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look, if we don't stand up for Canada Post, governments of the future will claim transit organizations need to be profitable, and hospitals need to be profitable, and schools need to be profitable, and they'll chop up as much of the public trust as they can and sell it to their friends for nothing.
February 8, 2026 at 4:03 AM
look, if we don't stand up for Canada Post, governments of the future will claim transit organizations need to be profitable, and hospitals need to be profitable, and schools need to be profitable, and they'll chop up as much of the public trust as they can and sell it to their friends for nothing.
New Brunswick figured it out before us? New Brunswick? This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts.
New Brunswick, an east coast Canadian province of about 900,000 people, will no longer use billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X for routine government communications, its leader announced
Canadian Province New Brunswick to Quit Using Elon Musk’s X
New Brunswick, an east coast Canadian province of about 900,000 people, will no longer use billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X for routine government communications, its leader announced Thursday.
bloom.bg
February 6, 2026 at 4:19 AM
New Brunswick figured it out before us? New Brunswick? This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts.
Send us your queer, your gays, your fabulous theys yearning to check out our hop-on, hop-off bus tours and watch us chop wood or whatever
February 4, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Send us your queer, your gays, your fabulous theys yearning to check out our hop-on, hop-off bus tours and watch us chop wood or whatever
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6/ The Post has lost over 375,000 subscribers in just over a year. If 10% of those readers subscribed to The 51st instead, we could hire 10 reporters and five editors, dramatically scaling our coverage of the city at this critical time. 51st.news/signup
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February 4, 2026 at 7:21 PM
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Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
This is cool as hell
February 4, 2026 at 4:24 AM
This is cool as hell
RETVRN
January 30, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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I recognize the irony of my question given that I do a lot of RT and QT and replies with little original content. But: I need a bsky client or means of deduplication; I see so many posts reposted into my feed again and again, and I want to skip the repeats and see new content. Suggestions?
January 29, 2026 at 7:56 PM
I recognize the irony of my question given that I do a lot of RT and QT and replies with little original content. But: I need a bsky client or means of deduplication; I see so many posts reposted into my feed again and again, and I want to skip the repeats and see new content. Suggestions?
I'm sorry for linking to the middle of this thread, but I cannot emphasize enough that this account has clearly articulated the same devil's bargain that we have here in Canada with the CPC/LPC duopoly. The leaders of the LPC fundamentally don't disagree with conservatism, just presentability.
And this is a pretty easy mistake to make because they assume their base and then the left (which they typically hate) HAVE to vote for them, and if they all just did they figure they could simply get the overwhelming lock they desire - even though they stare at victory and ignore it every cycle.
January 29, 2026 at 5:50 PM
I'm sorry for linking to the middle of this thread, but I cannot emphasize enough that this account has clearly articulated the same devil's bargain that we have here in Canada with the CPC/LPC duopoly. The leaders of the LPC fundamentally don't disagree with conservatism, just presentability.
I saw someone say that the Democrats are Good Cop to the Republicans' Bad Cop, and I think that's a perfect encapsulation of why so many people voted for a Bad Cop that would burn it all down. I think we have the same dynamic in Canada with the Liberals and Conservatives.
January 27, 2026 at 10:22 PM
I saw someone say that the Democrats are Good Cop to the Republicans' Bad Cop, and I think that's a perfect encapsulation of why so many people voted for a Bad Cop that would burn it all down. I think we have the same dynamic in Canada with the Liberals and Conservatives.
That's it. That's it exactly.
Basically the Democrats are the good cop in a Good Cop Bad Cop routine.
January 27, 2026 at 4:34 PM
That's it. That's it exactly.
If the citizenry are acting like insurgents, it means the government forces are acting like they're at war.
MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
January 26, 2026 at 7:41 PM
If the citizenry are acting like insurgents, it means the government forces are acting like they're at war.
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A reminder; seven Vancouver cops beat an unarmed man to death in 2015 and none of them have been held accountable.
Part of the rise of fascism is allowing police violence to go unpunished. It is happening in Canada as well.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
Part of the rise of fascism is allowing police violence to go unpunished. It is happening in Canada as well.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
Timeline of police-involved beating death of Myles Gray in B.C.
The Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner of British Columbia begins a public hearing on Monday into the police-involved death of 33-year-old Myles Gray more than 10 years ago.
www.ctvnews.ca
January 25, 2026 at 8:06 PM
A reminder; seven Vancouver cops beat an unarmed man to death in 2015 and none of them have been held accountable.
Part of the rise of fascism is allowing police violence to go unpunished. It is happening in Canada as well.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
Part of the rise of fascism is allowing police violence to go unpunished. It is happening in Canada as well.
www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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Canadians, remember, these people are already here in Canada. They are already organizing. The conditions for their organization and growth have been fostered not only by the US regime, but by decades and decades of Liberal and Conservative erosion of the relationship between government and society.
For those who don't know, remigration is a European far-right concept of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white minority populations.
I took this photo today in SASKATOON within hours of the ICE remigration Gestapo executing another person in the US.
#CrimesAgainstHumanity
I took this photo today in SASKATOON within hours of the ICE remigration Gestapo executing another person in the US.
#CrimesAgainstHumanity
January 25, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Canadians, remember, these people are already here in Canada. They are already organizing. The conditions for their organization and growth have been fostered not only by the US regime, but by decades and decades of Liberal and Conservative erosion of the relationship between government and society.
I honestly think it's good that the cpc continues to double down on unelectable trash
"Do you think the Conservative Party should look for a new leader, or keep Poilievre as leader?"
All:
New Leader: 66%
Keep Poilievre: 34%
2025 Conservative Voters:
Keep Poilievre: 73%
New Leader: 27%
Spark Insights / Jan 21, 2026 / n=4000
All:
New Leader: 66%
Keep Poilievre: 34%
2025 Conservative Voters:
Keep Poilievre: 73%
New Leader: 27%
Spark Insights / Jan 21, 2026 / n=4000
January 25, 2026 at 7:06 PM
I honestly think it's good that the cpc continues to double down on unelectable trash
What I don't understand is the BQ vote in 2026.
338Canada🍁federal update | January 25, 2026
All the numbers here → 338canada.com/federal.htm
Read the newsletter here → www.338canada.ca
All the numbers here → 338canada.com/federal.htm
Read the newsletter here → www.338canada.ca
January 25, 2026 at 7:04 PM
What I don't understand is the BQ vote in 2026.
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I wrote for The Star about Carney delivering a pivotal speech about new global partnerships, then immediately laying off the very people who build said partnerships
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
January 25, 2026 at 1:40 PM
I wrote for The Star about Carney delivering a pivotal speech about new global partnerships, then immediately laying off the very people who build said partnerships
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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So you know that the Trump regime is going to belittle the Minnesota general strike. That's the only thing they know how to do. That, and violence.
January 24, 2026 at 3:51 AM
So you know that the Trump regime is going to belittle the Minnesota general strike. That's the only thing they know how to do. That, and violence.
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I am very happy that the District of Squamish's statement is so strongly against this speaker. It makes me proud to live in a place that values respect for our first nations neighbours over the racist lies of people like Kleiner.
January 23, 2026 at 8:41 PM
I am very happy that the District of Squamish's statement is so strongly against this speaker. It makes me proud to live in a place that values respect for our first nations neighbours over the racist lies of people like Kleiner.
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IN THIS HOUSE we salute the FLAG
January 22, 2026 at 10:45 PM
IN THIS HOUSE we salute the FLAG
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As an employer, the City of Vancouver should not be creating working poverty, senior economist Iglika Ivanova, who calculates living wages for BC communities, told Council when they voted not to resume being a Living Wage Employer.
Vancouver council votes down living wage motion three years after scrapping policy
Vancouver city council has voted down a motion to reinstate the city as a living wage employer, three years after the policy was scrapped, with just four councillors voting in support.
www.ctvnews.ca
January 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM
As an employer, the City of Vancouver should not be creating working poverty, senior economist Iglika Ivanova, who calculates living wages for BC communities, told Council when they voted not to resume being a Living Wage Employer.
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One of my soapboxes is that this place has never been a "white homeland." This is Indigenous land! Native nation and people have been here since before the glaciers receded.
Every group the fascists are tormenting has a 500 year history here. Black Americans are not alone in that thanks to empire.
Every group the fascists are tormenting has a 500 year history here. Black Americans are not alone in that thanks to empire.
January 22, 2026 at 3:06 PM
One of my soapboxes is that this place has never been a "white homeland." This is Indigenous land! Native nation and people have been here since before the glaciers receded.
Every group the fascists are tormenting has a 500 year history here. Black Americans are not alone in that thanks to empire.
Every group the fascists are tormenting has a 500 year history here. Black Americans are not alone in that thanks to empire.