Once you define difference as the problem, it becomes easy to blame it for everything
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Exiled to this insignificant rock and the frozen tundra of Canada....fated to forever reside among you lowly Earth creatures. "Being a leftist often means being right too soon"
We are looking for Canada’s future in the policies of the 1990s and 2000s - commerce over the common good, private over public, and feeding a homegrown plutocracy trying to be as vile as their US counterparts. this doesn’t strike me as a wise plan
BC's Involuntary Care Practices Are Unconstitutional, Court Rules via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...
BC’s Involuntary Care Practices Are Unconstitutional, Court Rules | The Tyee
The province is an outlier when it comes to how it has detained people for involuntary mental health treatment.
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Deep-Sea Mining Would Devastate Ocean Life, DFO Scientist Warns via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...
Deep-Sea Mining Would Devastate Ocean Life, DFO Scientist Warns | The Tyee
Some creatures that ‘survived all of Earth’s mass extinctions’ might not make it if we go ahead.
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"New Nanos polling data shows Canadians feel there is no clear Conservative challenger that could take on PM Carney" Why would they want to see a Conservative PM challenged?
He never left, he haunts us to this day: For the rest of Ontario’s sake, Ford should go back to his roots at City Hall archive.ph/plnAA
In Gaza City, a funeral for 112 family members takes place 3 years after their deaths Famiy members say they dug through rubble with their hands when excavators weren't available www.cbc.ca/news/world/g...
After 3 years of searching for remains of 112 relatives, families in Gaza City finally lay loved ones to rest | CBC News
Nearly three years after more than 100 of their relatives were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, surviving members of the Abu Sharia and Hasayna families say they're relieved to be able to ...
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Donald Trump’s ‘art of the deal’ means reneging on them. That’s why Canada cannot capitulate. #boycottusa #cdnpoli #canada theconversation.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump’s ‘art of the deal’ means reneging on them. That’s why Canada cannot capitulate
Countries that sign deals with the Trump administration are quickly finding out that the stability and certainty they hoped to purchase was an illusion.
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The Mavericks - Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down (Live in Austin, TX) www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zsA...
The Mavericks - Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down (Live in Austin, TX)
YouTube video by hossblake
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Meanwhile the world is dying. www.yahoo.com/news/science...
It’s 90 degrees in the Arctic right now
The Arctic is cooking. Across northern Russia—a region that is famously bitterly cold—temperatures this week have routinely surpassed 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32.2 degrees Celsius), adding to the mount...
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'Alberta’s new private-pay-per-scan risks redirecting scarce machines, technologists, and radiologists toward more lucrative preventive exams, leaving patients with genuine medical need waiting longer in the public-pay system.' edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
Opinion: Alberta's preventive health testing isn't like Japan or Europe: It's a risky experiment
Alberta is introducing a fundamentally different approach from the systems it invokes.
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What if Manitoba or BC tells an independent Alberta to pound tarsand? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
ANALYSIS | An independent Alberta's U.S. oil exports would mostly be piped through other provinces | CBC News
Canada and separated Alberta could reach pipeline shipment deals. But there are no guarantees in trade talks, experts say.
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I don't think we truly appreciate the depth of the connections we make on social media until tragedy strikes someone we like and interact with
Explain to me like I am 5 why we are subsidizing anything for these companies. I mean by the very nature of their business they can't pull up stakes and leave so that bullshit excuse is out.
Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · yesterdayBP quarterly profits up from $2.5bn to $5.73bn as Iran war sends oil prices soaring. Shell doubled its net profit to almost $10bn. High bills fuelling poverty and misery for households and businesses. Boon for execs and shareholders. Must levy 100% windfall tax on oil, gas, energy companies.
An Ontario man was jailed for eight months over faked Facebook messages from his ex-wife. Why courts are struggling to spot easy fakes www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
Is there a difference between ethnic cleansing and genocide? Israelis have murdered at least 73,375 Palestinians with thousands still under rubble. #boycottIsrael #warcrimes #terrorists #gaza #lebanon #westbank
I mean investment is coming to Canada because we are selling off our infrastructure and natural resources, but sure.
Carney had promised to boost its support for peace operations and conflict prevention - now it is cutting our UN peacekeeping role - in favour of buying U.S. military equipment. #cdnpoli #canada #elbowsdown #neoliberal www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl... Behind paywall: archive.ph/2JiOW
Canada cuts its UN peacekeeping forces as it tilts to Europe and Indo-Pacific
After the planned cuts, Canada will rank about 100th in contributions to UN missions
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Carney couldn't even be bothered to send anyone to the hearings globalnews.ca/news/1200764...
U.S. states sue to stop Trump’s forced labour tariff on dozens of countries - National | Globalnews.ca
The challenge comes after a group of American small businesses filed lawsuits seeking to block the new tariffs on 60 U.S. trading partners, including Canada.
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CBC's coverage of the Westjet strike was almost entirely focused on inconvenienced passengers instead of the reality that people were being forced to work without pay
U.S. Instates Military Wife Draft American Women Face Mandatory Conjugal Service theonion.com/u-s-instates...
U.S. Instates Military Wife Draft
WASHINGTON—Pledging to do everything in his power to ensure the mental and physical needs of his troops were being fulfilled, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Thursday that the United States h...
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Outrage Builds Over Apparent US Use of 2,000-Pound Bomb on Iranian Family Home www.commondreams.org/news/trump-i...
Outrage Builds Over Apparent US Use of 2,000-Pound Bomb on Iranian Family Home | Common Dreams
Outrage grows over the US apparently dropping a 2,000-pound bomb on a civilian home in Iran.
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Climate Crisis Is Not 'Some Faraway Threat’: Spokane Inferno Forces Mass Evacuations as Oil Profits Surge www.commondreams.org/news/spokane...
Climate Crisis Is Not 'Some Faraway Threat’: Spokane Inferno Forces Mass Evacuations as Oil Profits Surge | Common Dreams
"The fossil fuel industry may not have struck the match, but the climate crisis they drove has loaded our landscapes with tinder," said an environmental activist.
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"Kids these days" will never stop being a thing. Every generation sets out to distinguish themselves from prior generations, to set their own path. This threatens those who fear change. Kids today are no worse or better than the kids of yesterday, just different
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If you see this, quote the energy you bring to bluesky
Heather J. “I Should Be Writing” Wood@rollwithheather.bsky.social · 2d agoIf you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky
As sad as it is to see Gausman go, replacing him with a quality starter in Soriano makes sense. Soriano is younger and the Jays have arbitration rights for two more years after this season