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E Selavy

@breakinprogress.bsky.social
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Here for news, sens, ottawa politics...and b/c its not friggin twitter

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Shawn Menard @shawnmenard.bsky.social · 4h
This has been a scandal from Day 1 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Tewin development takes next steps with Taggart family at helm of Algonquins of Ontario Realty Corp. | CBC News
A new community in southeast Ottawa was sold as a unique chance for reconciliation with Algonquin people, but it turns out the Algonquin corporation partnering with Taggart Group is now led by the Tag...
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
‼️ Alberta separatists are clearly MAGA north ‼️ Same hate. Same rage. Same lies. Same ignoring of facts, science, and morality. Same lack of shame...👇 "...separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support..." www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...,
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The elephant in the room
Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 2h
Counter-proposal to Sam Altman: Go fuck yourself www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.
Graphic showing a single lane 9 m wide track for metros, a 35 m wide road for buses with four lanes, and a 175 m wide road for cars with seven lanes, making the point that one single track of Metro replaces seven lanes of car traffic. Mobility in cities is about space.
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In fairness, it was Satan that did the killing on contract.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 01/10/2026
The environmental and climate consequences of building a new oil pipeline are extreme, including the threat to endangered Southern Resident orcas.
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Who... For 7-mil aav?! Bananas.
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ya, b/c Bakunin readers will really want to send ppl to human cages.
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Cervantes Xavier 🇨🇦 @cervantesx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
HNIC will pivot to showing PWHL games. Very, very cool that a bunch of girls are going to get to live the dream of playing on HNIC. Unimaginable just a few years ago. Can we please just all agree to be cool with this? #HNIC #PWHL #Hockey dailyhive.com/vancouver/ho...
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'Hockey Night in Canada' is going to feature women's hockey instead | Daily Hive | Offside
'Hockey Night in Canada' will live on, despite the CBC not airing NHL games going forward. A new deal with the PWHL is expected.
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Do you know what really grinds my gears? When billionaire, sex criminal, genocide-defenders tell us what voices we are and aren’t allowed to hear. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Justice for Macklemore
The rapper has been dumped from Ed Sheeran's tour for saying "free Palestine." That's a disgrace.
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Nah, let him sit for a year. Then deal him when he doesn't have a full NTC.
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Waterpolo. And it's actually not even close.
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Still looking forward to the day when Carney announces historic investments in knowledge-based industries. You know, the ones where Canada is among the worst-placed in the OECD.
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
"without standard hearings"? What kind of amateur hour administrative law intern wrote this BS? I'm not gonna read after that lede but the expropriation value is being calculated on a very generous 100yr formula! I hope your intern has examined the formula and not just listened to CPC spox lines.
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Good morning. Ipsos has restricting energy exports to the US with 2:1 support; an oil & gas export tax at nearly 3:1 support. *In Alberta.* (Table 2.) www.ipsos.com/en-ca/canadi...
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Canadians Support A Robust Response To U.S. Tariffs
Canadians Support COVID-Style Program To Protect Workers
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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
BREAKING: sucks to have stuff renamed by white people, doesn’t it?
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Lol. Sure, Stacey. 'more' is not time immemorial. And don't pretend to give two poops about native ppl if u cannot tell the difference
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
He also dropped a major colonial opsie dopsie saying the name has existed for 400yrs. But most settlers colonial pundits won't even notice the irony.
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Solid win. But also so disappointing that it's not protected going further west from Preston. That hill and all the way to parkdale is awful. Terribly unsafe w THREE schools along such a short distance. Also adding a million ppl at Corso Italia. Recipe for more accidents.
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's witty except the claim of 400yrs shows the only difference between himself and trump is the wit.
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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 27/08/2026
The whole renaming thing is silly, but #Canada’s government could stop awarding contracts to any tech firm — Google as an example — that institutes the change And while we’re at it, the Canadian government should get the fuck off of Twitter too #cdnpoli
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026
The best time to have made Canada digitally sovereign would have been *before* an American president announced his intention to annex Canada and began explicitly deploying America's tech companies to attack his geopolitical adversaries. The second-best time is *now*. 52/
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
What about a league w 8 teams having 2 teams named Roughriders? Redblacks was an improvement! (And still dumb).
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Awful take. Point #3 is shameless caving to the loons.
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Hmmm.... CPC numbers r a LOT more troubling than the PPC numbers!
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Sporting a rapists' shirt is not a great sign.
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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This week the 4 biggest publicly-traded Canadian oil companies posted $13.3b after-tax profit in the 2nd quarter ($146m per DAY). Like other global oil giants, they are getting rich from the misery caused by Trump's war. My take in today's @thestar.com: thestar.com/business/opi... /2
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Are Canadian oil producers cashing in on war?
With Canadian oil majors posting blockbuster war-fuelled profits, it's time for an excess profits tax, Jim Stanford writes.
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Tzeporah Berman @tzeporah.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Canada is being asked to make a $40B bet on the past. We’re told another oil pipeline will bring national unity, economic security & prosperity. We’ve heard this before. You don’t prepare a country for the future by betting billions on the past www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: With a new oil pipeline, Canadians are being asked to make a bet on the past
With $40-billion, we could fund heat pumps and solar panels, build hospitals, tackle clean water on reserves or build the economy of the future
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The methods r important since the report is mostly being presented around the quant book cooking. As bad as the individual experiences might be, I find it odd that the report presents Zionism as though it's a movement that is somehow not currently dealing with a big racism problem. Very C- report.
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
But Neils got a point. This is a progressive primary. The votes will go strategic when the time comes, it's worthwhile having a pre-lim contest to see who the best candidate might be.
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The NCC forces ppl to cycle...must be stopped!!! Pls support Mark to stop cycling authoritarianism.
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
100%. Tho the US brand of criminology is distinctly administrative and anti intellectual.
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 24/07/2026
Watching CBC News, you might not even make the connection between this year's extreme wildfire season, and fossil fuel-induced climate change. Tara Mahoney sits down with @desmondcole.bsky.social to discuss gaps in the public broadcaster’s climate coverage. breachmedia.ca/why-is-cbcs-...
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Why is CBC’s reporting on wildfires ignoring the role of climate change? ⋆ The Breach
Tara Mahoney sits down with Desmond Cole to discuss the climate gaps in CBC’s wildfire coverage
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Two probs: 1. He polls low but PCs still poll above (or close) to 40% 2. Lots of folks won't vote for Marit because of Sarah Jama's treatment. Makes a scenario where a Libs r unelectable, Ndp are missing half their base, Ford can coast.
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Kinda nutso if the name 'Eskimos' was such a strong attachment that folks stopped going to games. That name isn't even in a grey zone. It's just racist.
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Nice try. Everyone knows developers have you in their pocket. Fix transit, Mark.
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
GoC was also the central hub for surveillance of activities during Idle No More. Fires and civil response need to be separated from police and public safety, otherwise u r actually just funding police that track fires here and there.
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
He's campaigning as Watson. Just small picnic after small picnic with zero ideas. Catastrophic if he doesn't steal all of Neil's ideas.
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Carl Meyer @meyer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It is 2006. The government wants to cut emissions with carbon capture. It is 2016. The government wants to cut emissions with carbon capture. It is 2026. The government wants to cut emissions with carbon capture. thenarwhal.ca/canada-carbo...
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Carbon capture promises by politicians span almost 20 years | The Narwhal
It’s expensive and unproven at scale. From Stephen Harper to Mark Carney, Canadian politicians have made promises on carbon capture — yet to be delivered
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Well maybe drug prohibition is a problem and not the lack of punishments. The problem with policing mid range, consensual health risks is that most ppl are unhealthy and it's a bit late to reign in once u reach full blown eugenics
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Whatever happened to political literacy?
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 20/07/2026
Trump gives us another reminder: Canada needs a warlike effort to separate from the US, to boycott their country and their products, and to strengthen relations with democratic countries instead.
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Appeasement will not work. What happened to elbow up?
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mensrea @mensie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
German broadcast. Nailed it
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 17/07/2026
Convoy leader Pat King is going to jail Ontario's court of appeal overturned King's earlier sentence, agreeing a conditional house arrest sentence was too lenient
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Convoy leader Pat King loses at appeal court, to be resentenced | CBC News
Pat King, a key figure in the 2022 convoy protests, will be re-sentenced after the Ontario Court of Appeal sided with Crown prosecutors who argued his original punishment was too lenient.
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
BS. Under your leadership, transit service has continued its decline. Fares are up. Bus schedules are mere suggestions. Trains keep failing. Ridership is dropping. More and more cars are clogging every road. Total failure.
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Fair points. But also: it's a US defence corp that takes a hefty percentage. U r basically advocating for the 60s branch plant economy. It's not unfair for GnM to point out it's US ownership
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
More time to golf w trump
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Dogwood @dogwoodbc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
How does Mark Carney's 6-step LNG grift funnel public money to Wall St billionaires? Watch our latest - youtube.com/shorts/lf3Zl...
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How Mark Carney’s LNG Grift Funnels Public Money to Wall Street Billionaires
YouTube video by Dogwood
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E Selavy @breakinprogress.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
U do great work. But you r getting pawned here by a US funded hate group that take advantage of these very situations. U r letting them in the door and legitimizing them.
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