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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 27m

EV tariffs are an attempt to prop up fossil fuels. Another subsidy in effect.

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Jaymie Heilman @jaymieh.bsky.social · 48m

I'm with Wab Kinew. It's time to rescind Canada's 100% tariff on Chinese-made EVs. Prairie farmers are hurting badly, and Canadian families need access to affordable EVs. #cdnpoli @mark-carney.bsky.social @heathermcpherson.bsky.social

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 6h

New sportsbetting app boasts 80% addiction rate

www.thebeaverton.com

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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 2h

Billionaires control just about everything and they're all fascists. The hill to climb is steep.

Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 2h

You have it partly right - it's not the tarriffs. You idiots elected a sex predator/con man to rampage across the world. Twice!

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 11h

Carney’s strategy is the exact opposite of what Canadians voted for. It’s clear that he’s making many unacknowledged/unexplained assumptions, while ignoring many obvious risks.
Mark Carney is not the CEO of Canada. He’s an elected leader. He needs to explain himself to Canadians.

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 11h

My naive wish is that even one Canadian journalist, one politician, one security analyst, would address the implications of Canada choosing military integration with an authoritarian power that no longer respects the rule of law or international law.
Looks like that’s not going to happen today.

Golden Dome signals change to Canada’s long-time opposition to joining U.S. missile defence

Canada opted to stay on the sidelines in 2005 as the U.S. developed defences against ballistic missiles

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6h

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

www.motherjones.com

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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 5h

TC is Postmedia, like every Canadian major daily save two. To say it has an agenda is too kind.

Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 5h

I notice the Carney partisans are quiet now that it's more obvious what he's doing. Selling us out for the oligarchy.

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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you. Giving more powers to police is bad. Very, very bad. I like what freedom we have.

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Jenny Kwan @jennykwan.bsky.social · 22h

Even with adjustments, the warrantless access provisions remain — letting agencies conduct surveillance without proper authorization. That’s unacceptable. The government still hasn’t met the standard of consultation needed. The NDP cannot support this bill.
🔗 www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Public Safety minister says he wants to push through refined warrantless powers to help police

Gary Anandasangaree wants to refine the provisions in the original strong-borders bill to avoid accusations of overreach

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 1d

Two things about fascism I didn't really grasp until it became our reality:

1) it's not all-or-nothing. You can have more or less fascism. (Which means even though that's where we are, we can still push back, resist, make many things less bad for many people.

2) It isn't *everywhere* +

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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 6h

Envy - the green eyed monster that drives so many people. We've got so much in Vancouver that jealous people figure at the least we should suffer with losing sports teams. For the most part, they've had their schadenfreude.

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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 6h

Everyone knows. People like Carney are common - hoping to fill their pockets while speeding our demise. End stage capitalism is a doomsday cult.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway

We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!

theconversation.com/mark-carneys...

Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat

Climate action no longer seems to be a priority for Prime Minister Mark Carney, despite his previous activism. This is bad news for Canadians and the climate.

theconversation.com

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Patrick Johnston 🇨🇦 @risingaction.bsky.social · 7h

I mean, given how FIFA has led the way to our current shitty state of public affairs, none of this is surprising

www.nytimes.com/athletic/670...

Fans bought the ‘right to buy’ 2026 World Cup tickets. Now they feel ‘ripped off’

Fans were left disgruntled as details of the connection between FIFA collectibles and World Cup game tickets emerged

www.nytimes.com

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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 7h

www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...

Comment: LNG start-up flaring is a public-health blind spot — and B.C. is ignoring it

LNG terminals burn nearly three times more gas during their first two years of operation than afterward.

www.timescolonist.com

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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 6h

That's austerity!

🍁make it make sense @ocanadaeh.bsky.social · 1d

Douglas Guzman, the head of a new defence procurement office, and Dawn Farrell, the head of the new Major Projects Office, will each make more than $577,000 a year -- not counting performance pay.
nationalnewswatch.com/2025/10/10/c...

Carney defends paying 2 CEO appointees upwards of $577,000 a year

National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.

nationalnewswatch.com

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🇨🇦 👊🇨🇦 @sorry-iamcanadian.bsky.social · 9h

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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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 6h

It's important that men say this. Especially white geezers like me.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 8h

"It would be powerful if folks from Dallas stand up for Chicago and folks from Chicago stand up for Dallas, so that narratives like 'Texas invades Illinois' can't take hold. Cities are not invading each other. The federal government is attacking Americans."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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jeromecylin @jeromecylin.bsky.social · 8h

Don't read the New York Times.
Don't share their content.
Shit on others that do.

That's how you fight it.

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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 8h

It's hard to get rid of bad habits but legacy media is ALL IN on fascism. Even worse disinformation than before.

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Peter Louwe @peterlouwe.bsky.social · 17h

Not surprising, coming from Canada's own climate criminal - selling our future for power. Hope the oligarchs really provide him with a cushy landing.

Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 18h

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...

www.cbc.ca

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