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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 15h

Canada must settle with coming “second” to US in auto sector according to Donald Trump’s point man on trade, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
“If you look at it where Canada was to where it will be, you’ll be disappointed,” Lutnick said. “America is first, and Canada can be second.”

Canada must come ‘second’ to U.S. in auto sector, Howard Lutnick warns behind closed doors

Appearing virtually, the commerce secretary told an audience at a Canada-U.S. conference in Toronto that the U.S. is determined to dominate the car-making industry.

www.thestar.com

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 16h

When Amazon closed up shop in Quebec to sidestep the union, it subcontracted its delivery business to Intelcom, whose CEO Jean-Sébastien Joly is the brother of Lib Minister of Industry Mélanie Joly.
In 2022 Intelcom delivery drivers were paid $1.60 to $3.00 per parcel delivered minus their gas costs

Amazon’s subcontractor in Quebec

12 March 2025 — After announcing the shutdown of its operations in Quebec, Amazon announced that it would be using subcontractors to side step the rising

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 18h

“When postal workers were bargaining for fair wages and better working conditions, Purolator was enticing small business customers with steep discounts.”

Postal workers union takes aim at Purolator, which is owned by Canada Post

The union that represents striking postal workers is taking aim at Purolator, a courier company that is 91 per cent owned by Canada Post.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 17h

All major media and viable political parties, the wretched lack of economics taught in high schools & the equally wretched economics taught at uni - that's quite a lot to overcome.
And every 5 yrs there's a surprise! flurry in media about how rw support for housing in EU is based on it being cheaper

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 18h

“When postal workers were bargaining for fair wages and better working conditions, Purolator was enticing small business customers with steep discounts.”

Postal workers union takes aim at Purolator, which is owned by Canada Post

The union that represents striking postal workers is taking aim at Purolator, a courier company that is 91 per cent owned by Canada Post.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 1d

an unauthorized "man-made gravel dam" ???

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 1d

Here is Google Lens's description of Theo Moudakis' toon:
"This political cartoon by Theo Moudakis depicts Mitt Romney driving a car while a younger version of Donald Trump, portrayed as a child, makes demands and complains from the back seat."
First known case of AI standup.

Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 1d

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 1d

For all the issues with our healthcare system it has been my experience that those on the frontlines are fantastic. Nurses rock

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 1d

O won't someone think of the poor pet ostriches and their magical scientific contributions to future hair regrowth products.

How a BC Ostrich Farm Sparked a Far-Right Crusade | The Tyee

Convoy supporters and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have rallied around the farm, which is facing a cull of its 400-strong flock.

thetyee.ca

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 1d

It takes no special technical expertise to know that
1) AI's main value proposition today is automating labor,
2) AI is going to supercharge economic inequality, and
3) If we do not get out in front of that policy-wise, we are fools.

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/thinking-o...

Thinking of AI as a Social Problem

No need to know the unknowable. The knowable is bad enough.

www.hamiltonnolan.com

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 1d

How do you do, fellow antifa and Mexicans?

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 2d

A host of the Can't Be Censored podcast told Pierre Poilievre that he was never allowed to interview him when he worked for the CBC. I take apart his claim, the defense of channelling all leader invus towards Rosemarie Barton and ask why choose to lick boot?

noraloreto.substack.com/p/free-from-...

Free from the shackles of censorship only to lick boot

An assessment of the new podcast Can't Be Censored and how it, and the CBC, have differently fatal problems.

noraloreto.substack.com

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 1d

CBC's David Cochrane has said on air that CPC MPs often express an interest in appearing on his show to talk about some issue they're interested in and yet when they go back to the party to get permission, they are not allowed to do so. Cochrane also said he does not know where it gets stalled.

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 2d

Is that Charlie Kirk standing behind him with his mouth open?

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 2d

Who is the little man whose head is stuck in a bucket??

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 2d

Premier Doug Ford is getting specific about his vow to make international booze giant Diageo “feel the pain” over its plan to close an Amherstburg plant where 200 employees bottle Crown Royal, threatening to stop selling the iconic Canadian whiskey in LCBO stores.

Doug Ford threatens to pull Crown Royal from LCBO stores over bottling plant closure

Premier Doug Ford is getting specific about his vow to make international booze giant Diageo "feel the pain" over its plan to close an Amherstburg plant where 200 employees bottle

www.thestar.com

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 2d

(oh gods that is so bad)

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 3d

Seconded.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 4d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 4d

Shorter globalization: Wages in China were 3-5% of wages of workers in the US so US industry moved there.
The “China Shock” is estimated to have led to the loss of 2.4 million U.S. jobs.
The last time fewer than 12 million people worked in the manufacturing sector was before World War II in 1941."

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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 4d

Deglobalization, Towards the Right or Left?
fpif.org/deglobalizat...

Deglobalization, Towards the Right or Left? - FPIF

“Let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible, and, above all, let finance be primarily national” – this advice from Keynes remains just as relevant today as it was in the...

fpif.org

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Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 4d

Surprised to learn there is no such thing as Alberta oil and that it is actually Canada's oil.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'There is no B.C. coast. It's Canada's coast': Sask. premier supports Alta. pipeline proposal | CBC News

Sask. Premier Scott Moe repeated his support for the proposed pipeline between Alberta and the northern B.C. coast earlier this week by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

www.cbc.ca

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 4d

Make fa shaming a thing.

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 4d

If you are opposed to "anti-fa", you are "fa".

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 4d

Faytene said the holy ghost told her to run for office in NB so I guess that means the holy ghost's ability to predict election results is on a par with that of 338Canada - who gave her an over 99% chance of winning on their site the day before the 2024 election. She lost.

Screenshot from 338Canada the day before the election:
338 Canada - Election Odds of winning October 20 2024
Faytene Grasseschi, CPC, for Hampton-Fundy-St.Martin's
Over 99% Odds of winning

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