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Labour and politics geek, gender rights activist.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.
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Ai-Men Lau 劉羿雯 @aimenlau.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
"Many of the women stayed silent for decades, both out of shame and for fear of tarnishing the image of a man who has become the face of the Latino civil rights movement." This is, unfortunately, common in my experience of working in advocacy.
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Canada would have been better off saying nothing. You can detest the regime in Iran without supporting chaos. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...
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Statement by Prime Minister Carney and Minister Anand on the situation in the Middle East
Canada’s position remains clear: the Islamic Republic of Iran is the principal source of instability and terror throughout the Middle East, has one of the world’s worst human rights records, and must ...
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Sydney @sydneyholmes.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Wondering where we can direct folks to stay warm this weekend in the east end of Ottawa. @lauradudas.bsky.social @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social any advice?
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 06/01/2026
Carney isn't just failing Canada, he's failing the world. If we don't stand for democracy and a rules-based international order, why would any other country come to Canada's defence when we need it?
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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 13/11/2025
Union Presidents Say Federal Government is “Scapegoating” Public Servants For the Deficit “This government is not on your side,” says Canadian Association of Public Employees president pressprogress.ca/union-presid...
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Union Presidents Say Federal Government is “Scapegoating” Public Servants For the Deficit
“This government is not on your side,” says Canadian Association of Public Employees president
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵
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Sydney @sydneyholmes.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Imagine the response in any other workplace if you called your colleague names in the middle of a meeting. A public apology for such childish behaviour is warranted @timtierney.ca.
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Jeff Leiper @jleiper.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
This morning, Mayor Sutcliffe held a press conference outlining the modified Lansdowne 2.0 recommendations before city councillors or the public had access to them. That’s unacceptable. Transparency and respect for Council should come before media rollouts.
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Jeff Leiper @jleiper.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Pleased to be with @glengower.ca at @otttransitriders.bsky.social event tonight featuring @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social. We used to have one of the best transit systems in North America - these folks want us to get back to that!
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Govt intervened way too early in the Air Canada strike, and it's caused chaos. If the strike had been allowed to play out for days, pressure increases on both employer and union to bargain. Instead, AC ran to govt to put their thumb on the scale, and now the natural balance is skewed
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 18/08/2025
CUPE's Mark Hancock is prepared to be jailed for defying the Carney government's back-to-work order to force Air Canada to negotiate with flight attendants "If it means folks like me going to jail, so be it...Our members want a solution here, but that solution has to be found at a bargaining table"
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David J. Doorey (aka The Law of Work) @thelawofwork.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Would be interesting if feds just announced now they will enact legislation requiring flight attendants be paid their hourly wage for all hours worked. Both Tories and NDP have already said such a law should be passed. Only Liberals resisting. How would that affect the dispute? #AirCanada
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 16/08/2025
“The Liberals are violating our Charter rights to take job action and give Air Canada exactly what they want — hours and hours of unpaid labour from underpaid flight attendants, while the company pulls in sky-high profits and extraordinary executive compensation”
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Reminder that the strike is about a women-dominated workforce doing unpaid labour while executives get huge bonuses. Carney's Liberals are exactly who we warned they were. www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
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BREAKING: Jobs minister orders Air Canada flight attendants back to work
Air Canada flight attendants have officially begun their strike after failing to reach a deal with the airline, the Canadian Union of Public Employees announced Saturday morning.
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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
1. Arc of the moral universe, etc. Teachers, journalists, healthcare workers, and academics have been fired or suspended for expressing pro-Palestinian views. Some workers and students have been added to public or private blacklists (Canary Mission) for pro-Palestinian activism
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Ian Kennedy @iankennedyck.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Today and every day, believe survivors. The system is beyond flawed when several men tell several different stories and communicate they need to “get their stories straight” before an investigation and cannot be questioned on their own actions or reliability.
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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
conservatives: let’s cut important crown corporations liberals: let’s have important crown corporations *cut themselves* we are much better
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
People who feel bad for JD Vance’s kids as family gets booed at Disneyland. I get it, but better those kids know now what their father is about. Other kids are watching their parents get shipped off to gulags.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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Riley Gaines: NYC is so screwed

Qt: Did Zohran Mamdani also beat you at swimming
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DT Cochrane @dtcochrane.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I expected to be disappointed by Carney. I did not expect to be this disappointed this quickly.
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Sydney @sydneyholmes.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Feel like I’m just yelling into a void trying to get answers about cooling centers in Ottawa for tomorrow’s heat wave. People will die without access to temperature-controlled spaces and our city has advertised nothing. @ottawapublichealth.ca @lauradudas.bsky.social @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Not sure this is an effective rejoinder to the charge, implied and explicit, of being a bitch
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 21/05/2025
i was not familiar with your game ken jennings
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Ottawa Charge @pwhlcharge.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
THEY CHOSE US, WE BEAT THEM 🤩⚡️ #SurgingAhead | #OTTvMTL Ottawa Charge x Intact Insurance
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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” 
Subheader:
“In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.
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David Allsopp @doublehelix.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Article from The Chaser, Jul 9th 2022:

Picture of three young women in skimpy sportswear playing volleyball.

Headline: "Trans person likely upended whole life to gain advantage in volleyball competition, reports idiot"
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 22/03/2025
This is normie gold and a tone that is going to resonate with a lot of people.
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 17/03/2025
The Trump administration has gone mask-off fascist. It’s important to say that.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/03/2025
If any other country was arbitrarily torturing or imprisoning Canadian, British, German, etc. citizens like this, Global Affairs Canada would be issuing travel advisories about that country
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Hey CBC, don’t do this. It’s not a “proposal.” Having different wording on your website won’t diminish the harm done by having Canada’s national broadcaster treat this as a serious conversation (see below for how it’s being portrayed on the relatively sane CPAC…). Pull out of this disaster now.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Tapping the sign
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Two Way Street. A reworked version I made from a police produced victim and youth blaming PSA.
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Now do Starlink.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
HEY UHHH WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON DOWN THERE
Elon Musk giving a Nazi salute during an inauguration celebration party
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Ariel Troster @arieltroster.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
ALSO: some of the politicians who donated to this guy’s GoFundMe also opposed affordable housing and shelters in their own communities. Some of them are actively opposing the establishment of refugee reception centres in Ottawa RIGHT NOW.
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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Big pet peeve when people say violence is never the answer. Like have you heard of policing, prisons, the death penalty, the military, war, etc. Governments have actually chosen violence as the main answer
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