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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The US interfered in Germany's election. They interfered in Brazil. A US defence corp. strategy targeted the PQ in Quebec. And now we learn traitors were in Washington offering to trade Canada's freshwater for help in breaking up our country. @laura-babcock.bsky.social youtu.be/IrHcKO60-D4?...
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CANADA BETRAYED - SECRET WHITE HOUSE MEETINGS !!!
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Autumn Bear Michelle Beauregard c.2025
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sometimes the WAR ON WALKING results in no sidewalks at all. Sometimes they put “something” in — but does that really make things walkable for anyone except those without any other choices? The #WARonWALKING takes many forms, but it’s always about making things comfortable for vehicles, not people.
Image of a wide concrete overpass with a huge truck travelling dangerously close to a thin, uncomfortable looking concrete “sidewalk.” The text says “Don’t buy the lie that there’s a war on cars. They’ve been waging a war on walking for a century.” Tagline at the bottom says the Urban Truth Collective. #UrbanTruth #WarOnCars
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Jay Pitter @jaypitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If we’re going to talk about the #WARonWALKING (great framing), social conditions deserve way more attention: inadequate street-level social supports; race-based police profiling; gender-based street harassment; social hostility & polarization; and lack of belonging & healthy spatial entitlement.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"We had concerns whether the process was being completed in a fair, equitable and consistent manner with the many daily, and sometimes hourly, changes to the processes,” former Elections Alberta staff (resigned in protest)
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Corb Lund requests moratorium on coal, former Elections Alberta staff speak out
Corb Lund is seeking a moratorium on coal development until a judicial review of how his group's petition was handled has been completed.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s. Many of the cities we admire made tough choices regarding cars in the past, and are still making better choices today. Better choices instead of excuses.
Wide Amsterdam Road filled with jammed colourful cars, stuck in traffic congestion.
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ssmulderss.bsky.social @ssmulderss.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Firing Victoria's School Board Was an Abuse of Power via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
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Firing Victoria’s School Board Was an Abuse of Power | The Tyee
The provincial government colluded with police on a costly, undemocratic campaign.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.
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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
“Changing those narratives isn’t just about better wording. It’s about repetition, reach, and scale.” @tomflood.bsky.social is blunt about this: “There’s a reason why car companies don’t show a car ad just once.” Read our profile in @momentummag.bsky.social. momentummag.com/urban-truth-...
“Gas prices? What gas prices?”

Better cities create choices. Via the Urban Truth Collective. #UrbanTruth

Image of people riding bikes in a busy protected bike-lane in central Paris.
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WilmotCAN @wilmotcan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Yesterday's report on WilmotCAN's visit to Queen's Park quoted MPP Schreiner: “Doug Ford continues to bulldoze ahead with a plan to pave over farmland that local farmers desperately need to grow and build their businesses.” #FightForFarmland @mikeschreiner.bsky.social @citynewskit.bsky.social
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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 18/03/2026
Another opportunity for to share my Free to Use Picture resources for writers highlighting public domain sources: world.hey.com/jordanacosta...
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Free-to-use Picture Resources for Writers
You have options other than Generative AI to illustrate your work The other day, I posted the following Substack Note: My opinion was challenged with two now-familiar rebuttals: 1. The vast majority o...
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Free-to-use picture resources exist!
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
What women on the left already knew before the files came out is that men can imagine a world of class consciousness (Chomsky), a universe more expansive than ever before known (Hawking), a world where you can live forever (Attia) but not a world where women are fully human.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
With Cesar Chavez being outed as a serial abuser of women and girls, we can add to the list that men can imagine a world where there are rights for all workers, but not human rights for women.
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persephone @jomaselli.ca · 13/03/2026
And the worse things get in the USA, the worse he gets, bc (1) ppl are distracted (2) he looks tame by comparison. I don’t say this often & reserve it only for the worst of the worst but I truly hate Doug Ford & his government.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I am begging my fellow Canadians to take a break for a second from obsessing about American corruption to focus on our home grown versions. Ford is a corrupt crony goon who has done countless shady backroom deals. He wants to remove one of our most powerful tools to hold him accountable. Fuck that!
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Ontario to introduce bill exempting Premier, cabinet from FOI requests
Government’s proposed changes follow its loss of court battle over call logs for Ford’s personal cellphone
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Yep. Their billions are also not their earnings: underpaid staff, suppliers & contractors; billionaires failed to pay for the public services and utilities that make their companies possible, and their billions cost the environment - all unpaid for by the super-rich.
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The case for a 100% tax bracket for billionaires
I was looking through my photos, stumbled upon this image, and realized that I had to get out a seasonal newsletter today with a wish for 2025. Caption....
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Billionaires are also sponging off everyone else: exploited staff; public infrastructure (and the education and work required to create and maintain it); environmental costs. The wealthier you are the MORE of a sponge you are. buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
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The case for a 100% tax bracket for billionaires
I was looking through my photos, stumbled upon this image, and realized that I had to get out a seasonal newsletter today with a wish for 2025. Caption....
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
10/ We’re not done reporting. Please get in touch with us via Signal at 917-512-0201 if you or someone you know: • Has worked at an immigration detention facility • Has been detained at such a facility • Has info about the companies contracted to build and provide services
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
9/ DHS, which oversees ICE, said “no one is denied medical care“ and detained parents have the option to be deported together. CoreCivic, which operates Dilley, said that health and safety is a priority and that medical staff met “the highest standards of care.”
Article excerpt: The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, said in a statement that all detainees at Dilley are “being provided with proper medical care.” DHS did not respond to questions about individual detainees but said all “are provided with 3 meals a day, clean water, clothing, bedding, showers, soap, and toiletries” and that “certified dieticians evaluate meals.” DHS also said “children have access to teachers, classrooms, and curriculum booklets for math, reading, and spelling.” Detained parents are given the option for their families to be deported together, or they can have their children placed with another caregiver, the statement said. CoreCivic, which operates the facility, said it is subject to multiple layers of oversight and that health and safety are a top priority.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
8/ For more on what kids are experiencing inside the Dilley detention center, read the full story by reporter @micarosenberg.bsky.social:
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
7/ Read the rest of the letters:
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“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.” 9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.
Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Colorful doodles of a rainbow and hearts are found throughout the page. Translation: “I am Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya and I have been 113 days in detention I miss my friends and I feel they are going to forget me. I am bored here. I already miss my country and my house, I came on vacation for 10 Days and they took me into an ice office an officer interrogated me 2 hours without my mom, I was traveling with flight attendant because my mom lives in new york, they only wanted to arrest my mom, because my mom didn’t have documents to live in U.S.A., I always traveled with my tourist visa but ice used me to catch my mom and now I am in a jail and I am sad and I have fainted 2 times here inside. When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Translation: “They don’t give me my diet I am vegetarian, I don’t eat well, there is no good education and I miss my best friend julieta and my grandmother and my school I already want to get to my house. Me in dilei [Dilley] am not happy please get me out of here to colombia.” Below the text is a drawing of the girl and her mother in the government-issued gray sweatsuits of the detention center.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…” From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days
Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “Hello I am Ender and I am 12 years old, I have been at this center  for 2 months. I arrived here for an immigration appointment and I don’t think they should grab immigrants who are innocent, like instead of grabbing criminals because I mean they prefer to lock up children than look for people who really shouldn’t be in the U.S. They told me I could only be here 21 days but I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals, going outside and that the majority of guards never pay attention to people, eating dinner  always the same as the day before, seeing people cry every day for the same reasons, trying to sleep in that horrible uncomfortable bed, going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “…going to wait for the bad answers from the judges, hearing the bad news from people who no longer have hope, having to share a room with minimum 3 families, and all that so they send us back to our countries.” Below the text is a drawing in pen of three women, titled “My family” and labeled with “Mama,” “Sister,” and “me” in Spanish.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
4/ “Mi Familia,” by 5-year-old Luisanney Toloza from Venezuela, who had recently crossed the U.S.-Mexico border
A child’s illustration, made in what appears to be crayon, of more than a dozen figures standing together. It’s titled “Mi Familia” and credited to “Luisanney Toloza, 5 años.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
3/ “I have never been separated from my siblings and its honestly sad because they are little and they need their mom and sister.” From 14-year-old Ariana V.V, whose U.S.-citizen siblings are 2 and 5 years old. Detained for 45+ days
Page 1 of handwritten letter. Transcript: "Hello, my name is Ariana V.V. im 14 years old and im from Honduras, ive been detained for 45 days and I have never felt so much fear to go to a place as I feel here everytime I remind myself that once I go back to Honduras a lot of dangerous things could happen to my mom and my younger siblings haven’t been able to see their mom in more than a month. They are very young and you need both of your parents when you are growing up. Since I got to this Center all you will feel is sadness and mostly depression. When people have their courts the longest they will last is 15 minutes, our rights are not being provided, arrest are happening when people don’t even have any type of order, arrests are happening illegally. Its sad to hear that peoples case are being denied and are getting send back to their country places where they are escaping from and are looking for protection and want to feel safe. Not a lot of people know what is happening in the Centers where immigrants are placed at. I haven’t been getting any school time. Every single person in here had their jobs they had their lifes, they aren’t any danger for this Country."Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter. Transcript: "Ive been in this country for almost 7 years and in those 7 years my mom and I found a home and made a bigger family. I have never been separated from my siblings and its honestly sad because they are little and they need their mom and sister, yeah they are with their dad but its still different for them and my mom and I. Since the day my mom and I get detained in Manhattan NY, my life was instanly paused, from my knowledge you can’t be under custody for more than 15 or 20 days, well here in Dilley Immigration Processing Center people have been in this place for 7 months, 5 months, 4-2 months, its not fair that the ICE officers are not following the laws. All kids are being damage mentally, they witness how the’ve been treated. They don’t have schools, doctor, all they have are nurses, if you need medical attention the longest you have to wait is 3 hours, but to get any medicine, pill, anything it takes a while, there are various viruses people are always sick. Serious situations happen and the officers can’t take them serious enough there are no consecuenses, they don’t care."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
2/ “I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long.” From 9-year-old Susej F, detained for 50+ days
The first page of a child’s handwritten letter, written in different colors of pencil. Transcript: “Hello, my name is Susej F and I’am 9 years old. I’am from Venezuela. I have been 50 days in Dilley Immigration Processing Center. And I want to go to my Country. But I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long. I have been 2 years and 6 months in united states, and I was happy with my friends in The school but now I need to leave. I miss my family in my country so now I want To go to Venezuela. But my mom do not want to leave because she wants a better future for me.”The second page of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil on notebook paper. Transcript: “Seen how people like me, immigrants are been treated changes my perspective about the U.S. My mom and I came to The U.S looking for a good and safe place to live, and my mom was looking for a Good job.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
A former OneBC staffer previously participated in a Spaces call with the leaders of white nationalist/"Canadian nationalist" organizations. They talked about deporting 10 million people and joked about throwing "millions of Punjabis" into the sea. 1/3 thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...
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Inside the Far-Right Push to Influence Canadian Political Parties | The Tyee
A conference call shows a political operative with past Conservative connections advising several white nationalist groups.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Very important story here from @jenstden.bsky.social! Give it a read:
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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Something good to do:
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NPR @npr.org · 30/01/2026
The university said it had also modified hundreds of courses and cancelled six in efforts to eliminate teaching related to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. n.pr/4teQwmw
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Texas A&M University cancels programs in women's and gender studies
The university said it had also modified hundreds of courses and cancelled six in efforts to eliminate teaching related to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This isn’t okay :(
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Ashley Zacharias @ashleyzacharias.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The Boss is singing about ICE on the Streets of Minneapolis. You won't hear this played at the Kennedy Center or on Fox News. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026
Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
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Misanthropic Humanist @moniz.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Made a playlist to help express some of the rage I feel today. I think it’s pretty self-explanatory. Enjoy. open.spotify.com/playlist/4iL...
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FUCK ICE!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
AOC: "An ICE officer had violently pushed a woman to the ground and he had come over to help get her up and that is what precipitated this incident that very quickly led to an execution in the streets. What we are seeing here is a momentous pivotal moment for the United States."
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Joe Wolf 🌈🐻📷 @jwolf.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Saint Paul Public Schools, one of the biggest school districts in the state, is closed for the next two days because teachers need time to build hybrid learning because unaccountable masked, armed federal government goons have made it too difficult for nonwhite children to leave their homes.
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AKA Joy Poi @joyfulnesstoo.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Ford will only back off if one of his donors say to keep bike lanes. Funny that they have proof that the bike lanes make it safer for all, and sales went up and business vacancies went down (thanks to the cyclists visiting the businesses along the route). Why isn’t Ford interested in listening?
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
First and foremost, fund the excellent researchers who are already here, punching well above their weight despite low and stagnant support. www.science.org/content/arti...
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In Canada, scientists are struggling with stagnant funding
Lackluster growth in federal spending squeezes research community
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
When Hitler declared war on the universities there was an exodus of researchers. The American "century" benefited from the influx of great thinkers. Trump's war on American universities is the end of that century. Canada's century has begun. My latest. charlieangus.substack.com/p/canadas-ce...
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Canada's Century Has Begun
There was an item in the last federal budget that didn’t get much attention but it’s a detail that has the potential to transform Canada’s place in the world.
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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
#ImLibararyPeople "📢 Save Canada’s Interlibrary Loans! Bill C-15 threatens to remove the legislative protections that keep mailing rates affordable for libraries. 🚨 Take Action: Contact your MP" Learn more save-interlibrary-loans.lovable.app via @onlibraryassoc.bsky.social @marbuckle.bsky.social
Blue graphic that says: Save Canada's Interlibrary Loans. Bill C-15 threatens to eliminated reduced postal rates for library materials, putting access to knowledge at risk for over 8 million Canadians. Contact your MP and tell them to protect interlibrary loans. Template letter & more resources available at: www.bit.ly/SaveInterlibraryLoans
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 14/12/2025
12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔 A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice. Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Just. Fund. Canadian. Researchers. www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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Canada launches billion dollar plan to recruit top researchers
Canada on Tuesday launched a CAN$1.7 billion ($1.2 billion) program to recruit leading global researchers, part of the effort to poach intellectual talent looking to leave the United States because of...
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yyjguy.bsky.social @yyjguy.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Why are these vile, racist, liars receiving taxpayer money? Someone please explain this to me as though I’m a six year old.
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yyjguy.bsky.social @yyjguy.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Why is One BC allowed to be a political party in this province? They are disgusting, vile, liars - why do our tax dollars pay them?
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1 arrest at unsanctioned OneBC event on UVic campus | CBC News
Supporters of the OneBC party gathered on the University of Victoria (UVic) campus Tuesday for an unsanctioned event — condemned by Indigenous groups for spreading residential school denialism rhetori...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Canadian publisher Kids Can Press "strongly condemns any denigrating, violent, or unauthorized use of Franklin's name or image" following Pete Hegseth's post:
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Franklin the Turtle is a beloved Canadian icon who has inspired generations of children and stands for kindness, empathy and inclusivity. 

We strongly condemn any denigrating, violent or unauthorized use of Franklin's name or image, which directly contradicts these values. 

Image of Franklin the TurtlePete Hegseth posted an image of Franklin the Turtle shooting a missle at a boat
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