Julienne Danvers (WE WANT TRAINS!! 🚂)
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In France, Elder Care Comes with the Mail
Carriers for La Poste have a new job: checking in on the aged.
www.newyorker.com
For those who wonder what a modern postal service could look like, one example is in France, where letter carriers provide check-ins on the elderly for very affordable rates, while completing their routes.
I encourage everyone to read the whole thing
#CanadaPost
www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...
I encourage everyone to read the whole thing
#CanadaPost
www.newyorker.com/culture/anna...
Every day I wake up and I feel fine. Then I sit in my office chair for 20 minutes and my back is fucked for the rest of the day. Then I just repeat that every single day til I die. I love my desk job. 🙃
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Every day I wake up and I feel fine. Then I sit in my office chair for 20 minutes and my back is fucked for the rest of the day. Then I just repeat that every single day til I die. I love my desk job. 🙃
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CBC once again called the Ksi Lisims LNG project “Indigenous-led” on the National last night, despite the fact that it’s 100% American-owned by a Texas shell company, Western LNG.
Yikes!!!!!
Anyway, here’s a very funny video that breaks this down: youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?...
Yikes!!!!!
Anyway, here’s a very funny video that breaks this down: youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?...
Honest Government Ad | Watch out, Canada
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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November 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
CBC once again called the Ksi Lisims LNG project “Indigenous-led” on the National last night, despite the fact that it’s 100% American-owned by a Texas shell company, Western LNG.
Yikes!!!!!
Anyway, here’s a very funny video that breaks this down: youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?...
Yikes!!!!!
Anyway, here’s a very funny video that breaks this down: youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?...
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Solid oped.
Canada’s ability to maintain independent digital and cultural policies isn’t a “nice to have” to be traded against US protectionist bullying. It’s *the* fundamental test of whether Canada can remain a sovereign country.
If you don’t stand up for those, you’re not standing up for Canada.
Canada’s ability to maintain independent digital and cultural policies isn’t a “nice to have” to be traded against US protectionist bullying. It’s *the* fundamental test of whether Canada can remain a sovereign country.
If you don’t stand up for those, you’re not standing up for Canada.
Opinion: Canada’s digital sovereignty is crumbling under aggressive U.S. lobbying
After years of insisting Big Tech has to support domestic content, Ottawa is in retreat
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Solid oped.
Canada’s ability to maintain independent digital and cultural policies isn’t a “nice to have” to be traded against US protectionist bullying. It’s *the* fundamental test of whether Canada can remain a sovereign country.
If you don’t stand up for those, you’re not standing up for Canada.
Canada’s ability to maintain independent digital and cultural policies isn’t a “nice to have” to be traded against US protectionist bullying. It’s *the* fundamental test of whether Canada can remain a sovereign country.
If you don’t stand up for those, you’re not standing up for Canada.
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N.B. Power 'not alarmed' by power needs of data centres, but wants flexibility?
Sounds like alarm to me. Data centre demand can't be allowed to put supply to other users at risk. Either generate more of their own power or look at wind / batteries from 3rd parties.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Sounds like alarm to me. Data centre demand can't be allowed to put supply to other users at risk. Either generate more of their own power or look at wind / batteries from 3rd parties.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
N.B. Power wants flexibility from power-hungry data centres | CBC News
N.B. Power says it’s not alarmed by the electricity needs of a proposed data centre in the Lorneville area of Saint John but will be looking for flexibility from such centres on their consumption.
www.cbc.ca
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
N.B. Power 'not alarmed' by power needs of data centres, but wants flexibility?
Sounds like alarm to me. Data centre demand can't be allowed to put supply to other users at risk. Either generate more of their own power or look at wind / batteries from 3rd parties.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Sounds like alarm to me. Data centre demand can't be allowed to put supply to other users at risk. Either generate more of their own power or look at wind / batteries from 3rd parties.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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I have been on media almost everywhere (locally) but here about this- let me give you an update about our work to protect a public park, an ecologically significant beach area, from being developed into a golf course.
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I have been on media almost everywhere (locally) but here about this- let me give you an update about our work to protect a public park, an ecologically significant beach area, from being developed into a golf course.
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Never forget, car dependency is the opposite of freedom.
What’s more “free” than cars, you ask?
Choices.
What’s more “free” than cars, you ask?
Choices.
November 14, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Never forget, car dependency is the opposite of freedom.
What’s more “free” than cars, you ask?
Choices.
What’s more “free” than cars, you ask?
Choices.
I’d love to see some keen tech person start a site to crowdsource pictures of groceries & household items so that we can precisely catalogue over time the extent of shrinkflation, skimpflation, & greedflation.
November 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I’d love to see some keen tech person start a site to crowdsource pictures of groceries & household items so that we can precisely catalogue over time the extent of shrinkflation, skimpflation, & greedflation.
Applies to the local context too…
“If a genie gave #SaintJohn city council three wishes, they’d negotiate down to one, and then wish for something they think JDI might like.”
“If a genie gave #SaintJohn city council three wishes, they’d negotiate down to one, and then wish for something they think JDI might like.”
November 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Applies to the local context too…
“If a genie gave #SaintJohn city council three wishes, they’d negotiate down to one, and then wish for something they think JDI might like.”
“If a genie gave #SaintJohn city council three wishes, they’d negotiate down to one, and then wish for something they think JDI might like.”
Quite frankly I think this is a metaphor for all consumers in 2025.
The amount of products that I’ve stopped buying, found reusable replacements for, gone without, and/or now make myself is staggering.
The amount of products that I’ve stopped buying, found reusable replacements for, gone without, and/or now make myself is staggering.
The restaurant where I order my poke bowl changed their ingredients and upped the price. So I get less fresh food, more ultra processed crap, AND I have to pay more for that 🙄
So fine, I bought everything I need to make them now because fuck that shit
Like $25 for a rice bowl like come on
So fine, I bought everything I need to make them now because fuck that shit
Like $25 for a rice bowl like come on
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Quite frankly I think this is a metaphor for all consumers in 2025.
The amount of products that I’ve stopped buying, found reusable replacements for, gone without, and/or now make myself is staggering.
The amount of products that I’ve stopped buying, found reusable replacements for, gone without, and/or now make myself is staggering.
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Mark Carney’s Liberals were not elected on a mandate to gut Canada Post, but they’re doing it anyway.
The minister intervened to begin the process, now management has now submitted a restructuring plan *in the middle of collective bargaining* that it refuses to share with Canadians.
The minister intervened to begin the process, now management has now submitted a restructuring plan *in the middle of collective bargaining* that it refuses to share with Canadians.
Canada Post submits overhaul plan to the federal government | CBC News
Canada Post has submitted its plan to the federal government to transform its struggling business model into a
financially sustainable postal service.
www.cbc.ca
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Mark Carney’s Liberals were not elected on a mandate to gut Canada Post, but they’re doing it anyway.
The minister intervened to begin the process, now management has now submitted a restructuring plan *in the middle of collective bargaining* that it refuses to share with Canadians.
The minister intervened to begin the process, now management has now submitted a restructuring plan *in the middle of collective bargaining* that it refuses to share with Canadians.
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Carney’s next book should be called “Value($): Building a better world for very rich people, burning it up for everyone else.” Or: “How I caved to the oil and gas industry, and did it with a smile on my face.”
November 10, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Carney’s next book should be called “Value($): Building a better world for very rich people, burning it up for everyone else.” Or: “How I caved to the oil and gas industry, and did it with a smile on my face.”
I watched a horror movie the other day where the power went out and then landline phone stopped working, mid-call no less. People!!! That’s not how that works!!!
November 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I watched a horror movie the other day where the power went out and then landline phone stopped working, mid-call no less. People!!! That’s not how that works!!!
I just finished reading The Deficit Myth and I highly do not recommend this book if you want to keep your mental sanity.
You’ll never hear talk about budgets or deficits without breaking into hives or feeling physically unwell ever again.
You’ll never hear talk about budgets or deficits without breaking into hives or feeling physically unwell ever again.
November 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I just finished reading The Deficit Myth and I highly do not recommend this book if you want to keep your mental sanity.
You’ll never hear talk about budgets or deficits without breaking into hives or feeling physically unwell ever again.
You’ll never hear talk about budgets or deficits without breaking into hives or feeling physically unwell ever again.
I feel like my entire life I’ve been seeking a high quality dark chocolate advent calendar, and it still doesn’t exist 😤
Why does every single advent calendar now cost £90 and contain all the things you take home from a hotel room? What are we doing here?
November 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I feel like my entire life I’ve been seeking a high quality dark chocolate advent calendar, and it still doesn’t exist 😤
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Happy bonfire night to all who celebrate
a man with a mask and a hat says remember remember the 5th of november
ALT: a man with a mask and a hat says remember remember the 5th of november
media.tenor.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Happy bonfire night to all who celebrate
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Looking for a budget summary and you aren't an oligarch or the owner of a mid-sized company? Check out what the @ccpa has put together:
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
Post-election budget could plunge Canada into another federal election - CCPA
With so much on the line, the newly elected federal government has tabled a budget that, in many ways, could pass as a Conservative budget.
www.policyalternatives.ca
November 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Looking for a budget summary and you aren't an oligarch or the owner of a mid-sized company? Check out what the @ccpa has put together:
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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There is nothing optimistic about today's budget. Fuck you if you're not a member of the multi-millionaire class I guess. Our PM talks a big game about "sacrifices" but then cuts taxes on super yachts. 🙄
November 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
There is nothing optimistic about today's budget. Fuck you if you're not a member of the multi-millionaire class I guess. Our PM talks a big game about "sacrifices" but then cuts taxes on super yachts. 🙄
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This season on the Hallmark Channel:
“He’s a no-nonsense banker trying to run a country. HE’S a shit disturber who needs to learn the meaning of Christmas. When they meet under the House Floor mistletoe, sparks (and reindeer) fly, in “A Very Ottawa Christmas.”
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
“He’s a no-nonsense banker trying to run a country. HE’S a shit disturber who needs to learn the meaning of Christmas. When they meet under the House Floor mistletoe, sparks (and reindeer) fly, in “A Very Ottawa Christmas.”
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
Government needs opposition support on budget vote to avoid a winter election
Federal politicians of all stripes say they don’t want the coming budget vote to trigger a Christmas election — but nobody’s ruling it out, meaning voters might soon have to resist the temptation to d...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This season on the Hallmark Channel:
“He’s a no-nonsense banker trying to run a country. HE’S a shit disturber who needs to learn the meaning of Christmas. When they meet under the House Floor mistletoe, sparks (and reindeer) fly, in “A Very Ottawa Christmas.”
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
“He’s a no-nonsense banker trying to run a country. HE’S a shit disturber who needs to learn the meaning of Christmas. When they meet under the House Floor mistletoe, sparks (and reindeer) fly, in “A Very Ottawa Christmas.”
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
Not to be a cynic but if the gov’t were putting out a budget that they were really proud of and they thought everyone would LOVE, I feel like they wouldn’t be so tight lipped about what’s in it….
November 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Not to be a cynic but if the gov’t were putting out a budget that they were really proud of and they thought everyone would LOVE, I feel like they wouldn’t be so tight lipped about what’s in it….
The quote, “This is the kind of budget you will remember” is breaking me out in hives
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Liberals to table 'big, bold' federal budget Tuesday as Carney looks to put his stamp on government | CBC News
Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne will deliver the new Liberal government’s first budget Tuesday that will be full of what he calls “generational investments” to spur growth and help the co...
www.cbc.ca
November 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The quote, “This is the kind of budget you will remember” is breaking me out in hives
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Happy budget day to all who celebrate
November 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Happy budget day to all who celebrate
Imagine fucking up so badly that you’re …… rewarded with a free house, relocation package, lump sum, and annual salary several times the average wage for the rest of your life with no expectation of work…?
Andrew in line for six-figure payout and annual stipend from king, sources say - The Guardian www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Andrew in line for six-figure payout and annual stipend from king, sources say
The former prince remains under scrutiny as Buckingham Palace finalises plans for his future as a commoner
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Imagine fucking up so badly that you’re …… rewarded with a free house, relocation package, lump sum, and annual salary several times the average wage for the rest of your life with no expectation of work…?
I’m in this picture & I don’t like it
October 31, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I’m in this picture & I don’t like it
Giant game of chicken happening in Ottawa right now. Lots of gov’t staffers probably shitting buckets & pulling all nighters.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Conservative, NDP caucuses weighing a budget vote that could trigger an election: sources | CBC News
The Conservative and NDP caucuses are grappling with what to do about the upcoming federal budget and whether they want to be part of an effort to trigger an election by voting it down, multiple sourc...
www.cbc.ca
October 31, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Giant game of chicken happening in Ottawa right now. Lots of gov’t staffers probably shitting buckets & pulling all nighters.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...