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realdougpetepiece.bsky.social @realdougpetepiece.bsky.social · 1d

He was also shot in the head with some kind of projectile at minute 4:04 of this video www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

ICE violence caught on camera featured among evidence in new lawsuit

Rachel Maddow relays reports of a brutal, militaristic raid on an apartment building in Chicago, and shares video included as exhibits in a new lawsuit showing ICE agents violently attacking a Presbyt...

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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 2d

🔴🇺🇦 Russia targets the city of Kharkiv tonight, for the past half hour we have been under attack, over twenty explosions have already been heard.

Authorities say several fires already broke out in the city, with more drones approaching.

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David Rider @dmrider.bsky.social · 3d

I sat down with Toronto Hydro's CEO to talk about her first year in the important-but-often-invisible-to-the-public role, Hydro's increased efforts to fight climate change & what the utility changed after people lost power during June's record scorcher www.thestar.com/news/gta/wha...

What Toronto Hydro’s new CEO learned from the summer’s record-breaking heat wave

Jana Mosley, Toronto Hydro’s chief executive, says the city’s electrical grid can withstand a surge in demand and extreme weather that can damage equipment.

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Tom Harrington @cbctom.bsky.social · 5d

On the dog walk in the neighbourhood Friday night, ran into a couple & their dog. After the usual pet patter, found out they’d just moved into their new Toronto home that day after driving from San Francisco. The husband who’s in the green energy industry, joked “we’re defecting.” 🇨🇦

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OPB @opb.org · 4d

Breaking News: Protesters who gathered at Elizabeth Caruthers Park in Portland for a planned demonstration at noon marched to the nearby ICE detention facility and blocked the road in front of the building. Soon after, federal law enforcement fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.

Federal agents fire tear gas, make multiple arrests during protest outside Portland ICE facility

Hundreds of protesters marched to facility from nearby Elizabeth Carruthers Park in Southwest Portland.

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David Rider @dmrider.bsky.social · 4d

Mahdis worked *very* hard to reveal that speed cameras in most GTA municipalities don’t ticket drivers unless they are speeding at least 11 km-h over the limit, debunking @fordnation’s claims that people get dinged at 2 or 3 over t.co/k8GhfqY9O9

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/what-s-the-threshold-to-get-a-ticket-from-torontos-speed-camera-program-here-s/article_fa176fce-2817-4d0f-9d7f-2b593550efc3.html

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Eric Robert Reguly @ereguly.bsky.social · 5d

A people without a home: My piece on the thousands of Palestinians from #Gaza trying to build a new life in #Egypt
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Fearing permanent exile, displaced Palestinians struggle to rebuild their lives in Egypt

Separated from their homeland and unsure whether they will ever be able to return, tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees rely on each other

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realdougpetepiece.bsky.social @realdougpetepiece.bsky.social · 5d

Seems Donald Trump can even get Israeli to stop the bombing.Airstrikes against the occupied Palestinian territory are reported to have killed twenty people since last night, CNN reported

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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 5d

"As usual, Trump has declared an all-out war on facts. He describes the partial assent – with many caveats – to the cease-fire he proposed earlier this week as good news, while marching on with the hostage deal and assuming that no one will dare stop him."

Trump, ignoring Hamas and Israel's reservations, seeks to bend Gaza's reality to his will

Since Trump Declared an Imminent Cease-fire Agreement, Both Netanyahu and Hamas Are Making Sure They're Not Seen as the Side That Causes the Plan to Fail. But Signing a Hostage Release Deal Would Hurt...

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realdougpetepiece.bsky.social @realdougpetepiece.bsky.social · 5d

@reflextv.bsky.social #Ukraine #Kherson

realdougpetepiece.bsky.social @realdougpetepiece.bsky.social · 6d

Armed Only With A Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud is a powerful tribute to a war photojournalist who risked everything on the front lines. Premieres October 21 on ‪@hbomax‬.#Ukraine #PutinisaWarCriminal
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcee...

Armed Only With A Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud | Official Trailer | HBO

YouTube video by HBO

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realdougpetepiece.bsky.social @realdougpetepiece.bsky.social · 6d

The situation – Russian drones in the sky, and the front line of the war now less than 70 kilometres away from Pavlohrad – was not exactly how Tetyana Kotenko would have planned to have her first child, but she was excited nonetheless.

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realdougpetepiece.bsky.social @realdougpetepiece.bsky.social · 6d

Sixteen hours before Sasha Kotenko was born, his mother was pacing the floor of her hospital room, trying to ignore the air-raid siren that sounded over the central Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad almost as soon as she had gone into labour.

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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 6d

Privately hoping that someone in Canada's vast Ukrainian diaspora will read about the need for Ukrainian-language Harry Potter books in at the school library in Pavlohrad, and decide to fill that gap...

Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 6d

Life, death - and just carrying on - in a Ukrainian city as the war gets closer.

A week in the life of Pavlohrad, a city bracing for its turn on the frontline if Pokrovsk, an hour's drive to the east, falls.

My report, with amazing photography by @olgaivashchenko.bsky.social

This Ukrainian city isn’t on the front lines yet. If that changes, everything changes

Pavlohrad is bracing for the day it turns into another Mariupol or Bakhmut. The Globe went there to see how locals feel – and what hard choices they might face if the Russians come

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Jonathan Lemire @jonlemire.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: A government shutdown, weaponized

Projects slashed. Layoffs threatened. Russ Vought looming

It took President Trump fewer than 24 hours to turn a shutdown into a weapon wielded against the civil servants and opposing party he has long derided www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

A Government Shutdown, Weaponized

The president is boasting about doing things to Democrats that are “bad for them and irreversible by them.”

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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 6d

Life, death - and just carrying on - in a Ukrainian city as the war gets closer.

A week in the life of Pavlohrad, a city bracing for its turn on the frontline if Pokrovsk, an hour's drive to the east, falls.

My report, with amazing photography by @olgaivashchenko.bsky.social

This Ukrainian city isn’t on the front lines yet. If that changes, everything changes

Pavlohrad is bracing for the day it turns into another Mariupol or Bakhmut. The Globe went there to see how locals feel – and what hard choices they might face if the Russians come

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 6d

Fifteen years after Mohamed Bouazizi lit himself on fire in frustration with Tunisia’s repressive system…

Reuters @reuters.com · 6d

Tunisian sentenced to death for Facebook posts criticising president reut.rs/3IMDyKf

Tunisian sentenced to death for Facebook posts criticising president

A Tunisian man has been sentenced to death on charges of insulting the president and assaulting state security through posts on social media, the head of the Tunisian League for Human Rights and his lawyer said on Friday.

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Nick Tsergas @nicktsergas.ca · 6d

Low-hanging policy fruit for the Carney government:

Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 7d

Provinces opened the door for U.S. doctors. But Ottawa is blocking the hallway

by @codeblackamerica.bsky.social

Provinces opened the door for US doctors, as Ottawa blocks the hallway

Canada could be the go-to refuge for US doctors as American medicine collapses.

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realdougpetepiece.bsky.social @realdougpetepiece.bsky.social · 6d

#IRunForJim PLEASE JOIN US
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Andrew Young 🇨🇦 @young.me · 7d

ONTARIO: starting October 7, #COVID19 vaccine certificates from the #Ontario portal will be updated to include any doses received between September 22 and October 6. covid19.ontariohealth.ca/app-home

COVID-19 vaccine doses received between September 22 and October 6 will be reflected on COVID-19 vaccine certificates starting October 7.

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realdougpetepiece.bsky.social @realdougpetepiece.bsky.social · 7d

United States Pres Donald Trump "Protection Racket" Give him billions of dollars and he will help
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Trump order pledges that US will defend Qatar in event of attack

U.S. President Donald Trump has pledged to treat any armed attack on Qatar as a threat to the United States' own security, according to a document published on Wednesday that says U.S. forces could step in to defend the Middle Eastern nation.

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Nick Tsergas @nicktsergas.ca · 8d

It'd be really cool if we could have clean air in my kid's kindergarten. Is that asking too much?

Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 8d

Long Covid Risk for Children Doubles After a Second Infection, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/h... @pambelluck.bsky.social @nytimes.com

More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Long Covid has affected at least 1.3 percent of people under 18, or about one million American children, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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David Rider @dmrider.bsky.social · 8d

Years ago I wrote about the deaths of cyclists and pedestrians including Erica Stark, who happened to be a neighbour. Her 19-year-old son Gavin - a sweet, smart and funny kid - succumbed to cancer in June. The community is raising funds to honour him: www.gofundme.com/f/gavin-star...

Donate to Gavin William Stark Memorial Bench and Scholarship, organized by Mirixi Brasileno-Luu

Thank you to our amazing community – we are overwhelmed by the… Mirixi Brasileno-Luu needs your support for Gavin William Stark Memorial Bench and Scholarship

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David Rider @dmrider.bsky.social · 8d

Exclusive from @RyanTumilty: The Albany Club, an exclusive bastion of Conservative Canada, hires temporary foreign workers under the program CPC leader Pierre Poilievre has vowed to kill www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Exclusive Tory club hires temporary foreign workers under program Pierre Poilievre vows to kill

Toronto's Albany Club, a bastion of the conservative establishment, used the temporary foreign worker program to hire staff.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 8d

At least 61 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza as a flotilla of more than 50 ships carrying aid approach.

Israel’s nonstop attack on Gaza continues as Sumud Flotilla nears enclave

At least 61 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza as a flotilla of more than 50 ships carrying aid approach.

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