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Okay, sure, vote for the lesser evil...I can see the logic for making that decision, at least in some places. But getting so caught up that you refuse to see and name the harms that the lesser evil is itself also promising to do is putting all of us at risk. #cdnpoli

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Analysis of federal election tax cut proposals from @policyalternatives.ca's @davidmaccdn.bsky.social in this op-ed. From author:"tax cuts are simply the way politicians try to buy your vote with money they don’t have. And that’s a pretty cruel hoax." www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/2025/0...

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Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN But Americans are no longer allowed to criticize Israel are they.

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Yep

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PSA for a specific segment of transit users. The #1 East Burlington Transit stop on York Blvd by Dundurn Castle is now just east of the Dundurn crosswalk on York. The former stop a few metres west looks like a bus stop but apparently is no longer in service.

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Agree. That doesn't mean we know how things will turn out. We are in a Gramscian moment. "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." A quote brought to you by: FASCISM

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I say this every year: this tool doesn't work, it is heavily biased by the personal politics of the person that runs it, it collects your data for purposes they don't tell you about and which they use further to build political advertising models. Don't use it.

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Canada sits at a hinge point of history, and we will need to reimagine the country to deal with our new reality, and it is bewildering that every party, and every leader, is pitching tax cuts. Our would-be leaders need to rise higher to meet the moment. www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

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Democracy is not a spectator sport. Sue the bastard. March. Pester your elected officials. Keep up.

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Come to the United States, where you’ll be kidnapped in broad daylight because you wrote an op-ed.

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“9.6 million low-income Canadians” in a nation of 40 million tells you all you need to know about neoliberalism in Canada.

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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

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This is completely terrifying, a huge violation of the first amendment, and part of the coopting of a distorted version of anti-semitism to justify persecution of people speaking out against Israel's genocide. And the broader pursuit of a police state.

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Meet Indigo and David, our Semester in Residence Ambassadors! Promoting the 2025 semester to McMaster undergrads. For me the best part is I get to work with them as colleagues! Give the SIR account some love, follow and share if you can! #McMaster Community Engagement!

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RFK Sr. famously said in 1966, “Each time a man stands up for an ideal...those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” When those walls come down don’t expect Jamie Dimon or Jeff Bezos or Big Pharma to be standing at the barricades.

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Obviously CCing a journalist on all this shows humiliating incompetence, but also… why the fuck is this conversation happening on a third-party messaging app, even an encrypted one?

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Once in a while, I wonder what it would be like to live in a political world where facts mattered.

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YWCA Gender-Based Safety Audit presentation at City Hall live now www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-zI...

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I'll stop posting this when it stops being both funny and relevant www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnmg...

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Really loving the town halls in the US

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The number of Finnish billionaires per capita is roughly half of the United States. In exchange, their society gets universal healthcare, practically zero homelessness and an opioid death rate that is 4x lower than the US. Seems like a good trade, to me!

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According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150,000 trees have been planted and 45 hectares of parks created in the city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to and manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050. Plant a lot more urban trees.

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Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.

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If you're someone who does want to learn effective bystander intervention, I'm offering a free webinar to anyone anywhere aged 12+ on April 8 @ 3pm EST to mark International Anti-Street Harassment Week! It's interactive and engaging but mics/cameras muted, so you're never on the spot.

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I'm someone who reads quite a bit of hard to understand material. So when the City of #HamOnt sends me a planning notification and I can't understand what it's telling me, I take it as a sign that the system is either failing or is intentionally opaque to minimize public input.

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It'd be good to do this, and to do the same (and to get them an elected seat on Council) to learn from Indigenous sovereign peoples who've been doing this very thing here since time immemorial.

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Facts matter

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Every time ... Robert Morris, former Texas megachurch pastor, Trump adviser and proponent of the so-called “Bathroom Bill” that sought to ban transgender people, was indicted for child sex crimes. www.texastribune.org/2025/03/12/r...

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WATCH: The gloves are off! It’s been an under-reported scandal for quite a while that Pierre Poilievre refuses to apply for security clearance. It was a scandal EVEN BEFORE the most recent efforts to undermine Canada’s democracy, sovereignty and economy from Trump, Musk and the GOP. Share this.

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The argument that cyclists on Bloor Street affected by future lane removals can just take the subway sure would seem to also apply to drivers today who are griping about the bike lanes. www.torontotoday.ca/local/transp...

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Who wants to teach me to play Scopa?

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Anonymous has entered the fight against fascism. They already took X down three times today. This should be fun to watch play out…

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The United States government just disappeared a lawful US resident because it didn't like his speech. You should care about this because it shouldn't happen to anyone, but you should also care because it could happen to you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...

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Hello folks. Jim Cuddy here. Due to our troubles with our neighbours in The States, I was inspired to write a little song. It’s called “We Used to Be the Best of Friends”. youtu.be/b5jgJZWG7aY?... #USA #Canada #Tarrifs

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First Trump backtracked on tariffs Now he's backtracking on DOGE and Elon Musk WHY?!? Because of YOU - because of US - because WE THE PEOPLE have been waking up, getting loud, calling and emailing members of Congress, showing up at town halls and demanding answers THAT'S why

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Dems should probably take notice of the fact that a day and a half after the speech the only Democratic response people are still talking about was Al Green's

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Hamilton Police with another Charter Rights violation & "scathing" decision from another judge for racially profiling young black men. Let's see how the Chief defends this in his "learning organization" since they failed to learn a previous "Justice Gage" decision. www.thespec.com/news/crime/h...

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Polish Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa and 38 other former political prisoners of Poland's communist regime have condemned Donald Trump's treatment of Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, which they said reminded them of communist interrogation techniques

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Elbows out, housing in. The best way to create jobs during an ec downtown is counter-cyclical infrastructure investment. Canada can put land, low cost finance & construction innovation into nonmarket homes NOW & reduce inequalities while improving env sustainability. housingandclimate.ca/blueprint/

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