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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 18h

“The deaf community had a lot of excitement because it would have changed things that previously were causing harm…

“To now see them say, ‘Oh, we’re going to rework this,’ is devastating.”

#bcpoli

BC Reneges on New Supports for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children | The Tyee

A language skills program was set to go, until the government pulled the plug.

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Jan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @snorider.bsky.social · 10h

This is crazy. How do kids grow to be productive adults without these programs? Do we not want all kids to be successful? Doesn't that help support our economy down the road? A wealth tax would fund important services for kids with challenges. The richest 1% hold 24% of the wealth of Canada.

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🇨🇦 Ken Robinson: Proud/ NASTY CANADIAN in AB 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @kprobinson0155.bsky.social · 18h

Truly, a Nation Building project!
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Chris Gallaway @cgallaway.bsky.social · 1d

Opinion: Treat public health care as a nation-building project

edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

Opinion: Treat public health care as a nation-building project

We are already far down the road towards a two-tiered health care system where the rich come first. It’s unacceptable and it’s un-Canadian.

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Jan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @snorider.bsky.social · 10h

2/2 Then we ensure that mole doesn't become a cancer with all the costs involved. There's no doubt people ignore symptoms they should not because an appointment can take weeks. Then, a long wait to see a specialist. Our current system means many illnesses are missed, that's expensive.

Jan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @snorider.bsky.social · 10h

1/2 I'm so frustrated by how our healthcare system has been allowed to deteriorate. It should become a Nation Building project, making it something we can proud of. Imagine being able to get something like a suspicious mole checked out and removed in a timely manner.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 18h

Is Canada Post doomed, a victim of tech changes and competition that made daily mail delivery irrelevant?

Or has the 174-year-old institution been strangled by government policies that limited its chance to compete?

@isaacphannay.bsky.social reports. #canlab

Has Time Run Out for Canada Post? | The Tyee

Inside the debate over the Crown corporation’s future as unions and management battle.

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Jan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @snorider.bsky.social · 11h

Why are they so anti-postal banking when it's been profitable and successful in other countries?

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Anna from Ukraine @annafromukraine.bsky.social · 12h

🔥 Russia’s troubles are mounting: not just economic collapse, but even Putin fears his own soldiers. They tried a “Time of Heroes” to give war criminals government jobs—now regions like Sakha won’t pay for Putin’s bloody dreams. Russia’s collapse is near. 📉

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Jan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @snorider.bsky.social · 12h

Anna, this is good news. I hope your Country will soon be free of Russian aggression. Slava Ukraini
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Jan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @snorider.bsky.social · 12h

Koreans have invented a clear solar panel, imagine if this technology can be used for windows. Homes could be built to create their own power. Canada needs to be involved more in the creation of new and cleaner ideas for Canadian power and transport.

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Jan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @snorider.bsky.social · 13h

Why do we continue to treat our country like this. We need a healthy environment, the priority can't continue to be money.

Jan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @snorider.bsky.social · 13h

Don't forget us in the Interior Charlie.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 13h

Long Covid Is Real — And It's Changing an Entire Generation www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... @emcahan.bsky.social @rollingstone.com

𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize

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Jan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @snorider.bsky.social · 13h

Getting my covid and flu shot on Monday, I hope everyone else will be sure to get them as well. Good health is so important, we need to do everything we can to stay healthy. Long covid is a total horror show for a lot of people.

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Jan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @snorider.bsky.social · 13h

No more corporate welfare. It's never been proven to benefit us taxpayers.Tax money should be used to grow the middle class in Canada, history shows a strong middle class creates a strong economy. The plan to put AI data centers in Canada will result in few jobs once they're built, and water issues.

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Energi Media @energimedia.bsky.social · 13h

Alberta Innovates is developing a game-changing process to turn bitumen—those sticky oil sands extracts—into advanced carbon fiber precursor. A perfect example of how the industry can pivot toward sustainable, high-value products. #CarbonFiber #Innovation #OilSands #EnergyTransition

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Jan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @snorider.bsky.social · 13h

Finally, a step in the right direction, using Alberta bitumen to create a new useful product.

Jan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @snorider.bsky.social · 13h

At a time when climate change and anti-vaccine and anti-science are making disease out breaks more difficult to control and treat, this is just 1 more red flag. We are our own worst enemy. Ignorance rules, common sense is getting harder to find.

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Jan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @snorider.bsky.social · 13h

The Orange Windbag seems to have a tough time keeping friends. Imagine that, how shocking.

Jan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @snorider.bsky.social · 13h

Good point.

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Jan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @snorider.bsky.social · 13h

AI data centers also require massive of water. As of Oct. 2025 85% of Canada is abnormally dry or in drought. Water is finite, we can live 3 days without it.

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🎃smell🎃patatas🎃 @its.small.patatas.ca · Aug 19

President of Palantir Canada is on PM Carney's Council on Canada-U.S. Relations:
www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/read...

Carney & Freeland have been pushing for our pension funds to invest in AI data centers:
blundervalley.ca/blog/pension...

And recently, this:
blundervalley.ca/blog/crusoe-...

Brookfield Provides $750M Credit Facility to Peter Thiel-Funded AI Data Centre Company Crusoe Energy

Palantir co-founder's VC fund led a $600M funding round for Crusoe just months ago. Crusoe wants to build gas-powered data centres in Texas & Alberta.

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Jan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @snorider.bsky.social · 13h

2/2 Where will the massive amounts of water come from? We are already having drought problem. As of Oct 25, 85% of Canada is abnormally dry or in drought. Do some on-line searches to see how these AI centers have affected Americans who live near them. With multiple issues and few jobs, why do it?

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Jan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @snorider.bsky.social · 13h

1/2 Big NO to investing or building AI data centers in Canada. A large or hyperscale facility only employs 50 to 150 employees once it is built. Most employment is related to building it. How will it be fuelled? Green energy or fossil fuels which add to our climate problems?

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Jan 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @snorider.bsky.social · 13h

It's time the NWT was removed.

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