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Terra Loire

@terraloire.bsky.social
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Woman adjacent human being living with two cats, chronic pain, existential dread, and a sliver of optimism. www.terraloire.com

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Diana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I need your help! I'm travelling to Ottawa on June 10 to tell our Parkdale—High Park MP, Karim Bardeesy, that his constituents say "NO!" to the airport expansion! Can you sign my petition? I'll be bringing printed copies to Parliament Hill! www.dianachanmcnally.ca/billybishop
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Joan Faux @joantelferfaux.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
An excellent article to share when someone blames Ontario voters for electing and re-electing Doug Ford PC majority governments. #onpoli
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Ricochet Media @ricochetmedia.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Doug Ford's grip on power owes as much to electoral distortions and rule changes as it does to a political system increasingly shaped by wealth. The answer isn't resignation — it's rebuilding political power from the ground up. New from @terraloire.bsky.social: ricochet.media/politics/the...
ricochet.media
The carnival trick that keeps Doug Ford in power
Ford’s Conservatives keep winning majorities with the backing of only a small fraction of Ontario’s voters, in a political system increasingly shaped by wealth. The answer isn't resignation — it's reb...
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Diana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I’m running for City Council in Parkdale—High Park. I’m running because our neighbours deserve a councillor who has walked alongside them, fought for them, and knows how to turn community demands into real wins at City Hall. Join me at www.dianachanmcnally.ca.
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Diana Chan McNally for Parkdale—High Park
YouTube video by Diana Chan McNally
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Civic Tech Toronto @civictechto.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
👉 Tue Apr 28 → 7pm • in-person & online Terra Gillespie (@terraloire.bsky.social) on how data gets dressed up to deceive — and how to spot the difference between honest numbers and misleading ones. ✚ discussions & breakouts! guild.host/events/civic...
Event poster for Civic Tech Toronto Meetup #540, Tuesday April 28 at 7pm, in person and online. Speaker: Terra Gillespie. Talk title: "Numbers Are Not Real." Purple-to-cyan gradient background with the Civic Tech Toronto logo in the upper left, and a headshot of the speaker in the upper right corner.
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Fiscal Conservative and Austerity Uncle Doug Ford bought a private jet for $28m. …Instead of over a thousand new nursing initiatives or nearly a thousand PSW incentives funded. …Instead of over a thousand shelter beds and over 4K rent geared to income subsidies. #onpoli
THIS MONEY COULD INSTEAD FUND ONE OF THE FOLLOWING ($28M):
New Nursing Positions (2-Year
Commitments)
per nurse
1,120
1,120
total incentives funded
560
$25,000 each
active nurses/year (over 2yrs)
Ontario needs 33,200 additional nurses by 2032 (govt FOl). Each $25,000 incentive funds a 2-year hospital/LTC/home-care commitment.
Source: Ontario Health - Community
Commitment Program • View source
Personal Support Workers
Fully Supported per PSW
933
$30,000 each
933
total incentives funded
311
active PSWs/year (over 3 yrs)
Ontario needs 50,853 more PSWs by 2032 (govt FOl). Each $30,000 package covers training stipend + recruitment + rural relocation incentives.
Source: Ontario Health / WCT Resource Centre •
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Shelter Beds (per year)
per shelter bed/year
1,120
$25,000 each
Annual cost to operate one shelter bed. A rent-geared-to-income subsidy costs only $6,300/year — four times more efficient.
Source: Financial Accountability Office • View source
Rent-Geared-to-Income
Subsidies
per annual RGI subsidy
4,444
More affordable than shelter beds at $25,000/year. RGI subsidies keep people housed and out of crisis care.
$6,300 each
Source: Financial Accountability Office • View
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Sources: All figures from published public records. View the methodology page for itemized list.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.
Photograph of a car with a squirrel inside of it, perched on the steering wheel. The car is the color of champaign at a beige convention, and the squirrel is the color of squirrels. The squirrel is holding a package of crackers in it's mouth. They are the kind like you get at a restaurant, where you get two crackers wrapped in plastic.

The driver's side window is slightly cracked. This is how the squirrel got in, and how it got out. It threw the crackers out first, and then climbed out after them. Everything in this operation suggested that this was not the squirrel's first rodeo.A closeup of the squirrel sitting on the steering wheel. The squirrel deserves a name, so we'll call her Anjeloma, and she's what you might call a winner. She is still squirrel colored. The crackers are white, and labeled "Zest." As if Anjeloma needed more zest. Squirrel, please.

You can't see much of the car, but you can see smudges of grunge at the edges of the windshield, where the wipers have cast aside the debris of previous rains and pollen-falls.
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Today’s Ontario budget isn’t just numbers on a page — it’s a snapshot of Doug Ford’s choices. While they talk about “fiscal responsibility,” our hospitals, schools, and public services are stretched to the breaking point. That’s why itsonford.ca exists. #ONpoli
itsonford.ca
It's On Ford
A public accountability tool exploring Ford's mismanagement of Ontario tax dollars.
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Things to keep in mind when the #ONpoli budget drops this week: Avoidable costs to rush privatization of alcohol sales ($1.4B) could have been used to maintain OSAP grants ($1B). The money spent on losing legal battles ($4.8M) could have funded 193 new shelter beds instead. www.itsonford.ca
itsonford.ca
It's On Ford
A public accountability tool exploring Ford's mismanagement of Ontario tax dollars.
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
ICYMI: yesterday the Ford government announced their intent to change the Freedom of Information Act to deny the public access to documents held by the offices of the premier and his ministers, including by their parliamentary assistants and staff. #ONpoli www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...
thetrillium.ca
Ford government’s plan to restrict public access to politicians’ documents would ‘gut public trust,’ commissioner warns
The proposed legislation comes amid battles for access to documents on the Greenbelt and Skills Development Fund scandals and the premier’s personal cellphone records
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I made this list in light of Ford’s convention centre statements, who knew it would come in handy with fresh context? Doug should invest in SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition instead of making his fantasies all of our problem. #onpoli www.terraloire.com/notes/60-thi...
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
A long and growing list of things Doug Ford should fund instead of his billion dollar convention centre vanity project #ONpoli 📋🗳️👇
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Epic Fury’s frontman asked to leave Warped Tour after inappropriate behavior
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
People like John and Steve think this is totally normal and fine and assume everyone has access like this. Let me take you on a pedantic annoying journey back to 2016, where John implied there was a partisan effort against a bill of his rather than accept that people were… to his quote “Outraged”.
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
There’s a story going around about how Brad Bradford “could lead a tight two way race” against Olivia Chow. Which is the funniest take I could have seen today. A reminder, that he couldn’t even break 10k votes in the last election, and in his OWN ward he couldn’t get 5% of the vote. #TOpoli
Ward 19 Beaches East York 2023 Mayoral results showing Bradford getting 4.66% of the vote in that riding. A racoon diving into a dumpster.
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Another day another brand new set of horrible reasons to demand our Canadian Pension Funs divest from Palantir.
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The only downside to Tory not running again is that I may or may not have bought his old web domain and related domains months ago and was prepared to be mischievous.
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Stephen Thomas @stephenjwt.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
It’s so fucking gross that the first thought from these deranged losers is how dystopic scenes of war and bloodshed are a “massive opportunity” for Canada’s oil oligarchs to make a quick buck.
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Most people don’t realize I have a sibling because I estranged myself from them 17 years ago (for traumatic reasons I’m not dumping here) and have not regretted it for a moment.
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Canada 🤝 Australia Investing public money in Palantir ricochet.media/labour/billi...
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When a company names itself after a mythical foreboding object — take it as a warning
Delve into the cautionary tale of Palantir Technologies, a company named after an ominous mythical object in Lord of the Rings.
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
All too often the response to surveillance concerns runs along the lines of "well I have nothing anyone wants to spy on, this can't possible impact me". Here are a few scenarios of how our current surveillance infrastructure absolutely impacts you and your loved ones:
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jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 19/02/2026
Canadian pals, if you're looking at what's happening in the US with Ring and Flock and their police partnerships with horrør, you reeeeeaaaally gotta read this by @terraloire.bsky.social ricochet.media/labour/class...
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Surveillance spores: How Doug Ford is spreading surveillance technology throughout the province
Understand how Doug Ford is spreading surveillance technology throughout the province and what it means for citizens' rights.
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Doug Ford is turning Ontario into a petri dish for new surveillance tech — and calling it “public safety.” My latests for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social reviews recent lobbying activity and gov contracts to map out how surveillance is being implemented without public consultation or knowledge. #ONpoli
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
👁️ ALL EYES ON THE PROVINCIAL BUDGET 👁️ I've been building a library of pre-budget submissions for the upcoming #ONpoli budget. After going through 50 submissions and a total of 351 recommendations here's what I've noticed so far.... 🧵 www.terraloire.com/ontario-budget
6 Things To 
Watch For In
Ontario’s Next
Budget
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Thank you @mikeschreiner.bsky.social for speaking up for people like Jenna. Doug Ford’s cuts are breaking apart an already fractured legal system. Court delays, cuts to legal aid… This is more than personal: it’s a systemic failure that’s happening province wide.
A letter from Mike Schreiner to Doig Downey about the justice system on behalf of a mother named Jenna.
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I keep getting notifications like this, the kids are NOT happy with Doug Ford.
A Reddit notification that reads “FORD WHEN I CATCH YOU FORD”
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Barn-burning Labour Speeches 🤝 Premium Sci-fi Shows
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Greenpeace Canada @greenpeaceca.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Here’s what most Canadians don’t know: Canada is one of Palantir’s top funders. The company that built the system ICE uses to terrorize innocent people and tech in Gaza potentially used in war crimes is already here: ricochet.media/labour/billi... @ricochetmedia.bsky.social @terraloire.bsky.social
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
For no particular reason here are five surveillance companies cozying up to Doug Ford as we speak. pt 1/2
5
Defense Surveillance
Companies Lobbying
Ford’s Government
You Should KnowAxon Public Safety Canada: Lobbying activities include intelligence gathering, relationship-building, and targeted advocacy on key policy files with implications for public safety technology and procurement.

$40,259,033 in Ontario contracts since 2022.Accipiter Radar Technologies Wih headquarters in the US and Canada Accipiter started lobbying the Ontario and Federal governments including discussing government procurement and its keystone 
Surveillance-to-Intelligence™ (S2I) tech.
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Homelessness is a policy choice.
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Diana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I cannot stress enough that homelessness is caused by policy levers primarily at the provincial level. And AMO's new report shows it: homelessness in Ontario rose 8% last year, with 85,000 people becoming homeless. 20,000 were youth and children. Horrifying. globalnews.ca/news/1161124...
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Nearly 85K people homeless in Ontario, up 8% in 1 year: report | Globalnews.ca
Homelessness is getting worse across Ontario with an estimated 85,000 people who were without a home in 2025, a new report from Ontario's municipalities shows.
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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The Canadian Taxpayer Federation getting upset about a $2000 plaque that wasn't taxpayer-funded rather than the austerity that led to a dead raccoon lying on the sidewalk for days without pickup is so indicative of their whole deal.
thestar.com
The city thought Conrad the raccoon deserved a memorial plaque. Now Toronto’s best-known trash panda has become a different kind of symbol
A plaque commemorating one of Toronto’s most famous trash pandas has been singled out as an example of government waste, more than 10 years after its death.
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Questioning information presented to you especially during these times is always a good first step, luckily there are second and third steps one can take to verify and contextualize information. I believe in you! 💕
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Rick @rickwebb.net · 08/01/2026
Hello Tim Cook I worked at Tumblr when you gave us 48 hours to get rid of all the consenting, adult boobs. Up all night at your whim, out of the blue. But you're still cool with Twitter and its CSAM and revenge porn and whatever the fuck this is? Why do you even HAVE guidelines?
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Canadians mad about ICE: Know that we are complicit and we are vulnerable. Canada is one of Palantir’s biggest funders, our pensions are tied to Palantir’s business. Which includes supporting ICE, profiting off genocide in Gaza, and human rights violations. ricochet.media/labour/billi...
ricochet.media
When a company names itself after a mythical foreboding object — take it as a warning
Peter Thiel’s Palantir borrowed its name from The Lord of the Rings, and two decades later, it’s living up to the metaphor by quietly embedding itself in the machinery of government
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
I have spent the last four years in professional spaces trying to be a voice of reason in the rushed adoption of AI. No matter how measured my delivery, when I spoke about the proliferation of CSAM already happening with AI people rolled their eyes, told me I was over-reacting, or negative.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 02/01/2026
Meanwhile Canada is doing nothing and Canadian officials continue using a sex image generator website: “A Home Office spokesperson said it was legislating to ban nudification tools, and under a new criminal offence, anyone who supplied such tech would ‘face a prison sentence and substantial fines’”
bbc.com
Woman felt 'dehumanised' after Musk's Grok AI used to digitally remove her clothes - BBC News
The BBC has seen several examples of it undressing women and putting them in sexual situations without their consent.
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 01/01/2026
this is the most incredible interview i’ve ever read. the aei guy tries so hard to get sliwa to trash mamdani and he simply won’t. he also brings up flaco (rip) unprompted. www.wsj.com/opinion/free...
Tunku Varadarajan: Will you ask New Yorkers who voted for you to give Zohran Mamdani a chance?
Curtis Sliwa: Absolutely. He won a majority. He has a mandate. The Masters of the Universe, the billionaires, did everything they could to make sure he wasn't the mayor. It didn't work. He's a great organizer. I'll give you an example: Melinda Katz, the current District Attorney for Queens County, New York. She's the mother of my two youngest sons. She was running for DA in 2019. She had the institutional support. Moderate Jewish mother. Loyal Democrat.
Queens borough president. Perfect résumé. She's running against Tiffany Caban, who wasn't even in elective office at that time. Very radical. You know,
"do away with jails, don't arrest anyone." Tiffany Caban won on election night. But she lost the race on the absentee ballots, but only by about 20 votes. You know who the street organizer was for Tiffany Caban? Zohran Mamdani. So, when they talk about him as a trust fund baby, I say no, no, no, no, no.You don't like it when people call him a "nepo baby."
He's earned his stripes. He had 100,000 volunteers going door-to-door, and I experienced that in some of the neighborhoods where you would never have seen anybody liberal or progressive go. Howard Beach! In conservative Howard Beach, they're going block to block. They were everywhere. 100,000. I call them Zohranistas. This was the secret to his election, not TikTok. It was good, old-fashioned retail politics. Frankly, Cuomo and not Mamdani was the nepo baby in this race. Born on third base. Felt entitled. Knew the political process, but mailed it in.
He didn't have the stomach to actually go out and do retail politics. And shame on him.
Do you think Mamdani will make a better mayor than Andrew Cuomo might have done?How would you describe Mamdani's politics?
He's not a communist. People call him that. That's ridiculous. He is a democratic socialist. David Dinkins [New York mayor from 1990-93] was a democratic socialist. We've had a long history in New York City of socialism.
What's the biggest challenge Mamdani faces as mayor!
I don't think the Zohranistas totally understand the fiscal irresponsibility we just went through with the Adams years and how little money there's left.
There's not enough money to do all the things that Zohran wants to do.A last question. All through our interview you pronounced Mamdani as "Mandami," transposing the "m" and the "n" in his name. Are you aware of the mispronunciation? Many people, Cuomo included, mangle his name.
In the debate, Zohran brought that to my attention, my mispronunciation. I didn't do it on purpose.
There's no disrespect. I have a hard time with it. It took people about 10 years to pronounce my last name correctly: "Sleewah.'" They pronounced it Silva, Saliva, Slywah. In the streets, we would have given Zohran a nickname, like I did for all the Guardian Angels. "Z Man" would have been perfect for him. That would have been his handle.
Mr. Varadarajan, a Journal contributor, is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and at NYU Law School's Classical Liberal Institute.
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Oh my gosh the completely conceivable and thinkable has occurred!
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Danyaal Raza @danyaalraza.com · 19/12/2025
Part 2 of 2: www.torontotoday.ca/local/health...
torontotoday.ca
How this for profit company is ‘gamifying’ plasma donations in Toronto
Toronto’s new paid plasma donation clinics pay a ‘bonus’ of $100 if an individual gives blood plasma 100 times in a calendar year. Advocates say ‘gamified’ incentives put donors at risk
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Danyaal Raza @danyaalraza.com · 19/12/2025
Ebenezer Scrooge, a plasma story. Part 1 of 2: www.torontotoday.ca/local/health...
torontotoday.ca
People are making money selling blood plasma. Isn’t that illegal?
Paying for blood is illegal in Ontario, but a for-profit company recently opened two new paid locations in Toronto thanks to a Canadian Blood Services exemption
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I have to wonder if the technocrat class obsessed with stories like Lord of the Rings have actually read it. Central to LOTR is the undeniable fact that ‘ordinary’ beings can make profound change. Kings and wizards can be corrupted, but fellowship endures. ricochet.media/labour/billi...
ricochet.media
When a company names itself after a mythical foreboding object — take it as a warning
Peter Thiel’s Palantir borrowed its name from The Lord of the Rings, and two decades later, it’s living up to the metaphor by quietly embedding itself in the machinery of government
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
It's been almost a year since I launched my business, and I've had to spend a lot more time on LinkedIn. Here's what I've learned about making viral posts: www.terraloire.com/notes/super-...
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Power Up Your LinkedIn Content — Terra Etc.
I’ve inadvertently read four thousand five hundred and eighty five top performing LinkedIn posts and I’ve got the jargon down pat. Use this to generate your own super authentic LinkedIn content.
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Eggs and Rulers @heradasha.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
This thread is a good reminder to write your MPP. Some good bullet points here.
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
If you live in Ontario and rent your home, own your home, bike, take transit, care about the environment, value democracy, don't want water to be privatized, are opposed to surveillance infrastructure... you are going to want to email your MPP about #Bill60: win.newmode.net/fightbill60
win.newmode.net
New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Doug Ford is ramming through #Bill60 without public hearings, bundling 16 unrelated laws together so MPPs can't properly debate gutting tenant protections. Send an email to your representative today—our democracy depends on it. win.newmode.net/fightbill60
Fight Bill 60: Email Your MPP Today
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N.P. Thompson 🍁 @nptwrites.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
This is a REALLY important story, Canada. The Carney government's push to AI our entire country is going to hurt so many people and cause SO much damage to our communities. The government isn't doing ANYTHING to try and mitigate the harms data centres are going to cause, either.
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Ricochet Media @ricochetmedia.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Canada’s next extractive industry: How #AI is following the fossil fuel playbook. Ottawa is betting on artificial intelligence. Just like #BigOil, Big Tech is building infrastructure that will be nearly impossible to dismantle. New from @terraloire.bsky.social: ricochet.media/climate/cana...
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Canada's next extractive industry: How AI is following the fossil fuel playbook
Ottawa is betting nearly a billion on artificial intelligence, ignoring warnings of its environmental risks. Just like Big Oil, Big Tech is building infrastructure that will be nearly impossible to di...
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Terra Loire @terraloire.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Does anyone know if you could walk into a Swiss chalet and buy just one roll and one chalet sauce cup to go?
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