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Canada Post union says it will move from nationwide strike action to rotating strikes on Saturday | CBC News

JenniferD @juniperd.bsky.social · 13h

We had planned to - beginning this weekend - hand-deliver some of the local wedding invitations... but... do we put them in the mail!? With hope, more details are shared today by Canada Post about what 'rotating strikes' look like.

So far, planning our wedding has been a gong show. 🤣

JenniferD @juniperd.bsky.social · 13h

“Starting Saturday, October 11 at 6 AM local time, CUPW will move from a nationwide strike action to rotating strikes...This will start mail and parcels moving, while continuing our struggle for good collective agreements and a strong public postal service.”

#CdnPoli

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers, which represents 55,000 Canada Post workers, announced late Thursday that it will end its nationwide strike action and move to rotating strikes starting Saturday....

Carney announces long-awaited automatic tax filing, makes school food program permanent | CBC News

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JenniferD @juniperd.bsky.social · 13h

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday that his government will begin rolling out an automatic tax filing system for low-income Canadians and will make the school food program permanent, in advan...

Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront

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Lynn Coady @lynncoady.bsky.social · 18h

“I still think back to the moment when those plants were discovered. It was joyful. This whole project has becone a celebration.” Consider this story of renewal your Friday timeline cleanse www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton

www.theguardian.com

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 14h

You know how local media is getting decimated as disinformation floods in?

Well, my friends at @nationalobserver.com have created an incredibly cool new tool for keeping an eye on local politics.

Check it out:

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JenniferD @juniperd.bsky.social · 1d

Oh. Missed this: The 2025 MacArthur Fellows have been announced! What a feeling this must be to receive an $800,000 (USD) "genius grant".

Among the recipients, author Tommy Orange. #Booksky

Congratulations to all the new Fellows!

www.macfound.org/programs/awa...

MacArthur Fellows - MacArthur Foundation

The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to ...

www.macfound.org

JenniferD @juniperd.bsky.social · 1d

(This post brought to you by 'circumcision causes autism' - and I am very annoyed that I know this was said today.)

a woman says oh my god in front of a hand soap dispenser

JenniferD @juniperd.bsky.social · 1d

I am really not one who swears very often... or wasn't, until that guy got into politics. Now, "They're such a fucking tool!" Is a regular part of my vocabulary. Sadly, there are far too many in the bag of hammers, and every day is a whole new shitshow.

Alt: GIF from the TV series Schitt's Creek. Character Moira, wearing a silver jacket, turns to the left, looking completely exasperated, and says, "Oh my god."

media.tenor.com

Here Are the Finalists for the 2025 National Book Awards

JenniferD @juniperd.bsky.social · 2d

Love to see this!! Canadian author and journalist Omar El Akkad’s “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” is a nonficiton nominee for the 2025 National Book Awards. His important book is about the response of America and Europe in Gaza.

#Booksky

www.nytimes.com

Clients of lobby firms connected to premier, his nephew given tens of millions in training funds

JenniferD @juniperd.bsky.social · 2d

Burnside also said this (he is, and I can say this confidently as a resident of his former ward, a tool):

Matt Elliott @graphicmatt.com · 2d

Councillor Burnside, a former cop, says when he used to do traffic enforcement on Avenue Road he wouldn't stop drivers unless they were doing 75 km/h or over.

"Maybe that was a little high," he admits. "A little high," agrees Gray.

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Tyler Watt @tylerwatt.bsky.social · 3d

Lobbyists tied to Doug Ford & his nephew helped clients secure $100M from a fund meant to train workers and build Ontario - a fund the Auditor General slammed as unfair & unaccountable.

This is a $2.5B slush fund for friends, donors & operatives. #onpoli

www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

Groups represented by a lobbying firm owned by the premier’s campaign manager got more than $100 million in grant money, a Trillium analysis has found

www.thetrillium.ca

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JenniferD @juniperd.bsky.social · 3d

"The findings suggest it is possible for the world to wean off polluting sources of power — even as demand for electricity skyrockets — with continued investment in renewables including solar, wind, hydropower, bioenergy and geothermal energies."

Renewables become biggest source of electricity globally for 1st time, beating coal | CBC News

Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal, according to a new an...

Bob Ross paintings will be auctioned in support of U.S. public TV stations | CBC News

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JenniferD @juniperd.bsky.social · 3d

If you ever wanted a happy little tree, now may be your time!

Thirty paintings by Ross, whose TV show The Joy of Painting aired on public TV stations in the 1980s and 90s, will be auctioned off with proceeds going to stations that use content from distributor Am...

TVO Today | Current Affairs Journalism, Documentaries and Podcasts

JenniferD @juniperd.bsky.social · 3d

"...the proper way to understand this fight isn’t as a premier demonstrating his strength, much less lending his muscle to help out the little guy. It’s an example of how much is going wrong everywhere else in the province — and how little Ford has been able to influence events." #OnPoli

www.tvo.org

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Marilyn @stealthbirder.bsky.social · 3d

They are playing you. Don't listen to the faux ex-Gops like Joe Walsh who talk about grabbing a "musket" to defend the country. That's just what this regime wants. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

JenniferD @juniperd.bsky.social · 4d

Growing up, my neighbour was a high school English teacher and "hopefully" was the bee in her bonnet. She also taught drama, so it could all get quite theatrical. She never shied from the opportunity to correct someone. 🤣

JenniferD @juniperd.bsky.social · 4d

This headline is a choice. Please do better, Toronto Star.

‘We're All Getting Screwed. I’ve Had Enough’ | The Tyee

JenniferD @juniperd.bsky.social · 4d

Champagne tastes on a tap water budget. 🤣😭

JenniferD @juniperd.bsky.social · 4d

"But when we ask for more, we’re told we’re greedy, that we’re asking for too much, while these corporations are getting millions and billions-even trillions now-in profits every year. They’re stealing our money. And when we complain or demand better, we’re deemed the bad ones. That’s unacceptable."

He was a dockworker, then a labour leader. Now Rob Ashton wants to lead the federal NDP. A Tyee Q&A.

thetyee.ca

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JenniferD @juniperd.bsky.social · 4d

Very cool (and important) development that could be especially helpful (eventually) for those with autoimmune diseases.
#NobelPrizeInMedicine #NobelPrize

The Nobel Prize in medicine goes to 3 scientists for work on the human immune system

They won for their work on peripheral immune tolerance, which is one way the body helps keep the immune system from getting out of whack and attacking your own tissues..

apnews.com

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 7d

Man I wish gerry conway was on here

Conway particularly hates seeing his creation repurposed by the police: “I think the way cops use it is extrajudicial: they are cops, and they are going to punish you. And the Punisher is an outlaw. He’s a symbol of the failure of the justice system to treat everyone equally … About three years ago when it started to show up on police cars and on challenge coins that cops were using, I was really disturbed, because it was such a fundamental misunderstanding of what the character was and was supposed to represent. In that sense, he’s been completely defiled.”

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 7d

Feel like I buried the lede with that screenshot. Anyway gerry conway is a cool dude

How do you stop the far-right using the Punisher skull? Make it a Black Lives Matter symbol

Gerry Conway, co-creator of the popular Marvel outlaw, has been appalled to see his iconography appropriated by white supremacists - and aims to turn the tables

www.theguardian.com

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JenniferD @juniperd.bsky.social · 7d

This grown-ass adult man is the president of the United States. You think it cant get worse, or weirder, and he manages to find a way.

Blue Öyster Cult better come at this hard.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7d

Posted by the President of the United States.