Sydney
@sydneyholmes.bsky.social
Labour and politics geek, gender rights activist.
Local and National representative with CAPE.
Local and National representative with CAPE.
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Union Presidents Say Federal Government is “Scapegoating” Public Servants For the Deficit
“This government is not on your side,” says Canadian Association of Public Employees president
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“This government is not on your side,” says Canadian Association of Public Employees president
pressprogress.ca/union-presid...
Union Presidents Say Federal Government is “Scapegoating” Public Servants For the Deficit
“This government is not on your side,” says Canadian Association of Public Employees president
pressprogress.ca
November 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Union Presidents Say Federal Government is “Scapegoating” Public Servants For the Deficit
“This government is not on your side,” says Canadian Association of Public Employees president
pressprogress.ca/union-presid...
“This government is not on your side,” says Canadian Association of Public Employees president
pressprogress.ca/union-presid...
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Imagine the response in any other workplace if you called your colleague names in the middle of a meeting. A public apology for such childish behaviour is warranted @timtierney.ca.
Just now - Councillor @shawnmenard.bsky.social
is interrupted by Councillor @timtierney.ca while asking questions on Lansdowne.
Menard pushes back, then Tierney calls him an "asshole". This behaviour is unbefitting of a councillor, and demands an integrity complaint.
➡️ [email protected]
is interrupted by Councillor @timtierney.ca while asking questions on Lansdowne.
Menard pushes back, then Tierney calls him an "asshole". This behaviour is unbefitting of a councillor, and demands an integrity complaint.
➡️ [email protected]
November 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Imagine the response in any other workplace if you called your colleague names in the middle of a meeting. A public apology for such childish behaviour is warranted @timtierney.ca.
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Voice of the Ottawa Charge's fan base getting louder thehockeynews.com/womens/pwhl/...
Ottawa Charge Fan Group Posts Letter Denouncing Plans That Will Hurt PWHL Franchise
Ottawa's Red Scarf Union, one of the most active and engaged fan groups in the PWHL, has released a statement denouncing plans for a new arena that will reduce capacity, remove accessibility, and that...
thehockeynews.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Voice of the Ottawa Charge's fan base getting louder thehockeynews.com/womens/pwhl/...
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This morning, Mayor Sutcliffe held a press conference outlining the modified Lansdowne 2.0 recommendations before city councillors or the public had access to them. That’s unacceptable. Transparency and respect for Council should come before media rollouts.
October 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
This morning, Mayor Sutcliffe held a press conference outlining the modified Lansdowne 2.0 recommendations before city councillors or the public had access to them. That’s unacceptable. Transparency and respect for Council should come before media rollouts.
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Pleased to be with @glengower.ca at @otttransitriders.bsky.social event tonight featuring @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social. We used to have one of the best transit systems in North America - these folks want us to get back to that!
September 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Pleased to be with @glengower.ca at @otttransitriders.bsky.social event tonight featuring @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social. We used to have one of the best transit systems in North America - these folks want us to get back to that!
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Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired
September 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired
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Govt intervened way too early in the Air Canada strike, and it's caused chaos. If the strike had been allowed to play out for days, pressure increases on both employer and union to bargain. Instead, AC ran to govt to put their thumb on the scale, and now the natural balance is skewed
August 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Govt intervened way too early in the Air Canada strike, and it's caused chaos. If the strike had been allowed to play out for days, pressure increases on both employer and union to bargain. Instead, AC ran to govt to put their thumb on the scale, and now the natural balance is skewed
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CUPE's Mark Hancock is prepared to be jailed for defying the Carney government's back-to-work order to force Air Canada to negotiate with flight attendants
"If it means folks like me going to jail, so be it...Our members want a solution here, but that solution has to be found at a bargaining table"
"If it means folks like me going to jail, so be it...Our members want a solution here, but that solution has to be found at a bargaining table"
August 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
CUPE's Mark Hancock is prepared to be jailed for defying the Carney government's back-to-work order to force Air Canada to negotiate with flight attendants
"If it means folks like me going to jail, so be it...Our members want a solution here, but that solution has to be found at a bargaining table"
"If it means folks like me going to jail, so be it...Our members want a solution here, but that solution has to be found at a bargaining table"
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Would be interesting if feds just announced now they will enact legislation requiring flight attendants be paid their hourly wage for all hours worked.
Both Tories and NDP have already said such a law should be passed. Only Liberals resisting.
How would that affect the dispute?
#AirCanada
Both Tories and NDP have already said such a law should be passed. Only Liberals resisting.
How would that affect the dispute?
#AirCanada
August 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Would be interesting if feds just announced now they will enact legislation requiring flight attendants be paid their hourly wage for all hours worked.
Both Tories and NDP have already said such a law should be passed. Only Liberals resisting.
How would that affect the dispute?
#AirCanada
Both Tories and NDP have already said such a law should be passed. Only Liberals resisting.
How would that affect the dispute?
#AirCanada
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“The Liberals are violating our Charter rights to take job action and give Air Canada exactly what they want — hours and hours of unpaid labour from underpaid flight attendants, while the company pulls in sky-high profits and extraordinary executive compensation”
August 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
“The Liberals are violating our Charter rights to take job action and give Air Canada exactly what they want — hours and hours of unpaid labour from underpaid flight attendants, while the company pulls in sky-high profits and extraordinary executive compensation”
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Reminder that the strike is about a women-dominated workforce doing unpaid labour while executives get huge bonuses. Carney's Liberals are exactly who we warned they were.
www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
BREAKING: Jobs minister orders Air Canada flight attendants back to work
Air Canada flight attendants have officially begun their strike after failing to reach a deal with the airline, the Canadian Union of Public Employees announced Saturday morning.
www.ctvnews.ca
August 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Reminder that the strike is about a women-dominated workforce doing unpaid labour while executives get huge bonuses. Carney's Liberals are exactly who we warned they were.
www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
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1. Arc of the moral universe, etc.
Teachers, journalists, healthcare workers, and academics have been fired or suspended for expressing pro-Palestinian views. Some workers and students have been added to public or private blacklists (Canary Mission) for pro-Palestinian activism
Teachers, journalists, healthcare workers, and academics have been fired or suspended for expressing pro-Palestinian views. Some workers and students have been added to public or private blacklists (Canary Mission) for pro-Palestinian activism
Canada intends to recognize the State of Palestine at the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2025, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday.
July 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
1. Arc of the moral universe, etc.
Teachers, journalists, healthcare workers, and academics have been fired or suspended for expressing pro-Palestinian views. Some workers and students have been added to public or private blacklists (Canary Mission) for pro-Palestinian activism
Teachers, journalists, healthcare workers, and academics have been fired or suspended for expressing pro-Palestinian views. Some workers and students have been added to public or private blacklists (Canary Mission) for pro-Palestinian activism
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Today and every day, believe survivors.
The system is beyond flawed when several men tell several different stories and communicate they need to “get their stories straight” before an investigation and cannot be questioned on their own actions or reliability.
The system is beyond flawed when several men tell several different stories and communicate they need to “get their stories straight” before an investigation and cannot be questioned on their own actions or reliability.
July 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Today and every day, believe survivors.
The system is beyond flawed when several men tell several different stories and communicate they need to “get their stories straight” before an investigation and cannot be questioned on their own actions or reliability.
The system is beyond flawed when several men tell several different stories and communicate they need to “get their stories straight” before an investigation and cannot be questioned on their own actions or reliability.
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conservatives: let’s cut important crown corporations
liberals: let’s have important crown corporations *cut themselves* we are much better
liberals: let’s have important crown corporations *cut themselves* we are much better
#Breaking: Carney government tells CBC, Via Rail and other Crown corps to propose their own spending cuts
Suggest your own spending cuts, Carney government tells CBC, Via Rail
Federally funded institutions and Crown corporations like the CBC and Via Rail are expected to propose their own cuts under the Liberal government's sweeping efforts to find $25 billion in
www.thestar.com
July 17, 2025 at 2:30 AM
conservatives: let’s cut important crown corporations
liberals: let’s have important crown corporations *cut themselves* we are much better
liberals: let’s have important crown corporations *cut themselves* we are much better
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People who feel bad for JD Vance’s kids as family gets booed at Disneyland. I get it, but better those kids know now what their father is about. Other kids are watching their parents get shipped off to gulags.
July 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
People who feel bad for JD Vance’s kids as family gets booed at Disneyland. I get it, but better those kids know now what their father is about. Other kids are watching their parents get shipped off to gulags.
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I expected to be disappointed by Carney.
I did not expect to be this disappointed this quickly.
I did not expect to be this disappointed this quickly.
June 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I expected to be disappointed by Carney.
I did not expect to be this disappointed this quickly.
I did not expect to be this disappointed this quickly.
Feel like I’m just yelling into a void trying to get answers about cooling centers in Ottawa for tomorrow’s heat wave. People will die without access to temperature-controlled spaces and our city has advertised nothing.
@ottawapublichealth.ca @lauradudas.bsky.social @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social
@ottawapublichealth.ca @lauradudas.bsky.social @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social
June 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Feel like I’m just yelling into a void trying to get answers about cooling centers in Ottawa for tomorrow’s heat wave. People will die without access to temperature-controlled spaces and our city has advertised nothing.
@ottawapublichealth.ca @lauradudas.bsky.social @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social
@ottawapublichealth.ca @lauradudas.bsky.social @mayormarksutcliffe.bsky.social
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Not sure this is an effective rejoinder to the charge, implied and explicit, of being a bitch
Las Vegas police immediately arrest two livestreamers when one of them insults an officer after an anti-ICE protest ("honor your oath, bitch"). "You need to learn there's rules: don't run your mouth at me."
June 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Not sure this is an effective rejoinder to the charge, implied and explicit, of being a bitch
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The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime.
Linda McMahon: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."
May 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime.
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i was not familiar with your game ken jennings
May 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
i was not familiar with your game ken jennings
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May 17, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
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I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.
The Department of Homeland Security denied Mahmoud Khalil permission to attend the birth of his first child, who was delivered at a New York hospital on Monday, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.
Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth
Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.