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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 27m

Where's my head tube?
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 29m

Fashion in the year 2025, as imagined in the year 1950

[image] STRATO-GIRLS ... These young ladies are wearing costumes designed for interplanetary travel in the year 2025, as predicted by a New York department store (Arnold Constable). The suits are of transparent fabric treated with milium for warmth, complete with plastic helmet, wings, and food capsules attached to the belt, to insure a safe, cozy trip to Mars.
--The Bridgeport Telegram, 13 October 1950

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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 41m

Interprovincial cooperation on linear energy infrastructure?

Yep!

Very positive direction letter from the Govt of Alberta to its grid operator to continue its work to fully restore the BC (and Montana) interties and "explore further value development opportunities at each interconnection". 👍

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Alex Boyd @alexboyd.bsky.social · 15h

The DEI debate comes to Canada. www.thestar.com/diversity-eq...

Diversity, equity and inclusion are coming under scrutiny — and Pierre Poilievre is ready to push the conversation

Diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are in the crosshairs south of the border and now the mantle has been taken up by the federal Conservative party, which has released a

www.thestar.com

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 18h

Please use Kenny Rogers' The Gambler as the basis for your budget day analysis.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 18h

"... the brilliance of their approach is that their stuff *feels* like the real thing."

This isn't some cheap knockoff, my friend. This is *prestige* fakery.

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 19h

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 19h

This is a really useful table from the folks at IFSD — especially if we're about to talk a lot about public debt and the cost of carrying that debt.

www.policymagazine.ca/budget-2025-...

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Armine Yalnizyan @armineyalnizyan.bsky.social · 21h

Great curation of charts, fascinating story about housing affordability trends in Canada
Well done, @mattlundy.bsky.social, @jasonkirby.bsky.social and Rachelle Younglai.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Ten charts that explain Canada’s messy and complicated housing markets

The peak of real estate madness is behind us, but it seems as if the crisis is not going anywhere

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Paul Adams @pauladams29.bsky.social · 22h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Anyone hoping elections will straightforwardly fix America’s descent into authoritarianism isn’t paying attention.

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Kelly Blidook @kblidook.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder - as we watch results from NL election - that even if PCs secure more seats than Libs, John Hogan will remain Premier & would have first opportunity to test confidence of House.

If PCs lead but remain below 20 seats, it's very possible we'd have a Liberal govenment continue.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 1d

Election night in Newfoundland.

Best riding names. Best accents.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXNx...

N.L. Votes: Election Night 2025

YouTube video by CBC News

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 1d

Nice work.

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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump calling his ceasefire deal “Peace in the Middle East” doesn’t make it so - no matter how many world leaders (none of them the belligerent parties) gather to applaud..

What he’s done is restore something like the pre-Oct. 7, 2023 status quo, which was a long way from peace.

My take

At leaders’ summit in Egypt, Trump unveils fuzzy commitment to ‘peace in the Middle East’

Trump managed to hammer out a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel. But what comes next is unclear

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 1d

DEADLINE TODAY: Apply for a CAJ mentorship, the program i wish wish wish existed when I was getting my feet under me in journalism.
Fall mentors include:
💥Kristin Nelson (Boston Globe's Spotlight podcast)
💥Michelle Cyca (The Narwhal)
💥Nathan Vanderklippe (Globe and Mail)
caj.ca/programs/men...

Mentorship - Fall 2025 - Canadian Association of Journalists

Fall 2025 Mentor Bios Below you will find an alphabetic list of mentors for the Fall 2025 round of the mentorship program. Each mentor has their bio, who they are looking to mentor, the languages they...

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 2d

Trust in the Supreme Court?

Pretty solid and pretty consistent.

cdnsurveystuff.substack.com/p/judging-th...

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 2d

This data is a couple years old, but when last Environics checked, the public was not exactly clamouring for legislatures to have the final say over individual rights.

www.environicsinstitute.org/docs/default...

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 2d

I still tend to be skeptical of complaints about judicial activism, but putting that aside, I'd like to see some evidence that pubic trust in the courts has been damaged.

nationalpost.com/opinion/opin...

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jdavey_2 @jdavey.bsky.social · 2d

Unlike 1995 there's no social housing budgets for Liberals to cut.

Graph showing annual affordable/social housing builds from 1960 to 2000s. The number flatlined during the years that the Chretien and Martin Liberals were in power.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 2d

Budget cuts: Not actually painless

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 2d

In deficit-worry pieces like this Saturday's in @theglobeandmail.com, the praising of the 1995 budget doesn't include considering those of its effects that worsened human misery.

If we're reliving the 1990s, let's not repeat the cruelty

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/330b5b5...

For Canada’s finances, it’s looking like 1995 all over again. How will today’s Liberals handle it?

Once again, the country is being led through a polycrisis by a pragmatist Liberals surrounded by activists. There are lessons in how Chrétien and Martin handled this last time

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 4d

New from me. The political fight over the deficit is still a phoney war.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

ANALYSIS | The political fight over the deficit is still a phoney war | CBC News

The debate about the federal deficit — or, more specifically, the health and wisdom of federal fiscal policy — remains something of a phoney war, with little substantive engagement. But perhaps, with ...

www.cbc.ca

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 3d

I will not stop pointing out that the emissions cap target for oil sands is slightly below that of the Pathway Alliance's own commitment they made, in print, for emission reductions by 2030 of 22 million tonnes. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Screenshot from the wayback machine capture of the Pathways Alliance press release which states:

PHASE ONE Pathways Alliance advances net zero
emissions plan
October 14, 2022
Significant progress achieved on early-stage work for oil sands carbon capture and storage network CALGARY - Oct. 14, 2022 - The Pathways Alliance, representing Canadas six largest oil sands companies, is advancing early work necessary to build one of the world's largest carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities in the oil sands
region of northern Alberta. The CCS project is the primary focus of phase one of Pathways Alliance's ambitious plan to reduce annual emissions
from oil sands operations by 22 million tonnes by 2030 and achieve a goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 4d

New from me. The political fight over the deficit is still a phoney war.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

ANALYSIS | The political fight over the deficit is still a phoney war | CBC News

The debate about the federal deficit — or, more specifically, the health and wisdom of federal fiscal policy — remains something of a phoney war, with little substantive engagement. But perhaps, with ...

www.cbc.ca

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 5d

Alas.

There is always next year.

a cartoon tiger is holding a sign that says detroit tigers on it

ALT: a cartoon tiger is holding a sign that says detroit tigers on it

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 5d

I agree wholeheartedly with this piece from Lennie Kaplan -- who, it should be said, used to work for the War Room.

troymedia.com/politicslaw/...

Alberta wants pipelines. Ottawa wants proof

Lennie Kaplan • Without it, Alberta’s so-called “Grand Bargain” won’t hold

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 6d

To wit.

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Jennifer Robson 🇨🇦 @jrobson.bsky.social · 6d

Announcement from PM Carney moments ago and this is good news. I've been working on this issue with @saulschwartz.bsky.social and @agenestgregoire.bsky.social for years. We've documented how many Canadians don't file and miss out on or loose benefits, .. 1/3

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