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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Kinda telling that Trudeau wants to take credit for most of the things the NDP and Jagmeet Singh fought for (dental care, child care etc) and the Liberals fought against

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Jagmeet Singh @jagmeetsingh.ca · 06/01/2025

Below is my statement on Justin Trudeau’s resignation. If you oppose callous Conservative cuts. If you oppose the rich getting richer while everyone else falls further behind. Stand with the NDP this time: ndp.ca/fightback

Graphic that reads: "Justin Trudeau has let you down, over and over.

He let you down on the cost of housing and groceries.

He let you down on fixing health care.

It doesn’t matter who leads the Liberals. They don’t deserve another chance.

Conservatives are jumping at the opportunity to take from you and give more to CEOs.

You will pay the price of Poilievre's cuts.

If you oppose callous Conservative cuts; if you oppose the rich getting richer while everyone else falls further behind – stand with the NDP this time.

You can have a government that works for you for a change."

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 07/01/2025

Facebook is a social cancer. Our governments should be targeting it with much stricter regulation to make it abide by our norms and values — or have it leave our markets entirely. The days of Mark Zuckerberg shaping discourse and controlling communication must end.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I’d argue this is because Poilievre is cosplaying as caring about the working class with all his talk about affordability and housing. The problem is that if you actually listen to him, the solution he offers is trickle down economics. But the Liberals are like “nah the economy is fine”

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Grifters going to grift. But treason is treason. We should be launching an investigation under the foreign interference act over this attempt to sell out our nation.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 08/12/2024

Alberta wants tech companies to build massive AI data centers in the province — and power them with natural gas instead of renewables so its oil and gas industry has a new market for its product.

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Home of Canada’s Oil Sands Chases $71 Billion Data Center Opportunity

The Canadian province of Alberta, home to the world’s third-largest crude reserves, is making a push to become a hub for artificial intelligence data centers and sees the potential to attract C$100 bi...

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David Coaker @davidcoaker.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Lunch time has ended, dinner time is struggling to be born. This is the time of monsters.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The 300 Whole Foods workers forming a historic union in Philly know what they're up against. They called out "the company’s thirst for profits" and said management talks about the store bringing in $1.6 million in a matter of days while workers struggle. substack.perfectunion.us/p/meet-the-w...

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Meet the Workers Who Could Organize the Only Whole Foods Union

We spoke to the Philadelphia workers who could reverse Amazon’s union-busting playbook.

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Joel Harden @joelharden.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Our campaign wouldn't be possible without all the incredible volunteers who make it work. Want to join the team? Sign up for a volunteer shift today and help us reach as many neighbours as possible before the membership sign-up deadline tonight: www.joel4mp.ca/volunteer

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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Nova Scotia - The New Democratic Party will form the Official Opposition 🟠

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Joel Harden @joelharden.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Congratulations to Catherine McKenney on becoming the next Ontario NDP candidate for Ottawa Centre. Catherine will be a strong and progressive champion for our community in Queens Park - fighting for better schools, homes you can afford and reliable transit. 🍊💪 #onpoli

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eve6 @eve6.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

People are like "there are no right wingers on blue sky" and i don't get it there are plenty of liberals on here

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David Coaker @davidcoaker.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

whoever thought running the 7 once every thirty minutes was a good idea should never be let near public service again

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Derrick Simpson @derricksimpson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The Centretown Community Association has sent a letter to Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe opposing Ottawa's transit budget. This budget will make traffic worse, force children and seniors to stay home, and is financially reckless to the billions already invested in the O-Train system.

Dear Mayor Sutcliffe,

We are writing to express our deep concern regarding the proposed 2025 transit budget. This budget risks driving Ottawa’s transit system into a "transit death spiral," where rising costs and declining service reliability will lead to lower ridership, creating a vicious cycle that is hard to break. More people will choose to drive, worsening traffic congestion, while many—especially seniors, children, and those with lower incomes—will be forced to stay home. The resulting decline in transit usage will only deepen the financial challenges of our system.

Specifically, we are concerned about the following issues:

Fare increases and cancellation of free transit days for seniors: A 120% increase in the cost of transit passes for seniors is both unfair and economically short-sighted. For seniors, many of whom live on fixed incomes, this drastic price hike will likely force them to abandon public transit altogether. This will not only leave seniors isolated, but also contribute to further declines in ridership, making the system more expensive to maintain, while also driving more cars onto our already congested roads.

Cuts to youth fare programs: Ending free transit for 11 and 12-year-olds, along with cancelling the youth transit pass, sends the wrong message to the next generation of transit riders. We should be encouraging young people to adopt transit as a way of life, not pushing them toward car dependence. This decision will result in more busy parents driving their children across town, exacerbating traffic congestion and undermining our city’s environmental goals.

The $36 million funding gap: A $36 million hole in the transit budget is a serious concern. Without adequate funding from higher levels of government, the result will be even more service reductions, poorer reliability, and higher costs for those who depend on transit. This will only drive more people into cars, further congesting our streets and undermining years of investment in…

in public transit, these cuts threaten to unravel all the progress we’ve made toward a more sustainable, efficient, and affordable transportation network.

Our requests are simple:

Reverse the fare increases for seniors and reinstate free travel days for seniors to ensure that transit remains affordable for those who rely on it the most.
Reinstate free transit for 11 and 12-year-olds and bring back the youth transit pass to help build the next generation of transit users.
Ensure that the transit budget is adequately funded and balanced, without a $36 million funding gap, to maintain and improve service reliability and avoid future cuts.
Ottawa’s transit system is at a crossroads. If we do not act now to reverse these cuts and increase funding, we risk undermining a system that so many depend on. We will only make traffic worse, alienate the most vulnerable, and undo billions of dollars in investment. We urge you to prioritize the long-term sustainability of our transit system and ensure that it remains a reliable, affordable, and efficient option for everyone in our community.

Sincerely,

Derrick Simpson Transportation Chair Centretown Community Association

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David Coaker @davidcoaker.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

the left cannot team up with liberals against the incoming wave of neo-fascism. they got us into this mess. they suck up all the oxygen in our spaces while they worsen material conditions. they enable fascism when we need a bold vision to fight it.

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David Coaker @davidcoaker.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

nodding my head at the human rights monument so people know I support it

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David Coaker @davidcoaker.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

i go out of my way to walk on sparks street to pretend i live in a walkable city

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

There’s one thing I know for sure after 33 years working in cities all over the world — there’s nothing inevitable or unchangeable about the way your city is. Your city is the result of decisions & choices. Like every city. Different decisions or choices could have been made, and STILL can be made.

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G | Builds Stuff, Goes Places 🦀 @whereisgraeme.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

We should ban panels on affordable housing until there’s something new to discuss. Every panel is titled, "AN END TO THE AFFORDABILITY CRISIS???" And the consensus is "build more housing at a lower cost" and then no one does that, no policy changes to enable that, and all we get is more panels

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James Adair📙 @jameshasaface.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Mayors calling on the Government of Ontario to use the notwithstanding clause to dismantle homeless peoples encampments is despicable. We need to build more publicly owned, social housing, not violently clear encampments. Homes, not hate, are the solution to the homelessness crisis

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 18/11/2024

a future denied to us

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Really sad this guy is glazing his YouTube channel off the back of immigrants. The housing crisis was caused from years of not building social housing, co-operative housing, or housing first solutions (it's how Canada fixed the problem in the 70's). It wasn't immigrants

Justin Trudeau promoting his personal YouTube channel "we're making a big change to immigration in Canada" where the full video includes reasons being 'corporations taking advantage of our system' and the housing crisis

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

In my opinion "Twitter" is whichever place most embodies the poster's spirit, and that's here now

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

The catastrophic 2024 election has clearly demonstrated a need for democrats to abandon the woke platitudes of Liz Cheney and useless identity politics pandering to groups like New York Times Opinion writers and instead speak to issues that run of the mill Americans care about like Medicare for All

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

A lot of people have a really strange definition of “freedom.” #CarDependency

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David Coaker @davidcoaker.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

ever since reading “Seeking Social Democracy” a little over a year ago, every new thing I learn about Ed Broadbent reaffirms how much of a singular force he was intellectually & politically for Canadian socialism. There’s no one doing it like him.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

A lot of people responsible for poor decisions are on a press tour right now because if they didn’t, people would rightfully be questioning THEIR leadership and they know it. It’s weak even by normal left-punching standards. Zero evidence more Liz Cheney would have won this. The opposite, actually.

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Marit Stiles @maritstilesndp.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Bluesky! So nice to finally be here. Look, we have a big challenge ahead of us. Early election. Defeating Ford. Forming government. It won't be easy—but don't let them tell you it can't be done. It can. If you're with me, hit the follow button and let's do this thing!

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James Adair📙 @jameshasaface.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The NDP really needs to develop our aesthetic sense, DSA and PSL in America have it for the most part nailed, and we make t-shirts that have swirly text saying “caring is cool” that don’t even say the name of the party on them.

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Broadbent Institute @broadbent.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Tomorrow! Join us in Ottawa for the 2024 Rik Davidson Studies in Political Economy Book Prize hosted by Carleton University's School of Public Policy and Administration ft. Jen Hassum, Luke Savage, Angella MacEwen and more! Info: carleton.ca/sppa/2024/th...

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David Coaker @davidcoaker.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

really hoping this app isn’t filled with “woah guys we defeated twitter!” for a week and then everyone gets bored and slowly drips back to that hellsite

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Ontario New Democratic Youth @theondy.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

LIBERAL 🗣️ TORY 🗣️ SAME 🗣️ OLD 🗣️ STORY 🗣️

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David Coaker @davidcoaker.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

need some nefarious vibes on here. not me tho. i have a sweet and gentle soul.

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James Adair📙 @jameshasaface.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Just left that hell hole ‘x’, excited to make new friends here :)

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