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Union roots, community shoots. Researcher/campaigner @Metstrat; Board of RideFair, Fairbnb Canada
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Gift article: heat exhaustion and heat stroke www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0b2b304...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Hey, everybody! We can all hate Harvard again. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Gift article: Saunders on Iran//Israel www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0b2b304...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

This is amazing

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Hollowed out: Ontario public hospitals and the rise of private staffing agencies. Hospitals are being privatized through the costly use of for-profit staffing agencies, by @alonghurst.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... via @policyalternatives.ca

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

shame on @newyorkuniversity.bsky.social! It is withholding Logan Rozos’ diploma for mentioning Palestinians’ suffering at NYU's graduation ceremony. Rozos is a model of courage. NYU an embarrassment.

submitted 44 days ago • 5 comments

Hahahahahahah

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

submitted 52 days ago • 2311 comments

This is the undisputed truth.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Read this thread on Magna's proposed delivery robot pilot - which is mostly digital infrastructure that happens to be taking up physical space regulated by the Highway Traffic Act.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

The pilot robot delivery program deploys a remote operator, a two-person safety team and mind-boggling computing resources to replace A PERSON ON A BIKE, @graphicmatt.com Low-carbon, congestion-avoiding last mile delivery already exists. The pilot is about eliminating the delivery worker.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

I just met with legal counsel for my constituent, Dr. Badar Khan Suri. Dr. Suri is a global conflict scholar at Georgetown who was detained without explanation by masked agents outside his Arlington home, then disappeared without due process to a prison 1,300 miles from his wife and children. 1/

submitted 59 days ago • 78 comments

January 5 projection vs April 28 election results. No lead will ever be safe.

submitted 60 days ago • 28 comments

For the first time, Ricochet Media is teaming up @nationalobserver.com for a live election event hosted by the brilliant @caradrianh.bsky.social with an all-star panel, guests, and on-the-ground correspondents across the country. LIVESTREAM TOMORROW - April 28 at 7:30PM ET / 4:30PM PT #CanadaVotes

submitted 62 days ago • 2 comments

A headline from Hell. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

submitted 64 days ago • 1009 comments

I do wish media outlets would stop repeating content-free corporate lines like "safety of passengers remains our top priority" which add nothing to the story and, in this case, are demonstrably false. www.thestar.com/business/the...

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At a recent conservative gathering, fossil fuel and tech executives mused with libertarians about how a Poilievre government would realize a Canadian DOGE. “For all sorts of constitutional legal reasons, the impediments to DOGE moving quickly, we don’t really have to worry about in Canada.”

submitted 66 days ago • 8 comments

Yeeeeaaaaahhhhhh!

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“Leaders Debate Commission just told CBC’s David Cochrane that it was unaware that Rebel News founder Ezra Levant—accredited at the debate alongside four of his employees—is also the owner of ForCanada, a third party advertiser registered with Elections Canada” according to @lefthandstu.bsky.social

submitted 72 days ago • 9 comments

Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’

submitted 72 days ago • 101 comments

I tracked down Rob Pegatto, former YTV game show host and Toronto Raptors on-court announcer, who appears in the “Do You Believe The Polls?” group’s Instagram videos Pegatto told me he was hired by Mississauga casino owner Paul Micucci, the group's leader and a big donor to Doug Ford’s Ontario PCs

submitted 73 days ago • 21 comments