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Erika Shaker @ershaker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

www.thestar.com/news/investi... ‘In a statement sent via email, a spokesperson for Kerzner said the province is investing $3 billion to increase jail capacity “as part of the government’s plan to strengthen the bail system and keep dangerous offenders behind bars.”‘

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The Ford government quietly changed its building code, clearing the way for more triple-bunking in Ontario’s overcrowded jails

Ontario quietly eliminated minimum sleep-area rules for jails, clearing the way for triple-bunking in overcrowded facilities.

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If the Liberals are planning to bulldoze this pipeline through without the free, prior, and informed consent of impacted Indigenous peoples, will this just be another pipeline to the court?

Photo of Leah in the House of Commons, quote on top of her reads, "If the Liberals are planning to bulldoze this pipeline through without the free, prior, and informed consent of impacted Indigenous peoples, will this just be another pipeline to the court?"

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Angus Reid Institute finds nearly two-thirds (64%) say provincial governments should limit the development of large data centres, while fewer than one-in-five (18%) would encourage more. Opposition reaches seven-in-10 in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Atlantic Canada." angusreid.org/data-centre-...

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Data Centre Doubts: Two-thirds want them limited; fears over resource drains drive resistance - Angus Reid Institute Canada

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Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Dani Bensky: Institutions do not get to demand our trust while refusing to earn it. Survivors are done being scared. We are not going to be silent.

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Broadbent Institute @broadbent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is the Achilles' heel of the Major Projects agenda. How can Canadians buy into a policy program they have no say on, have little clarity on how the things to be built will help them afford essentials today, and leave unions & civil society off the table while our infrastructure is on the menu?

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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We aren’t getting $5000 checks, but even if we did, it’s not enough to make up for how much we’ve lost.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Last week I got a shout out in an Iranian Lego slopaganda video. Getting made an official Canadian LEGO hero ranks up with being blacklisted by Vladimir Putin. Meanwhile the work for democracy and fighting MAGA goes on. My thoughts on where we're at: charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-day-i-...

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The Day I Became a LEGO Hero

Maybe you’ve been following the Iranian LEGO phenomenon.

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

New episode of Sandy and Nora is out! We talk about riots! Young people are rising up in France over the state of their education system, and in Spain over the high cost of living. Canada would prefer if you didn't know about this. sandyandnora.com/episode-395-...

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Episode 395 – Canada hopes you don’t notice Spain and France right now

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is clear: states shall consult and cooperate in good faith with the Indigenous peoples to obtain their free and informed consent prior to the approval of any project affecting their lands or territories and other resources. (2/3)

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Today I joined Indigenous leaders, parliamentarians and environmentalists from across Canada and the Americas calling on the Government of Canada to respect Indigenous rights and to cooperate globally to address the climate emergency putting lives at risk. (1/3)

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Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🤠 Chris Henderson: How to Talk to the Temporary Strategic Alberta Separatist in Your Life. Five practical messages to explain this isn’t a game worth the risk of playing.

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Chris Henderson: How to Talk to the Temporary Strategic Separatist in Your Life

Five practical messages to explain this isn’t a game worth the risk of playing.

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reckoningmuse.bsky.social @reckoningmuse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The GOP isn’t just stealing our tax $—it’s stealing our future “Why the world cannot afford the rich.” research connecting highly unequal societies w outcomes including poor health & education, violence, pollution, & poverty. www.nature.com/articles/d41... HUMAN BEINGS ARE NOT PRODUCT

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 07/10/2026

@globalaffairs.canada.ca - can you tell us why you pulled support from this important academic #disinformation conference at the last minute? Despite high profile gestures of solidarity with the #EU, it seem pressure from the #USA still scares you.

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Joshua Keep @jekeep.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A lot of the Americans on here remind me of the Germans who vociferously hated Hitler, but who still supported their genocidal country because it's a time of war.

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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 07/10/2026

Fantastic video by @paige.canadiancivil.com on how first-past-the-post is failing Canada and why it's time to finally embrace proportional representation. Watch here! youtu.be/1iaXqhX0Edk?...

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Time To Stop Voting Like Americans

YouTube video by Paige Saunders

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Kathleen Burt @keburt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Interesting. Not the sort of news one usually gets, but very important.

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Kathleen Burt @keburt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Billionaires looking for Stepford wives so they can do away with most humans.

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Bonkers: Sea levels are running 1.2ft above the late-20th century baseline in San Diego as sea surface temperatures are about 7°F warmer than normal. These highly anomalous ocean temperatures and heights will continue through winter along the California coast amid El Niño. #CAwx

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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

again, really hope working mathematicians put the pieces together and realize the fundamental threat from ai companies has little to do with transforming practices or modes of mentorship. they want a death grip on funding and employment in the discipline. it's what they want with everything

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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

they're focusing on math early because it's evidently amenable to their tech and it has a lot of pr power. what we see in software development and what we see in math are the private and public mirrors of each other, respectively. the goal is to be between you and whoever will pay you to think

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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i'm not dooming, i certainly don't think they're guaranteed to win. but staging an all out assault on every flow of money to intellectual work is what they've been saying they intend to do, and they're doing it. it is really important to take them seriously

Screenshot of a Tweet by @TheChiefNerd inclusing an interview with Sam Altman.

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SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

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Sean Tucker @seantucker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

TOMORROW (Wednesday) learn more about the findings of our review of Alberta public health and OHS' response to the largest COVID-19 outbreak in North America. Register here: ualberta-ca.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #publichealth #OHS

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Karen Klassen @kklassen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Republican Party connections to Alberta’s separation referendum daveberta.substack.com/p/republican... "Tait dropped a bombshell story this past weekend about Alberta separatists going to Washington D.C. to offer fresh water and oil in exchange for American financial support..."

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Republican Party connections to Alberta’s separation referendum

Another bombshell story dropped by Carrie Tait and the Globe & Mail

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Some people here don't seem to have understood the purpose of a political party. It's not the same as a protest movement. It is a vehicle designed to get into government, to change legislation and make a material difference to the lives of people at home and abroad.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One of Canada’s largest newspapers published what read a whole lot like an incitement to violence against NDP Leader Avi Lewis, prompting widespread condemnation. Yet for some reason, there appears to be all but radio silence from mainstream Canadian media. Here's what I found:

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Through the Liberals' Bill C-39, they're ramping up their attacks on workers' rights, including the right to strike. Whether it’s workers, Indigenous peoples or defenders of the environment, the Liberals say they consult only to totally ignore those worst impacted by their corporate agenda. (1/3)

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is in response to news that we’re never going to profit from TMX, despite the government regularly calling the project “wildly profitable.” Anyway, when the whole argument for the infrastructure to be built is PROFIT-BASED, (unlike Canada Post!) yes you do!!

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Gazan said Canada is continuing to fail to live up to its agreements with Indigenous Peoples. She said the ‘harrowing demonstration’ in BC ‘underscores the threat that residential school denialism and white nationalism pose to the safety of Indigenous peoples.”

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Gazan calls for emergency debate on residential school denialism

NDP MP Leah Gazan is calling for an emergency debate in the House of Commons over residential school denialism.

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Jenny Kwan @jennykwan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Bill C-233 was defeated 295–22 by Liberal MPs on 11/3 before it could reach committee. Liberal Sean Casey was later removed as Parliamentary Secretary after supporting it. Why does Canada still have loopholes in its arms-export regime? Watch former Canadian Ambassador to the UN Allan Rock explain.

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Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @laura-babcock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We are on a dangerous path Canada if we don’t protect our beautiful, peaceful country from the separatists who are working with Trump regime 🇨🇦 🍁

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Canadians will officially never recoup the costs of ***TMX*** and the government is going to drive the orcas to extinction for ANOTHER oil pipeline. Isn’t Carney supposed to be a great economic brain or something?? Why are we killing the whales for nothing?!

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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This contagious claim that under the NDP BC has become 'the highest taxed province' is nonsense. Provincial own-source revenue as share of GDP is 4th lowest among the provinces, and below the Canadian weighted average. #bcpoli /2

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"'If the Liberal government is serious about reconciliation, then it will rescind its decision to take away the much-needed money for healing and support for residential school survivors and our families,' said Gazan.” (1/2)

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New federal petition calls for permanent health funding for residential school survivors | CBC News

A new petition submitted to the House of Commons is calling upon the federal government to make health resource funding for residential school survivors permanent. Winnipeg Centre Member of Parliament...

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don't know why we are paying for this office. I called on the commissioner's office over the meeting between Alberta separatists and State Department and a $500 mil slush fund. I was blown off and told to send concerns to "general inquiries." ie. the dead letter office. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Past Alberta separatist meetings in U.S. don't fall under foreign influence registry: watchdog | CBC News

Meetings between advocates of Alberta separation and American government officials don't have to be included in Canada's new foreign influence registry because they took place before the registry went...

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Kathleen Burt @keburt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I hope your dream comes true. You won't have any dearth of material. My heavens, our politics alone are truly horror stories.

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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 05/10/2026

“There is no alternative” is back with a vengeance. But just like last time, it is a power grab—and one that we have the capacity to resist. By @whosestreets.bsky.social www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

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What AI revolution? | CCPA

“There is no alternative” is back with a vengeance. But just like last time, it is a power grab—and one that we have the capacity to resist.

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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 05/10/2026

“From a business perspective, [airport privatization] can produce...higher revenues and lower expenditures,” @davidmaccdn.bsky.social says. “But that doesn’t necessarily translate to better service or cheaper prices for the travelling public...” #cdnpoli themargin.news/dont-privati...

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There's a better way to fix Canada's airports

Carney's privatization plans would turn our airports into a different kind of hell. Here's what to do instead.

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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 05/10/2026

“These for-profit facilities offering MRI and surgical services take in much more funding from the province than they pay out in value to #Ontarians,” says @alonghurst.bsky.social. “And [this does not] lead to shorter diagnostic and surgical wait times...” www.thesudburystar.com/news/private...

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Private facilities sucking up money and increasing wait times: Report

At the same time, two MRI machines at Health Sciences North are not being fully used

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026

Wolfers: Wage growth has just been falling month after month after month now... So the purchasing power, the amount of stuff that a typical American worker can afford is actually going backwards. This is not how it’s meant to be. Full analysis: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Convicted Felon Donald Trump and his personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, know with the Midterms around the corner, DELAY is the name of the game

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