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enorconhcet

@enorconhcet.bsky.social
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Same handle on Twitter. Retired academic. Socialist. Interested in education issues, Canadian politics, the environment, science fiction. No DMs.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 03/10/2026
UBI is a floor. It's a dividend. It's not about replacing jobs. It's about making sure everyone has a non-zero floor to stand on and never fall beneath, and it makes sure that everyone benefits from productivity growth. And it is about enabling everyone to *choose* what they work on, paid or not.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 03/10/2026
Oh wow In May, I reported Alberta separatists were using an app developed by GOP operatives with ties to US ambassador Pete Hoekstra @theglobeandmail.com now reports the same operatives flew to Calgary on a private jet for a secret meeting with separatist leaders: pressprogress.ca/alberta-sepa...
The pitch began with a prayer.
On an afternoon in late January, Mitch Sylvestre, the leader of Alberta's most prominent separatist organization, gathered with three of his lieutenants in a boardroom not far from the executive hangars at the Calgary International Airport, where private jets shuttle in and out of the city away from prying eyes.
It was a few hours before thousands of Albertans would gather near the city centre at a rally to launch the separatist campaign. But this meeting, convened behind closed doors a half-hour drive away, was invite only.
The Alberta Prosperity Project chose the location to accommodate its guests, Republican political strategists from Michigan who helped Donald Trump win the state in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
The American delegation travelled to Calgary to sell them on software developed for Republicans to get out the vote - and how it could be used to wrench Alberta from Confederation.
"They were young Christians. Capable, intelligent people," Mr. Sylvestre said. "We prayed before we started the meeting.""There is no secrecy'
One of the key figures behind the Michigan software company has expressed strong views on Alberta.
On July 1, Mr. Born wrote on social media: "On this Canada Day, I hope this is the last year Alberta is part of Canada." He has also called for U.S. annexation of the province.
A hunter, outdoorsman and commercial real estate agent in Grand Rapids, Mr. Born is the stepson of J.C. Huizenga, a wealthy Republican donor and founder of National Heritage Academies, a network of conservative charter schools in the U.S.
Mr. Wierda is the nephew of Erik Prince, who founded and ran the private military contractor Blackwater before it was sold to investors in 2010, and Betsy DeVos, the education secretary during Mr. Trump's first term.
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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"A Toronto hospital network is set to greatly expand its unique permanent housing program that largely serves homeless people who visit hospital emergency departments an inordinate amount of time." 👍👏🫶👇 #TOpoli #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Toronto hospital to greatly expand permanent housing program that reduces ER visits | CBC News
A Toronto hospital network is set to greatly expand its unique permanent housing program that largely serves homeless people who visit hospital emergency departments an inordinate amount of time.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In 1885, Montreal was ravaged by smallpox. To stem the spread of the disease, public health officials enforced vaccinations. Those that mistrusted the vaccine rioted in the streets. This is the story of the Montreal Smallpox Riots. 📸 McGill University 🧵 1/10
An old-fashioned illustration depicting a group of people in a train compartment. A man in a suit is assisting a woman who appears to be unwell, adjusting her clothing or providing aid. Other passengers, including a woman seated and a child standing nearby, observe the scene. The setting includes detailed period clothing and interior design, with luggage and fabric draped around.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 21/09/2026
this does, unfortunately, explain a lot of american politics
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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oof car repairs are expensive. May I point you to our website? In particular our inexpensive eBooks (where our margins are better), for award-winning books by Cassandra Khaw, @thomasha.bsky.social Priya Sharma, @premeemohamed.com and more. undertowpublications.com/ebooks
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EBOOKS — Undertow Publications
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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 21/09/2026
Even people working for @microsoft.com know what the company is doing is wrong... 🧵 #GreenSky
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Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.
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Matt Blair @mjmbca.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Setting all other legitimate concerns aside, this is a new level of “loser energy” even for Bradford.
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National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 21/09/2026
NDP meets on election prospects as B.C. Conservatives name Doerkson interim leader nationalnewswatch.com/2026/09/21/n...
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NDP meets on election prospects as B.C. Conservatives name Doerkson…
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wtf are we even doing
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Oregon data centers use almost 25% of the state’s power
And that number is only going up.
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David Cavlovic🇨🇦🍁 @davidcavlovic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is the most masculine video on the internet right now
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Do you know what else will deliberately and unfairly target students? Laying off all of their lecturers and closing their degrees!
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Saskatchewan Man who started northern Sask. wildfire should serve 10 years, Crown argues Jason Halkett pleaded guilty to arson causing damage to property www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Man who started northern Sask. wildfire should serve 10 years, Crown argues | CBC News
Jason Halkett was in Montreal Lake provincial court on Thursday for sentencing arguments. He pleaded guilty earlier this year to arson causing damage to property for starting the fire that became the ...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Higher Education risks irreversible damage, says British Academy president Prof Susan Smith, with humanities and social sciences disciplines disappearing in many cold spots. BA is tracking subject provision & calling for a comprehensive review www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/stateme...
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British Academy President: UK higher education crisis risks irreversible damage
As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A UN fact-finding mission concluded that the United States committed the war crime of launching indiscriminate attacks in two strikes on a primary school where at least 156 people were killed, mostly children, and another at a sports complex killing 22. www.yacnews.com/un-investiga...
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UN investigators conclude the US committed war crimes in strikes on Minab school and Lamerd sports centre
A UN fact-finding mission concluded that a US Tomahawk missile was aimed at a primary school where at least 156 people, mostly children were killed, and that a US missile scattered tungsten pellets ov...
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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MakesMeWannaUke🇨🇦 @makesmewannauke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Great dog thread 🐶
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Loretta from Canada🇨🇦 @myview66.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Shop Canadian! I buy flour at Arva Flour Mills They're great!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 13/09/2026
Indigenous activists and water defenders in Mexico are organizing to combat what they call “signs of planetary death.”
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Mexican Activists Are Fighting Climate Crises by Stopping Extractive Violence
Indigenous activists and water defenders in Mexico are organizing to combat what they call “signs of planetary death.”…
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 13/09/2026
Fwiw it's straightforward right now why this is happening; and it's the same reason why the global far right supremacist eliminationist movement is happening, the christian extremist apocalyptic immenantization is happening, etc. People are bug fuck out of their minds in denial of the climate crisis
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026
They’re doing white primitivism amid the resegregation push
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Robert Borden Stan Account @bordenstan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This makes for very unpleasant reading, and begs the question of what else US federal law enforcement might be getting up to without thinking to inform the RCMP.
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DEA operated 'illegally' in Canada, B.C. Supreme Court judge says
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has stayed an extradition proceeding because U.S. DEA agents 'operated unlawfully and illegally in Canada'
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Jinia-PTr @jinia-ptr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Carmahn McCalla: “”(The mural) is about the Jamaican Maroons and how they helped to build Citadel Hill and also our connection to Africa as a people. I want to celebrate the whole diaspora… “I want them to see how rich our culture is in Nova Scotia, across all kinds of different ways.””
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Douglas Ogg @dougogg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I hate to sound like a Luddite, but I agree with this.
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Dr Luke Buckmaster @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
On its 50th anniversary, I revisit Marathon Man: a jittery, violent, deliciously paranoid thriller, with one dentist appointment nobody will forget.
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Marathon Man is now 50 – and that dentist scene still hurts like hell
Fifty years on, Marathon Man remains a jittery, violent and deliciously paranoid thriller – with one dentist appointment nobody will forget.
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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The window of my local queer bookshop was smashed last week. They're fundraising to install shutters so they can keep themselves and their community safe. Support this one-of-a-kind place, its one-of-a-kind proprietors, and the whole Glasgow queer & trans community: www.gofundme.com/f/categoryis...
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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books
For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!
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Ruben Prütz @rubenpruetz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In a new Comment, published this week in #Nature Reviews Clean Technology and co-led with Quirina Rodriguez Mendez, we discuss ten prominent #narratives about the role of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) in the current academic #discourse. 📚💭 doi.org/10.1038/s443...
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Mapping conflicts in carbon removal narratives - Nature Reviews Clean Technology
Carbon dioxide removal has been described both as a mitigation necessity and as a risk to mitigation ambition or sustainability in the academic literature. This Comment examines the assumptions underl...
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Rogerman @rogerman99.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Wonder if the driver responsible has the insurance necessary, or did King Dug's changes to auto insurance leave everyone involved exposed? #onpoli bsky.app/profile/lady...
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Zahra Hirji @zhirji.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: The Environmental Protection Agency has quietly removed multiple online resources for companies on how to measure the carbon footprint of their supply chains, called Scope 3 emissions. Gift link @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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EPA Removes Online Scope 3 Emissions Guidance for Companies
As the Trump administration rolls back environmental rules, it’s also taking down resources that help corporations understand their environmental risk.
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enorconhcet @enorconhcet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
THEY'RE WINNING. STOP THEM.
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enorconhcet @enorconhcet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NOT SO QUIETLY WE HAVEN'T NOTICED. thenarwhal.ca/bill-5-endan...
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Inside Ontario’s endangered species office after Bill 5 | The Narwhal
‘We were essentially silenced’: current and former Ministry of Environment officials say they were powerless after Doug Ford killed the Endangered Species Act
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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Viktor Hurniak shot for Reuters and UNIAN. Then he enlisted. On one trip to Italy, they brought Ukrainian troops 550 helmets. Friends told him that he was more useful finding equipment than carrying a rifle. "Well, I want to fight," he answered. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/09/10/h...
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enorconhcet @enorconhcet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Premier Tim Houston’s response to increasing numbers of homeless disabled people & tent-living in an unaffordable world is an unspoken ‘Let them die, then’ as winter nears. It’s not a local problem, but across Canada. No govt even approaches the issue of cost of living at this level.
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enorconhcet @enorconhcet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“Jackie Lowe stood beside NDP Leader Claudia Chender during a news conference aimed at shaming the government into reversing a decision that prevents disabled people... living in tents from receiving a disability supplement of $325 a month.” www.halifaxexaminer.ca/province-hou...
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Opposition hammers Nova Scotia government over housing issues - Halifax Examiner
“Nova Scotians have been patient. They’ve given the Houston government five years to move the needle on housing," NDP Leader Claudia Chender said.
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enorconhcet @enorconhcet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“Our jobs were changing quickly from being biologists & scientific experts to being administrative staff...We were no longer allowed to give our recommendations.” thenarwhal.ca/bill-5-endan...
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Inside Ontario’s endangered species office after Bill 5 | The Narwhal
‘We were essentially silenced’: current and former Ministry of Environment officials say they were powerless after Doug Ford killed the Endangered Species Act
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enorconhcet @enorconhcet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Increasing homelessness, lack of affordable housing, only rarely living wages even if you find 2 jobs? You’re being trashed like the environment. You aren’t worth investing in. thenarwhal.ca/bill-5-endan...
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Inside Ontario’s endangered species office after Bill 5 | The Narwhal
‘We were essentially silenced’: current and former Ministry of Environment officials say they were powerless after Doug Ford killed the Endangered Species Act
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enorconhcet @enorconhcet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
‘The economy’ runs our world. Do you seriously think YOU matter anymore than endangered species, if that’s based on how much profit you generate for developers? thenarwhal.ca/bill-5-endan...
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Inside Ontario’s endangered species office after Bill 5 | The Narwhal
‘We were essentially silenced’: current and former Ministry of Environment officials say they were powerless after Doug Ford killed the Endangered Species Act
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enorconhcet @enorconhcet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“...a new model for environmental assessments...’proponent-led,” leaving developers largely responsible for assessing their own environmental impact & cutting government biologists out of the process almost entirely.” thenarwhal.ca/bill-5-endan...
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Inside Ontario’s endangered species office after Bill 5 | The Narwhal
‘We were essentially silenced’: current and former Ministry of Environment officials say they were powerless after Doug Ford killed the Endangered Species Act
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enorconhcet @enorconhcet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“...a new model for environmental assessments...’proponent-led,” leaving developers largely responsible for assessing their own environmental impact & cutting government biologists out of the process almost entirely.” thenarwhal.ca/bill-5-endan...
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Inside Ontario’s endangered species office after Bill 5 | The Narwhal
‘We were essentially silenced’: current and former Ministry of Environment officials say they were powerless after Doug Ford killed the Endangered Species Act
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enorconhcet @enorconhcet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Grizzly pelts & claws are worth a lot of money. Who gets them when a bear is killed under these circumstances? A resignation in protest by a person involved in management because she wasn’t informed of the killing. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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Nelson Wrestles with the Aftermath of Grizzly Family Deaths | The Tyee
The killing of a mother bear and two cubs has prompted calls for more transparency and information.
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enorconhcet @enorconhcet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
1 More excuses for trashing the humanities: they’re not directly profitable: “very focused on the major areas where we need graduates and that will support the economy.” Humanities skills are essential in a text-heavy economy. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
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How Ontario's 40,000 new post-secondary spots were allocated
Schools collaborated with the business community to determine local needs, the first time consultations were required.
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enorconhcet @enorconhcet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“World must reject climate culture wars or face economic ruin.” WATCH those people economic ruin will make very rich. They WANT this. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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World must reject climate culture wars or face economic ruin, says UN’s Stiell
Warning by United Nations climate chief comes as EU data shows August 2026 was joint hottest month ever
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enorconhcet @enorconhcet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
$5000 for every American would hardly even touch what most people’s medical expenses cost. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US citizens will receive $5,000 if Republicans win midterms, Trump claims in lengthy convention speech
President makes offer that would cost US over $1tn and asks voters to ‘pretend that I’m on the ballot’ despite being deeply unpopular among electorate
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enorconhcet @enorconhcet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Not just war damage to people & structures, but the entire environment - & those utterly helpless beings living in it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How the fate of a small furry animal reveals the ecological tragedy of Israel’s war on Lebanon | Hisham Younes
The Syrian rock hyrax depends on the fragile landscapes of the border region. Alongside other environmentalists, I have been documenting the destruction of its habitat
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Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @laura-babcock.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“Ford put Ontario into largest subnational debt in world! He has failed on housing, healthcare, autism, ODSP, environment! He’s a wannabe authoritarian! People have been terribly abused by his policies! Media will not stop reporting on him!” 🇨🇦 The OShow youtu.be/Cje22Y-jR_g?si…
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enorconhcet @enorconhcet.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Gerard Taol: a thoughtful, immediately relevant piece for Canadians on nationalism right now. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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Climate disruption and the nationalist turn
Nationalism becomes dangerous when it turns a shared planetary crisis into a competition between insiders and outsiders. A wiser earth-based nationalism offers something different: the possibility of ...
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