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Rachel Fonseca @rachelfonseca.bsky.social · 6h

It’s been three years since the murders, rapes, imprisonment, torture, maiming, starvation and brutality towards innocent Palestinian people became an open genocide for the whole world to see. Over 70 years since the torment began. #FreePalestine #StopTheGenocide

Two Palestinian supporters carrying Palestinian flags, walking on the street with a sign that reads
“THE WORLD HATES ISRAEL”

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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 17h

Seems like a good day to repost.

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Mark Shaw 🇨🇦✌️🇪🇺 @markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 19h

"Some of you must die" is an interesting campaign plan.

From the "Toronto Car People" facebook group:

Greetings all. The time has come.

To those who frequently reach out to ward councillors, theirs and others, I respect the perseverance and dedication. However, the source of much of the frustration routinely seen in posts here and experienced on the road by members of this group is, as most already know, Vision Zero. It is the city’s moral and sacred transportation religion, and the only effective way to tackle it is to dismantle it from the bottom up.

Unlike organized walking, transit, and cycling groups and institutions, motorists in this city number in the millions but are incredibly fragmented and decentralized. The vast majority don’t have the time to attend all of the community and council meetings on this subject because they are busy dealing with life’s obligations. If motorists, us included, are going to have any impact on transportation policy in this city, communication will have to be strategic and in numbers.

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Jesse Feld @jessersfeld.bsky.social · 19h

Toronto's ballot design is terrible and will affect the election. Who decided first names should be left justified in a small font? Did they even imagine two people with the same surname and needing to easily differentiate them? For contrast here is Elections Canada's well tested #design.

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Rachel Fonseca @rachelfonseca.bsky.social · 17h

Toronto vote #9 Vote the second Chow on the ballot.

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Rachel Fonseca @rachelfonseca.bsky.social · 17h

Toronto Vote #9 The second Chow on the list.

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Rachel Fonseca @rachelfonseca.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hey Toronto, I just chipped in to Olivia Chow’s re-election campaign, because I want to keep building on what’s already working - school meals for kids, frozen transit fares and real investments in this city. If you care about keeping Toronto affordable, chip in too. share.oliviachow.ca/s/qO9bkPv1

share.oliviachow.ca

Donate to Team Olivia Chow

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 06/10/2026

only good news in quebec is that pspp doesn’t have an absolutely majority. but getting that close on 28% of the vote is insanity. first-past-the-post is not fit for purpose.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

megyn kelly is the exact sort of woman who mocks a rape victim for their appearance. she's a loathsome, awful woman.

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s also kind of wild that a 20-person patio equals 1 parked car. Cars are absolute hogs for space. And they’re almost always single-occupant.

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yesterday the cafe I work at packed up its CafeTO patio. Immediately, someone parked where the patio used to be and the spot was basically occupied all day m. It made me think of the bike lane removal thing. All those “freed up” lanes will just be parking. It won’t ease car congestion at all.

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Rachel Fonseca @rachelfonseca.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

An opinion article that links all the pieces very well. aje.news/qy7q8x

'Did he know?': Why Israel is rejecting an October 7
reckoning
The fixation on Netanyahu's failures allows Israel to avoid confronting what it has done

Media reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was warned by the United Arab Emirates before the attacks have put his alleged responsibility back in the spotlight.

The answer lies in the psychological state of Israeli society. For many Israelis, October 7 became a psychological rupture, making it difficult to reconcile their sense of humanity with their complicity in the criminal reality that followed.
The problem, then, is not that Israelis are in denial or misinformed. It is that a large portion of the society is complicit in criminality and actively avoids reckoning with it.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 04/10/2026

Not one single National Post reporter was willing to put their name on this article

Bradford closing in on Chow in Toronto mayoral race: new research

At presents Chow holds a slight edge at 38.1 per cent of voters, with Bradford following with 32.2 per cent

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Rachel Fonseca @rachelfonseca.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tuning in for #SNL and getting the nazi israeli instead in an episode calling a brown chef a nazi is a sick level of funny.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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Rachel Fonseca @rachelfonseca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In Toronto my groceries come from Ontario Brazil New Zealand Peru South Africa Anything but…

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Rachel Fonseca @rachelfonseca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Former Raptor OG Anunoby is on SNL 🫶

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Rachel Fonseca @rachelfonseca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social When will you act on this? Please give us a timeframe. Canadians are sick of this government’s silence on the issue of Palestinian genocide and the non-compliance of the ICC request to arrest netenyahu. bsky.app/profile/trya...

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Minister Anita Anand needs to do some explaining. Why is an international war criminal allowed to fly over our country especially when our judge on the ICC is being threatened? www.middleeasteye.net/news/canada-...

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Canada, France, Italy and Greece allow Netanyahu’s overflight despite ICC warrant

Israeli PM’s route via four ICC member states prompts fresh scrutiny over their alleged breach of international law

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

some genocide and war crimes are ok as long as you’re part of the International Community

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Canada continues to be shameful on this issue.

Screenshot shows the man in Canada's seat looking around at the other countries leaving the room all while staying seated. The country names are a bit hard to make out, but I cross-referenced this against the seating chart that's been published.

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Rachel Fonseca @rachelfonseca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sign at a Yom Kippur gathering “For the sin of genocide we atone” Respect for this Jewish group. It has got to be painful to have to do this. youtu.be/k2WT-vmcR-M?...

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Jewish Worshippers Honour Palestinians Killed In Gaza At Nyc Yom Kippur Gathering | VERTEX

YouTube video by VERTEX

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 21/09/2026

The shooting outside a synagogue in Belleville is deeply upsetting, and has traumatized a community that gathered to pray.

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Rachel Fonseca @rachelfonseca.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bradford is a liar. Of course he’s an israeli man.

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 22/09/2026

7. THE VAULT: Bradford knocks the mayor for drawing big on reserves to keep property tax increases low this year, but only a fraction of the $1.7 billion reserve draw went toward balancing the budget. A big chunk was a preplanned draw to pay for FIFA costs.

THE VAULT: Bradford suggests some of the New Deal funds
may have been put into a reserve fund, then pulled in 2026 to "buy an election-year tax increase of just 2.2 per cent." He cites a $1.7 billion reserve draw in the 2026 budget. But only $323 million of that figure went toward temporary bridging strategies to balance the operating budget. Much of the remaining reserve draw, according to City CFO Stephen Conforti, was pre-planned
use of funds to cover things like the World Cup hosting expenses. Also, assume this one was true, and that Chow had used New Deal money to deliver a low property tax increase — isn't that
exactly what the Bradford campaign is advocating for?

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 22/09/2026

6. THE CORNER OFFICE: This 800% increase in the TCHC CEO’s office expenses is derived by comparing full-year 2025 expenses with partial-year expenses for 2024, the CEO’s first year on the job.

THE CORNER OFFICE: Bradford suggests some of the New Deal money might have gone to funding a more than 800% increase in expenses claimed by TCHC CEO Sean Baird. And indeed, a report to the TCH's Audit Committee showed Baird's expenses related to Conferences & Training rising from $777 in 2024 to $7,237 in 2025, but at least some of the increase can be
explained by the fact that Baird didn't start the gig until April 2024. 2025 was his first full year at the helm. You can argue the expenses are too high for the CEO of a public housing agency, but that $7,237 figure would need to be many times higher for it
to be material to the scale of the City Budget and the New Deal.

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 22/09/2026

5. THE RECYCLING BIN: The City didn’t spend $5 million to put the silly stickers on blue bins, as Bradford says. The private company now responsible for collection did.

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 22/09/2026

4. THE IT DEPARTMENT: Bradford points to an Auditor General investigation that found millions in unused software licenses. True, but the AG investigation mostly covered a period before Chow took office. The City has since accepted the AG’s recommendations and saved millions.

THE IT DEPARTMENT: Bradford says the City spent $11 million on "software licenses for people who no longer work there." An Auditor General investigation did uncover about $11 million in costs related to unused software licenses, but the investigation period covered 2020 to 2024. The New Deal was announced in the fall of 2023 and took effect in 2024. The City accepted the findings of the auditor's investigation and has since taken steps to track software licenses more closely. A follow-up
report suggests these moves have saved millions of dollars.

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 22/09/2026

3. THE BILLBOARD: Bradford cites money Chow spent to promote the 2026 budget. A clean hit, but the amount is a small increase relative to past years, and Bradford spent a chunk of cash hosting a town hall to share his views on the budget, too.

THE BILLBOARD: Bradford cites $142,000 in money Chow
spent to promote the 2026 budget. Bradford is right that Chow's 2026 PR push was a bit bigger than past years. Still, the number amounts to 0.0007% of the budget itself. You can criticize Chow for this, but it had no material impact on the City's financial situation. Bradford, for his part, also spent big on budget
consultation: his office expensed $13,842 in costs related to a "Ward 19 Town Hall Virtual Meeting" on February 5, 2026. The
event was advertised as Bradford's 2026 Budget Telephone Town
Hall."

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 22/09/2026

2. THE DOCK: Bradford suggests the New Deal cash went to pay for expensive electric ferries, but the RFP for the new boats predates Chow’s time in office. The New Deal didn’t change this ferry tale.

THE DOCK: The Bradford campaign suggests maybe the money from the New Deal went to purchasing two island ferries, which are set to cost $92 million. But the RFP process for these boats was kicked off in July 2023. That's not only before Chow signed
the New Deal, but it's also the same month Chow took office. This ferry tale predates the mayor. (Also: Bradford voted for the
boats.)

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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 22/09/2026

1. THE SQUARE: Bradford says New Deal money may have gone to renaming Sankofa Square, but the City Manager says cash from development fees covered all costs. You can think the renaming is silly, but there’s no apparent New Deal money here.

THE SQUARE: Bradford suggests the City spent up to $800,000 renaming Yonge-Dundas Square to Sankofa Square. Setting aside the fact that Bradford voted for the renaming, a May 2024 letter from City Manager Paul Johnson tells us all budgeted costs - totalling $335,000 - related to the rebranding are being funded
by Section 37 funds from development projects in the area. Additional costs for rebranding work by the Sankofa Square Board were to be funded by advertising revenue and other corporate partnerships. You can think the renaming was silly, but
there's no apparent New Deal money here.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We’ve already had fake AI-generated “neighbourhood” campaigns in Toronto. Now this.

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Rachel Fonseca @rachelfonseca.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Besides Mark Carmey, does anyone really know what Mark Carney is doing? Privatizing our busiest airports?! And giving an American business a stake! That’s not what I understood “elbows up” to mean. Still unsure about the EU membership moves, but fully hate this move.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 18/09/2026

There's a reason previous Liberal governments looked at privatizing airports and didn't go through with it. Private investors don't want a stake in our public assets to make them better. They’re in it to make as much money as possible for themselves - while workers and passengers pay the price.

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Rachel Fonseca @rachelfonseca.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We need this in Toronto to help us stop buying anything produced by Ontario Conservative voters.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Our Kennedy Centre

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Editorial board: "Mr. Ford insists this is a common-sense approach to tackling congestion. But a possible tell that this is more about culture-war politics is that he is making no effort to remove parking spaces, which take up more room than bicycle lanes." #BikeTo #OnPoli #ToPoli

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

this statemement robert kraft gave to @wgbh.org re: macklemore and ed sheeran is so gross, framing his ultimatum to sheeran as though he was doing jews a service by protecting us from "hate speech." there is nothing hateful about saying "free palestine." www.wgbh.org/news/politic...

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Rachel Fonseca @rachelfonseca.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s so rare to read a headline nowadays and burst out laughing. I hope you LOL too

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Rachel Fonseca @rachelfonseca.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Cannot imagine the amount of garbage 9/11 information we would have received had there been Twitter and Facebook and WhatsApp 25 years ago.

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