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Timeline cleanse from all the bad and difficult things:

Want to cheer up the adolescent in your life?

Get them a "6-7s" jersey! There's even pins, and hats!

It's a secret mostly only known about in Ottawa, where we were well ahead of the trend.
A red, white, and black horizontally striped hockey jersey with the logo in the middle: an angular 'O' in white with the numbers "67" in black on a red background inside, and an apostrophe-"s" to the right side of the numbers. The jersey is hanging on a white door. The same logo as described in image #1, on a black background with some shine from a light reflected on the side. A cowboy-hat shaped hat but with woven reeds or other similar material. It has the same logo as the other two images in the middle of the top part of the hat, as well as one line of woven black.
December 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Bondi Beach massacre narratives :

The Sun (UK) "REGIME OF TERROR: Bondi terror attack ‘orchestrated by IRAN’ – as Sydney Muslim cemetery desecrated with pig heads in sick act of revenge "

The Independent (UK) '[Australian PM] Albanese said the pair of shooters acted as ISIS-inspired lone agents.'
The Sun News World News REGIME OF TERROR Bondi terror attack ‘orchestrated by IRAN’ – as Sydney Muslim cemetery desecrated with pig heads in sick act of revenge The graves were desecrated despite the heroic actions of a local Muslim shopkeeper Bethan Moss Published: 15:50, 15 Dec 2025 |Updated: 15:54, 15 Dec 2025 News World Australasia Bondi Beach shooting latest: Suspect who ‘pledged allegiance to Islamic State’ had terror link probed before attack Ten-year-old girl was among those killed in attack at Hanukkah celebration Maroosha Muzaffar, Maira Butt Monday 15 December 2025 16:10 GMT had pledged allegiance to the terror group, according to the broadcaster. Two Isis flags were reportedly found in their car. At least 15 people were killed in an antisemitic terrorist attack at an event called Chanukah by the Sea on Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday, police have said. Sajid Akram is thought to have been killed at the scene, while Naveed Akram suffered critical injuries and was taken to hospital under police guard. A ten-year-old girl who was taken to the Sydney Children’s Hospital after the attack is among those who have died. At least 40 people are receiving treatment in hospital, including three other children. Albanese has said there is “no evidence” that the pair are linked to Isis and acted as lone agents.
December 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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With such reinforcing, circular logic, @aliceabear.bsky.social rebuts @petercollinson.bsky.social when he asks the question I couldn't.

I'm not convinced until I see something more than a screenshot of someone's FB post that has a single sentence attributed to Hamas.
Peter Collinson: "Have you vetted this 'statement'? Tied it to a reliable source? It looks like rage bait. Don't take the bait." Alice Diamond: "Hamas is a terrorist organisation. Of course, it's reliable"
December 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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"If anti-capitalists fail to provide a viable and coherent solution to this current crisis of capitalism, the door will be left wide open for reactionary opportunists to exploit public anger"

"Organized Anarchism in the Anti-Capitalist Struggle:
Why we need organization - and principles to follow"
A screenshot of a cover page, with the title as written at the bottom of the skeet, as well as a 'Circle-A' with six icons that look like a combination of a fireball and a horseshoe crab, and at the bottom it says "by members of Common Cause Ottawa"
December 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Just looking over something we wrote ~15 years ago:

"It is important to bear in mind that in much of the world the Great Depression did not lead to socialism or even social democracy, but rather to fascism in much of Western Europe and the consolidation of Stalinism in the Soviet Union"

1/
The trouble is not with the administration of the system, but rather with the system itself (Berkman, 2003, p.73). As such it is necessary to put an end to capitalism altogether. Reformism is destined to fail because reforms fail to address the exploitative basis of capitalism. Reformists believe in good faith that it is possible to eliminate the existing social evils by recognizing and respecting, in practice if not in theory, the basic political and economic institutions which are the cause of, as well as the prop that supports these evils (Malatesta, 1965). The point here is not to advocate some type of ideological purity. Reforms can make huge differences in the day to day life of the people. Reformism is a type of harm reduction, and while harm reduction undeniably saves lives, the root problems need to be addressed in a manner that goes beyond mere reforms. However, while a revolutionary solution is necessary, it is far from inevitable. The current economic crisis is the worst the world has seen since the Great Depression. It is important to bear in mind that in much of the world the Great Depression did not lead to socialism or even social democracy, but rather to fascism in much of Western Europe and the consolidation of Stalinism in the Soviet Union (Notheastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists, 2010). Although there is popular dissatisfaction with the current system, libertarian socialist alternatives do not currently have popular support. The current crisis may open up opportunities to attack capitalism from the left, but it also presents dangers for the rise of the most reactionary elements in capitalist society. If anti-
December 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Tucker Carlson platforms @franceskalbs.bsky.social, UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, and he's given credit in Palestine solidarity movement for his recent work exposing how governments and media support Israel.

But 2 months go, he platforms Nick Fuentes. What to do?
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/10/16/young-republicans-group-chat-online-culture-00611491 Politico It’s not hard to see the parallels between the rhetoric in the leaked group chat and hard-right online spaces. Replies to another Torba post from August include “Adolf Hitler was legitimately a moderate,” and “my Zoomerwaffen will not show mercy” — a reference to the Waffen-SS, the combat branch of the Nazis’ paramilitary organization and an insistence that Gen Z is much more radically right than older conservatives. Many in these far-right online spaces refer to Gen Z as “Generation Zyklon,” a reference to Zyklon B, the pesticide Nazis used to murder people in gas chambers. A fancam praising the messages posted to X, with videos of Nazi parades set to Kanye West (Ye)’s song “Heil Hitler,” has over 7,000 likes and 80,000 views on the platform. [Highlighted sentence:] Many of these X users identify as “groypers,” or white nationalists who are ardent followers of the 27-year-old content creator Nick Fuentes. On a livestream, Fuentes addressed the article, arguing, “Everyone’s a groyper now. … This is the mood of my generation. This is the zeitgeist of the under 25, under 30 crowd. It’s just where they are.”
December 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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"it’s also a nightmare. Ukraine is in its third year of a brutal war of attrition they cannot win.

Ukraine is in ruins. The civil population is tired of war, the army suffering a manpower crisis in spite of widespread and brutal conscription, the economy is wrecked.

not an outcome to aspire to."
https://avantgardepress.substack.com/p/non-credible-defense Something that comes up a lot in the online Liberal community is the war in Ukraine. If one simplifies geopolitics enough, then it can be easy to see parallels. A smaller (population) country, threatened by a neighbor it shares a long history of cooperation with, fighting back against the big bad enemy. Not only does this comparison not consider the decade of tensions stoked by NATO, but it’s also a nightmare. Ukraine is in its third year of a brutal war of attrition they cannot win. At some point there will be a ceasefire, and after three years and potentially a million casualties, they will concede that which was mostly already conceded in the MINSK II agreements, or potentially even more because Russia has expended so much blood and treasure to acquire it. Ukraine is in ruins. The civil population is tired of war, the army suffering a manpower crisis in spite of widespread and brutal conscription, the economy is wrecked. The Ukrainian people will be broke for decades paying back loans to the EU and USA while they loot the country for its resources. This is not an outcome to aspire to.
December 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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If you can see the Facebook feed, Facebook can see you.

If you go with DuckDuckGo, they block the Facebook feed so Facebook can't track your activity.

If you go with Google, not only does Facebook get to track you, so does Google.

This is #MediaLiteracy basics these days, but are people literate?
A screenshot from a website. The top bar has "Contact Us" as well as a search function magnifying glass icon, a connect nodes icon, an a notifications icon. Underneath that, it reads "Find us on Facebook" with a line underneath and then, where the Facebook feed would appear, a notice from DuckDuckGo: "DuckDuckDuckGo blocked this content to prevent Facebook from tracking you We blocked Facebook from tracking you when the page loaded. If you unblock this content, Facebook will know your activity. Learn More" And a button with the option to "Unblock Facebook Content".
December 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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2/ Your other source, Robert Brym, has difficulty distinguishing between activism against Israel and antisemitism:

A BDS action against Israel-affiliated businesses is "anti-Jewish" activism; a march that went all around Toronto is made to seem antisemitic because of one of the places it paused at.
Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes, vol. 37, 20242.1 Do Canadians really like Jews?In late 2023 and early 2024, newspapers recounted a wave of assaults against Canadi-an Jews and their institutions. In Montreal, assailants fired gunshots at a yeshiva and threw a Molotov cocktail at a Jewish community centre. Anti-Jewish activists circu-lated a list of Jewish-owned businesses on TikTok, resulting in a wave of boycotts and vandalism. In Ottawa, the RCMP apprehended a teenager planning an armed attack on a Jewish target. Professors and students at the University of Victoria said they felt unsafe after multiple incidents of harassment and assault. In Toronto, demonstrators routinely blocked a bridge to a mainly Jewish neighbourhood and on one occasion closed off the entrance to Mount Sinai Hospital as they waved Palestinian flags and chanted support for an intifada. School boards in the Toronto area received multi-ple reports daily of children punching, spitting on, ostracizing, chasing, and hurling Nazi salutes and taunts such as “die in a gas chamber” at Jewish schoolmates.15 Even in Fredericton, New Brunswick, with a population of just 215 Jews by religion according to the 2021 census, vandals shattered the windows of Sgoolai Israel synagogue. It was difficult to discern polite, multicultural, immigrant-friendly Canada behind this onslaught. Surveys in past years had found Canadians less likely than people in nearly all other countries to hold negative attitudes toward Jews. Were the surveys... Headline screenshot from article at "The Maple": Cafe Landwer Isn’t Boycotted For Being A ‘Jewish Business’ Media and political focus on Cafe Landwer is another attempt to equate anti-Zionism with antisemitism as a means to smear Palestinians. Opinion Media Politics Davide Mastracci by Davide Mastracci October 25, 2023 ∙ 6 min read
December 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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When you start with the premise "Jew-hate in Canada is worse than in most other countries" you need to make sure that's a credible statement.

You've pretty much shot your credibility already... but having a CIJA link to a Terry Glavin article published by Bari Weiss' The Free Press as first source?
Screenshot of the four sources cited at the episodes webpage: Sources: Terry Glavin’s analysis of antisemitism in Canada (link) https://www.cija.ca/the_explosion_of_jew_hate_in_trudeau_s_canada_the_free_press 48% of Canadian Muslims express antisemitic sentiments (link) https://cjs.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cjs/article/view/40368/36623 Survey of Jewish Canadian support for aid to Gaza (link) https://assets.nationbuilder.com/jspace/pages/2833/attachments/original/1749075795/JSpaceCanada_Canadian_Jewish_Vote_2025_TopLine.pdf.pdf?1749075795 Canadian attitudes towards Jews and Muslims, 2025 (link) https://cjs.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cjs/article/view/40416
December 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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If you challenge the genocide of Gaza, this is what you are up against:

'Antisemitism' narratives that say Musk doing Nazi salutes and supporting the far-right aren't anything to be concerned about - but that you are “facilitating deranged and murderous Jew-hatred” by opposing Israel's atrocities
Screenshot of four paragraphs with a sub-heading halfway through. Link of source is included at bottom of this alt-text. A case in point is the Jewish Chronicle, the world’s oldest Jewish newspaper. In December 2024, the Chronicle published an article by commentator Melanie Phillips, who wrote: “Deranged fear and hatred of Jews and the aim of exterminating them define the Palestinian cause … Left-wing governments that ideologically support the Palestinian cause and also kowtow to Muslim constituencies in which Jew-hatred is rife, shockingly recycle the lies about Israel.” Claiming that the worst offenders have been “the governments in Britain, Australia and Canada”, Phillips concluded by casting all supporters of the Palestinian cause as “facilitating deranged and murderous Jew-hatred”. Stripped of meaning Three weeks later, the Chronicle published an article entitled: “Did Elon Musk really perform a Nazi salute at Trump rally?” The subtitle assured readers that “Jewish charities deny it was a Nazi reference”, while the Anti-Defamation League was quoted as saying that Musk’s gesture was “awkward” but not a Nazi salute. The juxtaposition of these articles – one conflating pro-Palestinian activism with murderous antisemitism, and the other downplaying the concrete dangers of antisemitism, as manifested in a nefarious salute by one of the world’s most powerful people – provides a gateway into the Chronicle’s universe, and its aggressive campaign against any demonstration of solidarity with Palestinians. Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/05/how-the-jewish-chronicle-weaponizes-antisemitism-to-fuel-a-moral-panic/
December 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Today in Ottawa, protest & sit-in outside CBC to push for media coverage of the #ArmsEmbargoNow #CloseTheLoopholes bill in Parliament.

181 Queen St, 12pm-2pm. #CdnMedia
#Palestine #Solidarity
Poster image: In multi-coloured horizontal bars covering the background of what is presumably a photo of the CBC office on Sparks St. / Queen St. in Ottawa, the following text appears. It is followed by a logo at the bottom for "Palestine Solidarity Ottawa Centre": Ottawa: Mobilize Together Protest & Sit-In CBC: Cover the Bill! Close the Loopholes! Monday December 8, 12pm-2pm CBC Building (181 Queen St) Arms Embargo Now!
December 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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The guy on the left should be Colin Mochrie and then it is "Whose Line Is It Anyways?"
Photo of Canadian comedian Colin Mochrie who does slightly resemble the FIFA president, being a white man who is mainly bald.
December 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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I wonder if what you're pointing out relates to this?
[Bsky screenshot of other replies to OP:] ‪greg macdougall (613)‬ ‪@equitableeducation.ca‬· 2m I'm surprised that they don't need an expert opinion directly testifying to the case, but simply cite an internet article to base their judgement on. Do judges often get expertise on the topics they're addressing by doing internet searches and using layperson articles? ‪ [The next three replies are threaded together] Honest J‬ ‪@frangsbo.bsky.social‬· 15h @benjaminjriley.bsky.social is quoted in there. ‪Benjamin Riley‬ ‪@benjaminjriley.bsky.social‬· 15h Oh wow, thanks for pointing me to this! ‪ greg macdougall (613)‬ ‪@equitableeducation.ca‬· 1m I'm not critiquing the knowledge, but am surprised at the process [links to first comment in this screeshot]
December 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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I was going to agree, because the image does put words in your mouth basically.

But then, if a commenter or analyst is explaining something, it doesn't mean they endorse the thing, they just are making sense of it.

PS how does *strategically* avoiding Engler score a point for incompetence theory?
Screenshot from substack article, https://noraloreto.substack.com/p/is-the-ndp-sabotaging-its-own-leadership [The sentence at the end of the second paragraph is highlighted: "Another point for my incompetence theory."] It’s possible that it wasn’t entirely incomeptence, however. The second possibility is that the event was organized when it was to avoid having a French-language debate with a sixth candidate who actually speaks French involved. Had Yves Engler been on that stage, the entire thing would have looked even more ridiculous. Engler, an Anglophone, speaks French. He would have been the only candidate who Quebecers could actually understand, and they would have heard a radical, anti-imperialist message that the party wouldn’t want to be the only thing Quebecers heard in a debate. For the party, projecting an NDP that is Anglophone and uninterested in Quebec is a better political play than projecting an NDP where the only coherant soundbites played in the French media would be “Get Canada out of NATO now.” Another point for my incompetence theory. The party has not yet vetted Engler, and it’s possible that they rushed through with the French-language debate as fast as they could, to avoid having him on that stage (which is also why I think it was unstrategic for the Engler campaign to wait to submit his candidacy).
December 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Very very well worth listening to message from Adrienne Codett of Black on Black, CHUO 89.1 FM radio Ottawa.

The station is at risk of going off air in less than two weeks.

Support *independent* media.
Support **community** media.
chuo.fm

Full 8-minute video: www.instagram.com/p/DRqw7yhgDqu/
December 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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NEWS: Ottawa Crown seeks 2-year sentence for ex-city lawyer who defaced National Holocaust Monument with "FEED ME" graffiti (re: Gaza genocide) www.cbc.ca/9.6998540

I wrote this bit ⬇️ to counter the dominant #antisemitism narrative on this case. @mspratt.bsky.social is the defence lawyer. #ottnews
“FEED ME” and red paint on the National Holocaust Monument In the early hours of 2025-06-09, the words feed “FEED ME” were graffitied onto the side of the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa, along with splashes of red paint. The culprit eventually pled guilty to a charge of ‘mischief to a war memorial.’ The vandalism was widely perceived and portrayed as an act of antisemitism: “This is pure hate against Jews” – Iddo Moed; “This doesn’t feel like it’s about Israel” – CIJA; “It’s ridiculous to say that this was not motivated by hate” – Lawrence Greenspon. In a bail ruling, the judge stated it “could be seen as weaponizing through extreme hatred, targeting the vulnerabilities of a section of our community.” In his plea, the culprit acknowledged the pain caused to the Jewish community; his lawyer explained afterwards, “He looks forward to demonstrating that his motivation was rooted in a desire to call attention to human suffering, not to cause harm or spread intolerance.” The Monument commemorates the Jewish and other victims of Nazi Germany and its collaborators, and is also a tribute to the survivors. Its Committee has a duty to “ensure that the atrocities that occurred during this dark period of history are remembered and that we never forget the lessons of the past.” So while the graffiti on the Monument is seen by some as an attack on Jews, it can also be perceived as aligning with the overarching principles the Monument represents against genocide in general. But Monument Committee co-chair Lawrence Greenspon stated, “It’s high time that the leaders of the world, including our own prime minister, stop blaming Israel for the situation in Gaza. It is not a situation that was created by Israel, nor is it one that is being continued by Israel,” and that this ‘unfounded’ criticism of Israel “is fueling the fires of hatred which cause these types of crimes.” The other perspective can be understood via Omer Bartov... [continued in zine at EquitableEducation.ca]
December 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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worth reading illwill.com/new-fascisms
Drawing upon a wide range of influences from Bordiga, Marcuse, and Mattick to contemporary writers such as Lazzarato, Bifo, Toscano, and Endnotes, the authors trace the evolution of the “fascist solution” to capitalist crisis from its roots in the 20th century to today, emphasizing its tendency toward mutation, evolution, and adaptation. Among their important conclusions is that what sets the “new fascisms” apart from those of the past is not their emergence within the framework of democracy, which was already true of their 20th century predecessors. Rather, the difference lies in how contemporary liberal states “were able to perfect fascist policies and allow them to be deployed even within a democratic framework, to the point that they have been able to build an industry around crime and insecurity as justifications for the establishment of these policies.” In this respect, it is all the more striking that criticism of the fascistic tendencies of the Trump administration has not been accompanied by a thoroughgoing
November 27, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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"The reality is that fascism is a historical product conditioned by the development of capitalism, and it obtains its characteristics from the context and epoch where it emerges; however, this precisely makes possible a variety of forms that share a basic feature: to protect a capitalism in crisis."
Screenshot from Ill Will website (IllWill.com): New Fascisms and the Reconfiguration of the Global Counterrevolution Nueva Icaria August 11th, 2025
November 27, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Algorithm to the rescue!
[Bsky screenshot of two consecutive posts, with "Discover" tab underlined at top.] ‪America-The Republic of Suffering‬ ‪@iampilgrim.bsky.social‬ · 10h Americans as a whole still do not understand the dangers of Fascism. ‪ Melissa Gira Grant‬ ‪@melissagiragrant.com‬ · 9h For at least a year, I've been returning to the question, how would you know when it's time to leave the US? For this piece, I asked trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer Americans who, with their families and partners, have recently fled the country, about how they made this decision and how they left. [Link preview, with image of Air Portugal plane flying in blue sky] When Is It Time to Flee? Trans people and their families are facing hard questions and choices as threats to their safety and rights proliferate. newrepublic.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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If you want to ignore my comment about how a simple "It's important" can be regarded as "intellectual laziness" then have no worries and just let it be, and feel free to keep accusing people of things.
Screenshot of r.gilmore instagram post with caption "This is important! Watch to the end for a surprise."
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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An AI hallucination brought on indirectly by @deanbaker13.bsky.social's post.

Baker cited Social Security Trustees data saying USA per capita income would be 15.4% higher by 2035, 32.6% by 2045, and 54.3% by 2055.

That seemed suspect, so I asked the search engine.
AI says it goes up even quicker!
DuckDuckGo search result screenshot Search bar: "per capita income in united states year by year changes" 'Search Assist' answer, with AI logo preceding it: "Per capita income in the United States has shown a general upward trend over the years. For example, it was approximately $37,683 in 2022 and is projected to reach around $73,207 in 2024, reflecting consistent growth in personal income levels." Links: "Wikipedia" "Our World in Data" "Auto-generated based on listed sources. May contain inaccuracies." "Was this helpful?"
November 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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For posterity

"Trump to Dems: Release the Files"

It is very much like 1984, where things change day by day and you can't be allowed to know what was happening yesterday in case it contradicts with what is happening today.
A screenshot from the 'Newsmax2' video clip in the quoted post. It is of the text along the bottom of the screen, from the 0:09 second mark in the video. The large bar of text reads, "Trump to Dems: Release the Files" written in all caps, with a red "National Update" bar above it.
November 19, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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"Trump to Dems: Release the Files"

It is very much like 1984, where things change day by day and you can't be allowed to know what was happening yesterday in case it contradicts with what is happening today.
A screenshot from the text along the bottom of the video in the original post. It indicates it is from the 0:09 second mark, and the large bar of text reads, "Trump to Dems: Release the Files" written in all caps, and with a red "National Update" bar above it.
November 19, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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2/ Just over $10,000 to go in CKCU Funding Drive.

Reminder, it's "CKCU 93.1 FM Day" in Ottawa today as proclaimed by the City*, for @ckcufm.bsky.social 50 Y👂s

First community-based campus radio station in Canada!
Donate: cod.ckcufm.com/pledge/index...

*even Mayor Sutcliffe was a former volunteer
A partial screenshot from the CKCU website: on black background, in white text at top it says "LET's GOOO!" followed by a red box "Donate Now." There are the cut-off ends of four lines of text on the left-hand side underneath, "for 50 years", "range of", "or holding", "builds trust". In the middle is the logo in yellow and white, with a '5' and '0' on top with a 'Y' and an image of an ear with a small 'S' afterwards. At the bottom is a bar indicating the funding progress, the filled in grey bar has "$183,002.18 raised" written within it, then there is a small red part of the bar to the right, with "$193,100 goal" written beside it.
November 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM