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Greelygodmother @greelygodmother.bsky.social · 5h

I think our province could use 75 million on other things such as paying doctors, nurses, opening surgical units, teachers etc etc

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 7h

'I don’t drink': A Mi’kmaw Elder was tasered twice by two members of the RCMP for refusing to give a breathalyzer.

Mi’kmaw is Fred Sylliboy’s first language. He said he asked the RCMP for a translator numerous times.

Mi'kmaw Elder says he was tasered after refusing breathalyzer

A Mi'kmaw Elder says he was tasered outside his home in Eskasoni by the RCMP after refusing to take a breathalyzer.

www.aptnnews.ca

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JenniferD @juniperd.bsky.social · 7h

"Bill 5 decimates environmental safeguards for land, water and air and grants cabinet unchecked power in “special economic zones.” This is deeply undemocratic and the opposite of protecting Ontarians, especially in the midst of twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss."

#OnPoli

Brona @mostlydelores.bsky.social · 8h

www.wildernesscommittee.org/ActForOntari...

Repeal Bill 5 and Restore Protections for Endangered Species

www.wildernesscommittee.org

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Ontario Health Coalition @onthealthcoalition.bsky.social · 14h

The Ford gov’t is privatizing our public hospitals in a move that’s costing patients thousands of dollars & taking away from our local public hospital services. Everyone’s help is needed to pressure them to stop it.

#onpoli #healthcare #ontario #dougford #niagara #woodstockon #oxfordcountyontario

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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 13h

"Marineland’s crumbling infrastructure, staffing shortage and lack of resources have created dangerous conditions for its belugas and they should be moved immediately, a fired trainer says."

An inside look at the attraction via the superb Liam Casey #Onpoli
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‘We need to get them out’: Beluga trainer fired by Marineland speaks out | Globalnews.ca

Marineland's crumbling infrastructure, staffing shortage and lack of resources have created dangerous conditions for its belugas, a fired beluga trainer says.

globalnews.ca

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Beaker68 @beaker99.bsky.social · 12h

#onpoli
#FordFailedOntario

Beaker68 @beaker99.bsky.social · 12h

No wonder he doesn’t like municipal speed cameras!

Photo of speed camera upper left corner. Photo of Doug Ford’s cabinet Ministers seated with Ford.
Caption: DOUG FORD'S CABINET MINISTERS' VEHICLES RACK UP OVER
$3,300 IN SPEEDING FINES

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Chandra Pasma @chandrapasma.bsky.social · 12h

Send George Darouze back to Queen’s Park with a message for Doug Ford: keep your hands off our schools!

Our public education system has been shortchanged by $6 billion since 2018. It’s time to invest in our kids.

#onted #onpoli

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Sharon Schmidt @skaysmall.bsky.social · 8h

#FordFailedOntario

Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 11h

NEW: Premier Doug Ford insists there isn’t a major split in ‘Team Canada’ approach, as prairie provinces urge the federal government to drop electric vehicle tariffs, which are in place predominantly to shield Ontario jobs. #OnPoli
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Ford says there’s ‘no damn way’ tariffs on Chinese EVs should be scrapped | Globalnews.ca

Premier Doug Ford's comments came after the premiers of Manitoba and Saskatchewan urged Ottawa to scrap electric vehicle tariffs, largely in place to protect Ontario.

globalnews.ca

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DEREK ELLIOTT for NIAGARA @elliott4mp.bsky.social · 11h

Focusing on political corruption in school governance misses the point. The issue isn't who controls state schools, but that the state controls them at all. Education belongs with parents, not politicians or political appointees. Full school choice now! #onted #onpoli

Chandra Pasma @chandrapasma.bsky.social · 11h

Doug Ford gave handouts to guests who attended his daughter's wedding. Why should we expect that he won't do the same when appointing people to oversee our schools?

Tell Doug Ford to keep his hands off our schools: ontariondp.ca/hands-off-our-schools

#onted #onpoli

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Rogerman @rogerman99.bsky.social · 9h

They copied this strategy from Doug Ford, who is anxious to deprive observers evidence of his failures. Two years behind in mortality reporting.
#onpoli #FordFailedOntario
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 3d

It seems they also got rid of the organization that monitors how many Americans die, when, and of what. Convenient.

Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 3d

RFK fired the CDC official (w/decades of experience) leading the measles outbreak response. It's been decades since we've had such a large outbreak. And just to ensure they they can spread the measles outbreak even farther, they also fired the leadership for the center focused on immunization.

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Sharon Schmidt @skaysmall.bsky.social · 8h

Stop. Just stop wasting our hard-earned money!!

Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: The Ford government says it will spend another $75 million buying commercials on United States television channels, looking to push back against tariffs.

It follows a $50 million campaign earlier this year that failed to have tariffs lifted. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1147786...

Ontario launches new $75M anti-tariff campaign on U.S. television networks | Globalnews.ca

The new $75-million commercial campaign will roll out across the United States following a similar $50-million campaign, which appeared to yield few results.

globalnews.ca

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Jamie MacKinnon @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 8h

André Picard on Doug Ford's barring international medical graduates from residency spots:

It will almost certainly mean fewer family medicine residents. That’s right: this change is likely to lead to fewer, not more, doctors in Ontario." Another day, another Ford disaster.

#ONpoli
#health
#doctors

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Sabina Vohra-Miller @sabivm.bsky.social · 13d

In Canada, top 1% of wealth holders hold 24% of total wealth.
Meanwhile, PM Carney has an ‘austerity budget’, which will impact the disadvantaged.
Patriotic Millionaires Canada, which I am a board member of, estimated that a 3% tax on wealth over $100-million could raise $25-billion annually.

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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 6d

Canada’s wealth gap is way worse than official data show.

The PBO just confirmed the top 1% own nearly 25% of all wealth—which StatsCan missed because it doesn’t even count the richest families in its surveys.

🔗 Read more: socialcapitalpartners.ca/wealth-inequ...

#CdnPoli #BillionaireBlindspot

Wealth inequality in Canada is far worse than StatsCan reports

Our government’s best available data on Canada’s wealth gap excludes, by design, the wealthiest families in the country. As SCP Director of Policy Dan Skilleter writes, if we didn’t have the Parliamen...

socialcapitalpartners.ca

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Jennifer Robson 🇨🇦 @jrobson.bsky.social · 4d

I also note that the Canada Disability Benefit is listed as one of the benefits for automation. As @lindsaytedds.bsky.social and I have pointed out, with NGOs like Disability Without Poverty, the disability tax credit is a major obstacle to access to this (still too small) benefit. Progress!!!!

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Sojourners @sojo.net · 12h

Joyous Palestinians rushed to embrace prisoners freed under a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement as they arrived by bus to the occupied West Bank and Gaza on Monday.
sojo.net/articles/new...

Palestinians Cheer as Freed Prisoners Arrive Home Under Ceasefire Deal

“I am happy for our sons who are being freed, but we are still in pain for all the those who had been killed by the occupation, and all the destruction that happened to our Gaza,” one source told…

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 12h

A lot of mobility innovation focuses on making existing options even more comfortable for the most privileged, at the expense of children, the elderly, people with low incomes or disabilities. If we’re not designing for them, we're designing ourselves out of the system: fair-mobility.eu/the-library/

An elderly woman rides a bike along a separated cycle path in front of two small children in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 12h

In the U.S., 10% of the population owns 93% of stock market wealth.

As uneven as this distribution seems, @chuckcollinswrites.bsky.social explains how this is evidence of the system working exactly as it's designed to work.

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

#CdnPoli #WealthInequality #EconSky

Boom time for US billionaires: why the system perpetuates wealth inequality

As the super rich grow even richer, inequality expert Chuck Collins says the system is broken – but it can be fixed

www.theguardian.com

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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 14h

"According to @policyalternatives.ca, by facilitating more oil exports, the Trans Mountain expansion project is expected to add 84 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions each year [when calculating] emissions from producing + consuming the oil." #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/10/n...

Head of Carney’s Major Projects Office thinks Trans Mountain is good for climate

Dawn Farrell, the former CEO of Trans Mountain who now leads the federal government's Major Projects Office told the House of Commons environment committee that the oil pipeline helps fight climate ch...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 16h

Salmon released as fry in B.C. return up Columbia River #BritishColumbia
First Nations-led salmon reintroduction program released fry 2 years ago

www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Salmon released as fry in B.C. return up Columbia River | CBC News

A salmon reintroduction initiative in B.C. is celebrating after two tagged adult sockeye, released as juvenile fry two years ago, were detected returning up the Columbia River.

www.cbc.ca

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 14h

‘Buy local’: Neil Young says he will remove his music from Amazon’s streaming service

www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/art...

‘Buy local’: Neil Young says he will remove his music from Amazon’s streaming service

Neil Young says he plans to pull his music off Amazon’s streaming service as he urges fans to stop supporting the corporate giant.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Larry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 1d

Delusional viewpoint: Dawn Farrell, the former CEO of Trans Mountain who now leads the federal government's Major Projects Office told the House of Commons environment committee that the oil pipeline helps fight climate change. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/10/n...

Head of Carney’s Major Projects Office thinks Trans Mountain is good for climate

Dawn Farrell, the former CEO of Trans Mountain who now leads the federal government's Major Projects Office told the House of Commons environment committee that the oil pipeline helps fight climate ch...

www.nationalobserver.com

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 1d

"What this will all mean in the long run is unclear. But in the short term, it will almost certainly mean fewer family medicine residents. That’s right: this change is likely to lead to fewer, not more, doctors in Ontario."

#OnHealth #OnPoli

André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 1d

Does it matter where our future doctors attended high school? Doug Ford seems to think so, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0fc7a92... via @theglobeandmail.com #IMGs #MedEd

Does it matter where our future doctors attended high school? Doug Ford seems to think so

New policy has huge implications and could lead to fewer doctors practising in Ontario

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Calvin Beauchesne @greencalvin.bsky.social · 1d

The government- bought Trans Mountain pipeline is a factor in the demise of SRKW. Even the National Energy Board acknowledged the project would have “significant adverse effects” on SRKW from increased tanker traffic- and they approved it anyways. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Southern resident killer whales show signs of slow decline toward disappearance | CBC News

The latest survey of endangered southern resident killer whales confirms their plateau and gradual slide toward disappearance in the absence of stronger measures to protect them, a director with the C...

www.cbc.ca

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 1d

For the evening crowd, my Loonie Politics column on how we've allowed scapegoating to take hold of the immigration discourse rather than hold the premiers in particular to account for their failures. #cdnpoli

The immigration discourse has taken a toxic turn - Loonie Politics

Everyone has allowed this toxic discourse to flourish at a time when the far-right is moving mainstream, and this is a very real problem.

looniepolitics.com

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