‘I wish them all the best. Run it like a business,’ Ford says as Humber Polytechnic moves to trim workforce Humber Polytechnic is offering “voluntary exit packages” to staff as it confronts mounting financial pressure, warning that deeper job cuts could follow if the uptake is low.

Doug the Thug Ford encourages colleges and universities to run as businesses.
Is it any wonder #ontario #education is a cesspool?
Ford is an imbecilic troglodyte of cosmological proportions.
#politics #onpoli

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Trump threatens new 10% global tariff after Supreme Court rules against 'liberation day' tariffs | CBC

Trump adds new #tariffs right after SCOTUS tells him his tariffs are illegal.
To quote Gunderson: "What an asshole!" (youtu.be/owvsyN-PRLo?...)
#US #politics

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Intimidation, threats, lawsuits – we need a law with teeth to stop legal bullies! Dragged into court in Hamburg over Indonesia, buried in cease-and-desist threats for defending Indigenous rights in Brazil – corporate bullies will go to great lengths to silence us. Germany’s propose...

Help foster good anti-SLAPP laws in #Germany by signing this petition.

#environment #progressivism
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Up to 6 outages. (Two more overnight.) #utility #poweroutage #ontario

Make that FOUR outages.

Hey @alectranews.bsky.social , we've lost power on our street 3 times in the past 10 days. What kind of imbeciles you got running things?

Trump to Canada’s Mark Carney: you are uninvited to my ‘board of peace’ – as it happened This live blog is now closed.

Trump uninvites #Canada from the board of peace. As far as I'm concerned, good riddance to that laughable exercise of American Exceptionalism. The world's a big place. Canada will be fine. #politics #USA
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Canada Is Not Broken. | Notion See Canada as it is. Not as it’s been sold to you.

#Canada is not broken.
Not that facts ever stopped the right-wing nutjobs, but still.
Thanks to Todd Maffin for the site.
engageq.notion.site/notbroken

‘They’re going to be listening,’ Ford slams Ottawa’s Chinese EV trade deal - NOW Toronto Ontario Premier Doug Ford is doubling down on his criticism of Ottawa’s newly announced trade deal with China, warning it could hurt Canada’s auto sector and pose security risks.

Chinese "spy vehicles": Doug the Thug goes fully delusional with his anti-China paranoia.
#onpoli #Ontario #politics
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December 5, 2025 Late last night, the Trump administration released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America.

The 2025 National Security Strategy of the #USA seems to point towards a white supremacist nation.
How far the mighty have fallen!
(Actually, I never thought they were that mighty - just loud and obnoxious.)
#politics #progressivism

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Please consider signing Petition E-6982 to help protect #education and #healthcare in #canada.
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November 21, 2025 Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Ukrainian people today.

Trump's "peace plan" for #Ukraine is really about the #US and #Russia gutting it like a trout. And kicking the #EU in the balls to boot. It's demeaning, insulting, and malevolent. IOW, classic Trump/Putin.
#progressivism #politics
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"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)

#progressivism

October 28, 2025 In the election of 1920, Americans handed a landslide victory to the Republicans and their presidential candidate Warren G.

What happened the last time business had unfettered control over the US economy? Heather Cox Richardson explains.
Spoiler alert: it wasn't pretty.
#progressivism #economy #US

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Petition to Minister Champagne: No Austerity in this budget $25 billion per year less for public services. 57,000 jobs eliminated. The “worst cuts in modern history,” according to economists. Is this what Canadians voted for on April 28? The deep cuts to pu...

Please consider signing this petition if you don't think "austerity" is the way forward in #Canada.
#politics #progressivism

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Today’s ‘peace summit’ is a real estate convention in dis... Trump and his guests see opportunity in Gaza’s rubble

Today’s ‘peace summit’ is a real estate convention in disguise
#politics

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Tell the feds: Nature is in the national interest Previews of Canada’s 2025 budget are conspicuously missing nature investments. Tell Canada: Protecting and restoring nature is the real national interest project.

Please consider signing this petition to tell the #Canadian government that a healthy and safe #environment must always be in the "national interest".

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ANALYSIS | Who's behind 'Project Ontario,' the group pushing Doug Ford to be more conservative? | CBC News There's a quiet and mysterious move afoot to push Premier Doug Ford's Ontario PC government to adopt more fiscally conservative policies.

"Project Ontario" is just the US "Project 2025", tuned to #Ontario #politics
I say all the #RWNJs can go f*ck themselves.
#progressivism #elbowsup

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False or misleading statements by Donald Trump - Wikipedia

Trump is such an inveterate liar that his lies have their own Wikipedia page.
Seriously, how stupid do you have to be to elect such a psychopath President... *twice*!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_o...
#progressivism #politics

Because empathy is for androids, not humans YouTube video by Science Fiction with Damien Walter

Voight Kampff - because empathy is for androids, not humans.
#satire #sf
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Taylor & Francis threatens legal action against anonymous group’s ‘highly defamatory’ claims Taylor & Francis has threatened legal action against an online group that has made allegations, based largely on vague insinuations rather than evidence, about the publisher and a member of its…

Taylor & Francis threatens legal action against anonymous group’s ‘highly defamatory’ claims retractionwatch.com/2025/09/26/t...
#research #publishing

Trump calls for nations to close borders and expel foreigners in UN speech: ‘Your countries are being ruined’ US president accuses European countries specifically of ‘destroying your heritage’ by allowing migration

Trump wants all countries to close their borders.
Okay: let's all close our borders... TO THE USA.
There's 340M of them, and 8B of the rest of us.
We can do without 'em.
#politics
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US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of UK f... Outside the Old Bailey in 2018, a reinvented Tommy Robinson flashed his perfect new teeth to 2,000 diehard supporters at a “free Tommy” rally on a stage ...

There they go again, those Merkins stickin' their gross fingers in everyone's pies. #RWNJ #politics

#US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of #UK far right
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#TIL that a dog's nose is connected to the vision processing part of their #brain. I guess it's literally true that #dogs see the world through their noses. #biology
vm.tiktok.com/ZMAh9hxGF/

@gelliottmorris.com on Bluesky these people just fundamentally believe that only they have the legitimate right to political power https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-house-map-from-tx-republicans

The pot calling the kettle black seems to be SOP for RWNJs worldwide these days.

West Point cancels ceremony to honor Tom Hanks as ‘outstanding US citizen’ Little known about decision, although Hanks, who has advocated for military memorials, also voted for Biden

So... Trump's after Tom Hanks now? Tom Hanks?!?!
#LaughablyStupid

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"...economic elites and... business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence."

#politics #US #economics #governance

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Canadians, here's a chance to tell the federal government what its #budget priorities should be. #canada #economy #politics
www.canada.ca/en/departmen...

How many Americans actually know how large an area that is though?

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Build Canada’s East-West Grid with Renewables Add your voice to demand bold federal action for a clean, affordable and reliable electricity future. Sign the petition today.

Please consider signing this petition to help promote #sustainable #energy in #Canada.
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