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Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦 @cdnresistance.bsky.social · 2h

For the ninth straight month now, Canadian road trips to the United States continue to plunge. Boycott the U.S.A. Elbows up!

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 2h

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 2h

Brilliant is an overused descriptor but it applies to this CBC The Fifth Estate investigative documentary into an ignored data breach at Interior Health in B.C. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh_X...

How fraudsters are stealing from Canadian health-care workers | Full episode | the fifth estate

YouTube video by the fifth estate

www.youtube.com

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karenatsharon.bsky.social @karenatsharon.bsky.social · 2h

Say no Canada. #cdnpoli @liberalca.bsky.social One of the world's biggest AI ...
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News

OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...

www.cbc.ca

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karenatsharon.bsky.social @karenatsharon.bsky.social · 3h

Are you a student of history or human nature? This is still used by militaries today including China. China just showed the world its military strength last month. Why work with someone who has showed they are not committed to peace? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art...

The Art of War - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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karenatsharon.bsky.social @karenatsharon.bsky.social · 3h

Lol you make me laugh. Talk to a soldier who has been in a war zone and you will meet someone committed to peace. Talking heads know nothing of war. You sound naive, and foolish.

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karenatsharon.bsky.social @karenatsharon.bsky.social · 3h

Nonsense. Canada is a founding member of NATO. I have seen first hand what Russia has done to people. My spouse is a veteran. The military needs bolstering. India executed Canadian citizens. And China set up 'police stations' in Canada to target Chinese Canadians.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

RCMP official won't say whether Chinese 'police stations' are still operating in Canada | CBC News

An RCMP official appearing before the foreign interference inquiry today refused to say whether any Chinese government "police stations" are currently operating in Canada.

www.cbc.ca

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Marie Snyder @mariesnyder.bsky.social · 4h

10,000 support staff at our underfunded #ONpoli colleges, striking because they've been working under an expired collective agreement for almost two years, and now students are feeling the effects of the strike, missing critical services like accessibility support. globalnews.ca/news/1147221...

Ontario college strike enters 4th week with no new talks scheduled | Globalnews.ca

Thursday marked the fourth week since workers represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union walked off the job without a deal from the College Employer Council.

globalnews.ca

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Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social · 7h

Mike Harris divided #OntEd by taking principals and vice-principals out of teachers’ unions, allowing uncertified staff to teach in schools, and taking a lot of decision-making away from local school boards, manufacturing a crisis to defund schools.

Doug Ford is using the same playbook.

a woman is sitting at a table with a sign that says `` that 's not ok ''

Alt: a woman is sitting at a table with text `` that 's not ok ''

media.tenor.com

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Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 4h

You can write your MPs to say you would consider this a betrayal of our sovereign goals.

Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 4h

This does not look like a good idea: www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News

OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...

www.cbc.ca

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TopKat_GlassDragon @topkatglassdragon.bsky.social · 4h

How correct they were

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 20h

Walked into a Canadian Tire and no longer know what holiday season we’re celebrating anymore

Grim Reaper plays heavy metal guitar next to a display of Christmas trees

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Richard Reeleder @nbdatapoints.bsky.social · 4h

One of the world's biggest AI corporates is calling. Will Canada say, 'yeah, no!'

Data stored by US corps in Canada is subject to US law. Seems like a good thing to avoid.

www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News

OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...

www.cbc.ca

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 4h

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 6h

It’s such a bananas story. IO is the org behind Ontario place & the very very secret process of picking a rather shady spa company.

Tu Thanh Ha @tuthanhha.bsky.social · 6h

Water leaked, columns and beams were cracked, staff were getting trapped in malfunctioning elevators. Then came the bankruptcy and the fraud charges.

When big public-private projects go wrong.

The story of Bondfield and Infrastructure Ontario.

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c0f8440...
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Guilty verdicts in Bondfield hospital case renew scrutiny of Infrastructure Ontario

St. Michael’s Hospital redevelopment was among several projects that government agency awarded to now-defunct construction firm

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 4h

On this day in 1929, Raymond Moriyama was born in Vancouver.
One of Canada's most acclaimed architects, his buildings include the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, the Ontario Science Centre, the Bata Shoe Museum, and the Canadian War Museum.
He died in 2023.

A black-and-white photo of an older man with white hair, wearing a dark suit and smiling gently. He is seated with abstract artwork and a framed picture of a modern building in the background.

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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 4h

In today’s @theglobeandmail.com, Mr. Coyne calls out the techno-oligarchs to a ‘T’.
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karenatsharon.bsky.social @karenatsharon.bsky.social · 4h

USA, China, Russia, India are possibility for nation states. Technology companies like Google (Alphabet). AI is a serious threat both because of resourse use and the rotting of our brains. But let's just stick with nation states. Why do you think Carney will lead us to war?

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🇨🇦 👊🇨🇦 @sorry-iamcanadian.bsky.social · 6h

Did you know that the first Canadian ‘Thanksgiving’ predates the first American one by 43 years?

Yep, we did it first.

#Canada

The history of Thanksgiving in Canada - Canada's History

Where did the tradition come from?

www.canadashistory.ca

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Mike Vlasic @mikevlasic.bsky.social · 6h

Dr Doug Ford tells hospitals to balance budgets with 'efficiencies' over the next 3 years, even as ON has lowest per capita spending on hospitals and on healthcare.
ottawacitizen.com/news/ontario...

Facing record debt levels, Ontario hospitals told to balance budgets and find efficiencies

Debt-laden hospitals have been told to come up with proposals to balance budgets over the next three years, the Ottawa Citizen has learned.

ottawacitizen.com

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karenatsharon.bsky.social @karenatsharon.bsky.social · 4h

When I lived in Latvia, (which has electric scooters) the rule is if a car hits a pedestrian the car driver goes to jail automatically. So, while they drive like madmen on the highways in town they drive very carefully. Driving a car is a privelege not a right. Seems we have forgotten that. #cdnpoli

B @monnomdeguerre.bsky.social · 5h

No details are provided on what has led to the "600% spike" in e-scooter injuries, but the two incidents cited in the article are kids getting hit by cars on their scooters.

Maybe it's not the scooters?

Toronto hospital reports 600 per cent spike in trauma cases related to e-scooter injuries

St. Michael’s Hospital is emabarking on new study to help bring safety to Toronto roads after data shows an increasing number of e-scooter and e-bike accidents.

www.thestar.com

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B @monnomdeguerre.bsky.social · 5h

No details are provided on what has led to the "600% spike" in e-scooter injuries, but the two incidents cited in the article are kids getting hit by cars on their scooters.

Maybe it's not the scooters?

Toronto hospital reports 600 per cent spike in trauma cases related to e-scooter injuries

St. Michael’s Hospital is emabarking on new study to help bring safety to Toronto roads after data shows an increasing number of e-scooter and e-bike accidents.

www.thestar.com

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 6h

‪20 yrs ago, Canada fought off deep integration plans pushed by Libs&Cons like Bush Martin & Harper for the "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic & security community, the boundaries of which would be defined by a common external tariff & outer security perimeter"
Can we still do it?

Without saying ‘Golden Dome,’ McGuinty touts U.S. missile defence co-operation | CBC News

Call it “Golden Dome.” Call it a “continental shield.” Whatever the handle, Canada is in discussion with the United States about being able to detect and defend “what’s coming at us” in the air, Defen...

www.cbc.ca

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 7h

A system designed around growth will keep looking for ways to accelerate.

A system rooted in the biosphere and human well-being will look for ways to develop while staying in balance.

You can decide which this is...

Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’

Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

www.404media.co

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Karl Morant 🇨🇦🍁 @kamorant.bsky.social · 5h

I like this lifting people out of poverty thing.

www.therecord.com/politics/fed...

#markcarney
#Canada

Mark Carney’s tax plan will lift more Canadians ‘above the poverty line,’ advocates say

Prime Minister Mark Carney said that starting in 2027, the Canada Revenue Agency would begin auto-filing tax returns for low-income Canadians, allowing them to simply confirm the information in a

www.therecord.com

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