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  • Canadian troops won’t be joining European military force in Greenland

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  • What happened to 'Elbows up,' eh?

  • Canadian troops won’t be joining European military force in Greenland

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  • I thought we were invited. To me, this is a Carney L for Canada until demonstrated otherwise (edit: sorry, I realized I'm talking in sports clichés: an L is a loss, like a W is a win)

  • Ottawa sees dramatic drop in speed compliance after photo radar scrapped

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  • My favourite part is that our tax dollars are going towards radio ads about this ON gov't bs /s

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    White House post nods to racist, far-right subculture, extremism expert says

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2026/jan/14/trump-administration-white-supremacist-language
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    Nearly 17K Fans Cancel 2026 World Cup Tickets Amid Boycotts Over U.S. Political Climate

    www.ticketnews.com /2026/01/nearly-17000-fans-cancel-2026-world-cup-tickets-amid-boycott/
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    Ford's permit approvals have driven Waterloo to its water-taking limit

    www.nationalobserver.com /2026/01/13/analysis/ford-waterloo-water-taking-environmental-impact
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    Sorry, eh - Cory Doctorow

    pluralistic.net /2026/01/13/not-sorry/

  • Finding the healthier way

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  • 30 plants per week is a cool goal and a cool way of thinking about your diet

  • Of interest: UK working with Canada and Australia to ban X at the same time.

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    Danmark Skifter (Denmark Switches [off of big US tech])

    danmarkskifter.dk /en/
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    Once-rare disease, syphilis, is surging again in Saskatoon

    www.sasktoday.ca /provincial-news/a-once-rare-disease-is-surging-again-in-saskatoon-11715437
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    The NDP leadership race is a nail-biter. But is anyone paying attention?

    www.cbc.ca /news/politics/ndp-leadership-race-front-runners-9.7040374

  • Of interest: UK working with Canada and Australia to ban X at the same time.

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  • Regrettably, Carney and Minister Solomon have each said that a ban of X is off the table (thanks /s, you knobs). It'd be nice to see Starmer do something good for a change

    (Edit: also, I believe what Starmer is proposing is a ban of Grok on X, as opposed to a ban of X)

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    U.S. denies entry to 14 Ethiopian athletes ahead of World XC Championships - Canadian Running Magazine

    runningmagazine.ca /the-scene/u-s-denies-entry-to-14-ethiopian-athletes-ahead-of-world-xc-championships/
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    ‘Cancel your tickets’: Calls grow to boycott US-hosted FIFA World Cup over Trump admin

    www.rawstory.com /world-cup-2674872045/

  • ‘People are just devastated’: What is happening with Nunavik’s police force?

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  • Ty. (Edit: Those numbers are shocking !!If you click the podcast link and click the info button on the relevant podcast, it says: "Some say part of the problem is that only three of the 155-person force are Inuit." (And undoubtedly says that in the podcast too.))

  • ‘People are just devastated’: What is happening with Nunavik’s police force?

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  • I see all the stats you cited in the article, expect for only 3 of the 155 Nunavik Police Service offers being Inuit. Is there a source that you can share for that? Because that'd be an almost unfathomable difference in terms of Inuit representation in local population versus police...

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    The Case for Sticking Around

    albertaviews.ca /the-case-for-sticking-around/
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    Every data centre is a U.S. military base

    www.policyalternatives.ca /news-research/every-data-centre-is-a-u-s-military-base/

  • Carney says Canada 'welcomes the opportunity for freedom' after Maduro's capture

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  • What a moron

  • Here’s Why Involuntary Care Won’t Work for Most People | The Tyee

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  • Not to be a "this^" commenter, but you sure said the quiet part out loud. Great insight

  • Here’s Why Involuntary Care Won’t Work for Most People | The Tyee

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  • I believe the evidence is pretty clear that the best method of getting people to achieve long-term self-driven improvements around these issues is offering them health and social care (e.g., wounds, food, shelter, employment info) where they are (eg, using in a safe consumption site, on the street, admitted to emergency or hospital) and building relationships with them, as opposed to temporarily taking away all their decision-making capacity and incarcerating them. Medicalizing the problem is to treat it very superficially and has a revolving door effect on patients, which is costly and associated with worse outcomes. I appreciate the discussion. It's making me realize that I may want to do more work in this area.

  • Government suspending ban on single-use plastic exports

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  • So somebody in the government definitely has some plastic straw shares they aren’t willing to part with

    "Over 99% of plastic is made from chemicals sourced from fossil fuels, and the fossil fuel and plastic industries are deeply connected" (source).

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    Government suspending ban on single-use plastic exports

    www.thecanadianpressnews.ca /national/government-suspending-ban-on-single-use-plastic-exports/article_b04e2484-0835-52b8-bcf4-a9384640166b.html
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    Danielle Smith Grinch song by Henry Sir

  • Proposed Alberta separation referendum question approved | Globalnews.ca

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  • Elections have electoral districts, which is how first-past-the-post really does its damage, through gerrymandering and gaming the system for just enough votes in each district. Does the same hold true for a referendum or is that a simple tally of all provincial votes (ie, electoral districts don't matter)

  • About one-third of Canadians say they're optimistic about the new year: survey

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  • For 2026, I'm thinking about will Carney pass anti-privacy pro-technoligarchy online handover-identification-to-access-content laws and about the US midterms: how rigged they seem (eg, ICE-related voter suppression) will be my cue of the likelihood of 2028 election rigging and Trump (if still alive) defying another law and taking a 3rd term. I expect Ukraine/EU vs Russia/USA to renew the ongoing nature of that conflict surrounding the invasion of Ukraine. I also expect the Israeli/US/UK genocide in Gaza to stay its horrible course. I don't expect, but hope that the EU will take steps to distance themselves from US tech, versus pass favourable legislation for them. I expect the 'Canada as 51st state' rhetoric to increase a bit. I'm not optimistic and hope to be wrong. I wish people would wake up sooner that fascism is here and put up a resistance to it (beyond an enlightened minority on the Fediverse, for example). My takeaway from 2025 is this: For most of my life, people have asked "how would WE respond if fascism/ Nazism rose today?" well, we are now watching that question play out in real time, most notably involving the US regime. Hitler never had social media...

  • Gen Z has the highest rate of veganism in history and it's reshaping the food industry

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  • There are a lot of great vegan products available today. Thanks to those who came before, like the Tofutti generation, who helped get us where we are today!

  • Here’s Why Involuntary Care Won’t Work for Most People | The Tyee

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  • It seems to make logical sense to move the people suffering to involuntary care. We bring physically injured people to hospital and perform life saving surgeries on those that are too injured to refuse treatment choices.

    I think you're making a false equivalence. If you're brought unconscious to emergency after a motor vehicle collision, the docs can legally presume you'd consent to life-saving interventions and give you them before you're conscious. Once you're awake, you're free to decline treatment and leave the hospital. That could be within 24 hours.

    Involuntary treatment for substance use probably means 1 to 3 months of involuntary care: not being able to leave a hospital unit, and having most 'resistance' to medical treatment or the hospitalization interpreted as hostility and/or inability to care for oneself (in some eye's justifying ongoing involuntary detention).

    Hospitalization is pretty indignifying. If you're on board with the treatment plan, you accept it. If you're there against your will, it feels less like healthcare and more like prison (including for the healthcare staff). From my experience of caring for people involuntarily admitted to hospital for mental health reasons - the experience is more traumatizing for them than it is a foundation to improve their lives. Addiction is a social problem; it needs a social fix: Housing, counseling, employment opportunities are far more needed than medical care.

    I also don't believe any drug is 100% addictive. The more stress and trauma and fewer resources and alternative sources of relaxation a person has access to - the more susceptible they are to addiction. These underlying factors are what we need to treat. The only reason involuntary care is popular amongst some politician-types isn't because it's effective, it's because it aligns with their neoliberal values and they don't care about effectiveness. Money for involuntary care would be better spent treating (eg, Housing First) and preventing homelessness

  • Happy Festivus!

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  • Well, Happy Solstice, naturally ☺️ but Solstice (winter for those in the north :) is Dec 21st, whereas Festivus is Dec 23rd. More holidays = better :D

  • Happy Festivus!

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  • I air my grievances out all year long, so there's not too much to get through on Festivus 😌

  • Happy Festivus!

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  • Boy, has the need to escape the commercialization of Christmas only increased since 1997 (eg, black Friday). Thankfully, there's a Festivus for the rest of us, of course. I did some holiday shopping today, and didn't face much busyness and crowdedness. It was a Festivus miracle

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    Happy Festivus!

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    Pennsylvania High Court Rules Police Can Access Google Searches Without Warrant

    reclaimthenet.org /pennsylvania-court-rules-no-privacy-in-google-searches
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    Parliamentary petition requesting fed gov't to intervene against provincial anti-trans legislation in AB and SK

    www.ourcommons.ca /petitions/en/Petition/Details
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    Who is the Pro-Israel Clique behind TikTok’s US Takeover? – Analysis

    www.palestinechronicle.com /who-is-the-pro-israel-clique-behind-tiktoks-us-takeover-analysis/
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    Karoline Leavitt’s White House briefing doublethink is straight out of Orwell’s ‘1984’

    theconversation.com /karoline-leavitts-white-house-briefing-doublethink-is-straight-out-of-orwells-1984-270675
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    Pam Bondi wants FBI to put cash bounties on trans activists

    www.thepinknews.com /2025/12/17/pam-bondi-fbi-cash-bounties/