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ABC since Harper... Covid-aware... Trying to survive the climate wars...Nature lover...Prof
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Chris Glover
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Ford's gravy train ▶️Pace Law Donate $28,000 Receive $3.3M ▶️King animal hospital Donate $80,000 Receive $1.3M ▶️FGF Brands Donate $66,000 Receive $1.2M Ford is using the $2.5 billion Jobs Training Fund as a personal slush fund Auditor General is investigating
www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...
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Critics blast millions in Skills Development Fund grants given to PC-friendly companies
A law firm, a private animal hospital and a large commercial bakery are among the recipients with ties to the PCs
https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/politics/critics-blast-millions-in-skills-development-fund-grants-given-to-pc-friendly-companies-11234516?utm_source=Villager&utm_campaign=Content&utm_medium=Twitter
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Dr. Vin Gupta
about 14 hours ago
Tylenol use is safe in pregnancy, lowest effective dose. Don’t listen to the utter nonsense emanating from the highest office in the land today. Speak to your medical provider.
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Mark Chadbourn
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Flights have been halted to Copenhagen Airport after multiple drones were spotted over the Øresund Strait, Reuters reports.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁
about 14 hours ago
To counter Trump’s statement about Tylenol and pregnancy, this from Canada ⬇️ Pregnant women ‘should not feel guilty’ about using Tylenol: Ontario Pharmacists Association - there is no link to autism
#Canada
Trump is an idiot!!
www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/0...
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Pregnant women ‘should not feel guilty’ about using Tylenol: Ontario Pharmacists Association
Ontario Pharmacists Association VP Jen Belcher responds to the Trump administration's claim linking Tylenol use during pregnancy to autism.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/09/22/pregnant-women-should-not-feel-guilty-about-using-tylenol-ontario-pharmacists-association/
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁
about 14 hours ago
The province of
#Alberta
, once a national leader in minimum wage, is set to soon have the lowest such pay rate in Canada.
www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
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Alberta to have the lowest minimum wage in Canada as of Oct. 1 as NDP calls for boost
The province of Alberta, once a national leader in minimum wage, is set to soon have the lowest such pay rate in Canada.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/alberta-to-have-the-lowest-minimum-wage-in-canada-as-of-oct-1-as-ndp-calls-for-boost/
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Liz Szabo
about 14 hours ago
From Politifact: Research doesn’t show using Tylenol during pregnancy causes autism. Here are 5 things to know
www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...
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Research doesn’t show using Tylenol during pregnancy causes autism. Here are 5 things to know
There’s no known single cause of autism.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/research-doesnt-show-using-tylenol-during-pregnancy-causes-autism-here-are-5-things-to-know
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Naomi Klein
about 14 hours ago
If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
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Seth Abramson
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America just witnessed perhaps the most hateful and disturbing public rally since the 1930s and this was the milquetoast CNN coverage of it Major media has helped destroy this country almost as much as MAGA has
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Trump & Danielle Smith Same nasty hate
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Erin Reed
about 19 hours ago
1. The Trump administration has filed an emergency motion with the Supreme Court to reinstate its transgender passport restrictions. The filing in the much-criticized shadow docket could cast trans travelers into chaos, with a decision likely soon. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Trump Files Emergency SCOTUS Motion Over Trans Passport Gender Markers; Decision Could Come Quickly
The motion comes after multiple courts have found Trump's passport gender marker ban for transgender people to likely violate their constitutional rights and US law.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trump-files-emergency-scotus-motion
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Audric Moses 🇨🇦
about 15 hours ago
I'm pretty sure that in 2025, when someone passes away unexpectedly, there are a number of predatory, AI-driven, fake obituary websites that post unsanctioned info. Just an FYI, because I think that's happening today.
#yeg
#yegbike
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Why is CBC live streaming Trump’s dangerous lies about autism??
@brodiefenlon.bsky.social
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Jeremy Appel 🍉
about 15 hours ago
Reminds me of a certain premier of Alberta who also worked for Global.
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Jen Raso
4 days ago
Anti-science creeps northward. 😳 Dr. Boileau's comments suggest ignorance of asymptomatic spread, the exponential harm of each infection (including long COVID risk), and the effectiveness of layered protections (vaccines, masking in public, cleaning the air):
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Quebec to stop offering free COVID-19 vaccines to the general population | CBC News
COVID-19 vaccines will no longer be free for all Quebecers starting this fall, the province’s Health Ministry announced Wednesday.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-covid-19-vaccines-1.7636666
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PressProgress
about 15 hours ago
Ben Mulroney is blurring the lines between journalism, business, lobbying and partisan politics The new host of Global News’ national political news show also works for registered lobby groups, advises businesses and hosted election events for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives earlier this year
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Ben Mulroney is Blurring the Lines Between Journalism, Business, Lobbying and Partisan Politics
New host of Global News’ politics show works for registered lobby groups, advises businesses and hosted events for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives
https://pressprogress.ca/ben-mulroney-is-blurring-the-lines-between-journalism-business-lobbying-and-partisan-politics/
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Mother Jones
about 22 hours ago
After years of bipartisan warnings about TikTok’s potential national security risks, users may soon confront a different kind of threat—perhaps even worse: an algorithm “controlled by America.”
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TikTok's algorithm will soon be "controlled by America"
It is once again time to ditch the machines.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/tiktok-algorithm-us-controlled-deal/
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FinTwitter
about 16 hours ago
Flight radar: ‘All take-offs and landings at Copenhagen Airport have been suspended since 20:26 local time due to drone reports. So far, at least 11 flights have been diverted to other airports.’
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦
about 17 hours ago
A group of N.W.T. doctors, lawyers and water rights experts say treated oilsands tailings cannot be released without complete evidence and studies on downstream health impacts of pollutants.
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Oil sands tailings release can't go ahead without health impact studies | CBC News
A group of N.W.T. doctors and water rights experts say Alberta and Canada should shelve its plans to permit the release of partially treated tailings until rigorous research into the cumulative human ...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/tailings-release-health-1.7635669
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Dale Smith
about 17 hours ago
Leslyn Lewis says the government is “obstructing Parliament” and wants a judge to lower food prices. How? Wage and price controls?
#QP
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Steve Brusatte
1 day ago
If this plan is implemented, it will cripple British universities and health care, and tear apart families. All 'skilled' immigrants will require £60k salary & cannot use NHS. Permanent residence will be scrapped entirely. Citizenship made insanely hard.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation
Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/22/farage-vows-to-scrap-settled-status-placing-thousands-at-risk-of-deportation
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Dale Smith
about 16 hours ago
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So Canada doesn’t give a damn about climate, eh? Even after the summer of fire!
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Canada, other fossil fuel-producing nations, derailing world climate targets, report says | CBC News
Production Gap Report suggests countries are planning to produce 120 per cent more fossil fuels in 2030 than is consistent with keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees, and 77 per cent more than what's ...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/canada-widens-gap-output-climate-targets-1.7639971
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Guy Shrubsole
1 day ago
Farage’s new think tank, the misnamed ‘Centre for a Better Britain’, is very clearly planning a ‘Project 2025’ for the UK - ripping up the Climate Change Act, Equalities Act, even the ministerial code A recipe for chaotic authoritarianism
www.ft.com/content/2260...
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EllenA🇨🇦🇲🇽🇩🇰🇪🇺🇵🇦 + Orcas
2 days ago
This cause is close to my heart - please sign:
you.leadnow.ca/petitions/te...
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Fund Ontario's Public Colleges
Doug Ford is defunding colleges at a time we need it the most. Ontario’s college system is on life support. The culprit? Chronic underfunding and the Ford governments' plans to privatize educat...
https://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/tell-doug-ford-funding-our-public-colleges-not-subsidies-for-private-corporations?source=bluesky&utm_source=bluesky&share=b768ae31-401c-4a9a-8980-ebea455ef2de
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Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta (Parody)
about 1 month ago
For those Albertans who are complaining about my UCP government charging over $100 for COVID vaccines. I warned you.
#abpoli
#abhealth
#UCPCorruption
#UCPPublicInquiryNOW
#yyc
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Neil Stenhouse
1 day ago
Elon Musk can escape a lot of accountability but he cannot escape knowing that he caused this thousands upon thousands of times over
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁
2 days ago
Who believes that this will become another propaganda machine out of the US, once they control the algorithm? Emerging TikTok deal with China ensures U.S. control of board and crucial algorithm, White House says
www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...
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Emerging TikTok deal with China ensures U.S. control of board and crucial algorithm, White House says
An emerging TikTok deal with China will ensure that U.S. companies control the algorithm that powers the app’s video feed and Americans will hold a majority of seats on a board overseeing U.S. operati...
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/emerging-tiktok-deal-with-china-ensures-us-control-of-board-and-crucial-algorithm-white-house-says/
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Democracy Now!
1 day ago
@amnesty.org
has released a report on the "global political economy” enabling genocide against Palestinians. The report names Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Elbit Systems, Hyundai and Palantir, among others.
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Amnesty Int’l: Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Palantir Enable & Profit from Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
We speak with the secretary general of Amnesty International about the human rights group’s new report on the “global political economy enabling Israel’s genocide, occupation and apartheid” against Pa...
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/18/amnesty_international
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Survival at Any Cost? LLMs and the Choice Between Self-Preservation and Human Harm "Our comprehensive evaluation of 11 LLMs reveals a striking heterogeneity in their ethical conduct, highlighting a critical misalignment with human-centric values."
arxiv.org/abs/2509.12190
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Survival at Any Cost? LLMs and the Choice Between Self-Preservation and Human Harm
When survival instincts conflict with human welfare, how do Large Language Models (LLMs) make ethical choices? This fundamental tension becomes critical as LLMs integrate into autonomous systems with ...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12190
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions
1 day ago
Local man discusses growing issue of homelessness - emphasizes importance of ice cream sammiches.
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions
2 days ago
Area man who couldn't convince his local constituents to elect him says he'll convince American authoritarian leader to be nicer to Canada.
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‘I would seek a tariff-free deal’: Poilievre says Canada shouldn’t settle for sectoral tariffs
Amid a protracted trade war with the United States, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Canada shouldn’t settle for a deal that includes sectoral tariffs.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/i-would-seek-a-tariff-free-deal-poilievre-says-canada-shouldnt-settle-for-sectoral-tariffs/
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Ship noise from possible Churchill port expansion could drive belugas away, experts fear | CBC News
Proposals to expand the Port of Churchill in northern Manitoba could bring an increase in shipping traffic — and some experts suggest that could affect the behaviour of the whales that are not only a ...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/churchill-belugas-expansion-tourism-inuit-1.7639037
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Laura Babcock 🇨🇦
2 days ago
“He’s parroting a very dangerous MAGA regime! I want journalists to ask Pierre Poilievre these questions: if you’re echoing what they’re saying in America, does that mean you intend to do what they’re doing? If so Canadians should be on high alert!”
#CanadaSky
#CndPoli
youtu.be/xOiFVHHrmrs?si…
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Mark Chadbourn
2 days ago
Murdoch is getting TikTok. Now the Fox News social platform.
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Trump says Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch likely part of US TikTok investor group
US president tells Fox News ‘a man named Lachlan is involved … that’s a very unusual name, Lachlan Murdoch’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/21/trump-rupert-lachlan-murdoch-tiktok?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Prof Mike Yearworth
2 days ago
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
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OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059383/openai-admits-ai-hallucinations-are-mathematically-inevitable-not-just-engineering-flaws.html
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Olga Nesterova
2 days ago
This was announced on social media by National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Israel’s Foreign Ministry.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦
2 days ago
Thank you to former PM Justin Trudeau. 👍👏 The Moderna facility in Laval, Quebec will soon be rolling out Canadian made Covid vaccines. Hopes of later producing RSV & some Cancer fighting vaccines. HUGE!!! 🇨🇦
#cdnpoli
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁
2 days ago
This statement from a guy who has never made a deal that was constitutional, reminder under Harper the few bills that he got passed were deemed unconstitutional and against Canadians rights and freedoms under our charter, which were overturned by the Supreme Court. Poilievre is an idiot.
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Cult MTL
2 days ago
Conservatives hate Canada and love Trump “Conservatives are the most likely to say they approve of Donald Trump and the least likely to say they’re proud to be Canadian — by far.”
cultmtl.com/2025/09/cons...
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Recognition is great but how about stopping Netanyahu’s ONGOING genocide?
www.cbc.ca/news/world/w...
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As Canada recognizes a Palestinian state, some in the West Bank fear it's too late | CBC News
The Israeli government has boasted it will bury the idea of a Palestinian state — as countries including Canada recognized one on Sunday ahead of the United Nations General Assembly next week. Though ...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/west-bank-palestinian-state-1.7638854
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THIS is the person our Cons demanded be honoured in the HOC last week. This represents what Pollievre and the Cons believe
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Chatbot site depicting child sexual abuse images raises fears over misuse of AI
Child safety watchdog calls for child protection guidelines to be built into AI models from the outset
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/21/chatbot-site-depicting-child-sexual-abuse-images-raises-fears-over-misuse-of-ai
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Julie Penner
2 days ago
Please watch this interview with two Australian doctors in Gaza. You won’t see anything gruesome but you will bear witness, which is the least we can do.
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Brent Toderian
2 days ago
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.
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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
https://thebetter.news/housing-first-finland-homelessness/
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Prof Nisreen Alwan
2 days ago
This does not look like “impartiality”. It looks like propaganda.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
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Reform, with 0.7% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletins
Astonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how-often-reform-featured-bbc-news-397899/
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Sam Bright
2 days ago
One of the most unedifying things about the Windsor banquet - for both the government and the royal family - was the presence of Rupert Murdoch, seated next to Morgan McSweeney
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Murdoch’s royal welcome
Rupert goes to Windsor...
https://writesbright.substack.com/p/murdochs-royal-welcome?r=7emt6&triedRedirect=true
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Kathleen Westergaard 🇨🇦 MSW, RSW
3 days ago
🇨🇦 Like I said, all of these sites are
#FirstNations
village locations. The
#Murdochs
who own
#Fox
and
#ElonMusk
have been trying to put down roots in this region for more than a decade. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 U.S. non-profit says it may up...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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U.S. non-profit says it may update its controversial application to use Crown land | CBC News
National Outdoor Leadership School, an American non-profit that operates in B.C., says it may make changes to its controversial application to use provincial Crown land, after it does more consultatio...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/us-nonprofit-says-it-may-update-its-controversial-application-to-use-crown-land-1.7638866
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Naheed Nenshi
3 days ago
Danielle Smith often calls herself the most 'freedom-loving' politician in Canada, yet she's repeatedly infringed on your fundamental human rights. Her actions are simply cruel, wrong, and politically motivated.
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Danielle Smith is stripping away your fundamental human rights.
YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi
https://youtu.be/QSt_msI0ayo
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