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ruthko

@ruthmkb.bsky.social
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A suffering progressive Canadian in a conservative province. Do NOT judge me by my spelling (or grammar). I do have other talents, I just have to remember what they are... #ElbowsUp #WomenAgainstPoilievre #StandWithUkraine 🌻 💉12x 😷🖖

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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 3h
Today's #Wordle - OPTIONS GALORE!!! 🤦‍♀️ Wordle 1,929 X/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 5h
My statement on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation:
My statement on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 4h
Trump's new AI-powered government website confirmed Joe Biden won the 2020 election, despite Trump's repeated claims it was stolen 🤔 ~ TMZ
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 7h
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
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Opheodrys @opheodrys.bsky.social · 4h
The CEO of Stelco that just laid off hundreds of workers is a Trumper. Laying off Canadians makes him happy. #cdnpoli #uspoli
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🇨🇦 Dave210 🇨🇦 @dave210.bsky.social · 5h
Stelco's CEO is a big Trump supporter, so only a blank cheque from the Canadian govt will do. Conditions, such as keeping Canadian workers on staff in a company on Canadian soil is totally unacceptable to him
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🇨🇦LisaFellarinaAntifa📎 @lisaantifafella.bsky.social · 5h
Fucking Americans 🤬🤬🤬🤬
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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 5h
“He (Stelco's CEO) quite literally said “nope”, we don’t want your help unless it’s a blank cheque to the tune of billions with no conditions,” 🤬 #cdnpoli #Stelco #Layoff #uspoli globalnews.ca/news/1208276...
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‘No amount of money’ would have avoided Stelco slowdown, job loss: CEO | Globalnews.ca
In an exclusive interview with Global News, the owner of Stelco, said the layoff decision was purely market-driven and that financial incentives could not fix the issue.
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Cricket of MeadowHawk 🇨🇦 @cricketmh.bsky.social · 6h
I Fucking Love Australia 🇦🇺
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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 6h
#BikeLanesSafeLives #cdnpoli
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Mt Pleasant 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 @jekllnnhide.bsky.social · 17h
I live in Vancouver. Sometimes, I find the bike lanes a pain in the arse. But I'll tell you what. The vehicle traffic, I find to be a pain in arse AT ALL TIMES. Whatever the needs for more bikes and less cars... I'm in.
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Rogerman @rogerman99.bsky.social · 16h
And we shouldn't worry about rubbing out his ugly, corrupt legacy in the same way he's not worried about tearing out these lanes, knocking down wind turbines, prohibiting speed cameras, shredding green energy contracts and on & on & on. #onpoli
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Rogerman @rogerman99.bsky.social · 16h
One day the corrupt & incompetent clown Doug Ford will not be King of Ontario and our communities will rejoin the rest of the world working to build safe, liveable, human scale communities. And so we will pay 3x for some of these lanes. #onpoli
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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 6h
#NationalDayForTruthAndReconciliation #EveryChildMatters #OrangeShirtDay 🧡
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Diana M. Barrero (she/her) @barrerod.bsky.social · 18h
My partner began telling me about this article last night. I am so angry that this seems to be one of the issues that #FordNation cannot get over and just continues to waste tax payers monies #ONpoli
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 22h
In case you're wondering where that seat sits
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
💔🕯️No Justice No peace.
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 22h
The U.S. ban on most Canadian alcohol, whey and motorcycles is now in force. Trump said Canada would say "Sir, we are sorry." LeBlanc's reply: Canada won't apologize "for standing up for Canadian workers." 🔗 Source: globalnews.ca/news/1207747... ❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️ ❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️
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Canada not going to apologize to Trump amid trade war, LeBlanc says - National | Globalnews.ca
Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc dismissed the idea that Canada would apologize to the U.S. in the coming weeks, as President Donald Trump stated.
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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 18h
Parry Sound-Muskoka was Tony Clement's riding from 2006 until he "retired" in 2019. Scott Aitchison won in 2019 & carried the riding until now. The last LPC MP was Andy Mitchell in 2004-2006 when Parry Sound-Muskoka was a newly formed riding. 20 yrs of CPC, can LPC flip it? I hope so! 🤞 #cdnpoli
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CBowdidge 🇨🇦 @cbowdidge.bsky.social · 19h
Another potential flip
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 20h
For those who don’t know me, I truly try not to swear but here’s the problem, my father was British, my grandfather was from Newfoundland and I grew up in Cape Breton, my vocabulary is sweary and on that note, Trump is a fucking twat, muzzle your dog, we bow to no one.
Nasty Canadian/ Petty as Fuck on a red maple leaf
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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 22h
Oh, that sinking ship... 🤷‍♀️ #CPC #cdnpoli www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
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Conservative MP Scott Aitchison to resign by end of year: source
Conservative MP Scott Aitchison is resigning his seat from Parliament by the end of the year, according to a source close to him.
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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today's #Wordle - Wordle 1,928 4/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟨🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The whole 🌎 & 1/2 the U.S.A. are holding their collective breath for Nov midterm elxns, praying for the beginning of the end of the madness. Unfortunately, U.S.A. have chosen, 2X, life under the bonkers big top. Fervent prayers may go unanswered again." #uspoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Janice Kennedy: When exactly did Americans decide to normalize crazy?
When did the U.S. media choose, out of respect for an office no longer respectable, to keep pretending the emperor was fully clothed?
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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"What is certain, however, is that a vast sum of our $$ will be wasted, countless Torontonians will find themselves profoundly inconvenienced for extended periods, & eventually, a cyclist will get struck by a car. But at least the congestion will be worse." #TOpoli #onpoli spacing.ca/toronto/2026...
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EXCLUSIVE: Inside the contract to rip out Toronto's bike lanes - Spacing Toronto
After the Ontario Court of Appeal (ONCA) shot down CycleTO’s legally innovative charter challenge that sought to stop Doug Ford’s attack on the city’s bike lanes, Queen’s Park wasted little time befor...
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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Follow the Canadians' lead - just don't go to the States, Mate! #Australia #Canada #USA www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
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Australians' personal data could soon be accessible by US agencies. Here's why
Speculation over a proposal to hand Australians' biometric data to the US is raising concerns among privacy experts.
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Ann Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
People have mostly forgotten how the UCP killed people during covid. Why and for whom. #ableg #abpoli Political pressure, negligence, incompetence all contributed to pandemic tragedy at High River plant, new report says albertapolitics.substack.com/p/political-...
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Political pressure, negligence, incompetence all contributed to pandemic tragedy at High River plant, new report says
Parkland Institute analysis shows how UCP ministers and officials tried to reassure workers to stay at work in the face of a major COVID-19 outbreak in 2020
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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
mini-Trump lies like his mentor
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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
His cyclist friend was killed. Why did Doug Ford’s response include ‘lmao’? #FordFailedOntarians #FordIsTactless #onpoli #cdnpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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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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Tyler Watt @tylerwatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I asked the Health Minister about nurses and health care workers being laid off across Ontario. She didn’t answer. Throughout committee, she blamed the federal government, blamed the previous Liberal government from eight years ago, and avoided answering questions. #onpoli
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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🖕🫵🍊💩!!!!!! Sorry, NOT SORRY! Canada. #cdnpoli #uspoli
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stophiddenquarry.bsky.social @stophiddenquarry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He destroys everything he touches. Paid off by US HMO's to destroy our system & make privatized the way to fix it. Gee this is working out like a dream. #DougFordIsCorrupt #onpoli
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 31/12/2024
Added two more pieces of evidence today that show how good Universal Basic Income is for health and how it can save us a lot of money that's otherwise spent extremely expensively on emergency care instead of much less costly prevention. Think of UBI as a vaccine. www.scottsantens.com/universal-ba...
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Universal Basic Income as the Social Vaccine of the 21st Century
Can the savings of basic income exceed the costs? > “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” — Benjamin Franklin [https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/247269-an-ounce-of-prevention-is-worth-...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bruce MacKinnon, Halifax Chronicle Herald
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Susan Stone @susanjstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#EarlyVoting #voteBlue #Democracy
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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today's #Wordle - Wordle 1,927 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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judithbolyard.bsky.social @judithbolyard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hmm...
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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Recommendations: ON govt provide more funding to hospitals, implement centralized waiting lists, look at physician payment reforms that enable “team-based care,” while staffing existing public ORs that sit idle days, evenings, & weekends." #FordFailed #onpoli #cdnpoli www.cp24.com/local/toront...
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Wait times increasing for some medical procedures outsourced to for-profit clinics in Ontario: report
Outsourcing surgeries and imaging to private for-profit clinics has not resulted in a drop in wait times for most procedures, according to a new study released Monday.
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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Annual process seems more disruptive than usual, as staff work to bring class sizes in line with provincial requirements. And there are no trustees." #FordBrokeOurEducation #FordFailedOurStudents #FordFailedOntario #onpoli #cdnpoli www.thestar.com/news/gta/stu...
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Students shuffled, teachers reassigned: Why this year’s ‘dramatic’ TDSB reorganization has Toronto parents fuming
Annual process seems more disruptive than usual, as staff work to bring class sizes in line with provincial requirements. And there are no trustees.
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nancilizwester @nancilizwester.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Unofficial CP24 Mirror @cp24-mirror.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'Wide-eyed and enthralled': The Tragically Hip, Feist enter Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame
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‘Wide-eyed and enthralled’: The Tragically Hip, Feist enter Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame
The memory of the late Gord Downie was in sharp focus as the Kingston alt-rock band The Tragically Hip were among four musical acts inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame at a star-studded gala held at Toronto’s Massey Hall on Saturday night.
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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Never mind who owns these Starbucks, their coffee is not great. There are better small, local, money stays in Canada, independent coffee shops that serve much better coffee. Same goes with McDonald's - there are better local Canadian fast food joints that serve better quality food. Just saying. 🤷‍♀️
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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today's #Wordle - Wordle 1,926 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
All these "Watchdogs" agencies, they NEED TEETH!!! The Ford government don't care about being called out. What they need is consequences, which these Watchdogs can't enforce. #FordIsCorrupt #onpoli #cdnpoli www.cp24.com/politics/que...
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Ontario transparency watchdog warns government is dodging its orders
Ontario’s transparency watchdog is warning that the government is dodging its orders more frequently, including orders that would shed light on how a multi-billion dollar government fund pushed grants...
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 27/09/2026
“You kept asking what Jesus would do. Well, he's in the back, and he'd like a word."
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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Basically, every time the 🍊💩 opens his 👄, he lies. And his believers don't care, they will believe ALL his lies. #uspoli #GoVOTE www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Starbucks coffee is gross. McDonalds food is even worse. There are so many local Canadian coffee shops and fast food restaurants that are superior in quality, GO LOCAL! #cdnpoli
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Rod @roddlyyours.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Canadians should stop drinking at Starbucks and eating at MCDonalds choose Canadian coffee shops and fast food chains instead. A fast food boycott would garner a lot of attention, and we could start with these two companies.
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