max
@maxcozy.bsky.social
PNW tiny islander • editor/designer • edTech grad student • neurodiversity advocate • favourite auntie • dog friend • she/her
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Why are our tax dollars subsidizing American propaganda?
“The tens of millions of dollars that the National Post and Postmedia receive in funding from the Government of Canada are a ‘key pillar’ of the American-owned corporation’s business strategy.”
“The tens of millions of dollars that the National Post and Postmedia receive in funding from the Government of Canada are a ‘key pillar’ of the American-owned corporation’s business strategy.”
Observations from Montreal
An ever-changing collection of commentary and observations by Montrealers or about Montreal politics and culture.
cultmtl.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Why are our tax dollars subsidizing American propaganda?
“The tens of millions of dollars that the National Post and Postmedia receive in funding from the Government of Canada are a ‘key pillar’ of the American-owned corporation’s business strategy.”
“The tens of millions of dollars that the National Post and Postmedia receive in funding from the Government of Canada are a ‘key pillar’ of the American-owned corporation’s business strategy.”
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“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
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👩🌾 Grab your tools
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
👩🌾 Grab your tools
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This is a fact check on the very shaky, untruthful rationale for the Alberta government's limitations on gender-affirming care.
A useful read for #TransDayOfRemembrance
A useful read for #TransDayOfRemembrance
‘This is the Alberta government saying that the rights of trans kids to receive life-saving health care, go by their own pronouns at school or play on sport teams don’t matter as much as the Smith government’s right to dictate their lives.’ By @melwoods.me thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
Danielle Smith Goes Nuclear on Trans Rights | The Tyee
Alberta’s premier is overriding Charter protections. Here’s a fact check on her claims.
thetyee.ca
November 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is a fact check on the very shaky, untruthful rationale for the Alberta government's limitations on gender-affirming care.
A useful read for #TransDayOfRemembrance
A useful read for #TransDayOfRemembrance
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Donate to your local food bank instead.
I know it's a tad early but I know those bitches with the buckets will be out soon. Don't gove them a penny. The volunteers may not know but the salvation army is no ally and actively combative and harmful to many queer minorities especially during the holiday season
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Donate to your local food bank instead.
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billboard seen in London.
November 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
billboard seen in London.
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It took reporter @kehyslop.bsky.social 21 months of FOI requests and pursuing a formal review of the VPD's denial for info to get the police to release the names of officers who currently staff Vancouver schools. thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Vancouver Police Finally Reveal Names of School Liaison Officers | The Tyee
After telling The Tyee publishing this information would harm police, names and school assignments are out.
thetyee.ca
November 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
It took reporter @kehyslop.bsky.social 21 months of FOI requests and pursuing a formal review of the VPD's denial for info to get the police to release the names of officers who currently staff Vancouver schools. thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
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no paywalls, billionaires or ads at @thenarwhal.ca! viable alternative models exist, which is how we’ve been able to grow every year as other outlets shrink.
It looks like “news shouldn’t have paywalls“ discourse is starting again.
-Banner ads don’t cover costs, and you block them
-Native ads are coercive
-Billionaires buying papers backfired
-Event driven funding doesn’t scale
-Newsletters are narrow and lack accountability infrastructure
-Banner ads don’t cover costs, and you block them
-Native ads are coercive
-Billionaires buying papers backfired
-Event driven funding doesn’t scale
-Newsletters are narrow and lack accountability infrastructure
November 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
no paywalls, billionaires or ads at @thenarwhal.ca! viable alternative models exist, which is how we’ve been able to grow every year as other outlets shrink.
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More than 2 million oil and gas wells sit unplugged in the U.S., many leaking contaminants into waterways, farmland and neighborhoods.
Time and time again, oil companies have walked away — leaving taxpayers to pay for cleanup. Here’s how.
(Published Dec. 2024)
Time and time again, oil companies have walked away — leaving taxpayers to pay for cleanup. Here’s how.
(Published Dec. 2024)
The American Oil Industry’s Playbook, Illustrated: How Drillers Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public
Oil executive Tom Ragsdale walked away from his old wells, making the pollution left behind the state of New Mexico’s problem. His tactics, however, are ubiquitous in the industry.
www.propublica.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
More than 2 million oil and gas wells sit unplugged in the U.S., many leaking contaminants into waterways, farmland and neighborhoods.
Time and time again, oil companies have walked away — leaving taxpayers to pay for cleanup. Here’s how.
(Published Dec. 2024)
Time and time again, oil companies have walked away — leaving taxpayers to pay for cleanup. Here’s how.
(Published Dec. 2024)
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My full story on the “people’s filibuster:” how Ken Sim and the ABC councillors got an earful this week from people opposed to their zero tax increase budget. #vanpoli thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
The ‘People’s Filibuster’ Comes to Vancouver City Hall | The Tyee
Over 600 people signed up to speak to Mayor Ken Sim’s tax-freeze budget. Most were opposed.
thetyee.ca
November 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
My full story on the “people’s filibuster:” how Ken Sim and the ABC councillors got an earful this week from people opposed to their zero tax increase budget. #vanpoli thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
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Know any of these people?
6/ You can help us identify the rest. If you know about any of these individuals, please contact us directly so we can engage in a verification process.
White Nationalist Networking: Help us Identify the Organizers and Guests
www.antihate.ca
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Know any of these people?
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Alberta is the wealthiest province in Confederation, but you'd never know that by looking at the way it funds its public schools and their students. At some point, voters might want to think about what that says — and means — @maxfawcett.bsky.social writes.
Alberta is the richest province in the country — except where it really counts
How does the province with the highest fiscal capacity in the country also have the lowest per-capita funding for students in its public schools? Because it wants it that way
www.nationalobserver.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Alberta is the wealthiest province in Confederation, but you'd never know that by looking at the way it funds its public schools and their students. At some point, voters might want to think about what that says — and means — @maxfawcett.bsky.social writes.
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Mark Carney's new budget transforms Canada into a military and oil nation while cutting 40,000 public sector jobs. Only the RCMP, National Defense and Canada Border Services will be protected from the cuts
November 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Mark Carney's new budget transforms Canada into a military and oil nation while cutting 40,000 public sector jobs. Only the RCMP, National Defense and Canada Border Services will be protected from the cuts
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hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.
we’ll all subscribe en masse
we’ll all subscribe en masse
November 4, 2025 at 2:32 AM
hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.
we’ll all subscribe en masse
we’ll all subscribe en masse
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His proposed budget tomorrow is a massive cut to social programs, huge breaks to corporations, and giant spending on the military and the RCMP.
It's a war on the working class
It's a war on the working class
By building our strength at home and working with new trade partners around the world, we will create more prosperity for Canadian workers, families, and businesses.
November 4, 2025 at 4:54 AM
His proposed budget tomorrow is a massive cut to social programs, huge breaks to corporations, and giant spending on the military and the RCMP.
It's a war on the working class
It's a war on the working class
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The Vancouver Police Department has already gone $17 million over budget. Now they're asking for a $50 million increase. The park board, meanwhile, is bracing for $15 million in cuts. #vanpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Vancouver Police Board wants city to increase budget by $50M amid mayor's tax freeze promise | CBC News
The Vancouver Police Board has voted to approve a budget request of just over $497 million in 2026, a $50 million increase over 2025's final budget.
www.cbc.ca
November 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The Vancouver Police Department has already gone $17 million over budget. Now they're asking for a $50 million increase. The park board, meanwhile, is bracing for $15 million in cuts. #vanpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Thousands of students rallied across the province, including at the legislature and Alberta Teachers' Association building, in protest of the UCP forcing striking teachers back to work.
globalnews.ca/news/1150280...
globalnews.ca/news/1150280...
Alberta students walk out of class in support of teachers forced back to work | Globalnews.ca
Thousands of students rallied at the legislature, Alberta Teachers' Association and other locations across the province, protesting the UCP forcing striking teachers back to work.
globalnews.ca
October 30, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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If crime is way down, why are Canadians so afraid of crime? And what are politicians funnelling money into? My latest -- they are boosting policing to police us ... not keep us safe (unless you're rich, which trust me, you are not.)
noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-big-cr...
noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-big-cr...
The big crime lie
Crime is down but spending on cops and security is up. Why?
noraloreto.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
If crime is way down, why are Canadians so afraid of crime? And what are politicians funnelling money into? My latest -- they are boosting policing to police us ... not keep us safe (unless you're rich, which trust me, you are not.)
noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-big-cr...
noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-big-cr...
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If you have 12 minutes today, this interview with B.C. MLA Amelia Boultbee on why she left the BC Conservatives is worth a watch #bcpoli
One line that stood out to me: “John gets distracted by every culture war issue that crosses his desk” #bcpoli youtu.be/odUn7jdEVFg?...
One line that stood out to me: “John gets distracted by every culture war issue that crosses his desk” #bcpoli youtu.be/odUn7jdEVFg?...
'Misogyny is so deep': Departing B.C. Conservative MLA takes shots at party leader
YouTube video by CBC British Columbia
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If you have 12 minutes today, this interview with B.C. MLA Amelia Boultbee on why she left the BC Conservatives is worth a watch #bcpoli
One line that stood out to me: “John gets distracted by every culture war issue that crosses his desk” #bcpoli youtu.be/odUn7jdEVFg?...
One line that stood out to me: “John gets distracted by every culture war issue that crosses his desk” #bcpoli youtu.be/odUn7jdEVFg?...
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A few more pics from yesterday's absurdly adorable press conference.
October 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
A few more pics from yesterday's absurdly adorable press conference.
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About a decade ago my friend Leanne Brown made this cookbook for folks on SNAP benefits, so if you know anyone who could use it, the PDF is free: leannebrown.com/good-and-che...
Good and Cheap
All About Good and Cheap
Good and Cheap is a cookbook for people with very tight budgets, particularly those on SNAP/Food Stamps benefits. The PDF is free (ahora en Español!) when you sign up for my...
leannebrown.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
About a decade ago my friend Leanne Brown made this cookbook for folks on SNAP benefits, so if you know anyone who could use it, the PDF is free: leannebrown.com/good-and-che...
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If you can't afford name brand autism booster Tylenol, then store brand acetaminophen is fine.
October 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
If you can't afford name brand autism booster Tylenol, then store brand acetaminophen is fine.
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Chappell Roan Unveils Midwest Princess Fund for Trans Youth — and She’s Already Raised $400K
Chappell Roan Unveils Midwest Princess Fund for Trans Youth — and She’s Already Raised $400K
Chappell Roan has announced her Midwest Princess Project for trans and LGBTQ+ youth, and the fund has already raised $400K.
bit.ly
October 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Chappell Roan Unveils Midwest Princess Fund for Trans Youth — and She’s Already Raised $400K