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We all saw this coming, right? 🍷The greedy desire to profit from Ford’s expanded booze sales; 🍺The Beer Store closures; 🍾Grocers realizing they do not want to give food storage space to mountains of dirty alcohol containers; To come: end of #Ontario deposit return system. That’s the Ford plan.
If they can't invest in taking returnables they shouldn't be corporate beneficiaries of once tax contributing beer and alcohol sales. Period. Why are we letting them get away with this shit? #onpoli #cdnpoli
coalition’s demands is a cybersecurity law aimed at protecting critical cybersystems integral to public safety, national security and infrastructure in federally regulated sectors such as banking, transportation, energy and telecommunications.”
statement. “We will be tenants in Trump’s regime.” The signatories argue that social media, cloud systems, AI engines, data privacy protection, critical infrastructure and the mechanisms for making digital financial transactions are dominated by tech giants such as Google. On the list of the
PM @mark-carney.bsky.social pursues strong relationship w/ EU nations, yet unlike EU, he sacrificed DST & has yet to approve our online harms bill. He allowed Trump to dictate Cdn policy, crush our privacy rights in Bill C2: “Empires once built railways. Now www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
in short: • NOLS does not lease land internationally. • Instead, it relies on partnerships, permits, and public land access arrangements to operate wilderness programs in other countries.
From their website: NOLS offers expedition and wilderness medicine training to military groups that include service academy students, test pilots, & the SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMUNITY Do they have properties/leases in other countries? How common is it for a company to apply for so many leases at once?
The Nazis and Russians did similar "recreation holidays for special forces and other military officers" prior to invading. Hopefully we're not so naive. This is a prelude to invasion. No need for Abwehr flights with satellite imagery.
🇨🇦ians wishing to express their views ⤵️ www.campbellrivermirror.com/notices/land...
Hey Canadians ! PLEASE READ Just found out about this . Very concerning , can you read this and go to the link and say a Hard NO ! ( no offense to our wonderful US neighbours who aren’t extremist )
Anyone know if it is common for an American company that offers courses fir the military & special operations to apply for so many long term leases of BC crown land at once? #BoycottUSA
🔥🔥🔥 Carney on Poilievre - “I honestly believe he disdains much about the country. It’s pretty awkward for him now that the country is coming together. He’s trying to find a flag to wrap himself in & play patriot. The last refuge of a scoundrel, the last time I checked.” #cdnpoli
#BritishColumbia The Sim'oogit Laay' totem pole is returning home after almost 80 years at a UBC museum Pole officially leaves the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver on Sept. 18 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The long term data on hepatitis B vaccination shows it reduces the incidence of liver cancer by 84% and death from liver disease by 70%. This comes from a large cluster RCT in which entire towns were randomly selected to give the hepatitis B vaccine to all newborns.
White House reporters have all seen Trumps bruised hands. It’s an active choice not to make an issue of it while these same people spent years freaking out about Biden.
They’ve added this Q “Between September 2025 and now, did you receive a vaccination for COVID-19?” Vaccination is defined as having received any dose of COVID-19 vaccination, including the first dose, the second dose, or any boosters, between September 2025 and now.
Did the FluWatchers report last night. Federal Covid+ creeping up - @ 7.3% last week. It was around 3% just a couple of weeks ago. Keep your masks handy 😷
#Saskatchewan Trail and Muskeg wildfires flare up on long weekend, prompting some evacuations in northern Sask. Campers in South Bay War Veterans Park and people in the Canoe River subdivision were asked to leave Saturday www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
99% of all issues on here are solved by 1) follow at least 500-600 people 2) block annoying people Once you do it it’s a wonderful experience
NEW: Nadler will not seek re-election, citing the need for a new generation of leaders. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
Was just listening to CBC Radio. They had a guest on (a former CMA President) who is promoting private healthcare in Ontario. It reminded me that Jane Philpott is working on a health for all project. It would be nice to get an update from her.
#NAFO Our beloved @trinzu.bsky.social is featured in an incredibly good interview today!! ❤️🔥 ▶️Here's the link to read it: www.propastop.org/en/
Sadly, I can't link to the story b/c of Globe & Mail paywalls. But I feel that I have to share big news from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. It has bought at auction the plaid shirt & the Mountie costumes used in the Monty Python skit in which all sing "I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay." 👀
WIth Elon it's not just an obsession with birthrates, but rather with eugenics. He's a firm believer in the Lebensborn approach to maintaining proper genetic stock.
Exactly. And for those of us whose work has been plagiarized by AI machines, it's all the more terrifying that our writing style might now get flagged as AI. Welcome to AI Hell.
"Make no mistake, RFK Jr. is coming for your vaccines, and people will die because of it" @gorskon.bsky.social sciencebasedmedicine.org/robert-f-ken...
Happy birthday to Lennox Lewis, born on this day in 1965! Raised in Kitchener, he won a Olympic gold medal in boxing and a Commonwealth Games gold in 1986. Regarded as one of the greatest heavyweight boxers in history, he is a member of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.
'The effect of reducing air pollution on cardiovascular disease, stroke, and heart disease, and probably dementia, is very profound but, in comparison with smoking, alcohol, obesity, and inactivity, air pollution it is underrated as a major cause of disease.' 🔗 @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/389/...
“LIKE A BROKEN RECORD” Now that the @nytimes is reporting Modi and Trump had a falling out over Trump’s lie that he deserves credit for the India-Pakistan ceasefire, we re-submit to you this clip of an Indian anchor calling him out months ago — even as 🇺🇸 media wouldn’t.
"If you see a big black bird and say 'oh, I wonder if that's a crow or a raven?', it's a crow. If you see a big black bird and you go 'holy fucking shit look at that size of that bird!', it's a raven."
Horns of a horrible dilemma: a world led by Communist 🇨🇳China or a world led by fascist 🇺🇸USA. 🙄
Warfighters demonstrating leafality.
Bluesky is now among and often *the* highest referer to @motherjones.com. That’s traffic that has been additive. Only Twitter has dipped btw, the rest as fairly steady state (and instagram impressions and video views on all platforms up enormously.)
Prima facie, Elon Musk appears to be manipulating X platform for specific political voices he supports (as well as using his own account to amplify the far right & furthest right). In particular the platform dynamic has shifted & is helping Tommy Robinson to be amplified more than Nigel Farage.
Ty very much for all your work on this, Tara; very much appreciated
Just in time for the first day of #school: ⬇️ #Covid_19 spreading quickly across #Ontario 🇨🇦
Canadian COVID Forecast Aug 30 - Sep 12 2025 ONTARIO High [No change] About 1 in 74 people in ON are CURRENTLY infected. Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~6.8 higher -Long COVID ~7.8 higher -Hospitalizations ~9.6 higher -Deaths ~9.9 higher
Canadian COVID Forecast Aug 30 - Sep 12 2025 CANADA High [No change] About 1 in 65 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected. Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~7.2 higher -Long COVID ~7.7 higher -Hospitalizations ~10.7 higher -Deaths ~10.9 higher
Graham Greene, Dances with Wolves actor, dies aged 73
Trump on the cover of French magazine Le Point. Translation: “Man from Moscow” Le Point is a major French weekly news magazine. It is considered a center-right / conservative-leaning publication.
Yep.
Everybody knows - except millions of brain dead Americans.
Ahh, so the French are confirming KRASNOV?
Russia’s/USSR’s greatest intelligence operation ever!
White curds preferably
More. Definitely more. Pick a (formerly) allied nation and you’ll get the same response.
Occam's Razor, also known as the principle of parsimony, suggests that when faced with multiple explanations for a phenomenon, the simplest explanation is usually the most accurate.
The windows in the WH are too close to the ground. 😉
I wish Moscow would come and pick him up....
Listen, that’s damn near a miracle almost anywhere in the south.
Good news is the city got $400k for sidewalks and we connected a school to a neighborhood with lots of multifamily housing, in addition to adding a couple of ped/bike routes. Can’t find a good link but it was Tupelo MS.
Thank you for sharing. I fear some people think I’m just being a Black woman about this — “everything is about RACE” — but this is an actual finding from research!
Who are these parents who don't have jobs and have the time to wait in a bus line for hours? Seventy percent of the parents on this 1,000+ student campus? I am so confused!!
Listen. I think that’s where we start to get the really uncomfortable bits about gender and whiteness and the status of being a soccer mom type. Some of the answer is that parents want it this way because they want to be the family with a mom who drives kids to school.
I wrote a safe routes to school grant ~2008 and learned it was a status symbol that moms had time to wait an hour in line to pick up kids. Walking / biking was for poor people. This was small town Mississippi
Maduro says 8 US ships 'with 1,200 missiles' targeting Venezuela
Full interview and more from Meidas Health here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Kressly: I expect in the next couple of weeks, this is going to get worse. You’re going to hear from the same administrative people who have gutted the expertise needed to promote child health — pushing false narratives like, “we need to look at the link between vaccines and autism.” That is a lie.
The awesome @effinbirds.com protested as well!✊️ bleedingcool.com/comics/polic...
This flower is called "Queen of the Night." It blossoms only at night once a year.
"Newsom is saying two things. First, we’re not going to let Republicans play by different rules anymore. And second, we are going to use our power however we can, no matter what The New York Times editorial board says about it." trib.al/SpzgHnV
Freedom from being held accountable for your crimes?
#RonDeSantis! #Canada isn't coming to your nazi swamp anymore! And your constituents are going to suffer for your, theirs and Trumps decisions. #Canadians aren't coming back. Stop comparing it to #Covid. Your "president" threatened our #sovereignty. You don't know what happens when WE hear "War" 🇨🇦
Dear Alberta 🇨🇦 Next time you blame liberals for pipeline bs that is spread by conservatives…. Know the facts! Bc it was conservatives that signed NAFTA who were actually behind the restrictions! youtu.be/86Be88PAkT8?...
As an #American I have heard about how bad things have gotten between #Canada and the #UnitedStates. Today I want to see for myself the #US products currently being #boycotted by #Canadians. - #TylerBucket gets it 🇨🇦 #Cdnpoli youtu.be/mgOWjzqrntE?...
The reason some of us might feel angrier as we get older is that we're worn down by seeing completely predictable problems ignored, downplayed, and perpetually put on the back burner until the inevitable preventable crisis occurs - here's another one ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...
euroweeklynews.com/2025/08/27/f...
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Good, but why wouldn’t the CBC just put a link to the list of professions while they were at it?
Read an article today about “maplewashing” and while the consumers in it have valid complaints- I’ve got to wonder about the Albertan lady who was aghast that avocados used to make avocado oil were imported. Find me any Canadian avocado or it’s oil that ISN’T made from imports. 🤣🤣 #cdnpoli
Here in the US, “two weeks” actually means never.
We are continuousy working to expand our network here, so if you are a Canadian music venue, or a Canadian music artist, or a band that travels to play in Canada, give us a follow, and we will follow you back! 🇨🇦🎵 #LiveForLiveMusic
I can envision no faster way to kill this platform than making it more inviting to right wingers of any sort.
Blueskys core audience is liberal and leftist users and they are the ones driving much of the posting activity. If the platform shifts to accommodate right wing users that base is likely to migrate back to other sites leaving Bluesky without its main draw. This is the niche it fills.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/mar...
Someone please kill me right now.
Wild
Which is why Enroute charts are still required by law in many countries. I was involved with the production of them for many years in the Federal Government, every 56 days.
See kids, map reading IS an important life skill.
CNN confirms that the pilots landed the plane using paper maps. www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/w...
It is, however, remarkable that he has not made a public appearance in 5 days. We are talking about the most narcissistic, publicity-addicted person in the world. And his TS posts are definitely not written by him, so...
I don't blame anyone for being suspicious about that. I am.
If we’re taking exam/evals cheating, most STEM classes are 100% written exams (pen/paper) so less scope for it.
Warum zieht die Premierministerin von Alberta nicht nach Florida, wenn sie Bücherverbote so toll findet? Das Wetter ist da auch besser als in Kanada. globalnews.ca/news/1135817...
🎶 Hello darkness, my old friend...... 🎶
Oh, here's another question: has anyone in this room stopped to take a close look at whether Trump appears in the big mirror behind him? Because if not, y'know......
Too funny
This headline is something. I feel like the first half kind of negates the second half's use of the term "Post-COVID". "Post-Health Restrictions" is probably more apt. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Covid is a labour issue. #LabourDay #WorkersRights
On way home passed this depressed statue that stands for nothing under Trump.
Michelle Obama: Sometimes it's nice to eat carrots. RFK Jr.: I want to bring back smallpox. The Atlantic:
Hit's the nail on the head. Keep it up.
Mountains, glaciers, rapids, azure lakes, ancient rainforest, deserted beaches, rocky coastlines, canyons, wildlife, plus parks, gardens and cityscape - all these and more on my recent walks in Canada: www.andrewswalks.co.uk
This is excellent. Puts Smith in her full libertarian ideological context. Good reading for labour day. #abpoli #cdnpoli
“It’s a way of bringing people together.” John Hersh, a retired teacher, has been playing taps at sunset for his Jersey Shore neighbors for a decade. His serenades create an inflection point, a moment to pause and reflect on a day gone by.
Heaven forbid that the big Canadian grocery chains are penalized for lying to Canadians...... @mark-carney.bsky.social @liberalca.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
@debbie156 