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~ #BuyCanadian #BoycottUSA We can do better than that, right Canada? $50 per week is peanuts!

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While Meta bans news in Canada, it's happy to take ad money from shadowy oil and gas advocacy groups. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/02/24/i...

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Ontario has never burned so much natural gas to make electricity, firing up the polluting plants more often than at any time since the first ones were built in the 1990s. The rise in natural gas usage has serious health implications for those who live near the plants.

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This seems 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙩 if you're watching Big Tech's takeover of the US gov't 🚨 A snippet from Doug Ford's "strategic alliance" with the Trump administration: "Pursue enhanced collaboration between Canadian cyber security infrastructure and US counterparts." 1/2 🔗 www.ontario.ca/files/2025-0...

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How a cross-border CBC program sparked intense anger even before it aired. Hundreds complain before Cross Country Checkup’s broadcast initially entitled "51st State: A Cross-Border Conversation," by @brodiefenlon.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca #journalism

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What do we really mean by free speech? Social media bosses are suddenly all for it, but these vigorous defenders of free speech also often have a curiously narrow set of interests over which they wish to exercise it, by Farrah Jarral www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f... via @theguardian.com

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Another threat to #Canada & #Alberta. Conservatives are proving to be party of anti-science, anti-LGBTQ2+, conspiracy theorists & a threat to Canadians’ equal rights & personal freedoms. #cdnpoli #abpoli #CanadaSky #Cdnmedia #NeverVoteConservative #neverpoilievre pressprogress.ca/alberta-wexi...

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No woman in Ontario should vote for Doug Ford! This is what he thinks of women! 👇👇👇 #cdnpoli #onpoli

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Canada will send $5 billion in aid to Ukraine using funds from seized Russian assets, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday at a peace and security summit in Kyiv.

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Ford slammed by rivals over comments about Ontario's ERs PC Leader suggested patients with minor ailments clogging up waiting rooms Ford is clogging up our province. #FireFord www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Goodnight friends.

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Good luck to my neighbours to the south. You got yourself a crack team overseeing your country. 😬

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The petition to strip Elon Musk of Canadian citizenship has 168,000 signatures. This grassroots initiative has exploded in just a few days. Now the UK media are covering it. Musk is a fascist threat to democracy. We kicked out Ernst zundel, Musk is just as bad. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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"According to an internal provincial report obtained by the Star, ON patients visiting EDs in the past 3 years waited longer than they did in the previous 13 years." Doug Ford! You do NOT deserve another term! 😠 #FordFailedOntario #VoteFordOut #onpoli #cdnpoli www.thestar.com/news/gta/dou...

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More of this, please.

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Charlie Angus started a petition to revoke Musks citizenship. Please sign and share. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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How African Folk Medicine let the way for vaccinations: www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... #folkmedicine #folklore #indigenousmedicine #Onesimus #cottonmather

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Grocers stock up on Canadian suppliers as shoppers avoid buying American #CanadaSky financialpost.com/news/retail-...

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Funniest thing I have heard. Does he even hear himself? Pot...meet kettle.

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I’m not saying we should all panic. But maybe the government shouldn’t shut down all the systems we have for monitoring this situation. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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It is happening, yay!! Minister Anita Anand informed the provinces Friday that Ottawa will remove more than half of federal internal trade barriers in a move to make Canada less reliant on the US, according to a senior federal government source. #Canada #cdnpoli 🍁 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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One week until election day and look what @thelocal.to just dropped—an entire issue digging into Doug Ford's track record on everything from health care to education, online gambling to the Greenbelt, by some of the best journalists in the country. thelocal.to/7-years-of-d...

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I know the world’s on fire, but we still need to handle the mess in our own backyard. Doug Ford is a disaster—bad judgment, worse policies, and seven years of screwing over Ontarians. I’ve summed up his greatest hits. Give it a read and pass it on. www.crankycartoons.com/blog/doug-fo...

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#Breaking: Gazan families sue Canada for visa application delays

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NEW: A couple days ago, Breakdown host Nate Pike announced that he was being court ordered to wipe the Alberta politics show from the web as part of a libel lawsuit from a well-connected Alberta businessman. This development should concern all journalists. open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

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As promised: www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

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That would have been last month. This month forward, ask youself: Are we willing to live without the rule of law? Ruled in fact by Russia? Arbitrary acts causing chaos and misery every day of your life? No human rights?

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Hospital as ‘climate bunker’: How one health facility is preparing for the future www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic... @wendyglauser.bsky.social 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁

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The Trudeau government is in talks with police forces across the country in an 11th-hour-effort to launch its weapons buyback program for gun owners before a potential spring election.

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Canadian teachers make just above 58% percent of what other professionals with comparable levels of training earn. Educator Amanda Perry asks: What will it take for the profession to be seen as valuable? thewalrus.ca/you-cant-solve-t...

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Venugopal and Drummond: Doug Ford has failed to fix Ontario's ER hospital crisis In 2018, Ford promised to end hallway health care. Not only has it worsened; it is now institutionalized. Dr. Raghu Venugopal and Dr. Alan Drummond ottawacitizen.com/opinion/venu... via @ottawacitizen

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🇺🇦👀 "Yesterday there were already signals that Russia is a victim. This is something new…" - Zelensky 🇺🇸 "The US gave us about $67 billion in weapons and $31 billion in programs for the budget. It definitely didn't cost $500 billion, this is not a serious conversation."

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DEAR MEDIA: STOP FRAMING THE UNIVERSITY BUDGET CRISIS AS PRIMARILY ABOUT INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS. THIS IS A CRISIS CAUSED BY PROVINCIAL FUNDING CUTS AND TUITION CAPS. calgary.citynews.ca/2025/02/18/p...

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#VoteFordOut #Ontario Your vote DOES matter! Not voting is just a vote for Ford to continue his destruction of Ontario! @maritstilesndp.bsky.social Bonnie Crombie, and Mike Shreiner need to put the people of Ontario first and cooperate to keep Ford Out! #YouCanDoThisOntario

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Struggling to follow the Ontario election? Thank Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg I wrote about how big social media platforms and their mysterious, unregulated algorithms are manipulating public discourse, suppressing voter engagement and degrading democracy for @thestar.com 👇

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I Stand with Zelenskyy!!

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I don't trust Poilievre as 🇨🇦 PM because I don't trust someone who tags incels, promotes his visit to Diagalon extremists, supports and recruits anti-vaxxers and will ban vax reqts, supports Freedom Convoy, has alt-right Euros visiting MP's, calls govt Marxists, and won't get a security clearance.

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White academics, if you REALLY want to disrupt academia and dismantle the imbalances that exist within it, start taking Black, Brown, Indigenous, queer/trans, and disabled scholars' work seriously. Fly us out for interviews. Cite us. Pay us for talks. Treat us like colleagues.

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The guy who says he’ll “put Canada first” still doesn’t have his security clearance. Party before country (or how to gaslight an entire nation)

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100% this.

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Solid Organ Research Team at BC Children's Hospital is conducting a survey. Must be 20 yrs old or older & had a solid organ transplant between 0 & 19yrs old, or be family of someone who had a transplant between 0 & 19th old. Survey link: ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Deadline: Feb.21st.

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African, Caribbean & Black (ACB) people in Canada are disproportionately affected by kidney disease. ACBcommunity & researchers is working on a webinar series to raise awareness & provide tools on kidney health & need your input! Share your thoughts in this survey by Feb 28: redcap.link/acbhealth

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CDTRP really needs to get on Bluesky. Patient Engagement Opportunity for Kidney Transplant Recipients. Researchers from McGill University are recruiting participants to explore the GETONTRAK website. Visit portal.cdtrp.ca/en/peos/41 to learn more.

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