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The Democratic governor of Michigan agrees with the Republican president that they should use tariffs to steal manufacturing jobs from Canadians. She just thinks they should still have access to cheap Canadian lumber to build homes while they do it. This isn’t actually a policy option.
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Vision Zero Vancouver
1 day ago
This resident is objecting to the new Lime scooter station because - not a joke - it's "ruining her view." This is what we're up against when we push for more micromobility.
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'We had no recourse': East Vancouver residents object to new e-scooter docking stations
During its first phase in Vancouver, Lime introduced e-scooters and docking stations in the Hastings-Sunrise and Grandview-Woodland areas.
https://vancouversun.com/news/east-van-residents-object-to-new-e-scooter-docking-stations
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Alex Bozikovic
4 days ago
It is certainly interesting that the politician who frames himself as the most conservative is obsessed with regulating what people sell and where they live
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Canadian Anti-Hate Network
8 days ago
1/ NEW: We identified 20 people who attended a white nationalist conference and, despite their efforts to keep it secret, caught another 30 people on film to identify in the future. Several MMA/combat sports instructors were discovered and their gyms have cut ties. 🧵👇
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Everybody Attending White Nationalist Conference Caught on Film
Advertised near-exclusively in white nationalist online spaces, promotional social media posts for the event include symbolism popular with neo-Nazis, including the kolovrat sun wheel and a table with...
https://www.antihate.ca/everybody_attending_white_nationalist_conference_caught_on_film
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Daniel Kibblesmith
7 days ago
Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"
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Brendan Dawe
8 days ago
I will never forgive the cranks, quacks and charlatans who have brought god-damn measles back in this country
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Sharon
8 days ago
the canada understander: has logged on
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I took this photo in a bookstore in 2018, just because I thought it was such a wild juxtaposition. Feels worse coming across it in my photos now.
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Doghouse Reilly
11 days ago
We’re already seeing the collaboration of institutions and individuals being reframed as a fear or season of mass fervor and I really want us to remember they chose this.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev
11 days ago
The opposition to solar farms from rural communities is entirely cultural, not economic and certainly not ecological.
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In practise, the whole project of Sim’s government has been a transfer of wealth into the hands of police officers. No wonder they put their thumb on the scale to get him elected!
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Editing the Blue-Gray Lady
12 days ago
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The basic rule of united front politics is you have to want to beat the enemy more than you want to control the coalition. You can’t trust liberals who hate leftists more than they hate conservatives. You can’t trust leftists who hate liberals more than they hate conservatives.
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Just for context this was a quote post of Mary Gillis comparing Mamdani to the Anjali Appudurai campaign. She blocked me for this (which is fine and totally her prerogative).
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The thing about this is that her campaign did very much break the rules and the argument for why they shouldn’t apply was basically that the rules shouldn’t apply to you if you are virtuous and the underdog.
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At pretty much any protest against the war in Iraq someone would hand you a leaflet about project for a new American century. This was treated as a conspiracy theory but it is largely true that the Iraq war happened because right wing think tanks wanted it.
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I love my aloof wife
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I think the basic reason for this is we can’t afford them but by fucking up immigration the US has likely staunched the brain drain for us at least.
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Orson Welles? From Transformers?
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Pulpfiction Books
15 days ago
Front room, #1 to #2: -I just got an email from the big bookstore downtown. -You bought something? -No, it's free. I just have pick it up! -A free book? From which bookstore? -The one that looks like the coliseum. -You mean the public library? -I guess that's what SOME people call it.
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David Dvorak
15 days ago
The hierarchy of controls in this article is excellent!
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We really need to price water appropriately if we want people to use less of it. This is very simple economics, and a lot of industrial uses could use a lot less if it mattered to their bottom line.
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I am not sure whether this is true or not but I will say every Vancouver Canadians game I’ve been to has been a really great time.
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Sharon
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Dennis Lytton
17 days ago
Our 249-year-old system -- two-party presidentialism -- has sometimes worked in spite of itself due to favorable conditions, un-codified norms, & a few periodic fixes. That run is clearly over. I argue below that we need a multiparty democracy with the legislature supreme and a limited executive.
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Tanille Johnston (she/her/elle)
16 days ago
Carney tells us all that we have to "make sacrifices,” but the reality is that there's so many prosperous ways in which we could and should be investing in Canada right now that his government is refusing to see. Thank you to the AFN for showing us a clear roadmap towards growing Canada's economy.
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Captain Clutch
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From the Torontobluejays community on Reddit: Montreal-born Vladdy Guerrero Jr. rocking a Marie-Phillip Poulin Team Canada jersey before Game 7 of the World Series
Explore this post and more from the Torontobluejays community
https://www.reddit.com/r/Torontobluejays/comments/1olwzwq/montrealborn_vladdy_guerrero_jr_rocking_a/
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John A was a terrible guy in a lot of respects but his position on trade is pretty much what most Canadians think today. Free trade if they'll give it to us, otherwise we do the national policy again.
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It me.
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They need to pay someone to run a bead of caulk all the way around the skydome before the next game.
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Michael de Adder
17 days ago
Dodgers play of the game.
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Next door in Silicon Valley
19 days ago
I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger
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Andrew Kurjata
19 days ago
Everywhere I go, people are wearing Jays gear. People I know who have never watched baseball (me included) are staying up past midnight to for an 18th inning. The coffee shop has baseball donuts. And, I cannot emphasize this enough, I am in a city *3000 km from Toronto* Canada is behind this team
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Is baseball still America’s game? The Blue Jays are changing the idea of who baseball is for | CBC Arts
Jays fan Sadaf Ahsan and sports journalist Shireen Ahmed examine the cultural changes at play.
https://www.cbc.ca/arts/commotion/is-baseball-still-americas-game-the-blue-jays-are-changing-the-idea-of-who-baseball-is-for-9.6955445
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Jays!
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Python Software Foundation
22 days ago
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share.
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
https://www.python.org/sponsors/application/
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦
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William Gillis 🏴
24 days ago
This is exactly how fascists have recruited in every social space for decades. Our monkey brains evaluate overall social status according to who's immediately around us. And morally bankrupt people seek power. Hence the only way to stop them is to immediately and viscerally demonstrate strength.
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Sharon
23 days ago
the one good thing about being a left-YIMBY is that it drives the centrist *and* left NIMBY types on here insane
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I was surprised to hear Americans refer to the White House as “the people’s house.” I would have thought that would refer to the House of Representatives. I thought the White House was just where the president lived.
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.
24 days ago
Moving to New York and pulling the ladder up behind myself, but wokely
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“They cheated on a commercial” is so fucking funny.
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I don’t hate this as a negotiating tactic. I’m not going to lose sleep over giving concessions on symbolic stuff that doesn’t matter.
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Finn
25 days ago
the weak Anglo mind cannot comprehend "building more houses"
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Why on earth would the province of Ontario need their permission? Does the Reagan foundation hold copyright on speeches Reagan made while president? Aren’t those public domain?
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Dr. Mike P. Moffatt
26 days ago
Of all the housing charts not made by MMI, this one is my favourite. It shows how, despite rhetoric, housing shortages aren't a global phenomenon, but they do seem to be an Anglo-American one.
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Colin McMillen
26 days ago
the covid vaccine gives you anti-cancer.
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The A.C.E.R.B.I.C. Nerd
26 days ago
I dunno who needs to hear this but sometimes there's things in a dude's background that do permanently exclude them from holding public office.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦
26 days ago
still not over getting the front skytrain seat with the sunrise this morning almost enough to make you forget how expensive it is to stay here
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