For my Canadian friends

There’s an old authoritarian trick: redefine loyalty as patriotism and criticism as treason. And this week, the trick went live.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, the most powerful Republican in Congress, called the upcoming “No Kings” march an “anti-American” rally. Majority Whip Tom Emmer chimed in, branding it the “terrorist wing” of the Democratic Party. In other words, a march for democracy has officially been recast as an act of terrorism.

The timing isn’t coincidental. It comes just days after Ken Klippenstein exposed the leaked FBI/DHS intelligence bulletin warning that protests “against ICE or Trump administration policies” may be covers for domestic terrorism. That bulletin explicitly cites the new National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, Trump’s NSPM-7, as its guiding authority.

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This is the Trump regime’s new operating system for authoritarian control. NSPM-7 instructs every federal law enforcement agency to “investigate and disrupt” entities expressing anti-American, anti-Christian, or anti-capitalist sentiment. That’s not a joke or a paraphrase. Those wildly broad phrases appear in the directive. It reads like a revivalist sermon rewritten by the FBI.

Under this doctrine, dissent is no longer protected speech, it’s pre-terroristic behavior. Activists, journalists, and NGOs are now .....

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“I just miss him so much.”

Pierre Poilievre’s obsession with Justin Trudeau continues — and it’s getting embarrassing.

In his latest stunt, Poilievre has accused the RCMP of covering up for Trudeau, despite CBC reporting that there’s no evidence of any such thing. The Mounties confirmed they did investigate the SNC-Lavalin affair, but determined no charges were warranted. Case closed — at least for everyone living in reality.

CBC’s reporting cuts through the noise:

There’s no proof of political interference.
The RCMP made an independent decision.
Poilievre is trying to resurrect an old scandal because he has nothing new — or real — to say.

While Canadians want leadership on healthcare, housing, and climate, Poilievre is stuck in 2019 — ranting about Trudeau like a jilted ex who can’t move on.

CBC remains one of the few outlets still separating fact from partisan fantasy. Without it, this kind of political gaslighting would go unchecked.


Because when politicians start rewriting reality, we need journalists who stick to the truth.

Most would not agree that Harper was so great and moral!



Just a matter of time. They are starting to realize that #CONservativesWillNeverWinWithPoiLIEvre
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The uprising against Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre may have officially begun.

Just three months before Poilievre’s leadership review in Calgary, Stephen Harper’s former spokesman is letting it be known that knives should be out.

Writing in the Star, Dimitri Soudas accuses Poilievre of “dismantling the principled, serious and credible Conservative party Harper worked so hard to lead and bring to power, one of substance, maturity and integrity.”

Soudas, who served as the former prime minister’s communications director, suggests Poilievre is rewriting the legacy of the party, and he reminds the public — and Conservatives — that theirs is a party that is “far greater than any one man,” that was “built to serve the country, not the ego of a single leader.”

The Conservative establishment, it appears, won’t remain silent as Poilievre tries to remake the party into a .....

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