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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Hey AB, get your vaccines... our HC system is already struggling. The waits in our EDs are astronomical, and only going to get worse. Do your part to protect yourself, your loved ones, and our overburdened HC system. I got Influenza + Covid vaccines same day...
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
CBSA officers seize over 215 kg of cocaine from two commercial trucks at Coutts - from the US into Canada www.canada.ca/en/border-se...
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CBSA officers seize over 215 kg of cocaine from two commercial trucks at Coutts - Canada.ca
Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) officers at the Coutts port of entry in southern Alberta intercepted two commercial trucks arriving from the United States and seized a combined 215.5 kg of suspec...
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is incredible, Solyt owned by Canbec distribution - Montreal #Canada is creating amazing solar panels in Canada that are used as siding but also allow for digital displays on homes or businesses. /1 thread solyt.com
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Solyt | Low-Carbon Architectural Surface Systems
Create sustainable, high-performance environments with solar facades, photovoltaic energy surfaces, digital displays, and wellness-driven architectural solutions.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 27/08/2026
When our health care gets sold off for parts, we pay more. The push to privatization is a significant factor in the cost of living crisis crushing Canadians. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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Food and shelter have driven Canada's affordability crisis. Health care isn't far behind | CBC News
Food and shelter grab headlines, but out-of-pocket health-care expenses have climbed at a nearly identical rate since 2022, Statistics Canada data shows. Economists and policy experts break down the s...
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Loblaw backtracks on dropping country-of-origin produce labels after customer backlash #Canada The grocer dropped the information from store produce signs earlier this month in most provinces www.cbc.ca/news/investi...
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Loblaw backtracks on dropping country-of-origin produce labels after customer backlash | CBC News
Loblaw has reversed course on its decision earlier this month to drop country-of-origin labeling on produce signs in its stores in most provinces, following customer backlash.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 24/08/2026
The mainstream media has treated the collapse of trade talks with Canada as a symmetrical crisis, with each side blaming the other for a needless trade war. What these accounts leave out is the fact that all of Trump’s gratuitously imposed tariffs were illegal to begin with. buff.ly/jqL1tQ4
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Canada Stands Up to Trump’s Illegal Tariffs - The American Prospect
After the U.S. increased demands over the weekend, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney rightly concluded that deals with this president are a fool’s errand.
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb
Joe Gebbia
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John Birch Society
@The_JBS • Jun 30
Your taxes are paying for an Illegal Alien with an Anchor
Baby to live in the starter home your American kids can't
afford.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
-A living wage -Guaranteed healthcare -The right to join a union -The right to vote -The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family -The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence Remember: These are the foundations of real freedom.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 26%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
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Jim Abraham @yhzweatherguy.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Flash Flood risk is increasing, threatening our safety and our property. We need to know where and when the risks are high, and what actions to take. NS has no Flash Flood Warnings, and now has not yet opted into Canada’s new 'Flood Risk Finder'. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/environment/...
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Houston government opts out of Canada’s new 'Flood Risk Finder,' depriving Nova Scotians of critical information - Halifax Examiner
The flood hazard portal allows Canadians to type in their address to find out the nature and level of flood risk to their home, or could do. But only if their province or territory opts in to the onli...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/07/2026
Black text on a white page that reads as follows:

In January, our administration inherited a $12 billion budget deficit — a fiscal crisis greater than the Great Recession. 

Today I am proud to announce that our balanced budget has cleared the final step and passed the New York City Council. 

We balanced the budget by taxing the rich and making government more efficient. We did not balance this budget on the backs of working people, and we never will. 

Every year that follows will build on these principles: Honest budgeting. Fiscal discipline. Transparent government. And an unwavering belief that working people deserve a government that delivers for them every day.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Socialism for the wealthy, feudalism for everyone else.
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 14/06/2026
A basic income program in central Iowa gave 110 people $500/mo. It caused improvements in savings, stress, and agency. It also found significant changes in scores relating to hope — the ability to create goals and feel capable of working toward them, and also increases in mattering and self-reliance
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Iowa basic income program generates an outcome not found in other states: high levels of hope
Researchers presented their findings from the Central Iowa Basic Income Pilot in Des Moines. Their study looked at how participants used monthly $500 payments, and how it affected their well-being and...
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This thing is adorable. electrek.co/2026/06/08/9...
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This $9,000 EV is about to take Mexico by storm: Meet Olinia
Mexico’s President, Claudia Sheinbaum, unveiled Olinia, the nation’s first homegrown electric vehicle. The new EV is set to go on...
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 02/06/2026
“The Canadian labour market is plagued by two interrelated and longstanding crises: declining union density and the growth of precarious, low-wage work," say University of Manitoba labour studies professor Adam King and @policyalternatives.ca researcher Niall Harney. www.hcamag.com/ca/specializ...
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Can sectoral bargaining solve Canada’s labour market challenges?
Experts say labour market 'plagued by two interrelated and longstanding crises'
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Althia Raj is doing some of the most important reporting out there right now, exposing how Carney is dismantling any semblance of Canada’s progressive values. Pharmacare, child care, now the environment… Please, pay attention. He’s eviscerating environmental laws worse than Harper. Than HARPER!!!
Screenshot of an article by Althia Raj: “Opinion | Mark Carney runs roughshod over the environment:
'It's worse than what Harper did'”Excerpt from Althia’s article reads:

“Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to make it easier to kill off endangered species, pollute waterways and risk human health, all in the name of fast-tracking private-sector development projects.
For a prime minister who dismissed progressive Liberal MPs concerns over spending on child care, health care and pharmacare during a caucus meeting this week, Friday's announcement on streamlining infrastructure project approvals is a further indication the party is moving to the right, further than anything Liberals have seen, and a giant call to action to all Canadians who care about the environment.”Excerpt from Althia’s article reads:

“"It's shocking," Anna Johnston, a staff lawyer at West Coast Environmental Law, told the Star. "This would represent by far the worst evisceration of environmental law in Canadian history, far worse than what happened under Prime Minister (Stephen) Harper's government in 2012."
"It's worse than what Harper did, I agree," said Steven Guilbeault, the Liberal MP and former environment minister. "This goes beyond what Harper proposed when he was in power, yes, that's true"
If the federal government's proposed changes go ahead, Guilbeault said it will mean "we will have no way of evaluating or understanding what are the human health and environment impacts of projects we are approving - and that the main criteria to evaluate projects moving forward, if this is adopted, is going to be economic development and nothing else will matter."
Phil Pothen, a land-use, planning, environmental and administrative lawyer at Environmental Defence, said the government's proposal would "grant any company or project the government chooses a blank cheque to just drive entire species to extinction or extirpation.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
CEO pay rose 20 times faster than worker pay in 2025, per Oxfam. Overall, global worker pay declined 12% between 2019 and 2025 — while CEO pay rose 54% during the same time. Trickle-down economics was always a sham. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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CEO pay soared in 2025, 20 times faster than workers’ pay
Analysis finds real wages fell 12% since 2019, with inequality widening in the US beyond global levels
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The world’s ten richest people — all Americans — saw their collective net worth increase by $260 billion in April. These ten people are now worth a combined $2.7 trillion. The bottom 50% of U.S. households, 66 million in total, is worth $4.3 trillion. Wondering if inequality is out of control?
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/04/2026
Feels like reality is setting in that there's been no oil getting through the strait of Hormuz for 2 months and countries are literally going to run out. Europe is on the verge of being out of jet fuel. Meanwhile, the stock market is st all time highs. None of it makes any sense.
A screenshot of a Google Finance chart for **Crude Oil Futures (NYMEX: CLW00)**.
The current price is displayed as **106.82 USD**, with a green upward arrow indicating an increase of **+45.84 (75.17%)** over the past 6 months. The timestamp reads Apr 30, 6:42 AM EDT.
The line graph visually plots this 6-month period:
 * **Y-axis:** Ranged with markers at 50, 100, and 150.
 * **X-axis:** Marked with Dec 2025, Feb 2026, and Apr 2026.
 * **Trend:** The price remains relatively stable around 60 USD from late 2025 through February 2026. In late February, the line begins a sharp, volatile upward trend, peaking just above 100, experiencing a sharp brief drop in early April, and then climbing again to end at the current point of 106.82.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/04/2026
‘Historic breakthrough’: Colombia climate talks end with hopes for fossil fuel phaseout
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‘Historic breakthrough’: Colombia climate talks end with hopes for fossil fuel phaseout
Nearly 60 countries back voluntary roadmaps to wean world off coal, oil and gas Governments have been asked to develop national “roadmaps” setting out how they will end the production and use of fossil fuels, after a landmark climate meeting involving nearly 60 countries. The voluntary plans will form the bedrock of a new initiative to wean the world off coal, oil and gas, the focus of two days of intensive talks in Colombia this week. Continue reading...
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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Ideally, the Canada Strong Fund should learn from those successes. Instead, PM Carney's references to 'asset recycling', and accelerating private infrastructure projects, make me worry this venture could be used to de-risk dubious petroleum projects & privatize public assets. /7
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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Reading this brings to mind a new meaning for the NASA acronym: Not A Science Agency 🥺
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Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
This is what some mayors *think* they’re doing.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Today's the day. America has no king. Come out and stand together in solidarity for freedom. #NoKings Find your event: www.nokings.org
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Energy fallout from Iran war signals a global wake-up call for renewable energy halifax.citynews.ca/2026/03/20/e...
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Energy fallout from Iran war signals a global wake-up call for renewable energy
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The war in Iran is exposing the world’s reliance on fragile fossil fuel routes, lending urgency to calls for hastening the shift to renewable energy. Fighting has all but halted ...
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Halifax Examiner @halifaxexaminer.ca · 20/03/2026
The whole world is going to hell Morning File by @timbousquet.bsky.social
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The whole world is going to hell - Halifax Examiner
Don't wait for the uplifting part of the essay.
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Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Apparently, the opposition parties won’t push Houston to add that one percentage point to the HST. No one asked to cut that one percentage point in the first place. Bring it back and that will help pay for those cuts.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
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Sam Austin @samaustind5.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Provincial budget fallout begins... The Province is walking away from funding for the student transit pass program. This is creating a $1.2 million dollar hole in HRM's budget and means the program where students get transit passes may not continue
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 08/02/2026
Climate change is the story of our time
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Halifax Examiner @halifaxexaminer.ca · 26/01/2026
Parliament must ban Canadian firms from doing business with ICE Morning File by @timbousquet.bsky.social
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Parliament must ban Canadian firms from doing business with ICE - Halifax Examiner
An unbridled fascist state next door will necessarily lead to the end of Canadian sovereignty.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
MAGA: “Just comply and you won’t get hurt!” ICE agent to passenger: “You f*cking move I’ll f*cking tase you! Get out of the f*cking car right now!” You can’t comply. They give conflicting orders on purpose. They did the same thing to Renee Good. No amount of compliance will stop fascists.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Fortune 500 companies that have contracts with ICE: -Amazon -AT&T -Booz Allen Hamilton -Caci -Charter Communications -Comcast -Dell -Ecolab -FedEx -General Dynamics -L3Harris -Motorola -Thermo Fisher -UPS Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)
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Halifax ReTales @halifaxretales.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Remember it’s the neurotypicals who are the weird ones
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David Tomkins 🦋 @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
This week, Professor James Hansen and colleagues published projections that the global temperature record could reach +1.7°C by 2027. And if that number lands in your gut the way it landed in mine, good. It should. #climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/two-yea...
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Two Years to 1.7°C: the “Prediction Game” We Can’t Afford to Lose
Australia’s sweltering through another early-summer heatwave, and I’m trying to decide whether to write about the weather outside my window - or the bigger climate system we’re reengineering on this p...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Thinking about shopping on Amazon for Cyber Monday? Watch this first. www.youtube.com/shorts/FaRBjqYsXRE
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Should You Boycott Amazon?
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Axios @axios.com · 09/10/2025
SCOOP: Dominion Voting, the voting machine behemoth that Trump and his allies baselessly attacked after the 2020 election, has been sold to a company run by an ex-GOP election official.
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Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official
Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reeves says rules and red tape are ‘boot on the neck’ of business
At the Mansion House dinner she calls for regulators to allow more risk to clear the way for economic growth
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Canadian military spending under Harper and Trudeau. #cdnpoli
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Some conservatives--the WSJ editorial board, for instance--seem to be deciding that Trump may not quite understand international economics. It will be interesting to see if this new skepticism extends to questioning his grasp of climate science. (Probably not). www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
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Opinion | Trump Owns the Economy Now
He can try to blame the Fed, but the tariff blunder is his alone.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Capitalism sowing the seeds of its own destruction.
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Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Welp, there goes the US defense industry.
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Melanie Wildman 🇨🇦 @melaniewildman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Ursula von der Leyen speaking the harsh truth in Denmark. We - including Canada - must prepare for war to secure our peace. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpUe...
Look at the map from the north. Showing how close Canada is geographically is to Europe.
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Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦 @jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Not Canada: "The idea of the law-abiding armed citizen—ready, vigilant, & prepared to defend against an imminent threat—is a common refrain in the gun debate.But how often does it actually happen? A new study from Rutgers Health suggests the answer is almost never" www.zmescience.com/science/news...
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Less Than 1% of Gun Owners Use Their Firearms for Self-Defense Each Year. But Many More Are Exposed to Gun Violence
The study suggests gun proliferation carries more risks than self-defense benefits.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Tesla Accused Of Gaming Canada’s EV Rebate Program After 4 Stores Claimed to Have Sold 2 Cars Per Minute Wiping Out $43M In Grants. #cdnpoli
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