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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Vancouver friends! Day 3 of advance voting for the civic election is today (Saturday, 8am-8pm). I share my recommendations in the piece below. Vancouver’s historic climate leadership hangs in the balance in this municipal election sethdklein.substack.com/p/vancouvers...

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Vancouver’s historic climate leadership hangs in the balance in this municipal election

If incumbent mayor Ken Sim and his ABC party are re-elected this month, virtually everything won on climate to-date will be toast. My election advice...

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COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

You can vote TODAY at any of 59 voting locations across Vancouver. Polls are open until 8 pm. We need a high voter turnout to defeat Ken Sim and ABC. If you've already voted, tell a friend - and sign up to volunteer with COPE to get the vote out. We got this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Vancouver smashes single-day early voting turnout record with over 25K ballots cast | CBC News

Vancouver voters looking to turn in an advance ballot in the municipal election set a new record on Wednesday.

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Carol Villeneuve 🇨🇦 @cvillenet.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Nathalie Harp is a much better writer than Trump. (Low bar). She can spell and structure sentences and doesn’t overuse All Caps.

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Carol Villeneuve 🇨🇦 @cvillenet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This bullsh*t is why Canadians have no patience left for Americans who say “but I didn’t vote for him”. Fine, whatever. But what are you doing NOW to remove this treasonous, fascist, grifter from office?

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Jim Robert @mollygrub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Exactly 😤😡

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Carol Villeneuve 🇨🇦 @cvillenet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is the best piece I’ve read about the decision and the on-going public health crisis that led to it.

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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🤣🤣🤣

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Mr Pierson @mrpierson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Naheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Danielle Smith’s referendum is an evil plot to keep the separatist fire burning. On referendum day: Vote Option 1 on Question 10. Vote NO on Questions 1–9. It’s the only way to save Canada. To find referendum information and get involved with the campaign, visit savecanada.albertandp.ca.

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In 2020, members of Congress got private briefings on the pandemic and some sold stock right after. Weeks later the market crashed and the rest of us took the hit. I'll vote to ban congressional stock trading with no loopholes. Serve the public or play the market. Not both. #AngieForFlorida

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Truth 👇

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Dr. Hedy Fry @hedyfry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Nominations are open for Civil Society Organizations to be part of the Canadian Delegation to the 70th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW71), in March 2027. Let’s strengthen Canada's place as a leader on the world stage. Apply by 11:59 pm EST on October 14, 2026.

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Call for Applications: Civil Society Organization delegates to join the Canadian delegation to the 71st session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women - Canada.ca

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 26/09/2026

Over the ten years, Premier Smith claims Alberta faced a hostile federal government, oil and gas production doubled, and Ottawa poured tens of billions into energy infrastructure. The tolerance of her big lie is almost as remarkable as the lie itself. ow.ly/Fl7950ZRRaq

On the left: a photograph of Alberta’s flag, which features the provincial shield of arms, waving in front of the Alberta Legislature building in Edmonton. On the right: text that reads “Danielle Smith has turned western grievance into a national unity crisis.”

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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

SAMPLING: There is no Washington liar like Trump. The bigger the crisis, the more Trump lies. The smallest lies are the most distinguishing lies. Many Trump lies never go away. All of Trump’s numbers are suspect. The lies cause real harm. ================== www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...

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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics

Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...

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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Carney consulted investors and gave them everything they wanted

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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

To put it bluntly the Carney government is flat out lying to Canadians about the impacts and intent of C39. The are using our legitimate fear about our future to push things through that which Canadians have rejected multiple times in the past.

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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Everything Carney says he needs private equity to build and finance has been done in the past by government. Instead of taxing wealth to finance these projects he is instead selling our infrastructure to the wealthy. In the end we own nothing while paying more for it.

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Carol Villeneuve 🇨🇦 @cvillenet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And this is why even if the Dems win the mid-terms and the general, it will take decades for the US to re-establish “good neighbour” relations with Canada.

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Haida Princess (Lori) @haidaprincess.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here's a list of #MentalHealth 📞resources in 🇨🇦 #Canada Suicide Crisis Helpline 9-8-8 Crisis Services 🇨🇦 #Canada 1-833-456-4566 Kids Help Phone 1-800-668-6868 First Nations - Hope for Wellness 1‑855‑242-3310 National IRS 1-866-925-4419 LGBTQ National Hotline 1-888-843-4564

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Max @fixie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I mean, he’s essentially a Trojan horse for whatever lunatic the membership that elected KLF will immediately choose after the election. I think that’s a good point. He won’t be premier, and if people vote Con then the con membership will choose another fascist.

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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I know I've posted this many times - needs to flood the media until election day.

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Alberta Referendum Countdown @count2abreferendum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

‼️Only 3️⃣ days to apply for a mail-in ballot for the Alberta Referendum‼️ The application deadline is Friday.! Apply Here👉 specialballot.elections.ab.ca/index/8400 You can avoid the line ups & vote at home. ⚠️Elections Alberta must RECEIVE special ballots by OCT 16 - 5:00PM⚠️ #ABpoli #ABleg

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Danny McNamara: We Are Running Out Of Time

ALT: Danny McNamara: We Are Running Out Of Time

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Carney's arrogance is showing. And this whole argument is bullshit. We stopped building because big companies decided to focus on share buybacks and maximizing dividends rather than new capital investments. Justin Trudeau didn't cause that to happen. www.thestar.com/politics/mar...

He also took aim at Canada’s regulatory environment that existed before he took office, including through changes under his predecessor prime minister Justin Trudeau, arguing that there is an urgent need for change so that major “strategic infrastructure” like the St. Lawrence Seaway or trans-Canadian railroads can be constructed again.

“We used to build in Canada. We used to build big,” Carney said. “Decade after decade, year after year, we build less.”

The prime minister said that a succession of “well-meaning” restrictions on development has hampered progress in this country, which “meant that we stopped building.

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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,’ by @bethanylindsay.bsky.social theijf.org/article/otta... via theijf.org

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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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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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Green Party of Vancouver @vangreens.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Read all about Pete Fry's plan takes on Vancouver's housing challenges directly, with faster approvals, more housing choices in every neighbourhood, and building with BC wood to support forestry jobs across the province here: www.vangreens.ca/vancouver_gr... 🏡

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Vancouver Greens: Building the Housing We Need at Home

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Macklemore "every child deserves to live" Ed Sheeran "this is hurtful to a lot of people"

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Count Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In honor of Macklemore being a mensch, let's revisit Thrift Shop. Not only is this song hilarious, it has the most banging sax hook in modern history. And it captures Seattle culture in a nutshell. We are thrift store FIENDS. I wore 90% of my wardrobe from thrift stores in HS and looked amazing.

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MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS - THRIFT SHOP FEAT. WANZ (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

YouTube video by Macklemore

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Reminder: Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen in 3 months.

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Robert Zaichkowski @rzaichkowski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Per Eleanor McMahon's great article in @spacing.bsky.social, "Cyclists want to go to the same places motorists do — because they are the same people, simply choosing a different mode of travel." Something Doug Ford doesn't understand. #BikeTO #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

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Election 2026: Culture wars are warping cycling policy - Spacing Toronto

In 2014, I did something I never imagined I would do — especially after years spent as a political staffer watching campaigns from the inside. I put my name on a ballot. The invitation came from Kathl...

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"These really contentious plans will give free rein to large polluters, put nature and species at risk, limit public participation and keep Canadians in the dark about the impacts to their health and safety. It's a huge abdication of responsibility from the feds."

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Feds quietly exempt oilsands and gas power plants from environmental impact assessments

The change comes as part of a suite of amendments to Canada's impact assessment laws passed by the Carney government early Wednesday morning.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Mamdani should remove the "Trump" from Trump Tower in New York and replace it with "America." Checkmate, bozo

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Carol Villeneuve 🇨🇦 @cvillenet.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

All Canadians should have the same universal access to healthcare. It’s not a perfect system by a long shot, but we must not allow provincial governments to give preferential access based on ability to pay.

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Don Davies @donvdavies.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

As Canada burns, the federal government is expanding new fossil fuel projects that accelerate climate change. Yet the Carney government is using taxpayer dollars to mislead Canadians on their climate policy. (1/3)

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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I wrote about the PC’s stalking Bonnie Crombie — the photo story Doug Ford wants to keep under the radar. My first piece ever for @thestar.com

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Note to Doug Ford: You’re not the one being spied on

The Ontario PC Party’s surveillance of former Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie was creepy.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Welcome To Chumplandia.......

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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Legos News Network Reporting on Catering Donny, Back in his food truck again. Sound up! 🤣🤣🤣 #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Hazel B. 🇨🇦 @hab3261.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Everyday I see the disinformation out there. You CAN vote by mail/special ballot and on all 10 questions. Refer to EA website and please help tell people if they hear otherwise its wrong. Save lining up - order a mail in ballot! #abpoli

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theo @tboyblues.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

i feel like i’m going insane because my province is on fire again and every gov is dismantling climate policies and increasing fossil fuel use/development in the name of “affordability”. what is affordability when everything burns around you and you lose everything? there has to be a better way

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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Instead of spending billions & billions on hugely inefficient carbon capture, why not replace carbon-spewing fossil fuels with cheaper, clean renewables and grid-scale batteries? Simple when you think about it. #EnergyTransition www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

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The world is cooling on carbon capture. Why is Canada still barrelling ahead in the oil sands?

A growing number of carbon capture projects are being paused or cancelled. But Norway’s Northern Lights development holds valuable lessons – if only Ottawa would listen

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NDP @ndp.ca · 07/08/2026

1/ Canadians deserve a future where we are safe from wildfires, our children are able to breathe clean air, and our leaders put us first. Instead, Mark Carney is doubling down on pipelines while openly admitting that Canada's emissions will rise.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres speaking at a podium, with a quote that reads: "Every new fossil fuel project approved today makes tomorrow’s heatwaves more dangerous, and our world less secure."

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