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HANK TOUGH

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Don Davies @donvdavies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Liberals’ new bill allows the Minister to violate workers’ right to strike based solely on her opinion after taking into account any consideration she wants. That’s not guardrails at all - it’s pure discretion.
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Jackie Wong @jackie-wong.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I haven't been here much lately but I made this just now and my coworkers said I should post it
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HANK TOUGH @marktrk.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
So far shocked I haven't seen more coverage of this, seems like a @pennydaflos.bsky.social special
biv.com
B.C. admits to $1.5B budget error following BIV investigation
Premier's office blames 'administrative error' for missing $1.5B in gas royalties; experts call the government's explanation confusing, and in some cases, demonstrably false
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
🇺🇸🇺🇦 Keith Kellogg: The overwhelming majority of Americans support Ukraine and believe in Ukraine. But I’ll tell you, if you conduct a poll in America, you will automatically get 30% of people who believe the sun rises in the west or the southeast. I simply don’t count them.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Here's our 44 minute debate this morning between Stephanie Allen, Pete Fry and William Azaroff as they compete to (maybe, probably) be the sole progressive Vancouver mayoral candidate this October. Glad to do this public service journalism! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhK6...
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3 Vancouver mayoral candidates debate why they should be voted in
YouTube video by CBC British Columbia
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HANK TOUGH @marktrk.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Is any comment truly needed?
Vancouver politician wears speedo to press conference
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
After that strike on Nivky, emergency workers heard a terrified cat, trapped and injured under a slab of concrete. The little creature was rescued and hopefully will make a full recovery.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.
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The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)
The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.
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Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Despite the UN warning both Ukraine and Russia in advance, Russia still openly bombed a UN convoy, then proudly released the footage through channels linked to Russian drone groups. This is exactly why so many now view Russia’s so-called “humanitarian concerns” as utterly hollow.
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.
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Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
🥹 Ukraine: A frontline unit discovered a lost dog and cat at their position, so they sent them away to safety on a 12km drone flight back to their command. Ukrainians refuse to lose their humanity even as they are forced to confront the greatest evil on Earth, alone, for years.
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HANK TOUGH @marktrk.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Vancouver city staff recommend dropping Mayor Ken Sim's bitcoin motion | CBC News www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Great article from @jmcelroy.bsky.social Can someone ask Lon LaClaire why @visionzerovancouver.ca is no longer a priority for staff?
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Vancouver city staff recommend dropping Mayor Ken Sim's bitcoin motion | CBC News
Vancouver city staff are taking stock of what council motions they should work on for the rest of the year — and one of the motions on the chopping block is a pet project from Mayor Ken Sim.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
ICE shooter Joshua Jahn's politics aren't what's being reported, three longtime former friends tell me. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...
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The ICE Shooter’s Motive
Joshua Jahn's friends speak
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si oppington ☣️ @stillwellgray.ca · 24/06/2025
my understanding from online commentators was that Justin Trudeau had stolen all the oil, said making money was illegal and called all the oil workers gay, was this not the case
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 07/05/2025
TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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HANK TOUGH @marktrk.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
"Canadian exports to the US plunged 6.6%, the biggest drop since the pandemic. Canada’s exports to countries other than the US jumped 24.8%, however, almost entirely offsetting the decline in shipments to the south" Usually I'd agree, but holy cow www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Mark Carney Comes to Washington With a Message
Get caught up.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
hell yeah
We're expanding the Canadian Dental Care Plan. Starting today, Canadians aged 55-64 can apply. In the coming weeks, applications will open to Canadians aged 18-54.

because of this plan, millions of people can afford to see a dentist - some for the first time in decades. Soon, millions more will get that same care.
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I didn’t think this story could get any more tragic. But this report, from the remarkable Kim Bolan, just makes everything more heartbreaking. And I hope it will help to quell the conspiracies, along with the craven political exploitation of this horror. It’s just tragedy piled atop tragedy.
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Driver charged with 8 counts of murder in Vancouver's Lapu Lapu Day tragedy
Kai-ji Adam Lo, charged Sunday with eight counts of murder, had dozens of interactions with police for his deteriorating mental health.
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HANK TOUGH @marktrk.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
“Frank, there’s three things that win an election. Number one is emotion, number two is emotion and number three is emotion.” www.politico.com/news/magazin... @voiceoffranky.bsky.social I also called Poilievre would have trouble after Trump in January, but was only brave enough to tell my wife 😅
politico.com
What the Polls in Canada Are Really Saying
A top Canadian pollster explains how Trump completely upended the election.
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The Record @therecord.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
B.C. judge uses Simpsons Duff Beer episode to explain failed lawsuit
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B.C. judge uses Simpsons Duff Beer episode to explain failed lawsuit
B.C. judge muses 'life imitates art' before describing a failed class action lawsuit as a repeat of deceptive marketing practices carried out by the Duff Beer company in a 'notorious' Simpsons episode
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
It’s a recalibration of economic control. Oligarchs don’t live paycheck to paycheck. They have the capital to buy market dips and recoup faster, acquiring more assets at fire sale prices along the way. When the dust finally settles, they will own more. The rest of us will own less. A lot less.
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Rob Hoadley @robhoadley.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
We'll be hearing from the Prime Minister of the Heard and McDonald Islands shortly on their tariff retaliation plan
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 01/04/2025
If Poilievre wins office, he’s planning a blitzkrieg of cuts and deregulation, following the model of Ontario premier Mike Harris. In an excerpt from his new book, Martin Lukacs reveals the first details of the group plotting Poilievre’s 100 day agenda. breachmedia.ca/inside-the-g...
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‘Hard and fast from every direction’: inside the group plotting Poilievre’s blitzkrieg of cuts ⋆ The Breach
Pierre Poilievre’s first days in government would rely on ‘the Mike Harris playbook’
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CBA/ABC National @cba-nationalmag.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
For anyone who believes in accountability, democracy, and human rights, what’s happening south of the border drives home why Canada’s Court Challenges Program is a worthwhile investment, says Anne Lévesque. www.nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articl...
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A guardrail of democracy
For anyone who believes in accountability, democracy, and human rights, what’s happening south of the border drives home why Canada’s Court Challenges Program is a worthwhile investment
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Suffice it to say, "calls were made", "an international incident was had", schedules were adjusted and I was lucky to keep my job. While it was within the letter of the CRT, it certainly wasn't within the spirit. That was the last time we had an int'l incident w/ the Columbia River Treaty. [fin]
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a man wearing glasses and a brown suit is sitting on a couch and making a funny face .
ALT: a man wearing glasses and a brown suit is sitting on a couch and making a funny face .
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HANK TOUGH @marktrk.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Our annual reminder that the time change is dumb #daylightsavings. Being on permanent daylight time was the best part of living in Saskatchewan. youtu.be/br0NW9ufUUw?...
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Daylight Saving Time - How Is This Still A Thing?: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Worth the watch.
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Canada's foreign affairs minister called U.S. trade war a 'psychodrama.' Does Trudeau agree?
YouTube video by CBC News
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Martin's father is the president of Trinity Western University, in Langley.
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HANK TOUGH @marktrk.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Hear me out for a second, what if, when the #Ontario auto plants inevitably get shuttered next week, the government transitions them to make armoured vehicles, assembled by the men and women otherwise laid off, using the steel we can't sell, paid for by a real minerals agreement with #Ukraine?
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Avis Favaro @avisfavaro.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Privately run surgical centres in Alberta perform procedures at double the cost to taxpayers than the provincial public hospital system. @ctvnews-rss.bsky.social
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
People are turning away from the news. Here’s why it’s happening. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/people-... via @reutersinstitute.bsky.social #journalism
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People are turning away from the news. Here’s why it may be happening
Our data shows a ten-year trend towards disengagement from online news, with interest in news falling and news avoidance rising.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The United States, to hear some tell it, is currently experiencing a “plutocratic coup.” Its democracy is in decline, reports have warned. In light of that, I’d like to share a slightly personal story -- one that keeps me up at night: youtu.be/VDccQaYgwNk
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What it's like to watch a democracy fail
YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore
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HANK TOUGH @marktrk.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Us after watching the #Simpsons episode from 2015 with Elonia Musk
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Jana G. Pruden @janapruden.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
A devatasting piece of writing by a journalist who becomes homeless. www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
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HANK TOUGH @marktrk.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
What is this, an actual response from a Police Service in Metro #Vanpoli? That takes traffic enforcement seriously? Hit that public feedback form fam (transitpolice.ca/contact-us) and let's highlight those bus lane scofflaws. And be nice!
Email response from Sgt Steve Newton re upcoming enforcement on a suggested street and giving thanks for the feedback
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