Be kind or be quiet

Still clinging to hope for humanity.
News junkie. Ex-journo, ex-Agile, ex-trainer.
Now fighting disinformation + playing my harp.
aka:Susan Johnston

[Be kind or be quiet @ItsUnderstood]

Managing expectations - good work.

[Rachel Gilmore @atRachelGilmore]

The big, juicy foreign interference report comes out tomorrow!

Do you feel ready for it? Yes? No? Either way, that’s okay!

I’ve got a primer here, with the help of national security expert @StephanieCarvin, that should get you ready to understand what the report says:

[Be kind or be quiet @ItsUnderstood]

@CanTrueCrime @TorontoStar @reggcohn In the 2008 federal election, Conservative and Liberal leaders both included carbon pricing in their platforms. The Conservative government of Stephen Harper won a minority mandate with a campaign that pledged to “develop and implement a North America-wide cap-and-trade system

[Be kind or be quiet @ItsUnderstood]

@merry123459 I kind of trust Staples more than I trust the Ontario government.

[Charlie Harris @Charlie85915085]

@BrianKarem @kurtbardella 'Both Sides' Journalism is
Yellow Journalism.
Gutless Journalism.

Real Journalism is TRUTH. FACT.

[Karina Gould @karinagould]

”Government House Leader Karina Gould says she thinks Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's party needs "a little time-out."

https://t.co/yJ0KjBZpxW

[Be kind or be quiet @ItsUnderstood]

What a good thread! Media and others just repeating misdirection and misinformation rather than calling them out as false. It really is shameful.

[99 🎈🎈🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @ssolyom]

It's not that the polls are "wrong". It's that telling us that Canadians have been misinformed and misled as never before in history, without examining the misinformation, or who's misleading and why, or setting the record straight is just simply more misleading propaganda.

[99 🎈🎈🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @ssolyom]

It's not that the polls are "wrong". It's that telling us that Canadians have been misinformed and misled as never before in history, without examining the misinformation, or who's misleading and why, or setting the record straight is just simply more misleading propaganda.

[99 🎈🎈🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @ssolyom]

...So when I see these things happening here in Canada in exactly the same way, I will speak up, because there aren't enough voices doing so in our media — because I personally, have to try and counteract the deliberately false notions aired by our media...

[99 🎈🎈🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @ssolyom]

...misinformation. Every single panel that examines standing in the polls without examining the misinformation that creates belief in false accusations is a bit of propaganda encouraging those false accusations. Every time Smith or Ford or Moe or Higgs or Poilievre makes...

[Be kind or be quiet @ItsUnderstood]

@couturestyle_us Left over from the 1960s?

[Bruce Fanjoy 🍁 @brucefanjoy]

#CarletonDeservesBetter
#TogetherWeCan

[Dale Smith @journo_dale]

Actual media criticism comes from the Beaverton, rather than the outlets who are supposed to be devoted to it, which says volumes about the state of media in this country.

[David Sommers @DavidSommers5]

@doctorow @NickHanauer @joanwalsh @donaldrcohen12 We have the history of over 100 failed civilizations where those with wealth and power refused to give any of it up. You would think in an age of unlimited access to historical knowledge that the rich could understand it won’t end well for them or anyone else?

[Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna]

As a competition lawyer I find it particularly galling that politicians blame a revenue neutral carbon price for high costs rather than actually addressing the fact that we have monopolies or near monopolies in so many key sectors from grocery to banking to telecoms to airlines.

[Be kind or be quiet @ItsUnderstood]

@jordanschneider @leankitjon 24/7 news coverage has made getting the story first more important than getting the story right.

[Maggie Dwyer @maggiedwyer2013]

@merry123459 @CPAC_TV

[@heathermoandco.bsky.social @HeatherMoAndCo]

Xitter is force feeding RW propaganda accounts into all of our feeds. We naturally get angry & outraged at their lies. So we call them on it. Ratio-ing such accounts used to matter, somewhat. Now, all it means is engagement. It literally helps monetize lies. #CdnDisinfo #cdnpoli

[Be kind or be quiet @ItsUnderstood]

@mhdksafa Angry

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

With a long weekend coming up, there’s sure to be some political conversations over the dinner table…

So what better time to debunk some pension myths based off of @DrJaredWesley’s new article in the @TheTyee!

First up, “we pay more than we get back”!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Leave This Place Forever @TheGentYYC]

It would be of enormous value if Canada had a wide awake non-partisan national media for what's coming #cdnpoli