Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Maplesweet 🇨🇦

Michelle J @maej43.bsky.social · 19m

Listen, no matter what happens tonight, The Toronto Blue Jays brought us together. I’d like to thank them for bringing us this far. It’s been a hell of a ride boys!!! Now go get it!!! #BlueJays

3 4 39

Reposted by Maplesweet 🇨🇦

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 13h

Keep an eye out for the northern lights on Thursday night in Canada

The Space Weather Prediction Center is forecasting a moderate storm for Thursday #Canada

www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Keep an eye out for the northern lights on Thursday night | CBC News

The sun has coughed up three coronal mass ejections which, if Earth-directed, can produce the beautiful northern lights, and it seems that they are heading our way.

www.cbc.ca

4 42 120

Reposted by Maplesweet 🇨🇦

Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 3h

STOP INTERVIEWING JASON KENNEY. HE IS ONLY GOING TO LIE TO YOU.
#PnPCBC

1 13 63

Reposted by Maplesweet 🇨🇦

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1h

Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market.

Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army.

Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.

Morning Brew ☕️ @morningbrew.extwitter.link · 9h

BREAKING: Amazon Web Services

A massive AWS outage early this morning sent major websites and apps down for several hours

Tracking site Downdetector has received over 8 million reports around the globe

61 510 1.3K

Maplesweet 🇨🇦 @maplesweet.bsky.social · 49m

What the hell? Got this sponsored ad
On the Daily Mail ( cough Fail) website.
Sponsored by EPOCH TIMES.
We need more investigation into this group and their connections!

Artist drawing of Freedom convoy leaders with truck in the background

1

Reposted by Maplesweet 🇨🇦

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1h

Today former President Joe Biden got to ring the bell on this phase of his cancer treatment.

65 210 920

Reposted by Maplesweet 🇨🇦

Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING: new racist Republican groupchat has been leaked to Politico featuring texts from Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel.

Ingrassia’s texts include vile pro-Nazi & racist messages targeting Black people, Chinese people, and Indian people.

73 420 900

Reposted by Maplesweet 🇨🇦

Montreal Mike🇨🇦 @mikemontreal.bsky.social · 1h

So, since Poilievre wants to talk about someone speaking jibberish— let’s hear how Poilievre himself talks about the economy.

Don’t you feel smarter?
#cdnpoli

7 4 8

Reposted by Maplesweet 🇨🇦

Wendy Ad 🇨🇦🌈🐝 🏳️‍⚧️🦋🐾🐈🌻🇺🇦🍁🇦🇷 @muchogatos.bsky.social · 4h

Very clear the Leader of the Opposition, Pierre Poilievre needs to get out of Canadian politics. For the love of Canada, Conservatives please find a progressive leader. This hate farmer needs to go.
Sorry for the meme, but it’s true. He is mimicking Trump.
We do have Maple Maga here.

1 12 26

Reposted by Maplesweet 🇨🇦

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2h

Oh my GOD.

At 4:10 p.m., she texted me: "By the way-everything | ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know."
I responded: "I'm sorry, but that's not how this works.
You don't get to say that in retrospect."
Halligan was unpersuaded: "Yes, I do. Off record."
"I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked," I said. "But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story?
To my surprise, she kept going: "It's obvious the whole convo is off record. There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never told me about a story."
I didn't respond. It was time to publish my story. I'II text it to her.

76 450 2K

Reposted by Maplesweet 🇨🇦

Canadian Cynic @canadiancynic.bsky.social · 1h

How many times do I need to scream that we need to cut that province loose and show them the door? They're sinking and they will take the rest of Canada with them.

BC Reality @bcreality.bsky.social · 1h

Western Canada Select now at less than $45 so what will the UCP will do to save Alberta? Which services will they cut? What will they do to salvage their economy? I guess just more layoffs. Unemployment rate of 15% coming soon.

1 1

Reposted by Maplesweet 🇨🇦

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 18h

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

590 2.7K 10K

Reposted by Maplesweet 🇨🇦

fintechernest.bsky.social @fintechernest.bsky.social · 4h

3 19

Reposted by Maplesweet 🇨🇦

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 4h

While we spectate on The East Wing being torn down, it isn’t just another hallway, it’s where Eleanor Roosevelt built the modern Office of the First Lady, where WWII bunkers were hidden, and where the public enters the People’s House. Erasing it is rewriting history.

330 2K 5K

Maplesweet 🇨🇦 @maplesweet.bsky.social · 4h

And J has a speedial direct to his college buddy JD Vance. Talk about a Manchurian candidate. I could see Kenney being promoted but he seems to not like where the party has gone. He always lands on his feet. Agree though PP days are numbered!

1 2

Reposted by Maplesweet 🇨🇦

Montreal Mike🇨🇦 @mikemontreal.bsky.social · 5h

I’ve been saying it since election night and I’m now more convinced than ever with the Restore The North stuff and the amount of things they’re saying:

The “bros” (Jivani, Gunn, Kuruc, etc) are going to shiv Poilievre soon and try to make Jivani CPC leader.

Stick a pin in this.
#cdnpoli

6 13 30

Reposted by Maplesweet 🇨🇦

STOP MAKING SENSE 🇨🇦🦋 @davidbreakpar.bsky.social · 4h

Why didn't they just ask us Canadians to come and burn it down again.

2 3 18

Reposted by Maplesweet 🇨🇦

Marc 🍁 @marc55.bsky.social · 3d

A basic life necessity. Made into a commodity. Food, shelter. Healthcare.
All made into a commodity.
We need this shit for life, and weather or not you can afford to live, is on you!
None of us asked to be born into this. Yet, here we are
We are the stupidest species on the planet.
#nspoli #cdnpoli

Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 4d

Meanwhile, Sobeys and Aquaterra are pulling hundreds of millions of litres of water from wells in Colchester County which they sell as bottled water. For that water, the companies pay the province a total of $769 annually. That's not a typo. It's $769. (Exactly, $768.85.)

Nova Scotia is practically giving away 'some of the purest water in Canada' - Halifax Examiner

Every year, two corporations withdraw hundreds of millions of litres of groundwater from wells in Colchester County. They bottle the water — which the companies market as “pristine” and “some of the p...

www.halifaxexaminer.ca

5 28 50

Reposted by Maplesweet 🇨🇦

The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 4h

This is just...

Bizarre?

Joseph Schow when challenged on the motivations for the UCP's upcoming legislation to determine who can and can't run for office seems to suggest that voters shouldn't have to do any research on candidates before they vote?

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

9 30 74

Reposted by Maplesweet 🇨🇦

Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 4h

NEW: Ontario’s labour minister is unrepentant in the face of scandal as opposition parties called on Premier Doug Ford to fire David Piccini over the government’s handling of the skills development fund. #Onpoli
globalnews.ca/news/1148575...

Ontario labour minister unrepentant amid skills development fund scandal | Globalnews.ca

The minister defended his handling of the Skills Development Fund, despite opposition claims that the government has turned the program into a 'slush fund.'

globalnews.ca

3 6 5

Reposted by Maplesweet 🇨🇦

Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 8h

‘Alarmist’ or alarming? Report finds lead in protein powders https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/alarmist-or-alarming-report-finds-lead-in-protein-powders/

More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

John Vennavally-Rao reports on the findings from the investigation that found lead in numerous popular protein powders and how the industry is reacting.

3 11

Reposted by Maplesweet 🇨🇦

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump says that Taiwan is the "apple of [Xi's] eye"

(he uses the same phrase regularly about Putin and Ukraine)

75 140 570

Reposted by Maplesweet 🇨🇦

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Trump has just said that: China may pay 155% tariff if no deal by November 1st.

26 16 61

Reposted by Maplesweet 🇨🇦

Kelly N 🇨🇦 @firefly-7461.bsky.social · 8h

so much better than I could ever say 👇

LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 8h

American: “🫵🏻 you’re just the radical far left”

Me: I can understand why you would think a French Canadian is extremely far left from you.

American: “ wait you 🫵🏻 are supposed to feel bad when I say that.”

Me: I understand you come from a culture of blame and superiority. I don’t.

American: …..

1 3

Reposted by Maplesweet 🇨🇦

🇨🇦🇨🇦 Proud Canadian 🇨🇦🇨🇦 @beppil007.bsky.social · 10h

Says the guy who took 10 years to get his BA through the online University of Athabasca
He sponges off of taxpayers & calls Canadians stupid
Sorry Skippy, we understand Carney’s big words, & we didn’t need to do online ed to do it.
I am sick of this elitist insulting REAL working Canadians. #NeverPP

20 79 180