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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 2h

This is extremely alarming. Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social won the federal election promising to make us *less* depending on the US. Now we are hearing reports that he is offering up a CLOSER energy and military partnership in exchange for a trade deal... 🧵

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Carney raised Keystone XL pipeline revival in meeting with Trump | CBC News

Relief for Canada from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum may come thanks to renewed interest in a pipeline project first proposed more than 15 years ago.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5h

Why are bad faith statements from white peoplethe defining feature of identity politics rather than the writers who actually wrote the theory being referenced?

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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 3h

We're going public today with a powerful new tool for researching, following and reporting on local governments across Canada.

It’s dragging cities and towns into the 21st century by making 550 municipalities’ public meetings easy to search, all in one place, for the first time.

Canada’s National Observer unveils a powerful tool for fighting disinformation

Civic Searchlight brings together municipal meeting transcripts from across Canada into a searchable database for the first time. It has already been used to fight disinformation, report on impact, di...

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 4h

It is an inexcusable omission, and editorial malpractice, for Reuters to omit mention that the President doing this kind of thing on a media platform he owns & has not divested is unprecedented, likely illegal and an ethical violation. The message itself is unprecedented and illegal. Why not say so?

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Flannery Dean @flannerydean.bsky.social · 4h

Seeing him call for arrest of two democratically elected leaders this am has made me less chuffed for potential market alignment.

Flannery Dean @flannerydean.bsky.social · 4h

Context missing from analysis of warm carney / trump meeting feels like a lot

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 4h

Googles the groom. More stories. It's all there.

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Firms with ties to Brampton councillor, mayor got ‘unfair advantage’ on contracts, docs say - Toronto | Globalnews.ca

An external investigation, alongside almost 500 pages of communications, memos and notes, suggests two firms with links to Brampton council members may have received an advantage.

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 8h

For those still trying to rewrite the history of what happened. Clinically vulnerable teachers and staff were never protected (and still aren’t) for airborne transmission. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Over 1,000 Educators Died From COVID. Here's the Story of One

Over two and a half years, we documented more than 1,300 deaths of educators who died from COVID.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 7h

"An English degree is a rip off" said by the people who are currently ripping everyone off. They don't want you to be literate, to understand the context, the references or the rhetoric they are using to scam you.

A rip off for THEM. If you can read, write and parse meaning, you're harder to fool.

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Heather J. "Witchy" Wood🧙‍♀️ @rollwithheather.bsky.social · 4h

I’m of the opinion we’d all be better off if more people studied English, World Literature, History, Philosophy, Classics, Art History, Music, Archaeology and Anthropology.

Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 7h

"An English degree is a rip off" said by the people who are currently ripping everyone off. They don't want you to be literate, to understand the context, the references or the rhetoric they are using to scam you.

A rip off for THEM. If you can read, write and parse meaning, you're harder to fool.

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Flannery Dean @flannerydean.bsky.social · 4h

Niece has received pin worm notice from school. Instructions my brother and SIL need to follow to monitor her have only convinced me that I have been so lucky never to get this notice.

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 5h

The names of all the children that are known, with many more likely buried under the rubble. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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Broadbent Institute @broadbent.bsky.social · 5h

Graphic promoting Carney’s Cuts with Angella MacEwen, part of Perspectives by the Broadbent Institute. It features a quote from Angella MacEwen that reads: “Mark Carney is [fulfilling] Reagan’s dream: Deregulate, break the unions, and shrink government so you can drown it in the bathtub.” Below the quote, text reads: “— Angella MacEwen, Broadbent Fellow & CUPE National Senior Economist.” On the right side is a photo of Angella MacEwen, wearing glasses and a dark cardigan, smiling against a dark background.

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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 5h

we are breaking new ground in Civ-Mil relations (I feel extremely nauseous ngl)

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 7h

Oregon National Guard general said that if they were deployed, his troops would be instructed to protect the protesters, not ICE.

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Jack Hauen @jackhauen.bsky.social · 7h

NEW: David Piccini, the minister whose office picks Skills Development Fund recipients, was in Paris this weekend at the wedding of a lobbyist whose clients received millions from that fund.

From me and @charliepinkerton.bsky.social.

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

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Flannery Dean @flannerydean.bsky.social · 5h

You get to do this 12x but ok if you “promise” it never happens again.

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Flannery Dean @flannerydean.bsky.social · 5h

It’s not the speeding that’s a threat to the public but protecting the speeder? Ok. Sure, bud.

Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 5h

NEW: Privacy officials with the Ontario government won’t release details of who was responsible for cabinet minister vehicles caught speeding, saying it would violate personal privacy and could threaten the “safety or health of an individual.” #OnPoli

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Ontario government won’t say which cabinet minister vehicles were speeding, citing safety | Globalnews.ca

Documents show vehicles assigned to Premier Doug Ford's cabinet ministers were caught by automated speed cameras 23 times, including one driving at 70 km/h in a 40 zone.

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 1d

From cancelling the carbon tax to pausing the electric vehicle mandate, Prime Minister Mark Carney is making sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental rules — and complicating Canada’s progress on climate change. thenarwhal.ca/mark-carney-...

How Mark Carney is complicating Canada’s climate progress | The Narwhal

From cancelling the carbon tax to pausing the EV mandate, Mark Carney’s government is making sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental rules

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 6h

With all the caveats about anonymous posters, this is still staggering, a revelation of what a sliver we see reported across mainstream & alt media combined; and this itself is obviously just a sliver. www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...

From the AskReddit community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskReddit community

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Daniel Samson @ruralcolonialns.bsky.social · 6h

Seeking editors for the revised edition

Cover of of A.R. M. Lower's book, Colony to Nation, modified by adding "To Colony" to the title.

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Alan Drummond MD @dralandrummond.bsky.social · 6h

My letter in today's Globe and Mail
Crowding and Prolonged Waits for Care are Not caused by low acuity patients and will not be solved by diverting them away from the ER.

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Flannery Dean @flannerydean.bsky.social · 6h

But that is nothing compared to opportunity to experience the enrichment of art, and excuse to dwell in landscapes forged by better minds. Rescued by knowing these landscapes exist

Flannery Dean @flannerydean.bsky.social · 6h

Can only say my English degrees gave me a set of tools and discipline to analyze, interpret and contextualize the intentions of the corrupt wankers that overwhelmingly make up majority of political class right now.

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