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The Council of Canadians @canadiansorg.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The goal is not to debate abstract futures — but to assess what is already happening upstream and downstream, and to develop shared strategies for confronting the AI industry. Learn more and register: www.aicivilsociety.ca 11/11

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Civil Society Summit on the AI Industry

May 22, 2026 — Montréal

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The Council of Canadians @canadiansorg.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

"In 2022, the federal government introduced a one-time, 15 per cent tax on excess pandemic profits from the financial sector. Applying that 15 per cent rate on the excess profits of the oil industry could generate $9 billion over the next 12 months." www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

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The oil industry is making billions from the Iran war—it should be taxed - CCPA

The current windfall could be Canadian oil's final boom—so the proceeds must be reinvested into economic diversification and industrial planning

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The Council of Canadians @canadiansorg.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

There is no way to painlessly cut $25 billion per year from the federal budget. Critical public services are at risk: from #pharmacare to #freshwater protection, from #climateaction to #genderequity programs. Learn more, stand up to the austerity agenda: canadians.org/stopthecuts/ #cdnpoli

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Stop The Cuts: austerity threatens livelihoods and communities

STOP THE CUTS austerity threatens livelihoods and communities To the Minister of Finance: In a crisis, we must protect and invest in the essentials: healthcare, education and climate action. This g…

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

“File sharing was a problem for the major labels, but indpndnt musicians [were] finding ways to make downloads work — until streaming came along [+] convinced independent music fans to stop paying for them... [We have] billionaires creating problems to solve, but not solving problems that we have”

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Half Past Capitalism @halfpastcapitalism.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Aminah Sheikh on worker-to-worker solidarity via Canadian postal workers.

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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 21/03/2025

As the housing crisis deepens, advocates say it's time to stop treating homes as commodities that can be bought and sold. On the latest Breach Show, we broadcast a recent conversation between Chiara Padovani, @johncke.bsky.social , @ricardotranjan.bsky.social & @halfpastcapitalism.bsky.social

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To win housing justice, we have to ‘get profits out of the equation’ ⋆ The Breach

A conversation between housing justice advocates and researchers

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Half Past Capitalism @halfpastcapitalism.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Bruno Dobrusin of YSW tenant union brings 🔥 at @housingjusticenow.bsky.social in Montreal–movement building keynote.

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Half Past Capitalism @halfpastcapitalism.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Montreal, Feb 27: Stop Poilievre's corporate power grab. 17h30 Metro Mont Royal

Stop Poilievre's Corporate Power Grab
Feb 27 demonstration in Montreal.
17h30 Metro Mont Royal

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Half Past Capitalism @halfpastcapitalism.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Interesting resource for community tech work in Toronto

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The Cooperative Economy @cooperatives.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

A national rideshare worker cooperative aims to dethrone Lyft and Uber. The co-op guarantees its drivers 80% of the fare -- higher than its competitors. Profits are reinvested into the cooperative and returned to drivers, who have a say in the business. 🚗 jacobin.com/2024/12/a-na... drivers.coop

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A National Rideshare Cooperative Takes Aim at Uber and Lyft

After years of getting squeezed by Uber and Lyft, a national rideshare cooperative is offering drivers equity stakes that Silicon Valley refuses to grant.

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The Cooperative Economy @cooperatives.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Italy's Marcora Law supports worker buyouts. Worker-owned cooperatives that have been established by workers purchasing a business facing closure or being put up for sale exhibit a 3-year survival rate of 87%, contrasting with the 48% survival rate of Italian enterprises. 👷 ica.coop/en/media/new...

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The Marcora Law supporting worker buyouts for thirty years | ICA

Thirty years ago the then Italian Minister of Trade and Industry, Giovanni Marcora passed a law that aimed to support worker buyouts. The law, which came to be known as the Marcora Law, has helped to ...

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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 17/12/2024

The Liberal government has forced postal workers back to work. @halfpastcapitalism.bsky.social writes that this isn’t just a suppression of labour rights—it’s a missed opportunity to implement the visionary, green proposals of postal workers to reinvent the public service for the 21st century.

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Government is suppressing postal workers. It should be learning from their innovative ideas ⋆ The Breach

If the government listened to postal workers, they could be implementing win-win measures that create secure meaningful jobs as well as address the crises of affordability, isolation, and climate brea...

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Half Past Capitalism @halfpastcapitalism.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Propaganda of the deed making a comeback in 2024 was not on our bingo card.

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Ryan Romard @rromard.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗱𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗯𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗱𝗮 🎳 How does Canada's year of labour strife compare to ages past? Check it out yourself using this lightweight dashboard on work stoppages made with R, Quarto, and @datawrapper.de. rromard.quarto.pub/work-stoppag... #canlab #rstats #strike

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Work stoppages in Canada

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Unrigged @unrigged.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Happy to announce Bluesky is outpacing Twitter as a source of referral traffic for Unrigged! Thank you for reading stories from our partner publications!

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Half Past Capitalism @halfpastcapitalism.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

"There are significant design features to prevent capture, control, or extraction of rent of the overall atproto network." The "Is BlueSky really decentralized?" debate continues, with a designer of the AT Protocol weighing in.

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Half Past Capitalism @halfpastcapitalism.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Heading into another "year of cooperatives." Last one was in 2012.

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Half Past Capitalism @halfpastcapitalism.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Good thread about funding for decentralized platform development and the animating principles of Blue Sky and some of the parallel attempts. Wresting control of the social graph from billionaires is a consensus first step that makes lots of other things possible.

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Half Past Capitalism @halfpastcapitalism.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Student strike for Palestine and divestment in Montreal.

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Half Past Capitalism @halfpastcapitalism.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Is BlueSky really federated and decentralized? This critique says not really. anderegg.ca/2024/11/15/m... I think the "Twitter five years ago" feel is a big part of this site's draw, but it's too bad the shift toward proper open protocols à la HTTP or NNTP is incremental at best.

Mastodon is easy to set up and run locally, but blue sky's novel approach requires a massive investment.

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Half Past Capitalism @halfpastcapitalism.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Interesting debrief of Barcelona's shot at public-interest data regimes, free software and a peoples' digital agenda—by @kinokofry.bsky.social et alia. Moving a bureaucracy means skill, contacts and strategy. And even that might not be enough! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Half Past Capitalism @halfpastcapitalism.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

A few thoughts on engines of economic transformation. 🧵 1. The best quality of labour organizing is its potential to unite large numbers of workers and identify common interests and fight for them. While this include a variety of policies and demands, usually the most unifying fights involve wages.

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Half Past Capitalism @halfpastcapitalism.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Hey Blue Sky! Podcast/show here. Visionary alternative institutions 🤝 Labour militancy Excited to be joining the fediverse. Here to talk about the seeds of post-capitalism, utopian pathways, and practical cooperativism with social movement flavour.

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