Eleanor Grant
@eleanor7.bsky.social
Senior in Waterloo Region, Ontario. Social Justice. Climate. Palestine. Reducing corporate control.
We know the tactics that have been deployed to undermine our democracies. But who is behind them?
Defending Democracy Against the Reactionary International | Perspectives Journal
Canada is not immune to the forces of the Reactionary International, and has taken part in it through the decades. Adler describes what's behind the power undermining democracy in Canada and around th...
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NEWS: France’s Epstein investigation is expanding, with prosecutors identifying multiple potential recruiters and at least 13 previously unknown victims as they trace his trafficking network across the country.
Our immigrant neighbors are raising families, struggling to survive, running businesses, and revitalizing neighborhoods. We won't stand by while politicians use #ICE to tear our communities apart. #SpringfieldOH #Ohio
Leaked doc suggests Alberta has sprawling plans to pave the way for AI data centres, more oil production. Rewriting laws, creating Crown corporations that could rival TC Energy, building new natural gas pipelines and increasing prices for consumers. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-ai-d...
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The other September 11 - 1973 in Chile
Canal 4 Nicaragua@canal4ni.bsky.social · 9h ago🇨🇱 Autoridades del Gobierno de Nicaragua conmemoraron los 53 años del paso a la inmortalidad del Presidente chileno Salvador Allende, destacando su legado de soberanía, dignidad y lucha por la justicia social, a 53 años de su caída histórica. ✊🏻 #noticias #nicaragua www.canal4.com.ni/homenaje-al-...
Earlier this week, Judd reported on a new Elon Musk scam. Musk is spending millions of dollars pushing Americans to VoteSafe, which advertises itself as a voter registration site but is actually a digital surveillance machine. Judd joins us tonight to explain: joycevance.substack.com/p/five-quest...
Five Questions with Judd Legum
American journalist, lawyer, and political writer
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250 Elite Investors, 167 Pitches: Some Clean Economy Projects Make the Cut as Canada Investment Summit Convenes in Toronto
With as many as 250 of the world’s top investors converging on Toronto next week for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Canada Investment Summit, news reports say pipelines, nuclear plants, railways, AI dat...
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Michigan Reconsiders Enbridge Line 5 Tunnel Permits as Shutdown Push Intensifies
Michigan environmental regulators are reviewing permits they recently granted for the Line 5 tunnel project, in light of a recent Michigan Supreme Court decision that raised the bar for environmental ...
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David Akin has an amazing Canadian stamp collection from which he shares one every day. I like this one from 2002 commemorating the Old Age Pensions Act of 1927.
🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
Enbridge #Line5 pipeline tunnel under #StraitsofMackinac Michigan www.tdtnews.com/news/nation_...
Whitmer rethinks Line 5 tunnel permits, ramps up shutdown pleas after court ruling
State environmental regulators are reviewing permits for the Line 5 tunnel project after a Michigan Supreme Court decision raised the bar for environmental reviews. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has urged Enb...
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Why Alcohol Is the Forgotten Killer. How the industry undermines health – and what to do about it, by @drtomfrieden.bsky.social substack.com/inbox/post/2...
Why Alcohol Is the Forgotten Killer
How the industry undermines health – and what to do about it
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Electrification of streetcars on Yonge Street began in 1891. In reality, streetcar service began 30 years prior. Toronto was already doing higher-order transit pre-confederation. Wild.
Jeremy Hopkin@jeremyhopkin.bsky.social · yesterday165 years ago today Toronto rolled out a brand-new way to travel: Canada’s very first streetcar line, running along Yonge Street. Operated by the Toronto Street Railway, the debut was marked with great fanfare on Sept. 10, 1861. #OnThisDay #1860s #transit #torontohistory #jeremyhopkin
As someone who actually grew up in a fairly monochrome part of Appalachia, I’ll just observe that the multiracial, cosmopolitan US cities I’ve lived in are far more prosperous. And tend to lack junk cars in the front yard.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayJD Vance: "We were tired of being called racists for noticing that our country was becoming dirtier and poorer"
A generation ago, America faced the nuclear revolution and came together to safely regulate it. Now AI CEOs say their tech could be just as dangerous. So Bernie Sanders and I are introducing the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act. We've done this before. We can do it again.
So we’ve now created an environmental disaster on top of global economic crisis on top of unnecessary war awesome
AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · yesterdaySatellite images appear to show oil slicks in the Strait of Hormuz after US strikes on tankers suspected of links to Iran's Revolutionary Guard u.afp.com/SjYp
youtube.com/shorts/kXtHd... Don't conflate the top 1% of INCOME earners pay taxes, and the top 1% of the WEALTH earners who don't. Have a listen! @hcrhq.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @raymadoff.bsky.social
A False Narrative
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My latest newsletter out today... Crises are no time for timidity: Response to Trump’s economic attack requires imagination & audacity. In it, I explore what it could look like to truly achieve “economy autonomy” and to delink from the US & fossil fuels. 👇 sethdklein.substack.com/p/crises-are...
Crises are no time for timidity: Response to Trump’s economic attack requires imagination and audacity
What might it look like to truly achieve “economy autonomy” and to delink from the US and fossil fuels? (And a couple other updates)
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Boo! Feds quietly exempt oilsands and gas power plants from environmental impact assessments www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/10/n...
Feds quietly exempt oilsands and gas power plants from environmental impact assessments
The change comes as part of a suite of amendments to Canada's impact assessment laws passed by the Carney government early Wednesday morning.
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My latest... Crises are no time for timidity: Response to Trump’s economic attack requires imagination and audacity sethdklein.substack.com/p/crises-are...
Crises are no time for timidity: Response to Trump’s economic attack requires imagination and audacity
What might it look like to truly achieve “economy autonomy” and to delink from the US and fossil fuels? (And a couple other updates)
sethdklein.substack.com
Important new report yesterday from SFU's Clean Energy Research Group: Alternatives to Fossil Fuels in Canada. Among the findings: 🧵... www.sfu.ca/politics/CER...
Alternatives to Fossil Fuels in Canada
We find Canada has made little progress diversifying its economy under the Carney government despite mounting US trade war threats, remaining reliant on commodity exports, as reflected in public inves...
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Fed gvt releases data centre policy signed by tech giants. I'm a bit late to this, but last week's release of this VOLUNTARY federal AI data centre framework is incredibly weak. If this is supposed to give us comfort, think again @evansolomon.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/03/n...
Federal government releases data centre policy signed by tech giants
Amazon, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft and more all signed onto the framework, which was announced by AI Minister Evan Solomon on Thursday.
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