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Don Beaton

@beatenwords.bsky.social
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"Take responsibility for the face of the world. Stand out. Believe in truth. Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Be as courageous as you can." -Timothy Snyder, "On Tyranny"

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If you force your kids to watch a live execution, you deserve to get arrested and have your children taken away from you
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The fact that he views public assets as belonging to the government is the problem. They don't belong to the government. They belong to the public. They belong to us. Not the Liberals, not Parliament, not him. Us. He's a caretaker, not an owner.
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"we should rename Mar-a-Lago something funny, make Google display that" My brother in Christ, the Ontario legislature can declare Google's workers in Ontario to be unionized and assign their collective labour rights to whichever union will be most militant, think bigger
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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It would demonstrate huge moral & intellectual shortcomings if you were NOT stressed out right now. Obviously we should take care of ourselves & each other best we can, but let's not pathologize the normal reaction to everything being fucked up. Use stress as the motivator to work for change.
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Sarah @sarahwhitehfx.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Cowardly. Just think of trying to buy food, hygiene items and even basic medication with $410. It’s inhumane and undignified, and it downloads the problem onto the overloaded social sector.
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Michelle Gamage @michellegamage.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
ICYMI: the BC Supreme Court said BC's Mental Health Act was unconstitutional when it gave authority to facility directors to make decisions about involuntary patient's treatment, regardless of if the patient consented or not. The gov has 6 months to rewrite its legislation thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...
thetyee.ca
BC’s Involuntary Care Practices Are Unconstitutional, Court Rules | The Tyee
The province is an outlier when it comes to how it has detained people for involuntary mental health treatment.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
here's a fun lil exercise for cis people: how many articles would a publication have to print calling for your extermination before you would expect people who care about you to stop giving them money? and how would you feel if their excuse for still supporting them is some fuckass crossword puzzle?
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UnpopularLesbian @unpopularlesbian.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This mega-thread is required reading for every Canadian. Do the whole thing, bookmark it, and do not ever tell me Carney is a good and decent man doing the best he can for Canada and Canadians ever again. He is not. Irrefutably, he is not.
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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Read the following is the most useful: 1. Full Thread: bsky.app/profile/trya... 2. Full Thread: bsky.app/profile/sust... 3. Why: thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... 4. www.aptnnews.ca/featured/car... 5. bsky.app/profile/rach... 6. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie... 7. www.desmog.com/2026/06/11/m...
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Carney Under the Sway of the Broligarchs | The Tyee
Build Canada’s advocates are wealthy, aggressively pro-tech and piling up wins in Ottawa. First in a series.
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John Alcorn @johnalcorn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This thread is an eye-opener. If you're Canadian, I urge you to read it. For many of us, our PM is not the person we thought he was when we elected him. 🇨🇦
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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"Because Trump" or the more euphemistic "because the world has changed" is the favourite thought-terminating cliché of Carney supporters. Offer any evidence-based criticism of any Carney policy & you will hear that these unusually dangerous times require it. But he's making us *more* vulnerable. 🧵1/
An image of deplorable Canadian prime minister Mark Carney, with disheartening but all-too-sadly-true text: 

Mark Carney isn't protecting Canada from Donald Trump. He's making us more vulnerable to Trump. His policies increasingly emulate Trump's.
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James Austin @jamestaustin.com · 27/07/2026
A text survey asking "What's going on?" with the possible answers: 
"It's annoying or not interesting"
"I'm in this photo and I don't like it"
"I think it shouldn't be on Facebook"
"It's spam" 
and the "I'm in this photo and I don't like it" option is selected.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 27/07/2026
Carbon capture, utilization and storage, or CCUS, is turning out to be a perfect example of what the social critic Jacques Ellul called the “technological bluff.” Andrew Nikiforuk explains.
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Calling Carney’s Carbon Capture Bluff | The Tyee
He pretends the technology is a serious response to the climate crisis. Here’s the reality.
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 25/07/2026
Hey that's not fair. It's also benefiting Morgan Stanley
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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
2/2 This is the epitome of much of what is wrong about our current Federal Government's approach and the direction of resources in general - and their failure to truly protect Canadian sovereignty - and it aligns perfectly with their stated plans to burn more gas: bsky.app/profile/cono... 4d ChEsS.
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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
We're financing the burning of gas... for a U.S. tech giant... to benefit U.S. owned/aligned oil and gas corporations... When we could be financing sovereign renewables. And the country is on fire. #CDNpoli #ABpoli #Wildfires #DataCentre #Carney
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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 24/07/2026
#Canada The country whose people count healthcare as their greatest accomplishment, who look down their noses at “backwards American healthcare” and who keep electing politicians who are stepping over each other to destroy healthcare entirely #cdnpoli
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Gotta find the $65B they've poured into the military somewhere ! Maybe less healthy people will flock to the armed forces?
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 16/07/2026
NEW Over two years, Out of the Cold workers and residents were secretly surveilled by police and government. As this final instalment will show, that surveillance went even farther — as plans were being hatched to have them removed. Full story: drugdatadecoded.ca/out-in-the-c...
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Out in the Cold, Part 4: Union busting
Final part of a twelve-month investigation: records reveal additional organizations party to the takeover of Out of the Cold shelters as the Nova Scotia government plays favourites with service provid...
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 16/07/2026
ELBOW’S DEEP
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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Canada to buy nearly $2-billion in armoured vehicles from U.S. defence contractor
Deal makes General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada the first company to be named a ‘strategic partner’
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
MORE DEFENCE SPENDING THAT WE'RE GIVING TO A US DEFENCE CONTRACTOR I AM LOSING MY FUCKING MINDNDNDDNDNDNDNNDNDNDDDD
Globe and Mail headline reads: Canada to buy nearly $2 billion in armoured vehicles from new 'strategic partner,' US defence contractor
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/11/n...
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Inspectors worry about food safety as feds give themselves power to override laws
The Carney government is quietly trying to let politicians override Canada's food safety laws in a move the union representing federal food and farm inspectors says could risk Canadians' health and sa...
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Don't be smug about food-borne outbreaks in the US, Canada. Carney is gutting our capacity to ensure food safety too. 🧵 www.agrunion.com/jobs-cuts-at...
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Jobs cuts at CFIA will lead to a food safety crisis in Canada  - Syndicat Agriculture Union
For Immediate Release  Ottawa, January 28, 2026 – Yesterday, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced sweeping job cuts as part of a government-wide expenditure review ordered by Mark Carn...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
In collaboration with the Munk School, I am sharing a ten-lecture course I taught at @utoronto.ca this past year. The course is called “Hitler and Stalin Today.” Watch the first lecture here: snyder.substack.com/p/new-lectur...
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Looking at the opaque, orange sky and wondering why people aren’t actively being prosecuted for poisoning us
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NDP @ndp.ca · 16/07/2026
1/ Climate change is not some far-off threat. It is here. It is happening.   And it is caused by the burning of fossil fuels that the Liberal government is pouring billions of public money into expanding.   This is the crisis we cannot afford to ignore.
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ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
there is no 'ethical' pipeline, no ethical defence firms. If the only future imperialists can imagine for this country is to mine, log, frack, & militarise these lands into oblivion in the climate crisis then maybe we shouldn't yield to the unimaginative futures colonial capitalism lay out for us
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Carney is the most regressive PM of my lifetime and more conservative than Harper. Fine, you voted Liberal to prevent Poilievre from winning. Now fight back to prevent Carney from implementing most of the same policies.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
CBC headline from two weeks ago: “Carney says Trudeau-era climate plan was ‘too expensive’ and ‘divisive’
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Jennifer Kirton @jenktn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Mark Carney is such a soggy bitch and I mean that with as much disrespect as possible.
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Carney calling Lindsey Graham a defender of democracy and freedom when the man made jokes on his official X account about taking over Canada is just the last straw of many last straws for me.
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Rick @calder12.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I honestly can't fathom what they approve of? - His attack on our personal rights and privacy? - Constantly capitulating to Trump? - Complete abandonment of environmental concerns? - Diving head first into AI? - Continued support of terrorist Israel? I mean there is so much to love right?
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Laurence Braun-Woodbury @laurenceb-w.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Here me out, only cooperatively or collectively owned newsmedia organizations over a certain size should be described as news. Large privately owned outlets should be described as "bad", and billionaire-owned orgs should be referred to exclusively as "national threats".
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just another mad 🇨🇦 Cassandra @recklesstyping.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
A must-read for all Canadians. “In 2019, journalist Sean Craig reported that “Postmedia has given a directive for all of its papers to shift to the political right, in an unprecedented, centralized fashion.” We also learn that Postmedia employees especially hate Postmedia. 😅 #cdnpoli #canadasky
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Club Announcement Spurs 🤦‍♂️ @markscrivens.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Imagine if a superpower regularly threatened to annex your country. Now imagine that your largest newspaper chain was owned by a hedge-fund that was closely aligned with the party running that superpower. That would be crazy, right?
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
"AI as the engine for fossil fuel growth" is exactly Mark Carney's strategy. He just didn't share it clearly with us. #CdnPoli www.desmog.com/2026/06/11/m...
But a top advisory body to Carney’s Liberal government has also quietly identified another policy goal that wasn’t mentioned in the hotly anticipated “AI for All” roadmap. One of the top “public policy benefits to Canada” of constructing a national network of data centres is creating new markets for Canadian natural gas producers. 

An internal Privy Council document from 2025 explained that the build-out of vast electricity-consuming data centres across the country can “provide markets for Canadian energy” and lead to “net new energy resources.”
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Sorry Buddy @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Californians, come get your boy. Demanding favours when you're bringing nothing to the table is the preserve of friends, and you lost that privilege the first time your president said 51st state and democrats did nothing.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 07/07/2026
Tamara Lich wasn’t the only one at Pete Hoekstra’s Fourth of July bash I did a head count: Over a dozen Canadian far-right activists and right-wing alternative media personalities, (including from the Juno and Rebel media outlets) got invites to the US ambassador’s official residence
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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 06/07/2026
NEW: US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra hosted over a dozen far-right activists and right-wing media personalities at his ‘Fourth of July’ party in Ottawa this weekend The US Embassy says Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich, who was convicted on criminal charges last year, was accredited as a journalist
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US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra Hosts Far-Right Activists and Right-Wing Media Personalities at ‘Fourth of July’ Party in Ottawa
US Embassy says Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich, who was convicted on criminal charges last year, was accredited as a journalist
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I think we have a new @civicsoftech.bsky.social book club for November :) In the meantime, highly recommend the Data Vampires series to “learn more about data centers and how they really work” and "hear from communities around the world where people are fighting back."
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Data Vampires - Tech Won’t Save Us
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 06/07/2026
HYPERSCALE is hitting bookstores on October 20. Preorder it now! In the book, I dig into how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point, and the incredible efforts of people pushing back against the profit-driven interests of Big Tech. Get your copy: hyperscalebook.com
Hyperscale by Paris Marx. Coming October 20, 2026.

An eye-opening account of how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point
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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
You're wasting billions in taxpayer funds, putting people at risk (see LNG too), on a dead-end project. "The [private] company has said it "shall have no at-risk development capital" at this stage, which likely means that, for the moment, it is not risking a substantial amount of money if any.' CBC
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As Mark Carney Fast-tracks Canadian LNG Projects, First Nations Face Hidden Financial Traps
Critics say new LNG ventures in British Columbia saddle Indigenous communities with debt, opaque ownership structures, and financial risk that could leave them owing billions.
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Old School Punk Librarian @kennethf62.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Just a reminder. I'm always surprised how many people aren't aware of this. #Libraries
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
We are now at the point where right-wing interests are explicitly pushing a US-style private health insurance market for medically necessary care already covered by provincial health plans Literally a US-style mixed-payer health care system #cdnpoli nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
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Allowing private health insurance for basic care could reduce wait times, expand hospital beds: report
In Denmark, the increasing use of private health insurance and private hospitals coincided with a 36.7 per cent drop in wait times.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It's so weird to me that I have no kids and nevertheless care more about the future than people who have kids and grandkids who are actually going to have to live there. How is my general concern so much stronger than their love for actual human beings who already exist? How empty are these fucks?
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Mark Carney has children who are going to have to live on the planet he's selling for parts. And there will come a point where even his descendants won't have enough wealth to outrun the damage he's doing to their world. I genuinely don't know what's wrong with him.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I'm more likely to die in a heat dome than to see any personal tangible benefits from expanding Canada's fossil fuel production. Even if I thought I'd see personal benefits, I'd still argue we shouldn't do it, because I understand that the planet and the future of our species are not mine to trash.
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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
A pipeline funded by…. you. This is a government pipeline with a mere 10% stake from private investment. And jobs? Last year 10k Albertan oil workers were laid off as production skyrocketed. Call it what it is — a handout for the dying fossil fuel industry.
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Alberta pitches new bitumen pipeline route to B.C. coast with TMX, Pembina partners
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announce a preferred route and interested parties for a new bitumen pipeline to the B.C. coast.
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