Reposted by Joan JardinNaheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social · 20hWhat a beautiful evening it was in Lethbridge to fight for Canada! 🇨🇦 Proud Canadians gathered to rally the vote. We are exactly two weeks from referendum day. Make sure if you ordered a mail-in ballot, you send it in ASAP. Advance polls are open October 13–17, and Election Day is October 19. 627774
Reposted by Joan JardinAvi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 18hOyster fishing is a way of life on PEI, but disease is threatening to wipe out the sector that has sustained communities here for generations. In an unstable world, we need to protect Canada's industries. I spoke with fishers in Charlottetown to learn what the federal government can do to help. 311428
Reposted by Joan JardinThe Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 23hHe doesn't need the money and now millions of his fans could risk having one of the most deadly addictions there is 921545
Reposted by Joan JardinJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It seems it wasn't enough to have a literal drone show to advertise how you were privatizing healthcare, now it seems you also need to sully our sidewalks with your nonsense. Ontario is run by oligarchs and it makes me rage with the heat of 1000 suns. 210118
Reposted by Joan JardinLynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The Zionists are currently removing the bodies from under the rubble, destroying the “evidence”! youtu.be/-fNvMmO285Q?...youtu.beZionism is Racism YouTube video by chunkymark 42622
Reposted by Joan JardinZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Holborn and St Pancras is looking incredibly close. Thank you to everyone joining us today on the doorsteps - we know it's only by having conversations with voters that we can win this. With just five days to go - we need you! 26828251
Reposted by Joan JardinRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The Paramount-Warner Bros. merger was officially approved this past week. Corporate concentration means more power for CEOs — and less freedom for everyone else. Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains.youtu.beThe Illusion of Choice: How Big Business Controls Your Life (ft. Lina Khan)From your grocery bill to your paycheck, monopolies are making you less financially secure and ultimately less free. For 14134801559
Reposted by Joan JardinZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Labour just don't get it. They don't get how scared people are with extreme weather becoming our new normal. We need voices in parliament that will force them to take wildfires seriously, not quietly shirk responsibility. 411355440
Reposted by Joan JardinLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 03/10/2026Oh 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... 34458328
Reposted by Joan JardinZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Amazing day! Thanks everyone who came out to volunteer. In Parliament I'll be pushing for Rent controls, water nationalisation, tackling the climate crisis and standing up for the people of Holborn & St Pancras. And the final picture wasn't on my bingo card but sure! 10523106
Reposted by Joan JardinCharlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The US has interfered in the German election. They are interfering with elections in Latin America. Trump says Canada is going to be taught a "little lesson." When is the Canadian state going to take treason seriously? 39551259
Reposted by Joan JardinZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026We've won big this year - and our wins have forced the Labour government to change course. But we need far more and urgently. From climate action to an emergency brake on rents - we'll keep the pressure on to bring about the change this country needs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukGreens can move Labour in the right direction, says Zack PolanskiThe Green leader tells his autumn conference that a vote for his party can force changes from Andy Burnham. 18652198
Reposted by Joan JardinRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement. 377120803485
Reposted by Joan JardinAlison Hearn @alisonhearn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026You forgot to mention appointing his former art dealer and disgraced journalist Evan Solomon Minister of A.I. And both of them going “all in” on it despite all the evidence of risks. 2614
Reposted by Joan JardinRachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Notoriously thin skinned (said he never wanted to see Karina Gould again because she lightly criticized him during the leadership campaign???), boys club reputation, bringing patronage back to the Senate, I could go on!!!! THIS is the guy you wanna give the peace prize? 1032525
Reposted by Joan JardinRachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Building pipelines despite dogshit Indigenous consultation, bulldozing nature, privatization, fossil fuel expansion, opening to door to extinction for orcas, worsening the climate crisis, funding police training in the West Bank, cutting future funding for pharmacare— 434831
Reposted by Joan JardinOliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"Massive crowd outside Palantir’s HQ in central London. Throw this evil corporation out of our public services." via Global Justice Now 2568101989
Reposted by Joan JardinPatricia Campbell @patriciacampbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Cruelty IS the point👇 Federal goons are sadists. 131
Reposted by Joan JardinJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Not to mention the obvious "YAY FOR NORMALIZING VACCINATION!" As a Covid cautious person, I wish they were wearing masks, too but you gotta take the wins when you see them. And this kind of "Even tough guys get anxious" messaging is one I can get behind. 1937
Reposted by Joan JardinAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sliwa getting a flu shot: This could be very embarrassing. I’m supposed to be a tough guy, right? Mamdani: I can hold your hand. Sliwa: What happens if I faint? Mamdani: I got you. Doctor: You’re in great hands, literally. New Yorkers can find free flu shots and locations at nyc.gov/healthmap 492157052961
Reposted by Joan JardinJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I know the bar is so low it's in hell but these are the moments of healthy masculinity that warm my heart. It's okay to be afraid of needles! It's okay to need some comfort! It's okay to get that comfort from another straight dude! At a time when empathy is seen as a weakness, this is really nice 519240
Reposted by Joan Jardinconifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Release ALL the Epstein files NOW! 261131524
Reposted by Joan JardinElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 01/10/2026CEO compensation has increased 1,316% since 1978. And worker compensation? Just 28%. The system is rigged. We need to start taxing the rich so they pay their fair share. 14638651351
Reposted by Joan JardinRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Feeling the squeeze after paying your rent today? There’s a way for you and millions of other tenants to fight back against skyrocketing rental housing costs: tenant unions. @taraghuveer.bsky.social explains what they are, how they work, and how you can start your own.youtu.beWhat Your Landlord Doesn’t Want You to Know (ft. Tara Raghuveer)Are you sick and tired of dealing with soaring rent and crumbling buildings? Do you want to level the playing field betw 21803359
Reposted by Joan JardinFreethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Spanish actor Javier Bardem is calling to boycott Starbucks for supporting the genocide in Palestine 38761031328
Reposted by Joan JardinJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Fuck Mike Smith. The man has been accused multiple times of sexual assault. This is not the first time he's been brought up on charges. Dropped charges or even acquittals do not mean innocence. Society wants us to believe that women are born liars, but I refuse to swallow that propaganda.ctvnews.caSexual assault charge against ‘Trailer Park Boys’ actor Mike Smith dismissedA sexual assault charge against actor Mike Smith was dismissed on Thursday as his trial was set to begin in Dartmouth provincial court. 26431125
Reposted by Joan Jardin🍁 Left Coast Tree Frog 🕊️ @leftcoasttreefrog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Union calls Stelco layoff rationale ‘disingenuous and contradictory’ #hamont #cdnpoli #onpoli toronto.citynews.ca/2026/10/01/u...toronto.citynews.caUnion calls Stelco layoff rationale 'disingenuous and contradictory'The union representing Stelco Holdings Inc. workers says the steelmaker’s U.S. parent company is being “disingenuous and contradictory” by blaming the planned layoff of up to 500 workers on the trade ... 043
Reposted by Joan JardinRightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Eric Schmitt’s Slam Dunk A cartoon by Michael de Addercontrariannews.orgSchmitt’s Slam DunkA cartoon by Michael de Adder 572862760
Reposted by Joan JardinElizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 30/09/2026I’ve been asked to weigh in on the debate over whether to bring an iced coffee to an interview. It doesn't matter. Iced coffee is NOT why it's hard to land a job right now, and it's NOT why Gen Z can't get ahead. Our economy is rigged. We need to change that. 19466921292
Reposted by Joan JardinRachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and Canada has a lot of work to do. In some ways, we’re actually backsliding right now -- from residential school denial to rights-busting "national building projects." We gotta do a better job of defending and respecting Indigenous rights: 1028982
Reposted by Joan JardinLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 01/10/2026NDP parliamentary leader @donvdavies.bsky.social says National Post column targeting NDP leader @avilewis.ca is "appalling, irresponsible and likely criminal" The column calls for Lewis to be dealt with by way of ancient "Jewish law" while invoking loaded language used by Yitzhak Rabin's assassin 1122898
Reposted by Joan JardinAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 5030881087
Reposted by Joan JardinJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The two places where adult men experience the highest rates of sexual assault are in the military and while incarcerated. That fact alone proves that sexual assault is about power, domination and humiliation. It's about making someone "your bitch" - proving the inherent misogyny involved. 111028
Reposted by Joan JardinAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort." 693279149540
Reposted by Joan Jardin𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 28/09/2026The Golden Age is going so well, Americans are nostalgic for 2008. 21759161737
Reposted by Joan JardinSir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's no longer 'democracy' really. It's a plutocracy....and often it's no longer even hidden as though there's no shame in it any more 2433
Reposted by Joan JardinGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophisticated tools to persuade a government to adopt it. The government adopts it. Please read whole🧵 31915399
Reposted by Joan JardinGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We can spend our lives debating the justifications (I more or less have); but we are wasting our time. What we need is a massive clampdown on the influence of money over politics, including lobbying transparency, campaign finance reform, an end to the revolving door between politics and lobbying. 11581125
Reposted by Joan JardinGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Then the government must find a find of selling this policy, which might be very harmful. It will argue that it’s essential for “growth”, “jobs”, “international standing” etc. Opponents will then argue these claims, engaging in the great democratic tradition of “debate”. But debate is irrelevant. 432448
Reposted by Joan JardinJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I teach bystander intervention for a living which means every day, I listen to people tell me they don't need to learn those skills because they would obviously do the right thing in the moment. ... and then I read about the frat at Cornell and the shitshow at GuelphU and I bang my head on the wall 211023