Keith Dunne
@keithdunne.bsky.social
Newfoundland & Labrador. News, politics, labour, social justice, and random musings. He/him.
Social and economic sense.
Jim Stanford@jimbostanford.bsky.social · 3h agoWe quantified the economic & fiscal gains from expanded early learning & child care in BC, as part of the national CWELCC plan: centreforfuturework.ca/2025/06/24/t.... 8K new ELCC jobs, 33K FTEs new female labour supply, $6b/yr more provincial GDP, $1b/yr new provincial govt revenue. #bcpoli /2
An economy that has left them behind, higher fees for a worse education, a planet that is on fire/flooding, safety net and services being privatized and dismantled, cost of living, lack of affordable housing… What do they have to be mad about?
Unofficial CBC News Mirror@cbcnews-mirror.bsky.social · 7h ago
likewise far-right discourse online has not magically disappeared all of a sudden. everybody come back down to earth please, as awful as earth may be sometimes
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2d agoFor all this talk of Russian bots being defeated by the Yandex strikes I'm still getting the usual Matryoshka emails with the same fake news posts and purchased bot engagement. Seems more like wishful thinking based on misinterpreted data than reality.
We need projects that create the maximum number of good-paying jobs for Canadian families, not just the maximum profits for already profitable corporations.
Me, nodding along to the sentence, “Do not, under any circumstances, give the Nazi app your credit card info.” in 2026, like this is all somehow normal
Joshua Keep@jekeep.bsky.social · 3d agoLast year Twitter charged us for ads it claimed we ran in 2017, on an expired credit card. Refused to back down, and we had to get our CC company involved. Do not, under any circumstances, give the Nazi app your credit card info.
Let's talk PROFITIZATION of healthcare Dual Billing is Step Three of the 3 step plan by govt 1 - Help pay to build private facilities 2 - Force more care in these private facilities 3 - Allow Dual Billing without any discussion - drives workforce to private facilities
So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick
Sending Patriot missiles to intercept the missiles Russia is firing at Ukraine with the money bought from selling diesel to America.
Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d agoThe United States is now importing fuel from Russia, per President Trump.
The main project of the US now is a line-item vindication of the most histrionic and paranoid stuff ever said by Jello Biafra
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5d agoWASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed in December.
A good union organizing meeting is balm for the soul in these difficult times.
"WE'VE STORMED THE BASTILLE", shout the students. Recreating a historic day when the power of the French Monarchy was ended.
"Growth for the sake of Growth is the ideology of the cancer cell” Edward Abbey quote poster spotted in Carlton, Victoria
I didn't know his name before this but he's a real one: member of La France Insoumise (to the left of the Socialists), took down Macron's portrait in the mayor's office, said elected leaders belong in the streets with the people
Erica Ifill@wickdchiq.bsky.social · last wk.The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence
Is this war or plague related? Both?
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · last wk.US REITERATES STRONG ADVISORY AGAINST TRAVEL TO RUSSIA
For Banned Books Week let’s remember to keep up the energy all year long, because books that are banned are so often ones that represent experiences that are ones the people banning them don’t want you to know exist.
So @boiledowlleather.bsky.social said I was under no obligation to do so but I still wanted to do a little post because he gifted me this hot pink A5 sketchbook/journal cover and it’s just gorgeous and I thought you guys might want to know you can also order one (or one of his other lovely pieces).
‼️Carney’s Bill C-39 is an employer’s dream and a worker’s nightmare #canpoli #canlab buff.ly/rEnwHsf
Carney’s Bill C-39 is an employer’s dream and a worker’s nightmare
Why unions are good and necessary.
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The decision means that Canadians will not recoup the $40 billion in public funds spent on the project during the 20 year lifespan of its oil shipping contracts, according to regulatory filings.
Energy regulator hands oil giants discount worth billions to use Trans-Mountain pipeline
The decision means that Canadians will not recoup the $40 billion in public funds spent on the project during the 20 year lifespan of its oil shipping contracts, according to regulatory filings. After...
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The most open, controlled, safe Strait in the world.
OSINTdefender [UNOFFICIAL]@sentdefender-mirr.selfhosted.social · last wk.The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) Center has issued an advisory after receiving a report of a tanker being struck by an unknown projectile causing a fire in its engine room while in the Strait of Hormuz. This is the 4th incident reported to the UKMTO in the last 24 hours.
