Chief Bobby-san E/I/E/I/O

vanilla is a flavour

[Dean Skoreyko @bcbluecon]

Now do the real victims.

The Chinese immigrant killed 5 people because he had no idea what he was doing.

We don't hate the media nearly enough.

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

The guy arrested for firing 14 bullets into a Jewish-owned restaurant,

DURING PASSOVER,

has a name.

Mohamed Mahdi.

It’s in the Toronto Police news release.

CBC didn’t use it.

CTV didn’t use it.

Global didn’t use it.

Canadian Press didn’t use it.

Every major Canadian outlet quoted the police release.

Every one of them omitted the name that was IN the release.

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence 🙄

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

btw one funny subplot here relates to that long @ETFOeducators report on “2-spirited” from 2022
As far as I know, I’m the only journo who actually read it. When I wrote about how absurd it was, the teachers union scrubbed the thing from the web. Fortunately, I downloaded a copy

[DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY @DonaldBestCA]

Canadians shouldn't forget First Nations cannibalism, human sacrifices, and inter-tribal genocides. Stone-age savagery happening for millennia until Europeans stopped those cultural practices.

We have a Lake Huron, but no Hurons. Who ate the Hurons? Who ate Jean de Brébeuf? Look it up!

Remember how Mohawk Chief Joseph Brant kept slaves including Sophia Pooley - his pretty little 12 year old Black slave girl who looked after his special personal needs. Just one of Brant’s slaves.

Learn how the famous Chapel of the Mohawks was built by Brant's slaves.

@GeoffRuss3 has the correct idea... If we are going to talk history - let’s tell it all.

[Tokyo Rosie @RosieRocks28]

Multi-millionaire living in the US comes to Canada to receive award, praise socialism and trash the US.

Said multi-millionaire then immediately leaves awards show to return to the US where she can pay lower taxes and marinate in her own hypocrisy.

[Tokyo Rosie @RosieRocks28]

If I didn't know this was the NDP convention I would have honestly thought it was a Monty Pythons sketch. Absolute nutfuckery!

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

They’re not women

And they’re not being “banned”

They’re men who have exactly the same eligibility to compete in their corresponding sex-appropriate division as literally any other human on the planet

But otherwise, great tweet

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

5 years ago, Chief Rosanne Casimir of Kamloops First Nation in BC claimed she found 215 child graves. The whole thing was a lie. Not one grave has been found, despite Trudeau giving her $12m to look for them. But she still pretends, with a straight face, that the graves exist.

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

I don’t really care about the Order of Canada. But if giving the honour to Don Cherry agitates the @TorontoStar’s most sanctimonious and self-important windbag, then I’m all for it

[Alexander Brown @alexbrown17]

Took a rare personal day Tuesday for a little PNW road trip with an old friend.

Crossing the border: a breeze as usual.
Our neighbours: friendly as usual.

These stories, the attempts to further nudge already spooked seniors, they should be beneath us. But then again, it’s an unholy alliance of a Liberal pollster and the CTV newsroom. The conditioning is the point.

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

Hey John, remember when you kicked @Dallas_Brodie out of your caucus for saying exactly the same thing ?

Because I totally remember that

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Curtis Yarvin says the West has "no balls" now and will simply turn into South Africa…

"Americans and Europeans will not resist the mass immigration and population replacement. You know, the thought that they will grab their muskets or whatever. It won't happen. Won’t happen at all. What will happen is exactly what happened in South Africa.

They will just acknowledge that they've lost their power and their country forever. And then they will sit quietly in their houses and build more and more barbed wire and electric fences until finally they are exterminated in one big pogrom. That's the future. That's what will happen to your children."

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

I’m actually very curious about how indigenous knowledge helped us satisfy the thrust, fuel, and mass relationship dictated by Tsiolkovsky’s rocket equation

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

canadian actor you've never heard of who appeared in canadian film you've never heard of returns canadian award you've never heard of because organization you've never heard of wouldn't play her palestinian-watermelon-emoji-genocide video

[Brian Lilley @brianlilley]

He misread nothing.
Aside from a few in the Ottawa bureau, the Globe is become an embarrassment and unreadable.

[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.

[Joe Warmington @joe_warmington]

⁦@tsnjamesduthie⁩ oddly putting ⁦@WayneGretzky⁩ through a bizarre struggle session/loyalty test. 99 would have been right to walk out but instead handled the ambush with class. It was supposed to be an appearance about a hockey game but CBC tried to make it political

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

One of the battiest oped pieces I’ve seen. Here’s the author’s recipe for defending Canada from Trump
1) denounce ourselves as settler colonialists
2) bring in millions MORE settler-colonial immigrants to build weapons
3) then deploy them to fight “house to house” vs US soldiers