Jim Patterson 🇨🇦
@sheamuspatt.bsky.social
Old folkie from Ontario.
Mostly politics (lefty), heterodox economics, genealogy
Mostly politics (lefty), heterodox economics, genealogy
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“this is the most climate negative budget we’ve seen in a decade.” This writer agrees with @policyalternatives.ca #Budget2025
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Opinion: A bad budget for climate and nature
To say I’m disappointed with the new federal budget would be the understatement of the year. Truth is, I’m frustrated and angry, not just because of what’s in the budget but by what has been cut and w...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“this is the most climate negative budget we’ve seen in a decade.” This writer agrees with @policyalternatives.ca #Budget2025
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NDP leader, @maritstilesndp.bsky.social calls a spade a spade. Gets kicked out of Legislature. I think she is correct. #IStandWithMarit www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Ontario NDP leader kicked out of question period after calling Ford government 'corrupt' | CBC News
NDP Leader Marit Stiles made the comment as the opposition continued to hammer Labour Minister David Piccini over the
scandal-plagued Skills Development Fund. Piccini has maintained he has done nothin...
www.cbc.ca
November 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
NDP leader, @maritstilesndp.bsky.social calls a spade a spade. Gets kicked out of Legislature. I think she is correct. #IStandWithMarit www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Hey look, some doug ford and church funding fuckery. Now he’s giving taxpayer money to churches. Call/email your MPP!!!! www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...
Church where PC cabinet minister was married got $2.8M from Skills Development Fund, ministry
Gurdwara that posted Ford endorsement also received SDF grant
www.thetrillium.ca
November 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Minister of Labour David Piccini handpicked a company – Keel Digital Solutions – to receive funding despite scoring just 59/100. Then came the Paris wedding, the rink-side Leafs seats, and now an OPP investigation.
With all this on the table, how has Doug Ford not fired him?
With all this on the table, how has Doug Ford not fired him?
November 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Minister of Labour David Piccini handpicked a company – Keel Digital Solutions – to receive funding despite scoring just 59/100. Then came the Paris wedding, the rink-side Leafs seats, and now an OPP investigation.
With all this on the table, how has Doug Ford not fired him?
With all this on the table, how has Doug Ford not fired him?
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For those who've followed the story of Wet'suwet'en land defenders—criminalized for peacefully fighting the CGL pipeline through their lands—read this statement on the final judgement in their case. The power and wisdom of this struggle are incredibly moving.
www.yintahaccess.com/news/sentenc...
www.yintahaccess.com/news/sentenc...
Sentencing Decision — Gidimt'en Yintah Access
“No matter what they said, no matter what they did, they couldn’t touch us because we’re standing on what our ancestors fought and died for.” -Sleydo’ “Since the beginning I feel like we’ve always...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:39 AM
For those who've followed the story of Wet'suwet'en land defenders—criminalized for peacefully fighting the CGL pipeline through their lands—read this statement on the final judgement in their case. The power and wisdom of this struggle are incredibly moving.
www.yintahaccess.com/news/sentenc...
www.yintahaccess.com/news/sentenc...
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Join Francesca Albanese, Greta Thunberg, Chris Hedges and myself in Genova, Italy, on Friday 28th November. We shall be there to participate in the Nationwide Strike Against Israel's Genocide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUrj...
JOIN US in Italy to Support the Nationwide Strike Against Israel!
YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel
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November 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Join Francesca Albanese, Greta Thunberg, Chris Hedges and myself in Genova, Italy, on Friday 28th November. We shall be there to participate in the Nationwide Strike Against Israel's Genocide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUrj...
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Agree - The USA has vilified H-1B visa holders unless they serve some low-income need of the oligarchs.. and even then. These are intelligent people who will decide for themselves where they want to be. 'Lure away' is an inaccurate term. They're being given an option.
November 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Agree - The USA has vilified H-1B visa holders unless they serve some low-income need of the oligarchs.. and even then. These are intelligent people who will decide for themselves where they want to be. 'Lure away' is an inaccurate term. They're being given an option.
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Canadians keep electing people who promise climate action. We keep getting fossil fuel subsidies. This is corruption plain and simple. Where is the accountability? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Carney’s ‘nation-building’ programme misses mark to be truly transformative for Canada
The $C56bn plan focused on investing in a resource economy falls short of changing Canadians’ day-to-day lives
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Canadians keep electing people who promise climate action. We keep getting fossil fuel subsidies. This is corruption plain and simple. Where is the accountability? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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If CBSA refuses to explain why it thought a *95 YEAR OLD* retired Princeton law professor and UN special rapporteur might be a threat to national security, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree should
Prominent legal scholar detained at Canadian border while on his way to a conference on Palestine | CBC News
A well-known academic and former UN special rapporteur says he was detained by customs agents in Toronto while on his way to speak at a conference on human rights violations against Palestinians.
www.cbc.ca
November 16, 2025 at 3:21 AM
If CBSA refuses to explain why it thought a *95 YEAR OLD* retired Princeton law professor and UN special rapporteur might be a threat to national security, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree should
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I doubt that my suburban Council colleagues did as I did, which was to survey my residents and ask if their position on Lansdowne. Because my colleagues who supported it would then have to acknowledge how they went against the vast majority of their residents’ wishes.
November 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I doubt that my suburban Council colleagues did as I did, which was to survey my residents and ask if their position on Lansdowne. Because my colleagues who supported it would then have to acknowledge how they went against the vast majority of their residents’ wishes.
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Reconstruction equals destruction equals money in Ford’s pocket.
Nearly 80 yrs after their creation, the Doug Ford govt is reducing the unique environmental agencies from 36 to 7, in a move staff say may ‘slow approvals, create confusion’ over development & flood protections.
#FordFailedEnvironment #FordFailedON #onpoli #cdnpoli
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#FordFailedEnvironment #FordFailedON #onpoli #cdnpoli
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Inside Ontario’s plan to merge 36 conservation authorities to 7 | The Narwhal
Doug Ford’s government is seeking public feedback on its plan to overhaul Ontario’s conservation authorities, reducing local agencies from 36 to 7
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November 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Reconstruction equals destruction equals money in Ford’s pocket.
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Did You Know?
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Stop the Cuts
Cuts won’t work
https://www.cupw.ca/facts
#SupportCUPW #canlab #cdnpoli @CanadianLabour
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Stop the Cuts
Cuts won’t work
https://www.cupw.ca/facts
#SupportCUPW #canlab #cdnpoli @CanadianLabour
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Did You Know?
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Stop the Cuts
Cuts won’t work
https://www.cupw.ca/facts
#SupportCUPW #canlab #cdnpoli @CanadianLabour
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Stop the Cuts
Cuts won’t work
https://www.cupw.ca/facts
#SupportCUPW #canlab #cdnpoli @CanadianLabour
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Re-upping this 🧵 from when Ksi Lisims LNG was given enviro approval.
The downstream emissions from Ksi Lisims will be roughly equivalent to 5% of Canada's TOTAL domestic GHG emissions. This is a carbon bomb - a willful act of arson.
Mark Carney simply does not get the climate emergency... 👇
The downstream emissions from Ksi Lisims will be roughly equivalent to 5% of Canada's TOTAL domestic GHG emissions. This is a carbon bomb - a willful act of arson.
Mark Carney simply does not get the climate emergency... 👇
This Ksi Lisims LNG approval is terrible news.
"It's hard to believe that we're moving ahead in B.C. with climate-destroying LNG projects in the midst of a climate crisis," said Tara Marsden, sustainability director for the Gitanyow hereditary chiefs.
Yup.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
"It's hard to believe that we're moving ahead in B.C. with climate-destroying LNG projects in the midst of a climate crisis," said Tara Marsden, sustainability director for the Gitanyow hereditary chiefs.
Yup.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
$10B LNG project in northwest B.C. gets environmental certificate despite opposition | CBC News
The Ksi Lisims LNG terminal project, about 80 kilometres north of Prince Rupert, B.C., has received a provincial environmental assessment certificat — a critical step for the megaproject despite conce...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Re-upping this 🧵 from when Ksi Lisims LNG was given enviro approval.
The downstream emissions from Ksi Lisims will be roughly equivalent to 5% of Canada's TOTAL domestic GHG emissions. This is a carbon bomb - a willful act of arson.
Mark Carney simply does not get the climate emergency... 👇
The downstream emissions from Ksi Lisims will be roughly equivalent to 5% of Canada's TOTAL domestic GHG emissions. This is a carbon bomb - a willful act of arson.
Mark Carney simply does not get the climate emergency... 👇
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Absolutely agree so I wrote this. bsky.app/profile/cana...
The doctor shortage isn’t an accident. It was policy. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/10/c... @codeblackamerica.bsky.social
Canada’s doctor shortage is no accident
It was policy.
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Absolutely agree so I wrote this. bsky.app/profile/cana...
Doug Ford was on hand at the groundbreaking for a new Battery Storage facility near Spencerville. Has he finally got on the green energy train? Naaa, I think he just couldn't pass up a photo op. Prove me wrong.
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#onpoli #ontario
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#onpoli #ontario
November 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Doug Ford was on hand at the groundbreaking for a new Battery Storage facility near Spencerville. Has he finally got on the green energy train? Naaa, I think he just couldn't pass up a photo op. Prove me wrong.
epaper.ottawacitizen.com/article/2815...
#onpoli #ontario
epaper.ottawacitizen.com/article/2815...
#onpoli #ontario
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YES! Let's end the Third Country pact.
There's nothing "safe" about the United States anymore.
cc @wgreaves.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social
There's nothing "safe" about the United States anymore.
cc @wgreaves.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social
Dr. Axworthy has been a staunch supporter of refugee rights and was immigration minister under Pierre Trudeau and, later, under Chretien.
I had the honour to speak to him today at an event in Ottawa. He is quite correct in saying that the US is no longer a safe country for refugees to return to.
I had the honour to speak to him today at an event in Ottawa. He is quite correct in saying that the US is no longer a safe country for refugees to return to.
Canada should withdraw from U.S. refugee pact, says former minister Axworthy
Lloyd Axworthy says the U.S. should no longer be considered a safe country for Canada to return asylum seekers to
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:58 PM
YES! Let's end the Third Country pact.
There's nothing "safe" about the United States anymore.
cc @wgreaves.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social
There's nothing "safe" about the United States anymore.
cc @wgreaves.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social
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Look north. We haven’t had pennies for a long time. Prices are rounded up or down to the nearest 5 cents. It’s not hard and at the end of the day it should all be a wash. Or pay with a card (debit or credit) and you pay the exact price.
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Look north. We haven’t had pennies for a long time. Prices are rounded up or down to the nearest 5 cents. It’s not hard and at the end of the day it should all be a wash. Or pay with a card (debit or credit) and you pay the exact price.
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Broken wizard forces Microsoft to issue out-of-band Windows 10 patch
Broken wizard forces Microsoft to issue out-of-band Windows 10 patch
End of support? Not quite
Microsoft released an emergency out-of-band update on November 11 to fix a malfunctioning enrollment wizard that prevented eligible Windows 10 users from accessing Extended Security Updates (ESU).…
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November 12, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Broken wizard forces Microsoft to issue out-of-band Windows 10 patch
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The US economy has become one big bet on AI.
It’s not just that investment in AI has inflated a bubble – it’s that the bubble is driving wealth inequality, and billions of dollars of conspicuous consumption.
In other words, we’re living in a new gilded age.
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It’s not just that investment in AI has inflated a bubble – it’s that the bubble is driving wealth inequality, and billions of dollars of conspicuous consumption.
In other words, we’re living in a new gilded age.
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
The AI Boom is Fueling a New Gilded Age
The AI bubble is making the rich richer - but when it bursts, ordinary Americans will have to pick up the tab.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The US economy has become one big bet on AI.
It’s not just that investment in AI has inflated a bubble – it’s that the bubble is driving wealth inequality, and billions of dollars of conspicuous consumption.
In other words, we’re living in a new gilded age.
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
It’s not just that investment in AI has inflated a bubble – it’s that the bubble is driving wealth inequality, and billions of dollars of conspicuous consumption.
In other words, we’re living in a new gilded age.
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
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This past week there was a photo from Trump's gala of a barely clad woman frolicking in a giant champagne glass.
She looked like a teen.
It made me think of Jane Doe-another young woman who attempted to shine a light on the darkness in Trumpland.
My latest.
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She looked like a teen.
It made me think of Jane Doe-another young woman who attempted to shine a light on the darkness in Trumpland.
My latest.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/trumps-hea...
Trump's Heart of Darkness
Warning: This story involves allegations of child rape and abuse
charlieangus.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This past week there was a photo from Trump's gala of a barely clad woman frolicking in a giant champagne glass.
She looked like a teen.
It made me think of Jane Doe-another young woman who attempted to shine a light on the darkness in Trumpland.
My latest.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/trumps-hea...
She looked like a teen.
It made me think of Jane Doe-another young woman who attempted to shine a light on the darkness in Trumpland.
My latest.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/trumps-hea...
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I suspect this will be preempted by the snow as the Ottawa aviation forecast (TAF) for that period today indicates vis 1/4 mile in heavy snow.
November 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I suspect this will be preempted by the snow as the Ottawa aviation forecast (TAF) for that period today indicates vis 1/4 mile in heavy snow.
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Honest Government Ad | Ksi Lisims LNG youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?...
Honest Government Ad | Ksi Lisims LNG
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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November 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Honest Government Ad | Ksi Lisims LNG youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?...
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DEFIANCE: All the great wizards, economists, powerful leaders of the world say, ‘we won’t listen to that because it doesn’t fit in with our wish to convert the planet into just a perpetual money-making machine’.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Bob Brown: ‘Being an environmentalist is sensible. I like defying the growth mentality because it’s irrational’
At 80 years old, the trailblazing environmentalist on the state of activism, optimism and why he is comfortable with the concept of his own ‘perpetual annihilation’
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
DEFIANCE: All the great wizards, economists, powerful leaders of the world say, ‘we won’t listen to that because it doesn’t fit in with our wish to convert the planet into just a perpetual money-making machine’.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Yay!! They totally deserve this!
Chapman’s Ice Cream wins “Ice Cream Maker of the Year” at the International Ice Cream Consortium awards in Greece.
Well done! 🇨🇦
#Canada
Well done! 🇨🇦
#Canada
November 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Yay!! They totally deserve this!