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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22/09/2026
yep www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/private-sc...
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Private Schools Are Bad for Society
The starting point for any honest discussion.
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Kanchan @kayehm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's not common for Engineers to take a stand on anything (much to my frustration), that's why this statement from OSPE about Bill 212 and the recent court ruling is so important. ospe.on.ca/advocacy/osp...
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OSPE Statement: Where Things Stand on Bill 212 and Toronto's Bike Lanes
Explore the OSPE Statement on Bill 212 and its impact on Toronto's bike lanes and transportation planning.
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 10/09/2026
“We are the grown child helping to support the family, who is not allowed out past curfew or even to decorate their own room.” @alisonmotluk.bsky.social wants to know why Toronto voters are so powerless. thelocal.to/toronto-city...
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Doug Ford vs. Toronto | The Local
Good news: your community elected a councillor and even a mayor who share your vision for the city. Then the province steps in.
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Erin 🇨🇦 @spicyerin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I have some thoughts and reflections as we near the 25th anniversary of 9/11. This is only one Canadian perspective, you have every right to disagree. This is an antithesis of a love letter to the USA. 25 years ago, the world watched in horror as one of our friends and neighbours was attacked
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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 01/09/2026
For the Toronto Star, I wrote about the trade war, digital sovereignty, and Lake Ontario. We are already dominated by American tech giants. If Canada fights this trade war and we don't renegotiate the terms of digital trade, we will lose. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Google changing Lake Ontario to Lake America isn’t just frustrating. It points to a deeper problem for Mark Carney
Canada’s digital infrastructure is too tied to companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 26/08/2026
The United States is taking aim at Canada once again, with a crushing new set of tariffs. Ultimately, government will need to solve this. But in the same way Canadians are avoiding US alcohol, produce, and other goods, they should get off US tech products too. Luckily, I have a guide for that.
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Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
EARTHWORMS ARE INVASIVE SPECIES IN CANADA!
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Yessssssssssss "Blue haired baristas" are punch lines for conservative talking points about "downtown elites" but baristas are literally working class. So is the person delivering your Uber eats, the lady working at Sephora, your nail tech, etc. Hell, most child care workers make poverty wages.
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Hi I can solve this problem, there is only one correct answer youtu.be/a9-ZGfidpow
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Northwest Passage
YouTube video by Stan Rogers - Topic
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lucaswaldron.bsky.social @lucaswaldron.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
When I first saw the data that ultimately fueled these charts, my mind was blown. (See the note at the bottom of our story for detailed sourcing!) projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...
Two line charts are depicted. On the left, the line chart is labeled "Carbon Capture Capacity." The y-axis is "megatons" and the x-axis is years (2010-2040). The More than a dozen blue lines show a steady increase from the left edge of the chart to the right edge of the chart. Some of the blue lines exceed 4,000 megatons between years 2030 and 2040. The blue lines are labeled "Projections". A maroon line is at around 0 megatons from 2010 to 2025. The maroon line is labeled "Actual carbon storage". 

The second chart is labeled "Solar Power". The y-axis is "terawatt-hour" and the x-axis is years (2010-2040). Dozens of blue lines increase from around 0 on the left side of the chart, showing moderate growth from 2010 to 2040. The blue lines are labeled "Projections". A maroon line starts at 0 in 2010 and rises sharply to over 2,000 in 2024. The maroon line is obviously increasing much faster than the blue lines. The maroon line is labeled "Actual solar electricity production."
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Kanchan @kayehm.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Exactly what/who are you protecting us from? The people, our neighbours - who were the victims of the supports and systems that you cut. The systems that our tax dollars were supposed to fund to take care of them? ffs
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bergsbites @bergsbites.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Indeed. Tires apparently release 100 times the amount of volatile organic compounds as a modern tailpipe. e360.yale.edu/features/tir...
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Road Hazard: Evidence Mounts on Toxic Pollution from Tires
Researchers are only beginning to uncover the toxic cocktail of chemicals, microplastics, and heavy metals hidden in car and truck tires. But experts say these tire emissions are a significant source ...
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schmette.bsky.social @schmette.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Antifa Day 1944
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/05/2026
"Third Way" liberal politics involves *saying* things that working people love, but *doing* things that sociopathic plutocrats love. It works ...right up until voters notice that you're not *doing* the things. That realisation breeds cynicism and fury and paves the way for fascist strongmen. 2/
A turn-of-the-century Main Street, USA. Over the horizon looms a giant Canadian flag, made out of circuitry. In the foreground is a pixelboard sign reading 'U.S. BORDER CLOSED.' In the foreground looms a giant lumberjack, about to swing his axe into the sign.
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
What Jelena Subotić defines as “pro-Israel antisemitism” is what Mr. Netanyahu has provoked around the world in his Faustian deals with parties of intolerance. In many cases, including the U.S., he has empowered those most responsible for hate incidents www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: Israelis can do the world a huge favour by voting out Benjamin Netanyahu
An election looms in Israel, and it will serve as a referendum on the long-time Prime Minister
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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 14/05/2026
From Safe Parkside: look what happened on Parkside Drive after Premier Doug Ford banned speed cameras.
Line chart showing vehicles exceeding 60 km/h on Parkside Drive from January to April, comparing enforcement periods with and without speed cameras. The data shows a dramatic increase in speeding violations after the camera ban in November 2025
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
“Zionist” has become so loosely defined, and so often used as code for Jew, that I think we should consider dropping the term altogether. I’ve seen cases where it's used to camouflage blatant antisemitism (eg below) + many others in which it’s hard to tell.🧵1/5 farmsnotfactories.org/articles/zio...
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Zionist Money Rules • Farms Not Factories
The purpose of our newsletter is to give you important information that is censored in the mainstream media. “The way... Read More
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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.
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Richard Warnica @rwarnica.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I went home recently to write about Alberta’s separatists. What I found was a movement wildly, dangerously disconnected from reality. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Richard Warnica: I went home to the heartland of Alberta independence. Even after covering Donald Trump for 10 years, I was still terrified by what I found
Independence movement eerily reminiscent of Trump's America.
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
On Toronto's island airport, only Carney can stop the madness. Where is the case for an expansion? And what else could this place be? My column: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Now is the time for a public reckoning on the costs of a Billy Bishop Airport expansion
A sophisticated federal government should enhance its most valuable asset: the city
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:
A graph from Our World In Data showing a precipitous drop in child mortality starting in the late 1800s going from an average of 48% to global rate of 27% in 1950 to the 2020 infant mortality rate of 4%, with some countries having a rate as low as 0.3%
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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I look at the data and I see an opportunity to reduce collisions with cyclists by nearly 20% and with pedestrians by 4% at the cost of making drivers wait a mere 60 seconds. Seems like a no brainer. But this is Ottawa.
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Jeremy Hopkin @jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Silverthorn Public School, Toronto - Feb. 15, 1958. Ewart Ave., north east corner Scott Rd., looking east, showing aftermath of fire. 📸: James V. Salmon Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, Toronto Public Library #OnThisDay #1950s #torontohistory #school #jeremyhopkin
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rtcltngsplines.bsky.social @rtcltngsplines.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
On second thought, the distinction may be the box being pushed below the tracks while in service vs. during a short duration closure.
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rtcltngsplines.bsky.social @rtcltngsplines.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
It's not even a first in Ontario: www.canadianconsultingengineer.com/awards/pdfs/...
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I’m very happy that the CBC is on the story and published this Evan Dyer piece. Now is the time to take the Trump admin’s destabilization tactics seriously. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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ANALYSIS | U.S. interest in Alberta separatism raises red flags over what might come next | CBC News
Communications between the Trump administration and Alberta's separatist movement raised alarm at the highest levels in Canada last week. It also raised questions about Washington's possible intention...
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Quick primer from last March on why buying the F-35 poses such an enormous security risk to Canada. Hint: It's not about jobs and only slightly about who's responsible for repairs and maintenance. blaynehaggart.com/2025/03/08/t...
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The Department of National Defence buys a Sky Tractor
Canada’s purchase of US F-35 fighter jets will create enormous security vulnerability, for which there is no easy answer. Whether it’s an F-35 fighter jet or a John Deere tractor, if yo…
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Jörg Broschek 🇨🇦 @jbroschek.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This is good. Andrew Coyne uses the right terminology. Essentially a call for a new "national policy": "That’s about capacity generally: state capacity, to be sure, but more broadly, societal capacity." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: Donald Trump wants to make an example out of Canada. How will we prepare?
We must urgently strengthen our capacity to endure whatever this wildcard President throws at us
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/01/2026
for me it was the fact that the author is one of the main driving forces behind the global movement to kill my trans friends and erase their existence hope that helps
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I hope it's not lost on anyone that the exact same motherfuckers on the Canadian right who spent decades wielding the idea of Canadian Patriotism like a cudgel, talking about "real Canadians", accusing every opponent of "hating Canada", are now pivoting to a platform of literal treason
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
This is probably the greatest threat to Canada. That we concede so much to the US to avoid further threats, that we’re effectively a vassal state www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Jason Stanley is one of three Yale profs who left Trumpland to teach at U of T. In his first op-ed for @thestar.com, he says Canadians need to wake up and smell the fascism: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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I left Trump’s America last year to teach in Canada. I didn’t expect this from Canadians
During my short time here, I have encountered a shocking level of naïveté about what is happening in the United States.
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
1> Politicians who hype the myth of high crime 2> Bad media like CP24 that repeats the same crimes ever few minutes ( Toronto is a war zone if you watch) 3> Bad faith social media accounts (IntegrityTO) who hype it and stupid social media influencer accounts who play on this 4> Police union hype
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
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Adam Bunch @adambunch.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
1. The history of baseball stadiums in Toronto goes back a century before the SkyDome opened. With the Jays coming home for Game Six, I thought I'd share my old thread about it. It begins all the way back in the 1800s with a place called the Toronto Baseball Grounds…
The SkyDome under construction. The big claw of a digger is in the foreground, looking like it's about to dig into a pile of rock or cement where the baseball diamond is today. In the background, the curving cement decks of the SkyDome rise up, the 500s filled with blue seats, and one of the pieces of the stadium's roof is already built.
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I guessed, watching the ceasefire celebrations, that the very best person make sense of it all is Mohammad Darawshe, an Israeli whose family have been devastated by both Hamas and Netanyahu and knows both IS and PAL political realities fluently. I was so right www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: For those caught in the middle, the path to Middle East peace is a long one
There is still optimism to be found even if Israel won’t negotiate in good faith, Palestinians can’t find a legitimate authority, and distrust is deepening
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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
"The actions of a country 3,000 miles away of which I am not a citizen have left me feeling unwelcome in the place I was born. Pick a side. The isolating irony is that I can’t." Powerful piece from @rmcunliffe.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/internationa...
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What it's like to be Jewish in Britain now
The war in Gaza has exposed a level of anti-Semitism I didn’t realise was there
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 01/10/2025
We need to stop being so naive about what America is becoming. Trump and his secretary of war just showed us why. We are watching a fascist takeover of our closest neighbour and the world’s largest military. #Opinion
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Justin Ling: We need to stop being so naive about what America is becoming. Trump and his secretary of war just showed us why
America is quickly becoming a fascist state.
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
White House administration releases earliest known photo of terrorist group ANTIFA.
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rtcltngsplines.bsky.social @rtcltngsplines.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Labels and tags
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Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 17/09/2025
My @thestar.com column from the weekend: the premier and others are calling Toronto’s speed cameras a “cash grab”, but the data suggests they’re ticketing less than 5% of all speeding cars. Not exactly the grabbiest. If anything, they’re too forgiving. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Matt Elliott: Cash grab? If there’s a problem with Toronto’s speed cameras, it’s that they aren’t grabbing enough cash
The data shows that if it were logistically possible to fine every driver doing one km/h over the limit, the Parkside Drive speed camera alone could have brought in half a billion dollars.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 11/09/2025
Second Amendment activists in shock as Charlie Kirk shot instead of just schoolchildren
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Second Amendment activists in shock as Charlie Kirk shot instead of just schoolchildren
OREM, UT - Americans who champion the right to bear arms were shocked Wednesday as controversial commentator Charlie Kirk was shot and killed, as opposed to the ordinarily acceptable trend of mass shootings in schools.
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
This story is a SUPERB way to describe the need for political parties to limit membership and prevent entryism, on both the left and right (but right is the bigger problem at the moment). So many parties in so many countries have fallen out of political normalcy by serving that guy
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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
CBC should propose what Carney promised Canadians: A $150M initial *increase* www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Carney pledges $150M boost to 'underfunded' CBC | CBC News
Liberal Leader Mark Carney said on Friday that his government would provide an initial $150-million annual funding increase to CBC and Radio-Canada as part of a new mandate for the public broadcaster.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 09/07/2025
The state is extreme now. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/welcome-to...
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Welcome to Post-Extremism
When the state goes radical, the radicals become paramilitary
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Please just buy a car. They work. They are easy to park. Get a hatchback. Demand more wagons. SUVs are lifestyle need illusions that kill children.
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Trevor Heywood @metroscapes.ca · 24/12/2024
It's always good news when the subject is "It's not in everybody's head. It is real." LED headlights are making night driving difficult and dangerous. Brighter, smaller and bluer LED headlights are causing significant glare. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Car lighting experts urge Canada to crack down on blinding LED headlight lights | CBC News
If headlights seem a lot more blinding these days, it's not just your bleary eyes. LED headlights create a more intense, concentrated light that can force people to squint. And while some parts of the...
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