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EllenA + Orcas

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Greed Kills Now actively working to replace Carney with Lewis, because Private Equity pals of Harper/Carney will kill every living thing here . 👊

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Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦 @kaicable.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Former soldier exposes how Canadian white supremacist group recruits members. Second Sons Canada incorporated as business, requires members to sign confidentiality contract. #cdnpoli #canada #racism www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Former soldier exposes how Canadian white supremacist group recruits members | CBC News
Second Sons Canada describes itself as a "men's nationalist club" dedicated to fitness and preserving Canada's heritage, but a former military member who attempted to join the group says he only learn...
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is better energy journalism than you'll see in most Canadian newspapers today -- and certainly anything coming out of Postmedia in Alberta. I've yet to see any of the talking heads and industry spokespeople actually confront it. energi.media/markham-on-e...
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LNG Canada Phase 2: The $33-Billion Bet on Asian Demand
LNG Canada Phase 2 is a $33-billion bet on Asian demand, Qatar recovery and a historic wave of new global LNG supply.
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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 17h
Assembly of First Nations told The Canadian Press it has identified "many red flags" in the pipeline's national interest designation and says the federal government appears to be predetermining outcomes and approving projects in advance of meaningful consultations. ca.news.yahoo.com/indigenous-c...
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Indigenous groups given just two months to consult on pipeline project designation
OTTAWA — Indigenous communities along the route for the newly announced West Coast oil pipeline were given just two months for consultations on whether the pipeline should be designated a project of n...
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Eric Doherty @ericdoherty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Imagine politicians announcing billions for better public transit to save people money and reduce fossil fuel pollution. Imagine politicians announcing billions for solar, wind, batteries, heat pumps, and transmission lines to connect it all. #bcpoli #cdnpoli
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Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦 @kaicable.bsky.social · 9h
Hey, remember when Mark Carney sucked up to Trump and said the illegal war against Iran was 'worth it'... ...AP-NORC poll: Says that even 69% of the public in the warmongering nation of the USA believes the war was not worth fighting. #neoliberal #elbowsdown #cdnpoli #canada shorturl.at/TiYiA
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Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦 @kaicable.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Some highly recommended Canadian books about fighting for and realizing a progressive Canada for all. #cdnpoli #canada #booksky #neoliberalism #liberal #conservative #ndp #green #climatediaster
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Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦 @kaicable.bsky.social · 8h
Why is the RCMP purchasing U.S. software?!? No different than Russian software. What happened to 'elbows up'? #BoycottUSA #espionage #cdnpoli #canada #vassal www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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RCMP contracted digital forensics company alleged to be secretly controlled by Russians
Oxygen Forensics allegedly presented itself as an American firm to land government contracts
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Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦 @kaicable.bsky.social · 7h
Even U.S. propaganda paper, The Edmonton Journal, admits that no private investors will pony up on the Pacific Link pipeline... ...however, their rationale is politics, not the real reason: shite ROI. #abpoli #bcpoli #cdnpoli #canada #neoliberal edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
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Lorne Gunter: Minimal private-sector dollars in Carney-Smith Pacific Link pipeline announcement
At this point there are no private investors willing to pony up a significant portion of the $35B to $44B cost of the Pacific Link pipeline.
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Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦 @kaicable.bsky.social · 7h
Fruit giant Driscoll's faces class-action lawsuit in Quebec after shipping millions of pounds of contaminated berries to Canada with non-compliant levels of chemical residues between 2022 and 2024. I think the lawsuit should be for $1 trillion. #BoycottUSA #cdnpoli #canada shorturl.at/p4LQf
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Fruit giant Driscoll's faces class-action lawsuit in Quebec | CBC News
Lawyers are asking a Quebec Superior Court judge to authorize a class-action lawsuit against American fruit giant Driscoll’s. It comes after allegations that the company had sent millions of pounds of...
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 15h
Listen to @charlieangus104.bsky.social. charlieangus.substack.com/p/national-p...
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NATIONAL POST CROSSES LINE ON THREAT AGAINST LEWIS
A recent editorial on New Democratic Party leader Avi Lewis crossed the line into an extremist hate threat. It needs to be called out.
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 8h
My colleagues and I proposed a Royal Commission in part to avoid just this situation. We need many voices, discussing and debating the best way forward, precisely because of the changes we’re facing, not just one voice. Depending on the wisdom of one (fallible) person is bad policy.
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Open letter to the next prime minister: We need a royal commission on Canada’s future
(Version française disponible ici) Sign up for A Stronger Canada for The Trump Era. A temporary newsletter with the latest Canada-U.S. analyses from Policy Options. There is no longer any room for dou...
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Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦 @kaicable.bsky.social · 2h
Neoliberalism convinced the public that accelerating capital circulation—even if that capital was flowing from a taxpayer’s pocket into a defense contractor’s coffers and back into speculative financial instruments—was identical to creating real wealth, like building universities or hospitals.
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Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦 @kaicable.bsky.social · 2h
The task of the neoliberal Intellectual Vanguard: not merely to demolish the intellectual scaffolding of the old order, but to construct a new one in which the liquidation of stored value at home was not seen as expropriation, but as progress.
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Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦 @kaicable.bsky.social · 2h
The overhead of empire—acted like a tax on the rest of the economy. Instead of investing social surplus into factories, infrastructure, and civilian industry—things that produce wealth—the state poured it into machines of destruction that return no productive value. shorturl.at/qZlEW
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The Inevitability of Collapse in the Age of Financialization Part 4
The End of the Golden Age
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Yorpyorpyorp @yorpyorpyorp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Climate measures being a giant handout to o&g to build CCS which won't fix the emissions problem, but will give o&g plenty more money and greenwash fodder.
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Yorpyorpyorp @yorpyorpyorp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You will work until you die and you will work for what we say you get paid for. Your ability to have a life inconveniences the capital class, so now you no longer get to do that. Get a few other jobs, of which you will also work for what we say you get paid for. Any questions? Shut up, get to work
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 2h
It undercuts the entire project, both from narrative and marketing perspective—and injures the egos of men who imagine themselves to be playing a key role in the most important project in history in the process.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 2h
My theory: More than critiques of circular financing, or of dubious product functionality, "stochastic parrots" undermines the foundation that the entire AI boom is built on: The story that the AI industry is building an unfathomably powerful machine god.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 2h
No two words send AI industry advocates into fits of rage more than "stochastic parrots." The question is: Why? Why do they get so worked up over this particular critical framework time and time again? I sat down with @emilymbender.bsky.social, one of the coauthors of the original paper, to discuss
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The two words the AI industry hates more than anything
I talk with computational linguist Emily M. Bender, co-author of the influential 2021 “stochastic parrots” paper, about why AI industry leaders can’t stop seething over the term.
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Qtain P. Faulkes @qtainpfaulkes.bsky.social · 2h
Cool, so we, the public are still only on the hook for 90% of it.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2h
AI threatens to destroy so much of our culture. Our greatest loss might be our ability to listen | Shirleene Robinson
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AI threatens to destroy so much of our culture. Our greatest loss might be our ability to listen | Shirleene Robinson
Australians are conversing less every year, with a recent study showing we lost an average of 338 spoken words each day between 2005 and 2019
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TinkieGurl 🇨🇦 #ForeverCanadian @tinkiegurl.bsky.social · 2h
It wouldn't be Alberta if they hid their Homo/Transphobia racist bullshit. "In between separatist talking points, the account dabbles in the conspiratorial side of the movement, posting images of Alberta workers standing up to “globohomo,” derogatory online slang for the 2SLGBTQ+ movement"
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TinkieGurl 🇨🇦 #ForeverCanadian @tinkiegurl.bsky.social · 2h
All roads lead back to Keith Wilson. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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It’s the biggest Alberta separatist account on the internet. It shares DNA with a movement leader | CBC News
The account Rise of Alberta is anonymous and drives four times as much engagement as the next most popular account.
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She Votes Illinois @shevotesil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1/ New research finds that many college students, particularly young men, arrive on campus without the knowledge or preparation they need to understand consent, communicate boundaries and help prevent sexual violence. msmagazine.com/2026/08/21/h...
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High School Sex Ed Is No Longer the Norm. That’s a Problem When Students Go to College.
Research shows college students arrive without the sex education they need to understand consent, build healthy relationships and prevent sexual violence.
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Mike Daily @mikedaily.bsky.social · 9h
It’s not that xyz pipeline or plant is going to tip the scales. It’s that as a whole, on the planet, there is deepening climate change (some natural, some man-made) So individual countries are trying to balance their economies, national security, safety nets, debt etc with this reality.
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Discordant🫍Muse @discordantmuse.northsky.social · 17h
It's not tricky. He's making bad choices that will impact us all for decades.
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🇨🇦 Novid Scotia @novidscotia.bsky.social · 13h
David Suzuki was right. It would be fully justifiable to blow it up.
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Confused Bone Gremlin @mushroomprince.bsky.social · 7h
I wish that the govt had to consult the entire country before pulling this shit. If we don't invest in green energies... China will absolutely bury us with their green energies progress. Infact... They're already leaving us all in their dust! WE HAVE THE SPACE FOR SOLAR FARMS DAMN IT.
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Confused Bone Gremlin @mushroomprince.bsky.social · 7h
Babe... These things have been circumvented before... They will do it again Remember when Harper repealed a bunch of water protections? Yeah, so the govt will just do things. And we need to stay informed so we can stop them. Like, Indigenous in BC and Alberta have been pipelines for decades.
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Cocky Quirky Canuck @barcis2.bsky.social · 3h
We'll know in 12 months when all the checks and balances are circumvented in the name of "National Priorities". Doomers or not, the direction this is going is not a good thing for Canada as a whole. And WADR why say "sorry" when clearly you've passed judgment?
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Discordant🫍Muse @discordantmuse.northsky.social · 5h
We are panicking over what we know will pan out because of what he's already shown us. We don't suffer the wilfull ignorance that hopes he won't do things he's already done, again. Every time you open your mouth/fingertips, disappointment follows. God damn.
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Confused Bone Gremlin @mushroomprince.bsky.social · 7h
Environment And I don't know if liberals know this but... We NEED the environment or we fucking die. So.. it should be protected. But noooooe when Harper was in power he took away a bunch of environmental protection on our rivers and water and then cut a ton of funding to women's shelters.
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Beatrice Werner @beatsie1.bsky.social · 18h
and sockeye salmon and other species of fish in the Salish Sea
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 19h
Huge thank you to Anna Johnston and @sethdklein.bsky.social for their help with this one! WATCH THE FULL VIDEO HERE: youtu.be/Vn048D3YrOs?...
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Canada’s first ‘national interest’ project is an oil pipeline. Bye orcas and hello climate dystopia!
YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore
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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 3h
Every day, Mamdani proves that something better is possible. That we do not have to accept what corporations and their political shills have decided we are worth. He makes doing things that we've been constantly told are impossible look easy.
“WHAT I'M 
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FOR IS THAT
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DIGNITY.”
ZOHRAN MAMDANI
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EllenA + Orcas @eamcur25.bsky.social · 2h
Sounds like a con. Makes sense, because Carney is one who hid it well enough to get elected by liberals. He is a neocon.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 3h
You will hear a lot about the violence of protestors in France but little about the violence of the police. Here the officer shoots one lone protestor in the face with a stun grenade launcher, causing him to lose most of his teeth As usual the Police are the MOST violent
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Food, Farming and Countryside Commission @ffc-commission.bsky.social · 5h
📍We’re excited to be working with leaders in Carmarthenshire to build a more resilient food & farming economy as part of our place-based work. Our work to develop The Nature Service in Wales will also support rural economies and nature recovery by connecting people with good green jobs.
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Food, Farming and Countryside Commission @ffc-commission.bsky.social · 5h
🍃 Good to hear Wales’ First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth prioritise preventative health & community wealth in his leader’s speech. 🧩 Food, farming & land are central to these ambitions. Good, local food can nourish current & future generations, ease pressure on the NHS and support rural communities.
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FED UP! @val.sheshed.rocks · 19h
When you get busted texting racist 💩 and get called out on it. Sis let his ass have it! 💥 #SheShed #Pinks
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ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 14h
It's time for the media to stop referring to these positions as "radical leftist."
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Illuminati Ganga @illuminati-ganga.bsky.social · 5h
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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World-first trial finds floating wetlands can cut greenhouse gas emissions
A floating garden of native plants in Victoria's east cuts a wastewater lagoon's emissions by about 30 per cent, with researchers now testing the approach on farm dams.
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Black Panther🍁💪🦫🇨🇦 @blackpanther25.bsky.social · 5h
The u.s.fascist regime's unprovoked war in the middle east may continue forever. Kegsbreath🥃🍾will no doubt be jacking off to this news. The war mongers in u.s are sending a third aircraft carrier to the middle east. #ForeverWar💥 #MarketManipulation📉📈 #Wrldpoli🌐 www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
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U.S. sends third aircraft carrier, thousands of troops to Mideast as Trump warns new Iran strikes
The U.S. military is dispatching roughly 9,000 troops aboard a group of ships to the Middle East, a U.S. official said Thursday. The bolstering of the American military presence comes as U.S. Presiden...
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TinkieGurl 🇨🇦 #ForeverCanadian @tinkiegurl.bsky.social · 5h
You'll be rethinking that position when one of those falling trees hits your home and it will. At least while you're lined up at the foodbank you can tell yourself that story to keep you warm.
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Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 20h
Idea. All #FirstNations chose to not consult on new Alberta BC pipeline until ALL FN drinking water advisories all across Canada are FULLY resolved and lifted Trudeau in 2015 promised they'd all be resolved by March 2021 I don't want a pipeline #bcpoli #cdnpoli #ableg bsky.app/profile/pqpo...
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🍁 Christine 🍁 @204queenb0574.bsky.social · 4h
Nenshi's statement about Avi's win made it clear he's backed by big oil. So there won't be any change in Alberta with him as premier.
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🍁 Christine 🍁 @204queenb0574.bsky.social · 5h
The NDP in BC and in MB are not the same. Wab was supportive of Avi's win and said even if there are areas they may not agree on there is more than enough that they do agree on that they can collaborate well on making life better for Manitobans. The leaders in AB and SK did something else.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 23h
This is just another gift to an oil industry already on track to make $100 billion in wartime profits this year alone. We pay, we take on the risk, and they reap the rewards.
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Stephanie Mathis, MLS(ASCP) 😷💜 @stephmu00mls.bsky.social · 5h
#SocialCatastrophe; slow motion #SocialMurder Mom remarked several months ago that her 4 cats acted like Republicans - playing with a tiny mouse instead of just getting it over with & killing it. That was a fucking *PERFECT* metaphor for 2026 Shithole USA‼️ www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
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New Census poverty report conceals the social catastrophe facing working people
Official poverty statistics expose a deepening crisis for which Democrats and Republicans bear joint responsibility.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 19h
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