Trudeau bans Tiktok from operating in Canada, but not banning Canadians from using it? Essentially just forcing Tiktok to close their Canadian offices and lay off their employees.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tiktok-canada-review-1.7375965

All the talk about TIFF cancelling the documentary about Russian soldiers is breaking my brain. It's not enough that the documentary is already pro Ukraine by showing the Russian soldiers become disillusioned with the war, anything that shows Russians as human beings cannot be allowed in Western media. Knowing they would gladly show a documentary humanizing Nazis but Russians are a bridge too far

I am receiving reports that the Trans Mega has ties to Shadow Inc. And is obfuscating the primary results

They're really trying to pull the US into this by escalating and provoking a serious response

I'm not one to go on about how great presidents used to be because they all suck in different ways but goddamn this Biden drama has reminded me of this Abraham Lincoln quote. Like just imagine any president in the last 50 years saying anything close to this coherent:

From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

Like that goes hard and actually uses poetic language, meanwhile politicians now can barely form a sentence

Canada is having difficulty hiring diplomats to work in the United States as unions cite increased violence and lack of access to medical care in the United States as reasons for why diplomats are choosing to take posts in other countries and avoiding working in the Great Satan

The Toronto police have charged a man with a hate crime after he waved a PFLP flag at a protest this is pretty unprecedented and blatantly biased considering how often you see chuds flying Confederate flags in rural areas of the country with no one stopping them

I have to live to see the collapse of the evil empire, I need to see the end of all the death it brings. Remember the third world is just around the corner

The Canadian government has arrested Tarek Loubani, a doctor who was previously arrested by Egypt in 2013 for attempting to enter Gaza to provide aid, and in 2018 was shot in both legs by the IOF. He was arrested for...spraying ketchup on the wall outside of a Pro-Israel MPs office. What a joke of a country

Trudeau says he is not ready to accept US and Israeli claims that a Palestinian group was responsible for the hospital attack

Cmon now's the time make a statement supporting Palestine, make your dad proud

Also he could make this his moment to piss off the USA like his other dad Pierre did with Cuba

In Canada the only party showing any support for Palestinians is the NDP, which is sad because they're the most milquetoast socdems I've ever seen and their support is similarly weak. But when one representative goes a little bit farther and actually calls for ending the occupation of Palestine, the party leadership forces her to apologize and the government of Ontario is trying to prevent the MPP from being recognized as a sitting representative. Literally exposing how meaningless our conceptions of liberal democracy are when the people who voted for this representative are being told they can't actually vote for those ideas because it's out of step with the western party line

In the spirit of the country of the week discussion, I'll talk a bit about Italian Libya.

Generally when people think about Italian colonialism in Africa they think about the Italian-Ethiopian Wars and the occupation of Ethiopia, but the Italian occupation of Libya lasted much longer, starting in 1911 after Italy defeated the Ottoman Empire and gained control over the area. Something I hear often in revisionist history is that a defining feature of Fascism is not the ethnic cleansing of an out group because Italy wasn't involved in the Holocaust until Germany pushed it. Which obviously is bullshit on its own, but it completely ignores Italy's colonial crimes because those don't count according to liberals.

Under the fascist government, Italy pursued mass scale ethnic cleansing in Libya. This including expelling over 100,000 people in Cyrenaica from their lands to move in Italian settlers and moving these displaced Libyan people into concentration camps between 1930 and 1931, notably this happened before beginning of the Holocaust in Europe. Out of the 100,000 Libyans moved to concentration camps, 40,000 of them would be dead by 1933. The Italian government would also undertake large pacification campaigns against the Indigenous Libyan population, one of these included the mass killing of civilians in the Cyrenaica province that led to the deaths of over one quarter of the entire population.

Overall this is a similar story to many colonial ventures in Africa but one that is rarely talked about. After WW2 the colony would be passed to British and French administration and these crimes would never be addressed. Most likely because addressing these crimes would also implicate the British and French governments genocides in their own occupations of Africa.