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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 12h

Tram to Victoria Peak is the standard and still worth it. West Kowloon galleries complex is excellent. HK side to Kowloon side ferry is fun and cheap.

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 2d

quite a y axis.

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 4d

Toronto also has an immigrant democratic socialist mayor but people don't notice

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 5d

If Americans killed by guns this century were a country, it would have more than double the population of Iceland.

The Trace @thetrace.org · 5d

Shootings have killed more than 800,000 people and injured over 2 million others in the U.S. since the start of the 21st century. Earlier this year, 60 thought leaders from multiple disciplines met to create a roadmap for substantially reducing gun violence by 2040.

Here’s what they came up with.

A Blueprint for Reducing Gun Violence by 2040, According to Experts

The JAMA Summit on Firearm Violence convened thought leaders from a wide array of disciplines to discuss ideas for preventing shooting deaths and injuries.

www.thetrace.org

André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 5d

An update on my column: Parliamentary committee drops most contentious parts of its demand for data on research funding. It now wants aggregated, not disaggregated data. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

The Trace @thetrace.org · 5d

Shootings have killed more than 800,000 people and injured over 2 million others in the U.S. since the start of the 21st century. Earlier this year, 60 thought leaders from multiple disciplines met to create a roadmap for substantially reducing gun violence by 2040.

Here’s what they came up with.

A Blueprint for Reducing Gun Violence by 2040, According to Experts

The JAMA Summit on Firearm Violence convened thought leaders from a wide array of disciplines to discuss ideas for preventing shooting deaths and injuries.

www.thetrace.org

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 5d

A missed opportunity that undermines other aspects of Canada's foreign and trade policy. Countrr productive.

Liam Swiss @liamswiss.bsky.social · 5d

Canada is retreating from its international assistance commitments in Budget 2025. Details are vague except for cutting $2.7 Billion in aid spending between 2026 and 2030.

A missed opportunity for Canada to redouble efforts in face of American abandonment of aid.

budget.canada.ca/2025/report-...

Chapter 5: Creating a more efficient and effective government | Budget 2025

Chapter 5: Creating a more efficient and effective government — Part of Budget 2025.

budget.canada.ca

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 5d

Performative vulgarity, in gold lettering.

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 5d

Converts to their fever dreams of what Catholicism means, who are then shocked to learn of the social teachings of the Church.

Liam Swiss @liamswiss.bsky.social · 5d

Canada is retreating from its international assistance commitments in Budget 2025. Details are vague except for cutting $2.7 Billion in aid spending between 2026 and 2030.

A missed opportunity for Canada to redouble efforts in face of American abandonment of aid.

budget.canada.ca/2025/report-...

Chapter 5: Creating a more efficient and effective government | Budget 2025

Chapter 5: Creating a more efficient and effective government — Part of Budget 2025.

budget.canada.ca

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 5d

Random performative cuts to aid will only hurt Canada globally when we need new friends and diversified trade. Short term thinking remains the problem.

Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t object to cuts to Canada’s international spending per se

I object to the capricious, callous and dismissive way it’s being done

I get this is feminized, wooly stuff. Not like hard, tangible economics, or hanging out with private equity talking billion dollar deals

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 5d

Despite that, an election now could easily net the NDP party status by campaigning against austerity.

Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t object to cuts to Canada’s international spending per se

I object to the capricious, callous and dismissive way it’s being done

I get this is feminized, wooly stuff. Not like hard, tangible economics, or hanging out with private equity talking billion dollar deals

Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 6d

Pre-Trudeau, First Nations communities suffered under a 2% annual funding increase cap. That cap didn't keep pace with population growth. Under Carney's Liberals, it's not just a 2% increase cap - it's a ZERO percent cap, a freeze. Literally worse than Harper. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 6d

well this sucks

Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 6d

Here's the biggest PSE story you haven't heard yet: the Canada Student Grant for low-income students is being cut from $4200/year to $3000/year as of next August. It's implicit in the budget tables but the government is too chickenshit to actually say so directly.

Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 6d

Here's the biggest PSE story you haven't heard yet: the Canada Student Grant for low-income students is being cut from $4200/year to $3000/year as of next August. It's implicit in the budget tables but the government is too chickenshit to actually say so directly.

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 6d

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter to Protect Tri-Council EDI Data

**Edited to add: we have received more than 4000 signatures for our letter but adding any more than 2000 names to this public page seems to be causing our Form to crash! Rest assured that we have all ...

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 8d

Please,consider signing the petition against this at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter to Protect Tri-Council EDI Data

October 30th, 2025 Why do we need urgent action to protect our data? The mandate of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research is to review and report on topics relating to scien...

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David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 8d

Oh noes

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9d

They better not go and shake that man’s hand while he’s kidnapping folks from the community that made them

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 9d

Too high a price

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 9d

2000

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 9d

1000 people post VLADDY simultaneously

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 9d

If the Jays win tonight, Carney will apologize to Trump.

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 9d

Open Letter to Protect Tri-Council EDI Data
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open Letter to Protect Tri-Council EDI Data

Why do we need urgent action to protect our data? The mandate of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research is to review and report on topics relating to science and research in ...

docs.google.com

Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 10d

Western governments preferred to break the world, destroy every institution that uplifted human rights in some capacity, just so they didnt have to extend those human rights to us. Think about that.

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 11d

Nothing better than reading memoirs

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 13d

6. Luckily, the #notwithstanding clause cannot over-ride Indigenous or minority-langauge rights. But the clause is only a "last resort" as intended when politicians use it responsibly, when all other options are exhausted. Our politicians today have gone trigger-happy. #cdnhist #cdnpoli

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 13d

5. In the last decade, provinces are pressing the #notwothstanding "nuclear option" button like they are playing an arcade game. Sask in 2017 (over Catholic schools). Ontario in 2018 (over the size of a city council!). Quebec in 2019. Ontario in 2020. Both Ontario AND Quebec in 2022. Now Alberta.

Chart shows uses of notwithstanding clause by year and province as described in text of post.

David Webster @dwebster.bsky.social · 13d

4. Alberta's attempt to use the clause to stop equal marriage in 2000 was equally controversial. When courts overturned it, the Klein government agreed to be bound by court rulings.

The point? The "nuclear option" of the #notwithstanding clause was seen as last-resort stuff until a decade ago.

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