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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It is the dawn of a new era. Hear our battle anthem. Welcome to the new InfoWars.

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Richard Warnica @rwarnica.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I went home recently to write about Alberta’s separatists. What I found was a movement wildly, dangerously disconnected from reality. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

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Richard Warnica: I went home to the heartland of Alberta independence. Even after covering Donald Trump for 10 years, I was still terrified by what I found

Independence movement eerily reminiscent of Trump's America.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

This is horrific. I feel physically ill. (Reposted with ALT text)

Max Spero
@max_spero_
A major US newspaper publisher is rolling out an Al-generated content farm that will use the bylines of real reporters without their consent.
But McClatchy executives initially indicated they'd like more control over how they label reporters' work.
Kathy Vetter, McClatchy's chief of staff for local news, said during the March 17 meeting that the company's general policy was that reporters who cannot revoke the use of their bylines must keep them attached to CSA-produced stories. For those who can revoke their byline, she said, McClatchy will still use their work anyway.
"We have every right to use their work," she said, according to multiple sources familiar with the meeting. "It belongs to us, and if an editor wants to go ... in there and repurpose a reporter's content, they can put their name on it."
"If they don't have the ability in their contract to remove their byline, we're going to use their name," Vetter added in response to a question. "Now, I'm not asking

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LittleMxSurly @littlemxsurly.yharnam.singles · 11/04/2026

It’s amazing what we can do when we’re not killing one another

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Today in AI: Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials. Everyone involved should be fired. archive.is/ELrCI#select...

Kémy Adé was shocked by the immigration refusal letter she received.
In rejecting her permanent residence application, the Immigration Department cited her current job duties, which included wiring and assembling control circuits, building control and robot panels, programming and troubleshooting. The department said these duties didn’t match the Canadian work experience she claimed.
Well, no, they didn’t. Adé is a post-doctoral research fellow and guest teacher at McMaster University — and those skills are not part of her repertoire. Nor are they what she submitted in her immigration application a year ago.
“I saw this language about this job description that has nothing to do with me,” said the health scientist from France, who has a PhD from Sorbonne University in the immunology of aging. “I was disoriented how this could happen.”
But a disclaimer at the bottom of the refusal letter might provide a hint.
It’s believed to be the first time that the department explicitly referred to the use of generative AI to support application processing in immigration refusals. The disclaimer also noted that all generated content was verified by an officer and that generative AI was not used to make or recommend a decision.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/03/2026

Good words of warning here. AI models are generally designed to read and incorporate (and, in a sense, believe) virtually everything they find online, with very few guardrails. The information can get divorced from its original source, context, & rebuttals or retractions. That's a really big problem

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Bezos didn’t make a mistake. He gutted the newsroom because he wanted to kill off the news.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

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max nesterak @maxnesterak.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The danger is not that neoliberalism is ending, but that it is being replaced by something worse: a world of militarized competition, eco-fascism, and technocratic management of permanent crisis. Acknowledging the collapse of the old order is not the same as building a democratic alternative to it.

canadiandimension.com

What Mark Carney gets wrong about the end of the rules-based order

To re-establish power, defend sovereignty, and strengthen democratic values, Canada and its allies must do more than challenge the American state. We must also confront the influence of US corporate p...

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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 09/01/2026

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

On this day in 1989, an armed gunman murdered 14 women at École Polytechnique de Montréal. Another ten women and four men were injured. The anniversary of the massacre is commemorated annually on Dec. 6 as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.

A black granite memorial plaque features a circular arrangement of names in white text, bordered by silver rivets. At the top center is an emblem of a bee with gears. The text reads "in memoriam" followed by two columns of names: Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Annie St-Arneault, Annie Turcotte, Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz. At the bottom: "6 DÉCEMBRE 1989".

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The Holmwood Foundation @theholmwoodfnd.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

We’re still crowdfunding and we’re only at 17% we’d love to make Season Two and we can’t do it without you. Please help us make this a reality!

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 26/09/2024

Just your annual reminder to raise a glass to Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov who on this date in 1983 saved your life when he decided to wait for evidence in stead of passing on the message that could have caused armageddon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_So...

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divine beastmode @gunstreet.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

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John Melmoth @johnmelmoth.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Some good news for the timeline. Hopefully this leads to an effective therapy.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Bezalel Smotrich on French, British, Canadian recognition of a Palestinian state: "we just need to make sure there's nothing to recognise" (30 July 25)

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Ariel Troster @arieltroster.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Ottawa’s first-ever office-to-transitional-housing conversion opened today at 230 Queen Street. This beautiful space will house 140 people, primarily refugees and asylum seekers who need a safe place to land.

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John Melmoth @johnmelmoth.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Since we can all use some, some good news today.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The Canadian government needs to do a massive PSA blitz telling people that genAI lies and the results from ChatGPT and all the other slop machines cannot be trusted, at all. The time has come to bring back the house hippo.

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Andrew Flack @flackncoke.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

With brilliant chess moves like this it’s a wonder David Zaslav hasn’t yet been asked to join the Trump Administration.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

There’s a measles outbreak in the Canadian province of Ontario that’s twice the size of the one in Texas. Over 1000 people are sick. Why isn’t this getting more media attention? People need to be informed of the risk & how to protect themselves. Vaccinate, wear a respirator, isolate when sick.

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Shira Lurie @shiralurie.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

GOOD MORNING TO THE VOTERS OF CARLETON SPECIFICALLY

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king's co-op boo store 👻 @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

scha·den·freu·de /ˈSHädənˌfroidə/ noun pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/04/2025

Trump brings up "Governor Trudeau" and says, "I have to be honest. As a state, it works great. As a nation ... why are we spending $200 billion? It doesn't make sense."

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Dave Nelson 🇨🇦 @davenlsn.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

You normally will never see me suggest voting other than Liberal But please Saanich-Gulf Islands please don't split the vote. Vote Elizabeth May. Vote Green here

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 17/04/2025

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️

Defend the Internet Archive.
Protect the Wayback Machine.
Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit.
Sign our open letter on change.org

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The world is literally and figuratively burning. We're on the cusp of a third world war. We're facing historic income disparities; the revival of once eradicated diseases. But the West is going full court press against trans women?! Proof that you can't separate transphobia from fascism.

cbc.ca

British Supreme Court unanimously rules legal definition of a 'woman' excludes trans women's identities | CBC News

The United Kingdom's top court on Wednesday upheld an appeal by the campaign group For Women Scotland on whether transgender women are legally women under equality legislation.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Catching up on a few things I haven’t had a chance to clip yet — did you know Poilievre, speaking in French, called UNWRA terrorists and said he’d stop giving any funding to them???? Absolutely horrifying position given UNWRA’s integral role in providing humanitarian aid to the region.

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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 03/04/2025

We're very excited to announce journalists @rachelgilmore.bsky.social and Emily Baron Cadloff are teaming up with National Observer staff for a biweekly election fact-checking segment. First post coming tomorrow! Follow for updates.

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The Canadian Anti-Stalking Association (CASA) @antistalkingcanada.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

A reminder : Registering to vote is an OPTION in Canada - not a requirement! Your voice matters. Your vote matters. Exercise your democratic rights in the safest way you can!

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EmmaaAAHH! 👻 ArkHell 💀 @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Really incredible to have CTV, an entire broadcast news outlet, say they 'don't have the bandwidth' to deal with the type of harassment that Rachel Gilmore deals with as an individual journalist all the time.

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Amanda Hu @amandalhu.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Solidarity with the people of Kalaallit Nunaat. As settler Canadians, we must support and affirm Indigenous sovereignty and the Kalaallit, just like the Nunavummiut in Nunavut self-govern their lands after centuries of colonization. Now the US wants to implement American colonization there 😡

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Scripps Research Institute have developed a groundbreaking UNIVERSAL coronavirus vaccine that triggers STONG immune responses AND shows promise in neutralizing MULTIPLE coronaviruses, including those responsible for causing COVID-19, MERS, AND even the “common cold.” 🧪🧵⬇️

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

!!! No Other Land director Hamdan Ballal is free and going home

Yuval Abraham tweets: "Hamdan Ballal is free and is about to go home to his family"

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Sophie @anxi0usvirgo.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I am truly terrified for Hamdan. If you don’t know who Hamdan Ballal is, he is the director of No Other Land and he and Yuval both won the Oscar for Best Documentary this year

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John Melmoth @johnmelmoth.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

It is such a delight to reach the end of a book I really enjoyed and find out the author is trans. In completely related news, the conclusion of "The Last Days of the Dinosaurs" made me cry.

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

If you care about preserving online resources being scrubbed from federal gov't websites, support the work of the Internet Archive. I've used it for teaching, research, and writing. I donated & hope you will, too. archive.org

archive.org

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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Jeff Veillette @jeffveillette.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

If the Americans want to do something about it, we are hiding all the product in aptly-named safe houses called Shoppers Drug Marts. Their ring leader, Galen Weston, is sometimes referred to as “the Fent Emp”. His army communicates using special devices powered by Ed Rogers’ radio wave syndicate.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

L Ron Hubbard buying copies of his own shitty sci-fi novels, but this time it’s cars?

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