Rob Germain
@robgermain.bsky.social
CEO (Chief Employee-Owner) CHEK Media. @cheknews.ca
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Rob Germain
@robgermain.bsky.social
· Dec 2
Ownership matters:
X - Elon Musk
Threads - Mark Zuckerberg
Truth Social - Trump
Bluesky - employee-owned
Bluesky is also a Public Benefit Corporation, and it's built on an open framework, meaning you can keep your followers if you move on.
Sounds different. Refreshing.
X - Elon Musk
Threads - Mark Zuckerberg
Truth Social - Trump
Bluesky - employee-owned
Bluesky is also a Public Benefit Corporation, and it's built on an open framework, meaning you can keep your followers if you move on.
Sounds different. Refreshing.
Reposted by Rob Germain
Remembrance Day is not an abstract ceremony but deeply personal for many families, writes Ian Haysom.
Opinion: Remembrance Day is a time to remember ordinary families doing extraordinary things
Remembrance Day is not an abstract ceremony but deeply personal for many families, writes Ian Haysom.
cheknews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Remembrance Day is not an abstract ceremony but deeply personal for many families, writes Ian Haysom.
Reposted by Rob Germain
Through years of coalition building and political advocacy, we helped bring #EmployeeOwnershipTrusts to Canada.
EOTs are poised to explode in popularity in Canada – securing entrepreneurs’ legacies, preserving local jobs and keeping companies Canadian-owned.
#OwnOrBeOwned #Never51 #EconSky
EOTs are poised to explode in popularity in Canada – securing entrepreneurs’ legacies, preserving local jobs and keeping companies Canadian-owned.
#OwnOrBeOwned #Never51 #EconSky
June 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Through years of coalition building and political advocacy, we helped bring #EmployeeOwnershipTrusts to Canada.
EOTs are poised to explode in popularity in Canada – securing entrepreneurs’ legacies, preserving local jobs and keeping companies Canadian-owned.
#OwnOrBeOwned #Never51 #EconSky
EOTs are poised to explode in popularity in Canada – securing entrepreneurs’ legacies, preserving local jobs and keeping companies Canadian-owned.
#OwnOrBeOwned #Never51 #EconSky
"The world needs more Canada", - Bono. "Alabama... What's going wrong?" - Neil Young
Corporate leaders are obsessing over GDP per capita.
But, if you look at just about any number that would meaningfully tell you how well our economy is doing, Canada does better than the U.S.
@mendelmatt.bsky.social @jimstanford.bsky.social #alwayscanada #never51 #gdp #cdnpoli #cdnecon
But, if you look at just about any number that would meaningfully tell you how well our economy is doing, Canada does better than the U.S.
@mendelmatt.bsky.social @jimstanford.bsky.social #alwayscanada #never51 #gdp #cdnpoli #cdnecon
April 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"The world needs more Canada", - Bono. "Alabama... What's going wrong?" - Neil Young
Canada. Makers of beer & aluminum, but not aluminum beer cans. We import cans from the US, and their tariffs on our aluminum could raise prices by $1 a 6-pack. Solution: bring back the once ubiquitous "stubby" bottle, or even better - cans made-in-Canada shaped like the stubby. Cheers!🍻🇨🇦
April 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Canada. Makers of beer & aluminum, but not aluminum beer cans. We import cans from the US, and their tariffs on our aluminum could raise prices by $1 a 6-pack. Solution: bring back the once ubiquitous "stubby" bottle, or even better - cans made-in-Canada shaped like the stubby. Cheers!🍻🇨🇦
March 28, 2025 at 4:40 AM
We used to worry about Canada becoming a "branch plant economy." Now foreign private equity firms are taking over many Canadian companies. Incentivising employee ownership can help reverse this trend—benefiting workers, communities, and protecting Canadian sovereignty.
#employeeownership
#employeeownership
Employee Ownership can be an important tool in the fight for Canadian sovereignty. Current policy isn't up to the task. Michael Ras and my take in today's @calgaryherald.com. It's time to move this issue into the front and centre of the Canadian economic agenda.
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
Opinion: How employee ownership can help secure Canadian sovereignty
As the threat to Canada’s sovereignty intensifies, we need policies that keep Canadian companies owned by Canadians.
calgaryherald.com
March 16, 2025 at 1:14 AM
We used to worry about Canada becoming a "branch plant economy." Now foreign private equity firms are taking over many Canadian companies. Incentivising employee ownership can help reverse this trend—benefiting workers, communities, and protecting Canadian sovereignty.
#employeeownership
#employeeownership
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Aptly titled, Songs of a Lost World is topping many lists for album of 2024, and for good reason. It is a masterwork.
www.spin.com/2024/12/albu...
www.spin.com/2024/12/albu...
Album of the Year: The Cure’s 'Songs of a Lost World' - SPIN
How does The Cure always know what we’re feeling, even before we do? It would be euphemistic to say that 2024 was transformative: war, death, struggle,
www.spin.com
December 28, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Aptly titled, Songs of a Lost World is topping many lists for album of 2024, and for good reason. It is a masterwork.
www.spin.com/2024/12/albu...
www.spin.com/2024/12/albu...
Algorithms are shaping society. Our youth. Our politics. Ourselves.
An algorithm determined whether you saw this message.
bsky.app/profile/tizi...
An algorithm determined whether you saw this message.
bsky.app/profile/tizi...
New paper: Do social media algorithms shape affective polarization?
We ran a field experiment on X/Twitter (N=1,256) using LLMs to rerank content in real-time, adjusting exposure to polarizing posts. Result: Algorithmic ranking impacts feelings toward the political outgroup! 🧵⬇️
We ran a field experiment on X/Twitter (N=1,256) using LLMs to rerank content in real-time, adjusting exposure to polarizing posts. Result: Algorithmic ranking impacts feelings toward the political outgroup! 🧵⬇️
December 3, 2024 at 6:25 AM
Algorithms are shaping society. Our youth. Our politics. Ourselves.
An algorithm determined whether you saw this message.
bsky.app/profile/tizi...
An algorithm determined whether you saw this message.
bsky.app/profile/tizi...
Ownership matters:
X - Elon Musk
Threads - Mark Zuckerberg
Truth Social - Trump
Bluesky - employee-owned
Bluesky is also a Public Benefit Corporation, and it's built on an open framework, meaning you can keep your followers if you move on.
Sounds different. Refreshing.
X - Elon Musk
Threads - Mark Zuckerberg
Truth Social - Trump
Bluesky - employee-owned
Bluesky is also a Public Benefit Corporation, and it's built on an open framework, meaning you can keep your followers if you move on.
Sounds different. Refreshing.
December 2, 2024 at 1:31 AM
Ownership matters:
X - Elon Musk
Threads - Mark Zuckerberg
Truth Social - Trump
Bluesky - employee-owned
Bluesky is also a Public Benefit Corporation, and it's built on an open framework, meaning you can keep your followers if you move on.
Sounds different. Refreshing.
X - Elon Musk
Threads - Mark Zuckerberg
Truth Social - Trump
Bluesky - employee-owned
Bluesky is also a Public Benefit Corporation, and it's built on an open framework, meaning you can keep your followers if you move on.
Sounds different. Refreshing.