DonGibsons
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Retired teacher, atheist, humanist, husband, Leftist…Settler on the land of the Skwxwú7mesh nation 🇨🇦
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
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End anti-choice abuse of charity status
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November 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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How megachurches twist the Bible to defend billionaires and wealth inequality
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How megachurches twist the Bible to defend billionaires and wealth inequality
A new paper looks at a decade's worth of sermons to discover how pastors reframe poverty to protect the wealthy
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October 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
How megachurches twist the Bible to defend billionaires and wealth inequality
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'We're All Getting Screwed. I've Had Enough' via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...
‘We're All Getting Screwed. I’ve Had Enough’ | The Tyee
He was a dockworker, then a labour leader. Now Rob Ashton wants to lead the federal NDP. A Tyee Q&A.
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October 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Elbows up, Pete
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Elbows up, Pete
The MAGA ambassador to Canada is at it again — gaslighting our country and blaming Canada for the poor state of Canadian-American relations.
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September 25, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Elbows up, Pete
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What Is Danielle Smith's Real Plan for Alberta? via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
What Is Danielle Smith’s Real Plan for Alberta? | The Tyee
Having rebuffed Team Canada, the premier attends to two groups. Promoters of ‘US energy dominance.’ And separatists.
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August 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Did you know Canada’s provincial electricity grids are more connected to the United States than with each other?
⚡NEW PETITION: Let’s call on the federal gov't to build a truly Canadian east-west electricity grid with new transmission lines & renewable power.⚡
Sign now: dsfdn.org/EastWestRene...
⚡NEW PETITION: Let’s call on the federal gov't to build a truly Canadian east-west electricity grid with new transmission lines & renewable power.⚡
Sign now: dsfdn.org/EastWestRene...
August 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Did you know Canada’s provincial electricity grids are more connected to the United States than with each other?
⚡NEW PETITION: Let’s call on the federal gov't to build a truly Canadian east-west electricity grid with new transmission lines & renewable power.⚡
Sign now: dsfdn.org/EastWestRene...
⚡NEW PETITION: Let’s call on the federal gov't to build a truly Canadian east-west electricity grid with new transmission lines & renewable power.⚡
Sign now: dsfdn.org/EastWestRene...
A Message to Mark Carney: Shut Down the Golden Shield Scheme Now
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A Message to Mark Carney: Shut Down the Golden Shield Scheme Now
Fellow Canadians, this is an all-hands-on-deck moment.
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August 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A Message to Mark Carney: Shut Down the Golden Shield Scheme Now
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Colbert Was Cancelled Because Fascists Hate Comedy via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
Colbert Was Cancelled Because Fascists Hate Comedy | The Tyee
Satirists, like journalists and academics, are targeted by authoritarian bullies because satire deals with hard truths.
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July 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Colbert Was Cancelled Because Fascists Hate Comedy via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
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The facts are simple and devastating: Aid cuts have already cost lives, and the number of deaths will continue to rise. Here’s the evidence.
July 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The facts are simple and devastating: Aid cuts have already cost lives, and the number of deaths will continue to rise. Here’s the evidence.
Back to the Führer? via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
Back to the Führer? | The Tyee
How much does Trump emulate Hitler? I read William L. Shirer’s 1941 ‘Berlin Diary’ to find out.
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July 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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I'm nowhere near this doomer but the frustrating thing is that America *has* the best demographic profile of any high income country *because of immigration* and we're throwing that away. The median age in America is lower than in China now!
Under fairly reasonable assumptions about productivity growth, current fertility patterns mean the typical worker born today in a developed democracy will experience negative real wage growth their entire life.
tbh this is a why mocking pro-natalism is laughing past the graveyard.
June 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I'm nowhere near this doomer but the frustrating thing is that America *has* the best demographic profile of any high income country *because of immigration* and we're throwing that away. The median age in America is lower than in China now!
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Americans need to wake up to this…
June 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Americans need to wake up to this…