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greenpeaceca.bsky.social
"Remember sitting in history, thinking:

“If I was alive then, I would've..."

You're alive now. Whatever you're doing is what you would have done."

- David Slack

#DontTrumpCanada ✊

#CanadaStrong #ELXN45 #Cdnpoli #ElbowsUp #ElbowsUpCanada #Election2025
April 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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bylinetimes.bsky.social
📌 ICYMI — Revealed: Reform UK Crypto Partner’s Ties to Pro-Trump Big Tech and Kemi Badenoch

Nigel Farage's cryptocurrency partner is tied to Trump-supporting tech firms…

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/01/26/revealed-reform-uk-crypto-partners-ties-to-pro-trump-big-tech-and-kemi-badenoch/
Revealed: Reform UK Crypto Partner's Ties to Pro-Trump Big Tech and Kemi Badenoch
Nigel Farage's cryptocurrency partner is tied to Trump-supporting tech firms and senior Conservative figures, reports Nafeez Ahmed
bylinetimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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bluenoserjo.bsky.social
Everyone who is sick and tired of American owned media gaslighting Canadians please sign this petition:
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-6879 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
January 21, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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capeacadia.bsky.social
Done and reposted! To all Canadian 🇨🇦 Followers, please take a moment to sign the House of Commons petition to put the spotlight on foreign ownership of our media 🙏 Thank you Cheryl for bringing this to our attention🙏

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
January 27, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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minibubbly.bsky.social
Please sign if you have not yet signed #Canadians only until February 3 to get 10,000 signatures

Thank you.
bluenoserjo.bsky.social 🇨🇦 AuntieFa 🇨🇦 @bluenoserjo.bsky.social · 6d
Everyone who is sick and tired of American owned media gaslighting Canadians please sign this petition:
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-6879 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
January 27, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Lots of love for my walking interview with 5 News.

Funny thing is: we just walked around London, saw lots of smiling people - and somehow the mythical “no-go zones” never appeared.

youtu.be/VeSrh7HN2lo?...
Green Party leader Zack Polanski is proud to be ‘woke’ and 'furious' at Trump's second State Visit
YouTube video by 5 News
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January 25, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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minibubbly.bsky.social
Reminder it was former POS PM Stephen Harper that created this problem, never forget this. 🤬

How grocery giants control who can sell food in your neighbourhood #Canada

Clauses in land titles and leases restrict competition, Marketplace investigation finds

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
How grocery giants control who can sell food in your neighbourhood | CBC News
Canada’s biggest grocery giants — including Loblaws, Sobeys and Metro — are using property law to control how other grocery stores, dollar stores, pharmacies and gas stations can compete with them, an...
www.cbc.ca
January 26, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social
Yet again, Canada finds itself being threatened with extra tariffs targeting its businesses. It is more important than ever to move away from Big US tech.

I hope this one-page guide helps you not only do that, but also discover some excellent Canadian companies - from 1Password to Sync!
January 24, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
Treat the US government and ICE claims like you'd treat a Russian government claim after they've shot down an airliner or bombed a hospital. America 2026.
January 24, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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stephaniecarvin.bsky.social
This Feb 11-12 I will be teaching the online Practical Certificate in Canadian National Security with Carleton's NPSIA-PT&D. We cover national security issues like violent extremism, espionage, economic national security, ethics of surveillance, and foreign interference. Details below!
Canadian National Security - NPSIA-PT&D
The Practical Certificate in Canadian National Security National security is the condition achieved when a country is able to protect its social, economic
carleton.ca
January 23, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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blackpanther25.bsky.social
🇨🇦How grocery giants control who can sell food in your neighbourhood.
Canada’s biggest grocery giants — including Loblaws, Sobeys and Metro — are using property law to control how other stores and gas stations can compete with them.
#CanadaSky🇨🇦

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
How grocery giants control who can sell food in your neighbourhood | CBC News
Canada’s biggest grocery giants — including Loblaws, Sobeys and Metro — are using property law to control how other grocery stores, dollar stores, pharmacies and gas stations can compete with them, an...
www.cbc.ca
January 23, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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greenparty.org.uk
Help us make hope normal again.

Join the Green Party now.
January 22, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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garyseconomics.bsky.social
My People’s Economist Tour across Australia and New Zealand is a month away.

This Feb and March, I’ll be taking my journey from the trading floor to the public stage, sharing my perspective on inequality and challenging how we think about our economies.

au.thinkable.events/gary-stevens...
Gary Stevenson Live in Australia | The People's Economist Tour
Join former trader and bestselling author Gary Stevenson on his first Australian tour. Discover the truth about economic inequality and how money really works. Get tickets for The People's Economist l...
au.thinkable.events
January 16, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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greenparty.org.uk
In 2025, billionaire wealth grew 3x faster than the average of the previous five years, while public services crumbled and living costs soared. This is a political choice- putting the richest first.
We are the only party demanding a wealth tax to reverse this extreme inequality.
January 19, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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jessmarindavis.bsky.social
A very worthwhile read:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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wikisteff.bsky.social
Christopher Wylie's 2019 book, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America, explains it in exceptional and prescient detail.

Particularly Chapter 7, "The Dark Triad". I commend it to your attention.

Here is an excerpt:
When Cambridge Analytica launched, in the summer of 2014, Bannon’s goal was to change politics by changing culture; Facebook data, algorithms, and narratives were his weapons. First we used focus groups and qualitative observation to unpack the perceptions of a given population and learn what people cared about—term limits, the deep state, draining the swamp, guns, and the concept of walls to keep out immigrants were all explored in 2014, several years before the Trump campaign. We then came up with hypotheses for how to sway opinions. CA tested these hypotheses with target segments in online panels or experiments to see whether they performed as the team expected, based on the data. We also pulled Facebook profiles, looking for patterns in order to build a neural network algorithm that would help us make predictions. A select minority of people exhibit traits of narcissism (extreme self-centeredness), Machiavellianism (ruthless self-interest), and psychopathy (emotional detachment). In contrast to the Big Five traits found in everyone to some degree as part of normal psychology—openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism—these “dark triad” traits are maladaptive, meaning that those who exhibit them are generally more prone to antisocial behavior, including criminal acts. From the data CA collected, the team was able to identify people who exhibited neuroticism and dark-triad traits, and those who were more prone to impulsive anger or conspiratorial thinking than average citizens. Cambridge Analytica would target them, introducing narratives via Facebook groups, ads, or articles that the firm knew from internal testing were likely to inflame the very narrow segments of people with these traits. CA wanted to provoke people, to get them to engage. Cambridge Analytica did this because of a specific feature of Facebook’s algorithm at the time. When someone follows pages of generic brands like Walmart or some prime-time sitcom, nothing much changes in his newsfeed. But liking an extreme group, such as the Proud Boys or the Incel Liberation Army, marks the user as distinct from others in such a way that a recommendation engine will prioritize these topics for personalization. Which means the site’s algorithm will start to funnel the user similar stories and pages—all to increase engagement. For Facebook, rising engagement is the only metric that matters, as more engagement means more screen time to be exposed to advertisements. This is the darker side of Silicon Valley’s much celebrated metric of “user engagement.” By focusing so heavily on greater engagement, social media tends to parasitize our brain’s adaptive mechanisms. As it happens, the most engaging content on social media is often horrible or enraging. According to evolutionary psychologists, in order to survive in premodern times, humans developed a disproportionate attentiveness toward potential threats. The reason we instinctually pay more attention to the blood and gore of a rotting corpse on the ground than to marveling at the beautiful sky above is that the former was what helped us survive. In other words, we evolved to pay keen attention to potential threats. There’s a good reason you can’t turn away from grisly videos: You’re human. In the summer of 2014, Cambridge Analytica began developing fake pages on Facebook and other platforms that looked like real forums, groups, and news sources. This was an extremely common tactic that Cambridge Analytica’s parent firm SCL had used throughout its counterinsurgency operations in other parts of the world. It is unclear who inside the firm actually gave the final order to set up these disinformation operations, but for many of the old guard who had spent years working on projects around the world, none of this seemed unusual. They were simply treating the American population in the exact same way they would treat the Pakistani or Yemeni populations on projects for American or British clients. The firm did this at the local level, creating right-wing pages with vague names like Smith County Patriots or I Love My Country. Because of the way Facebook’s recommendation algorithm worked, these pages would pop up in the feeds of people who had already liked similar content. When users joined CA’s fake groups, it would post videos and articles that would further provoke and inflame them. Conversations would rage on the group page, with people commiserating about how terrible or unfair something was. CA broke down social barriers, cultivating relationships across groups. And all the while it was testing and refining messages, to achieve maximum engagement. Now CA had users who (1) self-identified as part of an extreme group, (2) were a captive audience, and (3) could be manipulated with data. Lots of reporting on Cambridge Analytica gave the impression that everyone was targeted. In fact, not that many people were targeted at all. CA didn’t need to create a big target universe, because most elections are zero-sum games: If you get one more vote than the other guy or girl, you win the election. Cambridge Analytica needed to infect only a narrow sliver of the population, and then it could watch the narrative spread. Cambridge Analytica ultimately became a digitized, scaled, and automated version of a tactic the United States and its allies have used in other countries. When I first started at SCL, the firm had been working on counter-narcotics programs in a South American country. The strategy was, in part, to identify targets to disrupt narcotics organizations from within. The first thing the firm would do was find the lowest-hanging fruit, meaning people who its psychologists reasoned would be more likely to become more erratic or paranoid. Then the firm would work on suggesting ideas to them: “The boss are stealing from you” or “They’re going to let you take the fall.” The goal was to turn them against the organization, and sometimes, if a person hears something enough times, they come to believe it. Once those initial individuals were sufficiently exposed to these new narratives, it would be time to have them meet one another so that they could form a group which could then organize. They would share rumors, working one another into deeper paranoia. That was when you introduced the next tier: people whose initial resistance to rumors had started to weaken. And this is how you gradually destabilize an organization from the inside. CA wanted to do the same to America, using social media as the spearhead. Once a county-based group begins self-organizing, you introduce them to a similar group in the next county over. Then you do it again. In time, you’ve created a statewide movement of neurotic, conspiratorial citizens. The alt-right.
January 12, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Good morning.

A regular reminder: a tiny few hoard staggering wealth and own much of the media, while millions struggle to survive.

That’s not an accident. It’s a choice made by those in power.

Tax wealth. Fund public services. Build an economy for everyone - not the 1%.
January 14, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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boldpolitics.bsky.social
Tomorrow's episode is going to be a big one...

linktr.ee/boldpolitics
January 13, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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todmaffin.com
Here’s a simple checklist for what’s still in YOUR hands, Canada.
Square infographic with a faint red maple leaf background. The headline reads, “GUARD: A Personal Checklist for Protecting Canada’s Sovereignty,” credited to Tod Maffin, FarAndWide.news. Five boxed lines spell out the acronym GUARD: “G, get serious about your next vote” with a ballot box icon; “U, unplug from outrage platforms” with a smartphone icon; “A, anchor your spending in Canada” with a Canadian flag icon; “R, reinforce independent Canadian media” with a newspaper icon; and “D, distinguish people from their regimes” with two human silhouettes. Red and white colour scheme throughout.
January 8, 2026 at 6:10 AM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
We can’t go on like this.

In just two days, the average FTSE 100 CEO has made a median workers full time annual salary.

The right calls this “wealth creation”.

It’s wealth extraction.

Time to tax the rich.

@highpaycentre.bsky.social

highpaycentre.org/fat-cat-day-...
Fat Cat Day 2026 - High Pay Centre
Data shows the average FTSE 100 CEO will take just over two days to earn the median UK worker's full time annual salary. Median FTSE100 CEO pay amounted to £4.398 million (excluding pension), 113 time...
highpaycentre.org
January 6, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply.

I want to make sure this is very clear.
January 4, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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thenerve.news
”Reform UK's barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don't play the bullies game." Martin Shipton from @nation.cymru on being bullied by Reform's lawyers: www.thenerve.news/p/reform-nat...
Reform UK’s barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don’t play the bully’s game
My news organisation, Nation.Cymru, was threatened with legal action over a story involving Nigel Farage’s party in the Senedd. Instead of hiring our own lawyer, we simply told them to go away, writes...
www.thenerve.news
November 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Rachel Reeves says this Labour Governments decisions are "necessary."

Why is it always necessary to hit the living standards of the 99%?

When are we going to make the necessary decisions about extreme wealth?
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
"You can agree or disagree with him, but Polanski does not pretend to be something he is not.

He is unusually willing for a politician to give a straight answer to questions.

Does he want to rejoin the EU? “Yes."

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Zack Polanski: ‘People will have to find some other way to hurt me’ | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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📣SOURCE CALL OUT📣 Has your dermatologist tried upselling you? (Like, trying to sell a cosmetic procedure when you're in for a mole). Or, have you struggled to land an OHIP-covered appt but was able to get in fast for something not covered? I'd love to chat for a story in @thelocal.to DMs are open!
November 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM