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Peter Louwe

@peterlouwe.bsky.social
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Still looking for a social media platform that's decent. If you turn off replies, don't worry, you'll never hear from me. Former news guy still interested in the world.

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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 6h
This didn't come up in Carney's latest blather about the joy of expanding LNG.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 10h
The US-owned National Post is urging Canadian Jews to take matters into their own hands to punish Avi Lewis for speaking up against the genocide in Gaza. They reference the Bible to bury alive and consume by fire. This is extremist hate. It needs to get called out. nationalpost.com/opinion/yoni...
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Yoni Goldstein: Jewish law tells us how to deal with Avi Lewis
His Yom Kippur message was indefensible
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So it looks like Carney will announce approval of LNG Canada, Phase 2, tomorrow at 11am in Vancouver. It will no doubt come with massive taxpayer funded gifts of money for Big Oil, called subsidies. The locals in Kitimat call the flare stack the "eye of Sauron."
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BREAKING: New LNG Canada Deal ‘Like Betting on a Concrete Canoe’
The LNG Canada megaproject in Kitimat, British Columbia, is expected to announce a final investment decision today to double its output to up to 30 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas per year, th...
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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I am disgusted by the appearance of white nationalists on the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc reserve. This is happening just days before the National Day for Truth & Reconciliation. I stand with Indigenous communities & all marginalized communities in the fight for a future free from racist intimidation.
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Apparent white nationalist gathering spotted on Tkʼemlúps reserve Sunday
TK'EMLUPS - A post on social media appears to show a group of masked individuals gathered on the Tkemlps te Se...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 27/09/2026
World's Scientists Admit They Just Don't Like Mice theonion.com/worlds-scientists-admi…
World's Scientists Admit They Just Don't Like Mice
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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
unreal what we permit on our roads whilst screaming at politicians to ban e scooters. www.thestar.com/life/autos/r...
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Ram’s new 777-horsepower super truck can launch its three-tonne frame to 96 km/h in just 3.5 seconds
Priced at $147,990, the 2027 TRX SRT lands at Canadian dealerships this fall with a supercharged V8 and luxury cabin.
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Everything Carney says he needs private equity to build and finance has been done in the past by government. Instead of taxing wealth to finance these projects he is instead selling our infrastructure to the wealthy. In the end we own nothing while paying more for it.
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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Team Victoria-Beacon Hill out door knocking with stellar candidate, Raj Sahota and leader, Emily Lowan! Want to help reach more people who are ready to believe in better? Join your local team: bcgreens.ca/volunteer
Raj Sahota, Emily Lowan, and a group of volunteers smiling.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
California company accused of shipping pesticide laden berries to Canada. We can't trust American product we should be able to trust that our government has adequate numbers of inspectors in place to protect us. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Whistleblower alleges millions of Driscoll’s berries sent to Canada with excess chemical levels | CBC News
A whistleblower lawsuit in California is alleging millions of pounds of Driscoll's fruit containing non-compliant levels of pesticides and chemicals crossed the border into Canada, and the company tri...
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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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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When the 75 remaining orcas here are killed for a pipeline and port expansion to the west coast, do the Vancouver Canucks change their logo? Or do we just explain to our grandkids that yeah, we used to have those here, but we killed the amazing, nationally emblematic creatures for short-term cash?
Vancouver Canucks logo featuring an orca emerging from the letter C
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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The RCMP protects the gov't, the gov't protects the RCMP. The rest of us are to obey without question.
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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think climate criminal is apt.
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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wow, ok #bcpoli
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Removing Toronto's key bike lanes will result in more cyclist deaths. That much is certain. It will also cost $48 Million for removal & $27 Million in "sunk" costs (losing the initial taxpayer investment) plus further "unaccounted costs." #ONpoli #cycling #cars globalnews.ca/news/1085115...
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Toronto’s bike lanes cost millions to install. How much will it be to remove them? | Globalnews.ca
The province has confirmed plans to remove bike lanes from Bloor Street, University Avenue and Yonge Street as part of new legislation.
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Jeremy Valeriote @jervaler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
An overlapping provincial election 2 years early! I wanted to let you all know that I’m running for re-election. Out of respect for the dozens of West Van-Sea to Sky local government candidates and volunteers I’ll be taking a lighter touch on signs this time. Believe in Better!!! #votegreen #bcpoli
Photo of Jeremy Valeriote putting up a B.C. Greens election sign that says “elect Jeremy Valeriote, West Vancouver - Sea to Sky
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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We'll see. What Carney says and what he does bear no resemblance to each other.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sorry but even though it’s an unpaid position, this strikes me as extremely weird!!!! Appointing his own wife? Seriously?
CBC headline reads: Diana Fox Carney appointed Canada's 1st ocean envoy, chair of Our Ocean Conference

Halifax to host international conference on ocean conservation in 2027
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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yeah, well, I tied my shoes without grunting this morning.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
CBC decided white supremacy is ok and dug in deep on the Nazi site. It must frustrate its reporters no end.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New — I had the opportunity to see NAZA, the documentary freaking out the Israeli government because of its horrifying firsthand descriptions of the way the IDF has used AI to target and massacre Palestinian civilians. My thoughts on the film’s damning revelations, and the banality of evil:
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I saw the documentary the Israeli government doesn’t want you to see
'NAZA' dispels once and for all the myth that the IDF didn't target civilians in Gaza.
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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's a growing cadre of billionaires and the politicians they bought welcoming the end times. Vulture capitalists, profiting off our misery.
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Public Services International @psiglobalunion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Complete internatioanl solidarity with @cupescfp.bsky.social and Canada's working people! CUPE's national executive board has passed a unanimous resolution vowing to defy the Liberal government’s proposal (BILL C-39) limiting the constitutional right to strike. ✊🍁🇨🇦 cupe.ca/news/cupe-wi...
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"In 2016, Trump’s goal was to control the media. In 2026, it is to destroy the media. He recognizes it as a depreciated asset. Trump is a corporate raider doing what corporate raiders do. He seeks to destroy the media as he seeks to destroy the US itself." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...
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Gutting the Fourth Estate
The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.
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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'd be happy with one who's not a vulture capitalist.
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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A prominent member of the red-tailed hawk community says they’re tired of eagles getting all the credit for the haunting cries heard in films, TV shows or whenever Indigenous people say something sacred. walkingeaglenews.com/2021/09/24/r...
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Red-tailed hawk sick of eagles getting credit for its haunting cries
A prominent member of the red-tailed hawk community says they're tired of eagles getting all the credit for the haunting cries that are heard in films, television shows or whenever Indigenous people s...
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Climate Justice Victoria @climatejusticeyyj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Canada’s climate gap has widened dramatically, with the Canadian Climate Institute estimating that we are now more than 20 years behind the 2030 emissions target." @amyjanzwood.bsky.social #cdnpoli #bcpoli
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The West Coast Oil Pipeline is being pitched in the national interest. Where’s the evidence?
Before the federal government puts its full weight behind this supposedly critical piece of oil infrastructure, Canadians deserve answers to some basic questions.
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Editorial board: "The election call is legal, in that the rules permit it, and also quite unseemly. In politics, sometimes the electoral ends don’t justify the cynical means. Calling this election tramples on democratic norms, ignoring that democracy is about more than winning elections." #BCpoli
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“By axing hundreds of laboratory technicians & field specialists, the government is discarding years’ worth of expertise on the front lines of agricultural science... “Senior scientists cannot conduct the soil, crop or livestock research that protects our food supply without the technical teams..."
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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Imagine if Toyota did this over a decade ago. There wouldn't be as many swasticars on the road, that's for sure.
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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Similarly, paywalls make media corporations richer. They still lay off the journalists.
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Kevin Ball 🇨🇦 @stairway-to-kevin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
yesssss, nothing brings people together with spare ca$h in their pockets than losing their homes and maybe their lives to wildfires and flash floods
Carney said most of those policies were too divisive and costly and he is looking to introduce cuts over a longer term, with investments in clean technology. He also has backed the idea of another oil pipeline to the West Coast and has adjusted some policies to make it more likely.
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Marburymoths @marburybirds.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Some soothing Raven grooming to start your day. It’s an interesting discussion as to whether I am anthropomorphising the Ravens when I say they are my friends & just come to hang out, but that is my experience. Yesterday afternoon they ignored any food just wanted to sit & bond.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BC's very own political conman.
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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If media did this ten years ago the US might have been saved.
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John Woodside @woodsideful.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The perception that red tape is preventing Canada from building major projects doesn’t hold hold up. Hundreds of projects, worth hundreds of billions of dollars are planned under existing regulations. Yet Carney blames a bureaucratic maze for stifling growth to justify his deregulatory agenda.
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Carney's red tape narrative doesn't hold up
The perception that a bureaucratic maze is preventing Canada from building major projects, as Prime Minister Mark Carney has argued to support his deregulatory nation-building agenda, doesn’t hold up ...
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Workers are losing their right to strike and Canada is being sold for parts so naturally Canada’s columnist class is focused on what really matters: Why the only prominent progressive voice in politics right now is Evil for criticizing a literal genocide
Robyn Urback, sharing her Globe op-ed, writes: “Avi Lewis' foolish statement should be disqualifying for the leader of a major political party.
However, because he is leader of the NDP, and because his target was Jews, it very well could boost his internal support by five points.”Gary Mason, another prominent Globe and Mail columnist, shares Robyn’s post and writes: “This is the best and most important piece I have read today. My colleague nails it. I hope Avi Lewis reads it and responds appropriately.”Stephen Maher, sharing Robyn’s op-Ed (which is titled ‘Opinion: Avi Lewis's foolish statement on 'Jewish people' should be disqualifying’) writes: “I think Lewis is in many ways impressive, and Carney is creating conditions for an NDP revival, but I must agree with this.”
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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's one blow after another, beating sanity senseless. We need to #firebcndp
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Eric Doherty @ericdoherty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Resignation letter from MLA @kellyrichmondbc.bsky.social expresses discontent with risk of #RichmondBC constituents being killed in LNG fire AND climate impacts of the fracked gas Eby loves so much. Context: #BCNDP bcclimateemergency.ca/press-releas... #bcpoli
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Open letter from prominent New Democrats and community leaders calls for renewed provincial climate leadership — BC Climate Emergency Campaign
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Prominent New Democrats and community leaders raise the alarm over Premier Eby + caucus support for LNG and call for renewed provincial climate leadership, amid worsening clim...
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Walking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
BREAKING: This ok when Liberals do it
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
World Championship Pond Crossing at the Sugarloaf Bike Park in New Brunswick, Canada 🇨🇦 IG: @crankworxsummerseries www.instagram.com/crankworxsum...
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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
When politicians give corporations everything they want while diminishing rights of others we have to assume: CORRUPTION.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office. Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor. Donors make huge profits while workers get shafted. Repeat. This is not a coincidence. It's a political-economic system that's been corrupted by design.
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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Meantime the US gov't continues to beat, kill and kidnap people.
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lissa @unraveledlissa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What an arrogant lying POS. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Facing criticism, Carney says he has a 'very clear mandate' to push through major economic changes | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government received a clear mandate from voters in the last general election — and in subsequent byelections — to "build Canada strong," and he's pressing ahead wit...
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you plan on privatizing ports as Carney does, making sure workers can't strike is one hell of a selling point
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Useful reporting but would be worth more firmly stressing Hegseth’s achievement in overseeing a calamitous decline in US power and prestige, which was absolutely predictable and was presumably always the point. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...
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In Hegseth’s Pentagon, Top Leaders Battle Turmoil
Persistent distractions are feeding a climate of mistrust as the U.S. military faces a series of wartime issues, including shortfalls of missile interceptors.
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