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Alternative Federal Budget from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). A voice of sanity.
AFB 2026 is live! Major public cuts are avoidable. Canadians need supports and services based on equality and solidarity. The CCPA’s Alternative Federal Budget offers just that: Building a True Canadian Sovereignty. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
October 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The Prime Ministers Office did confirm it will continue to engage with the architect of the plan now used to break up US democratic institutions. My friend who voted for Carney did not vote to follow right wing nutjobs.

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Project 2025 mastermind invited to Carney's cabinet meeting no longer speaking | CBC News
A prominent conservative figure in American politics and the mastermind behind Project 2025 — the infamous policy blueprint that proposed a drastic overhaul of the U.S. government — was invited to spe...
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September 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
The economic component of gender based violence as a strong argument for Basic Income Guarantee ---

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Economic Liberation: A Gender-Based Case for Basic Income | Perspectives Journal
Gender-based violence traps hundreds of thousands of Canadian women in dangerous situations and economic precarity. A Basic Income Guarantee could transform our response from crisis management to prev...
perspectivesjournal.ca
July 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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SOME GOOD NEWS:

Netflix has saved Sesame Street by signing a new deal with the Sesame Workshop nonprofit.

The deal brings financial stability to Sesame Workshop with new episodes of Sesame Street's 56th season and over 90 hours of past episodes to stream worldwide. share.google/NpHdHDUgZb1v...
Netflix picks up worldwide streaming rights for Sesame Street
The deal gives the show a new streaming home after Warner Bros. Discovery ended its partnership last year.
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July 19, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Every once in awhile, I think of my favorite “…the fuck did you just say?” phraseology, which is from Homer’s Iliad, proving we have never, ever changed as a species, only less fancily inclined.

“What nonsense has escaped the barrier of your teeth now?”
July 16, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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When I was a kid I watched ‘Cosmos’ every week when it aired. I loved that show and it sparked a lifelong interest in astronomy & aliens. I wept when he died, which is not something I’d ever done for a famous person, & haven’t since.

He said this in ‘The Demon Haunted World’, in 1995

Just, wow.
July 18, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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That last line hits hard
July 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
this week's good news How the ecosystem protects itself - starring the humble beaver.

www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
Could beavers be the secret to winning the fight against wildfires?
First, they were pelts, then pests. But now they are emerging as something else: climate heroes.
www.nationalgeographic.com
July 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Generation Squeeze is helping make Canada work fairly for all ages. Check them out: www.gensqueeze.ca?recruiter_id....
Generation Squeeze
Generation Squeeze is a charitable Think and Change Tank promoting wellbeing for all generations. We champion generational fairness to preserve what Canadians hold sacred—a healthy childhood, home and...
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July 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Chilling. Poilievre is a disciple of a long since discredited economic theory, neoliberalism. Goodbye to the social safety net, pharmacare, dental care, CPP.

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The radical thinker behind Pierre Poilievre’s country-wrecking plans
YouTube video by The Breach
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April 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM