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Tamara Romanchuk

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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Canada should pay attention. This is a warning. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Not enough water for UK’s datacentre plans, trade body says
Industry says government’s failure to address cooling demands means AI growth plans are ‘fatally flawed’
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Next time someone tries arguing that it’s “social engineering” (cue ominous music) to give people more CHOICE to walk, bike & take public transit in their city, tell them that designing our current car DEPENDENCY has been the largest and most damaging social engineering experiment in human history.
Highway filled with car congestionLow density suburban sprawl filled with roads and cookie cutter subdivisions.
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davidakin @davidakin.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
[Great work by by Queen's Park colleagues Colin and Isaac] Doug Ford regularly worked from home after ordering civil servants back to office globalnews.ca/news/1181649... #Onpoli
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Doug Ford regularly worked from home after ordering civil servants back to office | Globalnews.ca
A copy of the premier's itinerary obtained by Global News shows that over five weeks from early January, Ford took a range of meetings at his house or virtually.
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Important read. "Climate change is already showing up in the cost of living. Economists and central bankers are getting better at linking temperatures to price increases." 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Climate Change Is Already Showing Up in the Cost of Living
Economists and central bankers are getting better at linking temperatures to price increases.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.
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Andy Reisinger @andyreisinger.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
I had a chat with the wonderful @nicolakimjones.bsky.social about where the world is heading on climate change and whether and how we might be able to return to 1.5°C. A mix of grief and determined, stubborn hope. Thanks to Nicola and the team at @knowablemag.bsky.social @eva-emerson.bsky.social
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The world has veered way off-target of its climate goals. Can we rebound?
Once global warming peaks, it could take centuries to cool things back down. But we can bend the curve by cutting fossil fuel emissions now.
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Tamara Romanchuk @numchucks.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Could someone do an equivalent $$$ comparison for Ontario, where Ford and his developer and billionaire buddies continue to feast on this province while its citizens only grow poorer and less empowered? #gravyplane
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
“They [bikes] turn humans into this hyperefficient terrestrial locomotor because they make being on land more like swimming.” The most efficient traveller is you on a bike. #UrbanTruth A classic worth repeating, via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social. #UrbanScience
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The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike
A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom
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Vance K @apeonabicycle.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Good interview. Anyone who cares about better cities, not just professional urbanists, should give this a listen.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
When it comes to spreading disinformation, dark money buys a lot of repetition, because repetition works. Repetition works. Repetition works. Repetition works. (Did we mention that repetition works?) #UrbanTruth
“The single best predictor of what people believe is how many times they’ve heard it.” — FrameWorks Institute

Via Urban Truth Collective
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Rewatch Who Framed Roger Rabbit. That’s it. That’s the post. …. Ok it’s not quite the whole post. The movie doesn’t have to be based on a provable conspiracy, since those are really hard to prove, & it’s a movie with cartoons! But there’s plenty of evidence of dark money attacking public transit.
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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
"Britannica’s lawsuit said that OpenAI unlawfully copied nearly 100,000 of its articles... The complaint said that ChatGPT produces “near-verbatim” copies of Britannica’s encyclopedia entries, dictionary definitions and other content, diverting users who would otherwise visit its websites."
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Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI over alleged AI training
Case is one of many high-stakes lawsuits filed by copyright owners against tech giants
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
The 2017 environmental assessment on jets at the Toronto Island airport is now public. Maps of proposed landfill and of maximum building heights, which would interfere with purpose development in the port lands.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
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Christian Roselund @roselund.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This. Exactly. 2- and 3-wheeled vehicles have delivered more emissions reductions than #EVs, globally. And you get fewer children & youth killed by cars. And better cities. Win-win-win. chargedevs.com/newswire/two...
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Two- and three-wheel EVs delivering more emissions reduction than cars
We humans are, at least in theory, proceeding with a broad range of measures to slow climate change —deploying renewable energy sources, protecting forests, cleaning up industrial emissions, etc. Acco...
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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
#IdeasAtWork Big shoutout to @tomflood.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social and @grantennis.bsky.social with the new Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social . Cities deserve facts, not fear. Time to call out the myths from bad actors and tell better stories about how cities actually work.
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Central NJ Yimby 🏗️🚲🚇🇺🇸 @princetonyimby.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The congestion charge in Oxford was brought in on a 'temporary' basis last year. It was anticipated to raise $425K per month, but instead it raised $1.3 million per month, a huge amount in a small-ish city. Why are so many cities leaving money on the table? www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Oxford's congestion charge generates £1m in a month
The scheme in Oxford generates over three times initial forecasts in January.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
And, sure, snow shows all the space that cars consume but don't really need, but it's more than about sneckdowns. It's about who your city prioritizes and if it even sees certain populations — such as people with disabilities, the elderly, and others — at all. Join us and take a listen!
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BONUS: What Snow Reveals About Cities (Plus More From Our Book Tour) | The War on Cars
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
New BONUS episode: "What Snow Reveals About Cities (Plus More From Our Book Tour.)" All the snow we've gotten has revealed some truths about what cars do to cities, and what we can learn from it. We also give our thoughts on Miami, Pittsburgh, Toronto and Phoenix! www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...
Overhead shot of snowy intersection with yellow cabs and dotted lines outlining where snow has created space that can be a future bike lane, public plaza and pedestrian refuge.
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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
#IdeasAtWork A month in hospital costs: $30,100 Month in prison: $9,400 Month in shelter: $6,800 Supportive housing per month: $3,800 @uhn.ca's Dr. Andrew Boozary h/t @urbantruth.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Toronto hospital to double housing program that reduces ER visits
University Health Network will build 54 new apartments next to Dunn House
Liam Casey · The Canadian Press · Posted: Jan 20, 2026 4:53 PM EST | Last Updated: January 20


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The University Health Network will build a near replica of Dunn House, which was built on a parking lot the hospital owns in Toronto's west end, next door. ( Igor Petrov/CBC)A Toronto hospital network will double its unique permanent housing program for homeless people who frequently visit emergency departments, a model that has seen great success for both residents and the hospital.

The University Health Network will build a near replica of Dunn House, which was built on a parking lot the hospital owns in Toronto's west end, next door.

Preliminary data shared with The Canadian Press shows the 48 residents who live at Dunn House made nearly 2,000 visits to an ER in the year before moving in. A year later, those same residents visited emergency rooms 52 per cent fewer times, and they also saw a 79 per cent drop in their length of stays when they were admitted.

"These are patients with advanced chronic disease, mental illness and substance use disorders," said Dr. Andrew Boozary, the director of UHN's Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine.

"They cycle through emergency departments because our care has failed and because we've discharged them back into instability. And if you don't have a home, you can't store medications, you can't recover from surgery, and you can't stabilize mental health."Dunn House is the brain child of Boozary, who first thought of the idea more than seven years ago. "Housing is health," he said.

The residents say their new homes have transformed their lives and given them hope again.

The expansion will see the hospital build 54 new apartments, with involvement from all levels of government.

Dr. Andrew Boozary, Executive Director of UHN's Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine, and primary care doctor, is photographed at Dunn House, Canada's first social medicine housing project, in Toronto on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chr
Dr. Andrew Boozary, executive director of UHN's Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine, and primary care doctor, is photographed at Dunn House, Canada's first social medicine housing project, in Toronto on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press)The federal government's Build Canada Homes will spend $21 million to build the project while Ontario will spend $2.6 million annually to run the place, which features direct access to doctors, nurses and a host of other health professionals. The City of Toronto will invest $10 million and lead the delivery of the new homes.

The Dunn House model needs to be scaled up across the country, said federal Housing Minister Gregor Robertson.

"We need to make it simpler, faster to get these projects off the ground," he said. "We need to help thousands and thousands of people across Canada find safe, affordable homes."

The scale is daunting in Ontario alone. Last week, the province's 444 municipalities released updated data on the number of homeless individuals across Ontario. It found nearly 85,000 Ontarians were homeless in 2025, the vast majority of them living in emergency shelters.

WATCH | Toronto continues clearing encampments:

Toronto clearing more encampments but root causes of homelessness remain: advocates

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Two months after prioritizing the removal of encampments near children's spaces, the city says it's made significant progress. But as CBC's Lane Harrison reports, critics argue it doesn’t address the root causes of the problem.
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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
#ICYMI October 3, 2024 "Dunn House, a partnership between @uhn.ca ’s Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine, the City of @toronto.ca , @unitedwaygt.bsky.social and Fred Victor, is set to begin welcoming the tenants in November..." uhnfoundation.ca/stories/pres... Cc: @urbantruth.bsky.social
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Prescription for change: UHN leads Canada’s first Social Medicine Housing Initiative
​​Cutting the ribbon to officially open Dunn House on Thursday, Oct. 3, (L to R), Daniele Zanotti, President & CEO of United Way of Greater Toronto;
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports
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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses
"The legislature did not include a grace period."
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/02/2026
Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 26/02/2026
1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses
"The legislature did not include a grace period."
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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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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Imagining an ICE officer who *raided the concentration camp so children couldn’t write more letters about how bad being in a concentration camp is* going home tonight and being asked “how was your day” and going “yeah pretty good”
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 17/02/2026
In today's roundup: Ontario finance minister says rate of health-care spending is 'unsustainable' globalnews.ca/news/11669653/ontario… ⤷ canadahealthwatch.ca 🍁
RELATED: Ontario finance minister outlines tariff relief strategy – Apr 12, 2025
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 12/02/2026
Toronto Sun columnist Warren Kinsella is posting fake CBC News Network screenshots on X dot com falsely claiming CBC is using terms like "policepersons" and "gunperson"
Warren Kinsella:

"This is so dumb. It's @CBC putting language games ahead of its job, which is to report."
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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Somebody posted the full Bad Bunny super bowl performance on Reddit. I haven't seen it posted anywhere else yet. www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/co...
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From the Fauxmoi community on Reddit: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show Performance
Explore this post and more from the Fauxmoi community
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 07/02/2026
New from The Local: Torontonians have been waiting a long time for the Eglinton Crosstown. How long? We got illustrator Michael DeForge to show us. thelocal.to/understandin...
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Understanding the Eglinton Crosstown in Seven Illustrations | The Local
From Shohei Ohtani’s salary to the tunneling rate of a mole—an unorthodox guide to the numbers behind Toronto’s newest transit line.
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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The inhumane and deadly impacts of the US regime cuts to foreign aid mean we will not end the AIDS epidemic. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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US-South Africa funding: As American cash dries up the fight to stop Aids gets harder
Health experts fear that as testing and monitoring drops the risk of the further spread of HIV rises.
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Jon Severs @jonsevers.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Do you know why reading a screen and a physical piece of paper differs? Or why handwriting is processed differently to typing? Or how multiple-choice quizzes are poorer for memory than narrative answers? Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath explains all www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
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Pupil tech and memory: what schools should do next
Many schools have become reliant on tech to deliver lessons, but we need a more reflective approach if we are to avoid lost learning, says neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath in an exclusive extract f...
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Here’s the thing about the human rights underpinning democracy: they are universal. As soon as a group of human beings can be slaughtered with impunity because a more powerful group wants them gone, then all is already lost. It’s just a matter of time until the jackboot comes for your face.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
This is huge: For the first time since the early 1970s, coal power generation has fallen in both China & India. It undercuts claims that decarbonisation is pointless while they expand coal. Renewables are no longer just adding capacity — they’re displacing coal. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Coal power generation falls in China and India for first time since 1970s
‘Historic’ moment in biggest coal-consuming countries could bring decline in global emissions, analysis says
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
"Things here are very, very bad," a source in Tehran said on Sunday. "A lot of our friends have been killed. They were firing live rounds. It's like a war zone, the streets are full of blood. They're taking away bodies in trucks.” www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Iran warns it will retaliate if US attacks, as hundreds killed in protests
"It's like a war zone, the streets are full of blood," a source in the capital Tehran tells the BBC.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11/01/2026
I believe she will be the first out woman to represent the US at the Olympics in figure skating
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
We're at the "Don't go out in public if you have brown skin because you might be murdered or kidnapped" stage of white supremacist fascism.
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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
For those thinking that climate change can take a back seat while this other geopolitical mess is addressed - think again. Climate change is in part why Greenland has become so attractive to Pumpkin and his lot. bbc.com/news/videos/...
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'We just want to be left alone': Greenlanders on Trump's takeover threats
The BBC's Europe Editor Katya Adler visits the Artic island to ask what people think of the US president's plans.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 18/12/2025
Your 'moment of doom' for Dec. 18, 2025 ~ Over/Under 1.58C "A blanket of carbon smothering the Earth has begun to jeopardise the stable conditions in which humanity has thrived, worsening weather extremes and increasing the risk of catastrophic tipping points." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Met Office: 2026 will bring heat more than 1.4C above preindustrial levels
Forecast is slightly cooler than the record 1.55C reached in 2024, but 2026 set to be among four hottest years since 1850
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
This is just as the PBO predicted 11 months ago - a drop in population leading to a drop in GDP. Self-sabotage. www.pbo-dpb.ca/en/publicati...
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Impact assessment of 2025-2027 Immigration Level Plan
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I am still seeking interviews to determine what space and independent programming Harbourfront Centre will retain. The Ontario government put out this news in a press release that works hard to obfuscate the details. As usual.
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
To recap: Doug Ford destroyed parkland at Ontario Place for a private waterpark; closed Ontario Science Centre under false pretenses; and now is moving the OSC into Harbourfront. Partial destruction of one public place; permanent destruction of another; longterm takeover of a third.
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
News today about the Ontario Science Centre: Its "temporary location" will take over most, or possibly all, of Harbourfront Centre. 86,000 square feet is a larger fraction, if not all, of Harbourfront's buildings. news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
If Paramount is allowed to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, the conservative billionaire Ellison family will control: Paramount Studios CBS CNN MTV HBO Comedy Central Nickelodeon Cartoon Network Warner Bros. DC Studios Fandango New Line Cinema TNT Sports TBS Oracle And more.
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John Woodside @woodsideful.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Employment in oil and gas is in terminal decline and won’t be saved no matter what Carney and Smith cook up, according to new research from the Centre for Future Work provided exclusively to @nationalobserver.com. The only responsible choice for governments is to plan for the transition.
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Exclusive: Fossil fuel workers won’t be saved by Carney’s oil and gas boosterism
A new pipeline won’t lead to new jobs in the oil and gas sector, and the only question for government officials is whether or not to plan for the inevitable energy transition, according to new researc...
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APTN Investigates @aptninvestigates.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
In Canada, the histories of residential school survivors are being challenged by a surge of denialism. Dismantling Denialism confronts those attempts to rewrite history and explores what it will take to defend truth and reconciliation. Watch here: youtu.be/y-Pv8-99Sp4
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Dismantling Denialism | APTN Investigates
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 01/12/2025
A new report says that the world's biggest weapons-producing companies saw a 5.9% increase in revenue from sales of arms and military services last year as demand was fed by the wars in Ukraine and Gaza as well as countries' rising military spending.
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Report says world's biggest arms producers increased revenue by 5.9% last year to record level
A new report says that the world’s biggest weapons-producing companies saw a 5.9% increase in revenue from sales of arms and military services last year as demand was fed by the wars in Ukraine and Gaza as well as countries’ rising military spending.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/12/2025
How cyclones and monsoon rains combined to devastate parts of Asia – visual guide
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How cyclones and monsoon rains combined to devastate parts of Asia – visual guide
Extreme weather has killed nearly 1,000 people across southern and south-eastern Asia as cyclones turbocharged rain systems across the region
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