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Pembina Institute @pembina.org · 2d

🔔🆕 Manitoba’s new climate plan sets net-zero by 2050, with time-bound legislated targets and reporting. We’re excited to see it centre Indigenous collaboration, clean job transitions & #RenewableEnergy.

“This isn’t an obligation – it’s an opportunity.” — Minister Mike Moyes

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 6d

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 5d

I haven't lived in Ottawa for a decade and I immediately remember Paulette. May her memory be a blessing.

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely. This is politics, not good policy.

Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 6d

My gut sense is that she is a separatist, given how much she refuses Canadian identity and her primary identity, and her rhetoric matches that (the feds are always the enemy).

But yes, I think politics is her sport, so to speak.

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 6d

"It distracts her voters from focusing on her own government’s failures, which range from failing healthcare and education systems and numerous corruption scandals to one of the highest unemployment rates in the country."

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 6d

"Maybe, for all of her rhetorical crusading, she might actually prefer to see these new pipelines stay on the drawing board.

Being able to blame Ottawa for the lack of progress is a useful political cudgel, one she deploys at almost every available opportunity" #abpoli

Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 6d

Danielle Smith's government has finally found a proponent for its latest pipeline dream: itself.

Here's what she'd actually have to do to see it get built — and why she probably won't do it. #cdnpoli #abpoli

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/02/o...

How Alberta could actually get its pipeline

If Danielle Smith actually wants to advance the prospects of a new oil pipeline, she needs to do more than just rattle her well-worn sabre at Ottawa.

www.nationalobserver.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 7d

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 7d

Our world lost one of the great ones today. I'm so thankful for all Jane Goodall brought into our lives. RIP

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 8d

Excellent way of visualizing and explaining the choices facing each of us collectively: Will #reconcilation move beyond the symbolic or performative to transformative, impactful change? It's up to we non-Indigenous folks here in #Canada to keep doing the hard work and staying on the path.

Yellowhead Institute @miskoaki.bsky.social · 21d

September 30th is National Day for Truth & Reconciliation. As we approach this day, how can we avoid symbolic performances of reconciliation and equip ourselves to work toward transformative change? Check out these resources and more on our website: yellowheadinstitute.org. Linked in bio.

A red text box at the top reads: "Education Resources". Title text reads: "How Do You Like Your Reconciliation?" A venn diagram demonstrates 4 overlapping circles. The circles include 1. Symbolic: Centres "efforts" by Canadians. 2. Easy: Low-hanging fruit, quick wins. 3. Transformative: Centres Indigenous self-determination, 4. Impactful: Empowers Indigenous peoples.

Overlapping with Symbolic, easy, and impactful is: renaming
Overlapping with symbolic and impactful is: contrition: accountability + apology.
Overlapping with Easy, impactful: funding, data transparency, sharing power.
Overlapping with easy, impactful, and transformative: non-existent.
Overlapping with impactful and transformative: justice for Indigenous peoples, land back.
Overlapping with easy and transformative: Settler fantasy.
Overlapping with symbolic and easy is: exploitative, performative "allyship", and inclusion.

A dotted line separates the diagram and text that reads: "As we approach National Day for Truth & Reconciliation, consider where the actions you’re taking or observing fall according to this diagram. Are they transformative, impactful, symbolic, easy or somewhere in-between?"

A yellow text box reads: "Map / Education Resource". Title text reads: "The Yellowhead Treaty Map" A star designed by Michelle Sound is displayed. Next to it, text reads: "Covering every treaty since 1763, the Treaty Map depicts three eras of Treaty Making in Canada, Pre-Confederation, Confederation, and "modern". Each treaty contains descriptions on the context, terms, negotiation, and implementation of the treaty." A yellow text box contains the URL: treatymap.yellowheadinstitute.org.

A dotted line separates text at the bottom that reads: "When you recite a land acknowledgement, are you actually engaging with what it means to occupy stolen land? Are you encouraging your audience to learn about how the territories you live on were dispossessed and remain contested?"

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 8d

But thanks to a charity mindset, it wasn't treated as an urgent problem to solve.

Maybe the anger about the new system not running frequently enough & early/late enough will shake us/Council out of it. But I think we need to vote only for people who get why great transit is essential next fall.

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 8d

I call it the "good enough" attitude, which fosters a deep complacency.

The old transit system was brutal! When I moved here, I lived the first year without a car, as I had for 15 years before (in Halifax, Ottawa, Calgary, & Toronto). It was impossible in terms of time demands.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 14d

I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy

www.nytimes.com

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 13d

For example, that our transit master plan is set to roll out over 25 years rather than 5, 8, or 10 years is a choice. It's a good plan, but Winnipeg is already decades behind in building the transit system a city our size needs, and taking 25 years to catch up to *what we need now* is a problem.

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 13d

Can you share that? I'm not seeing it in my news scan. Thank you!

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 13d

#Winnipeg city council needs to stop treating transit as if it is charity. Transit is one of the major responsibilities of any city.

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 13d

"This redesign isn’t a final product, but a new frame to give city council many options to improve service across the city, should they choose to turn up the dial."

Systems reflect Winnipeg city Council choices & priorities. Level of service problems (incl frequency issues) are easily fixed.

daveelmore12 @daveelmore12.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks to @mmarginet.bsky.social for clarifying some of the misunderstandings of our new transit system and making it clear that "It doesn’t matter what a city says it wants to be, a city’s vision is shown in what it chooses to budget for." t.ly/ixbKX

Opinion: Funding Transit a necessity

While the new Winnipeg Transit network launched in June 2025 has achieved many of its objectives, it’s important to assess what is and isn’t working in order to see Winnipeg Transit reach its full pot...

t.ly

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Julie Penner @julespenner.bsky.social · 14d

Good piece by @mmarginet.bsky.social on the new Winnipeg Transit routes.

No new operating funding for transit while continuing to budget hundreds of millions of dollars to expand Kenaston (to save, at best, 12 seconds of travel time in one area of the city) and road budgets with ongoing “record levels” of investment, makes it clear to transit riders: your comfort and convenience is not as important as those who drive.

Transit is crucial for our cities as they continue to grow. It costs cities seven to nine times more per trip to move a person in a personal vehicle versus on a bus.

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mmarginet @mmarginet.bsky.social · 13d

My ❤️ breaks for this family.

Waiting for the bus the other evening on Osborne, I was trying to read at the stop and it was disconcerting how fast vehicles were flying by just a few feet away. You really feel vulnerable having to stand in the crash zone.

#wpgpoli #winnipeg #mbpoli

Print screen of the Free Press story titled Family seeks details after mother killed in crash.

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 16d

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 19d

I'm so happy both of these people are running for federal NDP leader. I know Avi's father's impact (and about some of Avi's own) and have really enjoyed Heather MacPherson's voice in Parliament. I love the idea of a meaningful race for leadership #ndp

Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 19d

OTTAWA – Filmmaker and journalist Avi Lewis officially announced he is running for the NDP leadership in a video shared on social media Friday morning.

Avi Lewis launches NDP leadership bid as Heather McPherson prepares campaign

OTTAWA – Filmmaker and journalist Avi Lewis officially announced he is running for the NDP leadership in a video shared on social media Friday morning.

www.winnipegfreepress.com

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 19d

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us.

We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.

That's the revolution.

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 20d

#Winnipeg feel seen by this

Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · Nov 13

A typical North American city’s bike infrastructure:

Child’s wooden train set with various disconnected and partially connected pieces

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 20d

The key problem with what Ezra Klein says here is that he fails – or is unwilling – to grapple with the fundamental reality of the political conflict: The movement that dominates today’s Right fully rejects the very idea of “living here with each other” as equals. That’s their defining position.

Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 21d

"All I can say for me in the work I do is that I want to create a space that takes our disagreements seriously, that takes the stakes of them seriously, the consequences for people seriously, but does so without deepening our divisions irreparably. We are going to have to live here with each other"

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 20d

"We are going to have to live here with each other" is one of the most revealing things he could have said, because it ignores the fact that many people in America have had to live in the same streets and towns as those who dehumanise them - and to accept that grim reality - for their entire lives.

Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 21d

"All I can say for me in the work I do is that I want to create a space that takes our disagreements seriously, that takes the stakes of them seriously, the consequences for people seriously, but does so without deepening our divisions irreparably. We are going to have to live here with each other"

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