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Justin Beach 🇨🇦🇪🇺

@justinbeach.ca

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I go ding when there's stuff: Work at UOIT + Freelance writer on STEM, politics, music, film+tv. ex PBS & CBC, fan of science & reason, but also folklore, mythology, and stories. Neurospicy. I also do this https://bsky.app/profile/can4eu.bsky.social

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Justin Beach 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @justinbeach.ca · Mar 6

Instead of the "51st State" how about the 28th member state?

Why Canada Should Apply for Full European Union Membership

As the global political landscape shifts, seemingly by the hour, the European Union could offer Canada long term security and prosperity…

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Justin Beach 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @justinbeach.ca · 1d

I wonder how long it will be before some governor calls out his national guard to protect citizens from another state's national guard - sent by Trump?

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Being Jamie Lee @beingjamielee.bsky.social · 1d

I thought we voted for a more environmentally responsible Canada and a movement away from fossil fuels, did I miss something?

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 2d

As Canada blows way past its international GHG commitments, Carney offers up a massive new pipeline for the tar sands to Trump.
This is the - Let's not fight, we can burn the planet together approach to international relations.
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Carney raised Keystone XL pipeline revival in meeting with Trump | CBC News

Relief for Canada from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum may come thanks to renewed interest in a pipeline project first proposed more than 15 years ago.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 1d

Dogshit police work means a serial rapist walks.

Where is the justice for the countless survivors of this monster?

Karen Pauls @karenpaulscbc.bsky.social · 1d

A judge has stayed all charges in the Winnipeg sexual assault case against disgraced fashion mogul Peter #Nygard, finding his Charter right to a fair trial was breached by police failing to retain records related to allegations stemming from the 1990s. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Judge stays charges against Peter Nygard in Winnipeg sexual assault case | CBC News

A judge has stayed all charges in the Winnipeg sexual assault case against disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard, finding his right to a fair trial was violated by police failing to retain records rela...

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Justin Beach 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @justinbeach.ca · 2d

I just wrote a letter: Tell the CRA to Stop Funding Israel’s Illegal Occupation Through UIAC’s Tax-Subsidized Funds. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Tell the CRA to Stop Funding Israel’s Illegal Occupation Through UIAC’s Tax-Subsidized Funds

The United Israel Appeal of Canada, Ltd. (UIAC) is a Canadian registered charity that states its purpose is to ““conduct social welfare programs in Canada and Israel.” These programs include “resettle...

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Justin Beach 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @justinbeach.ca · 3d

Newsom is an opportunistic used car salesman. Not everyone who doesn’t like Trump is a good person. The US gets zero respect points if they replace Trump with a toothpaste commercial.

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Scott agrees: FREE LINK @scottdagostino.ca · 3d

Democrats insisting that Gavin Newsom is their only hope need to start looking elsewhere because NO. This guy is pure slime and no one who truly cares about human rights will vote for him. There are others like Pritzker, better people in every way, so support *them*

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 3d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 3d

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

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Michael de Jong @sprakeloos.bsky.social · 3d

Greta Thunberg after being released #FreedomFlotilla

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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 3d

The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy — and four times the subprime bubble
www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

AI bubble is 17 times the size of that of the dot-com frenzy, analyst says

A research firm is arguing not just that AI is in a bubble, but that it is 17 times the size of the dot-com bubble.

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Justin Beach 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @justinbeach.ca · 3d

The problem isn't that the U.S. is going down the toilet, it's that it has clogged & the water is starting to spill over.

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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 5d

Alt text "If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor then stop saying you want a country based on Christian values, because you don't."
Jimmy Carter

Ann Muir @decoy007.bsky.social · 5d

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 5d

ICE is populated by oafs so oafish that they would flunk the physical to get to be cops.

Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 5d

ICE is pepper spraying CPD (Chicago police)

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 5d

Nothing has really changed: this remains an unsettling overreach that makes U.K. users less safe and less free. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The UK Is Still Trying to Backdoor Encryption for Apple Users

The Financial Times reports that the U.K. is once again demanding that Apple create a backdoor into its encrypted backup services. The only change since the last time they demanded this is that the

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sqddxjQ48j @sqddxjq48j.bsky.social · 7d

@thewaroncars.bsky.social thanks for the sticker!

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LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 6d

Two of the biggest provincial sovereignty babies say what?

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'There is no B.C. coast. It's Canada's coast': Sask. premier supports Alta. pipeline proposal | CBC News

Sask. Premier Scott Moe repeated his support for the proposed pipeline between Alberta and the northern B.C. coast earlier this week by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 7d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Éamann Mac Donnchada @almagroschool.bsky.social · 15d

good on her

Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 15d

The Principal Clerk of the General Assembly of my church, the Church of Scotland, is a co-signatory to a letter from various religious leaders concerning the co-opting of the Christian cross by far-right protestors

www.churchofscotland.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Principal Clerk signs letter lamenting misuse of the cross

The Principal Clerk of the General Assembly, Rev Fiona Smith, has signed an open letter expressing concern at the Christian cross being used in a political...

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Justin Beach 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @justinbeach.ca · 14d

I'm disappointed with this. It would have been great to have a social platform where the world could talk and the US wasn't involved in the conversation, at all.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 15d

Great work here by @drewanderson.bsky.social on the Alberta government's "mature asset strategy" -- and why rural stakeholders aren't buying it.

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Alberta’s oil and gas legacy is a ‘gigantic problem’: top political staffer | The Narwhal

Alberta’s Mature Asset Strategy aims to deal with the oil and gas industry’s unpaid taxes and orphaned wells. A pitch in Warburg didn’t go as planned

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Mike Okuda @mikeokuda.bsky.social · 15d

"Careful, buddy. That foreigner wants your cookie." [Via Robert Reich]

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Justin Beach 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @justinbeach.ca · 14d

Or generally the idea that we don't need consumer tech to do anything it doesn't already do, and at this point we're just wasting money and resources on "it looks cool though."

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 15d

Temperatures above Antarctica have risen by 30C, in a rare event that could potentially flip Australia's spring weather for months.

Spike in Antarctic temperatures could flip Australia's weather for months

Temperatures above Antarctica have risen by 30C, in a rare event that could potentially flip Australia's spring weather for months.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 15d

If you also work with young men and are feeling some-kinda-way about the Manosphere's influence, you should also come to this virtual event that @whiteribbon.bsky.social is hosting in November. It'll be focused on preventing misogynist radicalization with boys and young men!

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Debunking the Manosphere and Preventing Incel Radicalization: Insights + Learning Tools. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about join...

Join White Ribbon for a virtual event on November 5, 2025, Debunking the Manosphere and Preventing Incel Radicalization: Insights + Learning Tools. This session will feature keynote speakers, sector-s...

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FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto🇨🇦 @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social · 15d

No words. Not one. This is just outright sadism. My god, America, you SUCK.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15d

I don’t think I’ve ever loved anything as much as ICE loves violently attacking women.

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 15d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 15d

This is actually a very, very long list of receipts — well-cited list of everything Poilievre has done for years, & nefarious parties/methods he has employed & assented to in his efforts to, well, wrangle control of Canada, I guess.

It's a link you bookmark for arguing with this asshole's fans.

Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 15d

“A report by the CBC revealed that Pierre Poilievre hired the team behind Canada Proud to ‘boost his messages online.’ The organization has since been caught running disinformation campaigns targeting Mark Carney. Canadians deserve to know every last detail about Poilievre‘s ties to Canada Proud.”

Observations from Montreal

An ever-changing collection of commentary and observations by Montrealers or about Montreal politics and culture.

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