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Gail Dugas🇨🇦
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Former journalist living on an island in British Columbia.

Alt text: A view over Baynes Sound looking towards Vancouver Island. Water and Douglas Firs
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“When we enlisted in the military, we were proud to serve our country. We never imagined that, after our service, we would have to fight for our own healthcare.” @tennesseelookout.com
Clarksville veterans say care, not cuts to the Veterans Administration, are needed • Tennessee Lookout
Tennessee veterans face worsening chronic illnesses as a result of long waits for care and denial of claims from the Veterans Administration.
tennesseelookout.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Between this and the speed camera stuff, there is a death drive in large parts of mainstream Canadian policy and society.

Public safety conversations, bellowing, in Canada are all a sham and performative when looked at through these frames.
Canada loses measles elimination status | CBC
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Layoffs are reaching their highest levels since the pandemic, but America's corporate elite have never been doing better.

Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged?
November 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does.
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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We need thousands of electricians to break free from fossil fuels. Just saw the real work at @ibewinternational.bsky.social Local 242 Edmonton—union apprentices building our clean future. THIS is how we fight climate breakdown AND create family-sustaining jobs. #cdnpoli
November 3, 2025 at 2:09 AM
So many legit points in this video
Signing myself up to get my guy Avi Lewis in a place to organize this party and our government,

AND-

to give young people a sense that *somebody* is out there, seriously thinking about the future as if it is worth believing in and fighting for…
Canada's true crisis is the everyday emergency of just trying to get by in an impossible economy.

I’m running for NDP leader so we can transform a system rigged for the rich—together.

We need a government that serves the many, not the money.

Join in. lewisforleader.ca/

youtu.be/IVy99oiYszY
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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190 000 documented war crimes in less than 4 years. About ±150 a day. And that is only the tip of the iceberg. Next time you even think about "it is war, it happens" or "it is not so black and white" - remember this number. It is pretty clear cut.

#UkrainianView
#UAView
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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My best friend told me: "I had heard Mamdani was a Socialist. Then I listened to him in an interview. That's when I realized, 'Damn, I'm a Socialist, too'. Who knew?"
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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🇨🇦 In the 1960s, over 50% of taxation income came from #Corporations and the wealthy. Drastic taxation cuts have dropped income from these groups to around 25% of government income not including massive subsidies to #Oil&Gas #Billionaires.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
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October 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Cape LaHave Island is now a protected space

The Municipality of the District of Lunenburg signed a conservation easement on Tuesday with the Nova Scotia Nature Trust. #NovaScotia

www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
Cape LaHave Island is now a protected space
The Municipality of the District of Lunenburg signed a conservation easement on Tuesday with the Nova Scotia Nature Trust. Bonnie Sutherland, the executive director of the trust, explains what makes o...
www.cbc.ca
October 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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"These aren’t policy disagreements. These are incompatible visions of what kind of civilization we should be. Citizens or subjects. Democracy or feudalism. Self-governance or hierarchy."

www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-coming...
The Coming Clash of Civilizations
From the Wilderness of a Recovering Technocrat
www.notesfromthecircus.com
October 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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So no terrorism then?
October 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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A general strike is the most powerful tool of the people. Even the Nazis feared them.
October 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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#P.E.I. hospitals bring back mask mandates as experts warn of viral surge across Canada

www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
P.E.I. hospitals bring back mask mandates as experts warn of viral surge across Canada
Mandatory masking is back at health facilities across Prince Edward Island as public health officials work to reduce the spread of respiratory illnesses.
www.ctvnews.ca
October 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Meta has removed a Chicago ICE-tracking Facebook page.

The move follows Apple and Google removing ICE activity tracking apps from their app stores.

The removals came after a demand from Trump’s DOJ.

Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.
October 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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A nationwide backlash to AI data centers is brewing.

And for good reason: while AI enriches Big Tech CEOs and props up the stock market, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and power.

When the AI bubble bursts, the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag. Be warned.
October 16, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Big tech is a huge part of this assault on democracy.
Meta has removed a Chicago ICE-tracking Facebook page.

The move follows Apple and Google removing ICE activity tracking apps from their app stores.

The removals came after a demand from Trump’s DOJ.

Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.
October 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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This gas terminal would be built in Korea and owned by American billionaires. Tell PM Carney: no taxpayer subsidies for Ksi Lisims LNG. #cdnpoli www.dogwoodbc.ca/petitions/ca...
October 12, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war
October 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
So beautiful!!
There is a tree in Nashville that I'm pretty sure was pulled up into a tornado when it was a sapling, but it had strong roots and it survived. I visit it every time I'm at Centennial Park. When I first moved here, it was barely taller than me, and now it's an adult!
October 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow
October 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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I get that Canada must be careful not to rile the beast next door. I understand that we can do something without saying anything. We can make trade deals with other nations and otherwise hold our tongue. I regret it, but I get it. There will come a time, though, when we'll have to say something.
October 6, 2025 at 3:53 AM