Sean Maxwell

[Guelph Lost Pets @GuelphLostPets]

Indoor cat MISSING. Fern, a brown tabby & white short-haired female cat, was reported missing near Lobsinger Lane in #Guelph's south end on June 3. Last seen May 15. If you have any info please contact her family via https://t.co/2wUkQvZVGs or let us know.

[Josh Dehaas @JoshDehaas]

Good news: the Senate has voted AGAINST adopting the amendments made to Bill C-9 in committee that would have outlawed “residential school denialism.”

Bad news: C-9 is now expected to become law, meaning no more good faith religious speech defence.

[Adam Zivo @AdamZivo]

Back in late 2023, CBC News interviewed a teenage girl, Amelie North, who told them that she and her friends had used diverted “safer supply” hydromorphone. CBC then censored any mention of safer supply diversion when reporting on her story — I know this because Amelie was one of my journalistic sources.

To put it this way: the CBC was so committed to defending the Liberals’ safer supply experiment that they essentially lied to Canadians — including parents with vulnerable children — about the dangers of diversion. They put kids at risk for the sake of their partisan agenda.

And now they have the audacity to present themselves as a bulwark against disinformation.

[You can read my article about it for more details: https://t.co/0IBCy7op6n]

[Aaron Pete @Aaronpete_]

I'm prepared to go to jail over this.

My grandmother Rita Pete went to St. Mary's Indian Residential School. She experienced terrible abuse. As a consequence, she struggled with alcohol use most of her life.

My mother was born with FASD as a consequence of her using alcohol to cope with her trauma.

I am Chief of my community Chawathil First Nation. I am working to address the longstanding impacts of these past policies through renovating homes, building new homes, creating childcare, and growing businesses through economic development.

I have interviewed people who went to Indian Residential Schools. I have interviewed people who believe Indian Residential Schools were awful, horrible schools, meant to remove the Indian from the child.

I've also interviewed people who believe they were well intended, generous investments by Canadian taxpayers meant to assimilate a society and had shortcomings.

Like with many things, the history is dark, complicated, and with any policy that existed for a long time, across a whole country - there were different experiences.

No one story tells us everything. No report shares the full experience of the individuals who went. No commentator today can disprove someone's lived experience with statistics.

The path forward is not to criminalize speech, questions, or debate.

The path forward is empathy for past attendees.
The path forward is truth based on facts.
The path forward is real conversations.
The path forward is to lean into complexity.

If the government criminalizes this, then I will be a criminal for having these conversations.

If I am a criminal by the laws definition, then I am committed to going to jail over this.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The reason we think dandelions are weeds is because of a 1950s marketing campaign.

Dandelions, native to Europe and Asia, were brought to North America in the 1600s by European colonists who grew them deliberately.

Every part is edible. The leaves are a salad green, the flowers were made into wine, and the roots were roasted as a coffee substitute and used medicinally for liver and kidney conditions for thousands of years. They were a kitchen-garden staple well into the 1800s.

The shift happened after World War II, when 2,4-D (originally developed for chemical warfare research) was approved as a residential herbicide. Companies like Scotts built the modern lawn-care industry around the idea that a perfect green lawn meant zero broadleaf plants.

Dandelions, being bright yellow and resistant to mowing, became a visible enemy, and the campaign worked. By the 1970s, "dandelion-free" was synonymous with "well-kept."

They aren't native, but they aren't doing significant ecological harm either. The herbicides used to kill them, on the other hand, kill bees, contaminate groundwater, and have been linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma in humans.

If you hate dandelions, it's most likely due to a marketing campaign that ran before you were born.

[History Calendar @historycalendar]

Marilyn Monroe, David Attenborough, Elizabeth II, and Mel Brooks were all born in 1926.

[Guelph Lost Pets @GuelphLostPets]

MISSING - lost during move. Kitty, a brown tabby long-haired female cat, escaped from car May 31 - likely at Walmart on Stone Rd or gas station at Gordon & Kortright Rd W in #Guelph. If you spot her or have any info contact Karen via https://t.co/IJB2cMIVTC or let us know.

[Chris Selley @cselley]

Now, progressives? Is THIS enough?

https://t.co/N5QiHNQl2L

[Sean Maxwell @Sean_Maxwell]

@cselley Don’t remember scholastic book fairs or duotangs?

[Guelph Lost Pets @GuelphLostPets]

MISSING. Shadow, a black short-haired female cat, was reported missing in the Telfer Glen St & Settlers Court area of #Morriston on May 26. If you spot her or have any info please contact Dave via https://t.co/DJ0IWiUl2e or let us know.

[Guelph Lost Pets @GuelphLostPets]

Indoor cat MISSING. Young orange tabby cat got out on Lynch Circle in #Guelph on night of May 28 or morning of May 29. No collar; no photo. Please check yard if you live in area. Do not chase. Any info contact Tracy via https://t.co/CvEg3LrNU0 or let us know.

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

I can hear this picture

[Greg Brady @gregbradyx]

Today’s Show Open: A single Toronto Star reporter was able to fly to Barcelona & get a ton of people, including police sources, to talk to him about the alleged assault of a Spanish prostitute by 3 Toronto cops. The actual Toronto Police Services claims their entire professional standards unit is unable to do exactly the above.
It’s a failure of competence or a failure of honesty - not really a 3rd option.
https://t.co/IJHvaf68p3

[Guelph Lost Pets @GuelphLostPets]

MISSING. 2 long-hair cats - 1 light grey tabby, 1 light orange & white. Last seen a couple of days ago in the Lou’s Blvd neighbourhood of #Guelph. If you have any info contact Ashley via https://t.co/qbt0JQxXUr or let us know.

[Guelph Lost Pets @GuelphLostPets]

MISSING. Monroe, a green female Quaker parrot, was last seen in the Sleeman Ave area of #Guelph. She has a distinctive loud squawk. Friendly & loves carrots/cucumbers. Will fly onto head or shoulder if called & hungry. Any info contact Milena via https://t.co/lDrpmzNKcN

[Adam Zivo @AdamZivo]

Harm reductionists genuinely believe that drug use is a human right, and that drugs themselves are not harmful, only their criminalization.

Meanwhile, in the real world, you have people like this, whose minds are so fried that they're a danger to themselves and others.

[Guelph Lost Pets @GuelphLostPets]

MISSING. Sammy, a calico long-hair female cat, was last seen by the Concession 1 / Hwy 6 S / Leslie Rd area in #Puslinch on May 15. No collar, no microchip. If you have any info about her please contact Karen via https://t.co/SX1akZ19LB or let us know.

[Guelph Lost Pets @GuelphLostPets]

MISSING. Winston, a light orange tabby medium-hair male cat with white paws, was last seen near Zehrs on Clair Rd in #Guelph on May 25. If you have any info please contact his family via https://t.co/M5yDCa87JE or let us know.

[Alexander Zoltan @AmazingZoltan]

BC LEG: The Green Party and NDP, who both approved flooding the streets of British Columbia with "safe supply" synthetic heroin, are debating whether or not to completely ban tobacco and nicotine. I can't even.

[HoCStaffer @HoCStaffer]

Saw the US version on here. Decided to make a Canadian version. What did I miss?