Claire Trottier 🇨🇦
@doctrott.bsky.social
🗒️Chair of Euphrosine Foundation, chair of @patmillscanada.bsky.social , co-founder of @wecobien.bsky.social, Board of Trottier Family Foundation
📚 Co-owner of @joiedelivresmtl.bsky.social
📢 Views are my own
📚 Co-owner of @joiedelivresmtl.bsky.social
📢 Views are my own
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Trump’s love of ‘broligarchs’ is seeping into Canada. Do our leaders have the courage to take on the ultra-rich?
Delay in capital gains tax reform is a capitulation to the wealthy, writes Claire Trottier. Do we really want to live in a country where the monied get preferential treatment
www.thestar.com
My oped in @thestar.com today:
Do we want a Canada where tech billionaires sell out their country for a tax break, or one where our government fights back against the oligarchy with creative ideas to tax extreme wealth?
www.thestar.com/business/opi...
Do we want a Canada where tech billionaires sell out their country for a tax break, or one where our government fights back against the oligarchy with creative ideas to tax extreme wealth?
www.thestar.com/business/opi...
Carl Sagan’s remarks on this image are basically my religious text
"That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." —Carl Sagan
Voyager 1 captured the "Pale Blue Dot" image #OTD in 1990. 🧪 🔭 🔵
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Voyager 1 captured the "Pale Blue Dot" image #OTD in 1990. 🧪 🔭 🔵
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
![The "pale blue dot" photo. It shows three or four colored beams of light – optical artifacts – passing from the left side of the image to the right. The background is dark, empty space. In the topmost light beam is a single pale blue pixel. That's Earth. Sagan's quote is printed on the image. It reads ""We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history..."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6435lftcmpvxasbkrtsw22i7/bafkreicpbthbsbsmlfm3fjysre3sbt3gyu2gjxmacrnofhibatrts2xwga@jpeg)
February 14, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Carl Sagan’s remarks on this image are basically my religious text
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This is what authoritarians are never gonna understand: average, everyday citizens do not like watching paramilitary thugs brutalize children. All the vaporware memes in the world can't fix that for them
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 3:53 PM
This is what authoritarians are never gonna understand: average, everyday citizens do not like watching paramilitary thugs brutalize children. All the vaporware memes in the world can't fix that for them
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What do the powerful people named in the Epstein files all have in common?
February 14, 2026 at 5:02 PM
What do the powerful people named in the Epstein files all have in common?
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Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
February 14, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.
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The Epstein files aren’t just about one wealthy predator.
They reveal how extreme wealth creates a system where the ultra-rich protect each other, avoid consequences, and exploit power, while everyone else pays the price. patrioticmillionaires.org/perspectives...
They reveal how extreme wealth creates a system where the ultra-rich protect each other, avoid consequences, and exploit power, while everyone else pays the price. patrioticmillionaires.org/perspectives...
What the Epstein files tell us about extreme wealth
patrioticmillionaires.org
February 13, 2026 at 10:29 PM
The Epstein files aren’t just about one wealthy predator.
They reveal how extreme wealth creates a system where the ultra-rich protect each other, avoid consequences, and exploit power, while everyone else pays the price. patrioticmillionaires.org/perspectives...
They reveal how extreme wealth creates a system where the ultra-rich protect each other, avoid consequences, and exploit power, while everyone else pays the price. patrioticmillionaires.org/perspectives...
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Homeland Security is said to have sent Google and Meta hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or criticize ICE.
Homeland Security Demands Social Media Sites Reveal Names Behind Anti-ICE Posts
The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said.
nyti.ms
February 14, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Homeland Security is said to have sent Google and Meta hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or criticize ICE.
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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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Our investigation has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK
https://goodlaw.social/2l1y
https://goodlaw.social/2l1y
Putin’s megaphone: Orbán’s far-right push into UK universities is fuelled by Russian oil | Good Law Project
Good Law Project has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK
goodlaw.social
February 12, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Our investigation has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK
https://goodlaw.social/2l1y
https://goodlaw.social/2l1y
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This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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A young man at our town hall asked if I was pushing class warfare.
I told him: “We already have class warfare in this country — billionaires are waging war on the rest of us.”
I told him: “We already have class warfare in this country — billionaires are waging war on the rest of us.”
February 12, 2026 at 1:27 AM
A young man at our town hall asked if I was pushing class warfare.
I told him: “We already have class warfare in this country — billionaires are waging war on the rest of us.”
I told him: “We already have class warfare in this country — billionaires are waging war on the rest of us.”
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Rockwell would have painted this.
Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
February 12, 2026 at 12:32 AM
Rockwell would have painted this.
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The wealthiest 1% of families in Canada owned 22.7% of wealth in 2023, up from 19.3% in 1999, seeing a total increase of $3 trillion over that period.
Find our new report modelling of extreme wealth inequality from @c4tf.bsky.social and @bcpolicy.bsky.social:
bcpolicy.ca/2026/02/11/tax-the-rich/
Find our new report modelling of extreme wealth inequality from @c4tf.bsky.social and @bcpolicy.bsky.social:
bcpolicy.ca/2026/02/11/tax-the-rich/
The new robber barons: a quarter century of wealth concentration in Canada
Wealth and political influence tend to reinforce each other. Tracking who owns wealth and how that distribution is changing is more important than ever for the health of our democracy and the future ...
bcpolicy.ca
February 11, 2026 at 4:13 PM
The wealthiest 1% of families in Canada owned 22.7% of wealth in 2023, up from 19.3% in 1999, seeing a total increase of $3 trillion over that period.
Find our new report modelling of extreme wealth inequality from @c4tf.bsky.social and @bcpolicy.bsky.social:
bcpolicy.ca/2026/02/11/tax-the-rich/
Find our new report modelling of extreme wealth inequality from @c4tf.bsky.social and @bcpolicy.bsky.social:
bcpolicy.ca/2026/02/11/tax-the-rich/
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In this particular context it's clear they were absolutely terrified of MeToo because they were aware of the consequences they would face if their sins were ever revealed.
They *knew* what they were doing was wrong. That's why they *manufactured* hysteria around it. It was purposeful propaganda.
They *knew* what they were doing was wrong. That's why they *manufactured* hysteria around it. It was purposeful propaganda.
I remember being surprised at how much MeToo took over the minds of certain folks, and I guess I just severely underestimated the number of older men who regarded nonstop predation of younger women as their birthright
Lawrence Krauss being endearing again: "good news btw is that woman on conciliation committee seems like a sweetie.. she is old…. not some young metoo bitch."
February 11, 2026 at 10:20 PM
In this particular context it's clear they were absolutely terrified of MeToo because they were aware of the consequences they would face if their sins were ever revealed.
They *knew* what they were doing was wrong. That's why they *manufactured* hysteria around it. It was purposeful propaganda.
They *knew* what they were doing was wrong. That's why they *manufactured* hysteria around it. It was purposeful propaganda.
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«Mon message est simple: «Taxez-moi!» Ça n’a aucun impact négatif sur ma qualité de vie, mais ça peut avoir un impact immense sur la société. Les données économiques sont très claires à ce sujet.» - @doctrott.bsky.social
www.7jours.ca/2026/02/05/c...
www.7jours.ca/2026/02/05/c...
Claire Trottier: De philanthrope à libraire, la femme qui a parié sur «Heated Rivalry»
Découvrez son parcours fascinant.
www.7jours.ca
February 11, 2026 at 7:41 PM
«Mon message est simple: «Taxez-moi!» Ça n’a aucun impact négatif sur ma qualité de vie, mais ça peut avoir un impact immense sur la société. Les données économiques sont très claires à ce sujet.» - @doctrott.bsky.social
www.7jours.ca/2026/02/05/c...
www.7jours.ca/2026/02/05/c...
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We stand with Tumbler Ridge.
February 11, 2026 at 8:48 PM
We stand with Tumbler Ridge.
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I did not expect to see this in the WSJ:
"Reducing reliance on fossil fuels looks like Europe’s best shot at saving its domestic manufacturing and stopping other governments from pushing it around"
Agreed!
"Reducing reliance on fossil fuels looks like Europe’s best shot at saving its domestic manufacturing and stopping other governments from pushing it around"
Agreed!
Europe Needs to Learn Its Lesson: Stop Relying on Imported Energy
Growing reliance on American gas looks foolish given how unpredictable the White House has become.
www.wsj.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:32 PM
I did not expect to see this in the WSJ:
"Reducing reliance on fossil fuels looks like Europe’s best shot at saving its domestic manufacturing and stopping other governments from pushing it around"
Agreed!
"Reducing reliance on fossil fuels looks like Europe’s best shot at saving its domestic manufacturing and stopping other governments from pushing it around"
Agreed!
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Man worth $22bn and moved to a tax haven to avoid contributing to society, worries that Britain, Britain! is being colonized and drained of resources
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
Britain has been "colonised" by immigrants, who are draining resources from the state, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, one of the country's richest and most influential men, has told Sky News.
news.sky.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Man worth $22bn and moved to a tax haven to avoid contributing to society, worries that Britain, Britain! is being colonized and drained of resources
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“If you’re having issues paying rent, chances are you’re having a hard time feeding yourself. Housing is connected to food security, health, and economic security. It’s a health emergency that’s 100% driven by inequality.” thephilanthropist.ca/2026/02/on-t...
thephilanthropist.ca/2026/02/on-t...
thephilanthropist.ca/2026/02/on-t...
On the front lines of eviction prevention - The Philanthropist Journal
“A little goes a long way” in keeping people housed, advocates say, and the social costs of not addressing the housing crisis are immeasurable.
thephilanthropist.ca
February 10, 2026 at 1:38 PM
“If you’re having issues paying rent, chances are you’re having a hard time feeding yourself. Housing is connected to food security, health, and economic security. It’s a health emergency that’s 100% driven by inequality.” thephilanthropist.ca/2026/02/on-t...
thephilanthropist.ca/2026/02/on-t...
thephilanthropist.ca/2026/02/on-t...
The people of Minnesota and athletes like this one have orders of magnitude more courage and leadership than pretty much every major CEO and business leader. The contrast is just staggering.
Team USA Curler Rich Ruohonen:
"We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."
"We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."
February 10, 2026 at 10:30 PM
The people of Minnesota and athletes like this one have orders of magnitude more courage and leadership than pretty much every major CEO and business leader. The contrast is just staggering.
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Thank you to a generation of "savvy" Dem strategists for repeating over and again that talking about race is "divisive" thus handing voters earphones where unrelenting racism - generally via dog whistles - is blasted in one ear and the other plays silence, or economic pablum.
Current state of Republican Party politics: The president posted an image of the first black president and First Lady as apes; no one at the White House will publicly say that is not appropriate; the most likely person to face consequences is the party’s sole black senator — for calling it “racist.”
February 7, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Thank you to a generation of "savvy" Dem strategists for repeating over and again that talking about race is "divisive" thus handing voters earphones where unrelenting racism - generally via dog whistles - is blasted in one ear and the other plays silence, or economic pablum.
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This is excellent & draws out something the rest of the media is ignoring: among other things, the Epstein files have made it super, super clear that the entire "anti-woke" cultural hysteria was engineered by powerful men averse to accountability.
I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...
How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo
The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.
www.theverge.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:46 PM
This is excellent & draws out something the rest of the media is ignoring: among other things, the Epstein files have made it super, super clear that the entire "anti-woke" cultural hysteria was engineered by powerful men averse to accountability.
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This message, which hangs in the Olympic workout space for Team Canada 🇨🇦
(Written out fully in Alt Text)
(Written out fully in Alt Text)
February 7, 2026 at 7:21 PM
This message, which hangs in the Olympic workout space for Team Canada 🇨🇦
(Written out fully in Alt Text)
(Written out fully in Alt Text)
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From Glamour magazine, actual journalism: "In Minnesota, a community is coming together to push back against ICE and support their neighbors. It should surprise no one that much of this work is being led by women. Glamour reports from the front lines." www.glamour.com/story/the-wo...
The Women Holding Minneapolis Together
In Minnesota, a community is coming together to push back against ICE and support their neighbors. It should surprise no one that much of this work is being led by women. Glamour reports from the fron...
www.glamour.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:35 PM
From Glamour magazine, actual journalism: "In Minnesota, a community is coming together to push back against ICE and support their neighbors. It should surprise no one that much of this work is being led by women. Glamour reports from the front lines." www.glamour.com/story/the-wo...