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404 Media @404media.co · 2h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

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The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 23m

New column from me at @xtramagazine.com: The premiers violating your Charter rights don't want the courts to weigh in #canqueer #cdnpoli

The premiers violating your Charter rights don’t want the courts to weigh in | Xtra Magazine

When it comes to the Notwithstanding Clause, premiers opposed to the federal government’s factum are showing their true colours

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Sean Devine @seandevine9.bsky.social · 22m

This is the 2nd time I’ve heard Edmonton City Architect Carol Belanger talk about procurement and design in his city. These are municipal buildings. They encourage excellence over cost, to get best value for residents.

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All things Canadian tennis @cdntennis.ca · 5h

#Wuhan : Canadian Bianca Andreescu and Yuan Yue def. Errani/Paolini by walkover in the second round. #CdnTennis

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Johanne Boucher 🇨🇦 @johanneboucher.bsky.social · 4h

Elle est ici @roseclaire.bsky.social, si ça peut aider.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 5h

Russia has delivered Pantsir-S1 air defense systems to North Korea, now reportedly deployed to protect Pyongyang, Budanov said. Russian personnel are training North Koreans to operate them independently. In return, Moscow expects North Korean citizens to join its army under contract as “volunteers.”

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Johanne Boucher 🇨🇦 @johanneboucher.bsky.social · 4h

« On ne veut pas ou ne peut pas taxer les grandes entreprises et le capital assez pour financer adéquatement nos écoles, nos garderies et nos services sociaux. Mais on peut blâmer les immigrants… »

Et autres excellents points. 👍🏻

Luc Normandin @luconormandin.bsky.social · 5h

S’enfler à en crever
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S’enfler à en crever

Le nationalisme conservateur projette une impression d’hommes d’État forts… pour qui arrive à y croire.

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Patricia Tessier @patriciatessier.bsky.social · 5h

"Pourquoi a-t-on jugé que c’était une bonne idée de faire dépendre un demi-million d’emplois, principalement dans la province la plus populeuse, d’une industrie sur laquelle non seulement les travailleurs mais le capital canadien n’ont pas de contrôle ?"

Luc Normandin @luconormandin.bsky.social · 5h

S’enfler à en crever
www.ledevoir.com/opinion/chro...

S’enfler à en crever

Le nationalisme conservateur projette une impression d’hommes d’État forts… pour qui arrive à y croire.

www.ledevoir.com

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Johanne Boucher 🇨🇦 @johanneboucher.bsky.social · 4h

They lost the series though. 😊

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Isabel Picornell @picornell.bsky.social · 5h

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”
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#NobelPrize #Literature

Nobel Prize in Literature

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Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 5h

Anyone else expecting them to say immigrants are eating cats and dogs?

#OhCanada

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Conservatives want to end birthright citizenship for children of temporary residents

The Conservatives want to restrict birthright citizenship in Canada, a measure they say would mirror the rules in peer countries.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Many patients have been forced into useless and sometimes dangerous “buck up” treatments such as Graded Exercise Therapy and CBT, in some cases long after these “treatments” have been debunked. The most eminent advocate of these treatments? Professor Sir Simon Wesseley.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Like the Tories, the Labour government is trying to drive down the number of people who qualify for disability benefits by insisting there has been an epidemic of “overdiagnosis”: a favourite theme of the BBC and the junktanks of Tufton Street. Never mind the science: what outcome do we want?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Just as we are beginning to understand the biochemical basis of this horrendous condition, the government appoints the man perhaps most responsible for the mischaracterisation of ME/CFS – Simon Wesseley - to its *overdiagnosis* commission. www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

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Heather J. "Witchy" Wood🧙‍♀️ @rollwithheather.bsky.social · 5h

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel Prize in literature
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Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel Prize in literature | CBC Books

He also won the Man Booker Prize in 2015.

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Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social · 16h

This man is a ghoul. Crap police work and shitty record keeping means he’s free while his victims struggle. Disgusting.

Karen Pauls @karenpaulscbc.bsky.social · 17h

A judge has stayed all charges in the Winnipeg sexual assault case against disgraced fashion mogul Peter #Nygard, finding his Charter right to a fair trial was breached by police failing to retain records related to allegations stemming from the 1990s. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Judge stays charges against Peter Nygard in Winnipeg sexual assault case | CBC News

A judge has stayed all charges in the Winnipeg sexual assault case against disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard, finding his right to a fair trial was violated by police failing to retain records rela...

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Johanne Boucher 🇨🇦 @johanneboucher.bsky.social · 16h

Appreciated your interview on The Decibel - you convinced me.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 17h

Dogshit police work means a serial rapist walks.

Where is the justice for the countless survivors of this monster?

Karen Pauls @karenpaulscbc.bsky.social · 17h

A judge has stayed all charges in the Winnipeg sexual assault case against disgraced fashion mogul Peter #Nygard, finding his Charter right to a fair trial was breached by police failing to retain records related to allegations stemming from the 1990s. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Judge stays charges against Peter Nygard in Winnipeg sexual assault case | CBC News

A judge has stayed all charges in the Winnipeg sexual assault case against disgraced fashion mogul Peter Nygard, finding his right to a fair trial was violated by police failing to retain records rela...

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