Daniel Sandí
@danielsandi.bsky.social
PhD in Social Sciences. Policy & Research Analyst. Workers' rights advocate, fiction reader, aspiring writer. Based in Halifax, NS
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CBC Thunder Bay quoted CCPA-NS research associate Dr. Lesley Frank in their recent article:
"There's opened cans of formula for sale. You'd have to be quite desperate to get on a bus to get an opened can of formula because it's your only option to feed your baby..."
#nspoli #onpoli
"There's opened cans of formula for sale. You'd have to be quite desperate to get on a bus to get an opened can of formula because it's your only option to feed your baby..."
#nspoli #onpoli
![Desperate parents needing baby formula turn to online strangers as Canadian prices nearly double since 2017
Formula 'one of the most stolen food products in Canada ... something is terribly wrong,' says researcher
Jessica Pope · CBC News · Posted: Nov 14, 2025 5:00 AM AST | Last Updated: November 14
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"There's opened cans of formula for sale. You'd have to be quite desperate to get on a bus to get an opened can of formula because it's your only option to feed your baby...
[Baby formula is] one of the most stolen food products in Canada, which is a real signal that something is terribly wrong.
— CBC Thunder Bay quoting Dr. Lesley Frank, Canada Research Chair in Food, Health and Social Justice at Acadia University and CCPA-NS Research Associate"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vxdmoc3wbmzzswml4wru52uy/bafkreig35dhrukwcrurbewu6p2bf55jeiut6t4443tsthrvjh3gt23wxmm@jpeg)
November 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Another city is possible...
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Another city is possible...
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Trigger warning.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
November 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Trigger warning.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
“In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.”
Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
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Here’s something that’s really important for everyone to understand.
If we design our cities just for cars, they fail everyone, including drivers.
If we design our cities with many great CHOICES in how to get around, they work better for everyone, including drivers.
Spread the word.
If we design our cities just for cars, they fail everyone, including drivers.
If we design our cities with many great CHOICES in how to get around, they work better for everyone, including drivers.
Spread the word.
November 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Here’s something that’s really important for everyone to understand.
If we design our cities just for cars, they fail everyone, including drivers.
If we design our cities with many great CHOICES in how to get around, they work better for everyone, including drivers.
Spread the word.
If we design our cities just for cars, they fail everyone, including drivers.
If we design our cities with many great CHOICES in how to get around, they work better for everyone, including drivers.
Spread the word.
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AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
CEO: I get paid hundreds of thousands a year.
I mishandle customer data, let it get stolen, and fall into criminal hands
Solution: Raise rates on all customers.
Result: CEO salary stays untouched. 🥲https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/nova-scotia-power-ceo-defends-proposed-rate-hike-9.6973594
I mishandle customer data, let it get stolen, and fall into criminal hands
Solution: Raise rates on all customers.
Result: CEO salary stays untouched. 🥲https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/nova-scotia-power-ceo-defends-proposed-rate-hike-9.6973594
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
CEO: I get paid hundreds of thousands a year.
I mishandle customer data, let it get stolen, and fall into criminal hands
Solution: Raise rates on all customers.
Result: CEO salary stays untouched. 🥲https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/nova-scotia-power-ceo-defends-proposed-rate-hike-9.6973594
I mishandle customer data, let it get stolen, and fall into criminal hands
Solution: Raise rates on all customers.
Result: CEO salary stays untouched. 🥲https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/nova-scotia-power-ceo-defends-proposed-rate-hike-9.6973594
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Let's celebrate Living Wage Week by acknowledging that
paying a living wage benefits everyone – employees, employers, and communities. Read our 2025 Living Wages Report to learn more:
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
#NSpoli #NLpoli #PEIpoli #LivingWageWeek
paying a living wage benefits everyone – employees, employers, and communities. Read our 2025 Living Wages Report to learn more:
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
#NSpoli #NLpoli #PEIpoli #LivingWageWeek
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Let's celebrate Living Wage Week by acknowledging that
paying a living wage benefits everyone – employees, employers, and communities. Read our 2025 Living Wages Report to learn more:
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
#NSpoli #NLpoli #PEIpoli #LivingWageWeek
paying a living wage benefits everyone – employees, employers, and communities. Read our 2025 Living Wages Report to learn more:
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
#NSpoli #NLpoli #PEIpoli #LivingWageWeek
$650/month for a tent in a basement. It sounds absurd, but this is real and happening in cities across Canada. Lowering rents, stronger tenant rights, real rent control, mass public housing, and taxing large corporate landlords aren’t “radical ideas.” They’re necessary. #HousingIsAHumanRight
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
$650/month for a tent in a basement. It sounds absurd, but this is real and happening in cities across Canada. Lowering rents, stronger tenant rights, real rent control, mass public housing, and taxing large corporate landlords aren’t “radical ideas.” They’re necessary. #HousingIsAHumanRight
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Pay attention, Alberta!
November 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Pay attention, Alberta!
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If you were looking at a newspaper (or its website) this morning and didn't see this iconic photo, it was an intentional choice to pander.
November 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
If you were looking at a newspaper (or its website) this morning and didn't see this iconic photo, it was an intentional choice to pander.
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This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
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A heartfelt thank you to the generous sponsors of the 2025 CCPA-NS Gala Dinner Fundraiser. Your support allows us to continue working toward an economically, socially, and environmentally just Nova Scotia.
#nspoli
#nspoli
November 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A heartfelt thank you to the generous sponsors of the 2025 CCPA-NS Gala Dinner Fundraiser. Your support allows us to continue working toward an economically, socially, and environmentally just Nova Scotia.
#nspoli
#nspoli
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A democratic socialist running on free & fast transit, free universal child care, rent freeze, city owned grocery stores, a $30 min wage and tax increases to the wealthy. Inspiring people to vote like never before— winning 75% of young voters. Lessons to be learned.
November 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
A democratic socialist running on free & fast transit, free universal child care, rent freeze, city owned grocery stores, a $30 min wage and tax increases to the wealthy. Inspiring people to vote like never before— winning 75% of young voters. Lessons to be learned.
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In-person gala tickets are officially sold out! We’ve had an incredible response from our sponsors and community, and it’s shaping up to be a great night. Virtual tickets are available if you'd like to be part of this amazing event: wl.donorperfect.net/weblink/WebL...
#nspoli
#nspoli
October 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
In-person gala tickets are officially sold out! We’ve had an incredible response from our sponsors and community, and it’s shaping up to be a great night. Virtual tickets are available if you'd like to be part of this amazing event: wl.donorperfect.net/weblink/WebL...
#nspoli
#nspoli
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The CCPA-NS Gala is 3 wks away! This year's event will be MC'd by nationally recognized, award-winning journalist @maggierahr.bsky.social. Come support progressive research while enjoying a night of delicious food, live music, & compelling company: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
#NSpoli
#NSpoli
October 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The CCPA-NS Gala is 3 wks away! This year's event will be MC'd by nationally recognized, award-winning journalist @maggierahr.bsky.social. Come support progressive research while enjoying a night of delicious food, live music, & compelling company: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
#NSpoli
#NSpoli
What North America can learn from Switzerland, which went from car-dependency to “the World's Greatest Transit Nation”
I’m specifically looking at Canada right now, as we focus on “Nation Building Projects”
I’m specifically looking at Canada right now, as we focus on “Nation Building Projects”
I take a look at how Zürich and Switzerland shifted from car-dependency to transit supremacy in this week's HIGH SPEED dispatch:
www.highspeed.blog/anatomy-of-a...
www.highspeed.blog/anatomy-of-a...
October 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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From last year. Proud to be Mi’kmaq. Proud of my family who endured the torture of the Shubenacadie residential school. They taught me so much while they were alive. May they have found peace with my ancestors.
September 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
From last year. Proud to be Mi’kmaq. Proud of my family who endured the torture of the Shubenacadie residential school. They taught me so much while they were alive. May they have found peace with my ancestors.
This guy can’t live without thinking about Justin Trudeau, look at minute 1:22 hahaha
September 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This guy can’t live without thinking about Justin Trudeau, look at minute 1:22 hahaha
‘It’s the best feeling’: how Copenhagen gave cyclists a green wave
‘It’s the best feeling’: how Copenhagen gave cyclists a green wave
Traffic lights are synchronised so a rush-hour cyclist at 20km/h can catch green lights all the way
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Have you ever wondered how the far right manage to normalize their ideologies into the mainstream, as we’re now seeing in the United States?
Well, let me explain it to you — because they’re trying to do it here in Canada, too, using the term “remigration.”
This is important:
Well, let me explain it to you — because they’re trying to do it here in Canada, too, using the term “remigration.”
This is important:
September 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Have you ever wondered how the far right manage to normalize their ideologies into the mainstream, as we’re now seeing in the United States?
Well, let me explain it to you — because they’re trying to do it here in Canada, too, using the term “remigration.”
This is important:
Well, let me explain it to you — because they’re trying to do it here in Canada, too, using the term “remigration.”
This is important:
1/3: honestly, we need more than awareness messages. Concrete measures would make intersections safer:
-Cameras with license plate recognition to fine reckless drivers.
-Real speed bumps and raised crosswalks that actually force cars to slow down.
-Cameras with license plate recognition to fine reckless drivers.
-Real speed bumps and raised crosswalks that actually force cars to slow down.
Did you know most fatal and injury-causing traffic collisions in our municipality happen around intersections. Crosswalks exist at all intersections, whether they are marked or unmarked. Drivers must always yield to pedestrians. halifax.ca/transportati...
September 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
1/3: honestly, we need more than awareness messages. Concrete measures would make intersections safer:
-Cameras with license plate recognition to fine reckless drivers.
-Real speed bumps and raised crosswalks that actually force cars to slow down.
-Cameras with license plate recognition to fine reckless drivers.
-Real speed bumps and raised crosswalks that actually force cars to slow down.
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Americans have 400 days to save their democracy | Timothy Garton Ash
Americans have 400 days to save their democracy | Timothy Garton Ash
I never thought I’d see fear spread so far and fast. Next year’s midterm elections are now crucial for the Democratic party – and for democrats everywhere, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Americans have 400 days to save their democracy | Timothy Garton Ash