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Thái Phạm @thaipham.bsky.social · 12h

@markhamhislop.bsky.social what do you think?

Thái Phạm @thaipham.bsky.social · 12h

The war for potable water between most humans and some money machines rages on. This time, it's coming to Canada. The water war is at our door.
#cdnpoli #datacentre #waterwar
www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...

Thirsty AI data centres are coming to Canada, with little scrutiny or oversight | CBC News

Canada is poised to join the data centre boom. But as such projects face greater scrutiny around the world, there is little debate here about what this will mean for the country’s water.

www.cbc.ca

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Historica Canada @historicacanada.bsky.social · 13h

Persons Day: Emily Murphy and the Famous Five appealed a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada, which had ruled that women were not persons under the law and therefore could not serve in the Senate.

Heritage Minutes: Emily Murphy

Enjoy these Heritage Minutes brought to you by Historica Canada! While free to view and share, these productions remain under copyright. Re-uploads or modified versions are strictly prohibited…

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Thái Phạm @thaipham.bsky.social · 13h

The RCMP is so dysfunctional. without meaningful reform of that organisation, tacking on more regulations will make it worse.
#cdnpoli

Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 2d

Canada’s bail and sentencing laws are about to get a lot tougher.

We’re amending the Criminal Code to help keep violent criminals and repeat offenders off our streets, and we’re introducing stronger sentences for auto-theft, organised crime, and home invasion.

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Emily Dische-Becker @emilydische.bsky.social · 16h

glaringly obvious and have been saying this to center-left party officials while in power who responded with smug incrementalist self-praise for all the unseen good they do or our-hands-are-tied self-pity while continuing on that path, you know who you are www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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Thái Phạm @thaipham.bsky.social · 23h

@toronto.ca please get TPL on here. They are awesome!
#toronto

Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 1d

Social Infrastructure at its best

“Good news, Toronto! 🎉

Starting October 19, all 100 library branches will be open year-round on Sundays from 12-5 pm (except on holiday weekends).

Find an open branch near you: tpl.ca/hours-locations “ - TPL

#CanadianLibraryMonth

Toronto Public Library • 6h • S
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Good news, Toronto!
Starting October 19, all 100 library branches will be open year-round on Sundays from 12-5 pm (except on holiday weekends).
That's more than 12,000 extra hours a year for you to catch up on reading, research or just relaxing. Make the library part of your Sunday!
Find an open branch near you: tpl.ca/hours-locations
all 100 branches now open sundays

Thái Phạm @thaipham.bsky.social · 2d

@graphicmatt.com @moreneighboursto.bsky.social

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Thái Phạm @thaipham.bsky.social · 2d

Good reporting series by @globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/1147714...
This is a horrifying read. i hope there is help and investigation coming soon.
#cdnpoli #healthcare

Unheard. Unserved: N.S. woman says she was bleeding out inside hospital, and no one intervened - Halifax | Globalnews.ca

Cherise Basque had a medical abortion for a high-risk pregnancy. But when complications arose, the mother of five alleges her treatment at her local hospital was a nightmare.

globalnews.ca

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Thái Phạm @thaipham.bsky.social · 2d

Project 1933 series by “in bed with the right” has been a good reminder for me how eerily similar this past year has been.

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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 3d

“We write, we scream, we plead; but it seems our words fall into a void. There are no aid planes, no humanitarian airlifts, no real international movement and no ground efforts to break the siege."

War crimes alert as food runs out in el-Fasher, Darfur: www.bbc.com/news/article... #KeepEyesonSudan

Sudan siege: War crimes alert as el-Fasher runs out of food

Evidence of the intentional targeting of civilians in el-Fasher amounts to war crimes, researchers say.

www.bbc.com

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Green Hombre @greenhombre.bsky.social · 3d

"Virginia Giuffre died by suicide on 25 April 2025."

"I’d show up, perform whatever sex acts Epstein wanted, then hang out beside his vast swimming pool while he got some work done. If Maxwell was there, I was often told to attend to her sexually as well."

- She was 16

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the King’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

www.theguardian.com

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Politico @politico.com · 4d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 4d

They got out of funding housing & now we live in midst of that particular generational mistake.

Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 4d

In deficit-worry pieces like this Saturday's in @theglobeandmail.com, the praising of the 1995 budget doesn't include considering those of its effects that worsened human misery.

If we're reliving the 1990s, let's not repeat the cruelty

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/330b5b5...

For Canada’s finances, it’s looking like 1995 all over again. How will today’s Liberals handle it?

Once again, the country is being led through a polycrisis by a pragmatist Liberals surrounded by activists. There are lessons in how Chrétien and Martin handled this last time

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Thái Phạm @thaipham.bsky.social · 6d

another excellent episode @energimedia.bsky.social

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Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 7d

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Thái Phạm @thaipham.bsky.social · 6d

canada is already late on the energy transition as our national security strategy.
#cdnpoli
youtu.be/xJiQumbYHng?...

Lazy Canadian Intellectuals Misread the Global Energy Transition

YouTube video by Energi Media

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Energi Media @energimedia.bsky.social · 6d

Is OPEC about to change the game in global oil markets? As the world faces peaks and declines in oil demand, Saudi Arabia and other producers may be planning to flood the market to capture more share.

#OPEC #OilMarket #EnergyStrategy #PeakOil #GlobalEnergy #SaudiArabia #OilPrices #ElectricVehicles

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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 6d

“Postmedia is the nation’s leading supplier of climate change denial and pro-oil industry propaganda, so it’s not surprising that they would dismiss academic research and rail against bike lanes when they provide an inexpensive solution to interrelated emission, pollution and congestion problems.”

Latest bit of Montreal 'bikelash' sidesteps the facts to please bike-lane haters

The findings of a study about bike lanes vs car infrastructure have been twisted by a Montreal publication in a cheap bit of bikelash.

cultmtl.com

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Damien Moule @damienmoule.bsky.social · 6d

To elaborate on the blurb that made it to this story, Toronto has two competing challenges with multiplex zoning:
-Lot coverage maximums and setbacks on smaller lots.
-Large lot area minimums in North York and Etobicoke that would need division for multiplexes.
www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 8d

Three newly published books argue that cars are destroying society as well as the planet.

Is the world finally ready to rein in the automobile?

My essay, in @bloomberg.com (gift link below)

‘Car Brain’ Is Making the US Unhealthy and Dangerous. EVs Won’t Fix It.

A trio of new books argue that we need to confront the full range of costs that car-based living has imposed on our cities, our health and our society.

www.bloomberg.com

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 7d

“Bike lanes create cyclists because they largely eliminate the risk of being crushed by careless or aggressive suv drivers.” - @dlknowles.bsky.social

Seems like a reasonable ask to our elected municipal reps here in #TOpoli

E-bikes are #SustainableUrbanVehicle
🚲 #ThisMachineFightsClimateChange

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 9d

By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal

"Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport."

www.economist.com/internationa...

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war

www.economist.com

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Thái Phạm @thaipham.bsky.social · 7d

Fraud, corruption, incompetence all the way down. Mismanagement leads to public distrust of government agencies. In reality, it exists everywhere. Once again, Doug Ford has failed Ontario.
#onpoli

Tu Thanh Ha @tuthanhha.bsky.social · 7d

Water leaked, columns and beams were cracked, staff were getting trapped in malfunctioning elevators. Then came the bankruptcy and the fraud charges.

When big public-private projects go wrong.

The story of Bondfield and Infrastructure Ontario.

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c0f8440...
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Guilty verdicts in Bondfield hospital case renew scrutiny of Infrastructure Ontario

St. Michael’s Hospital redevelopment was among several projects that government agency awarded to now-defunct construction firm

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Tu Thanh Ha @tuthanhha.bsky.social · 7d

Water leaked, columns and beams were cracked, staff were getting trapped in malfunctioning elevators. Then came the bankruptcy and the fraud charges.

When big public-private projects go wrong.

The story of Bondfield and Infrastructure Ontario.

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c0f8440...
gift link

Guilty verdicts in Bondfield hospital case renew scrutiny of Infrastructure Ontario

St. Michael’s Hospital redevelopment was among several projects that government agency awarded to now-defunct construction firm

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 7d

It’s such a bananas story. IO is the org behind Ontario place & the very very secret process of picking a rather shady spa company.

Tu Thanh Ha @tuthanhha.bsky.social · 7d

Water leaked, columns and beams were cracked, staff were getting trapped in malfunctioning elevators. Then came the bankruptcy and the fraud charges.

When big public-private projects go wrong.

The story of Bondfield and Infrastructure Ontario.

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c0f8440...
gift link

Guilty verdicts in Bondfield hospital case renew scrutiny of Infrastructure Ontario

St. Michael’s Hospital redevelopment was among several projects that government agency awarded to now-defunct construction firm

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 8d

There's a lot to criticize about Toronto (waves hand broadly at my life's sad work) but like 50% of of it just people who don't like big cities & don't want to admit it.

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