Patrick Canning 🇨🇦

My lesson of the last year: they will NEVER hand it to us, they will NEVER give us permission to build a just world.

We have to make it ourselves. As Bruce Cockburn said, "we're gonna kick the darkness till it bleeds daylight."

I'm taking a little social media break, with gratitude to you all.

Exactly. People ask me what I say to climate deniers these days and I say, nothing. Time to ignore them. We're too busy fixing the situation.

Yeah, they don't have to hand us our dream, we can just take it, or make it.
I find myself quoting Bruce Cockburn a lot these days, "we're gonna kick the darkness till it bleeds daylight."

That’s the million dollar question. No one to my knowledge, has received a reply from @seanfraser.bsky.social into their inquiries about why he has not directed an investigation to be opened.

So where's the Canadian investigation?

Isn't the plan to stick with oil and gas no matter what, and no matter how bad a choice that may be?

Oil bad. Sun good.

Any questions?

damn, guilty on count #2! I gotta change that..

so great it hurts.

And also - I have committed to buying more books than I can actually read, so I'm always surrounded by options.

Trying to build in a daytime reading window, like "silent reading" class in school..

Yeah, there have been some great research on how reading promotes slower brainwaves associated with deep thinking and creativity. It certainly works for me to settle my mind, I usually read two or three books at bedtime, the first one or two non-fiction, and then a fiction story to wash it down.

Books!

Nice! I've really gotten back into books just as a way to balance the doomscrolling, it fosters such a different way of thinking and being.

In Search of A Better World A work of memoir, history, and a call to action, the CBC Massey Lectures by internationally renowned UN prosecutor and scholar Payam Akhavan is a powerful and essential work on the major human rights ...

I started reading this a few weeks ago, by Iranian-Canadian lawyer and professor Payam Akhavan. He was lawyer at the ICTY and ICC, and other tribunals. His story is the human side of atrocity, Iranian history, and war crimes trials.

I don't think I could have picked a more apt book for today.

Whoever's keeping records for all the future trials of these maniacs better hire more staff.

"warrior ethos" loser hegseth.

everyone needs a purpose in life! :)

well, he was PM, and we named him, we named everybody. I litigate against oil and gas projects, among other things.

Yes! Exactly this!

I'm sick of economists and business people making crucial decisions. I want @votetanille.bsky.social as our Prime Minister. A social worker.

I want a government of social workers, teachers, doctors, electricians and yes, bartenders.

#cdnpoli

I'll add a few lawyers wouldn't hurt. Some are less evil than others, and they understand how the system works - like not only that invading other countries is unlawful, but why.

Just like with covid, it's another excuse to jack prices on everything.

PM Carney: Canada's support for US striking Iran came with regret

He's a reluctant imperialist you see

I maintain that the removal of Trudeau (whom I didn't like, and litigated against) - was an Op.

Another one for the block!

The racism and ethnocentricity of the white western world knows virtually no bounds.

This is how the world sees Canada's PM:

The facts on excuse #1, "to stop Iran from getting nukes":

Under the UN Charter attacking another country is unlawful (Art 2(4)), but defending yourself with force is lawful (Art 51).

Wanting an economist as head of state is the ultimate in neoliberalism - the assumption that managing money is the same skill as managing a nation.
It isn't.