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Cynically optimistic. Checker of facts. Thinker of thoughts. Somebody needs to state the obvious, but with profanity and typos. "A goddamn delight." She/her. Made in 🇨🇦.
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Another one to add to your list when speaking to Captain Canada fans.

#ONPoli
The Ford government has announced plans to shred a bunch of tenant protections: news.ontario.ca/assets/files... (pdf, see p. 13-15)
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Reminder that the new influx of pro-MAGA troll farm accounts are being ran by TPUSA operatives. It is a mix of bots and college students managing different accounts, modeled after Israel's Hasbara propaganda program.
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Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
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Please spend an hour of your life, whenever you have time, with this conversation with anti-extremism expert Heidi Beirich.

The majority, and our institutions, still aren't aware of how mainstream white supremacy has become in the modern GOP.

thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-mainst...
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“The Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) is warning that without significant intervention, homelessness in Ontario will skyrocket, with the number of homeless people quadrupling in the next decade and a half…there were 80,000 homeless people in Ontario in 2024, a 25% increase since 2022”
Ontario Cities Are Clearing Homeless Encampments. Where Are People Supposed to Go?
Amidst a housing crisis with no end in sight, municipalities across the province have been cracking down on the unhoused
pressprogress.ca
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So excited to learn some queer history. This sailor dressed as a man and sacrificed their life to save others during the 1873 sinking of the SS Atlantic.
If you can not recognize someone's gender retroactively, I'm going to say that's likely.
Investing in building out a clean energy grid and high speed rail doesn't poll well?
Or Canadians like me who like to escape to a better climate during the winter, if only in my imagination.
Americans who have moved to Canada, same.
Is your impression that it is not fully baked or that the vision isn't there or something else?
I follow a few, and I think more American expats should make it their life's mission to communicate the quality of life and affordability differences between Europe and the U.S. and beat the exceptionalism out you.
Getting through sucks, but once I do, every person I have spoken with at CRA has been an example of customer service I wish every business I deal with was half as good at.

I would honestly choose what we have now over whatever automated/AI productivity plan they have.
If anyone in Canada would like to bring this up as an example of the result of what passes for "fiscal conservative" since Harper, I would encourage it.
Add Cincinnati to the rapidly expanding list of cities where homeless students sleep in parking lots because their families can't afford a place to live.

www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...
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“Safe Sleeping Parking Lot for Unhoused Students” is a phrase, like “School Lunch Debt” that if you don’t see guillotines being erected after they enter the lexicon, you’re a failed state.
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It started with Reagan and has accelerated under Trump.
My friend was fluent in 8 or 9 languages in his 20s. I remember him saying how much easier it is to learn Y if you know X, but B if you know A.
I'm Canadian. If you had asked about a word with a Spanish root, I would have had to scroll on by.
I say that only because, despite being a writer - or perhaps combined with being a writer - I am now less inclined to be driven bonkers.
I have a close friend who is a highly regarded professor of philosophy of linguistics. Back when he was doing his PhD, he convinced me that language is more a marker of time and geography than education or social class and that there is no definitive right or wrong, just a point in time and space.
It is actually French - chaise longue. It sounds something like shez long. Anglicized, it has evolved and morphed and some people say chez lounge or a variation to the degree that it is commonly misspelled, too.

Same with foyer, pronounced foy-eh. But a lot of people foy-er with a hard r.
Projecting here, but as in chaise?