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🇨🇦Terry Bolger 🇨🇦 @terry-bolger.bsky.social · 6h

Can't afford to pay teachers though....

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Alberta to pay $95M settlement to another coal company over policy change | CBC News

Details of another settlement between the Government of Alberta and a coal company have been released. This time, the province has agreed to pay $95 million to Evolve Power.

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Karen Walton @karenwalton.bsky.social · 6h

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 6h

wait did ronald reagan just say go blue jays

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 6h

wait did ronald reagan just say go blue jays

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 9h

A very offline cousin sent this to fam group chat. This story is breaking containment.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7h

I love Shohei Ohtani, but I'm rooting for The Blue Jays this time.

two bald eagles and a goose are standing on a snowy surface .

ALT: two bald eagles and a goose are standing on a snowy surface .

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 7h

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

a photograph of the interior of a church. Several people are visible sitting in pews. In the pew immediately in front of the photographer, a black human-sized cardboard cutout in the outline of a woman is visible, as though a shadow is sitting in the pew in front of you.

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Karen Walton @karenwalton.bsky.social · 7h

dance for the convicted felon v mutual self-UhOhs

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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 14h

Anti-tariff ad will run this weekend and then be paused, Doug Ford says after speaking with Mark Carney

“We can’t control the trade policy of the United States,” Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters, before departing for Asia Friday.

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 13h

A photo of Ontario Premier Doug Ford and late US President Ronald Reagan, with the headline: "Ontario pulls anti-tariff Reagan ad after Ford confirms he definitely only meant to talk shit"

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Karen Walton @karenwalton.bsky.social · 12h

⬇️ correct. And don’t start me on who that current provincial leadership routinely ‘serves’. Or their actual political ambitions.

Total Lowlife Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18h

Also as I understand it the Reagan ad was run by Ontario Province, not by Canada’s federal government or privy council or whatever. Imagine if countries cut off trade with us because of shit Alabama or Vermont did.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 15h

⚡️ Russia sentences 21-year-old admin of 'Melitopol is Ukraine' Telegram channel to 14 years in prison.

Yana Suvorova was held in detention center №2 in Russia's Taganrog, which is known for the use of torture against prisoners.

Russia sentences 21-year-old admin of 'Melitopol is Ukraine' Telegram channel to 14 years in prison

Yana Suvorova was held in detention center №2 in Russia's Taganrog, which is known for the use of torture against prisoners.

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Karen Walton @karenwalton.bsky.social · 12h

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 14h

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 17h

Hey Ontario. Please pay attention to this. It's fucking terrifying. As a renter I rely on rent control in order to, you know, LIVE, and this threatens to take it away from me and most people I know.

Write to your MPP. Call Ford's office. I don't even know what to think right now. Fuck Ford, man.

Jonathan Goldsbie @goldsbie.bsky.social · 1d

In particular, they want leases to no longer necessarily remain in effect indefinitely, so that landlords have more options for creating tenant turnover.

Current situation in left-hand column, proposal on the right:

Left column:

Under the RTA, all tenants have "security of tenure", which means
that tenants have a right to remain in their rental unit as long as they
follow the lease agreement and the RTA. Landlords cannot evict
tenants without a legally valid reason, and after a fixed-term lease
ends, the tenancy typically continues on a month-to-month basis.

Right column:

The government would consult on alternative options on lease agreement expiry that could allow landlords to control who occupies their units and for how long, allowing them to adjust tenancy arrangements based on market conditions, personal needs, or business strategies. This could add flexibility for some landlords in the approach to leases, potentially unlocking additional rental unit stock.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 16h

Nothing in the FOIA says agencies can close a request after three days just because they feel like it.

Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social · 17h

In August the Energy Dept sent a mass still interested letter to FOIA requesters, basically making it much easier to close out a bunch of old requests.

Obviously I filled a FOIA request about it.

Energy just told me I have 3 days to narrow my request or they are closing it.

Lolol uh no.

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 14h

Today Ilham Tohti spends another birthday unjustly incarcerated because he wrote about Uyghur human rights. In 2014 Chinese authorities sentenced the #FreedomToWrite Awardee to life in prison.

We continue to call for his unconditional release.

pen.org/10-years-of-... #FreeIlhamTohti

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Karen Walton @karenwalton.bsky.social · 14h

Lunacy. Strategically Squandering. another abdication of responsibilities to back up allies. No NO evidence presented no NO allegations sources cited NO rationale to abuse world’s largest craft on ‘little boats’.

“US sending aircraft carrier towards Caribbean - CNN impeach and incarcerate all.

Karen Walton @karenwalton.bsky.social · 15h

Highly recommend @youngwriterspen.bsky.social

PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social · 18h

Asia Spotlight is live! 🌏

This new series from our Young Writers Committee @youngwriterspen.bsky.social features voices from Bangladesh, Singapore, Thailand, and more, exploring censorship and resilience through personal reflections.
Read the full overview ⬇️

tomorrowclub.world/spotlights/s...

Spotlight: Asia

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Karen Walton @karenwalton.bsky.social · 16h

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 16h

“Some of us view social media as another tool to flex the reporting muscles we’ve carefully honed with our journalism degrees and years of reporting experience, others have come armed with nothing but a surplus of confidence and a dearth of critical thinking skills.”

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A Lot of Influencers Talk about the News. Not All of Them Are Journalists | The Tyee

Platforms like TikTok are flooded with content creators gabbing about current events. It’s time for journalists to join the fray.

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Karen Walton @karenwalton.bsky.social · 16h

I had the best conversation about this at a hair cut this week.

In Canada.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Phang: One man has single-handedly disenfranchised 813,000 voters in the state of Arizona, all because he wants to kiss the ass of convicted felon Donald Trump.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 17h

The private detention centers ICE contracts with to hold thousands of people — including journalists it arrests — shouldn’t be off-limits to FOIA requests.

Use our action center to tell your member of Congress: FOIA should apply to private facilities.

Safeguard Incarcerated Journalists

Defending press freedom for the next generation

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Carney: "We can't control the trade policy of the US. We recognize it has fundamentally changed from the policy in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, & it's a situation where US has tariffs against every trading partner... what we we can control is developing new partnerships, including w/econ giants of Asia"

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 oh look! Jack Smith is calling Marsha Blackburn’s bluff. Surely she should want him to testify publicly if she isn’t entirely full of 💩, right? Right??

www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/p...

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Data Report @datareport.bsky.social · 2d

If you are fed up with social media suppressing info on Covid, other viruses and Long Covid, give this a like and repost. Let's make our voices be heard LOUD and clear all across everyone's feed!!

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M. Kabir @mkabir.bsky.social · 2d

In the midst of a federal government shutdown, the U.S. government’s gross national debt surpassed $38 trillion Wednesday.
It’s also the fastest accumulation of a trillion dollars in debt outside of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Conservatism at it’s finest 🙄🤡‼️

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US hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic

The U.S. government's gross national debt has surpassed $38 trillion during the federal shutdown, marking a record high.

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