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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Toronto New Liberals September Social Tue Sep 22 · 8–10pm Baroness (Yonge) Bubble tea, community, and policy chat. Free to join. Register: luma.com/cnl-8ode
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Toronto New Liberals are hosting an Ontario Liberal leadership debate watch party on August 10 at 7 PM! Join us to watch, meet fellow New Liberals, and chat politics afterward. RSVP: secure.ngpvan.com/6hiGlmAghkuz...
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Colleen @cbailey6.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Strange scenes at Planning and Housing Committee yesterday: a heritage listing of a 1930s 4plex in Leaside was upheld over objections of residents and neighbours. The residents clearly know what's up, even as the City sticks to canned lines that listing is no big deal, doesn't impede development.
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
If you're interested in joining for future meetups, join our mailing list! cnliberalism.org/toronto-new-...
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Thank you to everyone who came out!
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Our next social will be September 23rd! Come with us to Baroness to grab some bubble tea, find community, and chat policy and politics. secure.everyaction.com/5K9woCPqtU-Y...
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emet-selch 🍁 @chaimagicks.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
> whenever you suggest Olivia Chow should use her strong mayor powers to enact citywide zoning reforms to end the housing crisis
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Our next social will be August 19th! Come with us to Baroness to grab some bubble tea, find community, and chat policy and politics. secure.everyaction.com/OGRutysKwESJ...
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Alan Kan @alankan.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Great outdoor walk today in the Don Valley with the @tonewlibs.bsky.social!
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
If you're interested in coming out to future meetups, join our email list! cnliberalism.org/toronto-new-...
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Thank you to everyone who came out to our hike on Saturday! It was so great to be out in the sun, enjoying Toronto's greenspaces and having great conversations.
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Our next meetup is July 19! Join us on a guided hike in the heart of the Don Valley! Put on a pair of hiking shoes, grab a water bottle and a snack, and join your fellow New Liberals as we enjoy the nature in the city! secure.everyaction.com/vliZAJ6yIE-A...
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Industrialization, specialization, and trade is the worst form of human social organization, except all the other ones
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Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) @ericlombardi.ca · 25/06/2025
I am hearing word that supporters of sixplexes on Council do not think the vote will get 50% to legalize them. But here is the thing, @MayorOliviaChow has every ability to invoke Strong Mayor powers to move it along with 1/3 of council support. (1/3) 🧵👇
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The power may have gone out, but we got our bubble tea anyway! Thanks to everyone who came out tonight!
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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Just one more study bro! Maybe if we break up the policy review phase 2 into 3 stages, and then break it up further into different study areas, it'll work better! 😀😀😀😀
i just need to do more studies meme
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Our next Toronto social will be June 24th! Come with us to Baroness to grab some bubble tea, find community, and chat policy and politics. secure.everyaction.com/Ztz93T9oykC2...
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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
i think it’s cool that the furthest left people who have any relevance in american politics reverse engineered “ban renters from rich neighborhoods” from first principles.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I useful reminder, when folks insist without any evidence that the 'neo-liberal' world order has obviously failed or whatever, that this is the global poverty trend graph since 1820: I suppose you can argue these trends are *unrelated* but it's hard to argue liberalism ruined everything.
A graph of global poverty rates since 1820.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I hear this myth all the time and it’s bizarre. Rich people hire property management companies to handle all the logistics for them and still get 90% of the rent each month. The idea that landlords are forgoing free money en masse makes no sense.
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
keeping this for later
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
This dynamic has been around since the 19th century, it's basically the central insight of Leninism, that you need a Vanguard Party of professional revolutionaries because the actual proletariat is usually too interested in wages and working conditions to commit the cause properly.
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I see it is up to us to be too pro-technocrat, then.
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
literally a party of NPCs
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Thank you to everyone who came out last night to our monthly social I was impressed by some of our members who made New Liberal bracelets! I personally took a "Neoliberal" one, I love being a contrarian. If you want one and to hang with the community, hopefully we'll see you next month!
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
My local Shoppers shilling for global free market capitalism. We love to see it, thank you Galen Weston.
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
critical geographers really won't stop until they ruin the one last affordable first-world metropolis
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Our next social will be April 1st! Come with us to Baroness to grab some bubble tea, find community, and chat policy and politics. secure.everyaction.com/wgJwJ3VXtUig...
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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Amazing, the city is moving to actually zone for the housing they want. Removing layers of discretion is essential for Vancouver planning and development to become more predictable and transparent.
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Thank you to everyone who came out tonight to out meetup! Was a great time.
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Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhogan.ca · 04/03/2025
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Nationalize Postmedia
…and then sell it. But we can’t let Americans own it anymore.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Urging Canadians not to "buy Canadian" so much as "buy not-US." We benefit from being integrated in a global trading order, and if the US is withdrawing from that, we have reason to strengthen trade with the rest of the world.
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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Upon further thought Instead of playing around with existing buildings, build out a pier (are we digging up enough dirt with all our subway projects?) Commercial centre that's like 40% outdoor terraces on each floor (coverable for winter). And a big public plaza for festivals
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
dang, Toronto could really use something like this
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Our next meetup will be March 3rd! With the end of the provincial election (has it even started yet?), it'll be a good time to get together and discuss how it went. Hope to see you all there! secure.everyaction.com/xpY5EeCTVU6F...
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Thank you to everyone who came out to our meetup last night! Very interesting to hear the talk about the upcoming election(s?) and where our Liberal parties might go.
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
ITT: Americans bewildered+lashing out at the idea that fascism could ruin their lives How beautiful that capitalism has coddled them so much that they can't fathom anything happening for any reason other than individual preference and convience. If only the rest of the world operated this way
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Rowan Wiebe @rowanwiebe.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I do YIMBY activism in Calgary and the number of leftists who want to blame a few capitalists or whatever instead of the hordes of retirees who show up to every council meeting to scream about a duplex exhaust me more than the actual NIMBYs
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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Everyone seems to understand intuitively why a sudden shortage of housing = a spike in demand = a rise in prices But in cities across N. America, people somehow still argue with a straight face that adding housing would have no impact on prices www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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Displaced Los Angeles homeowners face price gouging after wildfires
The Los Angeles Tenants Union identified more than 500 property listings where the monthly rental fee abruptly jumped after the fires – in some cases, more than doubling
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The take I am most certain of that gets me in the most trouble is just "The reason homes are so expensive is because there are not enough of them, so we really really really need to build more of them."
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
This Kind Of Smart, Walkable, Mixed-use Urbanism Is Illegal To Build In Most American Cities (its literally a delivery service inside a Bakery)
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Damien Moule @damienmoule.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Still hard to believe this is what has spawned so much rage and countless ridiculous op-eds. Like 20 separated bike lanes in a city of 3 million people. That was "too much" accommodation???
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rules-bound international dundridge @xenofawn.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Communists think of communism in the way that religious people think of heaven
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Our next meetup will be January 27th at 8pm! Come on out and grab some bubble tea with the New Liberals. secure.everyaction.com/d696uEYYH0u9...
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Is this a “congestion pricing should have been $15” argument, or a “congestion pricing is an infinite money glitch” argument?
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
From the outset of the Bernie Sanders phenomenon, it was clear that it wasn't an appeal to actually pooling resources for social insurance, rather "there are infinite money pools to raid for ourselves" The mirror image of conservatives saying all their money goes to funding "welfare" for others
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Koji @kojisposts.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Very much not the point of yesterday's press conference, but I really like the imagery and symbolism of Parliament being under construction
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Toronto New Liberals 🌐 @tonewlibs.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Anyway, yes we absolutely are shoehorning this into the Housing Theory of Everything bsky.app/profile/cana...
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