Sheena Sharp
@sheenasharp.bsky.social
Architect, Candidate for Green Party in Don Valley West, Chair Toronto 2030 District. Principal Coolearth Architecture inc. donvalleywestgreens.ca Coolearth.ca
New study finds AI chatbots can influence some Canadians to change their vote.
Study found Canadians were more likely to be swayed than Americans.
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Study found Canadians were more likely to be swayed than Americans.
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New study finds AI chatbots can influence some Canadians to change their vote | CBC News
Talking with an AI chatbot can successfully convince people to change their votes and could affect the outcome of future elections, according to a newly published study. However, Canada has few, if an...
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December 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Only a few days left to sign the petition.
Please take a few moments to do so yourself and share, if you haven’t done so already.
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Please take a few moments to do so yourself and share, if you haven’t done so already.
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This is not about any particular party.
Everyone wants fair elections. 🇨🇦
The government already did all the work to research and come up with a much better alternative. They just haven't implemented it yet. This petition asks them to do that.
Please sign and share petition e-6993.
Everyone wants fair elections. 🇨🇦
The government already did all the work to research and come up with a much better alternative. They just haven't implemented it yet. This petition asks them to do that.
Please sign and share petition e-6993.
Petition e-6993 - Petitions
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December 22, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Only a few days left to sign the petition.
Please take a few moments to do so yourself and share, if you haven’t done so already.
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Please take a few moments to do so yourself and share, if you haven’t done so already.
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“Humans are incapable of functioning and living together without a good story to bind them and keep a certain set of values intact. That’s why the lack of a story in neoliberalism, the lack of meaning and cause, can be unbearable for the human mind.”
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December 22, 2025 at 5:50 AM
“Humans are incapable of functioning and living together without a good story to bind them and keep a certain set of values intact. That’s why the lack of a story in neoliberalism, the lack of meaning and cause, can be unbearable for the human mind.”
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“And he endorses the idea of the ‘mafia state’, a term coined by the Hungarian sociologist Balint Magyar to suggest that the reign of Orban has little to do with political ideas,but is simply a means for a ‘political family’ to plunder the country under the protection of its godfather.”
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December 22, 2025 at 4:46 AM
“And he endorses the idea of the ‘mafia state’, a term coined by the Hungarian sociologist Balint Magyar to suggest that the reign of Orban has little to do with political ideas,but is simply a means for a ‘political family’ to plunder the country under the protection of its godfather.”
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“After this, the next election becomes a formality, a simple matter of approving the leader’s right to keep running the country and distributing the looted public wealth to his supporters.”
freezing nurses wages but giving the cops a raise? Paying billions for a highway to supporters land?
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freezing nurses wages but giving the cops a raise? Paying billions for a highway to supporters land?
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December 22, 2025 at 4:12 AM
“After this, the next election becomes a formality, a simple matter of approving the leader’s right to keep running the country and distributing the looted public wealth to his supporters.”
freezing nurses wages but giving the cops a raise? Paying billions for a highway to supporters land?
#onpoli
freezing nurses wages but giving the cops a raise? Paying billions for a highway to supporters land?
#onpoli
“The twist that enables leaders to play at will with this apparatus begins with them undermining it in order to create a sense of it being superfluous.”
Like how Ford treats the Legislature.
If he follows the fascist playbook, should we not stop him?
#onpoli #cdnpoli
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Like how Ford treats the Legislature.
If he follows the fascist playbook, should we not stop him?
#onpoli #cdnpoli
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December 22, 2025 at 4:01 AM
“The important questions at the heart of the real power of populism concern the reorganization of financial transactions and economic relations: whether the new economic winners are numerous and established enough to require new political representation …”
Sound like you, Ontario?
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Sound like you, Ontario?
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December 22, 2025 at 3:43 AM
“The important questions at the heart of the real power of populism concern the reorganization of financial transactions and economic relations: whether the new economic winners are numerous and established enough to require new political representation …”
Sound like you, Ontario?
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Sound like you, Ontario?
#cdnpoli
I read this piece by Bob Rae, who I respect, while reading Ece Temelkuran’s book “how to lose a country”. The issue is not Canada and the US, the problem is that both countries are under fascist attack, with the US further along. We need to be an island of resistance they can count on.
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A short trip to Washington DC
Arlene and went on a quick two day trip to Washington this week.
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December 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I read this piece by Bob Rae, who I respect, while reading Ece Temelkuran’s book “how to lose a country”. The issue is not Canada and the US, the problem is that both countries are under fascist attack, with the US further along. We need to be an island of resistance they can count on.
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“And when humans first discovered how easy it was to rewrite history, which coincided with the invention of writing in Babylon, there was no going back.”
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December 21, 2025 at 3:32 AM
“And when humans first discovered how easy it was to rewrite history, which coincided with the invention of writing in Babylon, there was no going back.”
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Norway captures ~$87/barrel. Alaska ~$38. Alberta ~$4—by policy choice.
The Alberta system is delivering exactly what it was designed to deliver: lower public returns, higher private retention, and socialized risk.
Here's the facts: factsmtr.substack.com/p/albertas-o...
#abpoli #cdnpoli
The Alberta system is delivering exactly what it was designed to deliver: lower public returns, higher private retention, and socialized risk.
Here's the facts: factsmtr.substack.com/p/albertas-o...
#abpoli #cdnpoli
Alberta's Oil and Gas Royalties: Record Production, Declining Returns
What the province collects, what taxpayers cover, and how it compares
factsmtr.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Norway captures ~$87/barrel. Alaska ~$38. Alberta ~$4—by policy choice.
The Alberta system is delivering exactly what it was designed to deliver: lower public returns, higher private retention, and socialized risk.
Here's the facts: factsmtr.substack.com/p/albertas-o...
#abpoli #cdnpoli
The Alberta system is delivering exactly what it was designed to deliver: lower public returns, higher private retention, and socialized risk.
Here's the facts: factsmtr.substack.com/p/albertas-o...
#abpoli #cdnpoli
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“Hate beats pure cocaine any day if you want to feel ten feet tall and run a hundred miles without stopping. Hitler resurrected a beaten, bankrupt, half starved nation with hatred. Imagine that.” Kurt Vonnegut.
As quoted in …
“Hate beats pure cocaine any day if you want to feel ten feet tall and run a hundred miles without stopping. Hitler resurrected a beaten, bankrupt, half starved nation with hatred. Imagine that.” Kurt Vonnegut.
As quoted in …
December 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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“Hate beats pure cocaine any day if you want to feel ten feet tall and run a hundred miles without stopping. Hitler resurrected a beaten, bankrupt, half starved nation with hatred. Imagine that.” Kurt Vonnegut.
As quoted in …
“Hate beats pure cocaine any day if you want to feel ten feet tall and run a hundred miles without stopping. Hitler resurrected a beaten, bankrupt, half starved nation with hatred. Imagine that.” Kurt Vonnegut.
As quoted in …
“Equality, liberty, fraternity- has been turned into a tasteless joke. … Don’t ask for real equality,and don’t think you have the liberty to ask for it. Please do not disturb the audience by organizing a fraternity to interrupt the play. Otherwise,vote join NGOs and say what ever you want.
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December 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM
“Equality, liberty, fraternity- has been turned into a tasteless joke. … Don’t ask for real equality,and don’t think you have the liberty to ask for it. Please do not disturb the audience by organizing a fraternity to interrupt the play. Otherwise,vote join NGOs and say what ever you want.
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Signed. We need Proportional Representation #CdnPoli
Elizabeth May is putting forward a parliamentary petition to push electoral reform. Go forth and sign!! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-6993 - Petitions
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December 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Signed. We need Proportional Representation #CdnPoli
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#USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MidasMighty #america #history #RemoveTrump #Trump #TRUMP #MAGA #FuckTrump #fuckmaga #antifa #AntiTrump #AntiMAGA #tuckfrump #coupdetat #fascistfelon #authoritarians #stopthecoup #FightOligarchy #antibillionaire #DefundBillionaires #TrumPedo
December 17, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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CAPITALISM IS THE PROBLEM
#USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MidasMighty #Politics-matter #PoliticsNation #america #history #anticapitalism #anticapitalist #capitalismkills #killCapitalism #capitalism #abolishcapitalism #fuckcapitalism #ethics #FalseConsciousness
#USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MidasMighty #Politics-matter #PoliticsNation #america #history #anticapitalism #anticapitalist #capitalismkills #killCapitalism #capitalism #abolishcapitalism #fuckcapitalism #ethics #FalseConsciousness
December 15, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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#USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MidasMighty #Politics-matter #PoliticsNation #america #history #anticapitalism #anticapitalist #capitalismkills #killCapitalism #capitalism #abolishcapitalism #fuckcapitalism #SocialJustice #ethics #ClassConsciousness #FalseConsciousness
December 15, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Their trait is greed, skills are manipulation and oppression, and characteristic is lack of empathy.
December 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Their trait is greed, skills are manipulation and oppression, and characteristic is lack of empathy.
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This piece from the editorial board of @TheStar.com puts it all rather well on what matters now for 🇨🇦Canada.
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www.thestar.com/opinion/edit...
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Star Editorial Board: Donald Trump’s presidency threatens our very existence. It’s also a warning sign for what could be coming here
Thanks to Trump, we now know in 2025 that nothing about our country is guaranteed anymore.
www.thestar.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
This piece from the editorial board of @TheStar.com puts it all rather well on what matters now for 🇨🇦Canada.
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www.thestar.com/opinion/edit...
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www.thestar.com/opinion/edit...
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Transit City. Relief Line. Eglinton West Subway. Scarborough LRT. They were all proposed, then cancelled or rewritten. That is first-past-the-post at work.
With proportional representation long term projects survive elections, and the city would have a much stronger network today.
With proportional representation long term projects survive elections, and the city would have a much stronger network today.
December 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Wise words from Tzeporah Berman. "Expanding pipelines while pointing to CCS [Carbon Capture and Storage] is like telling someone with lung cancer to smoke more but use filtered cigarettes."
#abpoli #cdnpoli #climate
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#abpoli #cdnpoli #climate
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Canada’s environmental ‘realism’ looks more like surrender | Tzeporah Berman
At a time when the UK and other countries are finally taking bold steps for climate, Canada is preparing a new oil pipeline
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Wise words from Tzeporah Berman. "Expanding pipelines while pointing to CCS [Carbon Capture and Storage] is like telling someone with lung cancer to smoke more but use filtered cigarettes."
#abpoli #cdnpoli #climate
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#abpoli #cdnpoli #climate
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This is a very good take on capitalism, neoliberalism, and monopolies.
Worth 2 mins of your time.
@mark-carney.bsky.social
@davidebybc.bsky.social
@ndp.ca
#cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanpoli #capitalism #neoliberalism #monopolies
Worth 2 mins of your time.
@mark-carney.bsky.social
@davidebybc.bsky.social
@ndp.ca
#cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanpoli #capitalism #neoliberalism #monopolies
December 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This is a very good take on capitalism, neoliberalism, and monopolies.
Worth 2 mins of your time.
@mark-carney.bsky.social
@davidebybc.bsky.social
@ndp.ca
#cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanpoli #capitalism #neoliberalism #monopolies
Worth 2 mins of your time.
@mark-carney.bsky.social
@davidebybc.bsky.social
@ndp.ca
#cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanpoli #capitalism #neoliberalism #monopolies