Parker Donham
@kempthead.bsky.social
Father. Grandfather. Cape Bretoner. Retired journo & blogger. Chronic FOIPOP litigator. Serial comma 👍👍. Dual 🇨🇦/🇺🇲 citizen. First car: Model A. Second car: Model T. Current car: Kia Niro EV. I block knaves. ⚾🇺🇦
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New from me, Rick Smith, and Peter Nicholson.
“Our policy advice is pretty simple: Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs…”
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“Our policy advice is pretty simple: Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs…”
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
New data shows the world is embracing renewable energy. Canada can’t follow Trump’s fossil fuel obsession
North America at risk of becoming an island of fossil fuels in an electrifying world. Canada should take note and choose a better path.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
New from me, Rick Smith, and Peter Nicholson.
“Our policy advice is pretty simple: Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs…”
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
“Our policy advice is pretty simple: Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs…”
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Very interesting that the money lost by colleges almost matches the money the Ontario government committed to its Skills Development Fund to distribute to its friends
www.thestar.com/news/gta/int...
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Here’s how much the cuts to Canada’s international students have hurt Ontario colleges and universities
New post-secondary figures obtained by the Star reveal massive revenue losses, expected to get worse with the latest federal cuts to foreign students.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Very interesting that the money lost by colleges almost matches the money the Ontario government committed to its Skills Development Fund to distribute to its friends
www.thestar.com/news/gta/int...
www.thestar.com/news/gta/int...
What an insufferable snot @radiofreetom.bsky.social is being.
"Correct" is one word
There is no word in the English language that can truly describe the kind of extreme WASP, prep school fuddy-duddies that you and George Will are on this subject.
It’s as though a pair of pleated khakis with an undersized inseam became sentient and began having opinions.
It’s as though a pair of pleated khakis with an undersized inseam became sentient and began having opinions.
November 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
What an insufferable snot @radiofreetom.bsky.social is being.
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This isn’t a “peace plan.” It’s a blueprint for Ukraine’s capitulation. If implemented, it would turn this pro-Western, democratic nation, which has been courageously resisting Russian aggression since 2014, into a Kremlin colony. wapo.st/3XcRot6
Opinion | Ukraine needs Russia’s frozen $200 billion immediately, Europe
With Trump seeking Kyiv’s capitulation to Russia, now is the moment for decisive European action.
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November 22, 2025 at 9:39 PM
This isn’t a “peace plan.” It’s a blueprint for Ukraine’s capitulation. If implemented, it would turn this pro-Western, democratic nation, which has been courageously resisting Russian aggression since 2014, into a Kremlin colony. wapo.st/3XcRot6
Right. Nuzzi has been old enough to enlist in combat for 15 years, old enough to marry in most US states for 14 years, old enough to vote for 14 years. But at 32, she cannot be credited with any agency in sexual relationships with older men because she's... a frail flower? a woman? Why exactly?
It remains hilarious to me that Ryan Lizza is seemingly oblivious to the fact that he, too, was just a creepy older man taking advantage of Olivia Nuzzi
November 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Right. Nuzzi has been old enough to enlist in combat for 15 years, old enough to marry in most US states for 14 years, old enough to vote for 14 years. But at 32, she cannot be credited with any agency in sexual relationships with older men because she's... a frail flower? a woman? Why exactly?
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I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Faced with furious local opposition, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston says plans to hand over a large part of West Mabou Beach Provincial Park to a multi-millionaire golf course developer will not proceed.
Huge win for grassroots opponents led by magnificent Katie Beaton.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Huge win for grassroots opponents led by magnificent Katie Beaton.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
West Mabou Beach golf development proposal won't proceed, premier says | CBC News
Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston told reporters Thursday the proposal 'won't get to the next step.'
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November 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Faced with furious local opposition, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston says plans to hand over a large part of West Mabou Beach Provincial Park to a multi-millionaire golf course developer will not proceed.
Huge win for grassroots opponents led by magnificent Katie Beaton.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Huge win for grassroots opponents led by magnificent Katie Beaton.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
Rare case of a rat swimming toward a sinking ship
November 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Rare case of a rat swimming toward a sinking ship
We're fighting a civil war, but while supporting Lincoln, let's pause to consider John C. Frémont's shortcomings as Republican candidate for president in 1856.
Yeah man I never criticize Republicans. I’ve just dedicated my entire professional career to undermining the political right that’s all. Clearly I can only do that and never ask the Democrats to do their fucking part.
Yes, in the face of the worst authoritarian administration in the last 150 years, it's best to focus your attacks on your own side's imperfections rather than on the party that is actually trying to dismantle American democracy.
November 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
We're fighting a civil war, but while supporting Lincoln, let's pause to consider John C. Frémont's shortcomings as Republican candidate for president in 1856.
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For New Yorkers who work the night shift, it can be nearly impossible to participate in political life of our city.
So tonight we’re bringing this campaign to them — starting with taxi drivers waiting at LaGuardia.
So tonight we’re bringing this campaign to them — starting with taxi drivers waiting at LaGuardia.
October 31, 2025 at 3:28 AM
For New Yorkers who work the night shift, it can be nearly impossible to participate in political life of our city.
So tonight we’re bringing this campaign to them — starting with taxi drivers waiting at LaGuardia.
So tonight we’re bringing this campaign to them — starting with taxi drivers waiting at LaGuardia.
Is there a more vapid, insipid, saccharin baseball commentator than Hazel Mae?
October 30, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Is there a more vapid, insipid, saccharin baseball commentator than Hazel Mae?
October 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
It's noteworthy that both the New York Times and The Washington Post have columns praising Donald Trump's demolition of the East wing to make way for a garish, Mar-A-Lago style ballroom funded by donations from corporations that profit from contracts with his government.
October 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
It's noteworthy that both the New York Times and The Washington Post have columns praising Donald Trump's demolition of the East wing to make way for a garish, Mar-A-Lago style ballroom funded by donations from corporations that profit from contracts with his government.
Why did @cbcnews.ca and @cattunney.bsky.social let the government mouthpieces speak anonymously? If the government wants to defend its proposed intrusions on the rights of Canadians, let it do so forthrightly, in public view.
I was happy to talk with @cattunney.bsky.social about #BillC2's #lawfulaccess provisions, which the government apparently still is pushing. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
With Bill C-2’s fate uncertain, spy agency argues its ability to do its job ‘eroding’ | CBC News
With the fate of the Liberal government’s security bill in doubt, Canada’s spy agency is laying its cards on the table, arguing for urgent change to how it legally accesses Canadians’ electronic infor...
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October 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Why did @cbcnews.ca and @cattunney.bsky.social let the government mouthpieces speak anonymously? If the government wants to defend its proposed intrusions on the rights of Canadians, let it do so forthrightly, in public view.
"Secrecy, money, and contempt for the public." @katebeaton.bsky.social digs up more dirt on Ben Cowan-Dewer's schemes to convert public parkland to private, for-profit golf courses.
He's done it before. In Florida. In secret dealings with Trump toady Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Let's stop this scoundrel!
He's done it before. In Florida. In secret dealings with Trump toady Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Let's stop this scoundrel!
I dug a bit into Cabot’s dealings with the Florida gov over state parkland last year. What I read should be a warning to Nova Scotians. In short, secrecy, money and contempt for the public. The post was to inform my local community on fb, but here it is with links: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/37x8c...
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October 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
"Secrecy, money, and contempt for the public." @katebeaton.bsky.social digs up more dirt on Ben Cowan-Dewer's schemes to convert public parkland to private, for-profit golf courses.
He's done it before. In Florida. In secret dealings with Trump toady Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Let's stop this scoundrel!
He's done it before. In Florida. In secret dealings with Trump toady Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Let's stop this scoundrel!
A Kate Beaton thread on Ben Cowan-Dewer's latest secret scheme to convert part of West Mabou Provincial Park into a private, for profit golf course.
Cape Breton is a place of beauty, art and culture. It is also the home of Donald Marshall Jr., William Davis, and the Tar Ponds, among others.
October 20, 2025 at 10:49 AM
A Kate Beaton thread on Ben Cowan-Dewer's latest secret scheme to convert part of West Mabou Provincial Park into a private, for profit golf course.
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An abridged version of my letter appears in the Provincial paper today, the Chronicle Herald. www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
Opinion: Cabot gets a bogey for another attempt to turn West Mabou Beach park into golf course
It looks like Cabot has been working with the government behind closed doors, since going through the community didn’t work last time, writes Kate Beaton.
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October 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
An abridged version of my letter appears in the Provincial paper today, the Chronicle Herald. www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
It's the top of the sixth and the only scoring came on the first pitch the Blue Jays saw.
October 13, 2025 at 1:29 AM
It's the top of the sixth and the only scoring came on the first pitch the Blue Jays saw.
That was quite a game, but my goodness, those Fox announcers are insufferable. Long on opinions, short knowledge and history. Every pitch apparently screamworthy. Thank heavens for Dan and Buck. #bluejays #baseball
Jack Flaherty doing his best to disprove the old adage that you have to pitch ahead in the count. I mean, holy crap.
October 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
October 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
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WHO did it, CNN? Actice voice, please.
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt
37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.
www.cnn.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
WHO did it, CNN? Actice voice, please.
Wapo account of Israel's interdiction of the Gaza flotilla fails to mention that the seizure took place in international waters. A telling omission.
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Israel intercepts Gaza aid flotilla, detains Thunberg and other activists
Organizers said 20 boats have been intercepted and at least 200 passengers detained as the convoy presses toward Gaza to try to break the Israeli blockade.
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October 2, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Wapo account of Israel's interdiction of the Gaza flotilla fails to mention that the seizure took place in international waters. A telling omission.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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Hillary Clinton referred to SOME Trump supporters as”deplorable,” and the political media had a meltdown. Trump refers to all Democrats as anti-American radical communists and “the enemy within,” and it’s no big deal. His reckless and dangerous demonization has been fully normalized.
October 1, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Hillary Clinton referred to SOME Trump supporters as”deplorable,” and the political media had a meltdown. Trump refers to all Democrats as anti-American radical communists and “the enemy within,” and it’s no big deal. His reckless and dangerous demonization has been fully normalized.
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Trump’s ICE agents tried to kidnap a food delivery worker in Chicago - but the guy was too fast for them.
September 29, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Trump’s ICE agents tried to kidnap a food delivery worker in Chicago - but the guy was too fast for them.