Lori 🇨🇦
@lokala.bsky.social
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“Corporate greed among Canada’s grocery monopolies is what’s really driving up food prices. Economists have long argued that grocery monopolies need to be broken up to create more competition, leading to lower prices and improved food security in Canada.” @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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October 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
“Corporate greed among Canada’s grocery monopolies is what’s really driving up food prices. Economists have long argued that grocery monopolies need to be broken up to create more competition, leading to lower prices and improved food security in Canada.” @taylornoakes.com
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Grocery oligarchies (Loblaws, Sobeys, Metro, Walmart, and Costco) gouge Canadians - food inflation has consistently outpaced overall inflation.
Captured Liberal/Conservative politicians have done nothing to break up these oligarchies or support Canadians.
#cdnpoli #canada #greed
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Captured Liberal/Conservative politicians have done nothing to break up these oligarchies or support Canadians.
#cdnpoli #canada #greed
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Grocery prices in Canada: Comedian's Tesco vs. Loblaws video goes viral as Canadian vent over cost of living
Kyle Brownrigg’s viral video highlights how much cheaper food appears in the U.K. and why Canadians say they’ve had enough.
shorturl.at
November 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Grocery oligarchies (Loblaws, Sobeys, Metro, Walmart, and Costco) gouge Canadians - food inflation has consistently outpaced overall inflation.
Captured Liberal/Conservative politicians have done nothing to break up these oligarchies or support Canadians.
#cdnpoli #canada #greed
shorturl.at/dFCQH
Captured Liberal/Conservative politicians have done nothing to break up these oligarchies or support Canadians.
#cdnpoli #canada #greed
shorturl.at/dFCQH
Mechanics: How long does it take to install winter tires that have their own rims? Like a realistic amount of time required to swap them in a pro garage?
November 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Mechanics: How long does it take to install winter tires that have their own rims? Like a realistic amount of time required to swap them in a pro garage?
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As someone who has voted NDP in the past & who would consider doing so again with the right leader/platform, they better do Canada & Canadians right on the upcoming budget vote or they can kiss any potential future goodwill goodbye. We are at economic war with the US & they need to act accordingly.
'All options are on the table': NDP to consider abstaining during budget vote
Canadians might not be heading to a Christmas election after all.
nationalpost.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
As someone who has voted NDP in the past & who would consider doing so again with the right leader/platform, they better do Canada & Canadians right on the upcoming budget vote or they can kiss any potential future goodwill goodbye. We are at economic war with the US & they need to act accordingly.
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If the NDP puts themselves and their purity tests first, and votes against the budget. I will campaign extra hard for the Liberals and do everything I can to bury the NDP.
Mark Carney's Liberals are exactly what Canada needs at this time.
(And I'm a former NDP member).
Mark Carney's Liberals are exactly what Canada needs at this time.
(And I'm a former NDP member).
November 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM
If the NDP puts themselves and their purity tests first, and votes against the budget. I will campaign extra hard for the Liberals and do everything I can to bury the NDP.
Mark Carney's Liberals are exactly what Canada needs at this time.
(And I'm a former NDP member).
Mark Carney's Liberals are exactly what Canada needs at this time.
(And I'm a former NDP member).
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Ontario's going to have a deep, dark reckoning with its blithe embrace of Doug Ford as premier for decades to come.
The toxic mess his government will leave behind on pretty much every front will be more than daunting.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The toxic mess his government will leave behind on pretty much every front will be more than daunting.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Critics call on Ford government to address rising hydro rates | CBC News
Critics are calling on the Ford government to stop spending billions subsidizing hydro rates, and to instead find ways to reduce the cost of electricity across the province’s grid after a 29 per cent ...
www.cbc.ca
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Ontario's going to have a deep, dark reckoning with its blithe embrace of Doug Ford as premier for decades to come.
The toxic mess his government will leave behind on pretty much every front will be more than daunting.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The toxic mess his government will leave behind on pretty much every front will be more than daunting.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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'I was crazy, and everything turned out good!'
When I lived in Holland the Dutch people were very kind to me because I was a Canadian. They had many stories about how Canadian soldiers fought for their freedom.
They were shocked this is not common knowledge for us.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
When I lived in Holland the Dutch people were very kind to me because I was a Canadian. They had many stories about how Canadian soldiers fought for their freedom.
They were shocked this is not common knowledge for us.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Montreal man saved a Dutch town from the Nazis, but most people don't know his name | CBC News
On the evening of April 14, 1945, Canadian soldier Léo Major single-handedly liberated the Dutch town of Zwolle from the Nazis, in a story that's almost too incredible to be true.
www.cbc.ca
November 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
'I was crazy, and everything turned out good!'
When I lived in Holland the Dutch people were very kind to me because I was a Canadian. They had many stories about how Canadian soldiers fought for their freedom.
They were shocked this is not common knowledge for us.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
When I lived in Holland the Dutch people were very kind to me because I was a Canadian. They had many stories about how Canadian soldiers fought for their freedom.
They were shocked this is not common knowledge for us.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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“I’m not just disgusted by #StripperGate I’m furious at Ford for all the scandals giving our money to his rich friends! Money could go to healthcare, homelessness, youth unemployment! We aren’t being protected by Ford gov - we need protection from them!
🤬🤬 #Onpoli
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🤬🤬 #Onpoli
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November 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“I’m not just disgusted by #StripperGate I’m furious at Ford for all the scandals giving our money to his rich friends! Money could go to healthcare, homelessness, youth unemployment! We aren’t being protected by Ford gov - we need protection from them!
🤬🤬 #Onpoli
Oshow 🔗 youth.be/GTfWSVd7ov0?si…
🤬🤬 #Onpoli
Oshow 🔗 youth.be/GTfWSVd7ov0?si…
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BREAKING: Canada, the Netherlands, Mexico and now the UK, have curbed or stop sharing Intel with Trump's America open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
#cdnpoli
#cdnpoli
BREAKING: Canada, the Netherlands, Mexico and now the UK, have curbed or stop sharing Intel with Trump's America
Allies are quietly slamming the brakes on sharing intel with Washington—and sometimes yanking the keys completely.
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
BREAKING: Canada, the Netherlands, Mexico and now the UK, have curbed or stop sharing Intel with Trump's America open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
#cdnpoli
#cdnpoli
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Doug Ford wasting $9.1 million taxpayer💰 on a tunnel study. That money could be used to help people, like the homeless, food banks or use towards affordable housing. But no, another useless vanity project to line the pockets of his donors.
#NeverVoteConservative #SV4A
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#NeverVoteConservative #SV4A
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Taxpayers on the hook for $9M to study Doug Ford's Highway 401 tunnel idea | CBC News
Ontario taxpayers are set to spend $9.1 million to learn if or how it is feasible to build a tunnel under Highway 401
www.cbc.ca
November 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Doug Ford wasting $9.1 million taxpayer💰 on a tunnel study. That money could be used to help people, like the homeless, food banks or use towards affordable housing. But no, another useless vanity project to line the pockets of his donors.
#NeverVoteConservative #SV4A
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#NeverVoteConservative #SV4A
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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A young Tory MP's name gets mentioned as someone ready to cross the floor. He goes to ground and then suddenly announces he is stepping down.
Young MPs just don't quit politics unless someone dumped a political horse head in the bed.
#cutthroatontherideau
#carneyneedsjust1
Young MPs just don't quit politics unless someone dumped a political horse head in the bed.
#cutthroatontherideau
#carneyneedsjust1
November 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
A young Tory MP's name gets mentioned as someone ready to cross the floor. He goes to ground and then suddenly announces he is stepping down.
Young MPs just don't quit politics unless someone dumped a political horse head in the bed.
#cutthroatontherideau
#carneyneedsjust1
Young MPs just don't quit politics unless someone dumped a political horse head in the bed.
#cutthroatontherideau
#carneyneedsjust1
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Millions from the Ford government’s Skills Development Fund is benefiting the owner of a new Toronto “adult entertainment club,” where strippers give lap dances & scantily clad aerialists perform while suspended from above by their teeth or hair. #cdnpoli
www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...
www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...
Venue of $10M Skills Development Fund recipient, partners now licensed as an ‘adult entertainment club’
For decades, Zlatko Starkovski has leased the historic Exhibition Place building, which hosted PC fundraisers and the party’s campaign manager’s wedding in recent years
www.thetrillium.ca
November 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Millions from the Ford government’s Skills Development Fund is benefiting the owner of a new Toronto “adult entertainment club,” where strippers give lap dances & scantily clad aerialists perform while suspended from above by their teeth or hair. #cdnpoli
www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...
www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...
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"New report shows 7,200 nurses could be cut in Ontario due to underfunding, on the heels of 13 layoffs announced in North Bay."
“The Ford government must stop gutting our public health care."
BTW, Ring of Fire ads cost up to $150,000 per spot.
#ONpoli
#Healthcare
#nurses
ona.org/news/2025102...
“The Ford government must stop gutting our public health care."
BTW, Ring of Fire ads cost up to $150,000 per spot.
#ONpoli
#Healthcare
#nurses
ona.org/news/2025102...
New report shows 7,200 nurses could be cut in Ontario due to underfunding, on the heels of 13 layoffs announced in North Bay • Ontario Nurses' Association
TORONTO, ON, October 28, 2025 – A sobering new report from Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office (FAO) released last week reveals that if the Ford government fails to improve health-care funding, ...
ona.org
November 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"New report shows 7,200 nurses could be cut in Ontario due to underfunding, on the heels of 13 layoffs announced in North Bay."
“The Ford government must stop gutting our public health care."
BTW, Ring of Fire ads cost up to $150,000 per spot.
#ONpoli
#Healthcare
#nurses
ona.org/news/2025102...
“The Ford government must stop gutting our public health care."
BTW, Ring of Fire ads cost up to $150,000 per spot.
#ONpoli
#Healthcare
#nurses
ona.org/news/2025102...
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‼️ DOUG FORD’s Ontario - “…the number of people who are chronically homeless doubled between 2022 and 2024. Its long-term freeze on social assistance rates means that people receiving Ontario Works (OW) can no longer afford to rent even a room.” #dougfordfailedontario #onpoli #homelessness
Climbing the mountain to end homelessness while others pull you down
The City of Toronto is on the right track in its work on shelters and housing, while provincial policies and other outside forces are making the problem worse.
maytree.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
‼️ DOUG FORD’s Ontario - “…the number of people who are chronically homeless doubled between 2022 and 2024. Its long-term freeze on social assistance rates means that people receiving Ontario Works (OW) can no longer afford to rent even a room.” #dougfordfailedontario #onpoli #homelessness
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LET’S GO BLUE JAYS!
October 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
LET’S GO BLUE JAYS!
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Ontarians: please mr ford we need healthcare, housing, and groceries
Ford: best I can do is election fuckery
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
Ford: best I can do is election fuckery
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
Doug Ford to raise campaign donation limits by 47% and end fixed election dates
Attorney General Doug Downey is boosting maximum donations from the current $3,400 to $5,000 in January and tying future increases to inflation.
www.thestar.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Ontarians: please mr ford we need healthcare, housing, and groceries
Ford: best I can do is election fuckery
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
Ford: best I can do is election fuckery
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
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Doug Ford and conservatives are no friends to working people.
Province in consultations to protect landlords and screw tenants
#nevervoteConservative
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Province in consultations to protect landlords and screw tenants
#nevervoteConservative
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Say goodbye to rent control, indefinite leases if Ontario passes new housing bill: advocates | CBC News
Ontario's planned new housing legislation could open the door to ending rent control and indefinite leases across the province, advocates warn after a recent proposal by Premier Doug Ford's government...
www.cbc.ca
October 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Doug Ford and conservatives are no friends to working people.
Province in consultations to protect landlords and screw tenants
#nevervoteConservative
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Province in consultations to protect landlords and screw tenants
#nevervoteConservative
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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If you're a renter in Ontario, you should know Doug Ford is trying to make it easier for your landlord to raise your rent or end your tenancy. #HamOnt #OnPoli
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Doug Ford Moves to End Rent Control
Doug Ford announced proposed changes to the LTB that would strip away key tenant protections, fast-track evictions, and open the door to ending rent control as we know it in Ontario.
acorncanada.org
October 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
If you're a renter in Ontario, you should know Doug Ford is trying to make it easier for your landlord to raise your rent or end your tenancy. #HamOnt #OnPoli
acorncanada.org/news/doug-fo...
acorncanada.org/news/doug-fo...