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Joan Jardin

@joanjardin.bsky.social
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Retired Union Worker & Teacher, Community Volunteer, Labour Union Council Member & activist. Kingston Ontario

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Naheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social · 20h
What 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.
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 18h
Oyster 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.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 23h
He doesn't need the money and now millions of his fans could risk having one of the most deadly addictions there is
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It 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.
A photo of a sidewalk in Ottawa with a stencilled chalk message that says "do I really need 10,000 steps a day? Ask PC Health"
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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Zionists are currently removing the bodies from under the rubble, destroying the “evidence”! youtu.be/-fNvMmO285Q?...
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Zionism is Racism
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Holborn 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!
Action day photo with Zack and Ross and a big crowd
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The 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.
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The 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
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Labour 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.
Revealed: government quietly dropped plan to orepare England for wildfires
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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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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Amazing 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!
Zack and Ross with lots of members and volunteersLorna, Zack and Richie with a vote green signZack with a resident on the streetZack with lots of people in lederhosen outsixe the rose and crown
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The 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?
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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M Dv-us @drdvus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We'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...
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Greens can move Labour in the right direction, says Zack Polanski
The Green leader tells his autumn conference that a vote for his party can force changes from Andy Burnham.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Americans 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.
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Elizabeth Sofia 💙🐈🐶🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @skippjon1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Alison Hearn @alisonhearn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You 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.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Notoriously 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?
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Building 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—
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Oliver @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
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Patricia Campbell @patriciacampbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cruelty IS the point👇 Federal goons are sadists.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not 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.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sliwa 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
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I 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
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Release ALL the Epstein files NOW!
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 01/10/2026
CEO 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.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Feeling 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.
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What 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
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Joan Jardin @joanjardin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So am I...
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Spanish actor Javier Bardem is calling to boycott Starbucks for supporting the genocide in Palestine
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fuck 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.
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Sexual assault charge against ‘Trailer Park Boys’ actor Mike Smith dismissed
A sexual assault charge against actor Mike Smith was dismissed on Thursday as his trial was set to begin in Dartmouth provincial court.
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🍁 Left Coast Tree Frog 🕊️ @leftcoasttreefrog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Union calls Stelco layoff rationale ‘disingenuous and contradictory’ #hamont #cdnpoli #onpoli toronto.citynews.ca/2026/10/01/u...
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Union 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 ...
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Eric Schmitt’s Slam Dunk A cartoon by Michael de Adder
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Schmitt’s Slam Dunk
A cartoon by Michael de Adder
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
I’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.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Today 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:
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 01/10/2026
NDP 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
Don Davies v @DonDavies • 1h This is appalling, irresponsible and likely criminal. Threatening and inciting others to remove a Canadian political leader for his political views is outrageous. Both the author and the National Post must retract, apologize and reverse this message at once. Samira Mohyeddin /jau Absolutely diabolical. National Post puts a bullseye on Avi Lewis through the rabid ramblings of Yoni Goldstein who invokes Halakhah and Leviticus on how to deal with Jews. Writing Lewis "presents a clear and present danger to the Jewish community" & other Jews are "duty- bound to = NATIONAL POST Yoni Goldstein: Jewish law tells us how to deal with Avi Lewis His Yom Kippur message was indefensible By Yoni Goldstein, Special to National Post Published Sep 29, 2026 Last updated 17 hours ago 4 minute read • 190 Comments

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@SMohyeddin • 10h = NATIONAL POST None of this applies, however, when a Jewish person presents a clear and present danger to the Jewish community. When that happens, Jewish thought is much more forceful: you must prevent the perpetrator from causing harm. Jewish law developed two character sketches to describe such scenarios. The first is known as a "mosar" — a Jewish person who informs to oppressive authorities, potentially leading to the imprisonment, torture or death of community members. The second, called a "rodef," refers to a Jew who is actively pursuing another with the intent to harm or kill them. In both scenarios, the law is clear that a jew is duty-bound to step in. Protecting the community and its members is the most important thing. 244
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This 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...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As 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.
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The 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.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack 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."
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 28/09/2026
The Golden Age is going so well, Americans are nostalgic for 2008.
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Sir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It'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
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here 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🧵
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We 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.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Then 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.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I 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
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