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  I don't do US news much unless it directly connects to Canada because I think we get way too much of it already, but wtf is this? Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche admits that the DOJ excluded all images showing “death, physical abuse, or injury” from yesterday's Epstein files release.

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  Pillaged from BlueSky: "20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital."

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  The Carney gov will allow new AI data centers to generate their own electricity by burning gas.👀 #cdnpoli #AI https://www.desmog.com/2026/02/25/carney-allowed-gas-powered-ai-centres-after-lobbying-from-alberta-energy-company/

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  So 5 months ago the chairman of the board of the Quebec Torngat Metals mining company, Thomas Gilman, was busted as a Trump ally & appointee and also an author of Project 2025 by Radio-Canada, after which he stepped down. #cdnpoli #Project2025 Former Torngat CEO Leduc said he was hired by main funder Cerberus and reported to them. You probs remember Cerberus from that Iraqi security contract kick-back scheme. Canada loaning millions to proposed Nunavik rare earth mining project linke...

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  CTV: Prime Minister Carney plans to attend Sunday's Juno Awards #cdnpoli The Cons are going to lose their shit about this ... Why is Carney going to the Junos instead of sweeping up the broken glass in Aisle 6? Nobody I know has ever gone to the Junos ...

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  Canadian Cynic: CBC News Pitchbot: "Avi Lewis was just elected leader of the federal NDP; is Canada really ready for Communism?" lol. CBC has a reporter who since December only writes regular stories that go: "Sources say something shitty about the NDP. Other sources back them up. Other sources say Wow that Leap Manifesto was some scary, huh? It's embarrassing. Not as embarrassing as Rosemary Barton saying live on national tv that Trudeau moved the Libs too...

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  How ‘The Charles Koch of Canada’ Created a $9.5 Million Influence Machine Former fracking magnate Gwyn Morgan has funnelled millions to right-wing media and think tanks. #FossilFuels https://www.desmog.com/2026/03/27/how-the-charles-koch-of-canada-created-a-9-5-million-influence-machine/

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  Have you looked at that FIFA peace prize? It's rotting disintegrating hands shredding the planet.

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  Microsoft says it will give up data on Canadian individuals and government and defence that is hosted on Microsoft servers to the US government on request, and they don't have to tell us about it. 👀 #cdnpoli #DataSovereignty https://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science/microsoft-says-u-s-law-takes-precedence-over-canadian-data-sovereignty/article

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  I see TC Energy is funding the Republican National Convention after one of their execs bragged about writing BC's climate policy and ensuring cross-party support for legislative changes needed to push through the Coastal GasLink pipeline & LNG Canada. Also Starbucks. Inside a former TC Energy exec’s claim he got pro-pipeline messaging ‘stuck on government letterhead’ https://thenarwhal.ca/tc-energy-leak-investigation/

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  Carney and Poilievre release more or less identical statements on defending US and Israel from Iran. Carney: Canada reaffirms Israel's right to defend itself and ensure the security of its people. Canada supports the United States acting to prevent #Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, Poilievre: Conservatives support the United States, Israel, and our allies across the Gulf to defend their sovereignty and dismantle the clerical military dictatorship of Iran.

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  "Lewis-adjacent slate sweeps NDP executive election In a surprise development, the 'non-establishment' slate swept the party's president, vice-president and treasurer positions, suggesting change is in the air." by Jeremy Appel #NDP #NDP2026 https://www.readtheorchard.org/p/lewis-adjacent-slate-sweeps-ndp-executive

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  Avi Lewis is now the #NDP leader, reaching the threshold on the first ballot #cdnpoli 1. Avi Lewis 39734 votes - 56% 2. Heather McPherson 20899 votes - 29% 3. Tanille Johnston 5159 votes 4. Rob Ashton 4193 votes 5. Tony McQuail 945 votes Barnburner of an acceptance speech from Avi Lewis, with the other contenders standing with him on stage as he highlighted their accomplishments. Over 70,000 ballots cast.

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  "No American child from the blue collar or the middle class should have to die fighting in Iran. Let the Epstein class fight the Epstein War." - Premier Wab Kinew at the NDP national convention, Winnipeg. #NDP2026

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  42 headlines in 2 weeks in the National Post as curated by David Mastracci of The Maple. Postmedia is majority-owned by Chatham Asset Management, a US hedge fund tied to the Republican Party. Only 0.23% of Postmedia shareholders are Canadian. #media #cdnpoli Do all these headlines seem normal to you?

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  RE: https://mstdn.ca/@thetyee/116262234419385777 Billionaire Gina Rinehart’s Northback is suing Canada for $2B under an investor-state dispute settlement, or #isds for their finding that the Grassy Mountain coal project in Alberta is too toxic to proceed. #cdnpoli

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  "Canada rejected the permanent residence application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials." #AI #cdnpoli https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/canada-rejected-her-permanent-residence-application-her-job-duties-were-made-up--by-immigrations-ai-reviewer/article_3f1ea5be-0b3d-4541-ac00-0a1b8484d877.html

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  Dear Mr Poilievre: Please go on some more rw misogynist MAGA talk shows - there might still be a few women left in the country considering voting for you. #cdnpoli Graphic pillaged from MaggieMay on Nitter:

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  @emilyvanartist@mastodon.social Oh dear. And I wasn’t criticizing your tone at all, was just trying to explain knee jerk reactions. Bon speed to your performance!

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  So the US knew the location of the Iranian ship off Sri Lanka bc both the US and Iran were part of a military exercise hosted by India which the US pulled out of at the last minute, presumably so as to bomb the unarmed Iranian ship. The former Indian FM:

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  The Prime Minister of Spain on FB 3 hours ago: "The world, Europe, and Spain have faced this critical moment before. In 2003, a few irresponsible leaders dragged us into an illegal war in the Middle East that brought nothing but insecurity and pain. Our response then must be our response now: NO to violations of international law. NO to the illusion that we can solve the world’s problems with bombs. NO to repeating the mistakes of the past. NO TO WAR."

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  The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) paid $18 million for a chatbot named Charlie, which the auditor general reported gave her team the wrong answer 66% of the time. It is still in use on the gov website.

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  Is any media going to call out Poilievre for raving on in the HoC yesterday about asylum seekers causing all of Canada's housing & healthcare problems when Anaida Poilievre helped her uncle, Jose Gerardo Galindo Prato, enter Canada at Roxham Road as an asylum seeker? #media

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  100 users are responsible for almost 70%t of all online conspiracy claims in Canada. In 2025, Meta made $16 billion from ads for scams and banned goods, including from Epoch Times in ads targeting Canadians under false names. But Musk's X is worst offender. #cdnpoli #media https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/25/news/conspiracy-content-report-canada

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  A 65 year old white tourist with British passport & tourist visa & no criminal record spends 6 weeks in ICE detention camp for no valid reason other than apparently ICE have a quota to meet and are snatching tourists leaving the country. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice

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  So the 197 immigrants who moved to Alberta last fall from outside the country are somehow too many and are taking jobs away from Albertans, yet Smith whined at Trudeau in 2024 that Alberta had not received the 14,000 immigrants and temporary workers that she had asked for. #abpoli #Alberta Danielle Smith's Referendum Question: Do you support the Government of Alberta taking increased control over immigration for the purposes of decreasing immigration to more sustainable levels, prioritiz...

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  BC billionaire owner of SaveOn Foods Jimmy Pattison backs out of warehouse sale to ICE after BC Green Party leader Emily Lowan called for a boycott of Pattison's businesses and a big advertiser published a letter saying it would suspend business with him. #bcpoli #cdnpoli New York Times: Canadian Company Cancels Sale of Virginia Warehouse to ICE https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/us/politics/ice-warehouse-detention-canada.html

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  Danielle Smith seated between separatists Dennis Modry and Mitch Sylvestre at a UCP gala dinner in May 2025. #AlbertaSeparatism #Alberta