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George Baker

@bakergeorget.bsky.social
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Hi. I currently work for CBC Radio in Vancouver. I was born in the Blandlands. Re-posts are not endorsements. It means I think it's noteworthy. Or newsy. Bills, Canucks, Lions, Blue Jays, Caps.

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dustin @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026
and there was no real avenue for DULF to get approved to operate legally through s. 56 of the CDSA. she finds s. 7 of the charter was violated and that declaring s. 5(2) of the CDSA is unconstitutional.
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George Baker @bakergeorget.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Whenever you have a politician on your show, ask the question that puts them on the back foot -- ask the question that they know is coming but will still hurt when you ask.
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Thomas Seal @twseal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney will be in Vancouver tomorrow to highlight "an historic investment in Canada's energy industries" 👀
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026
An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.
disconnect.blog
The media has the AI threat all wrong
Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.
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George Baker @bakergeorget.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just to catch up on AI: People using AI can: --create child porn -- learn how to create efficient killing scenarios -- make deep fake versions of real people -- hack into health systems -- seek therapy advice from chat agent that scrapes responses from reddit
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isabella mori @moritherapy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
SOGI is friggin high stakes for me. 1) I want my trans grandchildren, and all children, to be protected from bigotry 2) it's a slippery slope for all queer kids 3) it's a slippery slope for EVERYONE. First they came for the trans kids ...
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George Baker @bakergeorget.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How many own cybertrucks!?
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George Baker @bakergeorget.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I dunno if the BC Conservatives and One BC will come together at all to form a conservative block, but they do agree with scrapping SOGI 123, which is probably low stakes for voters at this point.
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Brandon Yan 甄念本 @brandonyan.com · 23/09/2026
I just want to thank @electionsbc.bsky.social for what is no doubt going to be a bonkers time
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Thomas Seal @twseal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Breaking: British Columbia Premier David Eby calls snap provincial election for October 24
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Judy Trinh @judytrinh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Seniors who were protesting Mark Carney’s Bill c39 and fast tracking of environmental reviews arrested and charged with trespassing on Parliament Hill.
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George Baker @bakergeorget.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Last weekend, conservatism was dead in BC. Today, progressive politics is on the ropes! Tomorrow, an election shall be called.
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Bethany Lindsay @bethanylindsay.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My plan was to tally how many "crisis pregnancy centres" had lost charity status or beefed up disclosure of their anti-abortion stances since tighter restrictions were announced in 2024. Instead I discovered the Liberals had quietly abandoned this promise. theijf.org/article/otta...
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Ottawa promised to crack down on anti-abortion ‘crisis pregnancy centres.’ Carney’s Liberals have abandoned that goal
Abortion rights activist who lobbied for changes says surprise news is ‘such a shame’
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George Baker @bakergeorget.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am back on Blue Sky after taking a break. Here is what I learned:
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George Baker @bakergeorget.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Been thinking a lot about leaving Blue Sky. I am drawing attention to myself, but to be clear it is not my poor engagement metrics that makes me want to leave (tho it doesn't help me want to stay either).
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Bethany Lindsay @bethanylindsay.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Our newest reporter, Sav Jonsa, explored how the problems with overcrowding, unsafe drinking water and inadequate sewage systems that drove Hep A epidemics in residential schools continue to cause outbreaks in First Nations today.
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George Baker @bakergeorget.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Just read. Read this. Also a book. By Abdulrazak Gurnah. Also, some men have also never read. We used to call them idiots. Pass that along.
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Denis Agar (he/him) @denisagar.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yesterday I went on a tour of Senakw! Here are some units and a thread with some info.
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George Baker @bakergeorget.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I will never accept the small mics. THEY LOOK DUMB. Don't care why they are there. They look really bad.
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George Baker @bakergeorget.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I don't even get why the Raptors would even want Kwahi at this point.
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George Baker @bakergeorget.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
cbc.ca
Vancouver area home sales dropped nearly 10% last month, 18.6% below seasonal average | CBC News
There were 4,991 new listings on the Vancouver-area market last month, down 11.5 per cent year-over-year but matching the 10-year average.
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CHEK News @cheknews.ca · 06/08/2026
Canadian patrols in the Pacific Ocean led to the discovery of potential violations including shark-finning and illegal killing of dolphins. cheknews.ca/canadian-patrols-of-pac…
cheknews.ca
Canadian patrols of Pacific Ocean uncovers potential shark-finning, illegal dolphin killing violations
Canadian patrols in the Pacific Ocean led to the discovery of potential violations including shark-finning and illegal killing of dolphins.
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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Gotta say, these suggestions that Eby has been MIA on the wildfire situation are pretty dumb 💁‍♀️
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George Baker @bakergeorget.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Drought conditions in rainy places Example 1:
cbc.ca
Britain's 'exceptionally serious' drought tests a country famous for its rain | CBC News
Half of England and all of Wales are officially in drought after what the United Kingdom's Environment Agency described last week as an "exceptionally serious" dry spell. In July, England received jus...
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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Great overview of data centers' water use. Data centers using thermal power (fossils, nukes) have 30X the water consumption than those using renewables. These thermal power plants typically get priority over residential and ag uses during times of water stress.
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George Baker @bakergeorget.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
cbc.ca
UN investigators urge Canada to step up protection for threatened Sikh activist | CBC News
Five UN rapporteurs have written to the government of Canada calling on it to do more to protect Sikh activist Moninder Singh, who has received four "duty to warn" letters for his activism in favour o...
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IGN @ign.com · 06/08/2026
Marvel Studios has tapped Kit Connor to play Scott Summers, AKA Cyclops, in its upcoming X-Men movie helmed by Thunderbolts director Jake Schreier and also starring Samara Weaving as Emma Frost. bit.ly/4ghoBxy
Marvel Studios' X-Men Movie Casts Kit Connor as Cyclops
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George Baker @bakergeorget.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
“Mother Nature’s been burning. Now she’s on amphetamines and she burns more and more,” said Thompson Rivers University fire scientist Mike Flannigan, a Canadian expert who wasn’t part of the study. Guy is saying the Earth is on speed.
apnews.com
Climate change created conditions for Canada fires, scientists say, as Trump blames mismanagement
A new study calculates that human-caused climate change doubled the likelihood of the tinderbox weather conditions that sparked Canada’s massive summer wildfires.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
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George Baker @bakergeorget.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
BC Gov put out a press release today about consumer protection. They quoted a consumer who buys her gum online.
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Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 06/08/2026
Large white supremacist meeting shakes residents of Alberta town www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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'Shell-shocked': Residents of Alberta town shaken by large white supremacist training meetup | CBC News
Second Sons Canada, this country’s predominant white nationalist group, gathered this summer for their annual "nationals" event in a small Alberta town, a CBC News visual investigation has found.
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George Baker @bakergeorget.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Amazing world we are building. Really doing something for the kids here.
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Tarnjit Parmar @tarnjitparmar.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Very much a developing situation right now but a wildfire is burning in Belcarra. It's about 0.8 hectares in size. Ground and aviation personnel are responding.
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Patrick Johnston 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @risingaction.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
It's August. It's smoky. Somehow the sports news DOESN'T STOP (Here I try to take you under the hood of why Arthur Griffiths has been connected to the Whitecaps and where this could be going.) theprovince.com/sports/socce...
theprovince.com
Arthur Griffiths as Whitecaps owner? Maybe
The long-ago Canucks owner seems to be trying to cobble together a consortium.
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CHEK News @cheknews.ca · 06/08/2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday he no longer has confidence in FIFA President Gianni Infantino, adding to growing pressure on the soccer leader after his abandoned plan to sell stakes in the World Cup sparked a global…
cheknews.ca
Prime Minister Carney says he has no confidence in FIFA president Infantino
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday he no longer has confidence in FIFA President Gianni Infantino.
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George Baker @bakergeorget.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
What is it that Ross Douthat thinks is so radical about the Democrats?
nytimes.com
Opinion | Can Trump Wriggle Out One Last Time?
Iran. The midterms. Can Trump wriggle out one last time?
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY ANNOUNCED A C$2.7 BILLION, THREE-YEAR HOUSING PLAN TO DELIVER MORE THAN 5,600 RENTAL HOMES ACROSS TORONTO.
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George Baker @bakergeorget.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
MAGA is dying. The masks are coming off. And the rubes are going to be even angrier than ever that they were being played.
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Tradwife Illusion Meets the Anti-Trump Reality
Nara Smith’s illusion meets the anti-Trump reality.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
You can follow along on my 17,000 km journey around Canada with my dog Berton through the photos we take. Today, we visited the Rusty Relics Museum in Carlyle, Saskatchewan 👇 craig-baird.travelmap.net
craig-baird.travelmap.net
Stories Across Canada - Craig
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George Baker @bakergeorget.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Given how we treat our ocean, I don't have faith we will treat space any better.
cbc.ca
It looks like a SpaceX rocket did slam into the moon (as predicted) | CBC News
A SpaceX rocket that launched a pair of lunar landers slammed into the moon as predicted on Wednesday, scientists reported, after drifting off course for the past year.
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Frank Winters @frankjwinters.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Vancouver, BC September 2025. #Vancouver #BC #bw #black+white #monochrome #urban #street #leicaxvario
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George Baker @bakergeorget.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It's not a war to disagree. I am unclear how separatists are a victim at all. Their argument is "I want to tear apart this country" which has, historically, caused great emotions in humans. But no one is shooting separatists. No one is imprisoning separatists. Where is the war?
thewalrus.ca
The War on Alberta Separatists Is a War on Democracy | The Walrus
We celebrate popular rule until someone calls a referendum we don’t like
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
An excellent profile of one of our foremost artists:
newyorker.com
Colson Whitehead’s Big Score
As he closes out his Harlem crime trilogy with “Cool Machine,” the two-time Pulitzer winner turns again to the city that made him, and to the private ghosts behind his restless reinventions.
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Rumneek Johal @rumneeek.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Contrary to popular belief, though we may be going through a tough time, a restructuring, and a little bit of a financial ~storm~ @pressprogress.ca is not dying. We have a lot of fight left in us, and a desire to keep building something good.
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George Baker @bakergeorget.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
No new normal!
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Oli Josephson 🇨🇦 @d2earth.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
In the Okanagan this winter season, the avg temp was 3.8c above normal, we got 25% of our usual precip & our snowpack was a historic low of 52% of norm & yr 4 of drought The super El Nino is coming faster & harder than expected. Climate crisis is real We are evacuated, these pics show scale
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SEAN ORR @seanorr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Remember as your eyes burn from the smoke today, Ken Sim and ABC voted to allow fracked gas in new builds, cancelled $8 million in climate retrofit grants; voted against funding for cooling kits for people in the Downtown Eastside; and got rid of the climate justice charter.
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Tarnjit Parmar @tarnjitparmar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Can't see the mountains today. Def feeling all this smoke now, feel like death.
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George Baker @bakergeorget.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Click-bait headline. An American man moves to Canada, then moves back to the States -- to Oklahoma of all places -- because he says the States, under Donald Trump, is safer for Jews than Canada. He is backed by an American Conservative think-tank.
ctvnews.ca
Calls emerge for U.S. refugee status as group helps Jewish families flee Canada
A former Ontario man and a Conservative U.S. think tank are encouraging the Trump administration to offer refugee status to Jewish Canadians who feel threatened by rising antisemitism here.
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Trending Finance @trending-finance.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Wallace’s wallet favors Warner-Paramount merger. #econsky
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