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🎶 I Will Choose Freewill 🇨🇦 @torontokate.bsky.social · 6h

Aspiring NDP leader, Yves Engler, has quite a platform

He's collected over $85,000 in donations but hasn't submitted his application. That's a no-no

His public comments that Jewish Cdns are “overrepresented in positions of power" will face scrutiny. He sounds like Kanye West

#cdnpoli #CanadaSky

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🎶 I Will Choose Freewill 🇨🇦 @torontokate.bsky.social · 7h

I wonder how this would have affected Elon Musk, who used his inherited Canadian citizenship to enter the US, knowing it would look better than applying from South Africa

Source: Toronto Star

#cdnpoli #onpoli #bcpoli #abpoli #skpoli #mbpoli #polqc #nbpoli #nspoli #nlpoli #peipoli

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🎶 I Will Choose Freewill 🇨🇦 @torontokate.bsky.social · 9h

More progressive is not the answer, especially if you want more engagement outside of stereotypical issues

"They are afraid of doing something wrong & getting backlash"

'More progressive' will only add to that. Progressive, on the ground, is scolding. Nothing is fun. Everything is an issue🪶

a black and white photo of a man with the words bemy victim

ALT: a black and white photo of a man with the words bemy victim

media.tenor.com

🎶 I Will Choose Freewill 🇨🇦 @torontokate.bsky.social · 1d

Be careful with women who don't have a lot of friends

#CanadaSky #Canada

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2aO...

Be Careful With Women Who Don’t Have A lot Of Friends 😮 #women #friends #fyp

YouTube video by Grind2Hard Osh'a

www.youtube.com

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🎶 I Will Choose Freewill 🇨🇦 @torontokate.bsky.social · 2d

"Trans advocates say CBC News’ philosophy on “balance” and “impartiality” stand at odds with fundamental Canadian values, like human rights."

I'm just going to leave this here. It's from the article above.

🎶 I Will Choose Freewill 🇨🇦 @torontokate.bsky.social · 2d

If the premise of the program was “Sis, read the room,” (see what everyone else is saying and don't speak against it) then yes, it needed another side

That's not impartiality, nor allows for thoughts outside of the those present

#CanadaSky #cdnpoli #CBC

pressprogress.ca/cbc-ombudsma...

CBC Ombudsman Says Teenage Journalists Who Criticized Transphobia Violated CBC’s Journalistic Standards

CBC Ombudsman Jack Nagler rules youth current affairs program’s discussion of transphobia lacked ‘balance’ and ‘impartiality’

pressprogress.ca

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🎶 I Will Choose Freewill 🇨🇦 @torontokate.bsky.social · 2d

"Asch’s Conformity Experiment on Groupthink"
Since the original experiment with males in college, the experiment has been successfully replicated, most especially between woman & homogenous peer groups

#CanadaSky #Canada

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkK5...

Asch’s Conformity Experiment on Groupthink

YouTube video by Sprouts

www.youtube.com

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🎶 I Will Choose Freewill 🇨🇦 @torontokate.bsky.social · 2d

When you are passionate about something and want to protest for it, wouldn't you want to spread the word?

These protesters aren't allowed to talk. They refer any questions to a press liaison.

And at least one of these protesters has a lot of passions🤣

#CanadaSky #cdnpoli

youtu.be/OXtPaOZBIxI?...

I Crashed a Paid Protestor Meeting

YouTube video by Nate Friedman

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🎶 I Will Choose Freewill 🇨🇦 @torontokate.bsky.social · 3d

"went viral when he posted clips wherein he spoofed injecting bystanders with an empty syringe on Parisian streets. They went viral just days before the country’s Fête de la Musique"

Always watch out for these sick goofs. He only served 6 months in jail

#cdnpoli

www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

French Influencer Amine Mojito Sentenced to Prison After Terrifying Syringe Prank Videos

French Influencer Amine Mojito, whose real name is Ilan M., was recently sentenced to jail following outrage and fear that was generated in France from his syringe prank videos. The Paris Criminal Cou...

www.yahoo.com

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🎶 I Will Choose Freewill 🇨🇦 @torontokate.bsky.social · 4d

Monica B asking Mel "how's your heart?"

Really? Is she plotting how long she'd have to wait to get all his money? What a weird question

#GoldenBachelor

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Jason R. Wang @jasonrwang.bsky.social · 6d

☀️ Max hits the mark with this: rooftop (and balcony) solar lets everyone be involved in the energy transition.

💸 But he oversimplified on costs. Rooftop solar is in fact more economic than LCOEs suggest because they take advantage of existing, under-utilized distribution wires.

Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 6d

For more than a decade, the economists have led the design of Canadian climate policies. It's time for the political scientists to take over -- and the debate over rooftop solar offers a perfect example of why. #cdnpoli

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

The political case for rooftop solar

If there’s one lesson progressive politicians should take to heart from the last decade, it’s that the durability of their climate policies is more important — way, way more important — than their eco...

www.nationalobserver.com

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🎶 I Will Choose Freewill 🇨🇦 @torontokate.bsky.social · 7d

And yet we will ignore this warning. Like we ignore everything else that will dire effects for humans. In favour of the individual. Distracted by the individual.

#cdnpoli

The Independent @the-independent.com · 7d

‘Godfather of AI’ warns again that it could lead to the end of humanity

www.independent.co.uk

🎶 I Will Choose Freewill 🇨🇦 @torontokate.bsky.social · 7d

*while

🎶 I Will Choose Freewill 🇨🇦 @torontokate.bsky.social · 7d

And yet the animals keep dying will in the care of Marineland.

At this point we have failed these animals. Let them go. Let them at least have a chance. They are only going to die at Marineland. Their record proves that.

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🎶 I Will Choose Freewill 🇨🇦 @torontokate.bsky.social · 9d

Omg. Dog finds and starts to chew on a portable phone charger. Starts a fire when there are no humans home

Yikes

#Canada #cdnpoli #CanadaSky #Dogs #Cats
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa9x...

Dog Accidentally Starts House Fire While Owners Aren't Home | The Dodo

YouTube video by The Dodo

www.youtube.com

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🎶 I Will Choose Freewill 🇨🇦 @torontokate.bsky.social · 9d

The trucking cat

#Canada #CanadaSky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZCP...

Trucker's amazing response when cat shows up at his door

YouTube video by Truckin' Cat Medivh

www.youtube.com

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🎶 I Will Choose Freewill 🇨🇦 @torontokate.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you. I was sure I looked there but I guess I didn't. And I knew it! 🙂

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🎶 I Will Choose Freewill 🇨🇦 @torontokate.bsky.social · 10d

One article Cece Bella said she was there for 3 months. Then she says 7
She has spent 10 yrs in shelters

CB is a fibber & she omits info. And she has long term problems that could never have been solved in the 2 weeks she's been playing activist

"They don't want rules"⬇️

#topoli #Toronto #onpoli

🎶 I Will Choose Freewill 🇨🇦 @torontokate.bsky.social · 10d

Interview with Cece Bella on dismantling
She says she will have to decompress in a hospital bc of anxiety etc
She didn't realize that she got caught on camera by a youtuber on a walk through the park w her dog, preventing her from staying at the hospital🤷‍♀️ #topoli

www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/vide...

Portion of Dufferin Grove Park fenced off after homeless encampment dismantled

Beth Macdonell has the details on the dismantling of the encampment after several residents defied a trespass notice in Dufferin Grove Park.

www.ctvnews.ca

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🎶 I Will Choose Freewill 🇨🇦 @torontokate.bsky.social · 10d

So cis men also includes gay men? So gay men cannot be included in that 50%

🎶 I Will Choose Freewill 🇨🇦 @torontokate.bsky.social · 10d

After someone explained it to me I still had to figure it out. I think I understand now

It's not 'men that are not cis' (non-cis men), but people that aren't cis men. But this seems to be more geared to people in the LGBTQAI community

I'm lost. I should bow out. I don't get it
#cdnpoli #onpoli

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🎶 I Will Choose Freewill 🇨🇦 @torontokate.bsky.social · 10d

The encampment has been cleared. I'm thinking Cece Bella didn't want to go to a shelter as it seems she has a dog
No 800 sq ft of livable space apartment. No 4 plots of green space/land for homeless. Demands not met

#topoli #onpoli #cdnpoli

www.torontotoday.ca/local/real-e...

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🎶 I Will Choose Freewill 🇨🇦 @torontokate.bsky.social · 10d

Wasn't Avi Lewis on "The New Music" on CityTV decades ago? I can't find that information but his face I recognized before he came on the scene in politics. And/or was he a news reporter too?

Just curious. And it's kind of bugging me that I can't know for sure 🙂 #cdnpoli #onpoli #Toronto #topoli

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🎶 I Will Choose Freewill 🇨🇦 @torontokate.bsky.social · 10d

Oh I see. Thank you. I thought they were referring to all men but that weren't cis. I just couldn't get my head around it. I thought it excluded women and everyone else. Thank you

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