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Wad of apocalyptic smoke in the Peg, Treaty 1. Not even mad.
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Every time you see that the government is trying to raise our military spending to 5% of GDP, think about the fact that our total elementary and secondary school spending is 3.9% of GDP.
November 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Can we do like a jury duty thing and make Al Simmons speaker until things simmer down?
Insults and taunts in Manitoba Question Period today, an incomplete list:

• Snivelling PCs
• Snivelling NDP clown
• Criminal
• You are bad at question period
• You never won a Grey Cup
• Racist
• Arrogant and snivelling
• Only premier with criminal record
• Misogynists

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November 28, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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When someone boasts they used AI to complete a job, I think to myself "You lazy motherfucking traitor to humanity".
November 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Sharing this to all contacts and followers. A message sent by an organizer calling for solidarity.

#Winnipeg

“This is a call to the community to come out with all hands on deck to rapidly respond to this most recent road death.
November 27, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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“Rather than reinvesting those profits in the Canadian economy, the four companies paid out $79.7 billion in dividends and share buybacks, nearly ¾ of which went to foreign shareholders, including 62% to American shareholders.”

www.theenergymix.com/u-s-owned-oi...
U.S.-Owned Oil Sands Giants Send Profits Out of Canada Despite Public Support for Resource Sovereignty
Canada’s biggest oil sands producers are sending a large share of their profits out of the country to their shareholders in the United States, the CEO of the Trottier Family Foundation warns in an opi...
www.theenergymix.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
@sherrirollins.bsky.social @emmaewood.bsky.social
Does he National Building Code not apply in Wpg??!? (Not blaming you two, you’re just the only councillors on this site.)

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November 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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BREAKING: Pipelines only bad when Conservatives do it
November 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Checking up on Canadian politics. I think Liberal strategist Gerald Butts is going to shit all over Conservative campaign manager Steve Outhouse's plans
November 23, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Low cost to zero fare transit is the way to go. We can do this, #Winnipeg. #WinnipegTransit #TaxtheRich
November 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Incredible free archive. Forget Spotify, tie an onion to your belt and peruse this.

adp.library.ucsb.edu
Discography of American Historical Recordings - Site
adp.library.ucsb.edu
November 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Best calf brain sandwich in town
Check out this old menu from the #HotelFortGarry.
November 21, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Mr Carney should consider being chief banker for the UAE. Pays better.
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Canada is named as an attendee at an "international seminar" hosted by the Israeli military to discuss the lessons learned from Israel's two-year campaign of genocide against Palestinians. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...
The IDF holding ‘international seminar’ on lessons learned from war
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www.timesofisrael.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Former CIA Officer Philip Agee explains why the United States of America has been waging economic warfare on Cuba for decades and trying to overthrow the Socialist system. Why they have placed a genocidal and evil embargo on the country.
November 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Millions of workers spoke out demanding that Joe Hill not be killed before his wrongful execution on this day 110 years ago. The movement to spare him had been massive.
Joe Hill Was Killed for Singing Labor’s Song
One hundred seven years ago today, the labor troubadour Joe Hill was executed by a Utah firing squad for a crime he almost certainly didn’t commit. His real crime: singing and agitating on behalf of the working class.
jacobin.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Canada actively supported the British war against the people of Kenya, supplying F-48 Sabre fighter jets and a host of military and police supports. A Winnipeg cop named John Timmerman tortured Kenyan prisoners in Nairobi earning the nickname "the Himmler of Kenya."
#OtD 18 Nov 1953 the British Royal Air Force began aerial bombing of Kenya in an effort to crush the "Mau Mau" anti-colonial insurgency. Over the next year and a half they dropped nearly 6 million bombs on the country stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9039...
November 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Goddammit Dani, FFS you’re thinking about genitals again aren’t you!? It’s getting fucking weird, cut it out.
November 19, 2025 at 4:37 AM
November 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Canada transforms into a police state the moment it encounters serious opposition to its crimes against humanity:

"... the event was organized as a forum to analyze and document 'Canada’s complicity in the genocide and dispossession of Palestinians, including over the last two years in Gaza'".
Prominent legal scholar detained at Canadian border while on his way to a conference on Palestine | CBC News
A well-known academic and former UN special rapporteur says he was detained by customs agents in Toronto while on his way to speak at a conference on human rights violations against Palestinians.
www.cbc.ca
November 16, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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The Minister of Environment and Climate Change looked me in the eye today and said that the projects Mark Carney announced yesterday must match communities desires, and that Canada has a duty to consult Nations before projects are a part of the One Canadian Economy Act. #COP30
November 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
As a tradesperson, I thought I could hate watch this. But I’ve tried 3 times and cannot make it to the end.
True comedy is watching Dave Portnay trying to use a hammer
November 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM