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Jenny Yeremiy, P. Geoph 🪶🌿🇵🇸🇳🇬🇱🇧🇨🇦 @jennyyeremiy.bsky.social · 24m

Ugh, message CRA to stop funding genocide! 👇

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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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Loretta from Canada🇨🇦 @myview66.bsky.social · 13h

Do the correct thing Canada!

🇨🇦🇨🇦 Proud Canadian 🇨🇦🇨🇦 @beppil007.bsky.social · 14h

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“Were [the boat bombings] illegal?” Addison said “Should Canada continue to contribute to Operation Caribbe if in fact it seems to be going down the path towards illegal operations?”

Absolutely they were illegal. Canada must distance ourselves, & condemn them #BoycottUSA

Why U.S. strikes on suspected drug boats have Canada ‘between a rock and a hard place’ | CBC News

Canada’s Department of National Defence says it will continue a longstanding operation with the U.S. Coast Guard to capture drug smugglers in the Caribbean, despite a string of deadly U.S. airstrikes ...

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Mark @ferl67.bsky.social · 6h

‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction - The Guardian www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction

Exclusive: Two-page 1957 manuscript signed by author linked to his classic of beat literature On the Road

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Loretta from Canada🇨🇦 @myview66.bsky.social · 1d

No!

🇨🇦🇨🇦 Proud Canadian 🇨🇦🇨🇦 @beppil007.bsky.social · 1d

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Bill could lead to U.S law enforcement operating more freely on Canadian soil
The US can introduce all the bills they want, Canadians do not want their lawless thugs ‘operating freely’ in OUR country.
#BoycottUSA #ElbowsUp

U.S. bill calls for more integration between Canadian, American border agents | CBC News

The U.S. Congress is being asked to adopt legislation that could lead to Canada and the United States further integrating their enforcement of the border — including allowing U.S. officers to more fre...

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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: SJ to discontinue successful Stockholm-Hamburg/Berlin sleeper train after 31 August 2026, a month after Swedish government subsidy ends.

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Bonita Zarrillo🇨🇦 @mp-bonitazarrillo.bsky.social · 1d

The NDP always have been…and always will be…the party who protects workers. 👇

Rob Ashton for NDP Leader @rob-for-ndp-leader.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a great day for workers. With Bill C-247, the NDP is standing up for the right to strike and bargain freely - rights generations of workers fought for.

It’s time Ottawa remembered who keeps this country running. It’s time for workers to have a voice in Ottawa.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Spain has made it a serious crime with up to Life imprisonment if anyone sends arms to Israel.

The rest of the world need to do the same.

No weapons for War Criminals.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 2d

The business case for non-profit housing – why building affordable is more than ‘helping the poor’ #Canada

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The business case for non-profit housing – why building affordable is more than ‘helping the poor’

With limited government resources to tackle the housing crisis and a private sector focused on what’s most profitable, a business model more commonly used in Europe is beginning to offer up a potentia...

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Christian Breyer @christianonre.bsky.social · 3d

Electric cars fare worse in Finnish car inspections – up to half of Tesla's flunk - yle.fi/a/74-20186654 - considerable quality issues of Tesla detected, other EV manufacturers perform well

Electric cars fare worse in Finnish car inspections – up to half of Teslas flunk

EVs are gaining popularity in Finland – but perform significantly worse in inspections than petrol, diesel or hybrid cars of the same age. Teslas have by far the highest test failure rate.

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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 4d

Who's that walking on the grave of the North American auto industry? www.bbc.com/news/article...

BYD: Chinese EV giant sees UK sales soar by 880%

The Shenzhen-based electric car maker says the UK is now its biggest market outside China.

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Jonathan-FL #HumanRightsForEVERYONE @amerliberal.bsky.social · 4d

Thunberg Confirms Abuse by Israeli Abductors, But Urges World to Focus on Gaza Genocide

“This genocide & other genocides are being enabled & fueled by our own governments, our institutions, our media & companies. It is our responsibility to end that complicity”

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Thunberg Confirms Abuse by Israeli Abductors, But Urges World to Focus on Gaza Genocide | Common Dreams

"This genocide and other genocides are being enabled and fueled by our own governments, our institutions, our media, and companies. It is our responsibility to end that complicity."

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 4d

On the Rideau Canal and why we need to defy Trump's pressure on the golden dome. Trump's comments on 51st state are tied to his claim that Canada is open to discuss his golden dome protection scheme.
The sovereignty of our airspace cannot be up for negotiations.

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DEFENDING CANADA FROM THE USA

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

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Castanet.net @castanet.net · 4d

Canada's last hockey stick factory survives in face of tariff threats, globalization (Canada)

Canada's last hockey stick factory survives in face of tariff threats, globalization - Business News

Wearing protective gloves and earplugs, a worker feeds lengths of wood into a machine that makes an ear-splitting whine as it automatically cuts a groove into the end of each piece.

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Bonita Zarrillo🇨🇦 @mp-bonitazarrillo.bsky.social · 5d

Game On! Flight Attendants are gathering in Toronto for the CUPE Convention and I am honoured to be addressing them today. They are part of an incredible labour movement and it’s game on!
#LETSGO

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🇨🇦👠👠OhHellNoCanada👠👠 @ohhellnocanada.bsky.social · 6d

Yes we were all very foolish. Lessons learnt

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 7d

President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
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French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE

YouTube video by WION

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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 6d

Drop the tariffs on Chinese EVs Mr. Carney! Make life cleaner and more affordable for all Canadians. #EnergyTransition #Decarbonization

EV Curve Futurist @evcurvefuturist.com · 6d

👑 Long live the king. The king is dead. From 2013–2024, Tesla reigned supreme in global BEV sales figures—undisputed and unstoppable. But after Q3 2025, BYD now leads by ~400K pure EVs, and the gap keeps widening. The electric throne has shifted east. ⚡🇨🇳 #EV #BYD #Tesla #Disruption #Geely #Xpeng

BYD surpasses Tesla in global pure-electric vehicle sales with already nearly 400,000 unit lead in 2025

The old king is dead, long live the new king: Chinese EV giant BYD establishes 388,000 vehicle lead in 2025.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 6d

As news comes out that Greta Thunberg and hundreds of other flotilla members are being tortured in Israeli 'prisons'.

I ask you.

Do you stand with Greta Thunberg?

Spread the message Free Greta Thunberg if you do.

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Dr. Jennifer Bernstein @jennbernstein.bsky.social · 6d

"Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury. Poverty persists in rich countries because governments have made a political choice to keep people poor."

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It hurt when I crashed my bike into a pothole – and it taught me the true price of austerity | George Monbiot

Fixing that hole could have cost under £100; the cost of not doing so is limitless. My prang highlights the neoliberal folly of false economies, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 7d

I guess there's no Alberta oil or Saskatchewan potash, either
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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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Loretta from Canada🇨🇦 @myview66.bsky.social · 8d

This is brilliant
We need it in Canada

🇨🇦 NanaGale @nanagale.bsky.social · 8d

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Saskboy from Saskatchewan @saskboy.bsky.social · 8d

Scott Moe SaskParty selling Crown land that should go back to Indigenous peoples.
It's not a small area. Prince Albert National Park is a huge park, and the area sold is far greater.
#LandBack #skpoli

Eighteen parcels of public land totalling 4,471acres have been posted by a private auction company who will be selling them to the highest bidder later this month.

Since 2007, the Saskatchewan government has sold almost 2 million acres of Crown land that previously belonged to the people of this province. That’s more than twice the size of Prince Albert National Park.

Already 85% of land south of Saskatchewan’s forest fringe is privately owned or leased under terms that exclude public access, effectively enclosing the land and excluding Indigenous rights of access.

Almost all the parcels being liquidated this fall contain the kind of natural habitat—wetlands, aspen woodlands and pastures—that when privatized will become vulnerable to the pressure for landowners to increase their land value by converting them into cropland. Acres for wildlife will be lost and untold volumes of carbon will be released into the atmosphere. See the lands for sale here. https://www.mcdougallauction.com/auction-event.php?arg=BD3B9E7F-1B35-466F-BA28-F4445ADCDB01

Some of the parcels have been granted Crown Conservation Easements,which in theory would protect their natural features from being bulldozed or drained. In practice, it is

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 9d

Microplastics reduce soil fertility and crop yields and boost production of a potent greenhouse gas, study shows
More than 90% of plastic waste ends up in the soil

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Microplastics reduce soil fertility and boost production of a potent greenhouse gas, study shows

More than 90% of plastic waste ends up in the soil, where it breaks down into microplastics that are invisible to the naked eye. Microplastic pollution of the soil poses a severe threat to soil health...

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Climate Liberation Aotearoa @climateliberation.bsky.social · 11d

⛏️ ⛰️ Destroying nature for private profit is what Bathurst Resources has planned for Denniston Plateau; an open cast coal mine approx the size of Nelson city that will destroy an entire ecosystem.

There is no restoration that will be able to replace what has been lost.

#StopTheFastTrack #EndCoal

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 15d

A staggering 1 in 4 Canadians faced climate impacts in their communities this summer. The evidence in clear: we need to invest in nation-building, not nation-burning, projects. Read more about why local climate leaders are saying #ElbowsUpforClimate: elbowsupforclimate.ca

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Saskboy from Saskatchewan @saskboy.bsky.social · 15d

Why would an organization have a sustainability plan that is formed to reduce emissions so we might all expect future generations to survive (similar to how we have), but then they don't do a damn thing in the plan over many years?!
Were they just kidding about wanting kids to survive?

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