Sherwin Arnott

Neither preemptive nor legal, US-Israeli strikes on Iran have blown up international law With the latest strikes on Iran, The international legal order is now in free-fall.

Neither preemptive nor legal, US‑Israeli strikes on Iran have blown up international law
#cdnpoli theconversation.com/neither-pree...

“Of course Iranians want change. The question is, what kind?” As bombs rain down, Babak Rahimi, a scholar of the Middle East, challenges the US press to convey the “messy” reality on the ground.

As bombs rain down, Babak Rahimi, a scholar of the Middle East, challenges the US press to convey the “messy” reality on the ground. #journalism #cdnmedia
www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

Iranian strikes test the Gulf’s trillion-dollar AI dream The region sold itself as a safe harbor for the world’s data. Amazon’s burning data center in the UAE has upended that pitch.

Reading: Iranian strikes test the Gulf’s trillion-dollar AI dream

restofworld.org/2026/amazon-...

Killer whale moms have it tough and drone imagery proves it | CBC Climate Change News New Canadian-led research into northern resident killer whales suggests even when food is plentiful, orca moms struggle to regain body fat when they have more living offspring.

Killer whale moms struggle to regain body fat with more offspring. New research from @raincoast.org
www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Please for the love of god how do we get people to stop saying "underage girls"?????

They're minors and CHILDREN.

Say minors.

Say children.

I'm so fucking sick of this shit

Canada's British Columbia to adopt year-round daylight saving time The province on Canada's Pacific coast says ending the twice annual practice of changing the time by an hour is "about making life easier".

Wow! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Holy shit, are we finally ending daylight savings time? #bcpoli

Global News’ Ben Mulroney Shared a Video of Airstrikes. The Footage is Actually from a Video Game. The host of Global News’ West Block gets lost in a misinformation-driven fog of war as American and Israeli forces strike Iran

Global News’ Ben Mulroney shared a bideo of airstrikes. The footage is actually from a video game.

The host of Global News’ The West Block gets lost in a misinformation-driven fog of war as American and Israeli forces strike Iran

Media Matters analyzed a year of NYT coverage of anti-trans bills and found that 66% of the time the paper didn't quote a trans person. Further, it found that the paper often quoted right wing sources without mentioning their histories of anti-trans rhetoric.
So "right-wing rag" is pretty accurate.

Opinion: Two wrongs don’t make a right in the Iran war U.S. administration has no apparent plan for the complicated day after in Iran, and its people deserve better

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... and also archive.ph/8VlOJ

It's genuinely insane that many of the newspaper columnists who cheered us into the war in Iraq are still employed at big legacy outlets cheering us into a new war with Iran.

Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first, sources say Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first, two people f...

Pentagon tells Congress no sign that Iran was going to attack US first #Carney #LPC #cdnpoli
www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...

This is such a clear comparison that journalism professors could utilise this image as the basis for a lesson.

#Newsmedia #journalism #NYT #Trump #imperialism #fascism #Iran #cdnpoli

The UN education agency, UNESCO, called the bombing on the school a "grave violation of humanitarian law." #cdnpoli

Not to mention my contempt for the newspapers that supported, and continue to support, Trump. #journalism

Why These Iranian-Canadians Strongly Oppose U.S.-Israeli Aggression “This war is a war of power, a war of resource and land grab, and it is nothing about democracy.”

Why These Iranian-Canadians Strongly Oppose U.S.-Israeli Aggression

“This war is a war of power, a war of resource and land grab, and it is nothing about democracy.” #cdnpoli www.readthemaple.com/email/8c3983...

honestly, that sounds like pasta alla norma

Washington Post layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, preliminary Guild data shows "We cannot ignore what this means for equity, representation, and the future of this organization."

Washington Post layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, preliminary Guild data shows

“We cannot ignore what this means for equity, representation, and the future of this organization.”

#journalism #press www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/wash...

"Belugas travel to warm, shallow estuaries to give birth and care for their young. Knowledge holders inform us that some of these estuaries have been visited by belugas for several hundred years. But not just any estuary will do!"
A summary of our new BES paper by @jaclynaubin.bsky.social 👇

Constructing Brexit Britain Combining corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, and a discourse analysis of narratives, this book considers one aspect of the Brexit process: the lan…

Still haven’t read Constructing Brexit Britain? There’s a 40% sale on the eBook on Bloomsbury’s website which means you can get it for just over £15!!

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/construct...

The Tumbler Ridge shooting is already fuelling anti-trans hate in Canada | Xtra Magazine Bad actors on the right are leaping to connect the shooter’s trans identity to the violence

Reading: The Tumbler Ridge shooting is already fuelling anti-trans hate in Canada

Bad actors on the right are leaping to connect the shooter’s trans identity to the violence

#cdnpoli xtramagazine.com/power/tumble...

Why is the Washington Post cratering so spectacularly? | Margaret Sullivan To understand the change in Washington Post’s fortunes, it is worth comparing its demise to the New York Times’s trajectory

Why is the Washington Post cratering so spectacularly? #journalism www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker Who are the real people behind the accounts spreading fury about the capital online? And what motivates them?

Reading: "Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker

Who are the real people behind the accounts spreading fury about the capital online? And what motivates them? #misinformation #cdnpoli www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

Inside the Far-Right Push to Influence Canadian Political Parties | The Tyee A conference call shows a political operative with past Conservative connections advising several white nationalist groups.

Inside the Far-Right Push to Influence Canadian Political Parties

A conference call shows a political operative with past Conservative connections advising several white nationalist groups.

#cdnpoli #conservatives thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

Think about every time someone needs the help of a Toronto police officer.

That information is kept in a database that members of the TPS have allegedly sold access to, for the purposes of shooting people.

How can this organization rightly expect anyone to place trust in it when they call 911?

Watching people today saying “wait, are you suggesting that the Toronto Police have ties to the MOB?” is real teeth-gritting for any of us who’ve paid attention to this city for the last three decades 😡

Christian's Want to Put a STOP to Christian Nationalism YouTube video by No Nonsense Spirituality | Britt Hartley

Christianity is deeply authoritarian. And Christian Nationalism has a recurring Nazi problem. We can't understand politics in North America without understanding Christianity. Here's a nice explainer on the marriage between Christianity and rightwing fascism. youtu.be/tEmvGUhFd8c?...

I cannot see how a police chief remains standing after at least nine of their officers are arrested for allegedly being involved in some of the city's most frightening violence, some allegedly directed at other members of their staff.

"The investigation also uncovered a conspiracy to kill a unit commander at the Toronto South Detention Centre, the sources said." #cdnpoli

Carney’s government is cutting hundreds of environment and science jobs. Here’s what that means for Canadians | CBC Radio Scientists and labour leaders are warning that cuts to Environment and Climate Change Canada could significantly impact the health and safety of Canadians as well as Canada's wildlife and environment.

"You can't cut public science or staff without increasing public risk.” There needs to be more coverage of this in Canada so people know what's going on. www.cbc.ca/radio/whaton...