CdnCurmudgeon

CdnCurmudgeon, 1 day ago to random

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/aiden-pieterski-charges-police-update-1.7205820
Ontario's self-proclaimed Crypto King was arrested and charged with fraud and money laundering this week after what Durham Region's police chief called the "largest fraud investigation" the region had ever seen. #CryptoIsAScam

CdnCurmudgeon, 1 day ago to random

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/csis-tikok-vigneault-1.7206000
Intelligence chief warns Canadians that China can use TikTok to spy on them
CSIS director says data gleaned from popular app 'is available to the government of China'

CdnCurmudgeon, 2 days ago to random

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFUtB-h0MSM
The difference between Project 2025 and Trump’s usual authoritarian ravings is that Project 2025 isn’t an empty threat, it’s a concrete plan that will roll back your rights and put the government in your life. We’ve been warned. Trump=fascism.

CdnCurmudgeon, 4 days ago to random

From Xitter: a party with no platform, no policies, no plans, no solutions, no programs, no clue...

CdnCurmudgeon, 5 days ago to random

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bshQ4e-Pso
Bombshell: Trump suddenly poised to face NEW charges
The Legal Breakdown episode 284: @GlennKirschner2 discusses reporting from the NYT and ProPublica that Trump may owe $100 million in unpaid taxes.

CdnCurmudgeon, 5 days ago to random

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/donald-trump-hannibal-lecter-new-jersey-rally-b2543749.html
Trump praises fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter during rally speech
The former US president called the character, played by Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs, a “wonderful man”, while simultaneously condemning “people who are being released into our country that we don’t want”.

CdnCurmudgeon, 5 days ago to random

https://qz.com/india/288079/the-story-numbers-tell-about-indian-women-is-harsher-than-we-imagine

Life as an Indian woman isn’t as bad as you imagine—it’s worse

Life as a woman in India, on some counts, is worse than almost every other country in the world, a new report has found.

When it comes to health and survival, Indian women are better off than only one country in the entire world—Armenia—according to a new report on gender by the World Economic Forum (WEF).

CdnCurmudgeon, 5 days ago to random

From Harlan Crow, Clarence Thomas accepted 38 vacations, 26 private jet flights, a dozen VIP passes to sporting events, rooms at luxury resorts and his nephew's tuition payments. Crow then bought the property Clarence's mother lived on. Clarence reported NONE of it.

Clarence stated this week that he's the target of lies?
Nobody is lying except Clarence.

#RemoveClarenceThomas

CdnCurmudgeon, 7 days ago to random

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9RweR9EUSg
The film the Trump Organization tried to suppress | You've Been Trumped Too (2020) | Full Film.
Investigative journalist Anthony Baxter travels between the US Presidential race and the Scottish countryside to chronicle the troubling confrontation between Donald Trump and a feisty 92-year-old widow, Molly Forbes, as she refuses to make way for his golf course. A David and goliath battle of the disconnect between political rhetoric and the lives of ordinary people.

CdnCurmudgeon, 8 days ago to random

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_Rd6UO0Mv8
Pierre Poilievre lied 81 times during Question Period on May 8, 2024. EIGHTY-ONE times!
#NeverVoteConservative

CdnCurmudgeon, 11 days ago to random

https://mashable.com/article/apple-mac-cuckoo-malware
New Mac malware 'Cuckoo' can take screenshots of your desktop and other creepy actions
The malware, dubbed Cuckoo, was caught being distributed with a Spotify music downloader..
Another reason CDs are better than streaming.

CdnCurmudgeon, 12 days ago to random

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nl-loblaw-boycott-1.7191192
Surging Loblaw boycott shows customer anger with grocery giant, says Mount Pearl organizer
Grocery giant recorded $13.6B in revenue in Q1 2024

CdnCurmudgeon, 19 days ago to random

https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/deeply-unhappy-grocery-shoppers-plan-to-boycott-loblaw-owned-stores-in-may-1.6865477

'Deeply unhappy' grocery shoppers plan to boycott Loblaw-owned stores in May.
A boycott targeting Loblaw is gaining momentum online, with what could be thousands of shoppers taking their money elsewhere in May.

CdnCurmudgeon, 20 days ago to random

https://pressprogress.ca/ottawa-book-festival-platforming-far-right-speakers-uses-fake-employees-and-misleading-sponsors/
Ottawa Book Festival Platforming Far-Right Speakers Uses Fake Employees and Misleading Sponsors
Mexican Embassy backs out of local book festival as organizations listed as corporate sponsors ask for their logos to be removed from website

CdnCurmudgeon, 22 days ago to random

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9MBFiwYahs
PoiLIEvre visited an extremist, neo-Nazi camp to show his followers exactly what his ideology is.

CdnCurmudgeon, 23 days ago to random

Remember when PoiLIEvre rebuked his MPs for wining and dining with avowed neo-Nazis and smiling in photo-ops with them? Neither do I... he didn't. And this week he's meeting with neo-Nazi Daigolon members in Nova Scotia. This is Canada's CONservative Party today.

CdnCurmudgeon, 23 days ago to random

https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/plastic-study-canada-1.7182609
Coke, Pepsi top list in global count of plastic waste
New study documents companies behind plastic waste across 5-year period

realTuckFrumper, 25 days ago to random

Can Canada stave off populism? https://www.vox.com/2024/4/23/24137689/canada-populism-justin-trudeau-budget-plan?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

CdnCurmudgeon, 26 days ago to random

https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/everybody-hates-marjorie-spork-toes
everybody hates Marjorie Spork Toes Greene
why does Moscow Marge care about Hungarians in Transcarpathia? because Putin does, too.
so, when you’ve turned Fox News against you, what do you do for an encore? well, if you’re Marjorie Three Brain Cells Greene, you start spouting Russian propaganda ahead of a vote to restore aid to Ukraine.

I mean that literally — Three Toes is now nattering on about Transcarpathia.

CdnCurmudgeon, 26 days ago to random

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-covid-response-revisited

Trump’s covid response was even worse than you remember
In a sane country, it would disqualify him from ever again holding office.

By May 2020, US job losses were the highest since the Great Depression, and then there were the irrecoverable losses: The tally of covid deaths in the US for that year ended up being 350,831, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 900,000 covid hospitalizations occurred through November 2020.

CdnCurmudgeon, 28 days ago to random

https://www.popsci.com/science/two-lifeforms-merged-into-one/
For the first time in one billion years, two lifeforms truly merged into one organism
It is a discovery that’s 'one for the textbooks.'
Evolution!

CdnCurmudgeon, 29 days ago to random

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/18/risk-bird-flu-spreading-humans-enormous-concern-who
Risk of bird flu spreading to humans is ‘enormous concern’, says WHO
Chief scientist voices fears about H5N1 variant that has ‘extraordinarily high’ mortality rate in humans

CdnCurmudgeon, 29 days ago to random

https://rabble.ca/human-rights/harper-government-and-evangelical-capitalism/
The Harper government and evangelical capitalism

There’s a supposed separation of Church and State. But has that eroded under right-wing evangelical religion’s influence on the Harper government?

From 2015 but still relevant to PoiLIEvre's caucus today...

CdnCurmudgeon, 29 days ago to random

https://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-drought-water-supply/
A parched place: the Alberta drought crisis is bigger than one summer
The province says it will soon release its emergency response plan and details on how water will be shared as it runs dry. But Alberta has been outspending the water supply for decades

CdnCurmudgeon, 1 month ago to random

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-asks-ottawa-to-close-loophole-that-s-led-to-disturbing-rise-in-pay-for-care-clinics-1.6849875
Jones looks to Ottawa to fix corrupt CONservative healthcare practices....

Ontario asks Ottawa to close loophole that's led to 'disturbing' rise in pay-for-care clinics.