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Melissa Goldstein

@melissagoldstein.bsky.social
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Toronto-based affordable housing & homelessness policy researcher, analyst and advocate & anti-poverty/social justice activist. 🇨🇦

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Melissa Goldstein @melissagoldstein.bsky.social · 13h
I wish every single American felt haunted like this about every single one of the 500,000+ Americans arrested by ICE, 500,000+ deported by ICE to Lord knows where, & the many who have died/been killed at the hands of ICE. Instead all anyone seems to care about is fucking gas prices. Fuck gas prices.
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 15h
"Canada has therefore breached its obligations as a state party to the Rome Statute by allowing Netanyahu to enter Canadian airspace en route to the United States." - Ardi Imseis in this excellent piece by Evan Dyer CBC: www.cbc.ca/news/politic... #ICC #cdnpoli
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ANALYSIS | Netanyahu is flying freely over Canada as his international arrest warrant remains in place | CBC News
A review of two years of flights by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows that the Israeli leader is once again routinely taking a more direct path — through Canadian airspace — when travell...
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Francesca Bouaoun @francescabouaoun.bsky.social · 15h
It’s been two years since Ontario Place West Island was destroyed for a planned private spa. Hundreds of trees were cut down - here’s a snapshot of the many species who lost habitat. 🧵
Side-by-side comparison of a landscape on the Toronto waterfront. In one scene, an island is covered in trees reflected in a still channel of water. The other image of the same place shows a barren stretch land with a pile of rubble in the centre.
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 01/10/2026
”...provinces [that] have been aggressively promoting for-profit delivery of surgeries and diagnostic imaging are also (seeing) lengthening wait times and...struggling with getting patients into services quickly.” @alonghurst.bsky.social #onpoli www.insidehalton.com/news/ontario...
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Ontario spent $280M on private health clinics but wait times got worse says new study
Ontario MRI, cancer surgery, and cataract wait times all rose from 2017–2025, despite $280M spent licensing private health clinics, a new Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives study found.
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 01/10/2026
How much of Canada's economy is owned by foreign entities? @policyalternatives.ca Senior Economist @marclee.bsky.social talks about what a new wave of foreign investment means for our sovereignty. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
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Who owns Canada's economy? | Front Burner | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen
Prime Minister Mark Carney has been working to bring more foreign investment into Canada. At his recent Investment Summit, he told investors from all over the world that Canada “has what the world wan...
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026
Excellent work by @zoemas0n.bsky.social making a complicated topic very understandable. This is a very big deal that's completely buried within the coverage of C-39.
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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Strongly-worded (as it should be👍) piece by @picardonhealth.bsky.social (drawing on @hannay.bsky.social's reporting) on the ongoing Grifols fiasco, and the inadequate efforts to address it. "Plasma collection in Canada is a bloody mess that needs fixing" www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: Plasma collection in Canada is a bloody mess that needs fixing
The importance of plasma-derived medications can’t be overstated, but integrity of the system is even more crucial
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Melissa Goldstein @melissagoldstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There are a lot of people named here who should be sued for their roles in the preventable sickness and deaths of Cargill workers. Asking for an apology isn't good enough accountability for what seems like criminal neglect of responsibility.
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Melissa Goldstein @melissagoldstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For a short time in 2008 (until he was fired), Kenneth Law held a senior position in the Research & Innovation Branch of Ontario's Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, where I was doing a student internship. He was narcissistic, arrogant, incompetent & sorely lacked any people skills.
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Melissa Goldstein @melissagoldstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AI is helping kill Canadians. Why is Carney's focus on encouraging its spread instead of cracking down to stop its harms? He'd may as well have made it a government priority to push illegal guns, toxic drugs, & white collar crime. (Except all those things have significantly smaller climate impacts.)
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Melissa Goldstein @melissagoldstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AI is helping kill Canadians. Why is Carney's focus on encouraging its spread instead of cracking down to stop its harms? He'd may as well have made it a government priority to push illegal guns, toxic drugs, & white collar crime. (Except all those things have significantly smaller climate impacts.)
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jimmycraig42.bsky.social @jimmycraig42.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We were once the top market for US wine Now we are the top market for US whine
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Rainbows are actually full circles if you get high enough (as in height, not...uh, anyway). Here's a mind-blowing photo by Lukas Moesch that illustrates this beautifully. (Via bigthink.com/starts-with-... and Kottke.org)
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Rainbows are actually full circles. A physicist explains
Most of us only ever see a fraction of a full rainbow: an arc. But optically, a full rainbow makes a complete circle. Physics explains why.
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Melissa Goldstein @melissagoldstein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Feeling nostalgic for that brief period when it seemed Canadians had finally learned that neoliberalism & privatization were bad things for Canada & for them personally. But please, keep whining about taxes while supporting an agenda that will see taxes balloon & what you get for them shrink.
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Melissa Goldstein @melissagoldstein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mark Carney's global investor summit dinner & dance.. Haven't seen that level of police presence in downtown Toronto since the G20. How much did Torontonians spend to protect all those global investment billionaires angling to strip our country of our assets, resources, and sovereignty, I wonder?
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Melissa Goldstein @melissagoldstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Toronto needs Councillor Chan McNally.
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m glad Mamdani did this. Cuomo certainly never would have
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Melissa Goldstein @melissagoldstein.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Austin starting experimenting with ChatGPT in the same way that some people experiment with drugs. Some people can quit, but others who didn't realize they were vulnerable to addiction can't. Ppl know that toxic drugs can kill you. They need to understand that chatbots can be just as toxic & deadly.
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Melissa Goldstein @melissagoldstein.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
How do @apnews.com and @reuters.com completely ignore what should be the biggest 9/11-related news story—a massive political cover-up of the toxic air in NYC & efforts to avoid liability—while only covering Trump's BS speech, without it being professional misconduct??
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 06/09/2026
“The 23 [AI-generated] websites are designed to influence the answers that AI chatbots give to voters in Alberta, targeting farmers, young people, veterans, mothers and oil industry workers.”
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A US-linked network of fake websites is promoting Alberta separatism to AI chatbots
The websites present crude, AI-generated slop disguised as the voice of real Albertans. But they're made in Florida — and they're not even targeting Albertans directly.
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Melissa Goldstein @melissagoldstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is bonkers. But I guess only if you think the US is still a functioning democracy, which it clearly isn't. Good luck with those midterm "elections."
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 31/08/2026
Are we great again yet?
Researchers in china have successfully reversed both type one and type two diabetes using stem cells that allow patients' bodies to produce insulin again

Just in: the United States announces a new name for one of the lakes here.
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Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Fellow Canadians, please repost the heck out of this. The con man is conning us out of our territory. www.alternet.org/trump-lake-o...
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'Emergency': Trump biographer warns the president just 'invaded Canada'
On Friday, a prominent biographer of President Donald Trump took to social media to warn that the commander-in-chief had “invaded Canada.”
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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A Vancouver peeler bar comes up with a scorching political zinger? Good for them. (By the by, it’s a strip joint that’s been in business since 1947.)
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Melissa Goldstein @melissagoldstein.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
These are the best. Thank you Minnesota crop artists!
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Melissa Goldstein @melissagoldstein.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Let's hope Trump is too stupid to figure out that he can control WAY more than lake names through the US tech that powers Canadian infrastructure.
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Melissa Goldstein @melissagoldstein.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Google rushes to update the name of Lake Ontario (see blog.google/products-and...), while their satellite imagery of that same body of water remains YEARS out of date. WTF. Our own Doug Ford has been busy destroying Ontario's cultural landmarks, but you wouldn't know it from looking at Google maps.
Google maps' current satellite view of Ontario place, showing the hundreds of trees & structures that were destroyed by Ford's PC government  in 2024 still intact Here We Go's current satellite view of Ontario Place, accurately showing Doug Ford's destruction of hundreds of trees & structures, leaving nothing but a giant barren wasteland
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Melissa Goldstein @melissagoldstein.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Interesting how quickly Google updated their map (see blog.google/products-and...), when they haven't bothered to update their satellite imagery of that same body of water in YEARS. Our own Doug Ford is destroying Ontario's cultural landmarks, but you wouldn't know it from looking at Google maps.
Google maps' current satellite view of Ontario Place showing intact the trees and structures that were completely destroyed  in 2024Here We Go's current satellite view of Ontario from a Place that shows how it exists today; nothing but dirt parking lot with a huge mound of dirt in the center (and the Cinesphere is still standing
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Melissa Goldstein @melissagoldstein.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
@mapquest.com Checkmate.
Lake Ontario renamed to Lake Release the Epstein Files
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 26/08/2026
A city at the southern tip of Mexico has become the place where the Trump administration sends migrants from across the Western Hemisphere, Kevin Sieff reports. Deportees tell him it’s where migrants’ dreams go to die.
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A Reverse Ellis Island
A city at the southern tip of Mexico has become the place where migrants’ dreams go to die.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
After announcing a big clean energy deal earlier this week, Carney took a victory lap. “We're living through the consequences of a world that collectively hasn't taken climate change seriously enough,” he said. It's part of his latest effort to greenwash his climate record:
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Irony alert: The Minnesota officials who charged an ICE agent for shooting a man through a door in Minneapolis and then lying about it say he may be planning to flee to Mexico and get legal residency there through a sham marriage. Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott is refusing to extradite.
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Minnesota attorney general sues Texas governor to compel extradition of ICE agent for trial
Minnesota’s attorney general sued the governor of Texas on Tuesday, seeking to compel the extradition of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent charged with wounding a man and then lyin…
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Trump regime is looking for immigrant detention camps big enough to hold up to 3,000 children. At an industry roundtable discussion, officials wouldn't say exactly where or when they need them, only that they’re expecting a “surge.” New from me in @prospect.org.
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Judge Orders Monitors for Child Detention as Trump Administration Plans Expansion - The American Prospect
The order came the same day that the Office of Refugee Resettlement held an industry roundtable to discuss new detention facilities for thousands of children.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 18/08/2026
Julia Curlee devoted her life to serving her country. She briefed Mike Pence and served as a director on the National Security Council. But when her gender identity became public, she was told she was no longer needed.
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The Wrong Kind of American
The Trump White House needed me—until the fact that I am trans became public.
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Melissa Goldstein @melissagoldstein.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Indeed. Karen Trump & the Karenpublican party have turned the US into a Karentocrazy.
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Melissa Goldstein @melissagoldstein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Being sent out to sea on a barge without even the basics like working toilets, proper food, hot water & toiletries, while being told again & again it'll be over imminently & being gaslit each and every time the promised plans change, is an appropriate sentence for Trump & the US administration.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 12/08/2026
Extraordinary story from @josepagliery.bsky.social following Rogelio Bolufé, one of the Cuban hunger strikers in ICE camps as he becomes a third-country national expelled to Guayaquil, Ecuador, one of the most dangerous cities on earth. www.notus.org/national/dhs...
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No ID, No Money, No Way Out: DHS Deports a Man to a Country He Doesn't Know
The Trump administration sent Rogelio Bolufé, a Cuban national, to a cartel city in Ecuador with no means of escape.
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Melissa Goldstein @melissagoldstein.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The Heritage Foundation's plan to force women back into the kitchen by robbing them of their autonomy & their rights is working. The next part of their plan is to rob women of their right to vote via the SAVE Act...
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Melissa Goldstein @melissagoldstein.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Madison Heights, Michigan will only license dispensaries on condition that they place a FLOCK camera at the entrance of their customer parking lot & give police "unhindered live access to the FLOCK camera, camera footage, and any and all data, which must remain operational at all times.” WTF.
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Melissa Goldstein @melissagoldstein.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This is fascism, like the Nazis. Socialism is an economic system that provides free healthcare, it is not violently detaining people for voicing their opinion or simply being someone you don't like--that is fascism.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/08/2026
Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section. (Published March)
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She Was in Labor at a Florida Hospital. Then She Was in Zoom Court for Refusing a C-Section.
A virtual court hearing from a pregnant mother’s hospital bed shows what forced medical treatment can look like.
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 28/07/2026
This IS a great story
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Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"As a society, we are horrified by gun violence, but generally give scant attention to deaths on our roads that result from motorists’ choices." From @seanyyz.bsky.social
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Where’s the outrage when pedestrians are killed?
Birchmount Road and Lawrence Avenue East, Scarborough On Friday, July 10, the driver of a westbound Toyota RAV4 SUV drove through a red light on Lawrence Avenue East and struck another vehicle trav…
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Melissa Goldstein @melissagoldstein.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
C'mon NDP & Greens, don't f* this up.
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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Why is Andrew (and by extension, Tristan) Tate a superstar in parts of the MAGA world? The rise of rampant misogyny being accepted, thanks to Donald Trump. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Why Andrew Tate Is a MAGA Superstar
Manosphere celebrities—including alleged sexual predators like Tate—are a symptom of a politically resurgent misogyny.
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 20/07/2026
Since 2009, the per capita rate of Lyme disease has increased approximately 32-fold in Canada, according to calculations by Canada’s National Observer — making it one of Canada's clearest examples of a climate-related health problem. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/20/n...
Per-capita Lyme disease incidence for all of Canada since 2009. Based on data from the Public Health Agency of Canada. Image generated by Jamie Voyles in R Studio.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 19/07/2026
This is the worst age to be alive as a smart person
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 17/07/2026
Everything they say about hormones lacks scienfic backing but sure, pay attention when it's cis people they're fucking up
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17/07/2026
At least 75 career federal officials who’d played important roles in elections have left, been fired or been reassigned. In their place are roughly two dozen people Trump has installed in positions that could affect elections. Ten of them actively worked to reverse the 2020 vote. (Published April)
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Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held. But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would l...
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