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Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social · 1h

Danielle Smith’s govt just locked out 51,000 Alberta teachers — after refusing class-size caps & fair pay.

CBC reports: this isn’t about space, it’s about priorities.
Kids lose when ideology wins.

🔗 r.pebmac.ca/https://www....

#SaveTheCBC #abed #ableg #CBCNews #cdnpoli

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QUOI Media Group 🇨🇦 @quoimedia.bsky.social · 20m

Product labels should do more to help people ‘Buy Canadian’

'Economic Nutrition' labels are a power tool to support purchase decisions that uplift Canada's local economies

Read our client oped -- from Zita Cobb, CEO at Shorefast:

#cdnpoli #community #placedbased #tariffs #BuyCanadian

Product labels should do more to help people ‘Buy Canadian’ | Corporate Knights

OPINION | Economic Nutrition labels on products can be a powerful tool for buy-local movements to better support communities

www.corporateknights.com

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colleenmr🍁 @colleenmr.bsky.social · 7m

Need to go back futher to President Sheinbaum and EU leader von der Leyen - and remember that 47 can and does move the goal posts after agreements are reached

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Anthony Britneff @anthonybritneff.bsky.social · 58m

Canada's PM Caught in a Bad Gangster Movie
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
#cdnpoli #USPolitics

Carney’s Caught in a Bad Gangster Movie | The Tyee

Wish the PM could win a faster deal with Trump? Don’t forget how mob bosses work.

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Clean Energy Canada @cleanenergycanada.org · 46m

🔋♻️🪨 Montreal-based recycler Lithion could soon be recovering up to 95% of critical battery materials and 98% of critical minerals from end-of-life Nissan EV batteries. #cdnpoli #ev #cleantech #energytransition #qcpoli

Nissan and Lithion partner to recycle EV batteries

The partnership between Nissan and Lithion advances battery circularity and reduces the environmental footprint of EV production

electricautonomy.ca

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colleenmr🍁 @colleenmr.bsky.social · 23m

47 loves flattery, not the people dishing it and will double-cross anyone no matter their demeanour

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FF-Suze @suze-bsky.bsky.social · 28m

Corruption in Ontario - seems to be on going issue - when will the voters realize that undercurrent won’t go away with the Conservatives in power, or with so many Conservatives turned Lobbyists….

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Former Ontario hospital exec and construction company president guilty of fraud tied to $300M project | CBC News

Former hospital CAO Vas Georgiou and one-time construction magnate John Aquino have each been found guilty of fraud for skewing the procurement process for a major renovation to a downtown Toronto hos...

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colleenmr🍁 @colleenmr.bsky.social · 36m

So they're hoping to trigger Ford into going off like Leghorn Foghorn to undermine the fed's cooperative face forward ...

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 2h

It is Science Literacy Week 2025 in Canada and the government has all sorts of resources available for educators and the rest of us who are interested.
www.canada.ca/en/environme...

Science Literacy Week 2025 - Canada.ca

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 1h

The Canadian government is investing $40 million in Hitachi Energy Canada's HVDC transformer manufacturing & testing etc.
Because of this Hitachi Energy Canada’s projects will rise from $164.2 million to $410 million & 67 full-time equivalent jobs to 300 FTEs.
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Government of Canada expands investment in critical clean technology manufacturing and clean energy - Canada.ca

Total $40 million investment will support expansion of Hitachi Energy Canada, the country’s sole producer of HVDC transformers

www.canada.ca

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Jeff's Fact Checker @thunderbayed.bsky.social · 1h

What PP calls 'peaceful'

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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 3h

NEW from The Trillium:

Ontario Labour Minister David Piccini attended the Parisian wedding of a lobbyist after his office awarded their clients millions of dollars through the under-fire skills development fund. #OnPoli
www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

Ontario labour minister attended lobbyist’s wedding after granting his clients millions in training funds

Two clients of lobbyist Michael Rudderham have received more than $8.5 million in Skills Development Fund grants, records show

www.thetrillium.ca

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CTV News Calgary @ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social · 3h

A new petition seeks to ask Albertans whether taxpayer dollars should be used to support private schools here #yyc #yeg www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

Should Alberta fund private schools? Petition could trigger vote

As Alberta teachers remain on strike, a citizen-led campaign is pushing for a public referendum on education funding — specifically, whether taxpayer money should continue going to private schools.

www.ctvnews.ca

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MP Ryan Turnbull 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @turnbullwhitby.bsky.social · 4h

While Pierre Poilievre worked to protect his own job this summer, we were protecting the jobs of workers across Canada. Watch below!

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 4h

Water-hungry data centres are planned for drought-stricken regions across Canada. What will the AI data centre boom mean for communities? By @savannahridley.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/ai-data-cent...

What will the AI data centre boom mean for Canada? | The Narwhal

Sprawling AI data centres — hungry for land, water and power — are coming. Plans the world’s largest, called Wonder Valley, are underway in Alberta

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The Hill Times @hilltimes.com · 4h

Calendar: Minister Joly to discuss Canada’s plan for industrial leadership in Toronto on Oct. 9

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 4h

Greenland’s prime minister said he is keen to boost cooperation with the EU in the face of US President Donald Trump’s threats to annex the Arctic territory.

Greenland’s PM looks to boost EU ties despite Trump threats

Jens-Frederik Nielsen says the island and EU need each other in historic address to European Parliament.

www.politico.eu

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colleenmr🍁 @colleenmr.bsky.social · 4h

Yet the CPC is all in on barbaric 'warrior culture' - swell
#nevervoteconservatie #cdnpoli

The Hill Times @hilltimes.com · 7h

Unlocked | Hegseth’s attack on rules of engagement could limit Canadian operations with ‘lawless’ U.S. military, says former House Defence Committee chair McKay

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

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Reuters @reuters.com · 6h

Russia moves to withdraw from plutonium agreement with the United States reut.rs/4odLRxS

Russia moves to withdraw from plutonium agreement with the United States

Russia's lower house of parliament on Wednesday approved a move to withdraw from a landmark agreement with the United States aimed at reducing vast stockpiles of weapons-grade plutonium left over from thousands of Cold War nuclear warheads.

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Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 6h

A 14-year-old Ukrainian newcomer feels unsafe at her Winnipeg high school after she was swarmed by a group of girls and assaulted in a washroom last week.

Police probe assault on Ukrainian teen at school

A 14-year-old Ukrainian newcomer feels unsafe at her Winnipeg high school after she was swarmed by a group of girls and assaulted in a washroom last week.

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 8h

Richard Southern -
WATCH - I ask Premier Ford why he saying “No” to 21 Ontario mayors who are calling for a compromise on speed cameras. They are asking for them to remain in school zones, but to only operate during school hours, and to only ticket drivers going well over the limit. #cdnpoli

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Lester @lesterlee.bsky.social · 14h

"Canada will love us again"

That's abuser talk right there.

#cdnpoli #politics

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Trump says 'Canada will love us again' — but there's still no deal on tariffs after Carney meeting | CBC News

U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he's working on a trade deal with Prime Minister Mark Carney that he believes will be well-received by Canadians, telling reporters assembled for their bilater...

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colleenmr🍁 @colleenmr.bsky.social · 14h

Nope

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Pat @pat112.bsky.social · 15h

Where's Poilievre's hard on Crime press release re Barber & King about liberal Judges' letting these criminals of the hook so easily ?

Could it be that like Trump they only want hard on crime for anyone but their own Con Criminals ?

#Cdnpoli

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 1d

The reviews are coming in on the UCP's American lesson plans they're offering parents while teachers are on strike...

From this Grade 1 teacher, not only do they not align with the UCP's curriculum...

They aren't even based in what most Grade 1 kids can do.

#abpoli #cdnpoli

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