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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 8h

Country with massive housing shortage not sure what to do with all these empty office buildings

OTTAWA - As employees continue to express their desire to work from home, owners of downtown office buildings aren't sure what they will do with all this unused space. Also in unrelated news Canada ha...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

US painter
Laura Wheeler Waring,
Woman with Bouquet, c.1940 #womensart
#BlackHistoryMonth US

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22h

'Heart of the Dragon, Socotra, Yemen' by photographer Beth Moon on her fourteen-year quest to photograph ancient trees of the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring a close-up of a large ancient living tree in a flat landscape with other trees in the distance, the tree has many branches forming a rounded flat canopy viewed from underneath

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 16h

The People of Pattern Project, 2016 by Yemeni-Bosnian-US artist Alia Ali, on textile, culture and identity #womensar

Photo of a crouching person covered in striped blue and white material from head to toe, the subject is in front of a diamond patterned blue and white background

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Sep 6

'Hector' linocut by UK contemporary artist and #printmaker Vanessa Lubach #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring a sitting black cat against a blue and white floral pattern background

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 13h

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.

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Kettle Kittenstrudel @kittenstrudel.bsky.social · 13h

Murmure, Dark Spots, acrylic on canvas, 2025

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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 9h

In the U.S., 10% of the population owns 93% of stock market wealth.

As uneven as this distribution seems, @chuckcollinswrites.bsky.social explains how this is evidence of the system working exactly as it's designed to work.

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

#CdnPoli #WealthInequality #EconSky

Boom time for US billionaires: why the system perpetuates wealth inequality

As the super rich grow even richer, inequality expert Chuck Collins says the system is broken – but it can be fixed

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Sophie Delhaes @corkypirbright.bsky.social · 9h

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Mapping the rise in Israeli settler attacks across the occupied West Bank

With more than 1,000 settler attacks in the first eight months, 2025 is on track to become the most violent year yet.

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Sophie Delhaes @corkypirbright.bsky.social · 11h

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‘You cease, I fire’: Israel kills 9 Palestinians despite Gaza truce

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire saying a group of people approached soldiers before being targeted.

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LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 1d

Mazem from Gaza, Palestine has a message for President Trump:

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Sophie Delhaes @corkypirbright.bsky.social · 1d

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Who are the Palestinian captives Israel released?

Israel is releasing nearly 2,000 Palestinians, political prisoners and detainees. Here's a look at who they are.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

'Honeysuckle’ design, 1883 by May Morris, influential textile artist and designer of the Arts and Crafts movement #WomensArt

Painted design with a mass of green leaves and twisting vines as well as pink and white blossoms, all on a white background

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 11d

🚨New video🚨

As Canadians, we like to think we’re strong and free. But, when it comes to the wealth gap, we’re looking more like America Lite—better manners, but almost all the inequality.

#CdnPoli #CanadaSky #Wealth #EconSky

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Claire Trottier 🇨🇦 @doctrott.bsky.social · 5d

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Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social · 5d

Sending money voluntarily does not solve the problem! Taxes should require those who have profited the most from investments in education, infrastructure, healthcare, etc. to reinvest back into the economy and ensure those services stay well funded.

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Claire Trottier 🇨🇦 @doctrott.bsky.social · 5d

A must read thread responding to the most bizarre “critique” I’ve ever seen of wealth taxes. The article reads pretty much like a verbatim copy of @patmillscanada.bsky.social ‘s central messaging, while telling us to cut a check to the government and to shut up 🤷🏼

Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social · 5d

Wow! Someone's cranky!

While we appreciate the free press from Terence, let's see if we can improve his mood point by point.

financialpost.com/opinion/tere...

Terence Corcoran: Help! I’m rich, so tax me more. Pretty please…

Here’s a message for socialist millionaires: send in the money voluntarily, or shut up. Read more from Terence Corcoran

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Social Capital Partners🇨🇦 @scpartners.bsky.social · 6d

Canada’s wealth gap is way worse than official data show.

The PBO just confirmed the top 1% own nearly 25% of all wealth—which StatsCan missed because it doesn’t even count the richest families in its surveys.

🔗 Read more: socialcapitalpartners.ca/wealth-inequ...

#CdnPoli #BillionaireBlindspot

Wealth inequality in Canada is far worse than StatsCan reports

Our government’s best available data on Canada’s wealth gap excludes, by design, the wealthiest families in the country. As SCP Director of Policy Dan Skilleter writes, if we didn’t have the Parliamen...

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Sophie Delhaes @corkypirbright.bsky.social · 1d

www.cbc.ca/news/busines... #cndpoli

These Canadian millionaires are asking for tax increases — but just for themselves | CBC News

A group of wealthy Canadians calling themselves 'Patriotic Millionaires' is banding together to lobby governments to increase the amount of taxes they must pay — but opponents say it will be bad for e...

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Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social · May 11

Hello Bluesky!

We're Patriotic Millionaires Canada, a new group of wealthy Canadians who believe inequality is hurting our economy and democracy, and we should use the tax code to do something about it.

Learn more here, and give us a follow!

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

These Canadian millionaires are asking for tax increases — but just for themselves | CBC News

A group of wealthy Canadians calling themselves 'Patriotic Millionaires' is banding together to lobby governments to increase the amount of taxes they must pay — but opponents say it will be bad for e...

www.cbc.ca

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 3d

I really enjoyed this Coyne column. Said tech oligarchs need to way more attentive to the way public opinion is shifting against them. Coyne is just about the furthest thing from a "soak the rich" socialist, and yet....

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: The tech oligarchy poses a unique threat to democracy

Today’s uber-rich have converted their obscene wealth into outsize power, wielded in the name of bizarre millenarian ideologies

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Claire Trottier 🇨🇦 @doctrott.bsky.social · Feb 8

My oped in @thestar.com today:

Do we want a Canada where tech billionaires sell out their country for a tax break, or one where our government fights back against the oligarchy with creative ideas to tax extreme wealth?

www.thestar.com/business/opi...

Trump’s love of ‘broligarchs’ is seeping into Canada. Do our leaders have the courage to take on the ultra-rich?

Delay in capital gains tax reform is a capitulation to the wealthy, writes Claire Trottier. Do we really want to live in a country where the monied get preferential treatment

www.thestar.com

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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 27d

BREAKING: Billionaires in America now hold a record $7.6 TRILLION in wealth.

That's a $4.7 TRILLION increase since the last Trump tax scam.

Yes, wealth increase is a form of INCOME. And most of that income will never be taxed.

This is why we need a Billionaires Income Tax.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Sep 9

the "tax the billionaires" political refrain is Good Actually in part because it is a call for the people at the top to actually be constrained by rules informed by the public interest, a virtue that fingerwagging correctives about how much revenue such taxes would *really* generate doesn't address

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