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$1.5 billion for Pharmacare? axed $40 billion for foreign oil subsidies? That's Canada Strong

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"Privatize the profit, socialize the cost" example one million

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Tim Ford @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Austerity and cuts for everyone except the global corporations that own our oil industry

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Something's gotta change. In BC, we have a situation where the Greens are polling at 15% and they could end up with just 2 seats. Mixed Member Prop Rep - keep your MP but vote for Party as well, add List MP Seats, minimum threshold of 10% province/nationwide. #cdnpoli

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stephanie wilson | windward antifascist @windward-afa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Long overdue. I'll never forgive Trudeau for breaking the promise of proportional representation.

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So egregiously backwards & short-sighted. Every person in this province subsidizes cars. Your municipal taxes pay for parking & roads whether you have a car or not. Your provincial taxes pay the health care costs from car-related pollution & crashes. Your federal taxes subsidize O&G companies.

Statement from David Eby

Metro Vancouver mayors have told us they need a sustainable funding path for Translink and there have been a number of options discussed as part of that work. We will come to a solution to support Translink, but the path to sustainable funding for that organization cannot be on the backs of drivers who are already struggling with the prices at the pump. A vehicle levy or road pricing are not options we would proceed with. That's the last thing people need at a time when Trump is driving up costs. The real cost to drivers would be the Conservative parties’ plans to double car insurance rates and make drivers pay more. People can't afford that.

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 30/09/2026

The case against billionaires — a corrosive, anti-democratic force. You can have billionaires or you can have democracy. But you can’t have both. www.davidmoscrop.com/p/the-case-a...

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The Case Against Billionaires

You can have an ultra-wealthy class or you can have democracy. You can’t have both. Choose...wisely.

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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That seems like such a key point here: someone in power understood the urgency Governments have so utterly failed to respond to this crisis. People like Nyx and Kalicum stepped in and this court ruling acknowledges both their efforts and the abdication of government

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Skye @skyenott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

All the hardware just works with this Thinkpad X1 Carbon, didn't have to install any drivers, even the fingerprint reader works.

Skye @skyenott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Really impressed with Gnome, the launcher and workspaces feel very familiar coming from MacOS. Very polished and well thought out.

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Skye @skyenott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ubuntu is so much better now than the last time I tried it a decade ago. Installation was a breeze and it has all the apps I need.

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Skye @skyenott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Take off your masks, cowards

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Skye @skyenott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's the Year of Linux on the Desktop

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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

We need to ban foreign ownership of BC farmland immediately. The super-billionaire heir to the Walmart fortune, Stan Kroenke, now controls over 13% of BC’s farmland - this is a threat to BC’s sovereignty, food security and farmers. Read the Tyee’s in-depth coverage on this issue.

A Tiny BC Farming Town's Fight Against Billionaire Speculators
A US company's pursuit of land near Dunster has reignited calls for stiffer foreign ownership rules.

The purchase of dozens of farm properties by two U.S. billionaires has prompted a small B.C. community to call for restrictions on foreign ownership of agricultural land.
Since 2008, a company co-owned by American billionaires Bobby Patton Jr. and Mark Walter has bought 25 properties in Dunster, an unincorporated community of approximately 240 people located 40 minutes north of Valemount.

Patton Jr. and Walter are co-owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers through their company
Guggenheim Baseball Management, and were estimated to have a combined net worth of more than $5 billion in 2020. By contrast, the average household income for those living in the Dunster area is about $60,000 per year.

Unlike many other provinces, British Columbia has no restrictions on foreign ownership of agricultural land.

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Skye @skyenott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is maybe the only hope of staying under +2C? Because it's pretty clear nothing else is going to change until it's too late

Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 22/09/2026

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Funny, because the Truckers got three weeks to hang out before police lifted a finger. Interesting.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

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Canada is a rich country, one of the richest in the world. Do you feel rich? Who is that wealth flowing to?

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When the business geniuses behind the TMX pipeline had to be bailed out it cost you and me $34 billion dollars

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This idea that private capital runs everything in the most efficient way is so deeply ingrained in people but it's demonstrably false. The function of private capital is to extract profit, and they're not particularly good at that in a lot of cases.

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What a meaningless question. More efficiently than what? Than a non-profit with experience operating infrastructure? Than an investor with no experience operating infrastructure? Than a random person plucked off the street? It's a question that's so incomplete as to mean nothing.

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Patrick Johnstone @pjnewwest.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

YVR is the best airport in North America, one of the best in the world. What exactly is the urgency to “fix” his? We have serious shit to fix in this country that a rush to sell off assets doesn’t solve. news.yvr.ca/yvr-recogniz...

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YVR recognized as Best Airport in North America for record 15th year, 10th Best Airport in the World

Skytrax Award recognition as voted by millions of travellers follows record-breaking year for both cargo and passenger volumesVancouver International Airport (YVR) has once again been named Best Airpo...

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To be clear most of the civilians in question were little girls at the school the US bombed three times on the first day of the war

We've seen this play out over and over for the last 40 years how are we still falling for this privatization scam?

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When private equity comes in you can guarantee good paying livable wage union jobs are going to be axed and replaced with TFW style gig employment with NO benefit to you and all profit to the investors

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It's worth thinking about why the non-profits that currently run Canadian airports can't "unlock value" - it's not because they're incompetent, it's almost always because they don't do union busting

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"Unlocking value" and "finding efficiencies" always means laying people off, paying less, charging more. Capital expects a return!

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christoaivalis.bsky.social @christoaivalis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Global capital is famous for giving away tens of billions of dollars for things they don't control or own

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Avi Lewis is the only one speaking out against Carney's privatizations schemes and how they fail workers We don't need another 407 catastrophe

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Skye @skyenott.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just switched to Fizz Mobile (Videotron) it was super easy and way cheaper than my old plan. Use my code XFKGC for $25 off

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Sorry, not enough people have died at that intersection yet. The corpses have to pile up first, then maybe you can get a stop sign.

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Jeremy Caradonna @jeremycaradonnayyj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There's also a ridership study as part of this work. Nothing like this has been done before and it's different than the 2018 high-level costing study for the entire E&N line. So while the Feds didn't announce funding the revival of the line, this is a *major* vote of confidence for the project.

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Jeremy Caradonna @jeremycaradonnayyj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The important piece here is that the Feds are contributing $500k to closing the funding gap for the technical feasibility study that's already underway on the Reconciliation Corridor, which would run from the West Shore to Vic West, and is led by First Nations. cheknews.ca/feds-crd-ear...

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Feds, CRD earmark $1.2M for Langford to Vic west rail study

The federal government and Capital Regional District have promised more than $1 million combined in funding for another feasibility study into restoring rail between Vic West and Langford.

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Skye @skyenott.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If they build passenger rail on the island I will seriously consider moving there