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Drew Herrema

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 02/06/2026
1/ Palantir is deeply embedded in the scariest activities of the Trump regime – enabling everything from mass deportations and lawless assassinations in international waters to ethnic cleansing, genocide, and war crimes.
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David Doel @daviddoel.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
NDP Support Spikes Up As Avi Lewis Begins To Connect youtu.be/EUcSPRABifE?...
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NDP Support Spikes Up As Avi Lewis Begins To Connect
YouTube video by The Rational National
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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I got my bread settlement cheque in the mail today! Now I can buy a loaf of bread - well, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but not too much of one considering the sky high costs of groceries these days!🥴
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 01/06/2026
businesses: we’re finding all this AI spending isn’t really paying off and we’re thinking it might be time to pull back public: it’s hard to tell what’s real anymore with all this AI slop and some of my friends are acting pretty weird mark carney: WE MUST SPEED UP AI ADOPTION FOR THE ECONOMY
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Draft federal AI strategy aims to scale up adoption, offer literacy training by 2031 | CBC News
A draft version of Canada's national AI strategy outlines a drive to scale up business adoption and provide all Canadians access to free AI literacy training, but is short on specifics regarding how t...
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 28/05/2026
Workers have fought and died for the right to strike. We will not allow this government to take us backwards.
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Rising Sine @sinerising.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Does your local tech company understand consent? > Yes! > Maybe later
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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Also the Clean Electricity Regs were effectively killed-off today. "federal climate rollbacks are already undercutting the development of Canada’s clean economy.... [&] Canada is “already falling behind” the accelerating global transition to renewable energy." www.theenergymix.com/ottawa-alber...
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Ottawa-Alberta Deal Delays Carbon Price to 2040
Postponing a $130-per-tonne industrial carbon price in Alberta from 2030 to 2040 is a massive policy concession that will undercut federal climate goals and imperil jobs in the clean economy, experts ...
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 30/04/2026
The government should be protecting our public airports, not selling them off for parts. History is littered with examples of the failures of privatization. It drives up costs for the public, quality suffers, and workers always end up paying the price.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
It's a corporate slush fund that uses public money and will be paid for by selling off public assets. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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Stop calling Canada's latest big idea a sovereign wealth fund | About That
Prime Minister Mark Carney introduced a sovereign wealth fund for Canada to bolster national projects, create jobs and grow taxpayer money — but it's not a sovereign wealth fund in the traditional sen...
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Guess where the company the Government of Canada 🇨🇦 wants to use for ID verification comes from?
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Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The Carney government voted down a motion from the NDP to ban surveillance pricing. Good to know where Mark Carney stands on this www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb...
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Can surveillance pricing be stopped? | CBC Radio
Could you be paying more than your neighbour for the same thing? BlackBerry co-founder Jim Balsillie sounds the alarm on ‘algorithmic pricing’.
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David Doel @daviddoel.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Having seen all the responses to the Liberal spring economic update makes one thing very clear: Avi Lewis and the NDP deserve to be in the opposition. Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives are a complete waste of space.
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Wendy Reid @reidmore.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Realizing Ontario has no electoral recall law really explains the behaviour of our elected officials. Really easy to ignore your constituents when there is no way for them to hold you to account between elections.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
We need a public inquiry into MPs stock market activity @avilewis.ca .
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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 23/04/2026
With gerrymandering concerns rising in Alberta, this animation shows how proportional representation solves the problem. Under our current system, lines dictate results. With a proportional system, voters get the representation they chose, regardless of how the map is drawn.
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
BREAKING: Ford Government officially votes to restrict Ontarians' █████████ and access to ███████, assures them it's for █████████ reasons, so shut the fuck up about it
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Drew Herrema @drewherrema.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The Disabled Community: "Can we get accessible apps?" Bluesky: *Makes app less accessible by adding a carousel.*
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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
A new kind of leader who leads with empathy, compassion, and ethics. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Here's the 'experiment' Avi Lewis is trying to run in Canadian politics | CBC News
This week, Lewis made the rounds on Parliament Hill for the first time since becoming NDP leader. CBC's The House gave him a tour of West Block — the home of the House of Commons — as he detailed what...
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Craig Sauvé @craigsauve.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Yes. And quickly! Canada needs a windfall tax on oil industry war profiteering - www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/15/o...
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Canada needs a windfall tax on oil industry war profiteering
Skyrocketing oil prices do not create profits out of thin air. They redistribute money away from consumers and businesses and into the pockets of oil companies.
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NDP @ndp.ca · 18/04/2026
Big corporations are using AI-powered pricing tools to look at your personal data — and rip you off. We need to stop surveillance pricing before it becomes the norm. Add your name to ban it: ndp.ca/surveillance-pricing
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Drew Herrema @drewherrema.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Looking at other options because of this and their predictive trading.
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Doug Ford vs. Socialist Groceries youtube.com/shorts/U5zV_...
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Doug Ford vs. Socialist Groceries
YouTube video by Clare Blackwood
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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 17/04/2026
Grateful to @avilewis.ca for continually raising the importance of proportional representation. Moving away from first-past-the-post is essential to ending voter cynicism. It is time for a system that empowers the many rather than concentrating power in the hands of the few.
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Drew Herrema @drewherrema.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Ford needs to be investigated for corruption. Passing law changes to avoid accountability is just more proof.
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Erika Shaker @ershaker.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
www.thetrillium.ca/insider-news... Ontario: Open for none of your business
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Ford government moves to skip public hearings on records-secrecy law changes
PCs could pass controversial freedom-of-information system changes next week
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NDP @ndp.ca · 16/04/2026
The price of everything is already too high. Corporations shouldn’t be spying on us to jack them up even more. The NDP is calling for a ban on surveillance pricing. Add your name now: ndp.ca/surveillance-pricing
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Drew Herrema @drewherrema.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
We should contact the minister of diversity, inclusion and persons with disabilities about this... oh wait, Carney removed that position from his cabinet.
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christoaivalis.bsky.social @christoaivalis.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Also: no private company is gonna send a letter from rural Yukon to rural Newfoundland for less than 2 dollars like Canada Post
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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
For decades, government has chipped away at the public service. Now you wait on hold for hours hoping to speak to someone who can help only to get disconnected. Instead of fixing this problem, this government is making it worse. 1/x
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Saeed Khan @saeedwkhan.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Yeah...how about doing the following first: 1. Housing for all 2. Health care for all 3. Human Rights for all - 4. Clean water for all 5. No Genocide for all Start with that @mark-carney.bsky.social As for serving Canadians? Let's get ALL POLITICIANS including PREMIERS serving Canadians.
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
this might be the sexiest video i've ever seen
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 16/04/2026
Today, the Liberals rejected our NDP motion to ban surveillance pricing - a dystopian practice that will drive up costs for Canadians if we allow it to take root. The NDP is the only party fighting to protect you from getting ripped off at the checkout.
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Don Davies @donvdavies.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Today I proposed banning "surveillance pricing" — a creepy practice where corporations weaponize your personal data to rip you off. Deeply disappointed the motion was rejected. Canadians are already being crushed by sky-high costs. They deserve relief, not corporate exploitation.
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Drew Herrema @drewherrema.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
For some reason, @wealthsimple.bsky.social has decided to partner with Elon Musk on x/Twitter integration. It's worrying to have Wealthsimple working Musk when he wants to create an "Everything App".
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Drew Herrema @drewherrema.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Even if it doesn't hallucinate, the biases AI will add would be dangerous.
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David Doel @daviddoel.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
"Ai For All" Declares Mark Carney. Avi Lewis Pushes Back youtu.be/95KZlMa_zIY?...
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"Ai For All" Declares Mark Carney. Avi Lewis Pushes Back
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 14/04/2026
Grocery giants just can’t help themselves. Underweight meat. Overweight profits. Canadians are sick and tired of being ripped off. A public option for groceries is overdue. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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CBC investigation finds grocers Loblaw, Sobeys overcharging for underweight meat — again | CBC News
A CBC News secret shopping investigation has — once again — uncovered how several Loblaw-owned and Sobeys-affiliated stores are overcharging for underweight meat, despite claims last year that the gro...
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Unofficial CTV News Mirror @ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
NDP pushing for ban on AI surveillance pricing as Lewis makes Parliament Hill debut
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NDP pushes for ban on AI surveillance pricing in Canada
The NDP is expected to introduce a motion Wednesday calling on the government to ban a practice known as surveillance pricing that New Democrats say is unfair to consumers.
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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
NDP Leader Avi Lewis calls on the Liberal government to ban algorithmic pricing
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David Doel @daviddoel.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The one benefit of a Liberal majority is that it’ll be easier to pin the worsening cost of living crisis on them when their full rightwing shift into public sector cuts, public-private-partnerships, and corporate handouts don’t yield results.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
With a majority comes a responsibility to govern for all Canadians. Not just rich ones. Please be responsible. And please drop Bill C22 it is ridiculous.
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Drew Herrema @drewherrema.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I'm looking forward to when @nardwuarserviette.bsky.social interviews @avilewis.ca . I hope we don't have to wait till the next election though!
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NDP @ndp.ca · 13/04/2026
Corporations have found a creepy new way to rip you off. It's called "surveillance pricing" and it's coming for all of us at the checkout if we don't stop it. Add your name and help stop retailers from price-gouging us with the help of Big Tech: ndp.ca/surveillance-pricing
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NDP @ndp.ca · 13/04/2026
📣University-Rosedale, Scarbourgh-Southwest, and Terrebonne!📣 Today is your FINAL chance to cast your vote for three incredible New Democrat candidates ready to fight for you in Ottawa. Polls are open until 8:30pm ET. Find your voting location at elections.ca Let's make every vote count ✊
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 13/04/2026
Today, the NDP is calling on the Carney government to implement a national ban on surveillance pricing - before it becomes a predatory new normal in Canadian life. Canadians are already being squeezed by the untenable cost of living. It’s time to stop the practice dead in its tracks.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 12/04/2026
the list of reasons to cancel the f-35 contract continues to grow
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Saab dangles sovereign data centre in Montreal to undercut F-35 fighter contract | CBC News
Saab is pitching a Montreal-based, sovereign data hub to secure Canada's fighter jet contract, arguing it would keep mission-critical data out of U.S. hands. The move challenges Lockheed Martin's F-35...
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Drew Herrema @drewherrema.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
A video from @techconnectify.bsky.social (Technology Connections) called "The disappearing and unappreciated art of audible alerts" It's great video about the lost art of audio design and even how it's impotent for #accessibility. youtu.be/nXdVG45wveo?...
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The disappearing and unappreciated art of audible alerts
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Drew Herrema @drewherrema.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
From the way that Carney has been acting he has been ignoring "Canadian values" or they don't mean much. If he ignores international law and can't hold big business accountable, how is he going to do it for AI?
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Saeed Khan @saeedwkhan.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Marilyn Gladu didn't become a Liberal MP. The Liberal Party became the Conservative Party. rachelgilmore.substack.com/p/harper-wou...
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Harper would 'blush': Bill C-5 has Indigenous leaders, environmentalists and a Liberal MP worried
Here's why.
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Drew Herrema @drewherrema.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
We need better run down on how this works. Many are subtracting $300m from the amount Canadians spend on groceries and wondering why it doesn't equal 30-40%. It's not the NDP's math that's off. Prices are high because of price gouged for profits. They can't do bread price-fixing with a city shop.
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