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MakeUsGreat.ca @makeusgreatca.bsky.social · 20h

As leaders meet for #APEC2025, don’t forget Vancouver ’97 — peaceful protesters demanding human rights were met with pepper spray and force. Alongside uprisings of the Zapatistas in '94, these activists helped spark the anti-globalization protests of the 90s and 2000s.💥🇨🇦 #TBT #cdnpoli #bcpoli

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David J. Doorey (aka The Law of Work) @thelawofwork.bsky.social · 2d

I’m somewhat surprised that the teachers intend to obey the law.

Unions have done pretty well in Canada engaging in civil disobedience of laws that blatantly violate fundamental rights and freedoms.

Modern conservatives sure do love the notwithstanding clause tho.

www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Alberta teachers say fight just begun but will follow the law in back-to-work bill

The bill passed third and final reading at 2 a.m. Tuesday to shouts of “Shame!” from opponents.

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MakeUsGreat.ca @makeusgreatca.bsky.social · 3d

Will Mark Carney make any progress on pharmacare in the the upcoming federal budget? #cdnpoli

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 4d

Article is by this guy. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 4d

This is one of the stupidest takes I’ve ever heard.

I mean, for a start, what pro-Palestine protest in Ottawa ever lasted more than a few hours?

Did they honk horns all night long, sleep depriving neighbourhoods? Block roads for weeks at a time, impacting medical care kids with cancer?

National Post headline reads: Lawyer decries 'double standard' on Freedom Convoy, anti-Israel protests

Subhead reads: Tamara Lich's lawyer, Lawrence Greenspon, ponders appeal after 'epic' trial that branded his activist client a criminal

By Donna Kennedy-Glans
Published Oct 26, 2025

National Post article excerpt reads:

“Reverting to lawyer-speak, he explains how
"Tamara came out publicly and said, 'You have to stop these F*** Trudeau signs. He's a father and he has children and this isn't right and that's not why we're here.'" You don't see that same kind of
condemnation of the messages being carried by the pro-Palestinian protesters, he adds; they hold the Hamas flag or chant Hamas slogans - including "from the river to the sea," which basically means eliminate all Israelis.”

National Post article excerpt reads:

"Yes, it's a double standard," he answers, albeit slowly. "And why is there a double standard?" he asks, more forcefully. "Maybe it has something to do with the fact there's 1.1 million Muslims in
Canada and there's only 250,000 Jews. Maybe that's what's driving it. I don't know," he says, quietly.
After a long pause, he reiterates: "But is there a double standard in the way that Tamara Lich and
Chris (Barber) were treated versus how the pro-Palestinian protesters with hate messages are being treated? For sure."

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 8d

mark carney taking the time to shit on canada post during his big pre-budget speech was disgusting.

he acts like it’s the responsible choice to gut an essential institution at the very moment he can’t stop talking about nation-building projects. that’s what canada post is and could continue to be!

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 8d

It looks like the knives are sharpening against Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre as his leadership review looms in just about 100 days.

Meanwhile, he's trying to rewrite history.

Speaking of which, Poilievre (and the Liberal government) should probably apologize for ever attacking UNRWA:

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 9d

Contrast.

Screenshot of a post from @PierrePoilievre on X/Twitter. The post reads: 'Our Conservative team joined @CIJAinfo this morning to stand with our Jewish neighbours against the scourge of antisemitism. Canada must be a place where Jewish people can once again freely worship and exist in their communities in total peace and security.'"

Screenshot of a Toronto Star article headline. The headline reads: 'NDP's Avi Lewis helps author report accusing pro-Israel Jewish group of promoting anti-Palestinian racism.' Below the headline is explanatory text stating the report was authored by six members of the Jewish Faculty Network and examined CIJA's public statements and social media posts from the first six months of the war in Gaza. The article shows it was updated 11 hours ago on October 21, 2025.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11d

The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024.

Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay.

The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year.

Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M

See the problem?

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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 11d

Despite Trump’s claim that the US is targeting traffickers in the Caribbean, the question of controlling Venezuela’s resources has clearly occupied his mind. Trump allegedly said during his first term that Venezuela is a country the US “should be going to war with” because “they have all that oil.”

US acts like pirates in the Caribbean

The United States is acting less like a global guardian and more like a Caribbean pirate—launching drone strikes, flouting international law, and pursuing oil under the guise of fighting drugs. From P...

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MakeUsGreat.ca @makeusgreatca.bsky.social · 11d

The Carney government's shenanigans on national pharmacare continue. If only the Carney Liberals could show real leadership on pharmacare—a nation building program that would actually help millions of Canadians... www.makeusgreat.ca/p/carney-vs-... #cdnpoli

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 12d

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

White words on a black background read:

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

~130
Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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MakeUsGreat.ca @makeusgreatca.bsky.social · 13d

Yep: www.cija.ca

CIJA - The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs

Join our cross-Canada movement of community advocates. Words matter, but actions are what really count.

www.cija.ca

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MakeUsGreat.ca @makeusgreatca.bsky.social · 13d

youtu.be/hh9LsnE0hA0?...

Mark Carney on Dealing With Trump, Trade Wars and Putin | The Mishal Husain Show

YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts

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MakeUsGreat.ca @makeusgreatca.bsky.social · 13d

[VIDEO] Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social confirms: Canada will arrest Netanyahu if he enters the country. Canada will comply with the ICC. #cdnpoli

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 15d

"Safe Parkside" filed a Freedom of Information request to get top speeds from the ill-fated & much abused Parkside camera. The speed limit is 40km/h.

Killers, all of them, with the ear & heart of Premier Doug Ford.

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Davide Mastracci @davidemastracci.bsky.social · 15d

NEW: I created a database containing profiles of 206 Canadians who have served in the Israeli military. This is the largest such collection of names and profiles in Canada, by far, and is a major expansion on the past version.

findidfsoldiers.net

Find IDF Soldiers

A database from The Maple documenting Canadians that have served in the Israeli military.

findidfsoldiers.net

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MakeUsGreat.ca @makeusgreatca.bsky.social · 15d

Wild that this is happening under the watch of the @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social and @davidebybc.bsky.social

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 16d

Mark Carney shows contempt for all Canadians by excluding the press from foreign trips. He needs to apologize and make amends for this, and be shown he’s a democratic head of government not the chief executive of Canada Inc.

Mickey Djuric @mickeydjuric.bsky.social · 16d

Statement from the president of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trip to Egypt:

“It is unprecedented that Canadian media be entirely excluded from a Canadian prime minister’s foreign trip.”

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MakeUsGreat.ca @makeusgreatca.bsky.social · 17d

Stop messing around and implement national pharmacare now: www.makeusgreat.ca/p/carney-vs-...

Carney vs. Pharmacare: When Liberal Nation-Building Hits the Pause Button

Carney does not have the electoral mandate to undermine the nascent pharmacare program.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 17d

canadian media would never have this courage

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 17d

The brother of federal Industry Minister, Mélanie Joly, is the president and CEO of Intelcom, a courier company that exploits subcontracted delivery drivers for pennies per package. It stands to benefit mightily from the dismantlement and privatization of public postal services in Canada.

The privatization crisis at Canada Post

Canada Post is under attack. Political favouritism, privatized delivery, and precarious subcontracting are putting workers and public service at risk. From Intelcom’s exploitative practices to the gov...

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MakeUsGreat.ca @makeusgreatca.bsky.social · 17d

What serious journalism looks like #gazagenocide

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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 19d

“I call upon the prime minister to make this right and stop victimizing me and other #Inuit who were treated as lab rats for the benefit of an unexplained biological program. I am not a monkey.”
www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

Former premier of Nunavut calls on Carney to stop victimizing Inuit

Paul Quassa is among the Plaintiffs in a class action filed almost six years ago over biological experiments.

www.aptnnews.ca

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 20d

every couple months, carney starts pulling the legs out from under yet another important climate policy

'It depends': Carney shifts stance on maintaining emissions cap | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday the fate of the emissions cap on oil and gas producers depends on other efforts to lower emissions, suggesting his government might be open to scrapping the poli...

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