LindaP 🍁
@poirierli.bsky.social
Proud Canadian / Acadian; defender of Canada's social contract; frustrated by the demise of investigative journalism #ElbowsUpCanada #DontAxetheFacts #CanadaStrongAndFree
When future historians examine this period, .... they will ask how the world’s most powerful democracy allowed itself to be psychologically infiltrated by a foreign adversary whose tactics have been publicly documented for one hundred years.
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What Russian Election Interference Really Means
Chapter 19 of our series on how Russia attacked the 2016 U.S. election to help Trump win
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December 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
When future historians examine this period, .... they will ask how the world’s most powerful democracy allowed itself to be psychologically infiltrated by a foreign adversary whose tactics have been publicly documented for one hundred years.
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It’s ever thus: Conservatives campaign on “fiscal prudence” and once in power, spend like drunken sailors.
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Ontario government corporate subsidies reached almost $10 billion by 2023, or nearly triple 2017 levels.
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/11/28/d...
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/11/28/d...
Doug Ford spending more than ‘reckless’ Wynne
As the evidence, including in the latest economic update, clearly show, the Ford government is neither keeping costs down nor unleashing the economy. Quite the opposite.
www.ipolitics.ca
December 1, 2025 at 11:12 AM
It’s ever thus: Conservatives campaign on “fiscal prudence” and once in power, spend like drunken sailors.
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Ontario government corporate subsidies reached almost $10 billion by 2023, or nearly triple 2017 levels.
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/11/28/d...
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/11/28/d...
Doug Ford spending more than ‘reckless’ Wynne
As the evidence, including in the latest economic update, clearly show, the Ford government is neither keeping costs down nor unleashing the economy. Quite the opposite.
www.ipolitics.ca
December 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Ontario government corporate subsidies reached almost $10 billion by 2023, or nearly triple 2017 levels.
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/11/28/d...
www.ipolitics.ca/2025/11/28/d...
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Tipped employee minimum is still $2.13 in Texas. Of course employers have to make up the difference if that doesn't average out to $7.25, but that also means that every bad shift is hours of work for an unlivable wage
November 30, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Tipped employee minimum is still $2.13 in Texas. Of course employers have to make up the difference if that doesn't average out to $7.25, but that also means that every bad shift is hours of work for an unlivable wage
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Ontario feels seen.
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Ontario feels seen.
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But is anyone going to hold Doug Ford accountable for the dismantling of our system? Of course not. All healthcare blame is to be directed to the federal government, because shut up.
“Ontario recorded the highest number of wait-list deaths: 10,634, including more than 9,100 diagnostic-scan deaths where patients died before reaching the point of receiving or being scheduled for surgery.”
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
Tens of thousands of Canadians died waiting for medical care in the past year: report
A new report is raising alarm over growing wait-list deaths in Canada.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
But is anyone going to hold Doug Ford accountable for the dismantling of our system? Of course not. All healthcare blame is to be directed to the federal government, because shut up.
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I think the Greenbelt thing was one thing - Doug allowing his buddies to profit using inside help - but this Skills Development thing is something else entirely: Doug giving our money to buddies to enrich them - and to help get Doug re-elected.
Opposition asks integrity commissioner to investigate Ford’s embattled labour minister | Globalnews.ca
The Ontario NDP is calling on the province's integrity commissioner to investigate the labour minister over a $2.5-billion skills program that favoured certain applicants.
globalnews.ca
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I think the Greenbelt thing was one thing - Doug allowing his buddies to profit using inside help - but this Skills Development thing is something else entirely: Doug giving our money to buddies to enrich them - and to help get Doug re-elected.
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I keep a spreadsheet to track all of Doug Ford's ongoing boondoggles, bamboozles and scandals and when I just tried to open it on my new laptop it said the file was too big to open.
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I keep a spreadsheet to track all of Doug Ford's ongoing boondoggles, bamboozles and scandals and when I just tried to open it on my new laptop it said the file was too big to open.
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I agree with Marit Stiles. Doug Ford and his government are corrupt.
November 23, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I agree with Marit Stiles. Doug Ford and his government are corrupt.
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Allowing doctors to practise in both public and private systems solves what exactly? What Alberta is proposing may sound good superficially but makes no sense in the Canadian context, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Allowing doctors to practise in both public and private systems solves what exactly? What Alberta is proposing may sound good superficially but makes no sense in the Canadian context, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Beware of fossil fuel enthusiasts touting the latest IEA report and its supposed forecast of endless demand growth for oil.
The devil here is in the details -- ones that tell a very different story than the headlines would have you believe.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/21/o...
The devil here is in the details -- ones that tell a very different story than the headlines would have you believe.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/21/o...
What the IEA's latest report says about the energy transition — and what it doesn't
The International Energy Agency's latest landmark report looks like an act of surrender to the Trump administration's fossil fuel agenda. But when you look closer, a much different picture emerges.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Beware of fossil fuel enthusiasts touting the latest IEA report and its supposed forecast of endless demand growth for oil.
The devil here is in the details -- ones that tell a very different story than the headlines would have you believe.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/21/o...
The devil here is in the details -- ones that tell a very different story than the headlines would have you believe.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/21/o...
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Ford is spending over $6 B a year to hide the increase from the public, enough to buy a heat pump p for every house in Ontario within 10 years.
Doubling down on nuclear to pay an American company for SMRs that only run on American fuel is Elbows down.
Doubling down on nuclear to pay an American company for SMRs that only run on American fuel is Elbows down.
November 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Ford is spending over $6 B a year to hide the increase from the public, enough to buy a heat pump p for every house in Ontario within 10 years.
Doubling down on nuclear to pay an American company for SMRs that only run on American fuel is Elbows down.
Doubling down on nuclear to pay an American company for SMRs that only run on American fuel is Elbows down.
Why does Ford think speeders shouldn't pay?? Toronto now needs to tap all of us for the cost of slowing drivers down, rather than using photo radar revenue:
$210 M for traffic calming infrastructure and signal improvements; $31.2M for crossing guards;
$3.9M for traffic safety police officers.
$210 M for traffic calming infrastructure and signal improvements; $31.2M for crossing guards;
$3.9M for traffic safety police officers.
November 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Why does Ford think speeders shouldn't pay?? Toronto now needs to tap all of us for the cost of slowing drivers down, rather than using photo radar revenue:
$210 M for traffic calming infrastructure and signal improvements; $31.2M for crossing guards;
$3.9M for traffic safety police officers.
$210 M for traffic calming infrastructure and signal improvements; $31.2M for crossing guards;
$3.9M for traffic safety police officers.
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And #StripperGate continues to unravel yet @maritstilesndp.bsky.social is thrown out of parliament for speaking truth to power
Executive pay jumped for many recipients of an #Ontario job training grant, according to salary disclosure viewed by CTV News, including at one numbered company that partnered with an agency that later started an “adult entertainment club.”
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
Exec pay rises for Skills Development Fund recipients, including one tied to ‘adult entertainment club’
Executive pay jumped for many recipients of an Ontario job training grant, according to salary disclosure viewed by CTV News, including at one numbered company that partnered with an agency that later...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
And #StripperGate continues to unravel yet @maritstilesndp.bsky.social is thrown out of parliament for speaking truth to power
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Please enjoy my cartoon for Friday's Toronto Star
November 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Please enjoy my cartoon for Friday's Toronto Star
Here's an environmentalist's take on the potential effectiveness and affordability of Canada's Climate Competitive Strategy in the first Carney budget.
www.theenergymix.com/canada-needs...
www.theenergymix.com/canada-needs...
Canada Needs Fast Action on Its New Climate Competitiveness Strategy
It's not perfect, but Prime Minister Mark Carney's new climate strategy is a useful step forward, Rick Smith writes for Corporate Knights.
www.theenergymix.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Here's an environmentalist's take on the potential effectiveness and affordability of Canada's Climate Competitive Strategy in the first Carney budget.
www.theenergymix.com/canada-needs...
www.theenergymix.com/canada-needs...
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We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
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“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
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It turns out many believers do respond positively when presented with the right evidence and arguments.
Chatbots are surprisingly effective at debunking conspiracy theories
Turns out many believers do respond positively when presented with the right evidence and arguments.
www.technologyreview.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
It turns out many believers do respond positively when presented with the right evidence and arguments.
Great little essay. Maybe AI can help us all sort facts from fiction and opinion.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
Chatbots are surprisingly effective at debunking conspiracy theories
Turns out many believers do respond positively when presented with the right evidence and arguments.
www.technologyreview.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Great little essay. Maybe AI can help us all sort facts from fiction and opinion.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...
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Deer My Friends
Me and my allstar goverment have bin working hard to redoose red tape so now it’s even easyer to get goverment funding for your company. All you have to do is send our campain office 1000 dollars and we will send you a 10 millun dollar Skills Traineen grant uhmeediately.
Premair
Me and my allstar goverment have bin working hard to redoose red tape so now it’s even easyer to get goverment funding for your company. All you have to do is send our campain office 1000 dollars and we will send you a 10 millun dollar Skills Traineen grant uhmeediately.
Premair
November 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Deer My Friends
Me and my allstar goverment have bin working hard to redoose red tape so now it’s even easyer to get goverment funding for your company. All you have to do is send our campain office 1000 dollars and we will send you a 10 millun dollar Skills Traineen grant uhmeediately.
Premair
Me and my allstar goverment have bin working hard to redoose red tape so now it’s even easyer to get goverment funding for your company. All you have to do is send our campain office 1000 dollars and we will send you a 10 millun dollar Skills Traineen grant uhmeediately.
Premair
This headline made me laugh so hard coffee came out of my nose!! "Breaking news: Trump directs Justice Dept. to look into Epstein’s ties to Democrats"
November 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This headline made me laugh so hard coffee came out of my nose!! "Breaking news: Trump directs Justice Dept. to look into Epstein’s ties to Democrats"