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@causerie.bsky.social
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Human dignity is my guiding principle. Politics, cities, a dash of wholesome. Toronto/Tkaronto is home base. Pipeline defenders not welcome.

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J. Kelly Nestruck @nestruck.bsky.social · 2h
A big corporation like Loblaws should be fined for this stuff and pay to clean it up. Drone show ads should be illegal. So should "AI-powered health assistants" imo.
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causerie @causerie.bsky.social · 3h
Couple this excellent thread with yesterday's Front Burner interview with Naomi Klein to understand the gap between Carney's rhetoric and his actions. This isn't what most people had in mind when they gave him a once-in-a-lifetime mandate to transform Canada.
cbc.ca
Naomi Klein on Carney, trade war and 'end times' | Front Burner | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen
Celebrated author Naomi Klein joins the show to talk about how Mark Carney's response to Trump's trade war echoes themes in her book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. We also discus...
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Francesca Bouaoun @francescabouaoun.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s been two years since Ontario Place West Island was destroyed for a planned private spa. Hundreds of trees were cut down - here’s a snapshot of the many species who lost habitat. 🧵
Side-by-side comparison of a landscape on the Toronto waterfront. In one scene, an island is covered in trees reflected in a still channel of water. The other image of the same place shows a barren stretch land with a pile of rubble in the centre.
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baconsauerkraut.bsky.social @baconsauerkraut.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
All credit to the original creator 👍
Map of Alberta treaties. 
Dear Alberta separatists,
Treaty 8, 1899
(not yours)
(Sorry, nope)
Treaty 10, 1906
(not yours)
Treaty 6, 1876
Allenta e
(Also, not yours)
Treaty 7, 1877
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 05/10/2026
“These for-profit facilities offering MRI and surgical services take in much more funding from the province than they pay out in value to #Ontarians,” says @alonghurst.bsky.social. “And [this does not] lead to shorter diagnostic and surgical wait times...” www.thesudburystar.com/news/private...
thesudburystar.com
Private facilities sucking up money and increasing wait times: Report
At the same time, two MRI machines at Health Sciences North are not being fully used
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is called an oil and gas subsidy. It should not be happening. Public money for public things. not private companies
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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Man who runs company who •helped• a mass shooter plan a slaying that left a Canadian town shattered says we should expect bad things.
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B.C. government suing OpenAI for alleged role in Tumbler Ridge mass shooting | CBC News
B.C. Attorney General Niki Sharma said the province is suing OpenAI for its failure to notify law enforcement of threats made on its platform, ChatGPT, before the mass shooting.
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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yesterday the cafe I work at packed up its CafeTO patio. Immediately, someone parked where the patio used to be and the spot was basically occupied all day m. It made me think of the bike lane removal thing. All those “freed up” lanes will just be parking. It won’t ease car congestion at all.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Curious
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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 03/10/2026
Another oil boom This is unhinged. There’s not going to be another oil boom, and we shouldn’t want one either This is like praying for a world war because your constituents are gunsmiths Unhinged #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Canada's ready if new West Coast pipeline prompts another oil boom, say PM, Alberta premier | CBC News
It's been a relatively quiet decade in Alberta's oilsands, but the federal and provincial governments believe a new West Coast pipeline coupled with policy shifts might help turn up the volume. Prime ...
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Civilization @greeniteration.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Seems Carney is fine with Canada being exploited for our natural resources, he just wants to diversify who the exploiters are.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For Carney's "we can't afford to tackle climate change" bs: Economist Joseph Stieglitz; "When the US was attacked during the second world war no one asked, “Can we afford to fight the war?” It was an existential matter. We could not afford not to fight it. The same goes for the climate crisis."
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The climate crisis is our third world war. It needs a bold response | Joseph Stiglitz
Critics of the Green New Deal ask if we can afford it. But we can’t afford not to: our civilisation is at stake
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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
'With electrification cutting into a road transportation market that soaks up about 45% of global oil demand, & China electrifying “significantly faster” than the rest of the world, IEEFA says oil demand growth is likely to hit zero in the next couple of years then decline—as the IEA has projected.'
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West Coast Pipeline Won’t Recoup Its $43.7B Cost as Global Oil Demand Weakens
There’s no likely need for Alberta’s proposed West Coast Pipeline, as the rise of electric vehicles and a faster global energy transition drive down future oil demand and prices at a faster rate than ...
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causerie @causerie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In which the leader of the provincial NDP crows that the direction of HIS pipeline is far superior to that of the kook in office.
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 01/10/2026
Everyday Canadians keep rolling their eyes at the NDP but after they pushed Justin Trudeau into dentalcare, my dentist gave me a free cleaning and excitedly said she could get me a discount on a crown. But then in came Carney, her claims have been repeatedly rejected and it hurts when I chew 🫤
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Carney tells us that among the criteria for a project being designated in the national interest, the major projects office considers whether the project “contributes to Canadas clean growth and climate goals.” And a BITUMEN PIPELINE PASSED THIS TEST? Then the test is bullshit.
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causerie @causerie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This was the most brazen, cynical thing he could have possibly opened his speech with. Genuinely fucked up.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So Trump told reporters in the White House today that “Canada are going to come in and say, ‘Sir, we are sorry’…” Trump is managed to do something I didn’t think was possible — guarantee that Canadians will never say “sorry.”
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causerie @causerie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A bit of good news.
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Sobeys parent Empire agrees to end property controls. Here's how it's a win for consumers | CBC News
Canada's Competition Bureau has reached an agreement with Sobey's parent company to have the grocery giant strictly limit or stop using property controls after the agency found the practice to be an...
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David Coletto @davidcoletto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The politics around bike lanes may be heated. But the broader public view on road safety is not. 86% of Ontarians say roads should be designed to be safe for everyone. And 72% say proper cycling infrastructure makes roads safer for all road users. sharetheroad.ca/news/64-of-...
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64% of Ontarians Say Municipalities, Not Queen’s Park, Should Decide on Local Bike Lanes - Share the Road Cycling Coalition
64% of Ontarians Say Municipalities, Not Queen's Park, Should Decide on Local Bike Lanes New provincial poll finds support for local decision-making in every region of Ontario,while support for safer road infrastructure for everyone who uses them remains strong TORONTO, September 23, 2026 – A new Abacus Data survey commissioned by the Share the RoadCycling
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If an internationally-wanted war criminal (whose forces have killed Americans) comes to US soil, attacks Americans (including the mayor of the largest city), and then says "Remember the beepers" in reference to a terrorist attack he committed — how can that be taken as anything other than a threat?
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Canada continues to be shameful on this issue.
Screenshot shows the man in Canada's seat looking around at the other countries leaving the room all while staying seated. The country names are a bit hard to make out, but I cross-referenced this against the seating chart that's been published.
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Ben Holt @beanjammin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
David Eby and Mark Carney are helping the richest of the rich kill the poorest of the poor for profit, and using our public money to subsidize it.
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causerie @causerie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nazi psychopath says what
Screenshot of Netanyahu at the UNGA podium with a shadow Hitler mustache
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causerie @causerie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The war criminal is butt-hurt Mamdani is more popular with American Jews than he is.
forward.com
Mamdani more popular than Netanyahu among U.S. Jews, new poll shows
The Associated Press survey found growing dissatisfaction with Israel's wartime leadership, even as the New York mayor remains divisive over his views on Israel
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causerie @causerie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"The only democracy in the middle east"
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"This doesn't look like Pickering"
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causerie @causerie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the way. And also arresting him.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Imagine if more people with money cared about saving lives
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causerie @causerie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So the best case scenario is we spend $35-$43 billion of public funds as we're gutting public services? Just give that money directly to Albertans and call it a day. This is nuts.
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
chat is this good www.axios.com/newsletters/...

1 big thing: Ø Link economy breaks
Total U.S. web traffic for top news sites
Visits to approximately 100 top sites;

Traffic to news sites is plummeting in the
U.S. as tech giants steer people away from search and toward AI.
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Birb_at_Arms @birblib.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
There are two kinds of premier in Canada: premiers who think they are the mayor of their province's largest city, and premiers who think they're the Prime Minister.
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Glonzo In Exile 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇬🇱 @glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Why is every photo of them such a jumpscare?
Posted on Katy Perry's IG"

Photo of Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry looking down at the camera underneath what looks like some sort of UFO-looking thing.
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causerie @causerie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Um, any word from the Danes and Greenlanders about the son of the president threatening a NATO ally?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
CNN: “Israel’s favorability all negative — not just with Dems, the general electorate has turned against Israel… not just a left issue, an American issue… a SIXTY-SEVEN POINT SHIFT AGAINST ISRAEL…”
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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
An emotional Premier Danielle Smith recounted historic indignities entirely within the Province's existing jurisdiction to solve. This is "The feds made us do nothing to help Albertans!" bullshit.
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Paul Adams @pauladams29.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Very normal country
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causerie @causerie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Americans who wade into Canadian politics having just heard about Pierre like six months ago are the funniest.
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causerie @causerie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
He’s so, so close to understanding things work. So close, yet so far.
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causerie @causerie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As usual the world’s poorest pay the highest price
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not.
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causerie @causerie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Appreciate all that James is saying here but I take little comfort in knowing that Trump got 49.8% of the vote the second time and not 50.01%. If half of your electorate can’t be trusted to make the right decision that’s a big problem!
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causerie @causerie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So they’re just as douchey as their American counterpart
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Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Americans missing the forest for the trees and having meltdowns in the QPs and replies over a Canadian reporter using "mandate" in the Canadian context, for a Canadian audience, is just astounding levels of proving Max's point.
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causerie @causerie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I genuinely want to know what Americans consider a “mandate.” Because if the answer is “a majority of the popular vote,” that’s not the system you have! (And neither does Canada, tbf.)
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Blain Neufeld 🇨🇦 @neufeld.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Spot on. The fact that DJT was elected *twice* shows that the US is simply not a minimally responsible country. If you repeatedly give the car keys to a drunkard, the problem is you.
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Duncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him) @duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Demand can shrink by curtailment (reduce the size of the economy) or replacement (alternative energy sources). It is now a binary choice. More wind turbines and solar panels, or more poverty.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What is this, if not an example of an apartheid system operating
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Patrickworld 🌎👋🏾🎸 @patrickworld.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The internet remains undefeated
A street scene shows a blonde woman in a blue European Union–themed top, a man wearing a Canadian-flag shirt looking backward, and a person resembling Donald Trump in an American-flag dress.
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causerie @causerie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Still no response from @juliedabrusin.bsky.social to my email about the recent climate change report they dropped on the Friday before Labour Day. She's my fucking MP. Just the worst, and sadly my neighbours keep re-electing her.
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