DarkNetwerk
@darknetwerk.bsky.social
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Stopped using Twitter end of 2023. Recently found bsky.
Work in health sciences but am here for the politics.
Stopped using Twitter end of 2023. Recently found bsky.
Work in health sciences but am here for the politics.
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Doug Ford announced the banning of speed cameras & this is the frame & key msg the PCs want us to remember.
"Folks, we're putting money back in your pockets & we're going to make the streets a lot safer because we're investing in the proper infrastructure that will make your community safer."
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"Folks, we're putting money back in your pockets & we're going to make the streets a lot safer because we're investing in the proper infrastructure that will make your community safer."
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Ontario to introduce legislation banning speed cameras – September 25, 2025
YouTube video by cpac
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September 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Doug Ford announced the banning of speed cameras & this is the frame & key msg the PCs want us to remember.
"Folks, we're putting money back in your pockets & we're going to make the streets a lot safer because we're investing in the proper infrastructure that will make your community safer."
1/?
"Folks, we're putting money back in your pockets & we're going to make the streets a lot safer because we're investing in the proper infrastructure that will make your community safer."
1/?
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A quick post, before I wake up tomorrow, back in my role as Director at Clayton H. Riddell, on knowing the costs of concessions in a negotiation.
Happy Canada Day. We have so much to be grateful for and to protect in this beautiful country.
open.substack.com/pub/robsonj/...
Happy Canada Day. We have so much to be grateful for and to protect in this beautiful country.
open.substack.com/pub/robsonj/...
The cost of a slice of salami
A shortish one tonight because this was my last day of sabbatical.
open.substack.com
July 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
A quick post, before I wake up tomorrow, back in my role as Director at Clayton H. Riddell, on knowing the costs of concessions in a negotiation.
Happy Canada Day. We have so much to be grateful for and to protect in this beautiful country.
open.substack.com/pub/robsonj/...
Happy Canada Day. We have so much to be grateful for and to protect in this beautiful country.
open.substack.com/pub/robsonj/...
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On that note, I wrote about Canada's new "dual-use" foreign policy, and the emerging Carney Doctrine, at greater length for Internationale Politik Quarterly
ip-quarterly.com/en/canadas-d...
ip-quarterly.com/en/canadas-d...
Canada’s Delicate Balancing Act
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is faced with the difficult task of trying to both placate the mercurial US President Donald Trump while simultaneously engineering a shift away from Canada’s bigge...
ip-quarterly.com
June 25, 2025 at 11:25 AM
On that note, I wrote about Canada's new "dual-use" foreign policy, and the emerging Carney Doctrine, at greater length for Internationale Politik Quarterly
ip-quarterly.com/en/canadas-d...
ip-quarterly.com/en/canadas-d...
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Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17
June 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17
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This week’s @foreignpolicy.com Latin America Brief looks at regional leaders’ priorities at the G7 summit. For Mexico’s Sheinbaum, whose predecessor never attended the event, the trip signaled a shift toward a more globally oriented foreign policy.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/19/b...
foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/19/b...
Sheinbaum Makes Her G-7 Debut
After years of disengagement on the global stage, Mexico’s new president is taking a different tack.
foreignpolicy.com
June 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This week’s @foreignpolicy.com Latin America Brief looks at regional leaders’ priorities at the G7 summit. For Mexico’s Sheinbaum, whose predecessor never attended the event, the trip signaled a shift toward a more globally oriented foreign policy.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/19/b...
foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/19/b...
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A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work
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May 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work
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I did a dive into the ridings that are most exposed to trade disputes with the U.S. to look at how they voted and what this will mean for the 45th Parliament as we face the 47th President of the U.S.
open.substack.com/pub/robsonj/...
#cdnpoli
open.substack.com/pub/robsonj/...
#cdnpoli
The 45th Parliament and 47
In which I commit some political science in analyzing vote shares and trade
open.substack.com
April 30, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I did a dive into the ridings that are most exposed to trade disputes with the U.S. to look at how they voted and what this will mean for the 45th Parliament as we face the 47th President of the U.S.
open.substack.com/pub/robsonj/...
#cdnpoli
open.substack.com/pub/robsonj/...
#cdnpoli
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If you are seeing polls with the Liberals in the lead so you don't think your vote today matters, it does. So much.
Please vote.
#ElbowsUp #ViveLeCanada
Please vote.
#ElbowsUp #ViveLeCanada
April 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
If you are seeing polls with the Liberals in the lead so you don't think your vote today matters, it does. So much.
Please vote.
#ElbowsUp #ViveLeCanada
Please vote.
#ElbowsUp #ViveLeCanada
🤣🤣 This whole thread is amazing.
A lot of Americans don't know this, but the winner of the Canadian election will be required live in a small cottage located in the backyard of the palace where the viceroy to the King of England lives.
The cottage just recently got a new wifi router, which was very exciting for all Canadians.
The cottage just recently got a new wifi router, which was very exciting for all Canadians.
April 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
🤣🤣 This whole thread is amazing.
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Rolling Stone discovers that Canada's Conservatives are generally verboten from speaking to the press (and ravages them for it.)
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
J.D. Vance's Best Friend, the Canadian Politician, Has No Comment
In his campaign for parliament in Canada, Jamil Jivani has nothing to say about Vance, after Trump’s threats and tariffs upended the election.
www.rollingstone.com
April 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Rolling Stone discovers that Canada's Conservatives are generally verboten from speaking to the press (and ravages them for it.)
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Getting voters to care about foreign aid is a tough sell, I know. But Trump's decimation of USAID is going to make the world poorer, more dangerous, and sicker. Other countries need to step up. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Justin Ling: On this issue, Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre couldn’t be more different. But at risk are scores of lives
When President John F. Kennedy asked Congress to fund the establishment of a dedicated foreign development agency in 1961, he did so by letting them know that the world was
www.thestar.com
April 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Getting voters to care about foreign aid is a tough sell, I know. But Trump's decimation of USAID is going to make the world poorer, more dangerous, and sicker. Other countries need to step up. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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it's kind of weird www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/why-did-th...
Why Did the Republicans Want to Fundraise for Pierre Poilievre?
A curious fundraising website reveals an abandoned GOP-Conservative collab
www.bugeyedandshameless.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
it's kind of weird www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/why-did-th...
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A wrinkle that I mention in that piece: The Conservative party's Quebec platform includes a commitment to crack down on "woke ideology."
And that commitment appears in the French version of the party's national platform....
canada-first-for-a-change.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/20250418_CPC...
And that commitment appears in the French version of the party's national platform....
canada-first-for-a-change.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/20250418_CPC...
April 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
A wrinkle that I mention in that piece: The Conservative party's Quebec platform includes a commitment to crack down on "woke ideology."
And that commitment appears in the French version of the party's national platform....
canada-first-for-a-change.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/20250418_CPC...
And that commitment appears in the French version of the party's national platform....
canada-first-for-a-change.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/20250418_CPC...
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The good folks at the Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy have put out their report cards on the major party fiscal plans.
Liberals:
ifsd.ca/2025/04/ifsd...
Conservatives:
ifsd.ca/2025/04/ifsd...
NDP:
ifsd.ca/2025/04/ifsd...
Liberals:
ifsd.ca/2025/04/ifsd...
Conservatives:
ifsd.ca/2025/04/ifsd...
NDP:
ifsd.ca/2025/04/ifsd...
April 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The good folks at the Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy have put out their report cards on the major party fiscal plans.
Liberals:
ifsd.ca/2025/04/ifsd...
Conservatives:
ifsd.ca/2025/04/ifsd...
NDP:
ifsd.ca/2025/04/ifsd...
Liberals:
ifsd.ca/2025/04/ifsd...
Conservatives:
ifsd.ca/2025/04/ifsd...
NDP:
ifsd.ca/2025/04/ifsd...
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A few comments on the @mark-carney.bsky.social platform released today. You can find it here: liberal.ca/cstrong/.
I provided some 'sounding board' advice here and there to those working on the platform. As always: I disclose, but you can decide what weight to put on that.
Thread below...
I provided some 'sounding board' advice here and there to those working on the platform. As always: I disclose, but you can decide what weight to put on that.
Thread below...
Canada Strong | Liberal Party of Canada
Download our plan
liberal.ca
April 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
A few comments on the @mark-carney.bsky.social platform released today. You can find it here: liberal.ca/cstrong/.
I provided some 'sounding board' advice here and there to those working on the platform. As always: I disclose, but you can decide what weight to put on that.
Thread below...
I provided some 'sounding board' advice here and there to those working on the platform. As always: I disclose, but you can decide what weight to put on that.
Thread below...
Voted in advance polls. About a half hour but my poll line was longest. Apparently, however, the folks in my line must have slept in as I'm told the lines in the morning were quite long.
April 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Voted in advance polls. About a half hour but my poll line was longest. Apparently, however, the folks in my line must have slept in as I'm told the lines in the morning were quite long.
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The Debate Commission’s decision to give questions to Rebel Media & other rage farming, disinformation outlets (who focus on attacking progressive politicians & their families as I well know) at expense of credible news organizations is not only absurd, it degrades our democracy.
April 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The Debate Commission’s decision to give questions to Rebel Media & other rage farming, disinformation outlets (who focus on attacking progressive politicians & their families as I well know) at expense of credible news organizations is not only absurd, it degrades our democracy.
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My last thought on this because I need some Offline Time:
Because of their fear of being defined as "not neutral" or "biased," the bodies who label "journalists" and adjudicate access are increasingly complicit in the destruction of our information ecosystem.
Meet the moment and grow a spine.
Because of their fear of being defined as "not neutral" or "biased," the bodies who label "journalists" and adjudicate access are increasingly complicit in the destruction of our information ecosystem.
Meet the moment and grow a spine.
Literally like half of the questions are going to disinformation spewing grifter outlets who are using it as an opportunity to spew absolute bullshit under the guise of asking questions.
Great work, leaders debate.
Great work, leaders debate.
Fucking disgusting the leaders debate made Mark Carney take TWO questions (plus follow ups, so four) from dogshit grifters who were behind the article targeting HIS CHILD
All bc they're too chickenshit to stand up to these asswipes that crawled out of their mom's basements for the night
All bc they're too chickenshit to stand up to these asswipes that crawled out of their mom's basements for the night
April 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
My last thought on this because I need some Offline Time:
Because of their fear of being defined as "not neutral" or "biased," the bodies who label "journalists" and adjudicate access are increasingly complicit in the destruction of our information ecosystem.
Meet the moment and grow a spine.
Because of their fear of being defined as "not neutral" or "biased," the bodies who label "journalists" and adjudicate access are increasingly complicit in the destruction of our information ecosystem.
Meet the moment and grow a spine.
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Platforming multiple far-right media outlets at the Debates is a baffling decision and the Commission is reaping the consequences. Taylor Own has the right and obvious solution - the QCJO criteria.
April 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Platforming multiple far-right media outlets at the Debates is a baffling decision and the Commission is reaping the consequences. Taylor Own has the right and obvious solution - the QCJO criteria.
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The Debate Commission is filled with credulous cowards and should be disbanded, but one hopes normal Canadians who see the sweaty propaganda merchants trying to audition for social media clicks will be adequately repelled.
Really glad these guys are finally getting an opportunity to confront politicians in a professional environment rather than when they’re walking home alone at night
April 17, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The Debate Commission is filled with credulous cowards and should be disbanded, but one hopes normal Canadians who see the sweaty propaganda merchants trying to audition for social media clicks will be adequately repelled.
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Yep. Federal Court found the same www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Rebel News not eligible for journalism tax credits, Federal Court rules | CBC News
A Federal Court judge has upheld the government's decision that far-right media outlet Rebel News doesn't qualify for journalism tax credits because it doesn't produce enough original content.
www.cbc.ca
April 17, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Yep. Federal Court found the same www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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“Rebel is a conspiratorial partisan outlet that spreads misinformation and actively campaigns against candidates it doesn’t like. This isn’t journalism and it’s obscene that the Debate Commission let them on — and even more wild that it allowed so many of their faux-journalists to hijack…”
French debate live updates: Carney, Poilievre and other leaders spar in first forum, Trump mentioned less than expected
Follow the federal leaders’ debate with live video, reporting and analysis from the Star, including during post-debate scrums.
www.thestar.com
April 17, 2025 at 1:02 AM
“Rebel is a conspiratorial partisan outlet that spreads misinformation and actively campaigns against candidates it doesn’t like. This isn’t journalism and it’s obscene that the Debate Commission let them on — and even more wild that it allowed so many of their faux-journalists to hijack…”
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Literally like half of the questions are going to disinformation spewing grifter outlets who are using it as an opportunity to spew absolute bullshit under the guise of asking questions.
Great work, leaders debate.
Great work, leaders debate.
Fucking disgusting the leaders debate made Mark Carney take TWO questions (plus follow ups, so four) from dogshit grifters who were behind the article targeting HIS CHILD
All bc they're too chickenshit to stand up to these asswipes that crawled out of their mom's basements for the night
All bc they're too chickenshit to stand up to these asswipes that crawled out of their mom's basements for the night
April 17, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Literally like half of the questions are going to disinformation spewing grifter outlets who are using it as an opportunity to spew absolute bullshit under the guise of asking questions.
Great work, leaders debate.
Great work, leaders debate.
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It’s so upsetting seeing people say the CTV cancellation — which was purely bc of right-wing trolls — was actually deserved bc I shared a Liberal misstep.
I won’t blindly “both sides” things, but please don’t make your support of my work contingent on me being blind to any one party’s mistakes.
I won’t blindly “both sides” things, but please don’t make your support of my work contingent on me being blind to any one party’s mistakes.
April 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
It’s so upsetting seeing people say the CTV cancellation — which was purely bc of right-wing trolls — was actually deserved bc I shared a Liberal misstep.
I won’t blindly “both sides” things, but please don’t make your support of my work contingent on me being blind to any one party’s mistakes.
I won’t blindly “both sides” things, but please don’t make your support of my work contingent on me being blind to any one party’s mistakes.