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Montreal Mike🇨🇦 @mikemontreal.bsky.social · 54m

In tonight’s clip from “The Real Pierre” he attacks the federal police force as corrupt and says he would jail his political opponents— including Trudeau who is no longer in office.
Seeing a pattern yet?
#cdnpoli #uspoli

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1h

this is truly invaluable reporting

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 8h

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 5h

Ah, I see Poilievre has progressed to the stage of Trump Playbook where he *checks notes* pushes to jail his political opponents.

Fun!

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 6h

Pierre Poilievre claims ‘despicable’ RCMP covered up to protect Justin Trudeau from criminal charges www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Pierre Poilievre claims ‘despicable’ RCMP covered up to protect Justin Trudeau from criminal charges

In a broadside against Canada's national police force, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has called the leadership of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police "despicable" and accused the law enforcement ...

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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 4h

Please enjoy my cartoon for Friday's Toronto Star

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3h

Massive Ukrainian drone attack now underway.

#explodey

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 1d

Your near-daily reminder that newspapers have business reporters, not labor reporters. www.startribune.com/a-new-kind-o...

Text with the word “hardship” is highlighted: Rising costs of food, rent and labor, which trickle down to menu prices, are turning off customers, restaurateurs are finding. The hardship is even starker within Minneapolis city limits, where the minimum wage is higher than in neighboring suburbs, and bigger government offices make navigating licenses, permits and
regulations even trickier

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Amanda Follett Hosgood @amandafollett.bsky.social · 9h

I was in Prince George this week, where the BC First Nations Justice Council signed an agreement with RCMP to refer non-violent crimes for rehabilitation, avoiding charges and ending the cycle of reoffending.

The centre is the first of its kind in Canada.
@thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

How a New Approach Will Keep Indigenous People Out of Jail | The Tyee

A new diversion centre in Prince George will offer alternatives to criminal charges for non-violent crimes.

thetyee.ca

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 14h

This Hour Has 22 Minutes -
It’s a beautiful language, isn’t it? #cdnpoli

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 13h

Ottawa threatens Stellantis with legal action over Brampton plant reversal #Canada #Stellantis

Industry Minister Mélanie Joly warned automaker's chief executive in letter--Stellantis entered into a $15 B agreement in 2023 with Canada

www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Ottawa threatens legal action against Stellantis | CBC News

The federal government is threatening automaker Stellantis with legal action if the company doesn't "respect its obligations" to Canadians, according to a letter obtained by CBC News, years after the ...

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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 9h

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The US supreme court appears ready to nullify the Voting Rights Act | Moira Donegan

Court has repeatedly expanded states’ leeway to make voting laws that would have previously been deemed discriminatory

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Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 10h

Actually, attacks on expertise and science is a hallmark of authoritarianism - so much so that the poem should go, ‘ First they came for experts but I did not speak up’

🎁article www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/s...

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Analysts say authoritarians and their students fear science in part because its feats - unlocking the universe, ending plagues, saving millions of lives - can form bonds of public trust that rival or exceed their own.
"Science is a source of social power" said Daniel Treisman, a political scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
"It always poses a potential threat."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22h

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 10h

The leaked messages show what happens when cruelty becomes political culture…

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Is This What the Next Generation of GOP Leaders Sounds Like? Don’t Look Away...

The leaked messages show what happens when cruelty becomes political culture…

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 13h

Canadian Industry Minister Melanie Joly 🇨🇦 threatens to SUE
Stellantis for pulling out of Brampton to move to the USA
She says they are "defaulting" after they were given subsidies.
#cdnpoli

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 11h

New analysis of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first 100 days after the federal election show oil and gas, mining and other industrial groups made up about 60 per cent of lobbying records. Environmental groups couldn’t get a word in. thenarwhal.ca/carney-natur...

Carney welcomed industry lobby, ignored environmental groups: records | The Narwhal

Records show resource industry lobbyists had regular access to Prime Minister Mark Carney in his first 100 days, while environmental groups were shut out

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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 11h

In a world full of misinformation and myths it is important that we communicate credible scientific evidence and facts. One topic under siege these days is climate change.

How do we know more CO2 is causing warming?

skepticalscience.com/empirical-ev...

How do we know more CO2 is causing warming?

<p>An enhanced greenhouse effect from CO2 has been confirmed by multiple lines of empirical evidence. Satellite measurements of infrared spectra over the past 40 years observe less energy escaping to ...

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Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦 @kaicable.bsky.social · 15h

Oooops, National Post runs survey paid for by Montreal Economic Institute (MEI - partner of Fraser Institute) a primarily U.S. financed libertarian and hard right-wing think tank and pretends it represents Canadians

#cdnpoli #canada
#boycottusa #fascistusa #racistusa

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 14h

PM Mark Carney 🇨🇦
Canada’s new government just released the Housing Design Catalogue.
It has 50 standardised housing designs that builders will use to streamline approvals, cut through red tape, and get millions more homes built, faster. #cdnpoli

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consbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 12h

The cons like the power grab at all levels eh?
Just like Ford and Dani.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Nova Scotia removes public’s ability to file complaints about municipal politicians | CBC News

Nova Scotia residents can no longer file complaints about their municipal elected officials, a move one advocate calls “dangerously undemocratic.”

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 13h

Rachel Gilmore #cdnpoli
On Monday, Poilievre shared his party’s petition to “end DEI” and “restore the merit principle.”
Just before that, another Conservative MP posted that “Canada must now place restrictions on birthright citizenship”
If it all sounds a bit Trump-y, that’s probably because…it is:

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 23h

Love this!

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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 1d

“This bike lane is in danger, not a danger.”

New campaign signs from Projet Montréal highlighting the opposition Ensemble Montréal’s promise to “audit” the bike network and consider removing some routes.

Clearly concerned more about space for cars than actual safety.

“This bike lane is in danger, not a danger.”

“Vote Projet Montréal to save it.”

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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. AG Pam Bondi has basically said anyone visiting the US is subject to arrest and incarceration at any point, if law officials deem the individual a “threat”.

Bang goes the rest of the international tourism trade!

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · Apr 22

There's now a collector page for my "Nova Scotia’s Policing Panic" series. Thanks to @irisblueskyris.bsky.social for setting that up: www.halifaxexaminer.ca/nova-scotias...

Nova Scotia's Policing Panic - Halifax Examiner

A special investigative series by Tim Bousquet. In some ways this is the origin story both of policing in Nova Scotia and of how Black people in particular are policed in Nova Scotia. It’s the story o...

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 1d

Sigh.

It would be nice if the national broadcaster would acknowledge that I spent 8 months working on a story they re-report as a one-off.

Whatever.

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