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Randy Robinson
@randyfrobinson.bsky.social
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Former lots of things, future other things. Founding member, Redwood Logan.
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charlieangus104.bsky.social
Maybe Steve Bannon was booked that day.
Fuck...
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Project 2025 mastermind invited to speak at Carney's cabinet meeting | CBC News
A prominent conservative figure in American politics and the mastermind behind Project 2025 — the infamous policy blueprint that proposed a drastic overhaul of the U.S. government — will speak to Prim...
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September 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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agrabia.bsky.social
It’s that time of year where I recommend every human on earth read Fire Weather by @johnvaillant.bsky.social. In fact, I’d like you to buy three copies. Keep one for yourself, give one to a friend, and give the third to a local politician and demand that they not only read it, but take action.
Fire Weather by John Vaillant | Penguin Random House Canada
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Golden Spruce and The Tiger comes a stunning account of a colossal wildfire, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly chang...
www.penguinrandomhouse.ca
June 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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ricardotranjan.bsky.social
#onpoli gov released school funding numbers:

+ Per-student funding still below 2018-19
+ Provincial funding gap grows to $6.35 bi
+ TDSB cumulative funding gap: $919M
+ OCDSB cumulative funding gap: $337M
+TCDSB cumulative funding gap: 273M

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Ontario has underfunded schools by $6.3 billion since 2018 - CCPA
The 2025 Ontario budget has lots of big numbers, but fails to address funding shortfalls in core program areas. CCPA’s same-day budget analysis examined the broad trend, and in an article for The Toro...
www.policyalternatives.ca
May 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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ershaker.bsky.social
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... ‘As a share of GDP, spending on PSE is projected to decrease from 1.41% in 2019 to 0.97% in 2028…students who transitioned from elementary to secondary school during the COVID-19 pandemic are now facing colleges & universities that are both expensive & underfunded’
Ricardo Tranjan: Ontario budget leaves universities and colleges twisting in the wind
Our higher learning institutions are expensive and underfunded, leaving students and schools in limbo
www.thestar.com
May 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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happy-belmore.bsky.social
I'm not an expert in education funding like @ricardotranjan.bsky.social, but with 2 kids in high school & one heading to university next year, I've got a PhD in the lived experience of how our school system fails our kids. Dismally depressing to know post-secondary is shaping up to be worse.
#OnPoli
to.university
May 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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sethdklein.bsky.social
This must stop! We need a full arms embargo and sanctions now, so this killing with impunity ends.

Our new Canadian govt and PM need to speak up!
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Israel accused of ethnic cleansing after more than 140 killed in Gaza in 24 hours
Israel says intensified bombings are part of campaign expansion to ‘achieve all of the war goals in Gaza’
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May 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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ricardotranjan.bsky.social
As a share of GDP, spending on post-secondary education is projected to decrease from 1.41 per cent in 2019 to 0.97 per cent in 2028

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May 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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brucearthur.bsky.social
This goddamn rules
alexkirshner.com Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · May 16
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth
May 16, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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sethdklein.bsky.social
Yet more evidence for why we urgently need an audacious Youth Climate Corps @mark-carney.bsky.social & @juliedabrusin.bsky.social ...
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For young Canadians, the toughest job market in decades is threatening their financial futures
The rocky start could push major life milestones, such as home ownership, further out of reach
www.theglobeandmail.com
May 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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propublica.org
NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from.

By @abrahm.bsky.social
White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On
Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.
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April 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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greenpeaceca.bsky.social
A working class hero is hard to be when you are parading around with the richest of the rich @breachmedia.ca #DontTrumpCanada #Election2025 #Cdnpoli

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10 mansions that ‘common man’ Pierre Poilievre has fundraised in ⋆ The Breach
Tour the homes of uber-wealthy Canadians who are connecting the Conservative leader to elite donors
breachmedia.ca
April 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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policyalternatives.ca
ICYMI: CCPA Senior Economist @davidmaccdn.bsky.social show us who gains, and who gets left out, by the election tax cuts proposed by the five main parties. #FederalElection2025 www.sasktoday.ca/opinion/opin...
Opinion: Costly tax cuts will do little to help Canadians in need
A deep dive into who gains – and who gets left out – under each party’s tax plan.
www.sasktoday.ca
April 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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dtcochrane.bsky.social
The Conservative plan claims that tax cuts for the richest 0.13% will actually INCREASE revenue.

This nonsense has been disproved again and again and again.
Two lines from the Conservative election costing that show rolling back the increased inclusion for capital gains will result in more revenue.
April 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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climatejusticeyyj.bsky.social
"Our politicians and media operate in a mutually reinforcing echo chamber of what “matters,” with voters who are rightly alarmed about climate sidelined" @sethdklein.bsky.social & @jvipondmd.bsky.social in @edmontonjournal.com edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu... #cdnpoli
Opinion: Deafening silence on climate this election
Climate has fallen off the electorate’s radar, now ranking sixth in a list of priority issues in a recent poll.
edmontonjournal.com
April 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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chuckwendig.bsky.social
Everything is bad but birds are good so time to reinstitute BIRD PROTOCOL where a bird is deployed to offset endless evil vibes, please enjoy, birds are good, okay bye

(photo by me)
Portrait-oriented photo featuring a wooden post with a rusted hanger hook jutting out of it, and standing atop the post, triumphant and at least slightly indignant, is a plump little bluebird. The bluebird is a male, and we see the electric blue of his head, but the predominant part facing us is the coppery-orange and pale white front. He is standing amidst little pink-and-red tree blossoms, but I like to imagine these are instead the extracted organs of his enemies. So let's just pretend this bluebird stands vengefully astride a scattering of viscera -- gobbets of gore taken as a prize from his unnatural and invasive foes. I'm sorry I've really made this a gross photo. It's actually quite nice. Kind of a dreamy vibe to it, what with the wall of yellow forsythia blurring in the background, and here I am adding drippy bits and internal organs. I'm sorry. I'll do better next time. Probably. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig
April 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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davidmaccdn.bsky.social
1. Minster of Employment declares an unemployment emergency
2. Waive the one week waiting period on EI
3. Allow entry to EI with 360 qualifying hours
4. Mandate employers to expedite ROEs
5. Place a floor of $500 a week on EI benefits
March 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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ricardotranjan.bsky.social
Why we should talk taxes in this #onpoli election:

#1 Ont raises less revenue relative to its GDP than most provinces

#2 Ont raises less revenue than almost all provinces on a per capita basis

#3 Income & sales taxes are rising as a share of revenue

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In the Ontario election, we’re not talking about money—which the province urgently needs - CCPA
With the Ontario election well underway, we should be having a debate about how to pay for the things the province urgently needs.
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February 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Stop Ignoring Politics - Take Back The Power
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February 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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aoc.bsky.social
What a shame. Teamsters deserve better than this.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 19
Teamsters President Sean O'Brien downplays Trump's reckless firings of federal workers: "We don't want to see anybody losing their jobs, but he thinks he's within his right."
February 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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ricardotranjan.bsky.social
Ontario lost nearly 1,300 residential construction jobs last year - the worst in Canada - due to declining housing starts.

Ont gov must stop deferring to private developers and take the lead on rental housing development.

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Ontario lost nearly 1,300 residential construction jobs last year—the worst in Canada | CCPA
Public policy researchers spill a lot of ink on housing affordability, but we pay a lot less attention to residential construction as an employment sector. As the Ontario election approaches, we shoul...
www.policyalternatives.ca
February 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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New from @policyalternatives.bsky.social: Canada can hit back hard—but we need to think beyond tariffs By @hadrianmk.bsky.social and @marclee.bsky.social #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
A dozen radical responses to Trump’s economic warfare that go beyond Canadian counter-tariffs | CCPA
The belief that economic integration with the United States—epitomized by the 1989 Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement and finally the Trump-led 2016 Canada-...
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February 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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policyalternatives.ca
New from @policyalternatives.bsky.social: New data from Statistics Canada shows that Ontarians are the least likely to report high life satisfaction of any Canadian province. @carolinaaragao.bsky.social #Ontario #onpoli #election
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Ontario has the lowest levels of well-being of any Canadian province | CCPA
Provincial elections are coming in Ontario on February 27, and so far the public debate has overwhelmingly focused on the threat of tariffs from the United States. But there’s another crisis brewing i...
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February 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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ricardotranjan.bsky.social
Ontario has the lowest levels of well-being of any Canadian province, according to new StatCan data. See below the analysis by my colleague @carolinaaragao.bsky.social

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February 6, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Here's what the decision by America's favorite sports league tells us about "anticipatory obedience."
The NFL is removing 'End Racism' from its Super Bowl end zone
Here's what the decision by America's favorite sports league tells us about "anticipatory obedience."
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February 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
Elon Musk’s staffers are still attempting to manipulate the Treasury payment system to halt the flow of funds following their recent losses. Reminder: U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has restricted DOGE’s read-only access. No one is above the law.
February 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM