Ali Bear 🇨🇦🇮🇹

Integrity, Kindness, Generosity, Freedom, Love. If someone interrupts my peace, I’m out; life is too short to waste on nonsense. No DMs.

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

WHOA!

Canada’s integrity commissioner issued an emergency warning this week.

Federal wrongdoing complaints: 638 in 2025.

Whistleblowers waiting months, sometimes over a year, JUST TO HAVE THEIR FILES OPENED.

Her own words:

“I cannot guarantee that allegations of wrongdoing and reprisal will be investigated in a timely manner.”

Some complaints “may never see the light of day.”

She needs her budget DOUBLED to function.

Now look at what Carney did the moment he got his majority:

Restructured all parliamentary committees so Liberals control them.

Shut down the PrescribeIT $300M investigation on day one.

Let the Parliamentary Budget Officer’s contract expire.

Turned off cameras at the Health Committee.

The integrity office is drowning in complaints.

Carney is systematically dismantling every mechanism that could act back on them.

And don’t you dare say it’s incompetence.

This is by design.

[Glenn Meder @GlennMeder]

12/ The people you love are not safe just because they stay quiet.

They are one algorithm away from being flagged. One post away from being frozen out. One decision away from being targeted — and you will not be able to protect them.

This thread is not hypothetical. This infrastructure is being built right now. CBDCs. Digital IDs. AI surveillance. Social credit systems.

We have to stop it before it goes live. Before the people we love become leverage against us.

Share this thread. Make people see what is at stake. Show them that surveillance does not just threaten liberty — it weaponizes love.

Every day I share warnings like this. Context that exposes what is being built. Alarm bells that will not stop ringing until enough people wake up and stand against this system.

Follow me. Not because I have all the answers — but because the threat is real, the window is closing, and we need every voice willing to fight before it is too late.

Preserve Liberty by Preserving Privacy.

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

Its VERY clear now

Your vote doesn't matter

Your voice doesn't matter

Your political donations dont matter.

You have no say in Canada.

Your MP can switch allegiance for a pay raise at ANY TIME, and there is nothing you can do about.

[Eva Chipiuk, BSc, LLB, LLM @echipiuk]

After a day in the Alberta Court of Appeal, I am trying to come to terms with something.

When citizens sue the government for unlawful actions, the government seems to do everything possible to evade responsibility. It raises a fundamental question: is the role of government lawyers really to deflect and avoid accountability, even when it comes at the expense of the very taxpayers they are supposed to serve?

Today, Jeff Rath and I were in the Alberta Court of Appeal on the Covid business closure class action.

A Court of King’s Bench judge has already found that the Province’s public health orders were unlawful. Another judge determined that the case should proceed as a class action.

Yet instead of taking responsibility and addressing the harms that flowed from those illegal acts, the Province has chosen to appeal the class action decision.

It raises some important questions.

Should a small group of citizens bear the burden of harms imposed for what government claims was the benefit of the public?

Should public officials be held to a high standard because of the public trust and the positions they hold, or should they be able to evade responsibility when their actions cause harm?

And if the state exercises its authority unlawfully, should the law not provide a remedy for those harmed?

Some long-standing principles of Canadian law speak directly to this issue:

“The harm suffered is greater than they should be required to bear in the circumstances, at least without compensation. Fairness between the citizen and the state demands that the burden imposed be borne by the public generally and not by the plaintiff fruit farmers alone.” — Antrim Truck Centre Ltd. v. Ontario (Transportation)

“Such abuses may occur when zealous civil servants over-step their authority for what they believe is the best interests of the public without due regard for individuals consequently harmed, or when executive decisions are made which bend the rule and injure a few to avoid politically undesirable consequences.” — Alberta (Minister of Infrastructure) v. Nilsson

“Such a step and its consequences are to be suffered by the victim without recourse or remedy… would signalize the beginning of disintegration of the rule of law.” — Roncarelli v. Duplessis

At some point we have to ask: what is accountability supposed to look like when governments act unlawfully? And why is it allowed to take so long to obtain?

Because justice delayed is often justice denied. When governments use delay, appeals, and public resources to avoid answering for unlawful actions, it raises serious questions about how accountability is meant to function in practice.

If the response is simply to delay, deflect, and spend public money fighting the very citizens who were harmed, then we have to ask whether the system is truly delivering justice at all.

Curious to hear what you think.

Find all the documents related to the class action here: https://t.co/X7TFtcZRZa

[Higgy @higgyboson]

My local council have cancelled an event called "Covid Day Of Reflection" later this month.

It's a shame. I was looking forward to "reflecting" on the fact that covid could kill you if you stood up to walk to the toilets in a pub without wearing a mask but not if you were sat down eating a pie. And of course you had to be out of the pub by 10pm because covid knew the time and would kill you if you were still supping up your last drops of beer at 10.01pm.

I was looking forward to "reflecting" on the fact that at one point people who worked in Tesco didn't have to wear a mask at work but if they popped into Aldi on the way home covid would INSTANTLY know they were in a different supermarket and kill them. (And vice versa for all supermarket staff).

I was hoping to reflect that families from different households were allowed to sit in groups of 8 in a pub garden but not in any of their own gardens.

That 30 people who worked closely together in an office all day weren't allowed to invite each other into their own homes for even a minute.

That loved ones were barred from attending funerals.

That anyone who'd had covid and died of ANYTHING (car crash/drowned/fell off a roof/eaten by a lion etc), within 90 days was a recorded as a "covid death".

That children's playparks were apparently covid killing grounds and posed a imminent threat to life if ANYONE dared to sit on a swing.

And of course I'd like to reflect on being told that I wasn't allowed to go outside for more than an hour each day because covid was out there and would kill me but I was supposed to open all my windows to let in fresh air because if I didn't then the covid in my house would also kill me.

Oh, and I'd like to reflect on being told by a security guard in Tesco that I couldn't possibly be exempt from wearing a face mask because I "walked too fast" to be exempt.

Actually, on reflection, I've done enough reflecting.

[Kenny Carmody @KennyCarmody]

Thanks to COVID, I will never trust our government again.

Not this one. Not the next one. Not the one after that. No matter who is in charge, no matter what party, no matter what face they put in front of a camera to reassure me.

Because we watched what they did.

We watched them lock people in their homes, destroy small businesses built over lifetimes, and call it safety. I watched them separate the dying from their families and call it compassion. I watched them inject fear into an entire population on a daily basis and call it public health.

We watched them mandate experimental injections under the threat of losing your job, your career, your ability to participate in society and call it a choice.

We watched them silence doctors who dissented. Destroy researchers who questioned. Humiliate and defame ordinary people who simply asked to see the data.

We watched them change definitions, manipulate statistics, move goalposts, and smile through every single contradiction while the media applauded and the critics were banned.

And when the harm became undeniable when the injured filled forums because the hospitals wouldn’t listen. I watched them look the other way, cover their tracks, and quietly rewrite the narrative before anyone could hold them to account.

Not one resignation. Not one apology. Not one moment of accountability.

Just silence, arrogance, and the quiet assumption that you would eventually forget.

I have not forgotten.

And I will never trust them again.

[Chris Barber (Big Red) @ChrisBarber1975]

Of course you did, corruption at it's finest

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

Only weeks ago, the Iranian regime was slaughtering its own people with gleeful impunity. And now, in one of history's rare instances of near-biblical retribution and justice, the men who sent out the death squads are either dead themselves, or feeling the terror they once inflicted on others. I cannot even conceive of the spinelessness of a man who wishes the latter hadn't happened. He's the absolute worst of this country; the very embodiment of what we've lost. https://t.co/B3nKK9yL0d

[Shaun Rickard @ShaunRickard67]

This website from @mario4thenorth is a MUST SEE for ALL Canadians

The site was just launched and holds Mark Carney accountable. 

It's the most robust, fully sourced record of: Flip Flops, Broken Promises, Cover Ups, Counterfeit Policies and more: https://t.co/wIkL4JPVSA

[Jake Wallis Simons @JakeWSimons]

Call me naive, but I'm still appalled at how "international law" wasn't a thing when Iran murdered more than 30,000 people in two days, but it suddenly it's all that matters when the US and Israel are trying to stop it.

[Kosher @koshercockney]

Holy shit. Wow.

This is HANDS DOWN the best take I’ve heard.

If there is one video you listen to today it’s this one.

Every single word of this and it’s a huge “f*ck you” to @antonioguterres for propping up the barbaric terrorist Islamic Regime in Iran.

Must be shared everywhere in my opinion.

Unfortunately I have no idea who this young British woman is to credit her, if you know who it is feel free to tag below.

[Julia McCoy @JuliaEMcCoy]

We are sending our kids to school to memorize facts that AI can retrieve in 0.3 seconds.

We're grading them on essays that AI writes better than their teachers.

We're preparing them for jobs that won't exist by the time they graduate.

The entire education system is training humans to compete with machines at what machines do best.

That's not education. That's sabotage.

The schools that survive will teach thinking, not memorizing. Creating, not repeating. Discerning, not obeying.

Every other school is a museum that doesn't know it yet.

[bita // بیتا @_b33ts]

Iranian here!

I want to thank American leftists for educating me these past few days & correcting my understanding of Iran & radical Islam

I almost trusted my own experience, my parents’ trauma, and what my family in Iran endures daily instead of your wisdom. What would I have done without your tweets & tiktoks ❤️

[mert @mert]

there is a concept called the Tolerance Paradox (by Popper)

basically if you are tolerant to the point of tolerating the intolerant, the intolerant will exploit that gap until the concept of tolerance itself disappears

western leftists somehow defending militantly intolerant theocracies is an incredibly fascinating expression of this

[Cyrus Janssen @thecyrusjanssen]

An Iranian man left this comment on my YouTube channel. This is without a doubt the single best explanation of the reality facing Iranian people today👇

"As an Iranian, I can tell you the situation is no longer just political—it's existential. We are trapped between two collapsing structures: one internal, one external. On one hand, we face a deeply dysfunctional government, led by the Supreme Leader and the Islamic Republic’s unelected institutions.

Decades of economic mismanagement, suppression of dissent, and brutal ideological control have alienated multiple generations. No one believes in reform anymore—because every attempt has either been co-opted or crushed. But here's the paradox: We are also terrified of regime collapse—because we've watched the aftermath of Western intervention in countries like Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan. Each was promised freedom; each descended into chaos, civil war, or foreign occupation.

So no, we don't trust the U.S. or Israel. Not because we support our regime—but because we know how imperial powers treat ‘liberated’ nations in the Middle East.

Freedom, in their language, often means vacuum, fire, and permanent instability. Right now, many Iranians live with three truths at once: The Islamic Republic is morally and politically bankrupt. The alternatives offered by foreign actors are not liberation—they’re collapse.

A bad government is survivable. No government is not. We are not silent because we agree. We are cautious because we’ve learned—too well—what happens when superpowers decide to "help." In a sentence: Iran is a nation held hostage by its own regime, but haunted by the fate of its neighbors. We are stuck in a house we hate, surrounded by fires we fear more."

[Alise Mills @DiaryofaFixer]

Let me say this about the @globeandmail 's decision to run this lede.

What the editors at The Globe and Mail chose to print wasn’t edgy. It wasn’t clever. It wasn’t even sharp. It was lazy, inflammatory, and grotesquely irresponsible.

To describe the “state of the union as a zoo” and the U.S. men’s hockey team as “the monkeys” is not satire, it is dehumanization. Full stop.

“Monkey” has a long, ugly history as a racialized slur. It has been weaponized to demean, to belittle, and to strip people of their humanity. Any newsroom with even a passing familiarity with language, history, or basic decency knows this. This is not obscure. It is not subtle. It is not debatable.

And this wasn’t some rogue tweet fired off at 1am. It was edited. Approved. Published. That means multiple "adults" in a professional newsroom looked at that wording and thought, “Yes, that’s fine.” That failure is institutional.

If the paper intended metaphor, they failed. If they intended provocation, they succeeded but at the cost of their own credibility. If they intended humour, they should consider a different line of work.

A national newspaper carries influence. It sets tone. It signals standards. When it chooses language that echoes dehumanizing tropes, it lowers the bar not just for itself, but for public discourse more broadly.

And at a time when media organizations constantly lecture the public about civility, standards, and responsible speech, the hypocrisy is glaring.

Criticism of American politics? Absolutely. But equating human beings with animals — especially in a context loaded with historical baggage is beyond the pale.

An apology would be the minimum. A serious internal reckoning about editorial judgment would be wiser.
Because if this is what passes for commentary at one of Canada’s flagship publications, then the real circus isn’t on the ice.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

To my X followers,

I’ve worked with the media for nearly 25 years. For most of that time, the relationship was professional and balanced. But in recent years, something has shifted.

I am increasingly concerned about the state of our democracy — particularly how media, in general, are informing Canadians about food policy, food inflation, and economic policy.

I now find myself learning more about Canada’s economy and policy changes from American outlets than from Canadian ones. Much of our national coverage feels reactive, shallow, or overly fixated on partisan narratives rather than substantive policy analysis.

What troubles me most is the lack of scrutiny applied evenly across governments and institutions.

For example, when the Bank of Canada suggested that Ottawa’s counter-tariffs contributed to food inflation, only one major outlet — Bloomberg — gave it meaningful coverage. The grocery benefit program received very little examination regarding how it would be financed. It took days before anyone pressed for clarity.

During the latest spike in food inflation, several outlets turned to the same small circle of commentators who dismissed any potential role of federal policy — carbon pricing, GST holidays, counter-tariffs — despite mounting evidence that policy decisions can and do affect food prices.

Instead of investigating structural drivers of inflation, much of the coverage focuses on fact-checking opposition rhetoric, even though the opposition has not governed since 2015. Scrutiny should be applied equally — not selectively.

Quebec media, while imperfect, appear to have maintained a broader range of debate. In much of the rest of Canada, I see increasing concentration of voices — often from the same region, Ontario, often reflecting similar policy perspectives — and less diversity of thought grounded in empirical research.

This isn’t about partisan politics. It’s about accountability, transparency, and healthy democratic discourse.

Media are under financial pressure — that’s real. But public trust depends on independence and depth. Subsidy structures, incentives, and newsroom economics all matter.

Canada deserves stronger policy journalism — especially on food affordability, supply chains, and economic resilience.

We need more data-driven analysis, more intellectual diversity, and more courage to ask uncomfortable questions — regardless of which party is in power.

Until that happens, Canadians would be wise to diversify their news sources and think critically about what they’re being told — and what they’re not.

[Mark Reid 🇨🇦 @MarkReid42]

Credit unknown.

[Dr. Roger McFillin @DrMcFillin]

In all my years working as a clinical psychologist I never met any person experiencing clinical depression for “no reason”. All had clear events that prompted reactions. The reaction to this event or events over a life time lead to the episode. Additionally, I never met one person who took a drug and the depression was resolved. In ALL cases the person had to address these problems and grow from the experience. I cant even count the amount of times people were prescribed drugs and what would have been a episodic condition became a chronic drug problem.

[Ali Bear 🇨🇦🇮🇹 @Chicshackgal9]

Holy commun…🫢