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Another UBI skeptic flipped because of AI--a contributor to the American Conservative and New York Post "For years, I opposed Universal Basic Income, firmly and reflexively... That position no longer survives contact with reality."

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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

"Not only don't people work less when they are guaranteed an income, they might actually put in more effort at work. And the fact that they have more money to spend leads to the creation of more jobs." Nobel Prize–winning economists Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo

Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal opinion article titled “A Guaranteed Income Won’t Stop People From Wanting to Work,” by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo. A subheading says evidence from programs around the world suggests basic income does not make recipients lazier. Below the headline is a photo of several women sitting outdoors at a table working.

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followthru.bsky.social @followthru.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Here is an article from my Twitter X account that I am reposting. My main focus this week started with the anniversary of Kimberly Rogers, who would have been 65 on July 20th. I continued writing posts about the social welfare system and here is the latest. x.com/classic_yoga...

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followthru.bsky.social @followthru.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I can’t post this anywhere but here lol

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followthru.bsky.social @followthru.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I'm attending The People's Forum this Friday — will you join me? The People's Forum will be a place to discuss the impacts of two new harmful laws that Doug Ford is rushing through without public input. For more information and to RSVP, visit: OntarioNDP.ca/the-peoples-forum

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RSVP: The People's Forum

Doug Ford is shutting down debate to rush through two new laws, Bill 33 and Bill 60. So we're convening The People's Forum to hear from working people on the front lines who deserve to be heard before...

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ACORN the union @acornunion.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

We’re here in Brussels at the ACORN International yearly conference! Affiliates from Palestine to Cameroon, Canada to Sicily, have come together to learn from each other and share our skills and experience to build ACORN across the world. Our struggle is global🌍

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Glen Dunlap @glendunlap.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Here's how the #Moon looks tonight from #SantaBarbara at about 95% full. #MoonPhotography #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography Camera settings: Canon T5i Sigma 150mm x 600mm Focal length: 600mm F-stop: f/10 Exposure time: 1/640 ISO: 800

Close up photo of the Moon at about 95% full

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Marit Stiles @maritstilesndp.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Yesterday, Doug Ford called me a liar for saying he is a jobs disaster. So today I came with some facts.

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Lisa Gretzky @lgretzky.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

It’s been 400 days since Bill 173 Intimate Partner Epidemic Act 2024 was debated. 400 days without a declaration, meaningful actions, or supports for survivors. 400 days fighting for justice. Today, on Moose Hide Campaign Day join us in calling on the government to recognize IPV and GBV as epidemics

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Lisa Gretzky @lgretzky.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Windsor has one of the highest unemployment rates in Canada, and Ontarians are struggling with the soaring cost of living. Yet, Doug Ford’s 2025 budget fails to deliver. No real support for families. No real investment in jobs, healthcare, or education. We deserve better. #ONpoli

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followthru.bsky.social @followthru.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

www.thestar.com/news/gta/a-c... It was terrible policy for the Ford government to cut the independent child advocate in 2018. Erwin Elman, served for 11 years. He had very important functions in both advocacy and investigations.The Ontario Ombudsman and children's lawyer fall very short (see more).

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A CAS worker saw a 12-year-old boy three months before his alleged murder. What she saw left her deeply worried

For the first time since it began, trial of Becky Hamber and Brandy Cooney heard Friday from a representative of the Children's Aid Society.

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Marit Stiles @maritstilesndp.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Thousands of workers are waking up every morning not sure if they’re going to have a job to go to. So Doug Ford can point fingers and try to divert responsibility all he wants — what I’m concerned about is his ability to run a government.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

It's no longer left versus right or even Democrat versus Republican. It’s now democracy versus oligarchy. Freedom versus dictatorship. Right versus wrong. Millions are awakening to this new reality — and they're speaking up. The sleeping giant of America is roaring.

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Francesca Bouaoun @francescabouaoun.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Earlier sunsets and dramatic light in November skies. Thinking of this landscape and all of the time spent on the (former) West Island of Ontario Place, November 2023. #Toronto

Six landscape scenes across the West Island at Ontario Place. People walking and standing along a pebble beach, people walking and cycling along a waterfront tree-lined path, trees illuminated by lamps and string lights in the park, and a scene of the tree-covered island from the mainland at sunset.

Six landscape scenes across the West Island at Ontario Place. Trees illuminated at dusk by park lamps and string lights, a pebble beach in a small tree-lined bay, a person cycling down a grassy hill at dusk, a person paddling in a channel of water by the mainland, and the Cinesphere covered in lights.

Six landscape scenes across the West Island at Ontario Place. Trees illumined by string lights, the Japanese Canadian Centennial Temple Bell and Cinesphere lit up at night, pink and orange skies at sunset above the tree-covered park.

Six landscape scenes across the West Island at Ontario Place. Sunset over a pebble beach in a small bay, trees in silhouette against the setting sun, a row of muskoka chairs looking out to the lake with a willow tree overhead.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy Halloween. Trickle-down economics is nothing more than a cruel hoax designed to enrich corporations and the super-rich. For working people, it's been 40 years of all trick and no treat. Enough.

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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

It's time to get your free flu and covid shots Ontario! Many locally owned pharmacies in Guelph are providing the shots, like Walsh's West End Pharmacy. Check the list to find a pharmacy near you, www.ontario.ca/vaccine-loca...

A pharmacist standing outside a building holding a sign reading "Support small business. Shop local." Above her the sign for her pharmacy reading "Walsh's West End Pharmacy"

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Marit Stiles @maritstilesndp.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

If it looks like a duck and it walks like a duck, it's probably a duck. Millions of taxpayer dollars flowing into the pockets of the same well-connected insiders and lobbyists who donated to the Conservatives? Sounds like preferential treatment.

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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

The Ford government is starting out this session the same way they do every session — ramming through legislation without consulting with the people of Ontario. 1/2

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Marit Stiles @maritstilesndp.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

YOU’RE INVITED: Join Shadow Minister of Housing Catherine McKenney and Leader Marit Stiles on Wednesday, October 29 for an emergency virtual townhall about Doug Ford’s latest attack on renters with Bill 60. Hear more about the bill, our plan to stop it, and how you can take action.

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ACORN International @acorninternational.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

22,000 ACORN Ontario emails in 24 hours stopped Doug Ford’s plan to end rent control on fixed-term leases — a huge win for renters! But Bill 60 still threatens tenant rights. Join the fight tonight at 6:30 PM. Register here:(us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...) + Halloween actions this weekend! 🎃

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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

ACORN is also having an emergency meeting Tuesday Oct 28 at 6:30pm to fight back against Doug Ford’s legislation that will renters even more precarious. Registration Link: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Petition: acorncanada.org/take_action/...

HOW TO FIGHT BACK
ACORN MEMBERS AREORGANIZING. JOIN US:
• Tues Oct28* at 6:30PM: Emergency zoom meeting to review Ford's changes and plans to stop them.
• Halloween Actions in Toronto, Hamilton, Mississauga, London, Kitchener and Ottawa. Details coming soon.
• Share the online action to help us send 20,000 emails to Doug Ford, Housing Minister Rob Flack, Attorney General Doug Downey and MPPS.

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ACORN the union @acornunion.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

🚨 The Renters’ Rights Bill has now received Royal Assent. From ACORN's very first meeting in Bristol over a decade ago, we identified ending unfair evictions as a key demand for our campaigning and a key wrong to right for our class.

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Kristyn Wong-Tam @kristynwongtam.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Ford will not unlock housing by undermining tenants' security of tenure. This Bill is a new low that signals existential threats to every renter in Ontario. We need to go all out to stop it www.kristynwongtam.ca/stop-bill-60 #ONpoli #TorCen #Bill60

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Greenpeace Canada @greenpeaceca.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

STOP the anti-democratic, nature-destroying Bill 5 power grab >> act.gp/3HedPZP #ONpoli #Ontario #DougFord #DougFordIsCorrupt #OntarioPlace #OntarioPlace4All #Bill5 #StopBill5

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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Life in Ontario is more expensive than ever and the Ford government is focused on bike lanes, tunnels and speed cameras. We need a government that's focused on the real affordability problems people are facing.

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What we should be working on

YouTube video by Mike Schreiner

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I have no doubt that a result of Trump’s illegal firings today will be higher prices for American consumers because the FTC cop is now off the beat. Trump’s descent into dictatorship continues unabated. robertreich.substack.com/p/more-of-tr...

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More of Trump’s descent into dictatorship

Two illegal firings that will increase prices for consumers and concentrate more power in Trump’s hands — unless the courts stop him.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

A leaked memo reveals that DOGE's next target is the VA, with plans to fire more than 80,000 agency workers who provide critical services to veterans and their families. More than 25% of agency staff are veterans themselves. How is this "efficiency"?

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Chaos at the V.A.: Inside the DOGE Cuts Disrupting the Veterans Agency

Clinical trials have been delayed, contracts canceled and support staff fired. With deeper cuts coming, some are warning of potential harms to veterans.

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🇨🇦 Made in Canada 🇨🇦 ELBOWS UP 💪🍁🦫🌈🦋 @canadianpride.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

In a few days, Mark Carney will be the next Prime Minister of Canada. Carney just gave up his entire portfolio to help grow Canada's economy. Pierre PoiLIEvre won't even get a security clearance. The choice in the next election is crystal clear #NeverPoilievre #noPoilierveforCanada #VOTELIBERAL

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The Vote Is The Antidote @emilyvote.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

BILLIONAIRES DESTROY USA bsky.app/profile/rbre... Billionaires hoard wealth, buy governments for themselves, exploit you & steal your wellbeing #TaxBillionaires #StopOligarchs #StopFascism #TaxBillionaires #BoycottAmazon #BoycottMeta #BoycottTesla #StopKleptocracy #PeoplePower #PowerToThePeople

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Liberal MP Karina Gould - "When the convoy was here they cheered them on in of front of so many residents in Ottawa, prevented them from going to the hospital, grocery store, from ambulances arriving at homes." #cdnpoli #peipoli

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Kate in SK 🍁 @vitamink8.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Karina Gould is a younger choice, intelligent, excellent communicator and an experienced MP and cabinet minister... equivalent to Kamala Harris, and therefore she's in an uphill battle, even in Canada. However, Gould should run for Liberal leader now and again the next time. Her time is coming.

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Liberal MP Karina Gould 🇨🇦 @karinagould.bsky.social #cdnpoli #peipoli

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

🔥🔥🔥Timbit Trump 🤣🤣🤣 Liberal MP Karina Gould 🇨🇦 - "Pierre Poilievre seems to be taking pages from Donald Trump’s playbook—something Canadians don’t need or want. Let’s learn from what’s happening south of the border, not repeat it. We don't need a Timbit Trump up here." #cdnpoli #peipoli

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Liberal MP Karina Gould 🇨🇦 - Winning the hearts of Canadians and Mark Critch one policy at a time. #cdnpoli #peipoli

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followthru.bsky.social @followthru.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Doug Ford said he wanted to call an election (even though he already had a strong mandate). We would have had an election in June 2026. Ford would have had a chance to prove himself until then that he could stand up to Trump's tariffs.

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followthru.bsky.social @followthru.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Here's some useful information about our current Ontario government summed up nicely, from Reddit. www.reddit.com/r/ontario/s/...

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From the ontario community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the ontario community

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/02/2025

How federal judges are blocking Trump’s abuses of power; Judge Ho probes Trump DOJ corruption; SCOTUS deals Trump a setback; a judge nearly finds Trump admin in contempt & more. Legal AF is LIVE 8PM ET / 5PM PT. Tune in!

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LIVE: BREAKING Legal News on Trump FACING WRATH in Court | Legal AF

YouTube video by MeidasTouch

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

The concentration of wealth in the hands of an elite few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, the American people don't have a voice. The result is demagoguery and corruption.

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