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La Presse @lapresse.ca · 20h

Démantèlements de vieux barrages au Québec | « Je pense qu’on est rendus là »

Les démantèlements de vieux barrages se feront plus nombreux au Québec dans les prochaines années, afin de rétablir les écosystèmes et de s’adapter aux changements climatiques.

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Barbara Dylla 🇨🇦 @walkbikebus.bsky.social · 3h

Mme Machouf a dénoncé au passage la lâcheté et la complicité de nos gouvernements, qui ont "continué à fournir des armes et du financement à Israël par toutes sortes de moyens directs et indirects".
#polcan #cdnpoli

La Presse @lapresse.ca · 4h

Flotille vers Gaza | Nimâ Machouf de retour à Montréal

La militante et épidémiologue montréalaise Nimâ Machouf est rentrée ce dimanche à Montréal. À l’instar de cinq autres Canadiens, la Dre Machouf était incarcérée en Israël, après avoir été arrêtée à bord du Conscience, un navire faisant partie de la flottille qui avait tenté de livrer de l’aide humanitaire à la bande de Gaza.

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Barbara Dylla 🇨🇦 @walkbikebus.bsky.social · 11d

Free #parking facilitation, Charlottetown-style.
Revenue loss was likely much higher than the $640 indicated in the report, considering that meter enforcement really ends at 4 PM on weekdays when commissionaires finish working.
It's past time for #parkingreform.

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Climate Action Network Canada @canrac.bsky.social · 3d

Notre réseau est solidaire des participant·es aux flottilles qui apportaient une aide vitale à Gaza et qui ont été illégalement enlevés par Israël.

Nous dénonçons la réponse insuffisante du Canada à ces enlèvements illégaux ainsi qu’au génocide des deux dernières années. 👇

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 7d

“If the 20th century had as a mark the before and after Auschwitz, this beginning of the 21st century will have the before and after Gaza.”

- Frei Betto OSB

globalvoices.org/2025/09/09/f...

For Brazilian writer Frei Betto, the 21st century has a before and after Gaza

“You cannot call civilization a period of time when the wealthiest countries are spending more with weapons to kill, than with initiatives that would save lives.”

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Jonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 3d

Sea Captain’s Row replaced an abandoned commercial lot with 44 new homes steps from historic Downtown Hyannis. Five small multifamily buildings, built with modular construction on a 1.6-acre site, show what smart infill can look like in response to Cape Cod's housing shortage.

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Barbara Dylla 🇨🇦 @walkbikebus.bsky.social · 3d

Outstanding 9-minute speech by Senator Pate!
#Accountability #InternationalLaw #Justice #Canada #HumanRights #Gaza #SenCA

Senator Kim Pate @kpateonthehill.bsky.social · 4d

Senator Woo’s motion calls on the Government of Canada to examine and report, within 3 months, “the risk of Canada’s complicity in violations of international law (including war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide).” 1/3

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Full Speech in Support of Senator Woo's Motion on Gaza

YouTube video by Kim Pate

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Barbara Dylla 🇨🇦 @walkbikebus.bsky.social · 3d

What percentage of PEI/Maritime women don't have a family doctor?
#peipoli

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alex block @alexblock.bsky.social · 3d

“I live my life without a transit schedule, and I like it.”

That’s a great, succinct statement about the benefits of frequent service.

David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 3d

The #1 piece of advice that TransLink's CEO offers other North American transit agencies:

Provide frequent service

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Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social · 5d

The second flotilla is now in the ‘red zone’ where Israel has previously abducted flotillas and trafficked them onwards to false imprisonment. We’ll do all we can to reach Gaza, but if they stop us it will likely be within 24 hours. Track us here: thousandmadleens.fr/tracker

Flotilla Tracker – Thousand Madleens & Freedom Flotilla Coalition – Thousand Madleens France

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Barbara Dylla 🇨🇦 @walkbikebus.bsky.social · 5d

"So batteries, battery storage, battery backup, time of use pricing, which will bring down the peak demand because that's all these generators support. They're not going to make power during a storm."
#local #wind #solar #energy #renewables #BESS #PEI #peipoli #Fortis

Group gathering support against Maritime Electric's plan to add combustion turbines | CBC News

A community-based advocacy group on P.E.I. wants to look at more renewable energy options when it comes to providing reliable electricity across the province.

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Barbara Dylla 🇨🇦 @walkbikebus.bsky.social · 5d

Reality:
"... Bibi will sabotage the process every chance he gets, and the 20-point plan is full of holes he can exploit.
Hamas will also turn against the plan as soon as negotiations get into critical issues .... The twenty-point plan may not be dead on arrival, but it is extremely vulnerable."

GWYNNE DYER: Why Trump is now pushing for peace in the Middle East

Donald Trump, in pursuit of a Nobel Peace Prize, is wading into the war between Israel and Hamas, says Gwynne Dyer

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Barbara Dylla 🇨🇦 @walkbikebus.bsky.social · 6d

"Dr. Mukesh Kapila was the UN's representative in Sudan in 2003-2004, a witness to the horrors taking place. More than 20 years later, he says what's happening on the ground now is even more brutal."
"Today...(w)e have more deadly weaponry, better targeted weaponry but still with mass area effects."

Barbara Dylla 🇨🇦 @walkbikebus.bsky.social · 6d

"An estimated 260,000 civilians, including 130,000 children remain trapped in El Fasher according to UN agencies. Surrounded by RSF militias on three sides, the city has now endured over 500 days of siege, cut off from food, medicine or a safe exit." #Sunan #ElFasher

Sudan's civil war has faded from headlines, but monitors say it's the largest humanitarian crisis in the world | CBC News

The UN says more than 12 million Sudanese have been displaced since its civil war began in spring 2023, making it the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. Aid agencies, including Medecins Sans Fr...

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 6d

They really should.

If they had to wear them people would be more informed about what they were voting for.

And they might be more careful about who they take money from.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 6d

For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent.

Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.

We can’t afford to NOT do it.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 6d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Barbara Dylla 🇨🇦 @walkbikebus.bsky.social · 11d

⚡ Reserve a seat! ⚡
Town Hall, October 6, Monday, 6:30PM at the Charlottetown Public Library.
#renewables #solar #wind #energy #energydemocracy #community #pei #peipoli

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 8d

Israel reports they have found “missing” Greta Thunberg safe and invited her for fun, mandatory sleepover

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - The government of Israel reports that it has intercepted a flotilla of boats, containing among others Greta Thunberg, which was in fact en route for a long-scheduled sleepover party...

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Barbara Dylla 🇨🇦 @walkbikebus.bsky.social · 7d

«Alors que la population de l’Île-du-Prince-Édouard s’accroît, que l’érosion gruge peu à peu les côtes et que les terres agricoles se raréfient, les consultations publiques sur la gestion du territoire permettront-elles vraiment d’y remédier? Et surtout, le gouvernement se hâtera-t-il d’agir?» #PEI

Consultation publique sur l’utilisation des terres : « Ça tourne en rond » - La Voix Acadienne

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Sana Bég @sana.msf.ca · 7d

💔 (1/4) We've lost a juggernaut in @msf.ca. Abed El Hamid Qaradaya was a powerhouse with deep expertise in physiotherapy & occupational therapy.

MSF physiotherapist Abed in scrubs holding the hand of a patient.

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 10d

MSF strongly condemns the killing of Omar Hayek by Israeli forces this morning in #Gaza. Our thoughts are with his family and colleagues.

Omar is our fourteenth colleague to be killed in Gaza since the war started. We call yet again for an end to the genocide.

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 9d

Today marks 10 years since the bombing of the Kunduz trauma centre, #Afghanistan. We remember the 42 lives lost, including 14 MSF colleagues.

Since reopening in 2021, our teams have treated over 95,000 emergency patients. Hear how the new hospital is helping the community.

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