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K Barn @karlbarn.bsky.social · 6d

Between Tranjan getting a piece in the Star and the recent editorial by @lindamcquaig.bsky.social about postal banking 💰 📮, I feel like I'm living in a bizarro world where good faith discourse on the public good is coming back.

Ricardo Tranjan @ricardotranjan.bsky.social · 6d

The new $ 17.60-an-hour minimum wage is an arbitrary figure that could and needs to be much higher. Why is it not?

Because the Ontario government is making the political choice to keep minimum wage workers poor.

My latest @thestar.com

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Ricardo Tranjan: Here comes the new minimum wage — with the same problem as the old one

Doug Ford is choosing to keep workers poor when the minimum wage could be and needs to be much higher

www.thestar.com

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Linda McQuaig @lindamcquaig.bsky.social · 4d

Hey, thanks, Ron. Yes, the book (written with tax prof Neil Brooks) explains how a modest wealth tax on ultra-wealthy Canadians could raise billions a year, and make this a much more equal country. If billionaires chose to leave, they'd face a hefty exit tax. #canlab

Ron Stadnik @rons1984.bsky.social · 7d

@lindamcquaig.bsky.social has a new book coming out in January about the case for a wealth tax on billionaires could shift some of the pie back towards regular CDNs. See: www.dundurn.com/books_/t2211...

Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us - Dundurn

With over 2,300 books in print, Dundurn Press is recognized for producing high quality, award-winning books across multiple genres.

www.dundurn.com

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Ricardo Tranjan @ricardotranjan.bsky.social · 6d

The new $ 17.60-an-hour minimum wage is an arbitrary figure that could and needs to be much higher. Why is it not?

Because the Ontario government is making the political choice to keep minimum wage workers poor.

My latest @thestar.com

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Ricardo Tranjan: Here comes the new minimum wage — with the same problem as the old one

Doug Ford is choosing to keep workers poor when the minimum wage could be and needs to be much higher

www.thestar.com

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Linda McQuaig @lindamcquaig.bsky.social · 4d

There is no place at our universities for this Trump-style violence against student protesters, who are committing no crime and are standing up for international law. #cndpoli #onpoli #topoli www.instagram.com/p/DOzEHEOkeeH/

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rabble.ca @rabble.ca · 6d

Postal banking once made Canada Post profitable — and could again #canlab @lindamcquaig.bsky.social

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Postal banking once made Canada Post profitable — and could again

Canada Post discontinued postal banking nearly 60 years ago. Is it time for postal banking to make a comeback?

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

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Linda McQuaig @lindamcquaig.bsky.social · Aug 7

Here's another great thing about public health care -- it's beyond the reach of Trump's tariffs. So let's stop underfunding it. #cdnpoli #onpoli #tariffwars www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Linda McQuaig: Public health care is a vital domestic industry and it’s beyond Trump’s reach. Strengthening it should be a priority

The business crowd tends to portray our public health care and education systems as little more than costly drains on our public resources. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

www.thestar.com

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Linda McQuaig @lindamcquaig.bsky.social · May 15

It was public--not private--enterprise that built this country: CNR, Ontario Hydro, the crown corporation that led to the Avro Arrow. Too bad we've forgotten. #cdnpoli #canlab
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Linda McQuaig: There’s much talk about building a stronger Canada, but silence about the one strategy that actually worked

If we’re truly interested in bold ideas, Canada should free ourselves from the notion that the only way to build a country is to cater to corporate titans.

www.thestar.com

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Ron Stadnik @rons1984.bsky.social · 7d

@lindamcquaig.bsky.social has a new book coming out in January about the case for a wealth tax on billionaires could shift some of the pie back towards regular CDNs. See: www.dundurn.com/books_/t2211...

Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us - Dundurn

With over 2,300 books in print, Dundurn Press is recognized for producing high quality, award-winning books across multiple genres.

www.dundurn.com

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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 6d

This politician is a nation-breaker not a nation builder, proposing to ram a new oil pipeline through BC that British Columbians don't want; a pipeline doomed by economics to be a stranded asset before it's finished.
Smith is everything we don't need in a political leader.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Alberta to apply to Major Projects Office for new bitumen pipeline to northern B.C. coast | CBC News

The Alberta government plans to develop and submit a formal application to the federal Major Projects Office for a new bitumen pipeline to the northwest coast of British Columbia.

www.cbc.ca

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 8d

Comey’s indictment exposes stunningly amateur missteps by Trump’s insurance-lawyer-turned-prosecutor. Barbara McQuade dissects the flaws and explains why the case is unlikely to reach trial.
@barbmcquade.bsky.social

The very botched Comey indictment

The case so far is so sloppy, it might never get to a jury.

contrarian.substack.com

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 9d

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 9d

Minnesota’s soybean farmers produced a bumper crop this year, just to find out they have nowhere to sell their harvest thanks to Trump’s trade policies.

I’ll keep standing with our farmers
to advocate for an end to these reckless tariffs.

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Soybean Week Shines A Light On Minnesota's Farmers From September 29 To October 5

Minnesota's Governor Walz has declared Soybean Week as farmers face challenges from tariffs and lost exports to China, urging locals to support the backbone of our agricultural economy.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9d

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Linda McQuaig @lindamcquaig.bsky.social · 8d

Here’s something that could make Canada Post profitable — like it did before -- but instead Mark Carney wants to gut our national post office. That’s no way to build a nation. #canlab #cdnpoli #postal #canpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Linda McQuaig: Postal banking once made Canada Post profitable — and could again

Providing banking services to rural and low-income Canadians through post offices would be a Canada-first form of nation-building for the people.

www.thestar.com

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 8d

#Renewables Are a Global Economic Engine, Not a Culture War Threat
Energy companies are learning this lesson fast.
#climate
www.desmog.com/2025/09/29/r...

Renewables Are a Global Economic Engine, Not a Culture War Threat

Energy companies are learning this lesson faster than Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

www.desmog.com

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 9d

Erasing history.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9d

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.

I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.

Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9d

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 9d

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 9d

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 12d

Manitoba's future rests upon building out the green economy based on comprehensive electrification and rapid development of renewables. Investing in fossil fuels - like pipelines to Churchill - will condemn Manitoba to being an economic backwater. #MbPoli
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

Premier Wab Kinew vows to turn Manitoba into a ‘have’ province by 2040

The NDP government has launched an economic development strategy intended to boost Manitoba’s fortunes by making it a “have” province by 2040.

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Scott Forbes🇨🇦 @theecologyprof.bsky.social · 12d

Pretty simple concept: you pollute, you pay. #EndFossilFuels
www.nationofchange.org/2025/09/25/f...

Former leaders urge permanent polluter profit taxes to fund climate action | NationofChange

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 12d

This is what unity looks like.

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