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middle class workers @ryanlindsay.bsky.social · Jun 27
The Eglinton line was well on its way to being completed when Doug Ford became Premier 7 years ago. Now it's 5 years late and counting. Ford spends record amounts of taxpayer money and makes a lot of announcements, but... Name 2 things Ford has completed. Good luck.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/egl...
Eglinton Crosstown LRT documents reveal potential plans for opening, possible delays
Confidential documents viewed by the Star show that testing of the Crosstown could extend beyond the expected opening date of September.
www.thestar.com
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mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social
In related news, the Ford government tries to boil water and makes ice instead.
November 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
ryanlindsay.bsky.social
The Beer Store cleans up a Doug Ford mess:
www.thestar.com/business/bee...
Beer Store makes deal to take Ontario grocery stores’ beer and wine empties. ‘There’s no downside’
Independent grocery stores had warned they would stop selling beer and wine as of Jan. 1 if they had to take empties, citing concerns of food safety, logistics, and costs.
www.thestar.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
ryanlindsay.bsky.social
Musk's career:
saxxon.bsky.social Saxxon Fox 🔜 Furfest @saxxon.bsky.social · 1d
nose down ass up
that's the way we cyberstuck
Cybertruck stuck nearly vertically on a utility pole's support wire
November 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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suzannekettley.bsky.social
This is nice to know. I did bristle at the last line of the piece, though. Environmentalists aren't out there trying to ruin our lives; they're trying to preserve them. If light needs to be shed on the arguments, fine, but stop treating environmentalists like they're the enemy:
The end of the article says the following: If May really wanted to pour some cold water on the idea of exporting oil via B.C.’s North Coast, she could’ve easily made an economic case against it. The higher costs of mandatory tug escorts, the constraints of running smaller tankers, the real operational challenges posed by the geography, the limited time and tide windows, and the need to formally integrate Indigenous marine guardians and coastal pilots into any future traffic regime are all real hurdles. Perhaps they’re just not the ones that appeal to environmentalists.
November 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
ryanlindsay.bsky.social
Another day, another Ford corruption scandal.
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
Ford government seeks planning exemptions for training centres built with Skills Development Fund cash
Premier Doug Ford is making sweeping exemptions to planning rules — all for the benefit of operators running worker training facilities built with money from the Skills Development Fund, warns
www.thestar.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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davidreevely.bsky.social
One effect of "cash bail," which Ontario is herewith seeking to institute, is that poorer people stay in jail awaiting trial—losing housing, work and so on—even on petty charges while richer people don't. news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...
November 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social
And this poll only surveyed people in Pierre's car pool group.
November 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
ryanlindsay.bsky.social
Federal Liberals have given up any pretense that they will seriously address climate change, putting countless Canadians in financial and health jeopardy.
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Ottawa, Alberta close to deal that includes oil pipeline to B.C. coast, sources say
Privy Council Clerk Sabia playing key role in brokering accord that would involve tanker ban exemption
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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woodsideful.bsky.social
Yesterday Canada received the "fossil of the day" award for countries doing the most to achieve the least. First time since Harper was PM.

In recent years Canada built up influence, but under Carney is seen as a country that chooses irrelevancy in negotiations as it pursues a fossil fuel agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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greenpeaceca.bsky.social
⚠️ BREAKING: Canada’s Loopholes Keep Weapons Flowing to Israel.

🔗 Read the full report: act.gp/49s3BS0

#ArmsEmbargoNow #SanctionIsrael #FreePalestine @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social @globalaffairs.canada.ca @mark-carney.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
ryanlindsay.bsky.social
Elizabeth May just saved Poilievre's career and possibly ended her own by voting for a Carney's budget that will bludgoen climate change and the planet.
November 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
ryanlindsay.bsky.social
Meanwhile, North Americans are still arguing about whether vaccines work. Don't worry, there will be no vaccines when robots crash the global economy.
antongerashchenko.bsky.social Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 13d
Chinese company UBTECH Robotics has assembled an army of humanoid robots for factory work.

They don’t need recharging - the humanoids are capable of changing their own batteries, making their presence in production almost independent of humans.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
ryanlindsay.bsky.social
Corruption Scandal-A-Day Ford government doing what it does.
robertbenzie.bsky.social Robert Benzie @robertbenzie.bsky.social · 13d
BREAKING: Secret Skills Development Fund data obtained by @thestar.com reveals Labour Minister David Piccini doled out millions to low-scoring applicants. E.G. owner of @TheTorontoSun and the @nationalpost got $1M despite a 41.68% score.
#onpoli

www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/secret-data-reveals-which-low-scoring-ap[…]om-the-ford/article_8e6b59ef-8352-43cc-9434-c9d9c04bb65d.html
November 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
ryanlindsay.bsky.social
Reminder that Pierre Poilievre and the team crumbling around him are not too bright...
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 PM
ryanlindsay.bsky.social
A beautiful image of Russian and American leadership right now.
antongerashchenko.bsky.social Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 16d
Russia presented its human-like AI robot. It fell down as it walked onto the stage.
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
Elon Musk: With Optimus, we might be able to stop putting people in prison. “If somebody's committed a crime, we might be able to provide a more humane form of containment of future crime. You now get a free Optimus, and it's just going to follow you around and stop you from doing crime. Other than that, you get to do anything; it's just going to stop you from committing crime. That's really it. You don't have to put people in prisons and stuff. It's pretty wild to think of all the possibilities, but I think it's clearly the future.” Tesla Shareholder Meeting, November 6,
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
ryanlindsay.bsky.social
I mean...this is pretty spot on.
dropsitenews.com Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 16d
🇨🇴Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro fires back at the Trump administration after Washington announced sanctions against him, along with his wife, son, and interior minister, over unsubstantiated allegations of financial ties to drug trafficking. Petro said:

“A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy...
🇨🇴 Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro fires back at the Trump administration after Washington announced sanctions against him, along with his wife, son, and interior minister, over unsubstantiated allegations of financial ties to drug trafficking. Petro said: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep [Epstein’s] list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen and threaten our neighbor with an invasion... that is only about their oil. … They want to turn our beautiful corner of South America into a Syria, a Libya — full of slaves. Those who don’t want the list published in the United States want to use us here with violence — so that the people of the United States don’t think about their own government, but instead get consumed by xenophobia, racism, ideas of racial superiority, and other false beliefs.”
November 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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theresalubowitz.bsky.social
This is how every contract is award in Ontario - donate to Ford, and you'll be promised a contract, years before the project even enters the RFP process.
globalnews.ca/news/1152044...
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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stephenlautens.bsky.social
And why are we losing the war for vaccination? Conservative provincial governments responsible for education & healthcare pandering to anti-vaxxers, underfunding local healthcare, and allowing uninformed, non-medical "personal objections" and religions to overrride public health demands. #cdnpoli
resultscanada.bsky.social Results Canada @resultscanada.bsky.social · 16d
#Measles could be just the beginning if we don't restore this trust and act in solidarity with the world. Read on 👇

#cdnpoli @mark-carney.bsky.social @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social @yasirnaqvicdn.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
ryanlindsay.bsky.social
Liberals and Conservatives are always happy to quietly work together when it comes to invasion of your privacy, protecting their own asses, selling or providing weapons, handouts to corporations and the already-wealthy.

www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/11/how-...
How the Liberal and Conservative Parties Have Quietly Colluded to Undermine the Privacy Rights of Canadians - Michael Geist
It hasn’t received much attention, but the government and official opposition - ie. the Liberals and Conservatives - have been quietly working to pass legislation that undermine the privacy rights of ...
www.michaelgeist.ca
November 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
ryanlindsay.bsky.social
Doug Ford Conservatives again block the development of new apartments that would house 1000's of people, all because of the lobbying of a single foreign corporation that has received 10's of millions of taxpayer handouts.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Ontario moves to block plans for Toronto apartment complex near Sanofi pharma plant
Province’s housing ministry uses a rarely deployed power on behalf of French pharmaceutical giant
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
At least some people’s lives have improved in Donald Trump’s America.
November 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
ryanlindsay.bsky.social
Let's remember people like Andreesen. Those who fund the Nazis, are the Nazis.
November 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
ryanlindsay.bsky.social
Automotive Industry: Pierre Poilievre is an idiot.
beppil007.bsky.social 🇨🇦🇨🇦 Proud Canadian 🇨🇦🇨🇦 @beppil007.bsky.social · 20d
driving.ca/column/motor...
‘[Poilievre’s] announcement seemed to reveal a breathtaking lack of understanding regarding how automobile manufacturing works, which cars Canadians buy, or the cars we manufacture here in Canada’
Good article.
Skippy really is grossly unqualified, & a moron. #NeverPP
Motor Mouth: Why Pierre Poilievre won't get elected
Canada's official leader of the opposition has finally come up with an auto industry policy—and it’s a complete dud!
driving.ca
November 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
ryanlindsay.bsky.social
The fascists are scared, desperate & willing to break any laws to keep their power. It is time for us non-fascists to play hardball just the same. These clowns might be clowns, but they aren't playing games; they are for real. We've gone too long not taking them seriously. Time for some ass-kicking.
rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 20d
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM