The City of Montreal is considering implementing regulations that would require grocery stores and restaurants to donate their unsold food to food banks and other charitable organizations. According to Quebec data, the endeavour would help prevent an annual waste of 740 tonnes of food.

How do you read this without sobbing, I genuinely don’t know

Canada’s top 100 CEOs now make 248 times more than the average worker — the biggest pay gap in Canadian history.

Ticketmaster is facing a class-action lawsuit in Quebec over ‘abusive service fees’

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

The most influential UBI advocates are generally unanimous that it should be financed by the value of nature — something we all have an equal claim to.

Imagine the art and culture and writing we could have if we had universal basic income

Another day Another: Fuck Spotify www.avclub.com/spotify-stan...

During an RCMP raid last week, forest defenders fighting to save BC's ancient forests were arrested as they tried to block and disrupt logging. “There’s no reason to just cut this all down for such little money. For nothing.” New from @brandimorin.bsky.social: ricochet.media/climate/clim...

If you see right wing accounts today talking about how Christian pilgrims ended the practice of "child sacrifice" when they colonized the West remind them that the leading cause of death TODAY in the US is from guns due to their own policies preventing anything being done about it

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Don't threaten me with a good time

In 2018, Quebec’s Coalition Avenir Québec government promised that all Quebecers would have access to a doctor. Seven years later, 1.5 million people are still waiting—and now a new law is driving physicians away. Writer @mtltoula.bsky.social explores: thewalrus.ca/quebecs-new-heal...

Extreme wealth allows people to live in such a way that they only ever have to interact with others who cater to them. That kind of king-of-my-castle existence breeds a sense of entitlement that quickly turns to hostility when wealthy people face even the slightest of pushback.

Greenland losing 30m tonnes of ice an hour, 20% more than previously thought This is weakening critical ocean current AMOC which is at its weakest in 1,600 years A weakening and inevitable collapse of AMOC will hugely impact climate in Europe and beyond www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”

The incredible, indomitable, inspirational Alice Wong has left us. I'm so grateful to have known her on social media, and so grateful for all the words she shared with us and all the actions she encouraged us into making. May we live up to her example. (so you don't have to go to Instagram)

Join us on National Housing Day (Sat., Nov. 22) for a rally from the offices of landlord lobbyists FRPO to Queen's Park! FRPO are working with the Ford government to make us homeless. Being neutral on legislation like #Bill60 that makes it easier for Ontarians to become homeless is not an option.

Hayley Williams announces ticket sales plan to avoid scalpers and bots

"[S]tate response to rent strikes in Toronto." "The Ontario government has introduced measures that speed up evictions, undermine tenant organizing, and embolden landlords." "[H]iring more sheriffs — the provincial court officers who enforce evictions." #Ontario #Canada #Housing #Protest #Policing

Breaking: ABC Vancouver just voted unanimously against a staff recommendation to finance a DTES Community Land Trust and aquire an SRO building under community control, against the requests of community members and advocates. This is going to make homelessness worse. #vanpoli

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Savor this moment, friends. They couldn’t buy their way to a win. They couldn’t racist their way to a win. There are more of us than them, and we fucking beat them. And we can keep beating them.

Some breaking news: in a special Vancouver Police Board meeting only announced over the weekend, the police board has requested a $50 million increase to their budget for 2026. This comes as other departments across the city are trying to cut staff to ensure a property tax freeze for next year.

Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section. www.thecut.com/article/teen...

"Under Projet Montréal, the city became one of the world leaders in the ecological transition. We protected our natural ecosystem, we protected land, we created the Grand Parc de l’Ouest. I'm so proud of this. We must continue on this path." An interview with @lrabouin.bsky.social. #polmtl

“Life on this planet is sustained by water. It is not sustained by data. We don't need data the way we need water”

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

The new album by Mon Laferte “Femme Fatale” is an absolute masterpiece. I was immediately mesmerized by the opening track and couldn’t move on for a while, it’s that amazing!!

It's no coincidence that so many men have their "conservative awakening" in their 40s and 50s when they experience a huge drop in testosterone/male menopause, suddenly renewing anxieties about their masculinity (that conservatives can help them assuage)

Ontario cities are clearing homeless encampments. Where are people supposed to go? Amidst a housing crisis with no end in sight, municipalities across the province have been cracking down on the unhoused: pressprogress.ca/ontario-citi...

I am not done being angry at the Ford government for cancelling supervised consumption sites, bike lanes and speed cameras. And now I have to muster the energy to fight this new attack on everyone who rents their home in Ontario. I hate it here. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

In the era of the climate crisis, politicians campaigning against bike lanes aren’t fit for office “The voices who complain the loudest about bike lanes tend to be those who don’t actually live — or vote — in the city of Montreal.” An editorial by @taylornoakes.com

The phrase "trans activist" is goofy because like 95% of the time it's used it refers to a trans person simply existing. Media, pointing at a woman buying a coffee: behold, a trans activist. Woman: buying coffee is not activism stop being so fucking weird Media: trans activist criticizes media

“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.

A very corrupt B.C. Real Estate market hid criminal monies, activities and actively spurred speculation in the housing market to earn untold hundreds of billions of dollars - at the expense of generations of Canadians - now want us to bail them out! FU and welcome to the jungle shorturl.at/Qh7js

When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points

There was a man on the metro tonight who had a swastika, an SS symbol, and the letters KKK all drawn on his bag. I hope he trips and falls in a pothole.

'I don’t drink': A Mi’kmaw Elder was tasered twice by two members of the RCMP for refusing to give a breathalyzer. Mi’kmaw is Fred Sylliboy’s first language. He said he asked the RCMP for a translator numerous times.

Champs finally got its dance permit after a 10-month ban on dancing in the bar “Thank you to everyone who’s stood by us, messaged us, showed up, and supported us through all this. We’re SO back. Now let’s dance.”

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

The U.S. government has the authority to access data from anywhere (including inside Canada) so long as it's maintained in a server owned by a U.S. company. #cdnpoli #canada #boycottusa #fascistusa #racistusa shorturl.at/1Roqv

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

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Quebec measures targeting retailers when it comes to sustainability of goods and planned obsolescence of products comes into effect today. In #Quebec, it is now prohibited to sell goods whose normal operating life has been deliberately limited. www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

I spoke up about Pierre Poilievre today and got this threat on facebook. Josh Levy tells me to watch my back. No Josh, I will keep speaking out about building a better Canada regardless of the threats you make to me or my loved ones.