James Howe
@kitchenerguy.bsky.social
An advocate for action on climate change and universal basic Income. Believes in making Waterloo Region better for all. Loves spending time in Kenya.
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The CBC made this clever & cute video that uses kids to explain the rules of curling:
February 13, 2026 at 7:43 PM
The CBC made this clever & cute video that uses kids to explain the rules of curling:
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The most blatantly corrupt gangster government in American history. Where are congressional Republicans on this stuff? Nowhere to be found. Vote them ALL out.
February 10, 2026 at 11:39 PM
The most blatantly corrupt gangster government in American history. Where are congressional Republicans on this stuff? Nowhere to be found. Vote them ALL out.
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The United States is purposefully blockading Cuba from accessing fuel that powers everything from grocery stores to hospitals. People will die. Children will die. What's being done to the people of Cuba is monstrous.
The people in power were ok with it in Gaza and now they're doing it to Cuba.
The people in power were ok with it in Gaza and now they're doing it to Cuba.
February 10, 2026 at 3:59 AM
The United States is purposefully blockading Cuba from accessing fuel that powers everything from grocery stores to hospitals. People will die. Children will die. What's being done to the people of Cuba is monstrous.
The people in power were ok with it in Gaza and now they're doing it to Cuba.
The people in power were ok with it in Gaza and now they're doing it to Cuba.
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When I'm ready to travel to the United States again, I look forward to going to Minneapolis.
February 7, 2026 at 2:18 PM
When I'm ready to travel to the United States again, I look forward to going to Minneapolis.
Having food banks is a choice.
Social assistance instead of universal basic income is a choice.
It's time we started making new and better choices.
Social assistance instead of universal basic income is a choice.
It's time we started making new and better choices.
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
February 1, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Having food banks is a choice.
Social assistance instead of universal basic income is a choice.
It's time we started making new and better choices.
Social assistance instead of universal basic income is a choice.
It's time we started making new and better choices.
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Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores.
TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.
Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.
Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.
TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.
Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.
Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.
January 29, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores.
TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.
Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.
Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.
TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.
Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.
Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.
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A 75-year-old Cambridge man is charged in the death of three-year-old Violet MacDonald who was hit by a driver in a pickup truck in December. www.therecord.com/news/crime/c...
Man, 75, charged in fatal collision that killed a 3-year-old in Cambridge
A 75-year-old Cambridge man charged in death of three-year-old Violet MacDonald after being hit by a pickup truck.
www.therecord.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:30 PM
A 75-year-old Cambridge man is charged in the death of three-year-old Violet MacDonald who was hit by a driver in a pickup truck in December. www.therecord.com/news/crime/c...
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Why would anybody want to vacation in the country where they're doing ethnic cleansing and shooting dissidents in the street?
January 30, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Why would anybody want to vacation in the country where they're doing ethnic cleansing and shooting dissidents in the street?
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The idea of replacing locally elected leaders of regional government with provincially appointed ones is insane. Bonkers. Appalling.
The water supply crisis and subsequent development freeze in Waterloo Region has a prominent developer calling for an overhaul of regional government. www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
Water supply crisis sparks call to reform how Waterloo Region is governed
The water supply crisis has sparked a call for regional reform. But one veteran member of regional council says now is not the time for structural change.
www.therecord.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:36 PM
The idea of replacing locally elected leaders of regional government with provincially appointed ones is insane. Bonkers. Appalling.
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I had a relative who literally hid with Anne Frank in that attic. If you cannot be accused of exaggerating, it’s too late. Once they’re marching kids into gas chambers, it’s too late.
The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
Tim Walz condemned for comparing Minnesota children to Anne Frank
The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
bit.ly
January 28, 2026 at 5:47 PM
I had a relative who literally hid with Anne Frank in that attic. If you cannot be accused of exaggerating, it’s too late. Once they’re marching kids into gas chambers, it’s too late.
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38-year-old driver killed in fatal flyover crash remembered as loving sister and daughter
38-year-old driver killed in fatal flyover crash remembered as loving sister and daughter
The driver who was killed Monday morning after her car drove off the Highway 7/8 flyover has been identified as a Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada employee.
www.thestar.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:27 PM
38-year-old driver killed in fatal flyover crash remembered as loving sister and daughter
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my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt
The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
Tim Walz condemned for comparing Minnesota children to Anne Frank
The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
bit.ly
January 28, 2026 at 2:37 AM
my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt
"Deutschmann said the road crews that clear the snow have experience working on the roads and are aware of the potential dangers.
“There could be some element of driver error. But ... [that] would have ended up with them hitting, if it was clear, hitting the barrier and not being launched over."
“There could be some element of driver error. But ... [that] would have ended up with them hitting, if it was clear, hitting the barrier and not being launched over."
Why was the Hwy. 8 flyover reopened after first vehicle went over the side?
www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/ar...
www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/ar...
Why was the Hwy. 8 flyover reopened after first vehicle went over the side?
Questions are being raised after two vehicles went over the side of the Highway 8 flyover in Kitchener, Ont. on Monday.
www.ctvnews.ca
January 28, 2026 at 4:08 PM
"Deutschmann said the road crews that clear the snow have experience working on the roads and are aware of the potential dangers.
“There could be some element of driver error. But ... [that] would have ended up with them hitting, if it was clear, hitting the barrier and not being launched over."
“There could be some element of driver error. But ... [that] would have ended up with them hitting, if it was clear, hitting the barrier and not being launched over."
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Just heard a journalist in Minneapolis talk about a 12-year-old girl who has been hiding inside from ICE for weeks.
Do I even have to say what that evokes? We all feel it, right?
Do I even have to say what that evokes? We all feel it, right?
January 28, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Just heard a journalist in Minneapolis talk about a 12-year-old girl who has been hiding inside from ICE for weeks.
Do I even have to say what that evokes? We all feel it, right?
Do I even have to say what that evokes? We all feel it, right?
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I'm not going to applaud the government for funding food banks because food banks are by definition, a policy failure 🙃
January 26, 2026 at 10:54 PM
I'm not going to applaud the government for funding food banks because food banks are by definition, a policy failure 🙃
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ICE and CBP agents are out of control and put everyone in danger.
We're calling for ICE agents to withdraw from Minneapolis, and for Congress to rein in ICE’s abuses in our communities.
We're calling for ICE agents to withdraw from Minneapolis, and for Congress to rein in ICE’s abuses in our communities.
January 24, 2026 at 10:33 PM
ICE and CBP agents are out of control and put everyone in danger.
We're calling for ICE agents to withdraw from Minneapolis, and for Congress to rein in ICE’s abuses in our communities.
We're calling for ICE agents to withdraw from Minneapolis, and for Congress to rein in ICE’s abuses in our communities.
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"Videos analyzed by The New York Times appear to contradict the accounts of federal officials, who said Mr. Pretti approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and the intent to 'massacre' them. Video footage shows Mr. Pretti stepping between a woman and an agent who is pepper spraying her. ...
January 24, 2026 at 10:51 PM
"Videos analyzed by The New York Times appear to contradict the accounts of federal officials, who said Mr. Pretti approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and the intent to 'massacre' them. Video footage shows Mr. Pretti stepping between a woman and an agent who is pepper spraying her. ...
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Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)
January 24, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)
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Woman tells Minnesota Public Radio that the man killed today was helping vehicle traffic get around the area where ICE agents and observers had started to gather and "next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/live-updates....
The latest on ICE in Minnesota
Live updates on ICE enforcement in Minnesota, with the latest developments and links to deeper reporting as events unfold.
www.mprnews.org
January 24, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Woman tells Minnesota Public Radio that the man killed today was helping vehicle traffic get around the area where ICE agents and observers had started to gather and "next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/live-updates....
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People want to have their basic needs met.
They want to be paid a living wage.
They want to stop being nickle and dimed by powerful corporations who control so much of our lives.
They do not want Venezuela.
They do not want Greenland.
They do not want masked thugs terrorizing our communities.
They want to be paid a living wage.
They want to stop being nickle and dimed by powerful corporations who control so much of our lives.
They do not want Venezuela.
They do not want Greenland.
They do not want masked thugs terrorizing our communities.
January 22, 2026 at 8:50 PM
People want to have their basic needs met.
They want to be paid a living wage.
They want to stop being nickle and dimed by powerful corporations who control so much of our lives.
They do not want Venezuela.
They do not want Greenland.
They do not want masked thugs terrorizing our communities.
They want to be paid a living wage.
They want to stop being nickle and dimed by powerful corporations who control so much of our lives.
They do not want Venezuela.
They do not want Greenland.
They do not want masked thugs terrorizing our communities.
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Me, on Carney's landmark speech yesterday. theconversation.com/mark-carneys...
Mark Carney’s Davos speech marks a major departure from Canada’s usual approach to the U.S.
Mark Carney clearly hopes a new global world order may emerge that’s not only more resilient to diverse and unpredictable threats, but is more honest and just.
theconversation.com
January 21, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Me, on Carney's landmark speech yesterday. theconversation.com/mark-carneys...
Canada is grateful we have a Prime Minister who can eloquently put Trump in his place. We're going to remain strong and free.
We'll be grateful when the United States addresses the chaos they've unleashed.
We'll be grateful when the United States addresses the chaos they've unleashed.
Trump: "Canada gets a lot of freebies from us. They should be grateful but they're not. He watched your prime minister yesterday. He wasn't so grateful. But they should be grateful to us. Canada. Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that, Mark, next time you make your statements"
January 21, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Canada is grateful we have a Prime Minister who can eloquently put Trump in his place. We're going to remain strong and free.
We'll be grateful when the United States addresses the chaos they've unleashed.
We'll be grateful when the United States addresses the chaos they've unleashed.
La Mantia didn't call for the Region of Waterloo to be transparent about the Wilmot landgrab. Doing it now is hypocritical.
[La Mantia] "called on the region to be transparent. “We need process clarity,” said La Mantia.
www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
[La Mantia] "called on the region to be transparent. “We need process clarity,” said La Mantia.
www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
Water crisis puts new investments at risk
Two companies put large investments on hold because of the water supply crisis in Waterloo Region. One investment is for the expansion of an existing company. The other investment is from a company th...
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January 21, 2026 at 1:09 PM
La Mantia didn't call for the Region of Waterloo to be transparent about the Wilmot landgrab. Doing it now is hypocritical.
[La Mantia] "called on the region to be transparent. “We need process clarity,” said La Mantia.
www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
[La Mantia] "called on the region to be transparent. “We need process clarity,” said La Mantia.
www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...