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Geoff Read 🇨🇦 🇺🇦
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Associate Professor of History at Huron University, Montreal Canadiens fan, music lover. Opinions my own.
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Good Kid is an indie rock band from Toronto who have been active since the mid-2010s, releasing their music as singles and EPs. They have announced, however, a forthcoming debut album in April. Number 979 of #1000Songs youtu.be/e_OOTwvP-K0?...
Good Kid - Rift (Official Video)
YouTube video by Good Kid
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February 1, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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Murdering protesters, politicizing the bureaucracy and judiciary, arresting journalists, spreading hatred, threatening allies and neighbors, ignoring the law…: I’d say that Trumpism is classic fascism but honestly, being part of a pedophile ring seems like a genuine innovation on Trump’s part.
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The new Epstein files production features numerous allegations made against Donald Trump and others.
January 31, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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What a loss for comedy. Catherine O’Hara was brilliantly funny and had the rare gift of seeming like a real, genuine and caring person along the way, which made fans feel a connection to her. May she rest in peace. www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
Canadian comedy legend Catherine O'Hara, who lit up SCTV and stole scenes on Schitt's Creek, dead at 71 | CBC News
Catherine O'Hara, the gifted Canadian comic actor who gave life to a flurry of iconic movie and television characters in everything from SCTV sketches, big-screen successes like Beetlejuice and Home A...
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January 31, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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Veteran Vancouver indie rockers Said the Whale have released 7 albums to date. This track is from a recently released compilation of previously unreleased songs. Number 978 of #1000Songs youtube.com/watch?v=GMAQ...
Fourth of July
YouTube video by Said The Whale - Topic
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January 31, 2026 at 1:44 PM
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Danko Jones is the name of this rock trio and its frontman and creative force. The band and the man hail from Toronto and have been rocking the indie rock scene since the late 90s. Number 977 of #1000Songs youtube.com/watch?v=BNQR...
Danko Jones - Bounce (HQ)
YouTube video by Razzle Dazzle
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January 30, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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Bruce Springsteen: still in the fight at age 76. Number 976 of #1000Songs youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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January 29, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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Montreal’s Alicia Creti is now based in Los Angeles, armed with a deal with Atlantic Records. She has a soulful voice that accentuates her vulnerable lyrics about loss, heartbreak etc. Number 975 of #1000Songs youtube.com/watch?v=Fc7t...
Alicia Creti – Overwhelmed [Official Visualizer]
YouTube video by Alicia Creti
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January 28, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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Abbi Woods is a genre-crossing artist whose debut album dropped in May. She is based in the Toronto, Ontario. Number 974 of #1000Songs youtube.com/watch?v=3MLv...
ABBI WOODS - TOO LATE (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by ABBI WOODS
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January 27, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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Owen Riegling is an emerging country star from Mildmay, Ontario. This is his new single and I don’t know if it’s from a forthcoming album or not. Number 973 of #1000Songs youtube.com/watch?v=tvWb...
Owen Riegling - Phone Call From Home
YouTube video by OwenRieglingVEVO
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January 26, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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Vladimir Putin’s Russia really is like something from a Bond film. Putin himself is so evil he seems like a caricature.

As does his dancing monkey Trump of course.
January 25, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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We interupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you this important message.

Solidarity to everyone South of the border who is fighting fascism. Do not give up. Do not lose hope. That’s what they want. That’s what the violence is about.

Number 972 of #1000Songs youtube.com/watch?v=qKSN...
Rage Against The Machine - Take The Power Back (Audio)
YouTube video by RATMVEVO
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January 25, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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Donald Trump is getting exactly what he wanted in Minneapolis. He wants ICE to brutalize his political opposition. That’s why he sent hundreds more agents to the city following the murder of Renee Good. This is meant as exemplary violence designed to cow would be protesters and ensure compliance.
January 25, 2026 at 5:19 AM
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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
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Roy Woods is another successful rapper from Brampton, Ontario. He has signed with Drake’s label. Number 972 of #1000Songs youtube.com/watch?v=YSmr...
Roy Woods - Supposed To Be My Lover
YouTube video by Roy Woods
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January 24, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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Kwazii is a rap artist from Brampton, Ontario, whose grandfather was a reggae musician and you can hear that influence a little bit in his trap-style melodies. Number 970 of #1000Songs youtube.com/watch?v=z3qg...
Kwazii - Catering (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Kᴡᴀᴢɪɪ
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January 23, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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What do you do with this? Do you laugh at the childishness or do you despair because foreign relations shouldn’t sound like a kindergartener having a hissy fit?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d
Trump: “Dear Prime Minister Carney:
 
Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time.
 
Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
January 23, 2026 at 4:35 AM
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The 159 people from Canada who have done nothing for America since 911
Plus the Korean ,WW2 WW1 ones
My grand uncle landed on DDAY alongside Americans
When are you impeaching him
January 22, 2026 at 5:57 AM
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There is nothing surprising about this and every person who supported the creation of these illegal camps and detentions without due process etc shares in the responsibility for this murder and every other crime being committed in the new American Gulag.
chilepepper.bsky.social Veronica 🌶️ @chilepepper.bsky.social · 10d
They don’t just murder them in their cars in broad daylight. These fucking monsters. They choked the breath out of him.

We already knew why they are illegally barring congress from accessing their detention camps. Judges need to step up. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
Cuban Detainee in El Paso ICE Facility Died by Homicide, Autopsy Shows
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January 22, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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Pressa and Quintana Mills are both from Toronto. Pressa is a rapper known for his distinctive voice and talent for storytelling while Mills has forged a career as a producer working in Toronto’s indie and underground music scene. Number 969 of #1000Songs youtube.com/watch?v=eM-A...
Pressa & Quintana Mills - Prayed 4 This (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Pressa
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January 22, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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Tenille Townes is a country singer from Grand Prairie, Alberta. She got her start as a teenager under her real name, Tennille Nadkrynechny, but adopted the stage name “Townes” as her career matured. This is her brand new single. Number 968 of #1000Songs youtube.com/watch?v=yL_T...
Tenille Townes - enabling (Official Visualizer)
YouTube video by Tenille Townes
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January 21, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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Lighthouse formed in Toronto in 1969 and their infusion of jazz influences into rock music helped to set a trend in the 1970s alongside Chicago. Number 967 of #1000Songs youtube.com/watch?v=P8Ic...
Lighthouse - Sunny Days
YouTube video by anippygirl
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January 20, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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Deantha Edmunds combines opera and classical composition with Inuktut and English lyrics and themes about Inuit culture and history. She was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Number 966 of #1000Songs youtube.com/watch?v=7Kvf...
Angmalukisaa: IV. Rings 4 (Arr. for Voice & String Orchestra by Robert Carli)
YouTube video by Release - Topic
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January 19, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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Coleman Wilde was the pseudonym for Sault Ste Marie, Ontario’s Doug Wilde & Kalamazoo, Michigan’s Ralph Cole. Cole had been a member of Lighthouse and the 2 formed a duo writing jingles in the 80s. They penned this track for Foster’s Beer in 1989. Number 965 of #1000Songs youtube.com/watch?v=3UGi...
It Doesn't Matter - Coleman Wilde - Unofficial Music Video
YouTube video by Steve Bonin
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January 18, 2026 at 1:57 PM
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This track from Vancouver, BC’s Pure, is an underappreciated banger in my opinion. Number 964 of #1000Songs youtube.com/watch?v=SjE2...
Pure - Denial (official video - Canadian release)
YouTube video by Boutique Empire
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January 17, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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Métis artist Ruby Waters hails from Sherburne, Ontario. Her atmospheric style and gritty voice have earned her a growing legion of fans. Number 963 of #1000Songs youtu.be/zc3q0j1CfJU?...
Ruby Waters - 90 to 99 (Official Video)
YouTube video by Ruby Waters
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January 16, 2026 at 12:17 PM