Seán M
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Let's talk about board game boxes and their role in selling a game, framing and contextualizing the experience, and creating meaning.
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Boxes: Selling, Framing, Meaning
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November 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Let's talk about board game boxes and their role in selling a game, framing and contextualizing the experience, and creating meaning.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgfV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgfV...
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We can have a sober national conversation about how much immigration is suitable to meet our social and economic goals. But scapegoating immigrants for the state of housing and health care obscures the real causes of these crises and stokes resentment against vulnerable members of our communities.
The myth of the immigrant threat
Anti-immigrant sentiment is surging in Canada, with politicians and pundits blaming newcomers for crises like housing, health care, and unemployment. But these problems stem from policy failure and in...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
We can have a sober national conversation about how much immigration is suitable to meet our social and economic goals. But scapegoating immigrants for the state of housing and health care obscures the real causes of these crises and stokes resentment against vulnerable members of our communities.
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While Alberta considers how to allow oilsands companies to release treated wastewater into the Athabasca River, the federal government has yet to table its own law around clean drinking water for First Nations. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oils...
‘Unacceptable’: Alberta wants to treat and release oilsands waste | The Narwhal
Alberta is working on plans to treat and release oilsands wastewater into the Athabasca River. First Nations downstream don’t want that to happen
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November 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
While Alberta considers how to allow oilsands companies to release treated wastewater into the Athabasca River, the federal government has yet to table its own law around clean drinking water for First Nations. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oils...
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Our politicians use the deficit as a rhetorical cudgel to keep their friends rich while pushing austerity on the rest of us.
The deficit is not an economic problem—it’s a political weapon
Mark Carney’s new budget exposes how Canada’s political class weaponizes the deficit to protect elites and justify austerity. Despite alarmist rhetoric, Canada’s debt is modest and self-financed. The ...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Our politicians use the deficit as a rhetorical cudgel to keep their friends rich while pushing austerity on the rest of us.
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Canada’s deficit is projected to rise by $17B, yet ordinary folks face cuts to essential services while the ultra-rich and corporations avoid billions in taxes. Closing loopholes and taxing offshore wealth could fully fund health care, housing, and education—proving the crisis is a political choice.
A deficit paid by workers and a bailout for the wealthy
Canada’s deficit is projected to rise by $17 billion, yet ordinary Canadians face cuts to essential services while the ultra-wealthy and multinational corporations avoid billions in taxes. Closing loo...
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October 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Canada’s deficit is projected to rise by $17B, yet ordinary folks face cuts to essential services while the ultra-rich and corporations avoid billions in taxes. Closing loopholes and taxing offshore wealth could fully fund health care, housing, and education—proving the crisis is a political choice.
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it hasn't helped sell any mags but it appears our nonsense on here has just pushed our account over 5K 'followers', so let's embrace that as some kind of achievement!
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November 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
it hasn't helped sell any mags but it appears our nonsense on here has just pushed our account over 5K 'followers', so let's embrace that as some kind of achievement!
Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*
Like & repost this to be in with a chance to win every in-print issue of Wyrd Science & a t-shirt of your choice*
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ANNOUNCEMENT: There are less than 48 hours left in An Clogán's Kickstarter campaign! A huge thank you to all those who have donated so far. We have already raised €1,775 of our €2,000 goal. We'd really appreciate your help in getting us over the line!
October 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
ANNOUNCEMENT: There are less than 48 hours left in An Clogán's Kickstarter campaign! A huge thank you to all those who have donated so far. We have already raised €1,775 of our €2,000 goal. We'd really appreciate your help in getting us over the line!
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We’re told the economy is fine because GDP keeps rising. But Canada’s growth is powered by rent extraction, not production. With household debt at 150% of GDP, the system expands only by charging more for what already exists. This isn’t a recovery—it’s a managed decline.
Canadians are on year three of a people’s recession
The disconnect between big economic indicators and Canadians’ day-to-day experience is a gap our political leaders seem unable or unwilling to bridge. Indeed, parliamentarians have gotten in the habit...
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October 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We’re told the economy is fine because GDP keeps rising. But Canada’s growth is powered by rent extraction, not production. With household debt at 150% of GDP, the system expands only by charging more for what already exists. This isn’t a recovery—it’s a managed decline.
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The housing crisis will not be resolved by increasing supply, but by increasing the right kind of supply. Constructing more homes will only lower costs if they are kept out of reach of investors and paired with significant non-market alternatives.
The supply and demand myth of housing
It is clear that supply and demand curves are not sufficient for understanding the housing crisis. We can build all we want, but if we are building houses as financial assets prices are going to stay ...
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October 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The housing crisis will not be resolved by increasing supply, but by increasing the right kind of supply. Constructing more homes will only lower costs if they are kept out of reach of investors and paired with significant non-market alternatives.
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If academic institutions won’t divest from companies fuelling genocide, what does that say about their commitments to human rights, or to the very idea of knowledge in service of the public good?
Blood in the endowment
The University of Manitoba proclaims commitments to human rights and academic integrity, yet invests in arms manufacturers supplying Israel’s genocide in Gaza. This essay exposes the contradiction, fr...
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October 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
If academic institutions won’t divest from companies fuelling genocide, what does that say about their commitments to human rights, or to the very idea of knowledge in service of the public good?
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Reconciliation is neither possible nor desirable, since there was never a positive relationship in the first place. Nonetheless...
Canada’s “elbows up” nationalism may look like resistance to Trump, but it risks repeating the colonial violence it claims to oppose. Ellen Gabriel and @seancarleton.bsky.social warn that patriotism built on erasing Indigenous struggles makes real reconciliation impossible.
Resisting Canada’s ‘elbows up’ colonialism
Canada’s new “elbows up” nationalism frames itself as resistance to Trump and US expansionism—but it risks recycling colonial myths. By glossing over the Mohawk Resistance and ongoing land theft, patr...
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September 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Reconciliation is neither possible nor desirable, since there was never a positive relationship in the first place. Nonetheless...
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Are Irish Americans actually Irish?
New video. Come watch
New video. Come watch
What is Irishness?
YouTube video by The Leftist Cooks
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September 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Are Irish Americans actually Irish?
New video. Come watch
New video. Come watch
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Mark Carney invokes wartime housing as inspiration for his $13B plan. But unlike the 1940s, when Ottawa directly built and managed affordable homes, his approach relies on P3s and market sales—policies that risk deepening, not solving, the housing crisis.
Mark Carney is no wartime homebuilder
Over the past three decades our governments have once again walked away from direct housing provision and, for the third time in a century, allowed the private sector to make a mess of our housing sys...
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September 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Mark Carney invokes wartime housing as inspiration for his $13B plan. But unlike the 1940s, when Ottawa directly built and managed affordable homes, his approach relies on P3s and market sales—policies that risk deepening, not solving, the housing crisis.
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Mark Carney presents himself as the steady hand Canada needs, but his politics amount to neoliberalism with a friendlier face. Canada needs more than tinkering around the edges of capitalism—we need a government willing to confront capital itself.
I read Mark Carney’s book so you don’t have to
Fortunately, we don’t have to rely on campaign literature to discern Mark Carney’s vision for the future. The decades he’s spent in both the private sector and the public service, as well as his 2021 ...
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September 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Mark Carney presents himself as the steady hand Canada needs, but his politics amount to neoliberalism with a friendlier face. Canada needs more than tinkering around the edges of capitalism—we need a government willing to confront capital itself.
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The Liberals no longer legislate workers back to work. They outsource it using obscure provisions to suspend strikes and impose deals.
It’s not just anti-union, it’s a blueprint for dismantling Charter-protected rights under cover of “due process.”
It’s not just anti-union, it’s a blueprint for dismantling Charter-protected rights under cover of “due process.”
How the Liberals are eroding workers’ Charter-protected rights
Prime Minister Mark Carney is presenting himself as a politician who has a vision of a new, more prosperous and sovereign Canada. Yet, whatever he and his government have in mind, writes Harry Glasbee...
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August 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The Liberals no longer legislate workers back to work. They outsource it using obscure provisions to suspend strikes and impose deals.
It’s not just anti-union, it’s a blueprint for dismantling Charter-protected rights under cover of “due process.”
It’s not just anti-union, it’s a blueprint for dismantling Charter-protected rights under cover of “due process.”
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Going live October 3rd!
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Coming soon: DURF Expanded
An updated and expanded version of DURF, the acclaimed rules-light dungeon-fantasy RPG.
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August 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Going live October 3rd!
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Canada’s “productivity crisis” isn’t about lazy workers—it’s about protected oligopolies and metrics that reward speculation over real value. If being “productive” means enriching landlords and gutting public services, maybe we need to be less productive.
What if productivity isn’t the problem?
Canada’s so-called productivity crisis isn’t about lazy workers—it’s about complacent executives, protected oligopolies, and metrics that reward speculation over real value. If being “productive” mean...
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August 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Canada’s “productivity crisis” isn’t about lazy workers—it’s about protected oligopolies and metrics that reward speculation over real value. If being “productive” means enriching landlords and gutting public services, maybe we need to be less productive.
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When oil and gas companies are unable, or unwilling, to pay rent they owe to landowners where they have wells, the Alberta government pays it for them.
The tab is now nearly $150 million since 2010, Sharon J. Riley reports: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oil-and-gas-unpaid-rent-2024
The tab is now nearly $150 million since 2010, Sharon J. Riley reports: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oil-and-gas-unpaid-rent-2024
Alberta covered $150M in oil and gas companies’ unpaid rent | The Narwhal
Issue of oil and gas companies’ unpaid rent in Alberta is ‘intertwined’ with unpaid municipal taxes, cleanup bills: law professor
thenarwhal.ca
July 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM
When oil and gas companies are unable, or unwilling, to pay rent they owe to landowners where they have wells, the Alberta government pays it for them.
The tab is now nearly $150 million since 2010, Sharon J. Riley reports: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oil-and-gas-unpaid-rent-2024
The tab is now nearly $150 million since 2010, Sharon J. Riley reports: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oil-and-gas-unpaid-rent-2024
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Attention Government of Alberta members‼️ AUPE and the Minister of Finance agreed to start enhanced mediation to successfully conclude the current round of bargaining.
Don't miss the telephone town halls August 6 and 7.
https://tinyurl.com/5atbfffv
Don't miss the telephone town halls August 6 and 7.
https://tinyurl.com/5atbfffv
GSBC Update #31: AUPE and Minister of Finance agree to enhanced mediation, upcoming town halls
Update for Locals 001, 002, 003, 004, 005, 006, 009 & 012, Government of Alberta
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July 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Attention Government of Alberta members‼️ AUPE and the Minister of Finance agreed to start enhanced mediation to successfully conclude the current round of bargaining.
Don't miss the telephone town halls August 6 and 7.
https://tinyurl.com/5atbfffv
Don't miss the telephone town halls August 6 and 7.
https://tinyurl.com/5atbfffv
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CBC has quietly censored pro-Palestinian voices under pressure from HonestReporting Canada—a group openly aligned with the Israeli state. In doing so, the broadcaster has traded journalistic integrity for appeasement, and lost credibility on all sides.
On CBC media capitulation and HonestReporting Canada
CBC’s repeated caving to a highly biased pro-Israel advocacy group like HonestReporting Canada takes up a place within the larger context of right-wing populism on the rise in Canada today. According ...
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July 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
CBC has quietly censored pro-Palestinian voices under pressure from HonestReporting Canada—a group openly aligned with the Israeli state. In doing so, the broadcaster has traded journalistic integrity for appeasement, and lost credibility on all sides.
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In Store Sale! We let you know in the newsletter that a sale was coming July 26/27, but we got impatient and launched parts of it early! Includes markdowns of 50% on select games! And we're clearing a bunch of demo games too, most in the $1-20 range. #yeg #boardgames
More deals to be announced!
More deals to be announced!
July 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
In Store Sale! We let you know in the newsletter that a sale was coming July 26/27, but we got impatient and launched parts of it early! Includes markdowns of 50% on select games! And we're clearing a bunch of demo games too, most in the $1-20 range. #yeg #boardgames
More deals to be announced!
More deals to be announced!
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The Liberals no longer legislate workers back to work. They outsource it, using labour boards and obscure provisions to suspend strikes and impose deals.
It’s not just anti-union—it’s a blueprint for dismantling Charter-protected rights under cover of “due process.”
NEW from Harry Glasbeek:
It’s not just anti-union—it’s a blueprint for dismantling Charter-protected rights under cover of “due process.”
NEW from Harry Glasbeek:
How the Liberals are eroding workers’ Charter-protected rights
Prime Minister Mark Carney is presenting himself as a politician who has a vision of a new, more prosperous and sovereign Canada. Yet, whatever he and his government have in mind, writes Harry Glasbee...
canadiandimension.com
July 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The Liberals no longer legislate workers back to work. They outsource it, using labour boards and obscure provisions to suspend strikes and impose deals.
It’s not just anti-union—it’s a blueprint for dismantling Charter-protected rights under cover of “due process.”
NEW from Harry Glasbeek:
It’s not just anti-union—it’s a blueprint for dismantling Charter-protected rights under cover of “due process.”
NEW from Harry Glasbeek:
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A must read, devastating, Report by Francesca Albanese (UN Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967) on the global economic foundations of the Palestinians' genocide: THE ECONOMY OF GENOCIDE.
Please share!
www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
Please share!
www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
A/HRC/59/23: From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (Advance edited ve...
This report investigates the corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project of displacement and replacement of the Palestinians in the occupied territory. While political leaders and...
www.ohchr.org
July 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
A must read, devastating, Report by Francesca Albanese (UN Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967) on the global economic foundations of the Palestinians' genocide: THE ECONOMY OF GENOCIDE.
Please share!
www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
Please share!
www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
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Mark Carney rode anti-Trump rhetoric to power, only to cave to corporate interests, adopt MAGA-lite policies, and betray the very voters who put him in office.
NEW from @christoaivalis.bsky.social:
NEW from @christoaivalis.bsky.social:
Carney promised resistance and delivered retreat
Carney became prime minister on the backs of progressive voters desperate to stop a Trump–Poilievre axis from sweeping North America. But so far, his policies have served mainly to placate Trump and v...
canadiandimension.com
July 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Mark Carney rode anti-Trump rhetoric to power, only to cave to corporate interests, adopt MAGA-lite policies, and betray the very voters who put him in office.
NEW from @christoaivalis.bsky.social:
NEW from @christoaivalis.bsky.social:
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Did you know Exeunt Press does wholesale orders?
If you run an FLGS or retail store that stocks indie TTRPGs, we should talk. Send me an email to get started.
Free product catalog + contact email here: www.exeunt.press/shop/p/ep-ca...
If you run an FLGS or retail store that stocks indie TTRPGs, we should talk. Send me an email to get started.
Free product catalog + contact email here: www.exeunt.press/shop/p/ep-ca...
Exeunt Press Product Catalog (PDF) — Exeunt Press
Updated May 2025 If you are a retailer who would like to offer Exeunt Press games, please contact games@exeunt.press .
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June 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Did you know Exeunt Press does wholesale orders?
If you run an FLGS or retail store that stocks indie TTRPGs, we should talk. Send me an email to get started.
Free product catalog + contact email here: www.exeunt.press/shop/p/ep-ca...
If you run an FLGS or retail store that stocks indie TTRPGs, we should talk. Send me an email to get started.
Free product catalog + contact email here: www.exeunt.press/shop/p/ep-ca...