@markjacob.bsky.social:
Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.
@brandonfriedman.bsky.social:
Oh look, ICE is copying literal Nazi recruiting propaganda again. The poster on the right is for the Volkssturm, the Nazi militia of older men and boys established during the final months of World War II.
@leeroy-jenkins.bsky.social:
Putin probably can’t stop giggling
@emmettmacfarlane.com:
Canadians overwhelmingly support a strong stance even if there are economic costs. Carney’s weakness not only betrays his election promises but it sends all the wrong signals.
I think Carney is showing us exactly who is really is, a racist quisling, a Harper con who is pro genocide, anti environment, anti women, anti justice, anti peace, anti Canada
@futbolsound.bsky.social:
You never beat a bully by giving into his bullying.Carney is not stupid like his pals Trump and Pee Pee Poilievre are, he knows what he’s doing. He’s serving Nazi USA and genocidal Israel, not Canada. Watch his upcoming cuts, there will be next to nothing left of Canada when Carney, Harper and Trump are done with us.
@canadianpolling.bsky.social:
Asked of those who say Canada should counter tariff:
“What if the US increases their tariffs further?”
Use counter-tariffs: 95%
Don’t use them: 5%
“What if it causes financial suffering to Canadians?”
Use counter-tariffs: 76%
Don’t use them: 24%
Angus Reid / Aug 1, 2025 / n=887 / Online
MARPIKE:
Shameful what’s going on in the US. Not sure how a CDN company can avoid using the tactics that Felon 47 wants to employ when it comes to immigrants or even US citizens. Garda needs to revisit this bid, don’t think they want to be complicit in human rights abuse. It should be a concern and many shareholders would probably agree.
whatup:
ICE is a ‘gestapo’ regime , any financial gain linked to same is colusion..
Boycot this crew if you have any sense in human decency.
bob adamson:
Gardaworld has many has many clients in Canada. Those clients need to seriously think whether the will continue to do business with Gardaworld.
DArmitage:
For shame, Garda!
StanD21:
Not a good look for Garda. Sometimes in business you need to walk away from opportunities that stink.
T.O.Fluffy:
Ethnic cleansing for hire. The depths some people will sink to for money.
kramnot:
The problem in the USA is not that they are deporting illegal immigrants, it is that they are doing it without due process and inhumanely. If they treated the immigrants properly and gave them some kind of hearing, the majority of Americans would support or tolerate deportations. But Trump is being cruel and violating the Constitution (again) and Congress and the courts are letting him do it.
App_75636993:
The “f” word (fascism) has been thrown around alot, but it’s hard not to see the signs with Trump’s plans for ICE. When Eichmann signed up for the SS, he was under the impression he was joining the police.
The_Old_One:
It is absolutely disgraceful that a Canadian owned corporation is co-operating with a fascist government that wants to destroy Canada.
ccbredin1:
An extensively Canadian-taxpayer-funded corporation to boot: https://search.open.canada.ca/contracts/?sort=contract_date+desc&page=1&search_text=Garda
scrum1:
Is there no morality in Canadian business?
GardaWorld?
What other companies are under Trump’s thumb?
Canada is already the American 51st State economically.
and more so than ever under Harper’s Mark Carney
Robert McBain1:
Trump’s deportation efforts are another form of ethnic cleansing. Remember him saying illegal immigrants were poisoning the blood of America?
Sound familiar?
TKennit:
The echoes are deafening. ICE’s new recruitment slogan is “Defend the Homeland.”
App_72333466:
He protects the elite rich only
@rachelgilmore.bsky.social Aug 8, 2025:
A Canadian company, GardaWorld, is staffing Trump’s “Alligator Alcatraz” — and Carney’s government awarded it MILLIONS in contracts.
They also told me they won’t rule out working with the company in the future. …
Subsidiary of Canadian security company cleared to provide up to $138-million in ‘emergency detention’ services to ICE by Sara Mojtehedzadeh, Janice Dickson, Kathryn Blaze Baum, Mahima Singh, Aug 4, 2025, The Globe and Mail
A subsidiary of Canadian private security giant GardaWorld has secured approval from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to compete for up to US$138-million in “emergency detention” services, federal procurement records show.
GardaWorld Federal Services, which is based in Virginia and owned by Montreal-headquartered GardaWorld, is among 40 companies recently approved to vie for orders to facilitate a sweeping immigration crackdown that is raising significant concerns about detention conditions and due process.
The total value of the work is expected to reach as high as $10-billion, according to the most recent publicly available solicitation document reviewed by The Globe and Mail.
ICE’s agreement with GardaWorld’s U.S. subsidiary imposes an $138-million cap on the services the company can bid on – one of the highest ceilings issued by the enforcement agency under the emergency solicitation agreement.
The emergency acquisition is in service of U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive orders on immigration issued earlier this year to “protect the American people against invasion.” It opens the door to potentially lucrative opportunities for companies that had not previously been directly involved in ICE detention efforts.
Mr. Trump is devoting unprecedented resources to a deportation campaign focused heavily on incarceration, which has alarmed rights groups who say detention facilities are overcrowded, unsanitary, and ill-equipped to provide appropriate medical care. Twelve people have died in ICE custody this year, including a Canadian man, Johnny Noviello, who died in a Miami prison in June.That we know of, I bet many more have died, or been outright murdered
Aidan Gilchrist-Blackwood of the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability said the GardaWorld deal raises concerns about Canadian companies’ involvement in potential human rights abuses. He said the agreement underscores the need for legislation requiring Canadian companies – and their subsidiaries – to “respect human rights throughout their operations around the world, and face consequences if they fail to do so.”
Currently, Canadian law requires only that companies report on steps taken, if any, to address the use of child or forced labour, and does not mandate a full human rights due diligence process, Mr. Gilchrist-Blackwood said.Of course not, Canada is haven for hideous abusive law and humans right violating companies.
Ketty Nivyabandi, secretary-general of Amnesty International Canada’s English-speaking section, called Mr. Trump’s immigration policies “cruel and racist.”
“By providing services related to the mass detention of non-U.S. citizens, GardaWorld risks contributing to or being complicit in widespread human rights violations against people seeking safety and opportunity in the U.S.,” she said.
Neither GardaWorld, its board members, nor its U.S. subsidiary responded to questions about the agreement with the immigration enforcement agency. The Globe and Mail contacted several investment firms with minority stakes in the company, none of whom commented.
ICE also did not respond to The Globe’s questions.
Procurement records related to the solicitation show GardaWorld Federal Services is approved to compete for certain categories of work, including security guards and patrol services. The records do not specify the locations or facilities where ICE may be seeking such services.
The White House’s direction under the recent emergency acquisition requires ICE to bring “an additional allotment of detention beds online nationwide to accommodate increased arrests,” the solicitation document says.
The shortlisting of the 40 companies expedites the procurement process so that ICE’s work orders can be fulfilled quickly, without having to renegotiate all the terms.
GardaWorld Federal Services has previously secured numerous contracts with the U.S. government, but none directly with ICE for detention services, according to the data reviewed by The Globe, which dates back to 2011. The records show the company has provided services to several federal departments, chiefly the Department of State, within the U.S. and abroad.
John Babcock, a spokesperson for Global Affairs Canada, said the Canadian government “expects Canadian companies operating abroad to abide by all relevant laws, to respect human rights in their operations, and to adopt best practices and internationally respected guidelines on responsible business conduct.”Words words words. Our gov’t knows damned those rights will be violated regularly, as usual, just ask Herr Harper. Just like the oil and gas and frac industry, best practices and guidelines, all voluntary, and always ignored except when promising fairy tales.
GardaWorld Federal Services also has an active agreement with the Florida governor’s office to provide the state with “materials, services, and personnel resources during emergencies” which include “mass migration incidents,” state procurement documents show.
Earlier this year, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis invoked a 2023 executive order declaring an “alarming influx of migrants” to be an emergency to rapidly construct a state-funded immigration detention centre in Ochopee, Fla.
U.S. detainees describe worm-filled food, inhuman treatment at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ migrant centre
Several weeks ago, GardaWorld Federal Services’ verified LinkedIn profile listed a job opening for an armed security guard in Ochopee, the location of the facility now dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” because it is situated in a subtropical wetland teeming with crocodiles, alligators and venomous snakes.
GardaWorld Federal Services’ careers site is also advertising a range of jobs based at a “custodial centre” in a “remote part of southern central Florida” where successful candidates will be required to live on site. The roles include armed security guards, correctional officers and Spanish-English translators to ensure “accurate communication between staff and residents.”
Alligator Alcatraz, which is about 88 kilometres west of Miami, consists of cage-style cells within heavy-duty tents and was built in eight days on an abandoned air strip – prompting outrage from environmental and human rights activists.
A spokesperson for GardaWorld directed queries from The Globe to the Florida Division of Emergency Management, and did not respond to questions about the nature and scope of any of its immigration-related contracts.
The Florida Division of Emergency Management did not respond to questions, nor did the governor’s office, which entered into the agreement with GardaWorld Federal Services. Publicly available procurement records do not disclose the value of the company’s potential work. The records indicate that the state has not yet disbursed any money to GardaWorld Federal Services in relation to the agreement.
At the federal level, Congress recently passed a massive spending bill that allocates nearly US$30-billion to round up and deport immigrants. According to the American Immigration Council, an advocacy organization, the bill represents the single largest increase in funding to immigration enforcement in the history of the United States. There are almost 58,000 people detained on immigration charges, ICE data show – exceeding the highest detention levels set by the previous Trump administration back in 2019.
At least four other subsidiaries of GardaWorld have previously been awarded small ICE contracts for transportation and management consulting services, according to the procurement data.
In 2023, GardaWorld Federal Services signed a controversial deal with the City of Chicago to build a tent basecamp to house migrants, which was later scrapped owing to environmental concerns.
A subsidiary of GardaWorld also provided medical staff for an “unaccompanied migrant children facility” in 2021, court records obtained by The Globe say.
Jessica Tillipman, the associate dean for government procurement law studies at the George Washington University Law School, said GardaWorld Federal Services’ participation in the solicitation process – regardless of the value of the orders it ends up securing – is a clear indication of its desire to provide its services to ICE.
“I suspect there are some companies that have decided not to bid on this,” Prof. Tillipman said. “They might say, ‘This is a bridge too far for us.’”
Trump admin to give ICE access to Medicaid recipients’ personal info in latest immigration crackdown
@tryangregory.bsky.social:
“Now in power, the Carney government seems to be backtracking from this promise. As Canada faces unprecedented economic threats from the United States’ trade policy, Pharmacare is being increasingly framed as a luxury we cannot afford.”
@pednpsy.bsky.social:
Weird how the war machine gets money but pharmacies cannot.
‘Horrific’: report reveals abuse of pregnant women and children at US Ice facilities, Report from senator Jon Ossoff’s office found 510 credible reports of human rights abuses since Trump’s inauguration by Michael Sainato, 6 Aug 2025, The Guardian
A new report has found hundreds of reported cases of human rights abuses in US immigration detention centers.
The alleged abuses uncovered include deaths in custody, physical and sexual abuse of detainees, mistreatment of pregnant women and children, inadequate medical care, overcrowding and unsanitary living conditions, inadequate food and water, exposure to extreme temperatures, denial of access to attorneys, and child separation.
The report, compiled by the office of Senator Jon Ossoff, a Democrat representing Georgia, noted it found 510 credible reports of human rights abuses since 20 January 2025.
His office team’s investigation is active and ongoing, the office said, and has accused the Department of Homeland Security of obstructing congressional oversight of the federal agency, which houses Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice). Ossoff said the government was limiting his team’s access to visit more detention sites and interview detainees.
Under the second Trump administration, a Guardian analysis found average daily immigration arrests in June 2025 were up 268% compared with June 2024, with the majority of people arrested having no criminal convictions. And US immigration detention facilities are estimated to be over capacity by more than 13,500 people.
The problem is not new, as before Trump took office again, US immigration detention centers faced allegations of inhumane conditions. But controversy has ramped up amid the current administration’s widespread crackdown on immigration and undocumented communities within the US, including people who have lived and worked in the US for years or came in more recently under various legal programs that Trump has moved to shut down.
Among the reports cited in the new file from Ossoff’s office, there are allegations of huge human rights abuses include 41 cases of physical and/or sexual abuse of detainees while in the custody of the DHS, including reports of detainees facing retaliation for reporting abuses.
Examples include at least four 911 emergency calls referencing sexual abuse at the South Texas Ice processing center since January.
The report also cites 14 credible reports of pregnant women being mistreated in DHS custody, including a case of a pregnant woman being told to drink water in response to a request for medical attention, and another case where a partner of a woman in DHS custody reported the woman was pregnant and bled for days before DHS staff took her to a hospital, where she was left in a room alone to miscarry without water or medical assistance.
The report cites 18 cases of children as young as two years old, including US citizens, facing mistreatment in DHS custody, including denying a 10-year-old US citizen recovering from brain surgery any follow-up medical attention and the detention of a four-year-old who was receiving treatment for metastatic cancer and was reportedly deported without the ability to consult a doctor.
The report from Ossoff’s office was first reported by NBC News. The DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in an email to NBC News in response to the report: “any claim that there are subprime conditions at Ice detention centers are false.” She claimed all detainees in Ice custody received “proper meals, medical treatment, and have opportunities to communicate with lawyers and their family members”.
Meredyth Yoon, an immigration attorney and litigation director at Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta, told NBC News she met with the woman who miscarried, a 23-year-old Mexican national.
“The detainee who miscarried described to Yoon witnessing and experiencing ‘horrific’ and ‘terrible conditions’, the attorney said, including allegations of overcrowding, people forced to sleep on the floor, inadequate access to nutrition and medical care, as well as abusive treatment by the guards, lack of information about their case and limited ability to contact their loved ones and legal support,” NBC News reported. DHS denied the allegations.
“Regardless of our views on immigration policy, the American people do not support the abuse of detainees and prisoners … it’s more important than ever to shine a light on what’s happening behind bars and barbed wire, especially and most shockingly to children,” Ossoff said in a statement his office issued about the investigation.
What does Donald Trump want from Canada? We are about to find out by Tony Keller, Aug 4, 2025, The Globe and Mail
Where do things stand for Canada after the United States imposed a new, higher tariff last Thursday evening?
In the short run, not much has changed. In the long run, a lot may yet change.
Since the signing of the landmark Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement in 1988, the relationship has been about ever-lower trade barriers and ever-easier movement of goods and services across the border. It was part of a global trend.to make the ultra rich richer, while stealing from ordinary citizens to do so.
Under President Donald Trump, the U.S. is reversing course, hard and fast.to make the uber rich much richer, while also stealing from ordinary citizens to do so.
The average American tariff on imports from all countries was 17.3 per cent on Aug. 1, according to the Budget Lab at Yale. That’s more than seven times higher – yes, you read that right – than at the start of the year. The last time U.S. taxes on imports were this high was 1934.
Those who say that Mr. Trump is delivering TACOs – “Trump Always Chickens Out” – are missing the real story. It’s true that the President has consistently done less than threatened. But extreme threats have conditioned both U.S. public opinion and foreign governments to accept the previously unimaginable. The result is that the U.S. suddenly has high tariff walls.
Last month, the European Union, Japan and South Korea all agreed to the U.S. slapping a 15-per-cent tariff on most of their exports. They also promised not to retaliate.They’re either stupid, cowards, or Nazis
Olivier Blanchard, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, published a poem on the social media that describes Mr. Trump’s negotiating technique, and the EU’s response:
“I am going to cut your arm.
Please do not, please, please
Ok, I shall be generous, and just cut your thumb.
Thank you, thank you. You are so generous.”
On Europe and the 10% tariff: I am going to cut your arm. Please do not, please, please Ok, I shall be generous, and just cut your thumb. Thank you, thank you. You are so generous. [I very much hope i am wrong]
Only two countries have retaliated: China and Canada.Pathetic nothing. We need to hit hard back on oil, gas and bitumen, potash, and more
Mr. Trump has already delivered the biggest change to the global economic order since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and there is more to come.Sounds like the Nazi idiot is your hero. That’s the context in which Canada is trying to negotiate with Washington.
Prime Minister Mark Carney appears to be attempting to preserve as much as possible of the free-trade relationship with the U.S., while laying the groundwork for a future in which Canada has no choice but to trade less with the U.S.It’s clear to me Carney is a quisling, betraying us to serve the GOP kid-raping Nazi scumbags
The Trump administration’s goal is to force the rest of the world to sell less to the U.S., which it believes will lead to far more domestic U.S. production. In accepting a 15-per-cent U.S. tariff, Japan, South Korea and the EU all effectively agreed to this. Britain did likewise, accepting a 10-per-cent tariff.
What ultimate level of import duties Mr. Trump hopes to impose on Canada, covering what basket of goods, remains unclear.
However, Mr. Carney has signalled that any deal with the U.S. could include a baseline tariff, as Japan, South Korea and the EU agreed to. He also implied that Canada might have to offer commitments to buy U.S. goods or make investments in the U.S., as those other trading partners did, though the terms of their promises are vague and possibly meaningless.
Canada’s ace in the hole has been the United States-Mexico-Canada agreement. The 35-per-cent tariff that Mr. Trump slapped on Canada on Thursday night – up from the 25-per-cent rate imposed earlier this year – only applies to goods that are not USMCA-compliant. The Bank of Canada last week estimated that 100 per cent of Canadian energy exports, and 95 per cent of everything else, is covered by the USMCA. The whopping 35-per-cent tariff only applies to less than 5 per cent of our exports.Trump’s hollering and Carney’s caving is just to terrify Canadians? Dirty bullying cruel fucks.
However, several Canadian industries are subject to sectoral tariffs, including a 50-per-cent levy on steel and aluminum, a 25-per-cent tariff on cars, and new duties on lumber. These hit hard because Canada is a major exporter of these goods, and our auto industry is fully integrated with U.S. supply chains. To the extent that Canadian-made vehicles use American parts, they receive a reduction in the auto duty, but steel, aluminum and lumber get no such break.
Other U.S. trading partners, with the exception of Mexico, have no USMCA protections.
Last Friday, Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said talks will continue with the Americans, but that he was leaving Washington after a long period of intense negotiations, and that no progress was likely in the coming days.
Canada has breathing room because of the USMCA, and so does Mexico. It got a 90-day extension on negotiations, with no new tariffs, on the same day as Canada was hit with the 35-per-cent levy.Trump’s not interested in trade, his job is to destroy American democracy, and all the many woke programs Nazis hate so much; Trump’s hitting Canada the way he is because his handlers, the rich fucking kid and earth raping billionaires want our resources and water, and the north
The USMCA has allowed Ottawa to rag the puck, and to avoid caving in to Washington’s demands as quickly as other trading partners. Carney’s done but cave to Trump’s demands, and giving him more than those demands, eg the DST. Time may work in Canada’s favour. The 35-per-cent tariff, whose legal excuse is that Canada is flooding the U.S. with fentanyl, is likely to be struck down by the U.S. courts,not with the endless corrupt judges Trump and his ilk have appointed though that won’t happen quickly. Negative economic news – a smallhelping of which arrived last week – could lead the American public and business to push back more forcefully against Mr. Trump’s tariff plans.
The USMCA has been a shield for Canada, but it is up for renegotiation next year. Mr. Trump could also walk away with six months notice.
The Canadian economy is holding up, but there are many unknowns: Does Trumpenomics’ vision for the future include a North American trading bloc, with Canada benefiting from lower tariffs than the rest of the world? Or does Mr. Trump want to subject Canada to the same tariffs as the rest of the world, which would sever continental automobile supply chains, while reducing most other exports?
We are about to find out.I trust nothing Trump or the Nazi pedophile GOP do; I trust nothing Carney and his betraying “liberal” MPs do or say either. They have zero credibility, zero trustworthiness, and they lie to and betray Canadians, too much.