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Mairi Babb
@mcbabb.bsky.social
she/her Actor/Director Toronto
Another fugitive from the hell site.
Progressive YIMBY who loves to cook.
Pro Abortion Anti Nazi
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Memo to all Jays fans:

Whatever you were wearing tonight, find something different for tonight.

The clothes last night were bad luck.
November 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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NEW: David Piccini, the minister whose office picks Skills Development Fund recipients, was in Paris this weekend at the wedding of a lobbyist whose clients received millions from that fund.

From me and @charliepinkerton.bsky.social.

www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...
Ontario labour minister attended lobbyist’s wedding after granting his clients millions in training funds
Two clients of lobbyist Michael Rudderham have received more than $8.5 million in Skills Development Fund grants, records show
www.thetrillium.ca
October 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I knew it!!!
October 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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On the eve of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Pierre Poilievre spoke out for the group he says faces the most hate-based violence.

Um, and apparently that group is…Christians? (It isn’t).

I called for backup on this one. Luckily @pampalmater.com answered:
September 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Brilliant takedown of #PierrePoilievre by Adam van Koeverden.

“Earlier this year when the leader of the Conservative Party lost his job he didn’t lose his house.

That’s because he lives in government subsidized non market housing.” …yet PP always opposes such assistance for others.
#cdnpoli
September 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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According to Indigenous Watchdog, work on 16 calls to action hasn’t started, 22 have stalled, 42 are in progress and 14 are complete.
Are the TRC calls to action be answered?
A not-for-profit organization that is keeping track of how governments across the country are responding to report by the TRC.
www.aptnnews.ca
September 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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I feel like it would have been both easy and anti-inflammatory to put the word "Incorrectly" after our Glorious Conservative Leader's name in the title, given the data present in the article, but what do I know www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Poilievre claims Christians 'may be the number 1' victims of hate-based violence | CBC News
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Monday that Christians and their places of worship are being targeted and, if elected, he will crack down on religion-based hate.
www.cbc.ca
September 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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The wolf is at our door, Canada.

"We believe in the mission and values of Turning Point USA and we share their heart for faith, family, and freedom…

The truth is simple: the only way Turning Point chapters can truly take root in Canada is through students themselves." #CdnPoli #CanPoli
September 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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In Canada, dangerous drivers kill more than twice as many people than murderers do.

These politicians are monstrous.
In a statement, Vaughan Mayor Steven Del Duca pivoted from speed cameras to violent crime, suggesting we should spend more time focussing on the latter. That’s illuminating. Vehicles obviously present the bigger statistical threat, especially to children. But we accept those injuries and deaths.
September 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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As Doug Ford announced a speed camera ban, I held up a radar gun on the road outside. Here's how many were speeding
As Doug Ford announced he would ban speed cameras, I clocked speeds on the road outside. This is what I found
On a miserable and wet day, I created a vigilante speed trap as Doug Ford spoke next door. The final results were startling.
www.thestar.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Doug Ford: cities can do speed cameras

cities: good, we will

police, schools, cities: speed cameras have now been shown to work and therefore will reduce deaths

Doug Ford: my friends yelled at me about speeding tickets so more deaths it is
Ford government says it will ban speed cameras across Ontario | CBC News
Ontario Premier Doug Ford called the traffic enforcement tool a "cash grab" at a news conference in Vaughan Thursday. He said his government will introduce new legislation to ban speed cameras.
www.cbc.ca
September 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Repeat this over and over. Doug Ford will kill people.
September 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Can some Ontario journalist please file an FOI for Doug Ford’s speeding tickets or his driver’s speeding tickets or his developer friends’ speeding tickets??? There HAS to be some BS behind this.
September 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Automated cameras cut speeding by 45 per cent in Toronto school zones, study finds
First-of-its-kind research by TMU and SickKids shows how cameras can make streets safer for children #topoli #onpoli

www.torontomu.ca/news-events/...
Automated cameras cut speeding by 45 per cent in Toronto school zones, study finds
First-of-its-kind research by TMU and SickKids shows how cameras can make streets safer for children
www.torontomu.ca
September 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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This is amazing.
September 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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I remember this speech when Jon Stewart gave it. It was powerful. And urgent. And 100% true. And like too many things over the last many years, it wasn’t taken nearly seriously enough.
🔥💯 Jon Stewart's prophecy from 2022:

"When a democracy is under threat: comedians are the ones who get sent away first. Authoritarians are the threat to comedy, to art, to music, to thought, to progress. It ain't the pronoun police, it's the Secret Police. It always has been & it always will be."
September 19, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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SCOOP

“I have folks claiming my information is all over 4chan telling me in the same breath that they hope I get ‘raped and killed’" @rachelgilmore.bsky.social tells me, after her information was posted to a site called Charlie's Murderers

www.wired.com/story/right-...
Right-Wing Activists Are Targeting People for Allegedly Celebrating Charlie Kirk's Death
Extremists and an anonymously run website are posting identifying details about people accused of celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder online. Some of those targeted are now getting death threats.
www.wired.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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I’m officially scared.

Because of this ONE tweet being afraid of potential reverberations of right wing political violence from this — something many others have said — I’m now the first result on a website called “charliesmurderers.”

This is putting me in genuine danger.

What the fuck do I do
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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This plus them hiring Ben Mulroney to host The West Block is the company announcing its getting out of journalism.
Global News laid off 26 journalists in B.C. and Alberta today.

In B.C. the layoffs include virtually all of the online team, along with many others.

The business is increasingly cruel, and the hollowing out of newsrooms providing fair and reliable information continues to suck.
September 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
And these are the folks @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social invited to speak to his cabinet.
The Heritage Foundation released the following words from the organization's president, Kevin Roberts, about the death of Charlie Kirk: “His martyrdom must be a turning point for our country.”

Yes, he said "martyrdom." Remember, we don't even know who killed the man or why.
September 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Oh come on! They're doing their best, what with the wee short legs, nervous disposition and all.
September 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Four politicians in Minnesota were shot, two dead. TFG never said anything at all as far as I recall about those four innocent people, but shortly after Charlie Kirk is shot, and now dead, he’s blubbering all over the media.
September 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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So Russell Brand is being rehabilitated by getting the lead in the Bagpuss movie?!?! Directed by Polanski?!?! You couldn’t make it up!
September 9, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Doug Ford ordering the city to get rid of one of the few things that keep car owners in check because the drivers don't like it is so on the nose it's practically up in it scrambling his brain around like an ancient Egyptian undergoing mummification

www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
‘Get rid of the speed cameras,’ Doug Ford warns municipalities after at least 16 damaged in Toronto overnight
Toronto police are investigating after at least 16 speed cameras were damaged across the city overnight in what one city councillor is calling “coordinated” vandalism.
www.ctvnews.ca
September 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Sixteen damaged speed cameras last night.

Meanwhile Doug Ford – who loves to talk tough on criminals – is now telling municipalities he wants the cameras gone.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
16 Toronto speed cameras damaged overnight, as Ford urges city to do away with 'tax grab' | CBC News
More Toronto speed cameras were found damaged on Tuesday morning, only two days after the Parkside Drive speed camera was cut down for the seventh time in less than a year.
www.cbc.ca
September 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM