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Mike Bloxam 🇨🇦🍉
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Making the best of an #ONterrible situation... #LdnOnt parent, partner, entrepreneur, solar guy, food banker, environmentalist 🌳🏡☀️⏳ (Opinions mine; share/like ≠> endorsement) #CovidConscious 😷 Mastodon: @[email protected]
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I know I’ve said this more than once, and I know it’s really obvious, but taking the train between cities in Europe is just fantastic. So easy.

One of the dumbest mistakes North America ever made, and continues to make, is doing so relatively little with trains. Train networks are nation-building.
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I guess they've made commitments to Ford's friends to pay them millions even though they're not the best choice, even under the glare of media and the Opposition, even though we know it's corrupt. Ford's government works for Ford's friends, not for Ontario.
Under fire and unrepentant, Labour Minister David Piccini says he will keep handing out cash from Premier Doug Ford's controversial Skills Development Fund to preferred groups regardless of how low their applications score.
Ontario’s labour minister defends training cash given to preferred applicants
Under fire and unrepentant, Labour Minister David Piccini says he will keep handing out cash from Premier Doug Ford's controversial Skills Development Fund to preferred groups regardless of how low
www.thestar.com
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"Yeah, we're corrupt. What are you gonna do about it?"

#ONPoli
Under fire and unrepentant, Labour Minister David Piccini says he will keep handing out cash from Premier Doug Ford's controversial Skills Development Fund to preferred groups regardless of how low their applications score.
Ontario’s labour minister defends training cash given to preferred applicants
Under fire and unrepentant, Labour Minister David Piccini says he will keep handing out cash from Premier Doug Ford's controversial Skills Development Fund to preferred groups regardless of how low
www.thestar.com
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🚨 ACTION ALERT 🚨 Sign & share the petition to get as many signatures as we can before the deadline: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en.... Pls confirm the House of Commons email after signing.

#onpoli #cdnpoli #healthcare #dougford #markcarney
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Electricity rates for households are increasing by nearly 30% starting next month, hidden behind increasing taxpayer-funded subsidies now covering nearly 25% of hydro bills oeb.ca/sites/defaul... #onpoli
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Stephen Harper + IDU = the MAGA pipeline to Canada.

Conservative politicians are IDU members with Poilievre as 🇨🇦 chairman; Harper is global chairman.

#cdnpoli #bcpoli #abpoli #onpoli #polqc #nspoli #nbpoli #skpoli #mbpoli #nlpoli #nwt #ytpoli #nunavut #peipoli #IDUPlaybook #CPC #UCP #MeidasCanada
The top MAGA Toady in Canada is Pierre Poilievre followed by Toady Danielle Smith, Toady Melissa Lanstman, and Toady crazyasses Marliyn Gladu, Garnet Genius, Michael Cooper, Jesus Scheer, Leslyn Lewis and so on. The idiocy, bile, intolerance and ignorance runs DEEP into their natures and characters.
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Should have added #OnPoli to this...
A good round-up of all of the activism happening.

“...speed cameras are primarily used in school zones to keep children safe. It is baffling that our premier has chosen to attack a road safety measure that primarily is targeted to help little kids”

#GiftLink 🎁

www.thestar.com/news/gta/wit...
I sure hope you're right. He somehow got re-elected twice in #ONterrible despite other bad or worse scandals... #ONpoli #FordTheFraud
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Listen:
Did he or didn't he pay for the hockey tickets?

What do you think?

Ford's Minister attended Leafs game with lobbyist who then receives $7.5 million from Skills Development Slush Fund.

#ONpoli
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Doug Ford's government continues to reek of corruption, and these nepo-babies just keep shoveling out goodies to their cronies and paymasters. #onpoli
Listen:
Did he or didn't he pay for the hockey tickets?

What do you think?

Ford's Minister attended Leafs game with lobbyist who then receives $7.5 million from Skills Development Slush Fund.

#ONpoli
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By SARS2 is a Biohazard

"You can die from many different things" is not a good argument to forgo Covid precautions. Yes, there are many hazards in life, and that's why safety procedures are made: to mitigate the risk of injury and death. SARS2 is a persistent hazard that require safeguards.
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Excellent piece.

Every time this discourse rolls around they treat those of us that mask like we’re hypochondriacs.

No we’re the ghosts of infections past.

We plead with you so that you can avoid our fate. In return you mock us.

#MECFS #LongCovid
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People continue to call COVID advocates’ pleas for masking “unreasonable”.

Yet people who’ve already been disabled by COVID have no choice but to live with the “unreasonable” burdens of constant COVID safety.

My latest:
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Beyond all reason
Long COVID patients are constantly harangued about our requests for COVID safety. Yet what we're asking for is far less than what we're called on to do to survive.
substack.com
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And this is exactly why AI cant be trusted. When billionaires control the algorithms its all about disinformation and manipulation, not the truth.
Elon Musk is now clearly writing Grok's replies to all the subjects that he considers important.

It's exactly the nonsense he posts on Twitter.
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"Humans aren’t very efficient movers—until you put us on a bicycle, when we become some of the most energy-efficient land travelers in the animal kingdom."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...
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No.

Our mask requirement is not "virtue signalling".

It's protecting a) the cancer patient and b) the child who is still too small to wear a mask.

And also--and I can't emphasize this strongly enough--you.
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This must rank as one of the more hilarious headlines I have seen in a long time.
Nothing like the political media in Ottawa for continually missing the moment as we watch democracy and the rule of law disintegrate on our unguarded border.
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Ffs
I am starting to understand how Austria felt in the 30s.