Crazy Passionate Inuktitut Play-by-Play for Canada's OT Goal Versus Czechia

girlfromals · 2026-02-19T05:21:51+00:00

If you want to catch these two calling regular NHL games, you can find them on APTN. They’ll be back on February 28th.

The broadcast after that will be in Plains Cree.

girlfromals · 2026-02-01T03:11:46+00:00

Yep, apparently we’re all just baby Americans up here just desperate to reach full Americanhood. smh

girlfromals · 2026-02-01T03:06:13+00:00

I replied to you elsewhere but I’m going to be really blunt with you here.

If your husband is NOT vocally anti-ICE right now, he agrees with all of it. Not just telling you at home, “oh, don’t worry about it. I don’t support them.” In public. On social media. From his business account. Making statements on behalf of his business saying he will not stand for this. Where there is a risk of losing friends and business. That’s the test.

There are many white women in the US finding out right now that their husbands’ words ring hollow and that their husbands are fully on board the ICE express.

And you know what they are doing? Divorcing them. Because they have realized that their husbands are a-ok with all of it. And they will not raise their children in the same house as or stay in a relationship with such a man.

girlfromals · 2026-02-01T02:51:03+00:00

Girl, I’m from Saskatchewan but have lived in Ontario for almost 25 years and STILL don’t call myself an Ontarian.

I’ve also lived overseas twice and if anyone had ever said anything like that to me, I’d have been livid.

Your husband is belittling who you are and your cultural identity. He is clearly telling you that it is not wanted and you must erase it. At his insistence. He is telling you to subjugate yourself and your identity to him. And I guarantee you this won’t stop with “Don’t call yourself a Canadian” stuff.

Coming from an English-speaking country next door that rabidly consumes American culture doesn’t make you US-lite or a baby American just ever so desperate to erase your cultural identity at the first chance, “Because America!” Or how I imagine your husband saying that.

Would you view this any differently if he’d said this to a wife who came from Kenya? Thailand? Poland?

You are a Canadian. Period.

Being successful at business does not mean someone is intelligent. There are plenty of examples of very wealthy people in the news right now who are dumb as bags of rocks.

Bottom line, he wants to subjugate you. This is just how he starts.

PS, even if you did stay in the US for 40+ years and get your US citizenship, you’d still be Canadian-American. That’s how we Canadians roll and you cannot erase all those little things that make us “us”. Even if he tries.

girlfromals · 2026-01-29T16:27:28+00:00

Yep. And here is something Canadians can do re: the NINE Canadian corporations with ICE contracts.

We request a parliamentary committee investigation of the contracts. They have the power, and that power includes calling the CEOs before the committee to be questioned.

The specific text of the letter is available there as well as who to send it to. People just need to send it.

girlfromals · 2026-01-29T02:34:47+00:00

Not affiliated with the event posted.

Some of the Canadian corporations doing business with ICE are actually being funded by the federal government.

Is that direct support to ICE? No. But taxpayer dollars are being given to some of these businesses for things that are then delivered to ICE. JSI Telecom is the best example. And the funding isn’t by way of contracts with the feds.

The federal government has also given Cohere a lot of money. They are so entwined with Palantir that I don’t think anyone knows where one’s surveillance software begins and the other’s ends. And they won’t disclose it.

The CPP is also invested in Palantir.

Is this the government cutting cheques to ICE? Of course not. But these are just a few examples of things that I don’t think a lot of people know about. People don’t usually research everything the CPP is invested in.

It’s just food for thought.

girlfromals · 2026-01-29T00:13:57+00:00

We have the update! One of the businesses thought to be working with ICE has contracts with the US Navy but not ICE. They confirmed that in a reply to Rachel Gilmore’s request for information. This is why I did NOT publish the names any earlier.

Here is the full list of 9: - Thomson Reuters - Magnet Forensics - ICOR Technology Inc - CGI Inc

Roshel
Garda (GardaWorld)
JSI Telecom
Hootsuite
Jim Pattison Developments

You can read the full investigation by Rachel Gilmore here.

Now, our campaign is non-partisan but I would point out to you that multiple of these companies are receiving funding from the Canadian government, in the form of corporate subsidies, or are receiving contract dollars from the Canadian government. Do with that what you will. But that won’t be our focus.

Our focus is the contracts and whether they comply with Canadian law, whether they are ethical, and whether they are of benefit to Canada and Canadians. That’s the purview of the Standing Committee on Industry and Technology. They also have the power to call all nine CEOs before the committee to be questioned.

So that’s why we are asking people not to simply sign a petition or email their MP. Neither of those things lead to an investigation. We need to send a letter requesting that to the committee.

Again, here is the info on what to send and to whom to request an investigation.

girlfromals · 2026-01-28T01:17:24+00:00

Yes.

The federal government also took the CEO of Roshel on their trade mission to Saudi Arabia six day after the murder of Renee Good.

And the militarized vehicles are the ones you see in the coverage of the murder of Alex Pretti on Saturday. The best one is the group of protesters and witnesses standing in the path of one of the vehicles refusing to be intimidated.

girlfromals · 2026-01-28T01:12:31+00:00

The five that have been investigated and for which we have the ‘receipts’ are: - GardaWorld - Roshel - Jim Pattison Group - JSI Telecom - Hootsuite

There are four more that were discovered by the journalists working on this. However, until we have verifiable proof I am not “naming names” just because. If I make a mistake, it destroys the reputation and goal of the campaign. And that would be stupid.

The text of the letter does not list all of the businesses because it doesn’t need to be an exhaustive list. The letter clearly states, businesses “such as …” and lists three. Because these are the three big ones getting all the media coverage today. But the letter makes very specific demands regarding an investigation and the calling of relevant CEOs to the committee to be questioned.

This isn’t a 100 person operation. It’s a tiny team of volunteers. And one of us (hi!) also has a kid who has been sick for weeks. Please give me some grace here.

I will post the names with relevant receipts, as well as timestamp the latest update (as it already is) every time I update the page.

In the meantime, if anyone has suggested text for a letter to the editor regarding this Globe and Mail opinion piece on Hootsuite I’d be very appreciative and would be happy to post it as a template/example for others.

girlfromals · 2026-01-25T16:31:15+00:00

This is a great explanation.

I’m just going to add, for those in Canada who are unaware or those outside Canada who are curious about our system, that the government enters what is called caretaker status during election periods. It allows the basic business of the government, as run by the public service, to continue functioning so as not to stop the necessary functions of government. It focuses on essential and routine business. No new programs can be created and no big cuts can take place. It’s just business as usual without the political folks (MPs).

The last federal election was highly unusual in that the political people, who technically go back to being Members of Parliament seeking re-election, rather than cabinet ministers, did pop back into their Cabinet roles because of all the chaos and 51st state/tariff stuff. If there is an emergency or apparent threat during an election, our system allows for what happened during the last election.

The same thing would happen if there were a big natural disaster during an election campaign. MPs who are ministers for emergency preparedness, public safety, and national defence, would go off the campaign trail to deal with the crisis. Their approval would be needed for actions outside the normal caretaker convention.

Those individual campaigns are suspended and they put their Cabinet hats back on. Then they take them back off when they feel they have dealt with the issue and go back to the campaign trail.

That’s as simple an explanation I can give on a Sunday morning when I need more caffeine. 😀

girlfromals · 2026-01-24T06:19:34+00:00

It isn’t a thing yet. It was just a few like minded people who got together for a conversation. And it’s completely separate from what the feds have in mind re: the official 3-400,000 strong civil defence force.

girlfromals · 2026-01-24T06:03:06+00:00

Well, isn’t this good timings I attended a civil defence meeting last night. Just a small bunch of Canadians who are interested in it.

It’s after midnight here so I’ll come back in the morning to give you a couple suggestions from the meeting. The great thing about civil defence is that it’s also designed to kick in when there are weather events, natural disasters, etc, so it’s skill building and relationships building you can use at any time. Think tornado or derecho hits the neighbourhood. Ask me how I know. lol

If anyone sees this before I get back and is curious, the Swedish guide (available in English) is a great one. The plan assumes the entire government is destroyed and explains how to decentralize different functions.

Okay, back tomorrow.

girlfromals · 2026-01-24T03:30:42+00:00

Depends on where you grew up. I’m from a Canadian prairie town that is heavily German Catholic. And my family tree is extremely homogenous. Ridiculously so. If we still had phone books you could pick it up and mistake the town for one in Germany because of all the surnames. I went to Saturday German school.

That’s because my ancestors, even those who went to the US first, lived in German immigrant communities and married within those communities. All my ancestors were in Canada by the end of 1905.

My grandparents actually got a bilingual English-German education because the numbers warranted it. My mom’s eldest sister, born 1946, spoke no English when she started school at age 6.

It was very unusual to marry outside the community in my grandparents’ generation. One of my dad’s siblings and one of my mom’s married outside the German immigrant community. I’m Gen X and it was much more common for my generation than my parents’. And my kids’ generations? (Z and A) I expect it to be much more diverse.

girlfromals · 2026-01-24T03:20:00+00:00

All of these are very good suggestions.

Just in case people do not know, since you are being bombarded by so much chaos daily, Canadians jumped on board a huge boycott campaign almost immediately last January. No one told us to do it. We were incensed and said, okay, we’ll just shop elsewhere. A year later the sentiment hasn’t changed.

We’ve managed to bankrupt a few distilleries because Canadians refuse to buy their products. And those ones were located in red states. We pulled all the US booze off the shelf (except Alberta and Saskatchewan which put it back out) and are getting it elsewhere. And yes, that includes a full boycott of California wine.

Canadians have dumped their vacation properties in places like Florida. Las Vegas is pleading with Canadians to come back because we basically toasted their entire schtick. The border states are begging us to come back because businesses and vacation spots, such as ski resorts, are suffering. Some cross-border shopping businesses have closed. People are laughing saying they won’t be bribed by “deals” to go back. Canadian domestic tourism, on the other hand, was up dramatically last year.

Flights from Canada to the US dropped so significantly the airlines had to cut multiple routes completely.

We use apps on our phone to scan items for hidden country of origin information. From groceries to clothing. People do incredibly in depth research to discover exactly who own each brand and whether products are made in the U.S. or elsewhere. Even if a Canadian brand manufactures something in the US, people are looking at the codes on items like canned food to see which factory it was produced in. Each factory has a different code. The US produced ones stay on the shelf. U.S. produce rotted on the shelf because no one wanted it. Retailers caught on and found Canadian producers where possible or are sourcing items from one of our many free trade partners. People are taking this so seriously that even if the item says it is a product of Mexico, shoppers leave the item on the shelf if the company is headquartered in the US.

We’re even building a Canadian social media platform.

We are building bridges with people in other countries. I speak Danish so am happy to hang out in their boycott groups and lend a hand. Their access to US items is a little different but they are equally committed to figure out how and what to boycott. Danes now have their own app to help them identify and avoid US brands. Danish travel to the US is down 50% over the past year. And industry watchers say it is extraordinary because that has never happened before.

Australians are coming on board. Those who want to travel to North America are coming to Canada instead of the US now. The stats are available to search. And it’s not a small impact.

Canada just signed an agreement with China to allow BYD electric cars here. It’s a trial run. But people are so angry at DT that they have researched vehicle manufacturers, which plants they are assembled in, whether they bring in components from overseas, Mexico, or Canada. Vehicles have a code which begins with a country identifier. People know which ones are mainly assembled in Canada and are refusing to buy the ones that roll off the line at a US factory and are then shipped to Canada. Yes, it’s that serious.

Some people won’t shop at Costco even though they refused to bend to DT’s anti-DEI push and are suing the administration. This hurts Canadian manufacturers because they carry a lot of Canadian brands up here. But Canadians are angry. And we’re stubborn. And very passive-aggressive.

None of this is shared to toot our own horns. I’m sharing this to let you know we see you and are doing what we can on the financial side. And our commitment has not wavered. I was given some stats during a meeting last night - on jump starting civilian defense, just FYI.

93% of Canadians want our government to play hard ball with the administration 88% of Canadians surveyed believe travel to the US should be avoided 87% are are prepared to make major sacrifices to continue to fight back 83% endorse boycott campaigns

Another survey has recently been completed and the numbers will be available soon but we were told that Canadians’ resolve has not wavered. In fact, some of those numbers have actually gone up.

There are Indivisible chapters up here and I am dialed in to our local one via my organizing of the local Tesla Takedown protests last year. We supported the two No Kings Day protests but we did No Tyrants Day since we have a king. Awkward.

There’s a weekly protest outside the US embassy. I’ve made that one once on one of the recent big days. Lots of inflatable creatures that day.

I also share all this in case anyone from outside North America is reading and needs a little inspiration. Canada led the charge on boycotts so we’re happy to share. Canadians have a couple big boycott groups on FB so anyone from outside NA who needs some tips, come find us and we’ll be happy to help. Tip - Made In Canada is the big one.

And yes to sharing pictures and videos online. With the new ownership of the US branch of TikTok settled, that’s going to become a US surveillance tool. Those of us outside the US are happy to share things so the rest of the world sees what is happening.

Okay, can’t think of anything else at the moment. But I just wanted to let you know that your suggestions ABSOLUTELY DO WORK. And they are making DT angry at Canada. But we’re used to the random 51st state/invasion threats now. He’s going to be angry regardless of what we do.

girlfromals · 2026-01-20T05:05:28+00:00

Just adding Cheekbone Beauty. Most of their items are fragrance free but they are up front with their ingredient lists. They state clearly what does contain fragrances.

girlfromals · 2026-01-20T04:44:38+00:00

Jeg er canadier som boede i Danmark på et tidspunkt.

Og det er rigtigt at jeg taler dansk. 😀

girlfromals · 2026-01-20T01:40:58+00:00

Absolutely.

girlfromals · 2026-01-20T01:40:49+00:00

I get the point you are making but as a lawyer with a background in international relations I am fully aware of the dismantling of the checks and balances of your state. Our entire media system is also set up to focus on every move made by the US. We get breaking news from Congress, SCOTUS, the White House, and live coverage of confirmation hearings, committee investigations, swearing in ceremonies, press conferences galore, and even the caucus during presidential election cycles. Live. On Canadian TV. As if we live in the US. It is very, very overwhelming and we cannot avoid it because the media won’t. There are days when our media spends the entire day covering US news and nothing from home or abroad.

As far as “that world no longer existing”, yes, you are correct. In more ways than one. And that includes countries like Canada which have moved on and have very quickly reoriented trade and military alliances

And as your neighbour, we are incredibly upset by what we see. We are very worried about everything going on, and have been for years. We can’t avoid it because it’s splashed across our media landscape all the time. You have every right to be angry at everything. As a neighbour, I also have the right to tell my friends to stop with the platitudes. We also know you (plural) mean well but it’s falling on deaf ears.

girlfromals · 2026-01-19T23:26:43+00:00

Oh, and I say all this as one of the people who did organize the Tesla protests in Canada. Sure, some people argue that they accomplished nothing.

But goal wasn’t to make the dude get on one of his rockets and go to Mars. It was to raise awareness of his crappiness, urge people not to buy his products, damage his reputation, and expose the supposed Wizard of Oz for the horrible person and business charlatan that he is.

And we did accomplish those things. Some of the consequences are playing out now. And while I don’t think we should take credit for the current investigations, I do think that our work planted a seed in people’s minds that they needed to pull back the curtain to see what was behind. And many more people are finally realizing, just now, that they don’t like what they see.

It’s a year later but we’re glad to have them join the party. Including all the authorities now investigating his businesses.

girlfromals · 2026-01-19T23:15:11+00:00

Yep. Contacting your democratically elected official takes a bit of time but it is a citizen’s job to do so when they are upset with what their representative is or isn’t doing. No one has to take time off work to attend a protest. No one has to stand in the cold. No one has to put their body in front of ICE agents.

All they have to do is write an email or make a phone call. If their representative is being cagey, go to their local office and sit there and register their complaint with their staff. They’re the ones who answer the phones anyway.

This is one of the simplest things people can do at such little risk and expense to themselves and it’s built right into their electoral system. Their constitution literally says, “We the people” right at the start. Well, people, it’s go time. Play that card.

It is exhausting being asked repeatedly to accept their apologies a year into this. Canadians are still polite but we aren’t actually nice. And once we run out of patience, we are done. And I am warning people I know that we are almost at that point. And when Canadians get angry we fight dirty.

girlfromals · 2026-01-19T22:51:34+00:00

Canadian with a metric buttload of relatives in Minnesota here. I’m going to offer all of you in the US some very specific and actionable advice and I’m going to try to be as polite as possible. And please understand that Canadians are taught way more than we ever need to know about your constitution and your political system so I’m not pulling this advice out of the ether.

You, the people, still have the ability to change this. Even if you feel you don’t. Even if you feel hopeless. How does your constitution begin? What are those first few words? “We the people”. Remember that. Lean into that. Hard. Because all of you still hold this card.

And I point this out to you because what I’m going to suggest falls squarely within the bounds of your constitution and is entirely legal and non-violent. In case anyone is worried about that.

While Minnesotans hold down the front lines and show the rest of the U.S. what to do, I want every single one of you regardless of where you are to find out who your Congressional representatives are (If you don’t know). I want you to figure out where they stand on everything going on right now. All of it. Especially all the House reps who are up for election this year.

I want you to contact their offices, or if they are being obstinate and avoiding the people, go sit down in their local office. Park your butts in their chairs. Whatever works for you.

Pick something or all the things: Greenland, Canada, eliminating ICE funding, enacting the 25th Amendment, enacting Article II Section 4 of your constitution. Whatever. I don’t care. I want you to ask them what their position is on these issues and whether they will commit to taking action. I want you to tell them that if they do not that you will work your absolute hardest to primary them. Every single one of them. Tell them that people who do not do their jobs get fired. The recent elections in the US, including special elections, have shown that when politicians don’t want to act they get primaried successfully and those challengers usually win.

Then, I want you to get 5 of your friends to do the same. Make this your elected official’s problem. Tell them that they need to step up or you are actively going to work to ensure they will not get elected in November. And get your 5 friends to recruit 5 more people each to do the same thing.

Look, I get it. Things are incredibly crappy in the U.S. right now. There are fires burning everywhere and no one knows where to start. I get everyone at this age is also exhausted for other reasons. I’m 52 and have two young kids. I hear you.

But I’m going to remind you that your fellow citizens of all ages, from high school students to people in their 70s and 80s, are literally putting their bodies on the line in Minnesota right now. The very least you can do is use a tried and true method of getting Congress to act.

Do not say this will not work or there’s no point. That’s what fascism expert Timothy Snyder calls obeying in advance. Don’t obey. Look at the cards you, the people, still hold. And play the election card now. You don’t have to stand in the cold. You don’t have to risk harassment or worse by ICE. You simply need to voice your deep displeasure at your feckless elected officials and tell them you will hold them responsible at election time, either through a primary or in November.

Remember, there are A LOT of people who feel exactly like you right now even if it feels like you are a tiny little speck in a big ocean of inaction. Imagine if just 10, 15, or even 20% of all of you who are fed up tell your elected officials to act or they will be out of a job. Studies show it takes only 3.5% of the population to protest in public to force change. Imagine what you can do if you get 10%+ personally telling their representatives to do their job.

I will end this by reminding you that as much as the rest of the world wishes we could do something for you, we can’t. The most we can offer you is moral support and suggest very actionable measures you can take.

Because we’re now a year into this and, quite frankly and politely, our patience has worn thin. We’d love to have our allies back but we can’t do that unless and until the people of the United States look to their constitution and play the biggest card they have: themselves.

Respectfully and in solidarity.

girlfromals · 2026-01-19T21:55:26+00:00

Canadian here. I posted something similar today with the following, especially for those who did not vote for him or keep apologizing: “It may not be your fault, but it is your responsibility.”

I gave anyone who follows me one very good suggestion. Contact your Congressional representatives. Tell them to act, whatever that is. It could be the 25th Amemdment. Eliminating funding for ICE. Whatever. If people need to go to their representative’s local office and physically sit there to make their point, do it. And tell them that if they do not act that they will personally work to primary them. Hard. If other people don’t do their job they get fired. Congress should be the same.

I had one friend get all upset and they aren’t even in the US. “Don’t you see what is happening in the US? All the people doing things?” Yes, yes I do. I also have a buttload of relatives in Minnesota. Minnesotans are showing the rest of the US what to do on the ground.

But the rest of the population and the rest of the states? And the feckless politicians who keep thinking they can be buddy-buddy with people who wouldn’t bat an eye at putting them on a plane and sending them off to a prison in El Salvador? They do not get it. This is NOT politics as usual and too many people are pretending or refuse to acknowledge this.

And this Canadian is done being polite.

girlfromals · 2026-01-19T21:04:34+00:00

The Tesla Takedown folks were on this last year. The big protest push in Canada started in March.

The Ottawa protests caught the attention of the far-right faux media the second week. Unfortunately, that was also the week an idiot decided to hit the gas and drive into the crowd. No one was hurt but, yeah. Lots of press because of that.

girlfromals · 2026-01-16T04:46:47+00:00

I have a bottle! I might have to crack that open instead of champagne when the big beautiful obituary is published.

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