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@el-coco-barroco.bsky.social
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Writer, miniature panther tamer, healthcare defender. May we one day establish a Co-operative Commonwealth in Canada

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Phil Dinn @phildinn.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
It's anti-concentration of wealth. Which is pretty cool.
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Patrick Truchon 🇨🇦 @patricktruchon.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
And all this is not anti-business. It's one way to bring back competition and break up monopolies.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 10/06/2026
When the system is rigged for the rich while the 99% struggle to afford the basics, public ownership is how we take back the economy.
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NDP @ndp.ca · 06/05/2026
Friends in Saskatchewan, mark your calendars! @avilewis.ca is coming to your province to meet with local organizers and community members. It's going to be a packed week with Days of Action, meet-and-greets, and special guests. RSVP now to join an event near you: ndp.ca/events
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 06/05/2026
Saskatchewan was the home of Canada’s first democratic socialist government, led by the great Tommy Douglas. It was the first province to achieve public healthcare, and the catalyst for our universal system that Canadians hold dear. I'm excited to kick off our Saskatchewan tour next week. Join us!
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Whether it’s Carney in Ottawa or Danielle Smith in Alberta, anti-worker politicians are embracing authoritarianism instead of addressing the every day struggles of workers. Through my #BillC247, we’re going to give power back to workers and uphold the right to strike.
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Through the Liberals’ repeated use of Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code, they are violating the Charter-protected right to strike and attacking workers’ ability to fight for a liveable wage.
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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
They love DEAD socialists. They never ask awkward questions.
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David Doel @daviddoel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Seeing the universal and well-earned outpouring of love for Stephen Lewis from media and political figures to the outright smearing of his son NDP leader Avi Lewis, who is carrying on the same fight for human rights and climate as his father, is a little jarring.
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shuilian.bsky.social @shuilian.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Holy shit, Bruce. You had me at "I'm going to defeat PP in his home riding". That was enough. But now you're going to actually follow your conscience & promote sensible policies that help Canadians? I'm just having a lot of feelings right now...
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 09/02/2026
Liberal MP Bruce Fanjoy from the Ottawa-area riding or Carleton is breaking ranks with the Carney government on its Return to Office policy for public servants: “There is little to no evidence that a one-size-fits-all RTO policy will improve productivity or service to Canadians”
Bruce Fanjoy:

Statement Regarding the Return to Office Policy
February 9*, 2026
On February 5th, 2026, the federal government announced an updated Return-to-Office
(RTO) policy for federal public servants. Today, I am calling upon the government to reconsider this policy for the following reasons:
1. The new RTO policy makes it harder to achieve the government's priorities of reducing the operating cost of government, improving affordability, and respecting the environment. Instead, it will cost both the government and citizens more and increase pollution.
2. There is little to no evidence that a one-size-fits-all RTO policy will improve productivity or service to Canadians.
3. The RTO policy makes it harder for public servants to balance work with other responsibilities.
I believe Canada is better served by a hybrid model that balances a mix of in-office and remote work. The right balance is flexible and depends on circumstances. Done well, a hybrid model reduces the cost of government and benefits workers and all Canadians.
To my constituents in Carleton, I hear you. I will continue to press for solutions that work for you and all Canadians.
Sincerely,
Bruce Fanjoy
Member of Parliament for Carleton
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 29/01/2026
Heartbreaking and enraging. Either the federal government steps up with an actual systemic solution – including public or worker ownership – or we’ll be reading these headlines and watching communities gutted for years to come. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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GM Canada layoffs hit Oshawa plant, putting up to 1,200 autoworkers out of work Friday | CBC News
The day Oshawa, Ont., autoworkers have dreaded for months has arrived, as GM Canada is poised to cut a shift at the city’s plant, costing over a thousand workers their jobs.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 29/01/2026
Today and every day, I stand in solidarity with Muslim communities against hatred and discrimination. Our fates are intertwined – and our unity only makes us stronger.
Today, I’m pausing in sadness and solemn reflection to mourn the six worshippers who were killed in an act of Islamophobic terror at the Islamic Cultural Centre in Quebec City nine years ago. 

My thoughts are with family members who lost loved ones, and with all those whose lives were forever changed by that horrific act of violence – including Aymen Derbali, who was paralyzed for life after attempting to stop the gunman.

This anniversary is a stark reminder of the deadly consequences of hate, and of the work that remains to be done in Canada to eradicate Islamophobia, racism, and anti-immigrant hatred.

At a time when racism and fearmongering is on the rise in the country, we must do far more to confront the forces that divide us. That includes working side by side with Muslim communities to protect their safety, security and wellbeing; strengthening education and public awareness about Islamophobia; enhancing support for victims of hate crimes; and taking real action to hold social media companies accountable for the spread of racist hate online.

Today and every day, I stand in solidarity with Muslim communities against hatred and discrimination. Our fates are intertwined – and our unity only makes us stronger.
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Thomas Jefferson was 44 when he began what many in 2025 STILL consider a romantic tryst or loving affair with Sally Hemings. Ms. Hemings had no legal capacity to consent to such a relationship not only because she was enslaved, Jefferson's property, BUT ALSO BECAUSE SHE WAS 14-YEARS-OLD. /1
Portrait of Thomas Jefferson
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Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Well deserved. Albanese should get this: Two NDP MPs plan to nominate Francesca Albanese for Nobel Peace Prize archive.ph/2025.07.16-1...
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Joan Skelton - Nasty, EU Associate-in-Waiting @jskel70.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Our markets are open to the tune of purchasing $349 billion in goods from the U.S. in 2024. That's $8,400 per capita based on our population of 41.5 million. We exported close to $413 billion in goods to the U.S. That's a per capita rate of roughly $1,180 per American. Proportionately, we buy more!
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Kathryn Hill ca @kchill.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I'm not sure why they think a country with a 10th of the US population will somehow save their country from their bad business decisions.
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Dianne is a Nasty Canadian and Proud of It. @dianneathome.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I prefer my butter without added faeces, thanks.
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Aggie 🇨🇦 Part owner of Canada @aggief.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Nutlick can go to hell! Canadians are not interested in US products of any kind. We don’t take orders from the US. How’s that message about the US not needing anything from Canada 🇨🇦 working out for you Nutlick?
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🇨🇦 👊🇨🇦 @sorry-iamcanadian.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
When I lived in the US, I could not stand the taste of their milk or butter. Bland and watery would be a good way to describe it. I don’t know a Canadian alive that would buy that crap over our own even if you didn’t despise the Trump regime.
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Don Hoskins | 🍁 Future EU Associate 🍁 @djbhoskins.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was on Face The Nation spouting off about Canada needing to "open our markets"... The sheer arrogant ignorance of assuming that Canadians would buy US crap if only markets were "open"... Howard, the cow will die long before I'll buy that butter... 🤣 😎🍁✊
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🇨🇦🍁True Canadian 🍁🇨🇦 @canadian-capt.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Howard Nutlick reminds me of that creepy old man with the get rich quick scheme
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💢Marx Was Right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
If you listen to zionists they’ll have you believing that being against ethnic cleansing, killing kids and g-siding for land “is terrorism.”
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
For the Epsteinth time, an 'underage woman' is called a CHILD. Thanks for coming to my Pred Talk.
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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Indigenous communities face higher death rates from fires and lack of data leaves them vulnerable, says group | CBC News
A report highlights the need for more data from on-reserve house fires, and the data confirms what some already knew — Indigenous communities face higher rates of death from fires.
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Heatherdb 🇨🇦🇨🇦💪🏻💪🏻 @heatherdb.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
security clearance. This was a big deal to Canadians during the last election, and he has done nothing to get his clearance so it isn't still a sore spot for Canadians. Dear friends in Battle River-Crowfoot, he just wants your vote. And then he's gone. He will go back to being paid to disrupt ...
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Heatherdb 🇨🇦🇨🇦💪🏻💪🏻 @heatherdb.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
independent candidate. If voting for any other party gives you sleepless nights, how about voting for an independent who knows you, your community, your values, your goals as Albertans, and will represent you well in Ottawa. Poilievre won't. He'll be gone as soon as the election is over.
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Heatherdb 🇨🇦🇨🇦💪🏻💪🏻 @heatherdb.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
and cause chaos every single day in our House of Commons. He doesn't work for Canadians. He didn't work for Carleton. He won't work for #BattleRiver-Crowfoot. Can he even name a single street in your town? Does he know any of you by name? You know who does? @bonniecritchley.bsky.social and she' an..
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Canadian Loyalist 🇨🇦 @shakespearesgal.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
What has to happen to make this guy accountable? #cdnpoli
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hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
🤣 'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking' | PC Gamer share.google/yjMRYXvLJCP0...
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'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking'
'You told me to always ask permission. And I ignored all of it.'
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Luke Fevin @according2luke.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
WTF America?
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Kitchener non-profit to head 'deeply affordable' housing project in #Guelph #Ontario Rent expected to be around $500 a month, Thresholds Homes and Supports CEO says www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Kitchener non-profit to head 'deeply affordable' housing project in Guelph | CBC News
Kitchener non-profit Thresholds Homes and Supports will be heading a 'deeply affordable' housing project for seniors in Guelph. The city is contributing about half an acre of city-owned land, and up t...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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Donald Canuck 🇨🇦 @donmccabe.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
JJ’s brand of Christianity - American Jesus Inc. - isn’t Christian. It’s fascism wrapped in the Bible. #cdnpoli
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Kristi Noem lied about this multiple times in press conferences & TV appearances. This confirms the 3 day delay was solely caused by her. It’s an absurdity that the person who leaves govt is this man & not her stupid, incompetent cosplaying ass traveling with her (alleged) lover.
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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Netanyahu doesn’t want a ceasefire He doesn’t want to go to court He’s a criminal in many respects at least one of which would wind him up in jail This is why he’s murdering more and more people Oh, and there’s gas just off the shore
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 21/07/2025
When ICE agents questioned a group of 11- to 14-year-olds who’d just finished batting practice, their coach, Youman Wilder, stepped in. “I’m willing to die to make sure these kids can get home,” he recounted afterward.
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ICE Agents Invade a Manhattan Little League Field
Youman Wilder has coached local kids for twenty-one years—including four who have gone pro. When masked agents tried to interrogate his players, he told them, “You don’t have more rights than they do....
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Those US senators meeting with Carney were wearing friendship bracelets. Wow. I guess that's going to turn the whole trade war around. More Americans continuing to extremely not get it. #PnPCBC
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
one thing the British are really beating our asses on is having little grocery stores—not bodegas, not corner stores, but actual grocery stores with fresh produce, meat/proteins, cheap healthy meals, essential ingredients, etc—all over the place
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
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🇨🇦 👊🇨🇦 @sorry-iamcanadian.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Looking to make the move to Canada? Canada is looking for specific skilled people, especially in healthcare. Should you meet the criteria then you can apply for Express Entry Canada. 👇 #Canada #USA #Medical
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Express Entry Canada: How To Apply To Express Entry in 2021
Everything you need to know on Express Entry, Canada's most popular immigration program. Read our Express Entry guide to begin your immigration in Canada.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
For people who have the attitude that Palestine is far away and not their problem, that cruelty that exists in our lawmakers is not locationally specific. That cruelty is in them and it will be felt by Canadians, sooner than later.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
In #Windsor, the city with #Canada's highest unemployment, one local auto shop is desperately searching for licensed automotive technicians to help him keep up with demand. And he isn't alone —across the province there are 2,500 vacancies. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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In Canada's automotive capital, this auto shop can't find enough technicians
In Windsor, the city with Canada's highest unemployment, one local auto shop is desperately searching for licensed automotive technicians to help him keep up with demand. And he isn't alone —across th...
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Chris Glover @chrisgloverndp.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Ford is seizing control of school board trustees’ means of communication with the people who elected them. This is an egregious attack on our democracy. Tell Ford to fund our schools. Sign the petition at: www.chrisglovermpp.ca/petitions #ONpoli #OntEd
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 22/07/2025
so cool how starlink justifies a pullback in public internet subsidies and buildout
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David Macdonald @davidmaccdn.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
There is much more in the full analysis including cuts to new Canadians integration, biz sectoral and regional supports. Read it all here: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 8/x
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Where will the federal government cut to pay for military spending and tax cuts? - CCPA
Supports to First Nations, veterans, new Canadians, and international aid could be on the chopping block—just for starters
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David Macdonald @davidmaccdn.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Oddly these are Trump's priorities for Canada. Defence, RCMP and Border services are whitelisted, needing few if any cuts. But what should be our priorities: Indigenous reconciliation, Vets, Science and our standing in the world --- are cut to the bone. 7/x
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David Macdonald @davidmaccdn.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Research grants to universities & colleges as well as graduate scholarships face $764 million in cuts to pay for tax cuts and miliary spending. The Tri-council agencies providing those funds just won an increase in the last budget, but that will be completely undercut now. 6/x
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David Macdonald @davidmaccdn.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Shockingly Veterans supports will be hard hit as well. Just under a Bil a year is on the block including disability benefits and Vets health care. A cruel irony that active military see a raises paid for by Vets facing cuts. 4/x www.datawrapper.de/_/UCief/
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Figure 6: Transfers from Department of Veterans Affairs compared to cuts needed | Created with Datawrapper
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David Macdonald @davidmaccdn.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Indigenous services will be hit hard. A stunning $4.5 bil in cuts, 1 of 5 dollars in cuts is just reduced transfers to First Nations to provide police, ed and health care. Gutting Indigenous social programs is not an "ambitions" way to find "savings". 3/x www.datawrapper.de/_/pZ6Zq/
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Figure 2: Transfers from Department of Indigenous Services compared to cuts needed | Created with Datawrapper
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