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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 3h

“Maisons Canada” is an odd translation of “Build Canada Homes”

Toronto Star @thestar.com · 3h

Mark Carney’s new housing agency announces the Toronto site for its first project

Build Canada Homes will oversee a project to use modern construction techniques to build 540 new units in Toronto.

www.thestar.com

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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 7h

Alberta premier Danielle Smith reveals she met with the Heritage Foundation - the group behind Project 2025 - shortly after Trump's election. Reporting by @desmog.com #abpoli thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Smith Reveals Meeting with the US Heritage Foundation After Trump Win | The Tyee

The Alberta premier said she met with the right-wing think tank because of its influence on the president.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 7h

They make it clear which lives matter and which don’t because you never hear them mention Palestinian hostages, and when they do, they’re often referred to as prisoners or detainees instead, painting a very different picture.

Anita Anand @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social · 1d

Please see my statement on the release of hostages ⬇️

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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 6h

“Pierre Poilievre can be tied directly to Enbridge, Pathways Alliance, Koch Industries and the Canadian Gas Association. His inner circle is stacked with fossil fuel lobbyists, and his campaign received major donations from oil industry insiders.” @taylornoakes.com

Observations from Montreal

An ever-changing collection of commentary and observations by Montrealers or about Montreal politics and culture.

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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 7h

#SanFrancisco officials have not been transparent re Vaillancourt fountain, considering they gave maintenance contracts to the developer seeking to demolish it

If it’s decrepit, why isn’t SF holding BXP responsible?

My latest @theartnewspaper.bsky.social

www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/14/v...

City of San Francisco and developer appear to have planned Vaillancourt Fountain demolition before proposal was made public

Public documents also reveal property developer leading demolition effort was at least partly responsible for fountain and plaza maintenance for nearly 50 years

www.theartnewspaper.com

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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 7h

This is nothing more than a modern rehashing of Ayn Rand

And it’s literally the opposite of what everyone—left & right—teaches their children (share with others, care for others)

These latter-day anti-empathy evangelists are little more than poorly raised children hoping to “disrupt” being decent

Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

Allie Beth Stuckey, an anti-abortion advocate and Fox News regular, in Toxic Empathy, is clear on why she doesn’t want people imagining the experiences of others: they may end up supporting progressivism. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-rig...

The Right’s Latest Culture War Crusade is Against Empathy

Blessed are the unfeeling, for they shall inherit the GOP. Books, sermons, and tweets now warn that “toxic empathy” is destroying civilization.

www.currentaffairs.org

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Canadian Cynic @canadiancynic.bsky.social · 1d

Note the absolute lack of reference to the thousands of Palestinians currently in Israeli prisons.

Piss off, Anita.

Anita Anand @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social · 1d

Please see my statement on the release of hostages ⬇️

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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 8h

Why were the Snowbirds performing at Fleet Week?

I thought Canadians were boycotting the United States because of the whole annexation and trade war thing?

Does that not apply to the military?

#cdnpoli

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 8h

The extraordinary videos from the planes show the Canadian Snowbirds' “Top Gun”-style acrobatics as they dip, turn and twirl above San Francisco’s famed landmarks on a gorgeous day last week.

New Fleet Week video shows pilots’ view as planes soar over S.F. landmarks

The extraordinary videos from the planes show the Canadian Snowbirds' “Top Gun”-style acrobatics as they dip, turn and twirl above San Francisco’s famed landmarks on a gorgeous day last week.

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Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) @cajournalists.bsky.social · 15h

This is an incredible tool built by @nationalobserver.com that will help foster enhanced transparency at the local level.

All CAJ members can join Civic Searchlight....NOW!

A big thanks to @jameswsthomson.com for this. Contact him ASAP! HT to @rorywh.bsky.social @davidmckie.bsky.social and team

Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 6d

Today, @nationalobserver.com is launching a tool to search municipal meeting transcripts across Canada. The tool has already helped us unearth a climate denial network targeting towns and cities, report on AI data centers, measure our impact and more.

Journalists and researchers, sign up for free!

Canada’s National Observer unveils a powerful tool for fighting disinformation

Civic Searchlight brings together municipal meeting transcripts from across Canada into a searchable database for the first time. It has already been used to fight disinformation, report on impact, di...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 1d

Solar and wind are growing so quickly that they outpaced all the growth in electricity demand this year. Which means they started eating into fossil fuelled power, leading to a modest drop in fossil generation. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/13/o...

Our friendly neighbourhood fireball

Solar and wind are growing so quickly that they outpaced all the growth in electricity demand this year. Which means they started eating into fossil fuelled power, leading to a modest but significant ...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 1d

A man was wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he did not commit for more than 40 years. As soon as he was exonerated, ICE picked him up to deport him to a country he has not lived in since he was a baby www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 8h

Interesting how none of the AI evangelists have proposed using AI to replace America’s air traffic controllers—or indeed any aspect of the now furloughed federal government

Wasn’t DOGE supposed to have handled all this?

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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 8h

Among other arguments in favour of demolishing Vaillancourt fountain #SanFrancisco officials said it “exceeded its natural lifespan”, is without context because the freeway behind it was demolished & highlighted Vaillancourt’s advocacy for Quebec independence

www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/14/v...

City of San Francisco and developer appear to have planned Vaillancourt Fountain demolition before proposal was made public

Public documents also reveal property developer leading demolition effort was at least partly responsible for fountain and plaza maintenance for nearly 50 years

www.theartnewspaper.com

Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 8h

Wonderful. Bike lanes make streets safer for everyone. What’s your problem?

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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 8h

Wonderful. Bike lanes make streets safer. What’s the problem?

Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 8h

“Not consulting enough” is not the same as “did not consult”

But, “not consulting enough” is often shorthand for “I didn’t get my way”

More bike lanes = fewer cars = lower emissions

My children deserve a healthy planet to live in. Policy decisions need to consider the future

Stop being selfish

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 1d

Methodical demolition of Bari Weiss’s journalistic credibility by John Oliver m.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 1d

Dawn Farrell, the former CEO of Trans Mountain who now leads the federal government's Major Projects Office told the House of Commons environment committee that the oil pipeline helps fight climate change. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/10/n...

Head of Carney’s Major Projects Office thinks Trans Mountain is good for climate

Dawn Farrell, the former CEO of Trans Mountain who now leads the federal government's Major Projects Office told the House of Commons environment committee that the oil pipeline helps fight climate ch...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 9h

Following the NSPM-7 directive for feds to focus on anti-ICE terrorism, the FBI and Homeland produced an intel bulletin linking anti-ICE protests to terrorism.

Bulletin here: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-feds-...

Leak: Feds Think Protests Hide Terrorism

“No Kings” protest eyed amid NSPM-7 domestic terror panic

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 9h

One of the constant arguments against the fountain is that, because Embarcadero freeway was torn down, the fountain is now “without purpose”

In fact, the fountain was not intended to reference the freeway as it was originally designed for Toronto’s High Park

www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/14/v...

City of San Francisco and developer appear to have planned Vaillancourt Fountain demolition before proposal was made public

Public documents also reveal property developer leading demolition effort was at least partly responsible for fountain and plaza maintenance for nearly 50 years

www.theartnewspaper.com

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