Patrick Howard
@patrickhoward.ca
Seeking always to get ”back to the things themselves.”
apple.news/AArjFU3WhR9G... This is rich! The U.S. uses prison labor to produce goods for government and private industries. Inmates are excluded from minimum wage laws, unions, and workplace safety protections, earning as little as $0.12 to 1.30 per hour. @charlieangus104.bsky.social
US says it plans extra tariffs of 10% or more for most trading partners after forced labor probe — The Canadian Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is proposing that tariffs of 10% or
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“Soap bubbles” at the base of a yellow birch this morning. Apparently from natural "tree soap". We had a hard spring rain overnight. The rain mixes with the tree's natural oils, cascades down, and the bark's ridges acts like an egg beater whipping the mixture into suds. Very cool!
Richardson Fire 🔥; Horse River Fire 🔥 Fort MacMurray (The Beast) 🔥; Jasper Fire 🔥 and this May 2026 - Whitecourt 🔥… Based on recent data, Alberta is responsible for approx. 38% of Canada’s total (GHG) emissions, making it the highest-emitting province by a significant margin.
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SPECIAL REPORT - Your Neighbour Canada Has Changed And You're Not Going to Like What is Happening
American Pulse goes beyond the headlines — delivering the insight, analysis and perspective that cable news and legacy media won't. Independent. Unfiltered. Unflinching.
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@profgalloway.com often geo- locates his interview guests with ‘where do we find you today?” @anandwrites.bsky.social reveals the same question jumped out at him in the emails from the Epstein files as that class of placeless, global locusts predate people and planet. Just an observation.
I think everything all govts do is with OUR $$. In contrast this one I can live with.
Robert MJ Thompson@wh0n0z.bsky.social · 4mo agoSee the humour. Feel the pattern. Satire works best when the funny is whisper-close to the serious reality. Thanks Mr.R. for helping us take a hard look at what our PM is proposing with OUR money.
@aljazeera.com on YouTube provides coverage of the debacle in the Middle East not available anywhere else.
Interesting opinion piece: OpenAI has shown it cannot be trusted. Canada needs nationalized, public AI - www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
Opinion: OpenAI has shown it cannot be trusted. Canada needs nationalized, public AI
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, lobbied Ottawa for business. All the while it hid its knowledge of Tumbler Ridge shooter
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@mark-carney.bsky.social Many Canadians are disappointed in your recent statement supporting the U.S./Israeli strikes on Iran. Many see these actions as a violation of the UN Charter and international law. Canada must consistently uphold international legal norms, even when it’s hard.
I’ve just published a short reflection. Not about methods. About orientation. What happens when we allow a real question to work on us, rather than rushing to answer it? For those engaged in research and teaching, this may resonate. The Question open.substack.com/pub/phenomen...
The Question
Beginning With What Will Not Let Go
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“Fifty percent of all flights are taken by 1% of the population.” New Economics Foundation(UK) apple.news/ALIk10RWKSxq...
financialpost.com/pmn/group-of... Classic case of “Rules for thee but not for me.” .. 🎻 “ The U.S. distillers claim the markups are inconsistent with World Trade Organization rules as well as the United States-Mexico-Canada free-trade agreement.”
Group of U.S. distillers complains N.S. and other provinces favouring local alcohol
HALIFAX — A group of U.S. alcohol producers claims Canadian retailers are giving unfair advantage to local spirits, including what it calls “discriminatory” markups…
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"This is what happens when democracy stops negotiating with bullies and starts acting like it intends to win." - oh how I hope that's true. open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
BREAKING: EUROPE JUST BOXED TRUMP & PUTIN IN
The Five-Nation Firewall, the Coalition of the Willing, and Why the Russia “Upper Hand” Myth Just Died Screaming
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Mi'kmaq chief asks for help finding ceremonial jacket lost at Montreal's Trudeau airport montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...
Mmm… he said aloud what we all know.. @mark-carney.bsky.social and Doug Ford need to refine the strategy to represent Canada’s best interests .. better to be tough than polite and rational with this man.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11mo agoTrump: "I don't know what it is. I like the tough people better than I the soft, easy ones. I don't know what the hell that is. That's a personality problem I suspect. But this gentleman from a place called Turkey has one of the most powerful armies in the world... I want to thank President Erdogan"
Yes, brilliant Vancouver Parks, cancel Harry Potter and apologize and step this way Mr. and Ms. Avg. Canadian voter, into the arms of the far right haters who will take great pleasure in hounding the 2SLGBTQ+ Advisory Cmte out of existence. Look south. It’s coming. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
J.K. Rowling mocks Vancouver Park Board after its apology over Harry Potter event
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling says being disavowed by the Vancouver Board of Parks wasn’t “much of a blow” after its commissioners unanimously voted to apologize for a Harry Potter event opening in...
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Tackling ecosystem resilience and the possibility of renewal and regeneration with my students and this amazing story shows up in my feed.. with gratitude @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront
A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton
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