Centrist. Anti-fundamentalist. Contaminated site engineer (P.Eng. AB/SK). All tweets are personal, not professional advice. Married to @yeg_md. π¨π¦π³οΈβπ
UNLOCKED | Four more former Alberta Conservative MPs want to separate from Canada and one wants to explore future with the United States
By @abbas_rana1#cdnpolihilltimes.com/?p=508134
Housing shortages discourage younger families from moving in and older residents from downsizing; school enrolments fall and communities age even faster than they otherwise would economist.com/interactive/unβ¦
π¨ NEW: The BBC has revealed Russia has been setting up fake far-right and Islamist groups in the UK to stoke division
Operatives paid people to vandalise mosques, spread extremist propaganda and inflame tensions after the Southport riots
Then do something. Declare the βArmed Forces of the Russian Federationβ to be a terrorist entity. Sever diplomatic relations with the so-called Russian Federation. Close russian terrorist bases in Canada fronting as embassies/consulates.
Canada strongly condemns Russiaβs latest attack on Kyiv, including the strike on the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a sacred site in Ukraine and Eastern Christianity.Β
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Canada stands with Ukraine. Their cause β freedom, democracy, sovereignty β is our cause.
STARMER says kids will get around his social media ban (as the vast majority do in Australia) but argues a lawβs ineffectiveness should not prevent its introduction.
π΄ Four Ukrainian rescuers killed in Russian strike double-tap attack.
Ukraine's State Emergency Service rescuers Dmytrii Boyko, Danylo Tishchenko, Serhii Makovetskyi, and Vadym Zinchenko were killed and nine others injured during a secondary Russian attack on a civilian enterprise in Kharkiv on the night of June 15.
When Notre-Dame burned in 2019, the world stopped.
Today, Russia damages Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a monastery nearly 1,000 years old and older than Notre-Dame itself.
A thousand years of history deserves the same attention, the same sympathy, and the same protection.
I remember the good old days when Putin was claiming to save his Slavic brothers and sisters from Nazis, and not actually trying to burn down some of the holiest sites in Orthodoxy
Russians have struck the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and are burning down one of Ukraine's oldest Orthodox churchesβΌοΈ
The roof of the Dormition Cathedral is ablaze. The cathedral itself is a significant part of our history, it is older than Moscow. It was already there when russian neanderthals were building shacks made of sticks and shit.
Fucking barbarians!
Heads up: The U.S. Postal Service has proposed a new rule that would allow it to refuse to deliver mail ballots in states that don't turn over voter rolls to the federal government.
Democrats and voting-rights groups say the proposed rule is clear evidence that the Trump admin is trying to unconstitutionally intrude on state-run elections.
Excellent column on Vichy France, but go right next door and you have an even better example of this. Franco was in charge of Spain a lot longer than Petain ran France, and his government tried much harder to impose conservative Catholic nationalism.
It totally failed.
Doomerism is indispensable to Christian nationalists, because it is only the downfall of democracy that can make patriarchal authoritarianism palatable. But it turns out that when you try to impose the patriarchy back onto a society that has already embraced liberalism, you mainly remind people of why they chose liberalism in the first place. nytimes.com/2026/06/14/opiniβ¦
What a disgusting atrocity. All the piece of shit MAGA influencers who claim Russia is protecting traditional Christian values are running cover for genocide. This is who Russia really is. This is one of the holiest religious sites on the entire planet.
π¨ BREAKING: Russian strike hits the historic Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a world-famous Orthodox monastery and UNESCO site, igniting fire on the roof of the Dormition Cathedral.
"How do we reconcile people and trees? This has been one of my concerns since the beginning," said councillor Dianne Saxe. "I agree this is a place where trees should come first."
That's MENTAL. IT'S A PARK! FOR HUMANS!
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A lot of urbanites incorrectly view suburbanites as the biggest barrier to urbanism. Outside of urban highways they don't matter.
The biggest barrier to urbanism are Angelenos, San Franciscans, New Yorkers, etc., who dislike building.
the energy of the OKC celebration last year vs. the Knicks this year is so funny
walkable cities enable spontaneous eruptions of joy that are simply impossible to generate in suburban sprawl
Unbelievable. The holiest site in Slavic Orthodoxy is on fire. The place where the Slavs converted to Christianity and became a European kingdom. Set ablaze by a decrepit Empire claiming to save Slavic Orthodox Culture.
Unbelievable. The holiest site in Slavic Orthodoxy is on fire. The place where the Slavs converted to Christianity and became a European kingdom. Set ablaze by a decrepit Empire claiming to save Slavic Orthodox Culture.
The Dormition Cathedral in Kyiv. Built over a thousand years ago by masters from the Byzantine Empire after the Kyivan Rus converted to Christianity, and when Moscow was little more than a swamp.