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Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star
This shit is getting wild.. 😂🤣 #SheShed
How sick does society have to be where an 11-year-old boy is shot dead for playing ding dong ditch?
I'm going with Hasbro nostalgia.
A welcome pivot back to astrophotography in the midst of all the political silliness... NGC 281, or the Pac Man Nebula shot from the backyard near Ottawa, 🇨🇦. About 8hrs of subs using the Dwarf3 automated scope 🔭, and a quick run through the Stellar Studio function.
Multiple people this weekend arrested outside the Pulse memorial for *checks notes Chalk.
Politicians, major media and most major decision makers still use Twitter as their primary text-based social platform. This makes me wonder: is that where they actually scroll? Because that could have huge implications for decisions they make, from policy to coverage and beyond.
Congrats! Victor Lai has made history by becoming Canada's first-ever medallist at the badminton world championships. www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp...
📢 Calling on all resisters. DO NOT spend a dime in Ron DeSantis' MAGA Florida. Instead, come from away to beautiful Newfoundland & Labrador - where the only thing put in cages is lobsters.🦞 Keep the boycott strong! 💪 youtu.be/S0shgfCdNos?...
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
No DNR ! 🤞
So it seems it would be pretty simple for people to register their guns with the government.
Poilievre’s unwillingness to get a CSIS clearance now is a full on five alarm fire and beyond a curiosity at this point given Modi’s latest salvo. I wouldn’t even tell Poilievre the password to my Pokémon account now and trust him. #cdnpoli
We hit 100,000 subscribers from around the world on the first day of our launch. Thanks to everybody. We are kicking at the fascist darkness until it bleeds daylight.
In Alberta, girls 12+ now have to prove their sex just to play sports. Cruel, invasive, discriminatory—brought to you by Danielle Smith. Hey Alberta, are you really cool with this? WTH are you guys doing? 🤦🏽♂️😡 This is Canada, not the south of the border. #DanielleSmith #JustLikeTrump #MAGA #Ableg
So are we in a Weekend at Bernie's situation right now?
Nine former directors of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention joined forces to warn Health Secty Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is “endangering every American’s health." RFK Jr MUST be charged with manslaughter. Dem State AGs must charge him for killing Americans.
Not a single person thought to yell "BEAR!" 🤦 Burnaby, BC, Canada 🇨🇦
Margaret Atwood, the literal personification of Canada, is attacked by the Canada hating Premier of Alberta and then proceeds to fight back by using Canadian sarcasm.
You know what Trump's thinking about right now? Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and the Clintons... ...sitting in the front pew at Trump's funeral.
Russia tried to assassinate the President of European Commission Ursula von der Leyen by jamming her plane while landing. So far Europe has ignored the issue as to not give Russia the attention it wants and to quietly prevent themselves from reacting to this significant escalation by the Kremlin.
Folks I’ve always said during our boycott of US products to do your best and within your means. It seems though that 2 grocery chains in particular aren’t doing their Canadian best. So if you can, please avoid the two grocers mentioned if possible. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
Shots. Fired. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Netflix just gave Gavin Newsom 2 million for the redistricting fight and made a deal with Sesame Street. New episodes will air there and the backlog of old episodes will Be free to watch. Netflix picked a side. I will keep my subscription.
Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
This is not a mystery. The Pandemic™️ was indeed ~a pandemic~ therefore, people not being congregated in offices are less likely to get sick. Additionally, if you're already working from home, working while sick is easier (& safer for others!) So, OF COURSE sick days will increase with RTO!
Trump limits National Guard assignments to 29 days at a time to keep the called up service members from getting healthcare and housing benefits while on duty. And the NG troops are catching on. Stereotypical Trump. Don't give those losers and suckers an extra dime. www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
I'll concede that you never, ever hear "where do you go to church" in Canada. (White Canadians were historically 50% French Catholic and 50% Anglo Protestant, so it was much easier to just shut the heck up about it.) Most Canadians today would find that question incredibly intrusive and off-putting.
No one in Canada goes bankrupt trying to pay for healthcare
But our mayor has decided to give the police gobs of money
Original ‘Harry Potter’ director Chris Columbus says the cast of the first two films will “never” reunite due to J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans views. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
Arrowhead star cluster last night. About 13,000 light years away in constellation Sagitta (the Arrow). 🔭
My reflections of Labour Day. This is a time for working class resistance in the face of the oligarchs. charlieangus.substack.com/p/no-such-th...
45 years ago today Terry Fox was forced to call off the Marathon of Hope at Thunder Bay. He showed a nation what determination and leadership meant. Terry has stayed in our hearts ever since. We carry his spirit in these troubled times.
Jeezus. Literally.
LOL... I cannot believe they approved this for public consumption.
This is the truth. Canadians: Speaking as a deeply ashamed and terrified American: Let the downfall of my country be a warning. Don't do what the US has done. We've provided a masterclass in how to destroy a country. Do better than us. Tell PP to shove it. bsky.app/profile/bren...
One thing that's particularly maddening about what's happening today—beyond that it's happening—is that when people talk about how we are moving toward authoritarianism, toward fascism, by a collection of narcissistic sociopaths, many Americans' eyes glaze over.
There are leaders of two Canadian federal political parties who appear to have never studied this in school or read it in passing. #cpc #ndp #cdnpoli
Nailed it. #ableg #cdnpoli #yeg
NEW #Astrophoto: Sharpless 119 41 hours of exposure over 14 nights – my most demanding astrophotography project yet: Sh2-119 in Cygnus. Story: astrocamp.eu/en/sharpless... ▼ Baader Apo 95 | SkyEye62AM '25 #astrophotography #nightsky #space #astronomy #telescope #clearsky #photography #nature
August is almost over. Here are a few of my favourites captures from this month: The Andromeda Galaxy, Waxing Gibbous Moon, Jupiter and Venus, Sun and sunspots. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour
Please repost!!! #MMIW #MMIP
Ottawa here, and same holds for Ford, PP, Smith, and the rest of our knuckle dragging 🍁 Maga.
Message from an Alberta teacher: "I've been told that kids aren't allowed to bring books from home. No free choice reading. No silent reading time or listening to reading. No library time until books are catalogued and deemed appropriate. Please contact your MLA." @daniellesmithab.bsky.social
Christie Pits in Toronto is a symbol of the fight against fascism. This is where people stopped the Nazis in 1933. The haters are trying to come to the park again. On Sept 13 let's flood the park with people for a non-violent day of resistance to the race haters. Our streets. Our parks. Our cities.
Of course we're expecting to get aurora a day after I leave a bortle 3 zone with a low northern horizon. Who can I complain to? And here's the sun and its sunspots taken with a Seestar S30 (I have one again!). #Astronomy #astrophotography #Sun #Seestar
One more sleep until @meidascanada.ca goes live. What better day to launch than Labour Day. Join the network here: www.youtube.com/@charlieangu...
Albertabama’s Queen of Stupid Danielle Smith just loves to embarrass 🇨🇦Canada on the world stage. As seen here in @TheGuardian.com. 🍁🤷🏼🍁 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
America's turn toward anti-intellectualism following the election of George W Bush means that our own local rednecks are no longer interested in or capable of this type of scientific research
A fortuneteller tells Trump: “You will die on the biggest and most celebrated national holiday.” Trump replies: “How do you know?”
Trump and the GOP are hellbent on killing our kids. Whether it’s no gun control or defunding pediatric brain cancer research/trials. Our kids deserve better than Trump and his feckless Republicans.
Cdn media are repeating Poilievre lies without fact- checking & posing questions couched on the basis his lies are valid I am disgusted Cdn media are repeating the same mistakes as US media that got DJT elected 2x Poilievre's anti-immigrant tirades are just the beginning of a rw propaganda campaign
The cruelty, the white nationalist ideology, the unprecedented self-sabotage, the outrageous ridiculousness: The defining characteristics of this government and the inhuman, destructive policies it is pursuing, all captured perfectly here. America is now ruled by cruel, authoritarian clowns.
I've never seen social media so ... hopeful
Edmonton Public Schools has decided that Margaret Atwood is too dangerous for youth to read. As is Brave New World. 1984 is banned by Grade 9s and younger. This is the MAGA machine of Danielle Smith in action. Perhaps a public book burning will reassure the base. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
In a press release Jack Daniels was whining that their profits and Canadian consumers are being hurt by our own boycott. They still don't get. They say sales dropped 62%. C'mon people we can do better than that. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Most of Trump’s tariffs declared illegal by U.S. federal appeals court www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-pol...
Oh man… this is hysterical. Canada is giving Gavin Newsom a free plane? 😂😅🤣
Neil Young's new Donald Trump diss track, "Big Crime"
I’m shocked and saddened that a vandal defaced property of the Stittsville Muslim Association with hateful graffiti. Hate, of any kind, has no place in our community. We are all neighbours, and neighbours look out for each other. …2
I’ll be reaching out to the Muslim community in the coming days to support, listen, and help. And I’ll do the same for any community targeted with hate, because hate is the cause of many of the world’s worst problems, and the solution of none.
Leave it to Neil Young to call out the fascists on the streets and in the White House. He keeps rocking in the free world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=57WE...
I'd say let's help pack his bags but he might get appointed to a senior position in the White House administration. Wouldn't be fair to our American neighbours. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I genuinely think one thing that trips up folks on the left is that they can't imagine not sharing certain core values. Lemme explain. Here's an intuition pump: Say you're in negotiations with counterparty X. And there are two possible deals on the table ...
1. 70 years ago today, 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched after he was accused of whistling at a white woman. His brave mother made sure Americans saw the brutality of his murder at his funeral.
Red States never got over losing the Civil War and now that they have a plantation owner in the White House and in all other areas of the federal government, they're trying to punish Blue State cities for that loss. America should have dealt more strongly with this back then.
Nope. We don’t care if it’s harmed U.S. distillers. You started this, now fix your own problems. You know who is to blame, now get rid of him and his regime.
PP's government killed the Port of Churchill...when his government sold the CWB.
“F you, make me” should always be the response to fascist demands
Holding a presser at an American-owned company vt.tiktok.com/ZSAmGTQaj/
P.E.I. successfully recruits 20 health-care professionals from the U.S. #PrinceEdwardIsland #Canada #Healthcare /1 www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/pri...
Remove the UCP: @abresistance.bsky.social
There is a "technical rescue" currently occurring on the Macdonald bridge; AVOID THE BRIDGE. If this goes south & you're there to see it, it's going to be traumatic & will ruin your life for several years. Go around. Go home. Go back to work. Whatever you do, if the bridge stays open do not cross it
There is already evidence. US committed $500k to Alberta separatists. The National Post is already owned by friends of USA leader. And 30% of progressive Conservatives want Canada to join USA led by PP. This is just the tip of the iceberg. The USA wants all of our resources at a discount
Oh - absolutely. Freedumb Convoy clearly revealed at scale that huge sums of 💰US Republican money💰 flow into #Canada in support of far right, anti-government, anti-democracy & Christian nationalist interests. The CPC elects AB MPs who DO NOT LIVE in #Canada (hello Rempel, a resident of Oklahoma).
I believe this was predicted but still disquieting. One would have to be naive to think such a covert operation is not already planned or underway in Canada, most likely centred in Alberta. Trump’s CIA serves Trump after all. www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/e...
There is no sadder, more pathetic group of people than Trump’s second Cabinet.
Our raw materials should not be sent anywhere. Process here. Thousands of jobs have been lost as mills have been closing around the province in recent years, and major forestry companies are opening up new mills in the United States. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Remember all that talk about America not needing Canada, if this was true, why are so many businesses in the US failing right now, and crying for our business and travel, it is a combination of the felon and his criminal cabal's tariffs, and angry Canadian boycotts. 😊 #ViveLeCanada #Canada 🍁
Dear Canadians, even if they do put it back on the shelves. Boycott that shit. You deserve better, and until the US fundamentally changes, you need to do everything you can to avoid us. Thanks!
This isn't something that you "mock" It's not funny. It's not the sign of just a dumb-ass in the White House. This is another example of an American world view where negotiations with fascism is considered okay. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
On Aug. 26, 1957, Rick Hansen was born in Port Alberni, British Columbia. He became a Canadian hero when from 1985 to 1987, he wheeled through 34 countries and raised $26 million to help people with disabilities. This is the story of the Man in Motion Tour. 🧵 1/18
Watching Putin and Trump carving up Ukraine has frightening echoes of Munich 1938. This is the dangerous "peace in our time" moment. My latest. charlieangus.substack.com/p/peace-in-o...
Clouds came in early last night so I only had a few minutes to shoot the left image (cropped version in center) -- a brief glimpse of the Pillars of Creation made famous by those awesome Hubble & JWST (right) images. From such things I take a vague sense of cosmic connection. 🔭
Did you know that Mercury & Venus are the only 2 planets in our solar system that have no moons?
Anyone who is feeling uneasy about PM Carney's decision to remove tariffs should read his statement. He has plans. We are in good hands Canada.
And he is working hard, fast, and smart. He’s just signed 2 more bilateral agreements with Ukraine and Poland - watch for Germany to follow today.
another gem is pete hoekstra, ambassador to Canada, who has galvanized hatred for america every time he opens his trump-licking mouth
DON’T BE FOOLED. CA — Vote YES on Prop 50 — let CA voters decide if they want to save democracy!
I'll give you 44 year old Emil Bove for comparison, too.
Just another day in the land of war crimes and genocide. Just another day of silence from the west. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
THIS gives me HOPE! Thank you, PM Carney! 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦 #ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #Pinks
History tidbit...the Polish Treasures: As Nazis invaded Poland, museum workers risked their lives to pack up artifacts and ship to Canada for safe keeping. They included Chopin manuscripts, a Gutenberg Bible, and the Szczerbiec (coronation sword), among others. Canada returned only when fully safe.
Apparently some folks are unaware that I have a YouTube channel, and I have been told that I should promote it, so here is my YouTube channel mostly full of political comedy but I'm pretty sure my old Survivor application video is on there too. Like an easter egg! www.youtube.com/@itsclarebla...