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Nadeem Mahmoud, the spokesperson for Ahmed's campaign, said multiple people reached out to their office, saying a woman wearing an Elections Canada badge was approaching people lined up to vote at the Teston Village Public School in Vaughan, and encouraging them to vote Conservative in the federal election.
The woman was speaking to people in English but also in Urdu, Mahmoud said.
"This is something which is not supposed to happen. It's a breach of protocol," he said.
Brazen breach of protocol by someone who apparently wasn't a wee bit worried about getting caught. Someone should ask Pierre Poutine what he has to say about it, but conservatives are in the "we're not letting him talk anymore" stage of the campaign.
This is the best thing I've read today. I'm so glad you went anyway. Poll prediction sites don't predict upsets and voting can absolutely change things.
It's very that. So much so that the person who wrote the headline obviously knew exactly what they were doing.
Headline misrepresents what their acting President said. From their own article:
“After the devastation of the Korean war . . . the United States gave us aid, technology transfer, investments and security assurances,” which helped make South Korea “a very comfortable investment environment for foreigners”, Han told the Financial Times in an interview.
“Our industrial prowess and our financial development and our culture and growth and wealth are very heavily due to the help from the United States,” he added.
In light of this debt of gratitude, Seoul — one of Washington’s closest security allies and economic partners in Asia — would enter negotiations with Trump seeking to find “solutions which are more win-win for both, rather than taking their actions as the objective against which we should fight back”, Han said.
The CFIA says the product might have been sold in clerk-served packages or smaller packages without a label, or in a package that doesn’t bear the same brand or product name.
Hotels, hospitals, retirement homes, bakeries, etc: all places where these are served with no reference to their brand name. Heads up.
TIL! ty
So Montreal's one of their studios. Good to know.
I suspect the plastic bag/straw issue is politicians virtue signalling to the Oil and Gas lobby, like "I'll make sure you still get pennies for your nurdles, Boss!"
[edit - link's to a vox article from 2022 explaining what nurdles are]
Challenge accepitebbted
How everyone in Parliament doesn't have an aneurysm from having to deal with him is beyond me. Just 3 minutes of his blatant bullshit gives me an ice cream headache.
Highlight of the debate imo: Skippy says I'm "living in terror" here in Toronto, because of car theft.
Sweet mother of god, someone muzzle the attack poodle. I really want to hear everything everyone has to say tonight, but SkiPPy is working his ass off to make me turn off the radio. Everyone's losing continuity and intelligibility with the amount he's talking over and interrupting.
The Manning Centre trained him well.
Such a good company. I used their sunscreen for ages. They have a body lotion with Labrador tea and shea that I still love too.
I used the "Fresh Verve" deo for a few years and it really is fantastic. So disappointed the price of it went up so much from pre-pandemic to now (iirc, it was 5-6$ and now I can't find it for under 13$, which is more than I'm willing to pay for pit stick. Back to DIY until the price comes down, unfortunately).
Alpen Secrets is made in Montreal. You know that bar soap with the goats on it that you see everywhere? That's them. Their body wash with almond oil is absolutely lovely.
Very cool to see all the breweries that've signed on.
Some great names too: Together We're Bitter Co-operative Brewing, Kick and Push, Dildo Brewing Co. & Museum.
More mainstream and big budget, so everyone probably already knows this one. But if you like puzzles and wish your gameplay was narrated by Prometheus gentle-parenting manbaby Zeus through your hero's journey, Immortals: Fenyx Rising is fluffy fun. It's an ubisoft game, and they're still a Quebec company so it absolutely counts.
[There's no indication any of the officers or jailers at any of the detention locations were women. Every reference gives male pronouns (unless I missed something).]
Moved her to 4 different states in 1 night, kept her awake and hungry after fasting all day for Ramadan, 4 o'clock in the morning, made a point of letting her know they saw pics of her without her hijab. Then someone taking the scarf off her head without asking (to cure her asthma! who knew it was so easy! /s), while she's protesting. Absolutely, I'd assume cruel sarcasm on the part of both these people.
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The only reason we know this is happening, is because Lyft fucked up once by sending her the transcript. I'd assume it’s happening in every vehicle.
The personal responsibility/choice narrative silicon valley loves so much when it comes to deregulation of labour standards and constant aggressive privacy violations is not useful irl. Any gig worker for lyft/uber/fuckworkers.com isn’t going to feel free to say no (if they have any choice at all).
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The only reason we know this is happening, is because Lyft fucked up once by sending her the transcript. Assume it's happening in every vehicle.
The personal responsibility/choice narrative silicon valley loves so much when it comes to deregulation of labour standards and constant aggressive privacy violations is not useful irl. Any gig worker for lyft/uber/fuckworkers.com isn't going to feel free to say no (if they have any choice at all) and putting the onus on riders doesn't make sense here at all.
Canada has privacy laws that techbro companies from the USA simply ignore. Now is the best time to start enforcing them.
During their reunion in E.’s hometown, the first time they’d been together since the summer, the friends looked up know-your-rights tutorials and discussed whether Öztürk should cut short her doctoral program. They spent their last day together filling out intake forms for legal aid groups — just in case.
Right up until their last minutes together at the train station, they wrestled with how cautious Öztürk should be when she returned to Massachusetts. Öztürk wondered if she should avoid communal dinners, a feature of Muslim social life during the holy month of Ramadan.
“I told her to keep going out, to be with her community. I wanted her to live her life,” E. recalled, her voice breaking.
“And then she got abducted in broad daylight.”
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“What broke me was her screaming. And knowing that the same thing had just happened to almost 400 people in the Boston area the week before,” said [Fatema Ahmad of the Muslim Justice League], referring to a recent six-day ICE operation.
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Her last stop [after they moved her over 4 states in one night] was a detention center in Basile about an hour away, where she remains, one of two dozen women in a damp, mouse-infested cell built to hold 14, according to court filings.
Whole thing's a fucking brutal read, but worth it.
She was chatting with friends in a Lyft. Then someone texted her what they said
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28209968
Anvi Ahuja received a text message transcript of her conversation with her roommates during their Lyft ride home on March 11.
The company confirms the incident took place, but has offered varying explanations.
After CBC Toronto contacted Lyft about this story last week, a Lyft representative called Ahuja. She says they told her the company is running a pilot program where audio is recorded from some rides and then the transcript is supposed to be sent to the ride-sharing company for reference if a security issue is reported.
In a statement to CBC, a Lyft spokesperson acknowledged that the ride-sharing company has an in-app audio recording pilot in select U.S. markets with "strict opt-in protocols" but said this incident is not related to that pilot program or any other feature being tested by Lyft.
She was chatting with friends in a Lyft. Then someone texted her what they said
Anvi Ahuja received a text message transcript of her conversation with her roommates during their Lyft ride home on March 11.
The company confirms the incident took place, but has offered varying explanations.
After CBC Toronto contacted Lyft about this story last week, a Lyft representative called Ahuja. She says they told her the company is running a pilot program where audio is recorded from some rides and then the transcript is supposed to be sent to the ride-sharing company for reference if a security issue is reported.
In a statement to CBC, a Lyft spokesperson acknowledged that the ride-sharing company has an in-app audio recording pilot in select U.S. markets with "strict opt-in protocols" but said this incident is not related to that pilot program or any other feature being tested by Lyft.
If anyone needed another reason not to use their "ride sharing" companies.
Best case scenario - this international crisis with The States pushes Canada to start enfor
Was watching cbc last night and saw a good bit where they investigate con and lib crowd number claims.
Liberals claimed 2,000 in a 1,100 capacity room, and a crowd science expert counted 756.
Conservatives claimed 5,500, and the cbc counted 1,522.
Cons also claimed 15,000; expert counted 1,772.
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Posting a quote from the entrepreneur in question, jic anyone doesn't know who this good man is (link's to a interview with him on CBC's show the Next Chapter).
"I always say that Syria is my home by birth and Canada is my home by choice. I knew this country stands for human rights, for freedom, for supporting immigrants and refugees to start their new lives on this amazing land of opportunity. I've heard a lot of stories of Canadian immigrants starting from scratch like newborn babies.
"From the moment that I landed at the Canadian airport is certainly when the feeling became a reality. I was treated like I belonged — like I was born in Canada and taken away to the Middle East for 25 years of my life and then brought back. That's how it felt because I was treated like a Canadian. I had every single right to do everything I wanted, everything I dreamed of." Tareq Hadhad, founder of Peace by Chocolate, 2021
Hundreds protest after Turkish student is arrested near Boston by masked immigration agents
Rumeysa Ozturk's lawyer believes she is being targeted over a school paper editorial she co-authored
snips from the article:
U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin [...] did not specify what specific activities were engaged in by Ozturk, a Fulbright Scholar and student in Tufts' doctoral program for Child Study and Human Development. Ozturk had been in the country on an F-1 visa to study.
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Ozturk co-authored an opinion piece a year ago in the school's student paper, the Tufts Daily, that criticized the school's response to calls by students to divest from companies with ties to Israel and to "acknowledge the Palestinian genocide."
"Based on patterns we are seeing across the country, her exercising her free speech rights appears to have played a role in her detention," said Mahsa Khanbabai, Ozturk's lawyer. Khanbabai called the claims against Ozturk "baseless" and said people should be "horrified at the way DHS spirited away Rumeysa in broad
Bethan Nodwell, Christine Loughead, and another unidentified Canadian joined neo-Nazi leader Chris Pohlhaus to discuss antisemitic conspiracy theories and dehumanize South Asian and Indigenous people.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26954158
Bethan Nodwell, Christine Loughead, and another unidentified Canadian joined neo-Nazi leader Chris Pohlhaus to discuss antisemitic conspiracy theories and dehumanize South Asian and Indigenous people.
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Nodwell is part of Diagolon’s white supremacist network and has worked as an organizer for far-right events in Canada. She enjoyed a measure of notoriety in the media after allegedly serving as a stage manager during the 2022 “Freedom Convoy” blockade protests in Ottawa.
Nodwell has been quoted by major media outlets about the protests and appeared on the podcast of Tammy Peterson, Jordan Peterson’s wife. Once one of three owners of Trinity Productions, she helped bring the far-right Member of the European Parliament, German AfD MEP Christine Anderson, to Canada on multiple speaking tours.
She also attempted to organize a tour for UK Islamophobic activist Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinso
Bethan Nodwell, Christine Loughead, and another unidentified Canadian joined neo-Nazi leader Chris Pohlhaus to discuss antisemitic conspiracy theories and dehumanize South Asian and Indigenous people.
Bethan Nodwell, Christine Loughead, and another unidentified Canadian joined neo-Nazi leader Chris Pohlhaus to discuss antisemitic conspiracy theories and dehumanize South Asian and Indigenous people.
[...]
Nodwell is part of Diagolon’s white supremacist network and has worked as an organizer for far-right events in Canada. She enjoyed a measure of notoriety in the media after allegedly serving as a stage manager during the 2022 “Freedom Convoy” blockade protests in Ottawa.
Nodwell has been quoted by major media outlets about the protests and appeared on the podcast of Tammy Peterson, Jordan Peterson’s wife. Once one of three owners of Trinity Productions, she helped bring the far-right Member of the European Parliament, German AfD MEP Christine Anderson, to Canada on multiple speaking tours.
She also attempted to organize a tour for UK Islamophobic activist Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson.
[...]
Loughead, better known as CandianGirl, rev
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Another person posted this in c/ontario
From the site:
Volunteers can be trained to perform a variety of duties, including sandbagging, debris removal, serving meals and more. Volunteers are contacted when needed to support emergency response efforts and will be assigned duties based on their skill level, interest and availability.
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To go with, a good read from the Tyee about Civil Defense Corps
[A] second Trump presidency is emphatically not like the first. In foreign policy, as in business, Trump does not deal with weaker counterparts — he dominates them. When engaging with countries that lack the leverage to push back, he is not transactional; he is predatory. His negotiations are not about mutual benefit but about extracting maximum advantage, imposing terms that serve his interests alone.
The shift from ally to adversary could happen overnight, as a protectionist United States looks at
Eby maps out B.C.'s trade-war power strategy with an eye on Doug Ford and Elon Musk
B.C. unlikely to follow Ontario's lead in slapping surcharge on power exports, premier says
"We're working with other premiers and with the federal government on how we can support the Team Canada approach with no-tariff responses," he said on March 5 about the possibility of B.C. imposing its own surcharges. [...]
Eby also said he is working on "contingency planning" should things escalate.
For example, he noted the impacts of Elon Musk's DOGE — Department of Government Efficiency — on B.C.'s power partners.
B.C.'s power grid is connected to the United States through the Bonneville Power Administration, an agency within the U.S. Department of Energy that both buys from and sells to British Columbia, as needed.
The agency is down hundreds of positions following mass firings by the Trump administration. [...]
Eby and Harrison both said B.C. has been hindered in the past because Alberta has its own regulatory scheme for managing power, focused around private providers,
Canadian teen recruited to spy for Russia, now sitting in Polish jail
Keir Giles, a senior consulting fellow with the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House in London, says Putin's FSB has been casting a wide net for new agents since the invasion of Ukraine. It's all part of Moscow's push to harass and unbalance NATO nations.
"Russia will reach out and recruit anybody it can, because that is now very much cheaper and easier thanks to online access," said Giles. "The investment of time and resources in doing this is tiny compared to the potential results."
The end goal isn't necessarily to obtain secret information, or engage in sabotage, says Giles, but rather to sow fear, uncertainty and doubt. A goal that can be met even when spies are caught — or confess.
"Russia places very little value on the people that it recruits. They are disposable," he said.
Laken's family hope that he will soon return home, and have been told that quiet negotiations are underway to allow him to complete his sentence in Canada.
[A youngster was a Forces cadet
Toronto will ban U.S. companies bidding on city contracts in response to Trump’s tariffs, Olivia Chow says
Mayor Olivia Chow confirmed that the city will award all contracts valued at less than $353,000 to Canadian companies exclusively.
Mayor Olivia Chow says she plans to ban U.S. companies from bidding on contracts with the City of Toronto.
At a press conference Thursday morning to talk about the procurement of new TTC streetcars, Chow provided an update on her administration’s response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs on Canadian goods.
She confirmed that the city will award all contracts valued at less than $353,000 to Canadian companies exclusively. She also promised to present a motion to her executive committee “barring any U.S. companies from future Toronto contracts.”
Free Gardening Events in March
Thought I'd leave some links for new gardeners, or people itching for spring who just want to come check out seeds etc.
This weekend, Saturday and Sunday at Brickworks from 9-2 (free bus just north of Broadview station) - https://www.evergreen.ca/evergreen-brick-work/events/seedy-weekend-2025
March 22, Scadding Court from 10-2 (west end of the city) - https://torontourbangrowers.org/events/scadding-court-seedy-saturday-2025
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Other good resources for beginners:
Rebel Republican Adam Kinzinger gets real about Trump's threats – CBC’s The House (Feb 14; 9 mins)
Interviewed before he went on stage at UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs for his talk called American Identity and the Republican Party.
I found it interesting to listen to someone who self-identifies as one of the good ones and thought some here might be interested as well.
8:15ish to hear his advice to Canadians about the whole “annex your country jk but not really” thing. [spoiler alert!] It's #notallamericans with a supersize dose of paternalistic condescension about how Canadians need to grow some patriotism and push back. But just on tariffs, mind you, and not too hard because we’re still friends and Canada would suffer.
“You don’t need to be afraid of him.”
“Find a reason to continue to be proud of your country.”
Golly, thanks mister!
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His overall take is bog standard - no surprises - hanging all the evil happening in the USA right now around DJT’s
Years after the convoy, Ottawa residents are 'reclaiming' the Canadian flag
It was good seeing so many flags in my neighbourhood today - for the first time since 2022 not thinking "frigging Convites." Was wondering what it must be like for people in Ottawa and found this on the cbc:
Even if [Robin Seguin, who owns Victoria Barbershop, which has been operating out of the basement of a government building at the corner of O'Connor Street and Wellington Street in Ottawa's Centretown for more than 100 years] had been able to forget the sight of those [burning, upside down, written on] flags, she said her business has since changed in ways that serve as an inescapable reminder of the convoy.
"The building is on permanent lockdown, and what used to be the entrance to the barbershop is now called a man trap," she said, explaining that customers used to come and go freely and now they have to ring a bell to be let in by security.
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Brad Green, the owner of World of Maps on Wellington Street West, said he "chokes up, thinking about it."
"It's li
Canadian residents are racing to save the data in Trump's crosshairs
Guerilla effort underway to preserve medical, environmental data from deletion
Among the pages observers have seen disappear are ones that monitor HIV infections, deal with health risks for youth and contain census data, education data and information about assisted reproduction technologies. A website containing the names of those charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol was also removed.
Well-researched (longer) read about a bunch of good people doing the right thing in a wildly craptastic situation.
Toronto 'ready to do it's part' in taking on Trump Tariffs
Mayor Olivia Chow says that she’ll lead a ‘city-wide push’ to keep municipal money in Canada
Speaking at a news conference Monday, Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow says she'll lead a "city-wide push to put our locally-made products and services first."
Chow says she's instructed the city manager to determine whether Toronto should end any contracts, as Ontario opted to do with Starlink, or follow in the province's footsteps and ban U.S. companies from future government contracts.
"The City of Toronto buys a lot of goods. We do have a $78-billion budget," said Chow, who will meet with Toronto's city manager on Tuesday to go over what she calls a "Toronto Action Plan" for dealing with the tariffs.
"Every aspect of how this city operates matters," she said. "It matters where we buy."
This recruiter has allegedly scammed 'hundreds' of Filipino migrant workers. Some are now homeless
Jeanett Moskito has two companies - Link4Staff and Berderald Consulting - that she uses to scam migrant workers.
Philippines consulates in Israel and Canada both warn people from using her services and she's still posting on the Job Bank.
A months-long investigation reveals she is one of the Ontario Ministry of Labour's most notorious repeat offenders, caught 35 times taking payments from dozens of foreign workers in exchange for finding them jobs — which is illegal across Canada.
So far, Moskito's punishment has been to pay back the money she took illegally — a total of about $200,000 — along with paying a handful of ministry-imposed $250 fines.
In the article: rotten story from a young dad who's now living in a homeless shelter; the CEO of Hoco Hotels in Stratford, Ont claims ignorance and says he's "not happy"; and comments from 2 Filipino Canadian immigration lawyers, the MoL (bland "changes are coming" "we won't tolerate bad actors") and [Migrante Ontario](ht
Betting on Trump pardon, convicted Jan. 6 rioter hits the slopes in Canada
A man convicted and sentenced to nine months in jail for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is snowboarding in Whistler, B.C. Though Antony Vo says he expects a full pardon from U.S. president-elect Donald Trump once he takes office, he is also seeking asylum in Canada.
snip of pro-train poetry in 2002 song "Self Evident"
Hi. I've been reading posts and comments in this community for just a little under a month, and every time I visit, I think of this piece, so I'd like to share it:
I’m looking out over my whole human family
And I’m raising my glass in a toast
Here's to our last drink of fossil fuels
May we vow... to get off... of this... sauce...
Shoo away the swarms of commuter planes
Find that train ticket we lost
'Cause once upon a time, the line followed the river
And peeked into all the backyards
And the laundry was waving
And the graffiti was teasing us
From brick walls and bridges
We were rolling over ridges
Through valleys
Under stars
I dream of touring like Duke Ellington
In my own railroad car
I dream of waiting on the tall blonde wooden benches
In a grand station aglow with grace
And then standing out on the platform
And feeling the air on my face
Give back the night its distant whistle
Give the darkness back its soul
Give the big oil companie
Toronto breaks ground on Wilson Heights housing project with more than 500 affordable rentals
snips from the news bit:
Total of 1,484 residential homes will be built on a former commuter parking lot
The development will include 444 condos and a mix of one- to three-bedroom rental homes that will be available to residents of various income levels.
Green said the four-block community that will be created will include a childcare centre, community space, retail space and public park.
In a news release on Tuesday, the city said crews have already begun to remove parking infrastructure to prepare the site for development. Construction is set to begin in the spring, with occupancy expected in early 2029.
Second Cup closes 2 cafés & cuts ties with Montreal franchisee over hateful remarks and gestures
Someone who owned 2 cafés in Montreal's Jewish General Hospital decided the best place to live their Nazi dream was at a pro-Palestinian protest outside Concordia U last week. She was filmed doing the Nazi salute and throwing out antisemitic remarks.
Second Cup immediately closed down the franchisee's 2 cafés, saying they have "Zero tolerance for hate speech."
The company said it will retain the staff and continue paying them until the locations at the hospital reopen under new management.
