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Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’m a bit frustrated. High-risk patients are in my clinic, wanting to get vaccinated … but I won’t receive Covid or flu shots in until October 26 😠 Argh !
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tobabryant.bsky.social @tobabryant.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I just emailed the Lakehead Board of Governors telling them to avert a strike and invest high quality education at Lakehead University. Send your letter here: lufa.org?source=blues... #onPSE #fairandjustLUFA
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Lakehead University Faculty Association - Home page
The Lakehead University Faculty Association (LUFA) represents over 300 faculty and library workers at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This contagious claim that under the NDP BC has become 'the highest taxed province' is nonsense. Provincial own-source revenue as share of GDP is 4th lowest among the provinces, and below the Canadian weighted average. #bcpoli /2
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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is a good day to ponder what an amazing deal B.C. residents have enjoyed thanks to public auto insurance. Avg nominal premiums are no higher than 9 years ago when J.Horgan was elected Premier, vs 45% avg increase in Canada and 119% in next-door Alberta. Data from StatsCan. #bcpoli
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tobabryant.bsky.social @tobabryant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Support Fairness for Algoma U Part-Time Faculty. Show your support, send an email here: actionnetwork.org/letters/supp... #fairness4cf #fairemploymentnow
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Support Fairness for Algoma U Part-Time Faculty
Part-Time Faculty are now bargaining to achieve fairness and recognition for the work of the people who teach the majority of Algoma’s courses. Why? Because Part-Time Faculty working conditions dir...
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tobabryant.bsky.social @tobabryant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I just emailed the Lakehead Board of Governors telling them to avert a strike and invest high quality education at Lakehead University. Send your letter today! #onPSE #fairandjustLUFA
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tobabryant.bsky.social @tobabryant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thinking of voting for Bradford for Mayor? Think again!! www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Shuttering libraries. Selling the Zoo. Here’s what Brad Bradford’s Core Services Review really means
We were all around for the last review - why would he proudly point to this disaster as a model to emulate
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tobabryant.bsky.social @tobabryant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🚨The Canadian government wants to make it easier for companies to keep wages low and harder for workers to push back, by weakening the right to strike and collectively bargain. Not on our watch. Send a message to the government now. share.canadianlabour.ca/s/thsJW9RQ
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Tell the government: Protect our right to strike!
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Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
INFECTIONS cause 1 in 8 CANCERS GLOBALLY Here are the TOP 3: 🥇 H.pylori ➡️760,000 cases of STOMACH CA 🥈HPV ➡️750,000 cases of CERVICAL CA 🥉Hep B ➡️360,000 cases of LIVER CA 🥈&🥉 are 100% VACCINE PREVENTABLE www.cbc.ca/news/science...
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tobabryant.bsky.social @tobabryant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Carney is planning to pay for the climate-wrecking West Coast Pipeline with tens of billions of our taxpayer dollars. We can’t let them get away with it. Tell federal leaders to prioritize our future over Big Oil's profits in Budget 2026. share.nwmd.social/s/o3bm0cYz
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Tell Your MP: Don't Fund the West Coast Pipeline in Budget 2026
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tobabryant.bsky.social @tobabryant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Linda McQuaig: Mark Carney’s massive hidden fossil-fuel subsidy shows us where the prime minister stands
As the country recovers from scorching wildfires, our prime minister has introduced a massive new subsidy for the fossil fuel industry. And its middle class Canadians who will end up
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tobabryant.bsky.social @tobabryant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Iris Gorfinkel: How Ontario’s private clinics are draining taxpayer dollars and staff from public health care
To save universal health care, Ontario must reverse its path. Funding private clinics drains our public system, poaching staff and siphoning taxpayer dollars from front-line care.
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tobabryant.bsky.social @tobabryant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Stop the $43B West Coast Money Pit. This pipeline project fuels a dying industry while ignoring Indigenous rights and destroying nature. We need to prioritize renewables instead. I signed the petition to end this mistake. Join me. 🌊🌳 app.sosha.ai/s/0D0OpIAC
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Reject the 35 billion dollar pipeline
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Sophia 🇨🇦🇬🇷 @aegeanlyfe.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Well done GREENPEACE April 15, 2025 Niagara Falls Canada #canada 🇨🇦
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atomicker.bsky.social @atomicker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
'Carney is not listening to Indigenous nations, scientists, environmentalists, or the thousands of people who oppose his bulldoze nature agenda'. '… what part of this project is in our “national interest”? Wasting billions in taxpayer money to kill endangered orcas?'
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Greenpeace Canada reaction to pipeline announcement - Greenpeace Canada
In response to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s announcement that the Pacific Link pipeline will be listed as a Project of National Interest under the Build Canada Act, Greenpeace Canada said: 
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nice portrait of Steve Reich, who is nearly 90. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
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‘Good music is good music, and most music is not!’ As he hits 90, master minimalist Steve Reich looks back
At 14, he heard Stravinsky and resolved to be a composer. As Reich approaches his 10th decade, the man revered by the likes of David Bowie reflects on a life that changed the soundtrack of modern livi...
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tobabryant.bsky.social @tobabryant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Rick Salutin: Carney faces a Canadian dilemma that humour and charisma will not solve
Carney's need for capital is in tension with labour.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
With a possible election in BC, now is a good time to remind the govt of its promise to expand public long-term care. The need is more urgent than ever, but govt deferred construction on 7 new facilities. Our new report explains why this won't save $$: centreforfuturework.ca/2026/09/20/t... /2
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The Build-Big Agenda in B.C. Should Include Long-Term Care Homes - Centre for Future Work
British Columbia should make long-term care part of its big-project building agenda and commit to a construction timetable for seven deferred public care projects, says a new report from the Centre fo...
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tobabryant.bsky.social @tobabryant.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 15/09/2026
The @canadianlabour.bsky.social has outlined exactly why this is such a bad idea. We don’t make Canada stronger by selling off our critical infrastructure. Protecting Canadian sovereignty means keeping our airports in public hands. canadianlabour.ca/airport-priv...
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Airport privatization would cost workers and passengers, CLC report warns | Canadian Labour Congress
OTTAWA — Privatizing Canada’s airports would put upward pressure on the cost of flying and put airport workers at risk, according to a new report from the Canadian Labour Congress, released ahead of n...
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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We’re not being governed, we’re being looted! 👇 👇 👇 👇
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Rightardia @rightardia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Select Mike Luckovich cartoon
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Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Opinion: Is a nation falling from 5th to 22nd in life expectancy rankings a sign of something wrong?
Growing income and wealth inequality, housing and food insecurity, lack of unionized jobs, and a health-care system in crisis contribute.
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tobabryant.bsky.social @tobabryant.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Join me in calling on the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to protect our retirement savings with a credible climate plan, responsible investments, and respect for Indigenous rights. Add your name: win.newmode.net/shiftaction/... #cdnpoli #pensions #Climate #Investing
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New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore
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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I agree with @althiaraj.bsky.social that throwing the airport privatization announcement into Carney's investment summit was an "own goal". youtube.com/watch?v=pmBP.... It badly muddled his "build Canada" message, because this has nothing to do with "building." #cdnpoli #canlab /2
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tobabryant.bsky.social @tobabryant.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As wildfires burn across Canada, the Carney government is plowing ahead with plans to list a West Coast tar sands pipeline as a "project of national interest." Use 350 Canada's online tool to flood the public consultation before September 18! share.nwmd.social/s/OjzRgYC9
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No Pipelines on a Burning Planet
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350.org @350.org · 21/04/2026
The fossil fuel industry costs every person on Earth $1,400 a year — and pays almost nothing back. 350.org's new #OutOfPocket report breaks it down. Santa Marta is the first conference ever called to end fossil fuels, and this report is the receipt. Read the full report: 350.org/out-of-pocke...
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Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Online betting online is 45 X likelier to result in problem gambling iGaming delivers the hits teen brains crave. So why the silence, Education Minister Calandra? www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... @thestar.com
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Iris Gorfinkel: Teen sports betting is skyrocketing. Why won’t the Ford government act?
Compared to lotteries, online wagering was 45 times more likely to result in problem gambling. Each lost wager raises desperation levels, trapping teens in a vicious cycle of chasing losses.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Our health care system in America is disgusting. A clear indication that our government doesn't give a fuck if we live or die.
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tobabryant.bsky.social @tobabryant.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What a cutie!!!
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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The ultimate cuteness overload….
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350 Canada @350canada.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We crashed Carney's CEO Summit! 📢🔥 Over a thousand of us marched on the AGO, where Carney was throwing a gala for some of the worst corporate villains, to kick off a summit meant to finance destructive megaprojects & privatize public resources. We gave the billionaires the welcome they deserved! ✊
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tobabryant.bsky.social @tobabryant.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Escaping the Canadian polycrisis
The polycrisis of growing income and wealth inequality, deteriorating employment security and working conditions, and increasing food and housing insecurity is threatening wellbeing and fuelling the r...
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tobabryant.bsky.social @tobabryant.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mark Carney’s investment summit is bound to fail unless it faces this fundamental issue David Suzuki critiques Prime Minister Mark Carney's Investment Summit for prioritizing economic growth over ecological survival. davidsuzuki.org/expert-artic...
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Mark Carney’s investment summit is bound to fail unless it faces this fundamental issue
David Suzuki critiques Prime Minister Mark Carney's Investment Summit for prioritizing economic growth over ecological survival.
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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 08/09/2026
Join us.
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The Many vs. The Money - Counter-Summit & Demo
A counter-summit and protest against the privatization of Canada's public infrastructure and resources. Toronto, September 12–14, 2026.
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Dennis Raphael @dennisraphael.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It is a pleasure to accept your manuscript entitled "Mapping the Health Inequalities Research and Advocacy Industrial Complex in Canada" in its current form for publication in International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services. Preprint available -- draphael@yorku.ca
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tobabryant.bsky.social @tobabryant.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Today is the Day of Action for Public Health Care. I took action to defend our public health care system against Alberta's two-tier law. You can too: dayofaction.healthcoalition.ca share.nwmd.social/s/gY5x1OXF
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NO U.S.-STYLE HEALTH CARE IN CANADA!
Day of Action for Public Health Care happening on September 1, 2026
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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hey, America! Stop Electing Stupid People! "If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain" ~ George Carlin @garthtoons.bsky.social
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The labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Calvin and Hobbes really called it, didn’t they?
A black and white drawing from a Calvin and Hobbes strip. They are sitting together on a tree branch. Calvin says, with a furrowed brow, “isn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?”
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Denmark, particularly in Copenhagen, has installed floating platforms/islands planted with wildflowers and native vegetation in its harbors and canals. These create safe urban habitats and sanctuaries for birds, bees, pollinators, insects, and even some aquatic life. Original post
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026
Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Amethyst starling: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Trump’s new threats are all about performing dominance. Major US corporations would be the biggest victims of his actions. Which is one reason, among many, why they will never happen. He’s trying to scare & divide Canadians, and claim a victory, any victory, before the mid-terms.
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tobabryant.bsky.social @tobabryant.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Nature is our home—not an economic zone. The federal government is proposing to steamroll ahead with major projects by weakening environmental protections. Tell them to protect nature, not treat it as red tape. 🌿 @greenpeaceca.bsky.social #ProtectBiodiversity act.gp/4f61Drn
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Stop Federal Environmental Rollbacks in Canada
Nature is our home—not an economic zone. The federal government wants to streamroll ahead with major projects by weakening environmental protections. Tell them to protect the nature that sustains us, ...
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tobabryant.bsky.social @tobabryant.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I just told my MP I oppose Alberta’s proposed bitumen pipeline to the B.C. coast. It puts ecosystems at risk and locks Canada into a fossil fuel future. Let’s invest in renewables, protect nature and uphold Indigenous rights. share.nwmd.social/s/7e2Jb4fC
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Join me in rejecting Alberta’s pipeline ploy.
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Purple (glossy)starling 25cm lives in tropical Africa very social birds that form noisy groups, join other starling species gathering in thousands for communal roosts. Diet insects, ants, and caterpillars, figs, berries nectar forage in trees, on the ground. Monogamous parents raise the chicks
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
From Robin Rouby-Progressive Cartoons
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tobabryant.bsky.social @tobabryant.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
So true. I love them for all of these quirks!
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