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The Canadian Justice system loses $20 billion year. The Canadian military loses $34 billion a year. Canadian Health Care loses $372 billion a year. Imagine if Carneys liberals talked about services like it does the Post Office.

Tell me how Carney is different than a conservative. This removes a valuable service while funnelling even more money through privatized postal services (Shoppers Drug Mart). And doing it during on ongoing labour dispute is diabolical. Fuck that guy.

We splurged for once-in-a-lifetime TD Lounge seats at the Jays game last night and it was amazing

BREAKING 🚨 The University of Waterloo will not renew its partnership with the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, following a referendum in 2024 in which 83.9% of participating undergraduates voted in favor of ending the collaboration.

A new post in my newsletter: Some encouraging words from difficult people: suzannerent.substack.com/p/these-are-...

If this passes, I will order 100 "Palestine Action" T-shirts and hand them out to whoever will wear them. I know they *say* they won't outlaw that, but that's absolutely where this is going.

Hey Canadians, take some of your Jimmy Kimmel attention and give it to free speech limitations here at home; among other things this new bill could limit what you can say about Zionists/Israel and where you can say it.

I caught a bit of American TV news while my husband was watching today and it’s obvious those “journalists” and the companies they work for are pants-shittingly scared of Trump and his flunkies

I’m beginning to think if some of you had a time machine you’d go back and give baby Hitler a gentle kiss on the forehead

I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?

September Committee Meetings get underway tomorrow morning. Here are a few highlights that will have an impact here in Kitchener and across the Region ⬇️

Ipperwash Robert Houle ~ Anishinaabe 2000-01

“Who goes Nazi” by Dorothy Thompson: “the frustrated and humiliated intellectual” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Goe...

Carney is offering Canadians nothing but austerity and cozying up to fascists. He’s Poilievre in a better suit.

Broken record territory rapidly approaching, but once again: Homelessness is not a societal inevitability. It's a policy failure. This is a solvable issue with a known solution, even under capitalism, because that solution is less expensive than the current responses. We just don't want to do it.

Books I read in August, titles and authors in alt text. Some good, some bad, some discombobulating #booksky #litfic 💙📚💡

The only advice he was given was from a volunteer who told him go to the parking garage that was uphill and far away which he clearly couldn’t do.

Every single time I am at the hospital (which is frequently) there’s an older, often disabled person flummoxed by the parking machines. I help them but what happens when no one is around? A lot of technology sucks

I have never yelled Jesus f-ing Christ so many times in my life as I did watching this 5-part doc (on Disney+ in Canada).

This is going to be a real bonanza for the rich, who already abuse/overwork/underpay their nannies, house cleaners, caregivers, servers, landscapers, etc. Live-in workers could essentially become enslaved.

No, absolutely not. But due to the huge 'ai' con, millions of people ARE

It would cost 1 new submarine to build every single one of these people a home.

Breaking! City of Burnaby just became first city in Canada to join arms embargo movement against Israel AND the first Apartheid-Free City, breaking ties with Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism. We've been organizing for months towards this precedent in colonial Canada.

I genuinely think Canada should ramp up production and market vaccine tourism to Americans

A forum with whiny little wage-thieving, tax-dodging bitches? We’ve been doing it their way, it doesn’t work. Why not with: Homeless people People at risk of drug poisoning Health care workers People with disabilities People struggling to pay for rent and groceries Cyclists & transit users

“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink

To the #DougFord Conservative Government- this is on you and your chronic underfunding of healthcare so you can build what? A spa? Roads through wetlands? Tear things down that could have been repaired? #HealthcareForAll #onpoli Ontario couple whose teenage s... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

100%. Also, and maybe this still feeds their algo and that sucks, but I use my Amazon wish list to keep me in mind of things the library may not have listed yet, then I use that to check again in another month or whatever, never actually buying from Amazon.

My top library tip as a power user and former library staffer: browse this list with your library website open in another tab; put things on hold before they’ve even arrived at the library (and ask your library to purchase items you want if they haven’t ordered them).

Need this here

Turning a public forest into a hedge is nasty work. May this man never know peace. The water in front of his property must now become a boat party hotspot.

CUPE’s National President Mark Hancock – YYZ – August 16th 2025

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I think @pattyhajdu.bsky.social fucked up. Big time. Read the room, @mark-carney.bsky.social cause I don’t think people will be happy that you ordered mostly women back to do unpaid work. You’d better have some dynamic speaking points before the milk turns sour

Canoe Channel, Southern Entrance John Hartman 2023

Eating on a patio in downtown Kitchener last night, and the constant noise from motorcycles and modified mufflers was so unpleasant it’s not something I’ll be repeating soon. Way past time to close King St to motorized vehicles in the summer, and the DTK BIA should get on board.

The Israeli government is deliberately blocking aid from entering Gaza. This is nothing short of a genocide, creating a man-made famine crisis to starve children and families. The US must use every tool available to urgently get critical aid into Gaza.

I support @cupescfp.bsky.social Air Canada flight attendants, who are only paid from the time the plane doors close until they open at the destination. Wage theft on a grand scale.

It is brutal that police can kill people with impunity and this is all the info we get, not even a hint of why the victim was being sought. And the police jargon in this story is also brutal. They don’t even put in the headline WHO DID THE FATAL SHOOTING.

NEW: CBC agreed to follow an Israeli censorship order on board a Jordanian aid drop flight last week. Israel supposedly claimed filming Gaza would “jeopardize flights.” ITV News was also on a Jordanian flight, but filmed Gaza from above for all to see. www.readthemaple.com/cbc-agreed-t...

And Just Like That can make up for everything by ending the series with the revelation that Big was prominently featured in the Epstein Files.

FUCK you @nationalpost.bsky.social. This is unforgivable, traitorous shit from people claiming to be journalists. How dare you accept this framing from a state that is SLAUGHTERING our colleagues. How DARE you.

@rohanmaitzen.bsky.social did you read The Safekeep, and if yes did you write about it?

If they broke a couple windows there would be wide coverage 24/7. Power insists on “peaceful protest” not because it works but because it can be ignored

I just want to talk about books all the time and this is not currently the place for it. But the book places (goodreads, storygraph etc) are not for me. Any recommendations?

Earlier today we were talking to the neighbours about how we haven’t seen any deer this summer. They must have overheard us

“By training now, I am helping to birth my future self with each rep.” @karenattiah.bsky.social on the transformative power women can find in weightlifting.

The British media outlet ITV also went on a Jordanian airdrop and simply ignored the Israeli government’s illiberal demands: www.itv.com/news/2025-08...