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Safe Air Schools UK @safeairschoolsuk.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
1/ The recent iPaper article featuring input from Safe Air Schools has generated thousands of interactions and more than 250 comments as Hampshire schools begin closing due to extreme heat. The response from teaching staff has been illuminating. inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
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Inside Britain’s overheating schools: ‘The children lose weeks of learning’
Teachers say classrooms are becoming unliveable in our increasingly hot summers, and students cannot concentrate
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Spot the difference.
Left: Doug Ford cosplays as someone who cares about the people of Ontario.

Right: Ralph Wiggum stares into the distance with a blank look on his face.
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Erika Shaker @ershaker.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'What the data now shows—and what educators have been saying for years—is that violence rises precisely where supports disappear.' @nigelbme.bsky.social @elemteachersto.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca
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When violence is the system speaking: What Ontario’s schools are telling us - CCPA
Violence in classrooms is the result of underfunding, staffing erosion, and the offloading of social crises onto unprepared schools
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Erika Shaker @ershaker.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
‘violence in our classrooms is not a “student problem”—it is the result of systemic underfunding, unmet needs, and a lack of supports’ ett.ca/its-a-childs... @elemteachersto.bsky.social @nigelbme.bsky.social
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It’s A Child’s Last Resort: Teacher Violence Research Report - Elementary Teachers of Toronto
The Elementary Teachers of Toronto is proud to release It’s A Child’s Last Resort—a groundbreaking, arts-based research report documenting educators’ lived experiences with violence in schools. This r...
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Sonia Henri @soniahenri.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I’m so happy we have @nigelbme.bsky.social acclaimed president for #ett I’m happy to support Maria and Elizabeth. We need a strong team! Voting is open!
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a poster that says friends do n't let friends not vote
ALT: a poster that says friends do n't let friends not vote
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freegrassy.bsky.social @freegrassy.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Join Grassy Narrows on March 30 for a rally in downtown Toronto demanding justice from Premier Ford. Will Premier Ford continue to remain silent? 📅 March 30 ⏰ 8:30 AM 📍 Fairmont Royal York Hotel — 100 Front St. W RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/doug-... #FreeGrassy #OnPolii
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nigelbme.bsky.social @nigelbme.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
This powerful article by Honor Ford-Smith is personal for me. I was born in Kingston, Jamaica. My family’s migration story, like many Caribbean families, is tied to the economic and political pressures that shaped the region in the 1970s. 1/5 www.stabroeknews.com/2026/03/14/f...
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Complicity will not protect us - Stabroek News
By Honor Ford-Smith Honor Ford-Smith is Assoc. Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Toronto. She worked
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nigelbme.bsky.social @nigelbme.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Send a letter to Senators: Stop C-12. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/send...
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Tell Senators: Vote NO on C-12
Speak up against this attack on migrants
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freegrassy.bsky.social @freegrassy.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
River Run Rally 2026 🌊🌊🌊 Wednesday, September 23, 2026 | 12pm | Toronto RSVP: freegrassy.net/river-run-20... Join Grassy Narrows youth and community members as they travel 1,700km to demand mercury justice #FreeGrassy #GrassyNarrows
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nigelbme.bsky.social @nigelbme.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Send a letter to Senators: Stop C-12. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/send...
actionnetwork.org
Tell Senators: Vote NO on C-12
Speak up against this attack on migrants
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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 12/02/2026
Hilarious to me that while the average "AI" chatbot produces incorrect answers 45% of the time, the one run by Google - who built probably the single greatest knowledge-sourcing machine ever created - produces errors 76% of the time due to "poor sourcing" lmao www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 06/02/2026
There is already life after oil for workers. No more boom & bust. No re-training required. Steady, high-paying work. Less isolated, closer to home... It's geothermal drilling to heat and cool new housing! 👋 @thestar.com www.thestar.com/from-the-oil...
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From the Oil Patch to Toronto: Drilling for Geothermal in Toronto
For the last five years, Benji Perry has been drilling for geothermal heating in the GTA.
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nigelbme.bsky.social @nigelbme.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Send a letter to Senators: Stop C-12. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/send...
actionnetwork.org
Tell Senators: Vote NO on C-12
Speak up against this attack on migrants
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freegrassy.bsky.social @freegrassy.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Grassy Narrows protesters briefly interrupt Premier Ford speech at Mississauga Board of Trade event this morning Like and share the article below www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti... #GrassyNarrows #FreeGrassy
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Grassy Narrows protesters briefly interrupt Doug Ford’s speech in Mississauga
Protesters concerned about mercury contamination in Grassy Narrows First Nation briefly interrupted a speech by Ontario Premier Doug Ford Wednesday.
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freegrassy.bsky.social @freegrassy.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
BREAKING: @OntarioPCParty convention today @fordnation was asked: “Grassy Narrows is still being poisoned. Will you compensate Grassy Narrows for the ongoing mercury crisis?” Ford said thanks to "my OPP" for clearing protesters. #FreeGrassy #OnPoli #GrassyNarrows #OPC2026
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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Land Acknowledgement Poem by Lena Recollet
YouTube video by Whose Land
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freegrassy.bsky.social @freegrassy.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Kinross Gold wants to dump inadequately treated industrial wastewater upstream of Grassy Narrows. Speak out before Ontario makes its decision. Take action with 1 click: leadnow.ca/campaigns/re... #FreeGrassy #GrassyNarrows
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Protect Grassy Narrows: Reject Kinross Gold's Mine - Leadnow
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freegrassy.bsky.social @freegrassy.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
"The last thing we need is the threat of more poison in our water… How many times can the government put our health and way of life in the hands of a dangerous industry that cares only about profits?” freegrassy.net/news/the-thr...
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Matias de Dovitiis @thematias.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Great community event to rally for public education. We need to invest in our kids future.
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freegrassy.bsky.social @freegrassy.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Just released: #GrassyNarrows T-shirts! FreeGrassy.net/Shop Wear your support for Grassy Narrows by purchasing a shirt featuring powerful artwork and messages. Proceeds will go to support grassroots Grassy campaigns to combat threats to their lands, water and way of life #FreeGrassy
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nigelbme.bsky.social @nigelbme.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Hey Mark Carney — if we wanted to vote strategically, we’d play chess. We’re voting for real change. It’s time for proportional representation. Sign the petition. Let’s fix this now! Please sign: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/pr...
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Make Canada's voting system fair and proportional!
Canadians are tired of our broken voting system. After Trudeau broke his promise of reforming our electoral system in 2015, apathy and cynicism towards our democracy has grown. If Canada is to weath...
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 19/02/2025
Struggling to follow the Ontario election? Thank Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg I wrote about how big social media platforms and their mysterious, unregulated algorithms are manipulating public discourse, suppressing voter engagement and degrading democracy for @thestar.com 👇
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Struggling to follow the Ontario election? Thank Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg
Amidst a tumultuous time, a changed informational landscape is making following the Ontario election even harder to follow.
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Not One Seat @notoneseat.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
We don't have winter elections for a reason, Doug. Ontario: Don't let the snow keep you from voting out Doug Ford. Keep an eye on the weather and have a plan. Chip Ford down to a minority. #UniteTheVote and sign the pledge. act.notoneseat.ca/UnityPledge #ONpoli #NotOneSeat #onelxnDoug
Doug Ford awkwardly digging a car out of a snowbank with a tiny red shovel. 

Text: Doug Ford wins if you stay home. Don't expect him to dig you out with his tiny red shovel.

Election Day Feb 27, 9AM - 9PM
Advance Voting Feb 20th - 22nd Locations available after Feb 14
Vote By Mail Apply before Feb 21st. Must be received by Elections Ontario by Feb 26th
Vote at your local election office Vote Jan 30th - Feb 26th. Final list of candidates available after Feb 13th

Vote for the candidate in your riding most likely to defeat Ford's PCs
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Good Bones By Maggie Smith
Good Bones
By Maggie Smith

Life is short, though I keep this from my children.
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,
a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways
I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least
fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative
estimate, though I keep this from my children.
For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.
For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,
sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world
is at least half terrible, and for every kind
stranger, there is one who would break you,
though I keep this from my children. I am trying
to sell them the world. Any decent realtor,
walking you through a real shithole, chirps on
about good bones: This place could be beautiful,
right? You could make this place beautiful.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Thank you. Yes. All of this. There's a tendency in certain circles to say "oh Elon was always a Nazi you just didn't notice," and, no. I used to spend a lot of time watching how people go from alienated to MAGA to outright Nazi. I've written about it. And that is the trajectory of Elon.
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 02/01/2025
New CCPA report: Company Men: CEO Pay in Canada, 2023. On average, the top 100 CEOs were paid 210X more than the average worker’s wage in 2023, and this wealth gap is only growing: In 1998, they'd made 104 times more. The report busts key myths about CEOs’ pay and their worth. 2/2
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Sounds fair to me!
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Not One Seat @notoneseat.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Nobody likes strategic voting. But on the other hand, no one likes Doug Ford either. Sign the pledge act.notoneseat.ca/UnityPledge #UniteTheVote #VoteFordOut #ONPoli #TOPoli #NotOneSeat
One of these leaders is not like the other. Support the candidate most likely to defeat the PCs in your riding.
Doug Ford, next to the quote "I have the worst approval rating of any premier in Canada, and over 4 out of 5 Ontarians think I'm doing poorly on healthcare, the rising cost of living and housing affordability. But my billionaire friends like me, so I'll continue to do less for you and make them even richer." - Angus Reid, December 11, 2024 and October 3, 2024
NDP Leader Marit Stiles, Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner, Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie
No political leader is perfect, but Doug Ford is way less perfect than anyone else.
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Not One Seat @notoneseat.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Tell Doug. We want him to know it was us. We are back to #UniteTheVote and #VoteFordOut. But we can’t do this alone. Sign the Unity Pledge at act.notoneseat.ca/UnityPledge Then share this widely, because we need everyone #ONpoli #TOPoli #NotOneSeat
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Since Jill Dunlop and Doug Ford won’t help, maybe I should put the primary #LEGO club to work next week fixing holes in the walls of our 110-year old school. By artist Jan Vormann #OntEd #FixOurSchools #NeverVoteConservative
Colourful LEGO bricks have been used to repair a cracked wall in a European city.
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nigelbme.bsky.social @nigelbme.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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