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Chronically exhausted public health nurse that probably should have picked a different career. 🇨🇦

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026
substack executives gave him a big cash advance to post on the platform
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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 15h
Mark Carney is setting reconciliation & indigenous rights back by decades with consistent attacks on indigenous rights & racially targeted budget cuts that violate Canadian law. He offers empty lip service in press statements but contempt for first nations in his policy. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Substack @substack.com · 18h
As Canada marks the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Pulitzer Prize and Peabody Award winning journalist @conniewalker.bsky.social shares her work digging into survivor testimonies—records that face the threat of imminent destruction contactingconnie.substack.com/p/who-is-pro...
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Who is protected by the destruction of Indian Residential School records?
“There’s not a single Indigenous person in Canada, who has not been touched by the legacy of Residential Schools.” - Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
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Laura Lee on Lake ONTARIO 🇨🇦🍁🦫 @laura-leez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is a clear violation of the Canada Investment Act and the commitments made in regards to employee levels until 2029. My hubby is a retiree of Stelco. He left when they were sold to US Steel. Then they were sold again to Cleveland Cliffs. U.S. companies can never be trusted.
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Ziya Jones @ziyajones.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
DULF is free. This landmark ruling could alter drug policy in Canada. There's still room for an appeal, but as of today, a judge has found a section of Canada's Controlled Drugs and Substances Act unconstitutional. Parliament was given six months to respond. www.script.health/article/dulf...
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BREAKING: Charges against DULF members thrown out
Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum have succeeded in their constitutional challenge
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 29/09/2026
Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do
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Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do
VEVEY, SWITZERLAND - Nestlé executives gathered from around the world to announce their grave concern regarding the impact that artificial intelligence’s water consumption will have on their own abili...
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Damn tired 🍁 @ohcarolinian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Men should be more embarrassed about their gender being unsafe to be around in 2026. Like how are you not mortified?
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A place in the world that I love, Ethiopia, is plunging back into civil war. It's a continuation of a war that cost 600,000 lives in the early Covid years. It also introduces more geopolitical risk to a volatile East Africa. Ethiopian-Canadian journalist Zecharias Zelalem is covering the situation.
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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
RE: Bike lanes save lives and promote health. Removing bike lanes will lead to injury and death. #signed by 600 healthcare workers and counting via #doctorsforsafecycling h/t @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social @ffsafestreets.bsky.social @cycletoronto.bsky.social @safestreetsto.bsky.social #BikeTO
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Good Samaritan @goodsamaritanhq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I love when a recipe says “prep time: 10 minutes.” Ten minutes for WHO? A professional chef with eight hands? It takes me ten minutes to find the paprika. Then another five staring into the fridge hoping the ingredient I forgot to buy will spontaneously appear out of shame.
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"If your campaign is breaking your own privacy policy, or swamping your Instagram with fawning, machine-generated praise, it's your mess to clean up. The opposite impulse — to lie & attack — is not a quality voters expect of someone vying to lead Canada's largest city," writes @jameswsthomson.com.
When pressed by Habibinia to respond to CNO’s reporting, Bradford dug in.

"They're inaccurate. It's a mischaracterization. I'm surprised they published it."

It goes without saying that calling a news outlet's reporting false is a dagger to the heart. The implication that we got something wrong would give any reporter, any editor cold sweats. 

Having watched White labour over every word and sentence of both investigations, it was particularly offensive to have the candidate attack his work — and our publication — so casually.

Of course we make mistakes. When we do, we issue corrections and take ownership over the failure.

But this was not one of those times. So we published a recording that should put the question of veracity permanently to bed.
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Local health minister says wait times for wealthy people way down since her government started focussing on bringing down wait times for wealthy people.
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Wait times for most priority surgeries in Ontario have increased since 2017, study says | CBC News
Wait times for most of the province’s publicly funded priority surgeries and procedures have increased between 2017 and 2025, according to a study released Monday.
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
By rights, each post in this thread should be nail in the coffin of Brad Bradford’s campaign. Great work, @nationalobserver.com.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It was the Cornell student paper, with an editorial board that appears to be all women, that first named the rapists and REFUSED to let the story die.
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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 27/09/2026
bugs bunny in a tux

I wish all tech pervs a very burned head
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
People love threatening to murder people for legally riding bikes. Of course drivers regularly hit cyclists riding in painted bike lanes or shoulders. It's almost like motorists don't need any excuse to inflict violence upon bicyclists.
A Facebook comment that includes a comic of a car mowing down a group of cyclist with the text, "Cyclists! Move over and it won't happen!"
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026
This article is for men. Women already know this. This week a woman filed a civil suit against 7 men at Cornell U for drugging, trafficking, and raping her. Zero have faced criminal charges. Women are not safe around men. And the data is devastating. www.qasimrashid.com/p/cornell-un...
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Cornell University, Systemic Sexual Abuse, and the Men Responsible
Content Warning: This is a post about men, rape, and women
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
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matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

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[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 28/09/2026
A Canadian scientist says Mark Carney's government is subsidizing the destruction of nature, contravening Canada's global biodiversity commitments. @sarahkcox.bsky.social reports. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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Carney’s Push to Fund Industry Imperils Canada’s Nature Promises | The Tyee
Canada participated in a ‘historic’ global moment for biodiversity. Experts say we’re not following through.
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Damn tired 🍁 @ohcarolinian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You know it's an announcement they're proud of when it drops on a *checks notes* Sunday afternoon. Second only to Friday at 5pm for prime announcement times.
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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh my god. OH MY GOD. XD
Gul Dukat of Deep Space Nine gloweringGavin Newsome of California glowering.
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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 27/09/2026
A U.S. libertarian network called Atlas Network has been funding at least 11 Canadian think tanks that have been fuelling, climate denialism, support for the oil and gas industry, and Alberta separatism.
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How the US Atlas Network Built Alberta Separatism | The Tyee
A global cabal of libertarian and right-wing organizations has fuelled the province’s independence movement.
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Bryan Based International Order 🇨🇦 @bryanpeeler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Are you listening @mark-carney.bsky.social?
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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m sorry, but if you bring gypsum - or any damn mineral below 3 on the Mohs scale at all - to a job interview, you’re disqualified. It’s not hard, people.
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These are words to describe a vehicle designed to be operated in public space: "Everything else about the TRX is so aggressively in-your-face, from its additional 20 centimetres of width and blood-red badging to the T-Rex on its tailgate and the banshee wail of the engine’s supercharger."
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Damn tired 🍁 @ohcarolinian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The guillotine is too good for this man
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's ok to have voted for Carney, I get it. What isn't acceptable is refusing to hold him and his government accountable for their actions. Democracy requires far more from us than just voting.
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Christopher Moore @theauthorguy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
SQUIRREL OF THE DAY! SQUIRREL OF THE DAY! MOTHERFUDGING MOM SQUIRREL OF THE DAY!
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026
An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.
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The media has the AI threat all wrong
Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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RaidPanda @raidpanda.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 25/09/2026
Fun fact. Canada's arts & culture gdp is basically the same as oil & gas at about $70 billion. Direct funding for the arts & culture is about $700 million annually albertaviews.ca/arts-publicl... It's up to $30 billion for oil & gas depending on how you count www.theenergymix.com/canada-pours...
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
Stasigotchi
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Mark Zuckerberg unveils AI ‘charm’ device that can fit on a keychain
Social media chief says the Muse personal assistant is the ‘centrepiece’ of his AI vision after launch success
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My latest column is out today in @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy, in which I explain how the “new climate denialism” is holding back progress in the fight of our lives, and how PM Mark Carney has become its lead practitioner. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/25/o...
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Is Mark Carney a climate denier?
This new form of denialism has our political leaders assuring us they understand and accept the warnings about climate change — but they are in denial about what this scientific reality means for poli...
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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
these are not “autonomous” attacks: they are failures by humans to implement appropriate controls for the computers acting on their behalf, and we must not forget it.
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This isn't an AI thing, but it explains why executives think AI is great. They *already* live like they have been kicked in the head by a horse. They already have a group of people making sure they've wiped their ass. They already don't have exposure to negative consequences.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22/09/2026
yep www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/private-sc...
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Private Schools Are Bad for Society
The starting point for any honest discussion.
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"one can believe that it takes too long to get projects done in this country & reform is needed, & still conclude that what the prime minister proposes is a radical departure from what Canadians expect" Her column reminded me of this piece from @tomgoldsmith.bsky.social. Reagan & Thatcher, indeed.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 22/09/2026
None of the reasons cited by Prime Minister Mark Carney for airport privatization hold up. So why is he doing it? DT Cochrane writes. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
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There’s No Good Reason for Carney to Privatize Canada’s Airports | The Tyee
The plan would worsen labour conditions and make flying more expensive.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 22/09/2026
Funny, because the Truckers got three weeks to hang out before police lifted a finger. Interesting.
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Mad (Social) Scientist 🇨🇦 @jemburch.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"When has rich people getting a bunch of money ever made it easier for us?" the premier asked. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Manitoba premier prefers no airport privatization, says no to rich receiving money to run Richardson | CBC News
As the federal government prepares to allow private investment into Canada's four busiest airports, Manitoba's premier said he has no interest in seeing regional airports like Winnipeg's Richardson In...
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The Grind @thegrindto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
'All That She Wants' is a rote painting of a woman who wants to have a baby, and who relies on a man for her growth, writes @alishamgl.bsky.social Read our full #TIFF26 review:
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‘All That She Wants’ Is an Anti-feminist Drag
The rom-com stars Annie Murphy as a woman in her mid-thirties as she journeys, mindlessly…
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Damn tired 🍁 @ohcarolinian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Recently a car pulled out of a gas station where I was filling my 14 year old rust bucket. He had obviously modified his car so that it made more muffler zoomy zoom noises. As the car quickly farted away from the scene, I turned to the guy behind me and said "Small penis." I was correct apparently.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Autumn Franklin Carmichael 1940
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Damn tired 🍁 @ohcarolinian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ordered! Really looking forward to it!
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