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Matt Jelly
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Canada is the world's leading producer of lentils - which are a good source of protein, iron, & fibre. They're cheap, can be used in a wide range of recipes and are shelf stable for a year if stored properly.

www.lentils.org/about-lentils/ #canadasky
About Lentils
What are lentils, how to buy and store them - basic information about lentils
www.lentils.org
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February 15, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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We’ve also got a written version that people can read on our Substack. open.substack.com/pub/hatchetm...
February 14, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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Former Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath is pressuring the Hamilton Public Library to accept a smaller budget than they require in the face of cyberattacks and opioid overdoses. They’re closing the Central branch on Sundays but she wants more cuts. This is the “left wing” leader 😡
Mayor Andrea Horwath says "we have to make some tough choices in this budget" to ensure "affordability" ... "the opportunity exists for the library to mitigate the pressures by the utilization of reserves" and says the Library "needs to meet the Mayor's Directive" and will vote NO on motion. #yhmcc
February 6, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Downhill skiing is just a risk I could never be compelled to take
February 10, 2026 at 4:35 AM
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I have incarcerated comrades & loved ones who are enduring the daily torture of US prisons. They also continue to make art. They often don't have the proper supplies and yet they make it knowing that it will never make it out to anyone else. But they continue to make art nonetheless. Keep making art
February 8, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Well clearly these guys just need more training
9 Toronto police officers facing charges related to tow-truck violence: source | CBC News
Nine Toronto police officers are facing charges related to violent incidents involving tow trucks and operators across the Greater Toronto Area, multiple sources tell CBC News.
www.cbc.ca
February 5, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
February 2, 2026 at 4:31 AM
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This is a mass murder death cult.

Any politician pushing for anything other than putting everyone involved in jail is materially supporting child trafficking, abuse, torture, and concentration camps
February 2, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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February 1, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
February 1, 2026 at 2:33 PM
He's really ruined thank you for your attention to this matter for the rest of us
February 1, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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One more reason my soul shrivels up every time I hear someone say "I just used chatgpt to ____"
January 31, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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Just got gassed pretty good at the labor union anti-ICE protest in Portland. Massive march, 5-10k strong. Vibes were very much liberal rather than radical. Lots of kids and older folks.

They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.
February 1, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
January 31, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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Children make up about 30% of the over 70,000 people killed in Gaza.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Israel accepts health authorities’ Gaza death toll is broadly accurate, saying 70,000 have died
Israeli military’s U-turn in accepting official figures comes after years of attacking data as ‘Hamas propaganda’
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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What housing crisis?
"Vancouver’s estimated costs... have swelled from roughly $240-million in 2022 to $624-million shared between all three levels of government."

Remarkable contrast with Vancouver's recent austerity budget. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Costs for hosting FIFA World Cup games soar in Toronto and Vancouver
While the U.S. has arrangements that have kept budgets relatively in check, Canadian cities have seen their estimated costs go up by hundreds of millions
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 31, 2026 at 2:33 AM
The zone has never been more flooded
January 30, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps.

This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US
Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.
www.bloomberg.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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ICE's treatment of children blows a giant hole in this phony MAGA narrative that the right wing embraces families, moms, kids & all that. The msm has done way too many stories about White House babies, fertility policies & the like without also acknowledging this grotesque split screen.
North of Seattle, in Shoreline, a father taking his 2-year-old son to daycare before heading to his job, where he works 6 days a week, was arrested by ICE. They left his son sitting alone in the back seat for about 40 minutes, eyewitnesses said.
Federal agents arrest man in front of 2-year-old son in Shoreline
The two-year-old son sat alone in the back seat for about 40 minutes, eyewitnesses said.
www.seattletimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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“6. Improve conditions at the uh. At the concentration camps.”
Full statement from New Dem Chair @repschneider.bsky.social and @usprogressives.bsky.social Chair @repcasar.bsky.social on DHS reforms.
January 30, 2026 at 6:10 AM
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The coolest Congresswoman there’s ever been.
January 29, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom:

"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
For all the fearmongering about capital flight from New York City, there’s an exodus few want to talk about: working people.

Sky-high rents and outrageous child care costs are already pushing families out of the city they keep running.
 
That’s what we have to change.
January 28, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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When seeing ICE abuses, Cndns have little to feel smug about:

"A [Black Cndn woman] lawyer was left bloody & swollen after multiple Durham Regional police officers slammed her head on a desk w/o provocation, ripped off her head scarf & dragged her to the basement cells of the Oshawa courthouse."
Lawyer alleges Durham Region police violently assaulted her, dragged her to cells in Oshawa courthouse | CBC News
A lawyer says she was left bloody and swollen after multiple Durham regional police officers allegedly slammed her head on a desk without provocation, ripped off her head scarf and dragged her to the ...
www.cbc.ca
January 28, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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🚨Want to know which Canadian companies are profiting off of ICE and Trump’s violent mass deportation agenda?

Well I just spent the last few days digging into exactly that.

Here are the companies I found, how much they’re making, and whether they’re getting Canadian taxpayer dollars.

Sneak peek:
January 28, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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“A lawyer says she was left bloody and swollen after multiple Durham Regional police officers allegedly slammed her head on a desk without provocation, ripped off her head scarf and dragged her to the basement cells of the Oshawa courthouse last week.”

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Lawyer alleges Durham Region police violently assaulted her, dragged her to cells in Oshawa courthouse | CBC News
A lawyer says she was left bloody and swollen after multiple Durham regional police officers allegedly slammed her head on a desk without provocation, ripped off her head scarf and dragged her to the ...
www.cbc.ca
January 28, 2026 at 3:46 PM