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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️

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Progressive, humanist, post-positivist, SF-loving, design engineering prof and steward of 2 huskies.

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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bruce Cockburn understood Trump's insanity back in 1985. Let's hope that last line holds too. #politics #USA "You've been lying so long / You don't know what's real / You're a figment of your own imagination / And people see through you" (People See through You, 1985)
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Please consider signing this petition to help continue mandatory re-evaluation of pesticide risks. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #environment #Canada #politics #canpoli
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Sign this Petition - Petitions
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"My hydronyms are Lake & Ontario." brandedbycollins.com/swimdrinkfis... #elbowsup
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Swim Drink Fish
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Leaked analysis shows 98.98% opposition to Ontario’s new at-risk species law thenarwhal.ca/ontario-enda... #environment #abc #onpoli #ontario #politics
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98.98% opposition to Doug Ford’s new endangered species law revealed | The Narwhal
Internal Ministry of Environment analysis shows ‘confusion’ and concerns about ‘negative impacts on Ontario’s biodiversity’ raised over the Species Conservation Act, under Bill 5
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
It's delusional to think that the "rule of law" will save the #USA from the orange-faced shitgibbon and his MAGAstapo henchmen. #uspol #politics www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump fires last members of election commission, inciting fears of midterm ‘chaos’
Bipartisan Election Assistance Commission maintains mail-voter registration form, among other duties
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
#FIFA is just another morally destitute "corporation". Always has been. Now they aren't ashamed to show it. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Fifa accuses Uefa of hypocrisy in latest war of words over Folarin Balogun decision
Fifa has hit back at Uefa in the war of words over the lifting of the USA striker Folarin Balogun’s suspension
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Doug the Thug Ford encourages colleges and universities to run as businesses. Is it any wonder #ontario #education is a cesspool? Ford is an imbecilic troglodyte of cosmological proportions. #politics #onpoli www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
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‘I wish them all the best. Run it like a business,’ Ford says as Humber Polytechnic moves to trim workforce
Humber Polytechnic is offering “voluntary exit packages” to staff as it confronts mounting financial pressure, warning that deeper job cuts could follow if the uptake is low.
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Trump adds new #tariffs right after SCOTUS tells him his tariffs are illegal. To quote Gunderson: "What an asshole!" (youtu.be/owvsyN-PRLo?...) #US #politics www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
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Trump threatens new 10% global tariff after Supreme Court rules against 'liberation day' tariffs | CBC
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Help foster good anti-SLAPP laws in #Germany by signing this petition. #environment #progressivism www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/13...
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Intimidation, threats, lawsuits – we need a law with teeth to stop legal bullies!
Dragged into court in Hamburg over Indonesia, buried in cease-and-desist threats for defending Indigenous rights in Brazil – corporate bullies will go to great lengths to silence us. Germany’s propose...
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Hey @alectranews.bsky.social , we've lost power on our street 3 times in the past 10 days. What kind of imbeciles you got running things?
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Trump uninvites #Canada from the board of peace. As far as I'm concerned, good riddance to that laughable exercise of American Exceptionalism. The world's a big place. Canada will be fine. #politics #USA www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
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Trump to Canada’s Mark Carney: you are uninvited to my ‘board of peace’ – as it happened
This live blog is now closed.
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
#Canada is not broken. Not that facts ever stopped the right-wing nutjobs, but still. Thanks to Todd Maffin for the site. engageq.notion.site/notbroken
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Canada Is Not Broken. | Notion
See Canada as it is. Not as it’s been sold to you.
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Chinese "spy vehicles": Doug the Thug goes fully delusional with his anti-China paranoia. #onpoli #Ontario #politics nowtoronto.com/news/theyre-...
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‘They’re going to be listening,’ Ford slams Ottawa’s Chinese EV trade deal - NOW Toronto
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is doubling down on his criticism of Ottawa’s newly announced trade deal with China, warning it could hurt Canada’s auto sector and pose security risks.
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
The 2025 National Security Strategy of the #USA seems to point towards a white supremacist nation. How far the mighty have fallen! (Actually, I never thought they were that mighty - just loud and obnoxious.) #politics #progressivism heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-5...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 5, 2025
Late last night, the Trump administration released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America.
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Please consider signing Petition E-6982 to help protect #education and #healthcare in #canada. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-6982 - Petitions
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Trump's "peace plan" for #Ukraine is really about the #US and #Russia gutting it like a trout. And kicking the #EU in the balls to boot. It's demeaning, insulting, and malevolent. IOW, classic Trump/Putin. #progressivism #politics heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-2...
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November 21, 2025
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Ukrainian people today.
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) #progressivism
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
What happened the last time business had unfettered control over the US economy? Heather Cox Richardson explains. Spoiler alert: it wasn't pretty. #progressivism #economy #US heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-28...
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October 28, 2025
In the election of 1920, Americans handed a landslide victory to the Republicans and their presidential candidate Warren G.
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Please consider signing this petition if you don't think "austerity" is the way forward in #Canada. #politics #progressivism actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...
actionnetwork.org
Petition to Minister Champagne: No Austerity in this budget
$25 billion per year less for public services. 57,000 jobs eliminated. The “worst cuts in modern history,” according to economists. Is this what Canadians voted for on April 28? The deep cuts to pu...
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Today’s ‘peace summit’ is a real estate convention in disguise #politics observer.co.uk/news/the-sen...
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Today’s ‘peace summit’ is a real estate convention in dis...
Trump and his guests see opportunity in Gaza’s rubble
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Please consider signing this petition to tell the #Canadian government that a healthy and safe #environment must always be in the "national interest". davidsuzuki.org/action/tell-...
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Tell the feds: Nature is in the national interest
Previews of Canada’s 2025 budget are conspicuously missing nature investments. Tell Canada: Protecting and restoring nature is the real national interest project.
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
"Project Ontario" is just the US "Project 2025", tuned to #Ontario #politics I say all the #RWNJs can go f*ck themselves. #progressivism #elbowsup www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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ANALYSIS | Who's behind 'Project Ontario,' the group pushing Doug Ford to be more conservative? | CBC News
There's a quiet and mysterious move afoot to push Premier Doug Ford's Ontario PC government to adopt more fiscally conservative policies.
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Trump is such an inveterate liar that his lies have their own Wikipedia page. Seriously, how stupid do you have to be to elect such a psychopath President... *twice*! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_o... #progressivism #politics
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False or misleading statements by Donald Trump - Wikipedia
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Voight Kampff - because empathy is for androids, not humans. #satire #sf www.youtube.com/shorts/ZTzHi...
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Because empathy is for androids, not humans
YouTube video by Science Fiction with Damien Walter
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Taylor & Francis threatens legal action against anonymous group’s ‘highly defamatory’ claims retractionwatch.com/2025/09/26/t... #research #publishing
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Taylor & Francis threatens legal action against anonymous group’s ‘highly defamatory’ claims
Taylor & Francis has threatened legal action against an online group that has made allegations, based largely on vague insinuations rather than evidence, about the publisher and a member of its…
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Trump wants all countries to close their borders. Okay: let's all close our borders... TO THE USA. There's 340M of them, and 8B of the rest of us. We can do without 'em. #politics www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump calls for nations to close borders and expel foreigners in UN speech: ‘Your countries are being ruined’
US president accuses European countries specifically of ‘destroying your heritage’ by allowing migration
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
There they go again, those Merkins stickin' their gross fingers in everyone's pies. #RWNJ #politics #US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of #UK far right observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of UK f...
Outside the Old Bailey in 2018, a reinvented Tommy Robinson flashed his perfect new teeth to 2,000 diehard supporters at a “free Tommy” rally on a stage ...
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
#TIL that a dog's nose is connected to the vision processing part of their #brain. I guess it's literally true that #dogs see the world through their noses. #biology vm.tiktok.com/ZMAh9hxGF/
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
The pot calling the kettle black seems to be SOP for RWNJs worldwide these days.
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@gelliottmorris.com on Bluesky
these people just fundamentally believe that only they have the legitimate right to political power https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-house-map-from-tx-republicans
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
So... Trump's after Tom Hanks now? Tom Hanks?!?! #LaughablyStupid www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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West Point cancels ceremony to honor Tom Hanks as ‘outstanding US citizen’
Little known about decision, although Hanks, who has advocated for military memorials, also voted for Biden
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
"...economic elites and... business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence." #politics #US #economics #governance bit.ly/4mG1iyr
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Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens - Volume 12 Issue 3
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Canadians, here's a chance to tell the federal government what its #budget priorities should be. #canada #economy #politics www.canada.ca/en/departmen...
canada.ca
Pre-Budget Consultations 2025 - Canada.ca
Pre-Budget Consultations 2025
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
How many Americans actually know how large an area that is though? Original post: mstdn.social/@noelreports...
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Please consider signing this petition to help promote #sustainable #energy in #Canada. davidsuzuki.org/action/build...
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Build Canada’s East-West Grid with Renewables
Add your voice to demand bold federal action for a clean, affordable and reliable electricity future. Sign the petition today.
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Jack G. @jack1973.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
I stand with Cheryl.
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
"We’re now in the throes of Prime Day, an event that defies the laws of time and space to inhabit a full week" #overconsumption #sustainability www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Welcome to Prime Day, when thousands of product thumbnails blur together to form a giant pile of garbage | Anna Spargo-Ryan
I love a sale – but scrolling the list of Amazon’s deals is overwhelming to the point of delirium
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
It's about time! #womensrights #equality www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
theguardian.com
ICC issues warrant for Taliban’s supreme leader for persecution of women
Rights activists hail move to arrest Haibatullah Akhundzada and Afghan chief justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani for crimes against humanity
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Hi #stationery folks. I'm looking for a 3- or 6-hole punch, with 19mm (3/4") spacing. The trick is, the holes need to be only 3.5mm (5/32") diameter. Like a filofax personal, but with smaller holes. Anyone know of such a beast?
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer.
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Dealing with the effects of climate change by causing more of it is short-sighted, irrational, negligent, and immoral. Le Pen and her ilk can go get stuffed. #climatechange #environment #extremeheat #politics #progressivism www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
theguardian.com
Europe’s heatwave moves east as row erupts in France over air conditioning
French far-right leader’s ‘grand plan’ to expand AC comes under attack, while Germany braces for possible record heat
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
It's the Boston Catholic Archdiocese Abuse Scandal, édition française. When will we finally hold the Vatican to account? #humanism ‘A supermarket for sexual predators’: abuse scandal at elite boarding school shakes France | France | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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‘A supermarket for sexual predators’: abuse scandal at elite boarding school shakes France
Legal complaints filed by former pupils accuse priests and staff of physical or sexual abuse from 1957 to 2004
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Please SIGN: Protect the mangroves and forests of Brazil's Tauá-Mirim region! Local communities urge the government to create RESEX Tauá-Mirim and stop destructive projects. Support their fight for nature and livelihoods. #Amazon #TauaMirim #Conservation rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/13...
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#petition Brazil: Protect the mangroves and tropical forests of Tauá-Mirim!
The people of the Tauá-Mirim region in the Amazon are urgently calling on the Brazilian government to protect their land. The rivers, mangroves and tropical forests south of São Luís in the state of M...
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
If you hate science, you hate humanity. Yes, MAGA, I'm looking at you. #vaccine #health #science #progressivism
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Bikes lanes are GOOD for #Toronto. Doug Ford is BAD for Toronto. #onpoli #ontario #politics
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Please consider signing this petition to help protect the Brazilian rainforest. www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/13... #environment #sustainability
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Brazil: Keep US carbon traders OUT of the Ka’apor Rainforest!
The US company Wildlife Works wants to use the rainforest of the Indigenous Ka'apor people to sell carbon credits, but the Ka'apor council rejects the project. The Ka’apor have preserved their forest ...
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
It's never too late to stop the repulsive Bill 5 in #Ontario. Please consider contacting the government via this form: davidsuzuki.org/action/repea... #environment #progressivism #onpoli #politics
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The fight’s not over: Repeal Bill 5
We’ve stopped Ford before. We can do it again. Speak out. Stand up. Repeal Bill 5.
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Hey Canadians! If you're looking for Canadian-made products, try looking in madeincanadadirectory.ca. #canada #madeincanada Anyone know of other similar sites?
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Made In Canada | Biggest Directory of Canadian Products
Made In Canada Directory brings you the most expansive, and exclusively Canadian owned businesses with thousands of only Canadian Made products.
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Fil Salustri 🇨🇦⚛️ @filsalustri.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
#TIL that there's a website that lists all the constitutions of all (most?) of the countries. You can even compare them to each other! For anyone interested, see www.constituteproject.org #politics #governance
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Constitute
The World's Constitutions to Read, Search, and Compare
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Canada strengthening scientific ties with the EU.
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