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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 3h

Well that's just great 🙄

Map of Canada showing provincial governments by party in Oct 2025.
6 Conservative: AB, SK, ON, NS, PEI, NL
2 Liberal: Yukon & New Brunswick
2 NDP: BC, MB
1 CAQ: QC

Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 5h

Interesting that Evan Solomon was fired from the CBC a decade ago for "using his CBC contacts to broker lucrative art deals and collect huge fees" including Mark Carney, and now Solomon is Carney's Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation.

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 1d

Doug Ford has not moved much from his role as a dealer/enforcer in the parking lot of James Gardens.

Globe investigation: The Ford family’s history with drug dealing

Long before the current controversy at Toronto City Hall, The Globe and Mail set out to trace the Ford brothers’ rise to prominence. Reporters found the Mayor’s siblings have former ties to drug traff...

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 1d

"Why are we giving $4.2 million to Postmedia when they are owned by a hedge fund in the United States?”
Indeed.

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Stephen Lautens @stephenlautens.bsky.social · 1d

Nixon put the brakes on Vietnam peace for election advantage.
Reagan put the brakes on the release of US hostages in Iran for election advantage.
Trump put the brakes on the release of Israeli hostages from Hamas for election advantage.
I'm seeing a pattern here.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 1d

The think tank is widely known for creating Project 2025.

And this isn’t the first meeting Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has had with allies of the U.S. president.

David Falk writes. A @desmog.com Canada reprint. #canpoli

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.

thetyee.ca

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 1d

Suits in combat boots.

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 2d

Cory Doctorow and David Moscrop at the Vancouver Writers Fest October 23:
"how we reached this point and what we can collectively do to move beyond hopelessness about our enshittified fate, and back toward the optimism promised by the earliest days of the internet."
www.showpass.com/2025-festiva...

Vancouver Writers Fest poster with photo of Cory Doctorow and cover of his book Enshittification

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow night - mass organizing call for Avi Lewis with Naomi Klein and Anjali Appadurai.
Anjali Appadurai was the BC NDP climate justice leadership candidate so likely to win the BC NDP leadership race 3 years ago that the NDP disqualified her from running. act.lewisforleader.ca/organizercall

Mass organizing call for Avi Lewis October 14 with Naomi Klein and Anjali Appadurai
5pm PDT 6pm CST 8pm EDT 9pm ADT

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 2d

Plus ça change ...
In 1994, President Nixon's domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman explained that Nixon's war on drugs starting in 1968 was actually a legal cover for targeting and smearing his chief political opponents - the anti-war left & Blacks.
"Did we know we were lying ? Of course we did.”

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 3d

"Got a tattoo of a snake and a ski mask on my face,
but I woke up in a ditch behind the Stop 'n Go."

"Gold" by The Handsome Family

YouTube video by The Handsome Family Official

www.youtube.com

Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 3d

Nope. There's 2 dozen questions & suggested responses and they are all like this:

Question from Gov of Canada public survey on AI:
How can Canada better connect AI research with commercialization to meet strategic business needs?
(i.e. determining government’s role in linking academia, start-ups and industry; retaining Canadian-developed intellectual property; prioritizing sectors like life sciences, energy and defence for commercialization support)

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 3d

The Gov of Canada is running a public survey until Oct 30 to:
"Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership".

I'm pretty sure it's written by AI.

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renew...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 3d

6) Additional funder for protection for Rebel reporters who make something up:

Rebel News:
"We refuse to be bullied into silence — but we do need your help to keep Alexa safe.

Your donation will fund urgent home-protection upgrades (professional risk assessment, monitored alarm, security cameras, reinforced entry points, lighting, and other protective equipment) and additional private security to accompany Alexa on high-risk assignments."

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 3d

1) Rebel makes something up.
2) CPC MPs rise in the HoC to ask about the something Rebel made up.
3) MSM reports that MPs in HoC are asking questions about the something that Rebel made up.
4) Rebel runs funder based on how MSM is not reporting on the something Rebel made up.

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 4d

‪20 yrs ago, Canada fought off deep integration plans pushed by Libs&Cons like Bush Martin & Harper for the "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic & security community, the boundaries of which would be defined by a common external tariff & outer security perimeter"
Can we still do it?

Without saying ‘Golden Dome,’ McGuinty touts U.S. missile defence co-operation | CBC News

Call it “Golden Dome.” Call it a “continental shield.” Whatever the handle, Canada is in discussion with the United States about being able to detect and defend “what’s coming at us” in the air, Defen...

www.cbc.ca

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 4d

What the hell happened to Steven Chase?
I remember when he broke stories about Canadian soldiers complaining about needing better footwear to wade thru the shit and blood and vomit when traversing US detention and interrogation centres in Afghanistan.

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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 4d

Data is where the money is which is why we are tracked in every aspect of life and why even the simplest home appliance is now 'smart'

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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 4d

How John Deere Robs Farmers Of $4 Billion A Year youtu.be/jaOS6bGta7M?...

How John Deere Robs Farmers Of $4 Billion A Year

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

youtu.be

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 4d

Really interesting vid. The focus on the lack of right to repair was on John Deere but it also applied to ventilators during covid19 - which were constantly breaking down. You couldn't even swap out the filter on a non-functioning ventilator w/o worrying the manufacturer would find out & brick it.

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 4d

"Technofeudalism, 'Bottom-Up Resistance' Apps & More" on Democracy Now today, including a 2 minute bit at the 19' mark on what makes Mastodon & BlueSky so great.
Enshittification-: Part 2

“Enshittification” Author Cory Doctorow on Technofeudalism, “Bottom-Up Resistance” Apps & Mo

Watch Part 2 of our interview with Cory Doctorow, writer and tech activist, whose new book, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It, is out this week.

www.democracynow.org

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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 4d

Why Canada needs public grocery stores
breachmedia.ca/why-canada-n...

Why Canada needs public grocery stores ⋆ The Breach

Food analyst Aaron Vansintjan explains how a public food network could transform Canada

breachmedia.ca

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 4d

BC Liquor Stores is over 100 years old & has ~200 locations.
Start there and just build it out to include food and its distribution centres.

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Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 5d

No, they voted for Trump because they're assholes.

Alison Creekside @alisoncreekside.bsky.social · 5d

I was thinking this morning it's a shame Carney didn't run for CPC leader to replace PP as he's a pretty decent conservative. Then all the rw Magatty terfs could relocate to the PPC, the Libs could find another Hippie King, and the NDP would need to seriously move left again.

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