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Lorraine Cameron

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❤️💧🌳🦉🐝🦍🐋🦌☮️ 🍉she/her settler on treaty 29 territory Respectfully Residing on Turtle Island

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Waterloo Region Health Coalition @health-wrregion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There is more to Canada's health system than wait times. - Sally Primus, MD on TikTok 😊 #universalhealthcare #healthcare #canada
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 06/10/2026
ICYMI: "We can see the same gap between what the minimum wage delivers versus what is actually required to afford a decent living by viewing the discrepancy between the minimum wage and the living wage in these provinces." #canlab #LivingWage @simonenoch.bsky.social www.sasktoday.ca/opinion/opin...
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Opinion: Minimum wage increases can’t keep pace with rising cost of living
For low-wage workers, a few extra cents an hour won’t close the growing affordability gap.
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Lorraine Cameron @raineycameron.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I support Wikipedia, where information is still human-created, fact-checked, and 100% free. Join me! donate.wikimedia.org
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Make your donation now - Wikimedia Foundation
Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We're suing the EU under the Aarhus Convention for its failure to disclose vital environmental and efficiency data around the bloc's data centre build out Investigators spent a year trying to access the information, now we're challenging the non-disclosure www.lighthousereports.com/methodology/...
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Why we made a legal filing to the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee
Officials are holding key environmental impact figures for all AI data centres across Europe. They won’t let the public see them.
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Waterloo Region Health Coalition @health-wrregion.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nice support for evidence-based healthcare policy as outlined in your latest report, Not adding up: Surgical and diagnostic privatization in Ontario. Kudos! 😊 #CanadianHealthcare #WaitTimes #Surgery #HealthPolicy #HealthcareReform #Medicare
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Lorraine Cameron @raineycameron.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"officials told CNN that the Chinese vessel incident isn't the only time the military has run into AI hallucinations."
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An AI hallucination nearly started a war between the US and China
Sources connected to the US military recently told CNN that the US nearly moved to intercept a Chinese vessel in the Middle East this spring based on...
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Waterloo Region Health Coalition @health-wrregion.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Urgent: Canada’s Public Health Care is Under Attack! #SaveOurHealthcare #PublicMedicare #CanadaHealthAct #StopPrivatization When: Tuesday, October 6, 2026, at 7:00 PM ET Where: Virtual via Zoom Register here and Zoom will send you the link to the meeting: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Ricochet Media @ricochetmedia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The National Post recently crossed a dangerous line by publishing call for violence against Canada's federal NDP leader. "Avi Lewis is not the threat that needs to be dealt with, Postmedia is." NEW from @smohyeddin.bsky.social who breaks it all down: ricochet.media/media/nation...
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National Post crosses dangerous line by publishing call for violence against NDP leader
Avi Lewis is not the threat that needs to be ‘dealt with’ — Postmedia is
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 30/09/2026
The recent release of Meta’s Muse AI agent needs far-reaching access to your data to conduct tasks on your behalf. We keep seeing stories of how that has backfired on users. Read our newsletter to learn more, and subscribe!
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Meta’s Muse AI surprises users — but not in a good way
After granting permission to access a considerable amount of your personal data, agents may behave in unexpected ways. We are not a-Muse’d
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If the expansion of for-profit surgical and medical imaging was effective at reducing wait times as the provincial government claims, there would be evidence of improved timely access to care Yet the evidence shows the opposite to be true #onpoli
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The Progress Report @theprogressreport.ca · 25/09/2026
This apparently-fictional Daniel Robson character was a prolific contributor to the Western Standard, which published at least twenty articles attributed to the name. 'Robson' advocated for less immigration, a harsher justice system, and crackdowns on anti-Zionism.
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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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UN Humanitarian @unocha.org · 18/09/2026
In #Haiti, the nutrition situation for hundreds of thousands of children is deteriorating. Unrelenting violence is forcing families to flee their homes and disrupting children’s access to food and basic healthcare, including malnutrition treatment. Read: bit.ly/4AkdbRJ
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Emmerson Jull @emmersonj.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Local government really, really matters. My new starter pack for @nationalobserver.com is the perfect refresher as we head into municipal election season 🗳️
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freegrassy.bsky.social @freegrassy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
📍 Where to meet for River Run 📍 Join Grassy Narrows this Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 12 PM at Grange Park. Meet at the south end of the park, where Stephanie St. and John St. intersect. RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/river... #FreeGrassy #RiverRun2026
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Lorraine Cameron @raineycameron.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"On April 24, the Ford government’s 2026 budget received Royal Assent, passing into law sweeping changes to how freedom of information works in Ontario. The changes excluded the premier, his cabinet and all their staff from disclosing records to the public." #OnPol globalnews.ca/news/1204843...
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Inside the Ford government’s pause on all freedom of information requests | Globalnews.ca
The Ford government made the unprecedented decision to pause all transparency requests for more than a week. Here's what happened behind the scenes.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Jay-Z is an errand boy for other billionaires. What this Macklemore situation has shown is how the NFL billionaires colluded against Kaepernick
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 17/09/2026
Union members at @thelancet.com and its affiliated journals will go on strike Sept. 22 for one day with further action planned for the following week, after pay negotiations with parent publisher Elsevier fell apart. It's the first strike in the journal's 200-year history.
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Lancet union declares first-ever strike over staff wages
Union members at The Lancet and its affiliated journals will go on strike Sept. 22 for one day with further action planned for the following week, after pay negotiations with parent publisher Elsev…
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 16/09/2026
New petition sponsored by Liberal MP Arielle Kayabaga calls for a new criminal offence banning recording / publishing video of vulnerable people in public, including those who are homeless, experiencing mental health crises or impaired due to substance use www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition to the Government of Canada 

Whereas: 

• Houseless individuals and those that struggle with mental health are especially vulnerable to exploitation given their circumstances; • The law currently allows these vulnerable people to be filmed and posted on social media without their knowledge and consent often while experiencing crisis; 

• This practice puts at risk the safety of this community by allowing those that may mean them harm, a tool to find them. This is especially relevant considering that this population that has a high number of domestic violence survivors and is at higher risk for sexual exploitation; • This act can increase stigmatization and of these groups by showing only snapshots of people suffering or in crisis, with no additional context or education; and 

• This community is unlikely to have the resources to seek out civil remedies and criminal remedies against harassment and thus should be afforded extra protection. 

We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to create a new provision in the Criminal Code that would make it an offence to knowingly record in public, a person the recorder knows is experiencing "prescribed circumstance of significant vulnerability" for the purposes of publishing or distributing that recording to the public. "Prescribed circumstance of significant vulnerability" include: 

(a) experiencing homelessness; (

b) experiencing a mental-health crisis or other acute psychological crisis; 

(c) experiencing significant impairment resulting from alcohol, drugs, or another substance; and 

(d) experiencing another prescribed circumstance that substantially increases the person's vulnerability to exploitation or serious harm from public exposure.
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freegrassy.bsky.social @freegrassy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
One week until #RiverRun2026! #GrassyNarrows is coming to Toronto to demand mercury justice. Bring your people. March with Grassy Narrows. 📅 Sept 23 • 12 PM 📍 Grange Park, Toronto RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/river...
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Daniel MacPhee 🇨🇦 @d-macphee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
From interstitium to quackery? #Science www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
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The Organ That “Proved” That Everything Is Connected
Science is elastic. Its findings can be stretched to sell useless gadgets and to sow mistrust. Often, this distortion of the truth is done outside of academia by merchants of doubt, spiritual influenc...
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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 11/09/2026
So to summarize: One of the largest private corporations in Canada that’s been found guilty of fixing prices, is using drones to pollute the night sky, to promote the use of an AI chatbot to disclose sensitive personal information, and is part of the privatization of the Ontario health care system.
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 09/09/2026
🚨 Europe’s latest carbon capture project is a dangerous distraction — and a pass to keep on polluting. The project in the Netherlands risks funneling millions in public money into speculative technologies rather than real decarbonization. Our reaction: bit.ly/4hds290 🧵👇1/4
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Opening of Europe's largest carbon capture project is a dangerous distraction - CIEL
CIEL experts warn that the opening Europe's largest carbon capture project, risks using billions in taxpayers’ money to fund a dangerous distraction that delays climate action.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Carney and Cabinet tried to bury it. It's Cabinet which is supporting him and his incineration of our children's futures.
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Canada's Latest Climate Report Should Be Call to Action, Instead Gov't Tried to Bury It - Environmental Defence
Statement from Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate, Environmental Defence Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
While life saving medical & electrical supplies cant go from US into Cuba due to the blockade, it CAN go out thru Canada. Mariposa Brigade is the first humanitarian aid brigade from Canada to Cuba, coming up quickly next month. Donate & share to break the blockade: chuffed.org/project/1826...
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The Mariposa Brigade - Canada2Cuba with Love
Cuba is a beacon of international solidarity. Their doctors save lives. Their scientists created five COVID vaccines. But after decades of a cruel US embargo (or bloqueo) tightened during the pandemic...
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 05/09/2026
REMINDER as the UN warns crossing 1.5°C is now unavoidable in the coming years: 1.5°C is not a casual target. It is a VITAL line between safety and chaos. Every fraction of a degree of warming demands an immediate end to fossil fuels.
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Lorraine Cameron @raineycameron.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Collective bargaining protects workers. ✊🏻
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 03/09/2026
Abu Safia, in custody for nearly two years, continues to face abuse inside prison, his lawyer says.
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No end to torture of Gaza doctor Abu Safia in Israeli prison: What to know
Abu Safia, in custody for nearly two years, continues to face abuse inside prison, his lawyer says.
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Katie West @katiewest.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
If you're in Canada and want to tell Tim Hortons that their Harry Potter marketing campaign is shit, you can contact them here: www.timhortons.ca/support
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Tim Hortons Help Centre
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Mel Woods @melwoods.me · 02/09/2026
Anyways! Reminder that HBO and discount Canadian coffee chains and dozens and dozens of other things are STILL out here licensing this stuff!!! xtramagazine.com/culture/tim-...
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Tim Hortons and the no good very bad ‘Harry Potter’ collaboration | Xtra Magazine
Tim Hortons licensing “Harry Potter” in 2026 essentially means directly funding J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans crusade
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Rocky Kistner @therockyfiles.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Groundbreaking report on the "silent killer" of a warming climate: "between 2018 and 2025, we estimate that some 9,000 deaths each year in the country are impacted by heat — a factor of five higher than the official average over that same period." @alejandrabee_ @NPR tinyurl.com/5d4pjzw6
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NPR spent 2 years tracking deaths from heat. We found a staggering hidden toll
An NPR investigation found that people in the U.S. are dying from heat much more often than official counts show. We explore the reasons why — and how lives can be saved.
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Vivaldi Browser @vivaldi.com · 28/07/2026
Time for a reintroduction, new followers: 🇳🇴🇮🇸 We're Vivaldi, a European browser based in Norway & Iceland 🕵️ Your data is yours, we don't spy on you or track you ❌ No built-in AI slop ✊🏽 Employee-owned 🔥 Built-in adblocker, mail, calendar, tasks, feeds, VPN ++ Join us in the fight for a better web!
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 01/09/2026
The country's biggest garbage incinerator is coming to Brampton, Ontario. Locals are worried about the impact on the environment and community health, and they wonder if their largely immigrant community is seen as a "sacrifice zone." Originally published by @thelocal.to.
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Brampton’s fight against Canada’s largest garbage incinerator | The Narwhal
Residents in the largely immigrant community worry about pollution, health impacts as a local incinerator plans a major expansion
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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 19/08/2026
Today, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has spent 600 days behind bars in Israeli detention. Israeli authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, and all Palestinians arbitrarily detained by Israel. 🔗 takeaction.amnesty.ca/page/175180/action/1
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 26/08/2026
Canadians don’t want Alberta’s U.S.-style health care. By @alonghurst.bsky.social #cdnpoli #apoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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New poll shows strong opposition to Alberta’s two-tier health care reforms | CCPA
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"... the economic benefits and the number of lives saved that would be achieved by single-payer universal coverage ... We estimate that such a system would reduce national health expenditure by $1,041 billion annually." www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Projected economic gains and lives saved under universal healthcare in the United States
The US spends more on health care than any other nation, yet tens of millions of Americans are uninsured or underinsured, and coverage retractions enacted in 2025 are widening these gaps. The misalign...
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Paul Champ @paulchamplaw.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
PM Carney remains silent as Bank of Canada strike stretches to almost two months, with repeated violations of the Canada Labour Code by the Bank. Sending a message to unions and the labour movement? www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
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Unions slam Carney government over silence on Bank of Canada’s use of replacement workers
The central bank’s security guards have been off the job since June.
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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 12/08/2026
The reports were completed in June 2023. Health Canada dubbed them "high importance" and "short turnaround" for release. Then Minister Carolyn Bennett was abruptly replaced with Ya'ara Saks, who seemed to spend more time advocating for Israel than for solutions to unregulated drug deaths. 2/
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A statement from the AFN says this is the latest effort to 'disrupt these final proceedings and further delay justice and effective remedies for First Nations children, youth and families | Story by @mblackburn21.bsky.social
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Ottawa calls on Tribunal to pause child welfare case
Canada is requesting that the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal pause the child welfare case and fill out the panel hearing the case.
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Lorraine Cameron @raineycameron.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I support Wikipedia, where information is still human-created, fact-checked, and 100% free. Join me! donate.wikimedia.org
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Make your donation now - Wikimedia Foundation
Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...
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Lorraine Cameron @raineycameron.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The only reaction from the Premier to hate speech, should be unequivocal condemnation. Her ambiguous comment supporting free speech is inappropriate, hurtful and beneath the office she holds.
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Salva Bará @salvabara.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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DarkSky and Allies Ask the FCC to Reverse Its Approval of the Reflect Orbital “Space Mirror”
On August 6, 2026, DarkSky International filed a formal Application for Review asking the full FCC to reverse its Space Bureau’s approval of Reflect Orbital Inc.’s Earendil-1 satellite.
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Our American friends have many stories to tell about why a private-pay system sucks Canada, we do not want this
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West Coast Environmental Law @wcelaw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
They thought we wouldn't notice them slip this in during the long weekend ‼️ As Canada burns, the federal gov wants to designate the proposed west coast oil pipeline as a "project of national interest"—allowing it to sidestep critical environmental laws & assessments. Feedback is being accepted now.
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Canada Gazette, Part 1, Volume 160, Number 31: SUPPLEMENT
August 1, 2026, Part 1, Volume 160, Number 31, Canada Gazette
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Keith Stewart @climatekeith.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Are you listening, Mark Carney? Back-bench Liberals? UN Secretary General: “Every new fossil fuel project approved today makes tomorrow’s heatwaves more dangerous, and our world less secure." unfccc.int/news/un-secr...
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This is so frustrating to read from The New Yorker. Reward hacking *long* predates LLMs. The Coast Runners paper on reward hacking (in reinforcement learning, pre-LLMs) is 10 years old! Reward hacking is not new, and not a sign of a breakthrough intelligence, much less sentience. Did AI write this?
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
'There has been a catastrophic and systemic failure at nearly every level and at nearly every step of this process,' says Ontario Regional Chief Abram Benedict.
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Chiefs of Ontario backs calls for public inquiry into wildfire response
The Chiefs of Ontario is backing calls from First Nation leaders to have a public inquiry into the province's response to the wildfires.
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Lorraine Cameron @raineycameron.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Disappointed with the PM's comments, encourages xenophobia IMO. Newcomers, temporary foreign workers, international students all contribute to the economy. Investment by Federal & Provincial government in public housing would be the single best way to provide stable housing options for people.
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Greenpeace Canada @greenpeaceca.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Calling you from 2,300 metres deep: listen to the science to make informed decisions about the seabed Tell Canada to support Vanuatu’s resolution putting science first at the #InternationalSeabedAuthority meetings this Thursday.
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Lorraine Cameron @raineycameron.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The federal government must respect the collective bargaining rights of 4,400 WestJet flight attendants and ensure their guaranteed right to strike remains protected. Please join me and send a letter to the Labour Minister today. #CanLab endunpaidwork.ca/right-to-strike
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Tell The Labour Minister: Don't strip WestJet flight attendants of their right to strike | CUPE 8125
WestJet’s flight attendants are fighting to bring back the airline you deserve. They need public support to stop the race to the bottom.
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