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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I have a dear friend whose OSAP got pulled because of the Ford government and now they can't finish a course that would have helped their career and, by extension, their community. I really can't describe the level of vitriol I have for this fucker. He needs to go. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Liberals ask auditor general to investigate OSAP spending at private career colleges | CBC News

The Ontario Liberals are asking the auditor general to investigate provincial student financial aid spending at private career colleges.

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MJ Nabuurs @mjnabuurs.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

@mark-carney.bsky.social These are a public danger, especially to women and young girls. There is no need for most people to have them.

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Aatos Lehtila @aatosl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Conservatives always push for privatization, even though that costs more and provides less.

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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Danielle Smith is using your tax dollars to sell her political agenda. This referendum booklet is propaganda. It blames newcomers for her government’s failures and pushes constitutional changes without telling Albertans the truth. You deserve better than this political garbage paid for by you.

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Terry McDonald @pterrymc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's fat bumblebee week as the queens prepare for winter. Huzzah.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.

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Alicia @aliciablackgirl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Repossessions and foreclosures are at 2009 levels. 50 million Americans are relying on Food Banks. The 1% pay a fraction of the taxes that used to support our country. It’s pretty clear where Trump’s priorities are.

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A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally

President Donald Trump is trying to rally voters in the Dayton, Ohio, area on Saturday

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I mean yeah, a decade of no one holding Trump accountable for his much more obvious crimes, combined with both Nazi and Confederate rehabilitation projects on the right, was always going to lead to “actually we’ve never done ANYTHING wrong and you guys owe us apologies for every check on our power”

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 01/10/2026

The environmental and climate consequences of building a new oil pipeline are extreme, including the threat to endangered Southern Resident orcas.

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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Put another way, Ford wants to spend more on removing bike lanes in Toronto ($48M) than he's spent protecting all of Ontario's businesses from an international trade war. Ontario deserves serious leadership, that follows through on promises, and actually puts people before profits.

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West Coast Environmental Law @wcelaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Canada's decision to pre-approve the "Pacific Link" pipeline & tankers project is reckless, short-sighted & could lead to legal challenges. We're calling on the government to de-list the pipeline so proper assessment & meaningful consultation can take place. ⬇️ www.wcel.org/media-releas... #cdnpoli

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Tzeporah Berman @tzeporah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1/ So it’s official. Faced with a choice between whales and oil, our Prime Minister chose oil. Faced with a choice between a safe climate and more fossil fuel expansion, he chose oil again. Today, Mark Carney announced yet another mammoth oilsands pipeline. #cdnpoli #bcpoli 🧵

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Terry McDonald @pterrymc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As a Gen Xer, I'm old enough to remember when people were speculating about Reagan's cognitive decline years before the Alzheimer's diagnosis was revealed, but we as the public weren't seeing him crumble before our eyes like this.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

These were the chuckleheads in Kamloops, and twitter conservatives tried to pretend they were a psy-op, government plants, all that. They are as odious as they seem.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.

The former Marine David J. Morris, author of a book on post-
traumatic stress disorder, notes that the disorder is far more com-
mon and far more rarely addressed among rape survivors than
combat veterans. He wrote me, “The science on the subject is pretty
clear: according to the New England Journal of Medicine, rape is about
four times more likely to result in diagnosable PTSD than combat.
Think about that for a moment— being raped is four times more psy-
chologically disturbing than going off to a war and being shot at and
blown up. And because there are currently no enduring cultural nar-
ratives that allow women to look upon their survival as somehow he-
roic or honorable, the potential for enduring damage is even greater.”

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Terry McDonald @pterrymc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was interviewing a health researcher for a profile and she kept asking me why I wasn't using AI to write it. I responded that it was an environmental scourge, and that I was actually a writer who could write. The experience was profoundly demoralizing.

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Starting tomorrow, plugin solar now affordable in Conneticut. Ninth US state to do so. Canada's at zero provinces. We need new legislative policies here, now.

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Connecticut will allow no-permit plug-in solar, but the 1,200-watt kits may not exist yet

A new kind of low-hassle solar panels are coming to Connecticut as the state legalizes balcony solar.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Terry McDonald @pterrymc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This TV programming is used as a distracting anti-depressant these days.

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Terry McDonald @pterrymc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Activist @julieslalonde.bsky.social has online bystander intervention training. I watched it with my daughter to frame our conversation about SA. Highly recommend it, and it’s free.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The heat dome in 2021 killed over 600 BCers. There were over 38,000 fatalities during the heat waves in Europe this summer. Selling BCers organs would also provide billions in economic benefits, but for some reason that's unthinkable, while selling out humanity's future is worthy of celebration.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Climate change is as straightforward as it gets: Democrats vote to address it and Republicans vote not to. There's a weird tic among the pundit class where they think saying "it's more complicated than that" is the intelligent stance on everything but sometimes it's not complicated!

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Ann Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is just setting up the conditions to privatize the water supply, which will led to unsafe water and higher water bills for people. Bradford vows to slash water bills; Chow and Alexander say it's a bad plan www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/28/n...

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Bradford vows to slash water bills; Chow and Alexander say it's a bad plan

Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford has committed to reducing Torontonians’ water bills by 25 per cent if elected.

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CityScribe @cityscribe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ask the UK how this worked out for them. They pay more for water, and now after the private companies have siphoned off all the profit, they get to pay billions for deferred maintenance.

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Terry McDonald @pterrymc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That's what worries me. In theory, I know that we're supposed to have it available here. But I suspect it might not be in practice... because our premier is a chaos baboon. Sigh.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

THIS 👇 HERE IS SICKENING......

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Terry McDonald @pterrymc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm wondering if there will be Novavax available in Ontario...

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Terry McDonald @pterrymc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I hope the people of Philadelphia live up to their reputation for being scrappy.

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Terry McDonald @pterrymc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My MIL is still using the photo of the Shetland ponies in their custom-knit Fair Isle sweaters as her screen saver. She'll love this.

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Catherine McNair @cathylenair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

www.thestar.com/opinion/star... $58 billion of tax dollars to remove #bike lanes that won't reduce gridlock. It will just injure and kill people. A joke to the premier, apparently. #OnPoli

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Graeme Bayliss: His cyclist friend was killed. Why did Doug Ford’s response include ‘lmao’?

No one is expecting the premier to mash out the Bixby letter on his iPhone. Yet we might expect more than this.

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Terry McDonald @pterrymc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Remember how he removed the school masking requirement so it coincided with the first Monday after March Break, when so many kids were returning after travelling? The result was one of Ontario's biggest waves of COVID infections. It's like he wants to cause maximum harm.

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staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is so genuinely cruel and heartless. Ford is, among other things, just a bad person.

Aware that the premier gives out his cellphone number freely, DiBernardo decided to get in touch. On Sept. 7, he sent Ford the following text:

Hello, I just saw the news in the Toronto Star that proposals from the city to retain the bike lanes and reduce traffic congestion were rejected without due consideration. A close friend of mine died in a cycling accident north of Bloor on university [sic] in an area where bike lanes were removed due to construction. This political move is going to cost Canadian lives at a time when we need to be more united than ever before. Please reconsider.

He didn’t expect to hear back. He only wanted to register opposition to a plan that will needlessly endanger lives (not to mention one that will have almost no impact on traffic, as an engineering report commissioned by Ford’s own government indicates). “I spoke from the heart,” DiBernardo told me. “And I almost immediately got a response.”

The response he got (verified by the Star): “I am sorry for your loss! Star is always truthful lmao! I have been talking to the Mayor last week about University!”

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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

His cyclist friend was killed. Why did Doug Ford’s response include ‘lmao’? www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

Doug Ford is laughing his ass off. His words, not mine.

The premier of Ontario is four weeks away from the end of his 21-week summer vacation. He is 11 weeks away from the beginning of his 10-week winter vacation. He is three and a half years away from the next provincial election. And while there may be bumps in the road ahead, God help him, at least there won’t be so many bike lanes: not after he spends an estimated $48 million ripping 19 kilometres’ worth of them out of three Toronto streets, ostensibly to ease traffic congestion.

His plan has attracted some naysayers. Michael DiBernardo, who lives in East York, is one. He believes Ford has a tendency to spend big money “for very transparent, very stupid reasons,” and he takes issue with the premier’s refusal to entertain compromises the city has proposed to restore car lanes to Bloor Street, University Avenue and Yonge Street but keep bike lanes in place.

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Terry McDonald @pterrymc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm thinking about the family reunion I attended, held at an Eastern Ontario church hall. There was a distant cousin there, who'd been some sort of Republican senator, spouting off about his pre-Vatican II faith. It was like seeing an altogether different kind of Catholic that I didn't know existed.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I just read a third or possibly fourth news article where the reality of an 'AI has discovered something marvellous!' story turns out to be GenAI somehow accessed material it had no permissions for, which was the outcome of an expert's years of work, and presented it without attribution. GenAI lies.

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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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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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

School Budget 2025: $90,000 School Budget 2026: $51,000 Please remember this when Doug Ford and Paul Calandra try to tell you about the historic and unprecedented investments their government has made in education and how greedy teachers are always asking for more. #OntEd

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Terry McDonald @pterrymc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When we were buying appliances a few years ago, we nixed one stove that we really liked because it was AI enabled. We were worried about it being disabled by the manufacturer to hasten their planned obsolescence.

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Terry McDonald @pterrymc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I read that turkey became standard Christmas fare more widely after the U.S. military started serving it for their holiday mess meals because it's easier to prepare for banquets. It makes sense for such settings, but it's underwhelming for family festivities.

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