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John Alcorn
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Canadian musician. No time or patience for racists, white supremacists, mysogynists, homophobes, transphobes, antisemites, islamophobes, etc. #FreePalestine
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I really think putting staggeringly dumb rich people who are also total jerks in charge of everything was a bad call.
November 21, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Elon Musk's latest update to Grok makes it praise him above any other human and people have been having a lot of fun with it
November 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Maybe it wasn’t really about Zelensky’s suit after all? 🤨
November 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Bill 60 is open season on renters.

It gives corporate landlords more power to hike rents, evict tenants, and squeeze families who are already stretched thin, all while Ontario is dead last in home-building.
November 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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How to Succeed and Prosper as a CEO in Ontario:

1. Donate to Doug Ford’s election campaign

2. Apply for a Skills Development Fund grant

3. Receive millions (with very few questions asked)

4. Give yourself a raise for donating to Doug Ford’s election campaign

www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
Exec pay rises for Skills Development Fund recipients, including one tied to ‘adult entertainment club’
Executive pay jumped for many recipients of an Ontario job training grant, according to salary disclosure viewed by CTV News, including at one numbered company that partnered with an agency that later...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 20, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Sharon Wilson and Justin Mikulka work for a small nonprofit named Oilfield Witness that documents methane released from oil and gas infrastructure.

Many of these methane plumes are not leaks: “Those are intentional releases to protect the equipment and maintain operation,” Wilson said.
How satellites can help us find and clean up methane super-polluters  » Yale Climate Connections
Doing so would make a big difference to the climate.
yaleclimateconnections.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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The story within the story here is there are plans to use the bankrupt oil company’s assets to use methane gas to run data centres
A northern B.C. community faces a massive revenue shortfall after an oil company went bust without paying nearly $9 million in outstanding property taxes, interest and penalties.

Ben Parfitt reports. #bcpoli
A Sprawling BC Community Is Set to Lose Millions Owed by Oil Firm | The Tyee
Bankrupt Erikson National Energy leaves Northern Rockies Regional Municipality deep in the hole for tax revenues.
thetyee.ca
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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8 cases, including health workers, of a viral haemorrhagic fever which is still being identified
November 14, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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There's a word for people who try to criminalize antifascists. What could that word be.....

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US designates four European anti-fascist groups as terrorist threats
State department claims groups in Germany, Italy and Greece ‘conspiring to undermine foundations of western civilization’
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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We need to follow Finland's lead in teaching our children how to recognize mis/disinformation and propaganda.

We also need to seriously look at upgrading our education, as European countries have.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Nearly 1 in 10 terrorism investigations at CSIS involves a minor: spy boss | CBC News
The head of Canada’s spy agency is warning about a “worrying” number of young people becoming radicalized.
www.cbc.ca
November 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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American owned paper in Canada presents us the "spokesman" to break up our country.
Tadda: he's a former US marine.
They can't even find a real Canadian to be MAGA's quisling puppet.
Piss off back to the States dude and take your marine oath of loyalty with you.
nationalpost.com/news/another...
Another Alberta separatist leader is courting U.S. conservatives in Washington and Mar-a-Lago
The Republican Party of Alberta’s leader says he's meeting with U.S. officials to advocate for Alberta independence and strengthen ties.
nationalpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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🏆 KUDOS

...to Toronto's University Health Network for bringing back masking in their facilities as of Nov 18, 2025

😷TGH
😷Toronto Western
😷Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
😷Toronto Rehab
😷Michener Institute
😷West Park

🏥 Hope others will follow...

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Iris Gorfinkel: How politics, not science, is putting vulnerable patients and health care workers at risk
As a family doctor, I have seen first-hand the difference masking makes. Since my clinic adopted consistent masking, staff absences from colds, flus, and COVID‑19 have plummeted. Scaled across the
www.thestar.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
🚨 BREAKING 🚨

My office just uncovered that, buried in their Fall Economic Statement, Ford’s Conservatives are quietly seizing control of Exhibition Place.

#ONpoli
November 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨

My office just uncovered that, buried in their Fall Economic Statement, Ford’s Conservatives are quietly seizing control of Exhibition Place.

#ONpoli
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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?????
Councillor Shan moves to exclude three streets in his ward. He worries the retail spaces created won't just be small shops selling ice cream to locals, but things like "beef patties that are so popular that people from the 905 will come to get it." That'll just add to traffic problems, he says.
November 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Now, instead of imagining the plastic floating out in the ocean for hundreds of years, making a mess and endangering marine life (yuck), imagine more and more CO2 pollution floating up in the atmosphere for hundreds of years, making a mess and endangering all forms of life (super yuck)
It's astounding how much CO₂ we put into the atmosphere each year by burning fossil fuels.

For comparison, we all agree that plastic pollution is bad, but the mass of ALL THE PLASTIC humanity has ever produced is only 25% of the CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere in 2025.
1) Fossil fuel
Still no peak. Emissions are projected to increase by 1.1% in 2025, reaching 38.1 GtCO2. An all time high.
November 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Israeli settlers torch and deface a mosque in a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank, scribbling hateful messages in a show of defiance, a day after some Israeli leaders condemned a recent attack by settlers against Palestinians.
Israeli settlers torch West Bank mosque and scrawl hateful messages after military condemnation
The Hebrew scrawl appeared to reference Maj. Gen Avi Bluth, the chief of the IDF's Central Command who issued a rare denunciation of the violence Wednesday.
nbcnews.to
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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“I had always been told that my Jewishness protected me from deportation (from Israel),” Leila Stillman-Utterback told RNS. “I understand that the current government does not want people like me or like other activists doing work in the West Bank, but I think I felt a sense of betrayal."
November 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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“I’m not just disgusted by #StripperGate I’m furious at Ford for all the scandals giving our money to his rich friends! Money could go to healthcare, homelessness, youth unemployment! We aren’t being protected by Ford gov - we need protection from them!

🤬🤬 #Onpoli

Oshow 🔗 youth.be/GTfWSVd7ov0?si…
November 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Those white residents of South Africa that Trump is trying to paint as victims?

Have this to say: "Singling us out as victims of multiracialism alienates us from our fellow South Africans and harms relationships that have been fostered over the past 30 years."
Prominent Afrikaners refuse to be 'pawns,' and hit back at Trump's claims about South Africa
Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false.
www.npr.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM