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Eric Gilmour @egilmour.bsky.social · 3d

I'm running for Vice Chair Anglophone on the GPC's Federal Council. Voting opened yesterday, if you believe the Party is in trouble and needs help, please lend me your vote

#cdnpoli #gpc #greenparty

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Eric Gilmour @egilmour.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you for your support!

Sheena Sharp @sheenasharp.bsky.social · 4d

Voted today. For you!

Eric Gilmour @egilmour.bsky.social · 4d

Voting is now open for @canadiangreens.bsky.social Federal Council elections #cdnpoli

If you think the GPC has had a rough few years, you're not alone. We've faced devastating results this year and current leadership wants to bury its head in the sand. Vote for me for VC Anglo and let's fix this.

Eric Gilmour @egilmour.bsky.social · 4d

I'd also like to endorse @ajrosenstock.bsky.social for Chair and @simonsaysengage.bsky.social for Ontario Rep. Amanda and Simon also understand that a hard introspection needs to be done to get the Party out of this death spiral

#gpc #cdnpoli #greenparty

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Eric Gilmour @egilmour.bsky.social · 4d

Voting is now open for @canadiangreens.bsky.social Federal Council elections #cdnpoli

If you think the GPC has had a rough few years, you're not alone. We've faced devastating results this year and current leadership wants to bury its head in the sand. Vote for me for VC Anglo and let's fix this.

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Eric Gilmour @egilmour.bsky.social · 5d

They released a new remaster of The Sound of Music. First, it looks and sounds amazing. Phenomenal work on the audio and video.

But second, the last time I watched it I was much younger, I had forgotten how much of a vibe Captain Von Trapp is.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 5d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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

Look what you let them do to her, your own citizen.
@swedenun.bsky.social @swedenineu.bsky.social

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 6d

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 6d

This is good —the Mayor of Yellowknife NWT in Canada’s far north weighs in on “Car Bloat” (truck bloat actually) and its many big costs & consequences (thanks @davidzipper.bsky.social for heads-up). And like most who dare tell the truth about that, he’s taking flack.
www.linkedin.com/mwlite/feed/...

Screenshot of LinkedIn post from Yellowknife Mayor describing the costs and consequences of trucks having gotten so much bigger. In the link, he explains the backlash he received for his post.

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Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦 @cdnresistance.bsky.social · 7d

We Canadians live next door to a dysfunctional country run by an emotionally unstable, immoral buffoon, and the Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre want to emulate that here. That’s a hard no.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7d

Here's the creator of The Punisher specifically mentioning challenge coins using the Punisher logo as a huge problem and a sign of a law enforcement agency that doesn't understand its mission.

/this is a Reddit comment reproducing a statement supposedly included in a SyFy article now offline.

What are your thoughts on the Punisher symbol being co-opted by police or the military?

I've talked about this in other interviews. To me, it's disturbing whenever I see authority figures embracing Punisher iconography because the Punisher represents a failure of the Justice system. He's supposed to indict the collapse of social moral authority and the reality some people can't depend on institutions like the police or the military to act in a just and capable way.

The vigilante anti-hero is fundamentally a critique of the justice sysytem, an eample of social failure, so when cops put Punisher skulls on their cars or members of the military wear Punisher skull patches, they're basically sides with an enemy of the system. They are embracing an outlaw mentality. Whether you think the Punisher is justified or not, whether you admire his code of ethics, he is an outlaw. He is a criminal. Police should not be embracing a criminal as their symbol.

It goes without saying. In a way, it's as offensive as putting a Confederate flag on a government building. My point of view is, the Punisher is an anti-hero, someone we might root for while remembering he's also an outlaw and criminal. If an officer of the law, representing the justice system puts a criminal's symbol on his police car, or shares challenge coins honoring a criminal he or she is making a very ill-advised statement about their understanding of the law.

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Eric Gilmour @egilmour.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you for your support!

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LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 8d

The attitude held by people who are like “I would never sail on a boat to Gaza so I don’t care if the Canadian government gets them back” are the same people that will travel to Florida not knowing the Government has left 150+ Canadians in ICE detention camps willingly, including toddlers.

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Eric Gilmour @egilmour.bsky.social · 8d

Will it be live streamed somewhere?

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 11d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Eric Gilmour @egilmour.bsky.social · 12d

Reverse the decision on speed cameras in Ontario #onpoli

chng.it/CC89FLnXmt

Have you seen this petition yet?

Reverse the decision on speed cameras in Ontario

chng.it

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 14d

It’s also dishonest to present these two issues, in the same breath, as some kind of zero sum prioritization. The beauty of the speed cameras is, once installed, the job is done! If anything, they free up police resources so more focus can be paid to violent crime. It’s foolish, bad logic.

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 14d

In a statement, Vaughan Mayor Steven Del Duca pivoted from speed cameras to violent crime, suggesting we should spend more time focussing on the latter. That’s illuminating. Vehicles obviously present the bigger statistical threat, especially to children. But we accept those injuries and deaths.

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 13d

It’s not just Doug Ford. Are all of Ontario’s political parties car-brained?

Del Duca, recently the leader of the Ontario Liberal Party, seems to join Ford in opposing speed cameras.

The NDP ran on eliminating tolls on Highway 407!

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 16d

An important read about the background and possible motivation of the ICE shooter. His friends describe him as an extremely online edge lord, with no strong political leanings.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...