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Jen Farrell-Cordon
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thelawofwork.bsky.social
Interesting tidbit for Canadian labour law and collective bargaining nerds:

Collective agreement coverage in Canada’s private sector today (15.5%) is lower than it was in 1940 (16.3%), before Canada had enacted ´modern’ Wagner-style collective bargaining legislation.
August 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Throughout history, tyrants have understood that their major enemy is an educated public.

Trump is no different. That’s why he’s trying to control not just what we do – but what we think.

Watch: https://youtu.be/rEH7sF6pA4s?si=zC1tb0MqvpyTQNKC
Why Does Trump Hate Sesame Street?
Why is Trump so hell-bent on defunding PBS? It’s part of a larger plan — one where he can control not just what we do, b
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July 21, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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nytimes.com
A man impersonating a police officer assassinated a Democratic state legislator in Minnesota, Gov. Tim Walz said on Saturday, and killed the lawmaker’s husband. The assailant also shot and injured another Democratic lawmaker and his wife, officials said. nyti.ms/4jRTrvw
A black card with white text that reads: "Minnesota Lawmaker Is Assassinated in Act of ‘Targeted Political Violence’ A person pretending to be a police officer assassinated Melissa Hortman, a Democratic state representative, Gov. Tim Walz said, and killed her husband. The gunman also targeted a state senator and his wife in 
a separate shooting. June 14, 2025"
June 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
jenfc.bsky.social
Fascinating!
mikeachim.bsky.social Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · May 12
OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.
May 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
When you make a Monty Python co-founder laugh out loud. 💕
May 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
The fascism playbook hasn't changed—only the speed we're flipping through its chapters.
May 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
jenfc.bsky.social
There is still time!
Please VOTE!!
April 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
jenfc.bsky.social
Ahh foreign interference? Using lies.
rachelgilmore.bsky.social Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · Apr 28
On our election day, Trump is telling Canadians to elect.....Trump.

Fucking pathetic, dude.
Trump Truth Social post reads: "Good luck to the Great people of Canada. Elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World, have your Car, Steel, Aluminum, Lumber, Energy, and all other businesses, QUADRUPLE in size, WITH ZERO TARIFFS OR TAXES, if Canada becomes the cherished 51st. State of the United States of America. No more artificially drawn line from many years ago. Look how beautiful this land mass would be. Free access with NO BORDER. ALL POSITIVES WITH NO NEGATIVES. IT WAS MEANT TO BE! America can no longer subsidize Canada with the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year that we have been spending in the past. It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!"
April 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
jenfc.bsky.social
Totally agree! I feel my anxiety has moved into Global Stress Syndrome. Not sure it's real but my body believes it is!
ianmosby.bsky.social staring blankly into the abyss @ianmosby.bsky.social · Apr 28
Election day, aka the day my anxiety drugs don't work so well.

Voting is harm reduction, folks, and the potential harm is very, very real this election. Don't fuck this up.
April 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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thebulwark.com
BREAKING: FBI Director Kash Patel just tweeted and deleted a post saying the agency arrested a judge
April 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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sethabramson.bsky.social
BREAKING: The constitutional crisis has arrived. We knew it was coming, just not when.
April 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
Wow! Updated estimates now put turnout at 2.3 million — and we’re still waiting on reports from coalition members in other areas, with some events yet to begin! If you’re free, come out and join us. Over 1,400 events are planned across the country.
April 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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brittlestar.com
The Prime Minister of the Heard / McDonald Islands Speaks on Trump’s Tariffs
April 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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adamkeiper.com
Wow. Just wow. How Trump set the tariff rates. This is blithering, staggering, mind-boggling, jaw-cracking, gums-bleeding stupidity.
Screenshot of three tweets from @JamesSurowiecki dated 2 April 2025. (1) "It's also important to understand that the tariff rates that foreign countries are supposedly charging us are just made-up numbers. South Korea, with which we have a trade agreement, is not charging a 50% tariff on U.S. exports. Nor is the EU charging a 39% tariff." (2) "Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is." (3) "Even given that it's Trump, I cannot believe they said "We'll just divide the trade deficit by imports and tell people that's the tariff rate." And then they decided to set our tariffs by just cutting that totally made-up rate in half! This is so dumb and deceptive."
April 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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thebeaverton.com
Conservatives confident attacking female journalist will distract from Poilievre’s comments about women’s “biological clocks”
pressprogress.ca PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · Apr 1
NEW: CTV cancelled a fact-checking segment in response to political pressure from Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives

An audio recording obtained by PressProgress shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives
CTV Cancelled a Fact-Checking Segment in Response to Political Pressure From Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives
Audio recording shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives
pressprogress.ca
April 2, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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capeacadia.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
jenfc.bsky.social
This is a huge loss, both of the research but more importantly of the researchers, their work and their careers. Canada needs to find away to fund and relocate these researchers to Canada.
altnps.bsky.social Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Mar 18
The Trump administration plans to eliminate the EPA’s scientific research arm and lay off more than 1,000 chemists, biologists, and other scientists.
March 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
jenfc.bsky.social
Totally agree! Federal and Provincial govnts should majorly invest in post secondary research institutes and bring the researchers up. US grabbed our aeronautics researchers post Avro Arrow so now it is Canada's time to build up our own resesrch sector!!
isaacbogoch.bsky.social Isaac Bogoch @isaacbogoch.bsky.social · Mar 18
Canada is home to world-class scientists and researchers. We have a unique opportunity to recruit top US talent amid their recent major research cuts.

What's our plan?

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March 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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johncusack.bsky.social
March 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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brittlestar.com
Dear Americans...
www.brittlestar.com/p/dear-ameri...
March 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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lsgibson.bsky.social
Canadian schools should stop teaching AP courses (so should US Schools)
historyell.bsky.social Wes Termin @historyell.bsky.social · Mar 11
Update to this #APUSH post. College Board has put back up many, but not all of the videos that were taken down. The topics Failure of Reconstruction & Slavery in the British Colonies videos are still down with a "Note: This video is being updated to strengthen alignment to the AP course framework."
March 12, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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krassenstein.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
jenfc.bsky.social
What could possibly go wrong...?
altnps.bsky.social Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Mar 8
NOAA to cut staff by 20%
March 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
jenfc.bsky.social
Love this!!
youtu.be/_OzbmriDgQc?...
We Are Canadian
YouTube video by Jeff Douglas
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March 6, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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stevenhigh.bsky.social
I don't usually agree with Trudeau (or Globe columnists for that matter). But I do today. This is what is at stake. We need to proceed on this basis.
johnibbitson.bsky.social John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · Mar 4
“What he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that'll make it easier to annex us." This is the most extraordinary statement by a Canadian prime minister in the history of this country. The Trump administration is at war with Canada.
March 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM