DKJ🇨🇦
@deborahjonescanada.bsky.social
Agency/Policy/Ecosystems. Econ/polisci/biology/liberal studies. Journalism veteran ex G&M, CP, Time, AFP etc. 🇨🇦🏴🏴 Sapere Aude!
Bluesky is American.
We can (should) assume that everything we put here is subject to the US administration’s laws and whims.
Ditto Substack, Medium, and the massive digital companies.
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
We can (should) assume that everything we put here is subject to the US administration’s laws and whims.
Ditto Substack, Medium, and the massive digital companies.
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Bluesky is American.
We can (should) assume that everything we put here is subject to the US administration’s laws and whims.
Ditto Substack, Medium, and the massive digital companies.
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
We can (should) assume that everything we put here is subject to the US administration’s laws and whims.
Ditto Substack, Medium, and the massive digital companies.
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
On this day of celebration of love, here is a still life that I made last year from my late neighbour’s garden.
Florence was a celebrated master gardener. When she passed, her family invited me to take roses from her garden for a photo series.
Happy Valentine’s Day. 🇨🇦❤️
Florence was a celebrated master gardener. When she passed, her family invited me to take roses from her garden for a photo series.
Happy Valentine’s Day. 🇨🇦❤️
February 14, 2026 at 6:31 PM
On this day of celebration of love, here is a still life that I made last year from my late neighbour’s garden.
Florence was a celebrated master gardener. When she passed, her family invited me to take roses from her garden for a photo series.
Happy Valentine’s Day. 🇨🇦❤️
Florence was a celebrated master gardener. When she passed, her family invited me to take roses from her garden for a photo series.
Happy Valentine’s Day. 🇨🇦❤️
The Bad Bunny halftime show is wonderful. On YouTube and Apple Music.
The New York Times story explains a few mysteries.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/a...
The New York Times story explains a few mysteries.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/a...
Bad Bunny’s Halftime History Lesson
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:28 PM
The Bad Bunny halftime show is wonderful. On YouTube and Apple Music.
The New York Times story explains a few mysteries.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/a...
The New York Times story explains a few mysteries.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/a...
Yep.
“People are pulled into opposing camps. Which side they land on matters less than the outcome, which is polarization, fatigue (ignoring all the noise because, hard to know who or what to trust), and a reduced capacity for real debate and shared understanding. “
Tips to help:
“People are pulled into opposing camps. Which side they land on matters less than the outcome, which is polarization, fatigue (ignoring all the noise because, hard to know who or what to trust), and a reduced capacity for real debate and shared understanding. “
Tips to help:
The Arctic Is Under Pressure.
So are the facts.
open.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Yep.
“People are pulled into opposing camps. Which side they land on matters less than the outcome, which is polarization, fatigue (ignoring all the noise because, hard to know who or what to trust), and a reduced capacity for real debate and shared understanding. “
Tips to help:
“People are pulled into opposing camps. Which side they land on matters less than the outcome, which is polarization, fatigue (ignoring all the noise because, hard to know who or what to trust), and a reduced capacity for real debate and shared understanding. “
Tips to help:
Canada is NOT broken. Let’s not buy the manipulative lines of the Maple MAGAs.
Canada's economy grew at an annualized rate of 2.6% in 3rd quarter | CBC News
The Canadian economy grew at an annualized rate of 2.6 per cent in the third quarter, Statistics Canada said on Friday, avoiding a technical recession largely due to a surge in defence spending.
www.cbc.ca
November 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Canada is NOT broken. Let’s not buy the manipulative lines of the Maple MAGAs.
First rant in a bit. From“quiet, piggy” to Trump’s daily threats, we’re obliged to standup.
On the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Nuremberg Trials Donald Trump accused elected Democrats "of Sedition, ‘Punishable by Death." Only George Santayana could have made this shit up.
On the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Nuremberg Trials Donald Trump accused elected Democrats "of Sedition, ‘Punishable by Death." Only George Santayana could have made this shit up.
Nuremberg, meet US death-defying “Sedition”
On the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Nuremberg Trials Donald Trump accused elected Democrats “of Sedition, ‘Punishable by Death.” Only George Santayana could have made this s…
www.deborahjones.ca
November 21, 2025 at 2:22 AM
First rant in a bit. From“quiet, piggy” to Trump’s daily threats, we’re obliged to standup.
On the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Nuremberg Trials Donald Trump accused elected Democrats "of Sedition, ‘Punishable by Death." Only George Santayana could have made this shit up.
On the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Nuremberg Trials Donald Trump accused elected Democrats "of Sedition, ‘Punishable by Death." Only George Santayana could have made this shit up.
Remembrance Day is really a story of hope and renewal … if only we remember.
I am a child of war.
So are you.
So will be our children and grandchildren – unless we remember, and change.
www.deborahjones.ca/2024/11/11/w...
I am a child of war.
So are you.
So will be our children and grandchildren – unless we remember, and change.
www.deborahjones.ca/2024/11/11/w...
War Child
I am a child of war. So are you. So will be our children and grandchildren – unless we remember, and change.
www.deborahjones.ca
November 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Remembrance Day is really a story of hope and renewal … if only we remember.
I am a child of war.
So are you.
So will be our children and grandchildren – unless we remember, and change.
www.deborahjones.ca/2024/11/11/w...
I am a child of war.
So are you.
So will be our children and grandchildren – unless we remember, and change.
www.deborahjones.ca/2024/11/11/w...
Mamdani is a social democrat, as sane Americans and most of the Western world realize.
He is even a garden-variety social democrat.
He is even a garden-variety social democrat.
So Mamdani is a Socialist?
I happen to be in Italy, in Milan, where I’ve been following New York Politics with a mixture of giggles and disbelief.
open.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Mamdani is a social democrat, as sane Americans and most of the Western world realize.
He is even a garden-variety social democrat.
He is even a garden-variety social democrat.
This.
“Politics involves genuine relationships with people who are genuinely other people, not tasks set for our redemption or objects for our philanthropy.” - Bernard Crick
We need better than “preachy” or “crazy.”
“Politics involves genuine relationships with people who are genuinely other people, not tasks set for our redemption or objects for our philanthropy.” - Bernard Crick
We need better than “preachy” or “crazy.”
Opinion | This Is the Way You Beat Trump — and Trumpism
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This.
“Politics involves genuine relationships with people who are genuinely other people, not tasks set for our redemption or objects for our philanthropy.” - Bernard Crick
We need better than “preachy” or “crazy.”
“Politics involves genuine relationships with people who are genuinely other people, not tasks set for our redemption or objects for our philanthropy.” - Bernard Crick
We need better than “preachy” or “crazy.”
We belong to the world;the world belongs to us.
“Looking back over the early Holocene – beginning 11,700 years ago – researchers have found that human presence was about as likely to increase biodiversity as reduce it.”
“Looking back over the early Holocene – beginning 11,700 years ago – researchers have found that human presence was about as likely to increase biodiversity as reduce it.”
The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?
The long read: Across the globe, vast swathes of land are being left to be reclaimed by nature. To see what could be coming, look to Bulgaria
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
We belong to the world;the world belongs to us.
“Looking back over the early Holocene – beginning 11,700 years ago – researchers have found that human presence was about as likely to increase biodiversity as reduce it.”
“Looking back over the early Holocene – beginning 11,700 years ago – researchers have found that human presence was about as likely to increase biodiversity as reduce it.”
“10. The election may well affirm a passing of the identity-politics tide.”
please, yes. Please let this be so, so we can stop devouring each other, and converse.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
#identitypolitics
please, yes. Please let this be so, so we can stop devouring each other, and converse.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
#identitypolitics
Opinion | 10 Ways of Making Sense of Zohran Mamdani’s Win
www.nytimes.com
July 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
“10. The election may well affirm a passing of the identity-politics tide.”
please, yes. Please let this be so, so we can stop devouring each other, and converse.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
#identitypolitics
please, yes. Please let this be so, so we can stop devouring each other, and converse.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
#identitypolitics
John Ralston Saul, in 2023 on “our experienced and stable democracy… the oldest continuous democratic federation in the world. “
Opinion: On this day, 175 years ago, Canada became a democracy. Why aren’t we celebrating?
On March 11, 1848, after years of efforts, ‘Responsible Government’ became a feature of Canadian politics, giving rise to one of the world’s oldest continuous democracies. Let’s make that more of a po...
www.theglobeandmail.com
July 1, 2025 at 2:54 AM
John Ralston Saul, in 2023 on “our experienced and stable democracy… the oldest continuous democratic federation in the world. “
This is as much about the fate of #Canada and ecological survival as it is about Europe, on which our own safety hinges.
A long but essential read.
We are on the hinge of great change and each of our decisions will matter.
Paywall
on.ft.com/4kjfQSC The fight for Europe’s future
A long but essential read.
We are on the hinge of great change and each of our decisions will matter.
Paywall
on.ft.com/4kjfQSC The fight for Europe’s future
The fight for Europe’s future
Timothy Garton Ash on the shocks that fuelled a populist challenge — and how the liberal centre could yet hold
on.ft.com
June 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This is as much about the fate of #Canada and ecological survival as it is about Europe, on which our own safety hinges.
A long but essential read.
We are on the hinge of great change and each of our decisions will matter.
Paywall
on.ft.com/4kjfQSC The fight for Europe’s future
A long but essential read.
We are on the hinge of great change and each of our decisions will matter.
Paywall
on.ft.com/4kjfQSC The fight for Europe’s future
Reposted by DKJ🇨🇦
“This should have been done a long time ago.”
On June 25, the Canadian Journalists for Justice in Palestine announced its formation in a dual press conference held in Vancouver and Toronto. @kristendejager.bsky.social reports.
#cdnpoli #topoli #vanpoli #CdnMedia
On June 25, the Canadian Journalists for Justice in Palestine announced its formation in a dual press conference held in Vancouver and Toronto. @kristendejager.bsky.social reports.
#cdnpoli #topoli #vanpoli #CdnMedia
A New Canadian Group Launches to Defend Palestinian Journalists | The Tyee
At least 186 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza, Israel, Lebanon and the West Bank in the last 20 months.
thetyee.ca
June 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
“This should have been done a long time ago.”
On June 25, the Canadian Journalists for Justice in Palestine announced its formation in a dual press conference held in Vancouver and Toronto. @kristendejager.bsky.social reports.
#cdnpoli #topoli #vanpoli #CdnMedia
On June 25, the Canadian Journalists for Justice in Palestine announced its formation in a dual press conference held in Vancouver and Toronto. @kristendejager.bsky.social reports.
#cdnpoli #topoli #vanpoli #CdnMedia
Katherine Graham, one of my heroes, has an eloquent heir.
“Real American patriotism does not force journalists to deliver government propaganda. My grandmother was a real patriot; she protected the rights of her journalists to deliver the facts and speak their minds—without fear…”
#speech #freedom
“Real American patriotism does not force journalists to deliver government propaganda. My grandmother was a real patriot; she protected the rights of her journalists to deliver the facts and speak their minds—without fear…”
#speech #freedom
My Grandmother Stood Up to Nixon—Jeff Bezos Should Take Note
Fifty-four years ago, Katharine Graham defended The Washington Post against presidential threats. Her granddaughter now fears its soul is being sold.
www.thenation.com
June 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Reposted by DKJ🇨🇦
REPORTER: I have a document showing some of the fiscal plans for this year.
PM CARNEY: Look at that. It looks like it's written on a napkin.
REPORTER: I don't know whose napkin it is.
PM CARNEY: Is that the opposition's fiscal plan?
#cdnpoli
PM CARNEY: Look at that. It looks like it's written on a napkin.
REPORTER: I don't know whose napkin it is.
PM CARNEY: Is that the opposition's fiscal plan?
#cdnpoli
June 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
REPORTER: I have a document showing some of the fiscal plans for this year.
PM CARNEY: Look at that. It looks like it's written on a napkin.
REPORTER: I don't know whose napkin it is.
PM CARNEY: Is that the opposition's fiscal plan?
#cdnpoli
PM CARNEY: Look at that. It looks like it's written on a napkin.
REPORTER: I don't know whose napkin it is.
PM CARNEY: Is that the opposition's fiscal plan?
#cdnpoli
Democracy: use it or lose it. Poilievre is misusing it, and Canadians, for his own quest to win power at all costs.
#cdnpoli #albertaborn
#cdnpoli #albertaborn
John Lefebvre
Well worth the time…
www.facebook.com
June 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Democracy: use it or lose it. Poilievre is misusing it, and Canadians, for his own quest to win power at all costs.
#cdnpoli #albertaborn
#cdnpoli #albertaborn
NOT broken.
“when polarisation is increasing in many nations, Canadians are doing the opposite, coalescing and seeking to unlock the country’s economic potential…working together to safeguard Canada’s long-term prosperity, so it never again feels cornered, economically or existentially.”
#cdnpoli
“when polarisation is increasing in many nations, Canadians are doing the opposite, coalescing and seeking to unlock the country’s economic potential…working together to safeguard Canada’s long-term prosperity, so it never again feels cornered, economically or existentially.”
#cdnpoli
Canada is finally backing out of its corner
Government leaders from across the political spectrum are working together to safeguard the country’s long-term prosperity
on.ft.com
June 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
NOT broken.
“when polarisation is increasing in many nations, Canadians are doing the opposite, coalescing and seeking to unlock the country’s economic potential…working together to safeguard Canada’s long-term prosperity, so it never again feels cornered, economically or existentially.”
#cdnpoli
“when polarisation is increasing in many nations, Canadians are doing the opposite, coalescing and seeking to unlock the country’s economic potential…working together to safeguard Canada’s long-term prosperity, so it never again feels cornered, economically or existentially.”
#cdnpoli
Decades of environmental research, advocacy and action have been in vain. America’s death cult of a government has no use for the world that sustains our lives.
Nearly half of Americans support their government, brainwashed by toxic media run by special interests.
How is this possible?
Nearly half of Americans support their government, brainwashed by toxic media run by special interests.
How is this possible?
Opinion: Canada’s air and water at risk as Trump administration guts environmental rules
Trump’s regulatory rollback is poised to unleash a wave of pollution North America hasn’t seen since the 1960s
www.theglobeandmail.com
June 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Decades of environmental research, advocacy and action have been in vain. America’s death cult of a government has no use for the world that sustains our lives.
Nearly half of Americans support their government, brainwashed by toxic media run by special interests.
How is this possible?
Nearly half of Americans support their government, brainwashed by toxic media run by special interests.
How is this possible?