SCOOP: I obtained Edmonton police a chief Warren Driechel’s itinerary and other documents from his February 2026 trip to Israel.
@mbueckert from @CJPME says it’s “much worse than any of us expected.”
NEW: Matt Johnson’s Anthony Bourdain movie TONY will be distributed theatrically in Canada by A24 (which typically, but not always, uses local independent distributors for Canadian releases) on Aug. 14, a week after it opens in select U.S. theatres.
🎉 WE JUST WON OUR 1ST RENT STRIKE
A few months back, our neighbours at Tahanan Non-Profit Homes in Davenport were hit with a whopping 8% rent increase.
After two months on rent strike, with the support of members and organizers of the TTU, tenants just won a huge victory.👇
Paul Weller addresses the idea that politics and music should be kept separate, and once again speaks out in support of the people of Palestine (in the most Weller way possible)
The sentences handed down today are a huge threat to the possibility of a democratic society. The prosecution is rife with constitutional violations, but 30 years in prison (more than anyone for January 6) for moving some magazines? 50 years in prison even for those not involved in planning the protest? The evidence of an illegal conspiracy is non-existent, but this is how the authoritarian dragnet targets those fighting against repression. Everyone should be learning about this case. https://t.co/XLki7OBuID
It'd be a big job to compile the info but I'd really love to know how many existing Vancouver apartments were demolished, and how many tenants displaced, to build the condo towers containing the 2,200 unsellable shoeboxes that the feds now plan to buy and turn into apartments.
OPSEU protesters have shown up to Premier Doug Ford’s announcement at a condo construction site alongside Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow and federal Housing Minister Gregor Robertson #onpoli
All the hours I spend working on my feet to pay taxes while brown bagging lunch all week to save my money, is completely worth it when I realize I do it all for the real heroes... Rich developers who got a government bailout from Mark Carney to keep house prices too high. 🙌🏽🥰
NEW: The DEA permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico in bid to build prosecutions
“We poisoned our community to make cases,” DEA Agent David Howell tells @AP
“We 100% got people killed”
w/ @APjoshgoodman
https://t.co/1tRshl8Xoa
food bank usage is sky-rocketing, healthcare is crumbling and/or being privatized, the government is slashing the public service to replace it with AI and the military, but yeah, okay, I guess that’s just “playing hardball”