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Gail Dugas🇨🇦

@wintrgarden.bsky.social
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Former journalist living on an island in British Columbia. Alt text: A view over Baynes Sound looking towards Vancouver Island. Water and Douglas Firs

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Gord Johns @gordjohns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Airport by airport, port by port, public service by public service, a corporate agenda is taking hold under the Liberal government. The House of Commons is starting to look more like a corporate boardroom.1/9
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MP Johns: Where in the Liberal platform did it promise privatization of public assets and services?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump regime has killed at least 234 people by bombing boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean since last September. Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. This is a danger to us all.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026
DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.
DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

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The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.Mayor Mamdani signs a giant check.Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.
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Elon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.
One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mis
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Gail Dugas🇨🇦 @wintrgarden.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
L L L I'll Pn ll No
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"I've been looking around the table that Carney has set for this summer and I don't see any of us at the table," he said. "Does that mean we're on the menu?" @nikbarryshaw.bsky.social #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Over 1,000 protesters demonstrate against Carney's investment summit in Toronto, 2 arrested | CBC News
More than 1,000 demonstrators gathered in downtown Toronto on Monday to protest against an investment summit organized by Prime Minister Mark Carney.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Jordanian editorial cartoonist Osama Hajjaj salutes Canada’s response to the U.S. bloviator in chief.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Doubt America has devolved into a dictatorship and a kleptocracy? Jared Kushner is not a govt official. He’s just the son in law of Trump. Where are the experts? Where are the professionals appointed and confirmed? What a disgrace . www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/w...
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Putin Meets Witkoff and Kushner in Moscow to Discuss Ukraine War
President Vladimir V. Putin ordered a pause in strikes on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, ahead of the meeting with President Trump’s envoys: his son-in-law Jared Kushner and the businessman Steve Witkoff.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“Remember, the Constitution doesn’t begin with, ‘I, the president.’ It begins with, ‘We, the people.’ ” —Gloria Steinem at the 2017 Women’s March
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Gail Dugas🇨🇦 @wintrgarden.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Oh this will be interesting
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat We must get big money out of politics. It is the root of our dysfunction.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Canadian scientists at the University of Waterloo Dr. Brian Ingalls, Dr. Sara Sadr, and Dr. Marc Aucoin have engineered “tumor-eating” bacteria that can invade and consume cancerous tumors from within. A potential breakthrough in cancer treatment research.
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Gail Dugas🇨🇦 @wintrgarden.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We do have the nice gene. But we also know when enough is enough and it ain't going anywhere.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
For many westerners democracy is a foreign concept, the idea of self determination and civic duty and what that entails or looks like eludes them. When democracy works so well you forget how to practice it then your life is too comfortable. Ukraine and many states under threat have not forgotten.
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Gail Dugas🇨🇦 @wintrgarden.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
One of the reasons Canada has to keep its committment to its own dairy and egg production and food inspection
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Amazon workers on federal aid nearly tripled between 2020 and 2025. During that time, Jeff Bezos saw his net worth jump by $139B as Amazon profits hit record highs. No corporation as profitable as Amazon should be paying its workers so little they must rely on food stamps and Medicaid to survive.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Investigations are ongoing but just four corporations control 54% of the fresh-cut salad industry, including Taylor Fresh Foods. Market concentration —> more pricing power —> higher profits —> more spending on lobbying and campaign donations —> more deregulation See the dangers of monopolization?
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
He doesn't really want pipelines, he's just playing 4D chess with Alberta He doesn't really want pipelines, he's just playing 4D chess with Alberta He doesn't really want pipelines, he's just playing 4D chess with Alberta He doesn't really want pipelines, he's just playing 4D chess with Alberta
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Just 10 billionaires have already poured over $600 MILLION into this year's midterms. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. But two states have a plan to take on Big Money. Watch.
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Could This Actually End Citizens United?
Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti
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Steve Burgess @steveburgess53.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The upside: You won the World Cup! The downside: You have to meet Donald Trump.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Don't be smug about food-borne outbreaks in the US, Canada. Carney is gutting our capacity to ensure food safety too. 🧵 www.agrunion.com/jobs-cuts-at...
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Jobs cuts at CFIA will lead to a food safety crisis in Canada  - Syndicat Agriculture Union
For Immediate Release  Ottawa, January 28, 2026 – Yesterday, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced sweeping job cuts as part of a government-wide expenditure review ordered by Mark Carn...
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Yep. And Carney lets her do it. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Alberta, Ottawa agree on deal that would see province front its own major project reviews | CBC News
Ottawa and Alberta have reached an agreement that will see the province take control of regulatory approvals for major projects, something they say will deliver those projects more expeditiously.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Worse than Harper. www.readthemaple.com/mark-carney-...
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Mark Carney Appoints Former Oil Executive As U.S. Diplomat
An advocacy group accused Susannah Pierce of being a “climate villain painting Big Oil green.”
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 11/07/2026
Norway pay their female international players the same amount as their male players and have done since 2017.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Jared Kushner wants Albania's protected wetlands. The government obliged. Protesters said no. 29 days later, they're still saying no — with flamingo cutouts and flags, in the streets, every single night. Europe is watching. Is anyone else?
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Houston is the biggest asshat Premier this Province has ever had #HoustonFAIL #NovaScotia Annapolis Valley libraries closing 5 branches, cites static provincial funding 'It's a sad day in Nova Scotia,' says Middleton mayor www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Annapolis Valley libraries closing 5 branches, cites static provincial funding | CBC News
The Annapolis Valley Regional Library announced the changes Monday after months of sounding the alarm that their operations were on shaky financial footing.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The most underdiscussed policy for managing both the affordability and the climate crisis. Energy efficiency for the win.
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Energy efficiency is also a nation-building project
The prime minister has made building his overarching political goal. But when it comes to energy, saving might be even more important.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/04/2026
Why would they resume the program without knowing whether the gunman acted alone?
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Gail Dugas🇨🇦 @wintrgarden.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
This just seems... I dunno... contrived again? #uspoli
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Person in custody after Trump evacuated in shooting incident at White House correspondents’ dinner
Event ended suddenly with loud gunshots and immediate commotion, and the US president and first lady were unharmed
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
This is your reminder that it's been ten months since the assassination of Melissa Hortman, her husband and her dog, and there hasn't been even a hint of justice for her family, friends or colleagues.
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Gail Dugas🇨🇦 @wintrgarden.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Call me old- fashioned, but I prefer leaders who have good judgement from the outset. Canada doesn't have time for this costly "let's fly it up the flagpole and see if anyone notices" nonsense. #onpoli #cdnpoli
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Ford says he heard ‘loud and clear’ from public on jet purchase, but decries ‘double standard’
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Monday he heard “loud and clear” from the public when it comes to the purchase of a nearly $30 million private jet that sparked an outcry.
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Gail Dugas🇨🇦 @wintrgarden.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Helpful insight from economist @justinwolfers.bsky.social with CBC's David Cochrane. How political incompetence and self-inflicted damage has a mega impact on the possibility of a global recession. #cdnpoli #economy
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Gail Dugas🇨🇦 @wintrgarden.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
So much for avoiding the US as many Canadians are doing to draw the line about oir sovereignty. Oh well montrealgazette.com/entertainmen...
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Olympic star Eileen Gu shares photo of Justin Trudeau and Prince Harry
Justin Trudeau and Prince Harry were pictured this week on a ski lift in Montana, alongside Olympic champion Eileen Gu
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🌺Red Hibiscus🌺 @redhibiscus23.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Enough with the bloodshed of Americans sent to fight in the Epstein war. Let the Epstein class fight the Epstein war.
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Permanent Standard Time brings us closer to nature’s rhythms. #DitchDST
A photo of the sun near the horizon, captioned “The sun tells the time”. A photo of the moon’s phases, captioned “The moon tells the day”. A photo of the star-filled sky, captioned “The stars tell the month”. Final caption “We are living inside a beautiful cosmic clock”.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Meanwhile Trump cheers as gas prices increase because of his war in Iran and uses photos of himself at the dignified transfer of our honored dead-wearing his campaign merchandise-in fundraising emails
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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Devastating. I have a hand cranked radio, I don't have hand cranked wifi.
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 14/03/2026
“The vast majority of Quebecers (86%) say they’re proud to be Canadian.” ⚜️🇨🇦
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Support for Quebec sovereignty is at its lowest point since the 1995 referendum
A large majority of Quebecers oppose Quebec sovereignty.
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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
A perfect solution — and we all know who the majority of Americans are going to be rooting for. 😂🤣👇
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Americans are dying so that Kushner can make money
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 13/03/2026
“Planning around preventing this exact scenario — impossible as it has long seemed — has been a bedrock principle of US national security policy for decades,” a former US official who served in Republican and Democratic administrations said. “I’m dumbfounded.” edition.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...
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Trump administration underestimated Iran war’s impact on Strait of Hormuz | CNN Politics
The Pentagon and National Security Council significantly underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to US military strikes while planning the ongoing operation, accord...
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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
There are two tools for resolving any special military operation, conflict, or war: NAVAL BLOCKADE & SECONDARY SANCTIONS + ELECTIONS Roald Dahl: “Somewhere inside of all of us is the power to change the world.” #PutinTrumpWars #RussiaUkraine #IranVenezuela End of thread 21/21🧵
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Trish 🇨🇦 Sorry! 🍁 @trishly.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Looks right 🌷🌷🌷
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rosebanditquinn @rosebanditquinn.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Here’s a thought for James Comer. There IS a First Lady who has had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. And it’s not Hillary Clinton. It might be worthwhile for Comer to subpoena the First Lady who actually knows Epstein. You know, just to see what she knows.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23/02/2026
Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: “I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.”
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