Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈PIPSC_IPFPC @pipsc-ipfpc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Prenez quelques minutes pour vous exprimer 👉 ipfpc.ca/fr/envoyez-un-courriel-a-v… 011
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈PIPSC_IPFPC @pipsc-ipfpc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It just takes a few minutes to make your voice heard 👉https://pipsc.ca/email-your-mp-speak-up-about-bill-c-39/ 011
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Jehannine (J9) Austin @j9austin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Well, this is ...something: universityaffairs.ca/news/remove-... I am tired. So very tired. This is really hard work. #AcademicSky 🧪universityaffairs.caRemove EDI from research funding decisions, parliamentary committee says - University AffairsThe Standing Committee on Science and Research says ‘discriminatory’ EDI policies are ‘weakening the quality of Canadian research’. 86926
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026New from 404 Media: Meta announced Muse, its AI agent that can book restaurants for you. We've seen internal Meta messages showing Meta is actually testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers. In those tests its not AI, it's just a person www.404media.co/meta-tests-m...404media.coMeta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch." 23421176
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Angella MacEwen @angella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Today’s legislation was very carefully worded so that virtually any labour dispute could qualify if employers asked for it to - and instead of guardrails, gives the Minister broad powers to intervene. www.thestar.com/business/uni...thestar.comUnions hammer Carney government’s revamp of labour rules: ‘This bill neuters the right to strike’Unions and labour organizations across the country blasted the federal government’s new legislation overhauling labour law Monday, saying it will make strikes in federally regulated sectors all but im... 38949
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 21/09/2026The way the app works is this: -Supporters sign up and download the app -Soon, they begin receiving notifications, known in the app as "Digital Fighters Tasks" -The app auto-generates text for the supporter to post, and offers a reward in exchange for copying it on to social medianationalobserver.comToronto mayoral candidate Bradford using Israeli app that feeds supporters AI-generated commentsThe Victory App, a campaign tool built by the Israeli company LogiVote, prompted users to participate in a mission to post AI-written comments supportive of Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford. 24518
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Emma Arkell @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This "significant labour legislation" could very likely end the right to strike for thousands of workers through expanding whose work is "essential," lengthening bargaining timelines or introducing US style laws. pressprogress.ca/mark-carneys...pressprogress.caMark Carney’s Government is Rushing Through Major Changes to Canada’s Labour Laws. Unions Say Workers Should Be Alarmed.Unions are warning Carney is planning to place limits on the right to strike and deliver other items on 'Corporate Canada's wish list' 8153107
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Straight from OpenAI's Brockman and Microsoft's Nadella - 'doom loop' for the entire web [as they vacuum up and substitute the work of journalism and threaten their economic foundations]. /2 51468295
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1 4253782345
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026They killed the building, and now they are killing the institution. Senseless. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...theglobeandmail.comOntario Science Centre lays off entire science department as part of restructuringGovernment is building a new $1-billion science centre at Ontario Place 1614155
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 10/09/2026No shit! Exports are a fraction of our GDP, exports to US are a fraction of that, the tariffs apply only to a fraction of that, and only end up 'blocking' a small fraction of THAT. Our provinces have unilaterally done more damage to the university sector than Trump is doing to the Canadian economy. 112541
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Enraging. We've got a premier doing Trump's work for him, dismantling all the best things about Ontario. 34210
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 10/09/2026My latest! In this moment of potential massive change, liberals have made sure that no one will be given any room to talk about how we need to break with the logic that lead us here. Instead, they want us to do things as we have, but harder. noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-libera...noraloreto.substack.comThe liberal Hit ParadeIn a time of historical instability, the censors know who to silence 04714
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Natasha Tusikov @ntusikov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026New from me: Canadian doctors are rushing to adopt AI medical scribes, but there are serious problems with accuracy, bias, transcription error, & reliance on industry data. Many scribes aren't regulated, leaving doctors to figure out risks like privacy & bias. www.cigionline.org/articles/can...cigionline.orgCanada’s AI Strategy for Health Care Won't Work without Oversight to MatchBefore AI can deliver on its health-care promise, Canada needs to close the gap between adoption and regulation. 23728
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Andrew Young 🇨🇦 @young.me · 10/09/2026#Toronto - you can request to vote by mail for the upcoming Oct 26 municipal election here: myvote.toronto.ca/home (up until Thu Sep 24 @ 4:30pm) Other key dates: www.toronto.ca/city-governm... Valid ID: www.toronto.ca/city-governm...myvote.toronto.caWelcome - MyVoteMyVote start page. To get started, enter your address. 0189
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Fatima Syed @fatimabsyed.bsky.social · 10/09/2026After Ontario replaced the Endangered Species Act, ministry biologists were told they couldn't review developers' plans. We found that over 12 have since left, feeling their jobs "stopped feeling meaningful." Here's our latest investigation: thenarwhal.ca/bill-5-endan... #onpolithenarwhal.caInside Ontario’s endangered species office after Bill 5 | The Narwhal‘We were essentially silenced’: current and former Ministry of Environment officials say they were powerless after Doug Ford killed the Endangered Species Act 610577
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Heartbreaking. Enraging. There was a speed camera on this Toronto street until Doug Ford's government took it away. A boy was struck by a car and suffered devastating injuries. Now the family is suing the province. 23411
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 10/09/2026Your vote in this Toronto election matters. But with so many local decisions undone by Doug Ford, @alisonmotluk.bsky.social writes, it doesn’t matter as much as it should. thelocal.to/toronto-city...thelocal.toDoug Ford vs. Toronto | The LocalGood news: your community elected a councillor and even a mayor who share your vision for the city. Then the province steps in. 0127
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 10/09/2026💕 "Under the plan, the Nation says Canadian-trained clinicians will be welcomed to provide gender-affirming care, along with primary and specialist care, on reserve lands. Saddle Lake Cree Nation also says it intends to exempt those clinicians from sanctions imposed.." substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comBREAKING: First Nation defies Alberta’s Restrictions on Gender-Affirming CareSaddle Lake Cree Nation is asserting its Treaty rights in an attempt to create a safe haven for gender-affirming healthcare, directly challenging restrictions already imposed by Danielle Smith’s Alber... 320868
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026NEW: The San Francisco City Attorney has hit Meta with a cease-and-desist telling it to stop publishing ads with AI-generated child sexual abuse. The letter asks Meta why the same ads keep running. Meta says the ads didn’t run in San Francisco and they are outside the city attorney's jurisdictionwired.comSan Francisco Orders Meta to Stop ‘Allowing’ AI Child Abuse AdsThe City Attorney’s Office has asked Meta to explain how the harmful ads repeatedly ran on Facebook and Instagram. The company claims the ads are not under the city’s jurisdiction. 61836346
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Vaccine shortages and bad procurement last year have led to the world's largest outbreak of measles in Bangladesh. Nearly 200,000 cases, and over 1,000 children dead A recent vaccination drive missed 4 million children so didn't achieve herd immunity www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...aljazeera.comBangladesh measles deaths surpass 1,000 after vaccination drive falls shortBangladesh faces its worst measles outbreak, killing 1,002 children and infecting nearly 190,000 since March. 11614
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Clown car stuff. “We are at a complete standstill on ALL of our FOI requests even if they don’t include political staff records?” one senior freedom of information coordinator asked in response to the freeze." #OnPoli 02717
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Freedom of information? We filed an FOI for refused FOIs to find out what Ontario's government doesn't want you to know. ijb.utoronto.ca/news/freedom...ijb.utoronto.caFreedom of information? Here’s what Ontario’s government doesn’t want you to know - Investigative Journalism BureauWe filed an FOI for refused FOIs. Here’s what we found. 38343
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 03/09/2026It seems a bit odd to me to be advocating for banning e-scooters on our streets but also to have pushed against speed cameras operating 24/7 in school zones. www.therecord.com/opinion/colu...therecord.comIt's time to ban e-scooters in Waterloo RegionThese dangerous devices are breaking our bones and our hearts. Get rid of them, Luisa D'Amato writes 2245
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Outrageous. He's celebrating it. The role of media is to hold the powerful to account. “Thank God we don’t have the media...No answers, no questions — we’re good to go.” The comment was Ford’s last remark at an event which looked like a news conference, but without reporters in attendance" #OnPoli 45332
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 02/09/2026Familiarity may not always breed contempt, but it can result in something just as destructive: indifference. Lake Ontario helps fuel Canada’s economy, but as professor Daniel Macfarlane notes, our utilitarian view of it has obscured our duty to protect it. ow.ly/S9Yj50ZI88B 0136
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/09/2026And finally Ford’s government announced new procurement to build Highway 413, which will only increase congestion in the Toronto area. 26612
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/09/2026Second, Ford’s government has put out an RFP for companies to rip out three major bike lanes: Bloor, Yonge, University, and Queen’s Park, Queen’s Park Crescent, and Avenue Road. Bike lanes move far more people than car lanes do. -> 35712
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/09/2026Yesterday Doug Ford did three things that will make congestion around Toronto much, much worse. First, Ford has made made massive cuts to GO Train service on the Lakeshore West, Lakeshore East, Barrie and Stouffville lines. In some cases, GO Train frequency will drop from 15 trains a day to 4 -> 1015179
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Our taxpayer dollars are being spent at an American company (in the middle of a trade war) that offers better deals to folks walking in off the street than to teachers ordering through the Ontario Ministry of Education portal. Make it make sense!!! #OntEd 1113274
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The Fight For Safe Streets. Thank you to everyone who came out and everyone who shared footage of this incredible protest ride. @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social @cycletoronto.bsky.social @lanrickbennett.bsky.social 612736
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Eric Wickham @ericwickham.ca · 01/09/2026I really enjoyed yelling at how susceptible we all are to wanting to feel like someone is standing up for us, even when that person is defunding healthcare and education, centralizing power and undermining other governing bodies, failing to hit their own housing targets, and racking up scandals. 33211
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 27/08/2026All roads lead to a Ford wedding guest. The govt-chosen developer doesn't seem to meet Infrastructure Ontario's own requirement that it have "the expertise, experience & access to capital" but Ford wedding guest Chris Bratty will help with funding. Hmm. #OnPoli 🎁 www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?... 24530
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 27/08/2026NEW: News media leaning into the trade war, and Ford's response, has papered over the fact that he's aligned with Trump's agenda on the domestic front. In fact, he and the PCs were embroiled in a scandal when the talks collapsed. Spying on Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie disappeared from the headlinesreadthecatch.caUnder No Circumstances Do You Have to Hand it to Doug FordA few comments about his ass and Ford enjoys waves of positive coverage 04619
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Play it again @jaycockburn.bsky.social 'Pedal politics: How Toronto’s bike lanes became so divisive' h/t @mbonsma.bsky.social @uoftcities.bsky.social @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/art... 0239
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Erika Shaker @ershaker.bsky.social · 18/08/2026www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘So, what would a public interest data centre policy framework require? Drawing on our research into the data centre boom and its impacts, we assess the Ontario draft against four basic thresholds.’ @policyalternatives.capolicyalternatives.caOntario’s new AI data centre playbook is flawed. We can fix it. | CCPAThe playbook frames AI data centres in economic terms, without proper safeguards for the public and the environment. 011
Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈 @aspassiani.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The Ontario PC's replacement safety measure for speed cameras are clearly working 👌🏼 pedestrians are definitely safer now...thanks Dougie 🙄 000
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Jeff Gilchrist @jeffgilchrist.bsky.social · 11/08/2026*** Ontario Virus Update | Aug 11 *** Hospitalizations due to COVID have increased from 12 to 14 in the last update. Influenza hospitalizations increased from 4 to 5 and RSV decreased from 4 to 1. 🧵1/ #Ontario #Virus #COVID #Hospital #Wastewater 1136
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Jeff Gilchrist @jeffgilchrist.bsky.social · 11/08/2026While age 80+ has the highest COVID cases rates per 100k population so far this year, infants <1 have the second highest rate, almost as high as age 80+ and almost 5x higher than the next closest rate age 60-79. 7/ 142
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The Ford government caused a governance crisis in Waterloo Region by forcing Regional Council to sign NDAs over the Wilmot land assembly, and eviscerated the countryside line that had protected prime agricultural land for decades. Their "concern" for farmland affected by Alto is a complete sham. 24827
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 23/07/2026In 2021, Premier Doug Ford was personally presented with 20 recommendations to improve emergency management in northern Ontario. The auditor general later offered another 30. Little progress was made before the deadliest wildfire season on record. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-igno...thenarwhal.caFirst Nations gave Doug Ford a wildfire plan. Ontario ignored it | The NarwhalIndigenous leaders and the auditor general gave Ontario several emergency management recommendations over the years. Little progress was made 1014899
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I know I rabbit on about the Doug Ford: Doing Stuff™ brand but this is more of that. This is that comms strategy at play. His handlers lean hard into a feeling of momentum instead of his actual record, which isn't great on many fronts. #OnPoli bsky.app/profile/chri... 084
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Jörg Broschek 🇨🇦 @jbroschek.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Such an effort would be meaningful "nation-building" - for all the reasons mentioned in the article: "In fact, there should be a co-ordinated national program to maintain, and ideally increase, Canada’s postsecondary rate." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...theglobeandmail.comOpinion: It’s time to recognize higher education as a matter of national security for CanadaDecades-long efforts to turn higher education into a majority privilege also serve to bolster our physical, economic and social security 02310
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 03/07/2026The weird global backlash against not spreading disease in the workplace continues. Look for the return of policies we knew were harmful *long before* COVID: Like the requirement for doctors to be truancy deterrents with no thought to the public health impact of resp viruses in waiting rooms. 107834
Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈 @aspassiani.bsky.social · 01/07/2026There's really nothing that proves fossil fuels will result into global stability and national unity, this ignores the facts wars have been started over fossil fuels and that Canada is more united then ever because of Trump, you can use that capital for national renewable energy projects instead. 110
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/06/2026The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.nytimes.comThe Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found. 4639981573
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Alberta enacts a U.S.-style two-tier health care system By playing to corporate and surgeon greed, Alberta is undermining the entire Canada Health Act and our public system #abpoli #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...policyalternatives.caAlberta enacts a U.S.-style two-tier health care system | CCPABy playing to corporate and surgeon greed, Alberta is undermining the entire Canada Health Act and our public system. 158961
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 19/06/2026Governments are chasing AI investment, even as their publics turn against the technology and the data centers that power it. Canada’s Mark Carney has chosen a shameless approach: to cast the opposition as a lack of “literacy” as he sets out to (re)educate Canadians about the benefits of AI.disconnect.blogAI opposition isn’t the product of a lack of “literacy”The many problems with Mark Carney’s AI strategy for Canadians 34557233
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈The Sick Times @thesicktimes.org · 16/06/2026Celebrate Pride with The Sick Times! Many in-person events aren’t accessible to people with Long COVID and related diseases and disabilities, so we're hosting our own virtual variety show! Register now: luma.com/ih0oq3yw?mc_... 🏳️🌈 😷 We're excited to see you there! 38149
Reposted by Alessio Spassiani (he/him) 🏳️🌈OpenMedia @openmedia.org · 16/06/2026RELEASE: We strongly condemn the government's decision to block further debate of #BillC22 amendments. The bill is not ready to go, gov knows it, and every person in 🇨🇦's privacy will pay the cost if the House passes it and Senate does not intervene. #cdnpoli openmedia.org/press/item/g...openmedia.orgGovernment prematurely ends debate on Bill C-22 without dealing with dangerous surveillance powersOpenMedia condemns ramming through of secret-order regime days before the House rises 03027