva Conventions and qualifies as an international crime.
Not even a question. it was a dumb idea in the first place to match us tariffs. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Incoming attack on occupied Crimea. Kerch Bridge closed. Not yet #explodey but may be.
Treason noun [ U ] (the crime of) showing no loyalty to your country, especially by helping its enemies or trying to defeat its government: #never51 #UPCcorruption #canadaunited
#VancouverBC - Gun-shaped lighters: Councillor seeks ban as they proliferate in Vancouver vancouversun.com/news/gun-sha...
#Kelowna - City of Kelowna adjusts policy to prioritize Canadian suppliers www.westknews.com/local-news/c...
⚡️Update: Russian missile strike on Sumy suburb kills 3, injures 7 The death toll of a Russian attack on a suburb of Sumy has risen to 3, as a 6-year-old boy and a 41-year-old man died on the way to the hospital, the Sumy Oblast Military Administration reported.
Good news.
Just got a robocall from the "Republican Party of Alberta" asking how I would vote if there was a referendum on Alberta independence. Unfortunately, there wasn't a "Absolutely the fuck not are you kidding me you can't possibly be serious what an asinine question" response, so I had to pass.
UK and India agree ‘landmark’ trade deal after three years of negotiations
‘It’s just a tree’: Sycamore Gap accused couldn’t understand its media interest, court hears
Chunky or smooth?
This chart shows the total number of extra duty hours and shifts each year. I got 2020-2024 through FOIP; EPS then shared two prior years of shifts to demonstrate that the increase is simply a return to pre-pandemic levels.
NEW: She Called a 5-Year-Old the N-Word.... ... And the online right rallied to her side. www.thebulwark.com/p/she-called...
While Trump relentlessly exacts retribution against his perceived enemies, former Rep. Michele Bachmann says that Democrats must never be allowed to regain power because "they're going to bring retribution against us": "This is a dictatorship mentality." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
Former New York Generals owner who tanked the USFL and lost to the NFL in court, will now be announcing the league’s 2027 draft.
Pulitzer winner @anntelnaes.bsky.social "resigned in early January after a top editor rejected one of her cartoons — a depiction of Post owner Jeff Bezos, along with other business moguls, bowing before a statue of Trump, offering up bags of money" www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
5 May 1928 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Rozalia Fraenkel, was born. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
Microsoft has announced that the pioneering online video calling service that's been around for more than two decades will go offline on Monday.
Hi Vermont friends, we have volunteer shifts open daily for animal care and produce pick up. Sign up for May 6 donorbox.org/events/757333 Next one is May 17 donorbox.org/events/765129
Happy birthday Samson! The biggest birthday boy is 27 this week. Best known around the zoo lately as Tula-Tu’s dad, Samson is also an important mentor to Samudra, the younger male elephant in the family.
KUDLOW: The president suggested over the weekend maybe rebuild and reopen Alcatraz. Put them there, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean somewhere. BONDI: I'm all for that. All for that. And I think it will be a cost savings.
The EU is expected to lure US researchers looking to relocate in the wake of Trump’s attacks on universities.
Page One must have been crowded. So NYT puts it on Page 13. 🤡 @schooley.bsky.social
Europe-wide, Tesla sales fell 37% as overall EV sales rose 28%. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ techcrunch.com/2025/05/05/t...
Federal student loan collections resume today after a five-year penalty pause. Here's what to know.
Oh ok! 🙃
I have my preschooler at another kid's fifth birthday party, and overhearing all the parents talk about all the organized sports their kids are in is giving me a panic attack. I never did sports as a kid, just academic competitions. Do they really start lacrosse at 4?
I'm a leftwing Canadian. I've never, in my life, been represented by a government at any level that comes close to sharing my political beliefs. And you don't see me whining about it... Ok, you do see me whining about it, constantly, but you don't see news orgs writing about me whining about it.
Representative Rob Bresnahan has reported 264 stock trades after taking office: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...
Trump: "We cannot allow a handful of communist radical left judges to obstruct the enforcement of our laws and assume the duties that belong solely to the president. Judges are trying to take away the power given to the president."
Albertans voted Smith in. Now she's making it difficult to vote her out.