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The RantingCanuck

@rantingcanuck.bsky.social
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Neurodivergent, disabled, stay at home father, husband, democratic socialist, nerd. B.Sc, B.Ed.

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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
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Honest Government Ad | Ksi Lisims LNG
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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Why do so many @mark-carney.bsky.social supporters quote @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social when Mamdani stands for supporting workers over billionaires? Carney like Cuomo stands with the rich against the poor and thus one would think he was more their speed
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EA @elliottanderson.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
No longer should we think about our political process as settling for the lesser of two evils. We can demand a greater good. - Zohran Mamdani in groovy font
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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
A really good read on the dangers of worshipping politicians as heros substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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The Cost of Hero Worship in Politics:
Why Elevating Leaders Risks Us All
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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
In #Canada both #Federal and #Provincial governments have the ability to build the infrastructure and services people need, it's called investing in your own people. #neoliberalism dictates that they give our money to private interests instead and find excuses for why life doesn't get better.
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Charles Smith @profsmithsask.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Austerity and attacks on collective bargaining! Man this conservative government is something.
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Liberal government wants to change arbitration rules for public servants
The changes to the Public Sector Labour Relations Act would alter the arbitration process for public service bargaining units.
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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Here are my political predictions for the next few years in Canada: 1st - Enough CPC MP's are going to defect to the Liberals to ensure the budget passes 2nd - PP will resign after the leadership review in January and will be replaced as CPC by Doug Ford 1/🧵
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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
When I was a child I would try and use the excuse "but everybody else is doing it" and she would always respond "and if everybody else jumped off a bridge, would you?" Now #Canada is abandoning #climatechange for #oil and #gas and literally using the justification "but everybody else is doing it"
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Isanthrope @isanthropia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Yes - socialism agendas work because striving for equality is something most humans actually prefer. Give the billionaires a trophy for winning capitalism then tax them out of existence. Capitalism works best when there is a government that enacts rules, oversight and watchdogs.
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PSAC-AFPC @psac-afpc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Instead of investing in frontline services and the workers who keep Canada running, the government is doubling down on job cuts and AI chatbots that will weaken Canada’s social safety net. psacunion.ca/federal-budg...
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Federal Budget: Government plans deep public service cuts and weakens workers’ bargaining rights
<p>The Public Service Alliance of Canada is deeply concerned about the federal government’s plan to slash critical public services, cut more than 40,000 federal public service workers,…
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Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt · 04/11/2025
Appreciate the high speed rail — but what about the rest for working-class Canadians? Cutting taxes on private jets for the 0.01% may help corporations, but won’t help those who will lose their jobs because of AI and austerity. Canada Strong must mean *all* Canadians, not just a minority thereof!
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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Write the @ndp.ca folks! Make sure their MPs know how Canadians feel!
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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 04/11/2025
#FossilGas is bad for #Climate, bad for business, bad for Canada. #LNG #cdnpoli bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
All the red tape/work requirements etc put on social safety net programs aren't there to improve the efficiency of the program and are functionally useless. They're there to make the rest of us feel morally superior to poor people and reassure us we won't end up like "them". bsky.app/profile/nber...
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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
If #Canada wants to keep it's #sovereignty we need to take control of our #media 1) Ban foreign ownership of all #Canadian media (including non-voting shares) 2) Ban any individual from having a controlling interest in multiple media outlets #cdnpoli #freepress #pressfreedom
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Brandee @bcontroversial.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
"The risk to our country is not that Canadians will be too cautious in embracing AI, but that our government will act too rashly, tying our democracy, prosperity, security, sovereignty and collective well-being to a questionable product and its reckless promoters."
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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Western #capitalists have been #offshoring their production to #China to take advantage of low labour costs, an action justified under #capitalism. Now Chinese companies are exploiting those same conditions to export to the west and those same western capitalists are crying foul. #hypocrisy
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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
It's frustrating watching smart people compare bad to atrocious and then declare the bad to be good #cdnpoli #politics
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
In just six months, China added 256 gigawatts (GW) of new #solar capacity — more than the entire solar infrastructure ever built by the United States. That’s enough clean energy to power over 40 million homes, marking the fastest renewable expansion in human history.
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🇨🇦 🍁 Rebecca @85foxes.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
The country you are trying to reach is currently watching baseball (followed by the Blue Jays logo)
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TheGentYYC 🇨🇦 @thegentyyc.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
F-ing #ElbowsDown coward Mark Carney #CarneyTheCoward #cdnpoli www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
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Carney says he told Ontario premier not to run anti-tariff ad, apologized to Trump
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he told Ontario Premier Doug Ford that he didn’t think the province should run the ad campaign that’s being blamed for ending trade talks with the U.S.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Mark Carney did apologize to Donald Trump #cdnpoli
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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
As an act of #reconciliation every #Indigenous language spoken in the lands #Canada occupies should be given official language status. No Indigenous person should be forced to use a colonial language in their daily lives if they do not wish to do so. #cdnpoli #colonialism
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Augustina @augustina.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Dear @pmcarney.bsky.social & the Gov't of Canada, Please make this AI shit illegal for politicians to use. We all know mini-MAGA #PeePee and the #CONservatives will go full out with this nonsense. And look how ridiculous it makes American Republicans look. Let's not look like this. #cdnpoli
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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Accepting a little cruelty because you are afraid that someone worse will rise to power eventually guarantees the worst finds you #abpoli #cdnpoli #politics
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Rob Duncan @robduncan.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
#USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MidasMighty #Politics-matter #PoliticsNation #america
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
All 3 levels of government must get back to directly building housing as they did prior to neoliberalism taking over
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 31/10/2025
Racist, fascist bullshit in Quebec.
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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
You should care about Jamaica and Sudan even if you don't know anyone there and the news isn't covering it. The anti-Blackness embedded in folks' lack of empathy is gross.
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Sidney Coles PhD, PhD @westernwriter.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Implementing UBI would give Canadians the resilience they need in this moment.
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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
People need to stop judging elected officials by what they say they are going to do and start judging them by their actual actions #politics #cdnpoli #abpoli
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Rob Duncan @robduncan.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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Ms. Lutzmann @mslutzmann.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
RECALL THEM ALL #abpoli #ableg #abed #cdnpoli
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Jodi @jodotcom.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Digital access to banned books www.cbs8.com/article/news...
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San Diego Library offers free digital access to banned books for teens in restrictive states
San Diego Public Library's 'Books Unbanned' program gives out-of-state teens free digital access to over 250 banned titles nationwide.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Sharing for awareness: For those able and willing to help, the Embassy of Jamaica in DC is coordinating disaster relief in the U.S. They have asked folks to reach out to them at disasterresponse@jamaicaembassy.org to coordinate support. The government has info on donations supportjamaica.gov.jm
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Support Jamaica
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Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Remote work reduced gender discrimination — returning to the office may change that theconversation.com/remote-work-...
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Remote work reduced gender discrimination — returning to the office may change that
For many women, going back to the office can mean stepping back into environments where gender bias is more pronounced.
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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The #bluejays and #dodgers have now officially tied the record for the longest world series game at 18 innings... a record ironically from the 3rd game of the 2018 world series between the #dodgers and #redsox Let's go #bluejays and finish this off!
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Jenny Yeremiy, P. Geoph 🪶🌿🇵🇸🇳🇬🇱🇧🇨🇦 @jennyyeremiy.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
📣 Signature collection happening at the Bowness Carwash on Mainstreet near the Library from 4-6:30 pm. 👏 #pentopaper #collective #action RecallNicolaides.ca
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JIMCABTV @jimcabtv.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
For those #yyc folks who are in Nicolaides' riding.... #abpoli #AbEd
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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Food banks are a societal catch-22... They need to be fully funded and easy to access, while simultaneously it needs to be acknowledged that they shouldn't even exist because nobody should be going hungry in a modern society. #cdnpoli #abpoli #foodbank
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 05/12/2024
I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵
OBSERVED EFFECTS OF UBI

No significant reduction in labor supply (38 studies meta-analysis)

Increased self-employment (301%) and part-time employment (17%)

Slight decrease in alcohol and tobacco use (31 studies meta-analysis)

New mothers extend their maternity leaves

Birth weights improve due to better maternal nutrition

Graduation rates and educational outcomes improve

Hospitalization rates decline (8.5%)

Crime goes down (15%–42%) especially illegal hunting (95%)

Domestic violence decreases (30%–51%)

Trust increases (13% in politicians | 6% in other people)

Home ownership rates increase (17%–26%)

Food security increases as does consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables

Improved cognitive functioning (43%) and personality traits (31%)

Savings go up, debts go down


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consbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Dictator Dani. Killing off public everything. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Back-to-work legislation to end Alberta teachers’ strike coming Monday, says premier | CBC News
The Alberta government will table back-to-work legislation on Monday that seeks to end the provincewide teachers’ strike, Premier Danielle Smith said Thursday morning.
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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Party loyalty is a weird thing: Mark Carney is doing everything my Father has always wanted a PM to do but he hates the man because he's a #liberal On the other hand everything is doing goes against everything my Mother believes in but she loves him because he's a #liberal #cdnpoli
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Emily Blake @blakeemily.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
“He is hearing disproportionately from the industries that represented the 20th century economy, not the 21st century economy … as the rest of the world electrifies and moves towards a cleaner economy.” thenarwhal.ca/carney-natur...
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Carney welcomed industry lobby, ignored environmental groups: records | The Narwhal
Records show resource industry lobbyists had regular access to Prime Minister Mark Carney in his first 100 days, while environmental groups were shut out
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I have no problem sacrificing for a better future, for high speed rail and a robust national energy grid and a renewed focus on domestic programs. I have a huge fucking problem sacrificing so Canada can join the fucking golden dome and buy F-35s from US defence contractors.
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The RantingCanuck @rantingcanuck.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle was the recycling mantra of the '70s and '80s... It is also an amazing weapon against the oligarchy. Reducing your consumption and reusing existing things (including repairing and buying used) both affect corporate bottom lines. #capitalism #oligarchy #green #economy
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 21/10/2025
"Politicians from centre-right and centre-left parties alike had steadily eroded social programmes, fostering a sense of scarcity and creating fertile ground for the stirring up of anti-migrant sentiment, said Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights." #UBI
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Welfare cuts have fuelled rise of far right and populism, top UN expert says
Exclusive: Poverty rapporteur says governments must rethink welfare state as essential to fabric of society
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