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MJ Nabuurs

@mjnabuurs.bsky.social

#Ottawa #Ontario & area:

#MakeYourNoise

The Canadian Health Coalition is participating in 100 mtgs & hosting a public rally on Feb. 10 from 12-1pm to demand PM Carney protect Public Medicare!

No longer a threat, privatization is happening NOW. Share & come!

www.healthcoalition.ca/save-public-...

Rally to Save Public Health Care on Parliament Hill – Canadian Health Coalition

www.healthcoalition.ca

January 28, 2026 at 6:46 PM

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Sue Gowans

@sueinnovates.bsky.social

Control access = control the message. Also, prevents reporting of damaging, off-the-cuff remarks by Doug.

Robert Benzie @robertbenzie.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: Premier Doug Ford’s ⁦‪@OntarioPCParty‬⁩ has banned the media from covering its convention this weekend in Etobicoke. Very unusual for party confabs to be completely closed to journalists.

www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Doug Ford’s party bars media from Progressive Conservative convention this weekend

In an unusual move, the governing Tories have for the first time refused to allow reporters into any part of their conference.

www.thestar.com

January 28, 2026 at 1:13 PM

naberu 🇨🇦

@naberu.bsky.social

That’ll do it. Now they just need to close the deal and figure out what to do with all the money they’ll be getting for helping out a fascist paramilitary organization.

Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 1d

Statement from Jim Pattinson Developments on potential sale of building for use by ICE

STATEMENT FROM JIM PATTISON GROUP

Statement – January 27, 2026

In early 2024, Jim Pattison Developments completed construction of an industrial building inAshland, Virginia for company operations. When operating needs changed, the property was publicly listed for lease / sale, and an offer was accepted to sell the building to a U.S. government contractor. Some time later, we became aware of the ultimate owner and intended use of the building. This transaction is still subject to certain approvals and closing conditions. We remain committed to complying with all applicable laws and regulations as we work to divest this asset.
As a matter of policy, we do not comment on private transactions. However, we understand that the conversation around immigration policy and enforcement is particularly heated, and has become much more so over the past few weeks. We respect that this issue is deeply important to many people.

January 28, 2026 at 3:52 AM

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Canadian Paintings

@canadianpaintings.bsky.social

Quiet Evening
Holly Dyrland
2023

January 28, 2026 at 12:01 AM

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Mark Kersten

@markkersten.bsky.social

I would add that Canada should declare all ICE personnel and agents persona non grata by invoking Article 9 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

There are currently ICE offices in four Canadian cities: Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, and Calgary.

cc @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social

Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 2d

What can Canada do to stop the #ICE attacks in the United States? Beyond offering solidarity, we can:

☑️ Demand that Canada prevent the sale of armoured vehicles to ICE
☑️ Demand the companies like @Hootsuite end any contracts with ICE

We can do this, and we must.

cc: @mark-carney.bsky.social.

January 26, 2026 at 7:01 PM

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her)

@leahgazan.bsky.social

Compliance with international law cannot be based on political or economic interests, including those from the corporate sector. International law must be upheld without question or qualification. (5/5)

January 26, 2026 at 7:02 PM

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her)

@leahgazan.bsky.social

Watching the increasing violent atrocities in Minnesota has been horrific. These atrocities are a blatant attack on human rights and international law. This violence is a reminder that democracy is fragile when it is not actively defended against rising fascism. (1/5)

January 26, 2026 at 7:00 PM

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Mark Kersten

@markkersten.bsky.social

Agreed.

And we can and should ask Parliament to step in to end any contracts to send armoured vehicles to ICE: www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...

If not, Canadian military hardware will be used to wage political violence in America. We can't pretend we don't know that exactly that would happen.

January 26, 2026 at 6:22 PM

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Dale Smith

@journodale.bsky.social

For the late/west coast crowd, my Loonie Politics column on why Zelenskyy's speech at Davos deserved much more attention than it got. #cdnpoli

The other speech at Davos that demands attention - Loonie Politics

As much as everyone is falling all over themselves to congratulate Carney, Zelenskyy is the one real speech worth listening to.

looniepolitics.com

January 26, 2026 at 5:00 AM

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥

@taliajane.bsky.social

Before speaking with two armed men at the Pretti vigil last night, a man approached & asked if I was going to tell the truth. I said yes. He told me how frustrated he was at the media & the harm it’s causing to his community.

I asked if he wanted to share words for the media on camera, & he did:

January 25, 2026 at 11:14 PM

naberu 🇨🇦

@naberu.bsky.social

Are these the armoured vehicles Canadian company Roshel is manifacturing for ICE?

January 25, 2026 at 9:21 PM

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Katie Mack

@astrokatie.com

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM

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Shawn Micallef

@shawnmicallef.bsky.social

Ontario and Canada needs to think about this.

January 25, 2026 at 5:13 AM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM

naberu 🇨🇦

@naberu.bsky.social

The CBC seriously needs to change the way it reports on fascism. Who was Pretti shot by? Videos “appeared to show”? The first direct, active-voice account of what happens is from federal officials, who are well-established blatant liars. Journalism should be on the side of truth and democracy.

Videos appear to show fatal Minnesota shooting that has widened divide between state, federal officials | CBC

www.cbc.ca

January 25, 2026 at 3:17 AM

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Emily Lowan (she/her)

@emilylowan.bsky.social

Alex Pretti, a 37-year old nurse, was just murdered by ICE in Minneapolis. We must organize and build solidarity across borders to #AbolishICE.
First up - BC billionaire Jim Pattison owns a US warehouse that will soon be turned into an ICE processing facility. Tell Eby to shut down the deal. #bcpoli

January 24, 2026 at 9:54 PM

naberu 🇨🇦

@naberu.bsky.social

@mark-carney.bsky.social Enforce the Canada Health Act, already! This has been happening across the country for years now & is getting worse because of federal negligence. You want to stand up for a rules-based order & defend Canadian values? How about defending & strengthening public healthcare?

Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 4d

This is an astonishing statistic

It’s unlawful for physicians and clinics to charge for medically necessary health care

This reflects the lack of access to primary care in the South Island that some doctors feel emboldened to charge patients

#bcpoli

CHEK News @cheknews.ca · 4d

A new survey shows a growing number of Esquimalt residents are paying to access health care as walk-in clinics across the region dwindle.

January 25, 2026 at 2:05 AM

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Canadian Paintings

@canadianpaintings.bsky.social

Going Down to the Lake
Jim Logan ~ Métis
1991

January 24, 2026 at 12:00 AM

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Michael Nabert

@sustainablesong.bsky.social

Mark Carney vs Mark Carney.

Carney made an exemplary speech at the WEF.

Sadly, his words and his actual policies tell two very different stories. When words & actions don't match, actions matter most.

Orator Carney really needs to sit PM Carney down & give him a stern talking to.

A 🇨🇦 poli 🧵 1/