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

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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.

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.

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.

“… constant lying is not aimed at making people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong… With such a people, you can do whatever you want.” - Hannah Arendt, 1906-1975, German historian and philosopher

tl;dr highlights (516 words):

• Last week, the Cuban Center for Molecular Immunology (CIM) announced a major health breakthrough with VAXIRA, a vaccine treatment for lung cancer. This is a remarkable achievement, made only more impressive by the fact this is Cuba’s second lung cancer vaccine.

• In 1962, the polio campaign launched through mobilizing 100,000 members of newly founded revolutionary committees to conduct a population census and vaccinate all children. Within months, polio was eradicated in Cuba making it one of the first countries in the world to do so.

• Its vaccination programs have eradicated diseases that continue to cause death and suffering around the world including diphtheria in 1979, measles in 1993, whooping cough in 1994, and rubella in 1995.

• In 1981, Cuba opened the Biological Research Center, despite the blockade stopping entry of equipment, materials, access to research journals, and medicines. […] Cuba produced the world’s first human vaccine to contain a synthetic antigen, for Haemophilus influenzae type B.

• In 1989, Cuba produced the world’s first Meningitis B vaccine during a severe breakout of the disease in the country. This was the first ever vaccine produced to protect against Meningitis B and was exported to protect people in countries across Latin America.

• As the US blockade made it virtually impossible and far too expensive to import the [Hepatitis B] vaccine [in 1990], Cuba produced their own and eliminated Hepatitis B under 15.

• In 2006, Cuba developed Heberprot-P, the only medicine in the world to reduce the amputation rate of patients with diabetic foot ulcers by 75%. Within 10 years, it was used in 23 countries. It has treated more than 400,000 people with foot ulcers.

• In 2011, Cuba developed CIMAvax, which remains the world’s only approved lung cancer vaccine. This vaccine works to induce the immune system to stop the growth of cancer cells to slow the progression of a tumors. This vaccine has already treated more than 5,000 people across the world and many more thousands in Cuba itself.

• By 2015, Cuba became the first country in the world to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis. […] This world historical achievement came as a result of Cuba’s universal health system that integrated maternal and child health programs with HIV and STI treatment.

• During the COVID-19 pandemic, Cuba produced five vaccines: Ablada, Soberana 01, Soberana 02, Soberana Plus, and Mambisa. Cuba had one of the lowest COVID deaths in the Western Hemisphere - and by 2021, Cuba’s fatality rate was just 0.59% compared to the 2.2% worldwide average. […] By 2023, Cuba had the third highest rate of vaccinations per 100,000 people.

• Cuba has restored the eyesight for more than four million people with its joint program with Venezuela, Operation Miracle.

• They have sent more than 600,000 health workers on medical missions to 160 countries in response to pandemics, epidemics, natural disasters, and other crises where no other country would act.

• They have and continue to train doctors from the Global South for free so they go back to their home countries to practice medicine.

Took my first good look at The Maple yesterday. They feature some fabulous journalists (Emma Paling, for one) but I gotta say: not a fan of their framing in general.

effortpost tl;dr: sus

TIL:

The Maple started in 2017 as North99, “a political advocacy group founded by former Liberal Party staffers.” 2 years later they were caught linking to data mining petitions:

People who sign a petition from North99 may think they’re advocating on an issue — such as backing abortion rights or universal health care — but some of these petitions never get delivered to anyone. Instead, they’re used solely to gather information about the people who signed them, including their email address and postal code, ahead of the 2019 election — something that’s not clearly communicated on the site.
For instance, issue pages say “10,000 signatures needed” or “sign the petition,” but elsewhere use more ambiguous language, such as “Show your support … by adding your name below.”
…
In the last few months, North99 has purchased hundreds of Facebook ads, many of which drove people to the petitions or surveys. Scollon said the group has spent about $6,500 on advertising this year.
CBC News was able to analyze 687 ads purchased by North99 in Facebook’s political ad archive. About 65 per cent of those ads, or 445 in all, were purchased in the month of June, just ahead of new spending rules that limit the amount of money third-party groups can spend on advertising in the weeks leading up to the election. - cbc 2019

After the CBC report, North99 created Passage to publish opinions/analysis and later renamed North99 The Maple to publish news/investigations. Passage and The Maple continued to be funded by the nonprofit formerly known as North99. 2 years later, “it became clear that The Maple and Passage shared similar values” so they "merged.” - About Us

3 sample headlines to compare:

1 - Rabba, a Palestinian-Owned Chain is Selling Israeli Produce (- yesterday)
irl: Jack Rabba’s family moved to Canada in 1966, so that’s “Palestinian-Canadian” tyvm and it was 1 bunch of grapefruit at 1 store.
Looking into it: No, the Maple hasn’t published any stories regarding any other grocer and the BDS movement. Just one that’s likely to get a Palestinian-Canadian business owner harassed by well-intentioned activists who don’t rtfa.

2 - NDP Officials No Longer Welcome At The Maple (- 2023)

The NDP has shown that it is willing to stand by as genocide unfolds, saving its harshest actions for those fighting back […] as editors of The Maple we will no longer seek or be open to any sort of pitches, articles, appearances, features or requests from elected NDP officials, those who run for the party going forward, those employed by the party, and others with more formal ties.

irl: Just a few months earlier, Singh was horribly harassed and demonized as a “Danger to Jews” because he sent an email to a few dippers with “13 demands of the Liberal government on Palestinian rights” -2022, springmag & IJV. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs - the group that fomented the harassment campaign against him - invited him to speak at a conference and he did, making statements condemning anti-semitism. In their denunciation, The Maple chose not to mention the very relevant context of CIJA’s harassment of Singh, nor the fact that he’s had to deal with racists trying to rip the turban off his head since he was a kid, .

Another beef they had was with Olivia Chow, who tweeted in 2023 that the Chief of Police would let her know if there were any reports of hate “incidents” at what she was informed was a pro-Hamas rally. She acknowledged Hamas is listed as a terrorist organization in Canada. That one (1) tweet was listed in The Maple as a reason she’s obviously pro-genocide.

Looking into it: There were plenty of reasons to be pissed at the NDP regarding Israel-Palestine in 2022-23, and the editorial statement lists some entirely relevant points. Importantly, there are no similar denunciations of any other political party in Canada on their website. Though looking at their Content from the same time period, I found their Guide To Pierre Poilievre — Canada’s Next Prime Minister? ctrl+f Palestine and Israel show nothing. ctrl+f for NDP acknowledges the Broadbent Institute was named for Ed.

3 - The Left Has Failed To Confront Canada’s Resurgent Right
Quite the headline, no? I personally know many, many people “on The Left” who’ve been aggressively confronting regressives for decades, so that headline pisses me off and makes me want to defend their tenacity (and my own goddamnit). From a different perspective, where The Left clearly indicates folk working within the Establishment, I agree, because shit’s all fucked up, Project2025, etc.

“The Left Has Failed” alone could produce a mountain of online commentary.

irl: That “Left Has Failed” headline links to an excellent interview with the editor of Confronting The Resurgent Right and 2 of its contributors. The book focuses on “How to account for the rise of the right in Canada, and what can we do collectively in our communities to resist the right’s resurgence?”

There’s a tone decidedly more hopeful than its headline would suggest.

Again, work worth reading, buried beneath a ragebait accellerationist headline guaranteed to Generate Content amplifying The Failure of Canada and The Left discourse instead of the content of the article.

Now this illogical piece about HIMARS.

Given their organizational history and obsession with aggressively purity-testing “allies,” The Maple’s too sus for me to trust with so much information warfare flying about. Luckily it looks like the good journalists working for them also work with The Breach and others, so no great loss.