Thay can't count either!

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Reallocate to health care and education instead of his fragile ego!

The Doug Ford Grift: A $29 Million Gravy Plane & The Death of Public Healthcare Ontario Premier Doug Ford is out of control. Defunded hospitals, a 28.9 million dollar luxury jet, and deleted phone records. It is time to rein in this super-majority.

The Doug Ford Grift: A $29 Million Gravy Plane & The Death of Public Healthcare
Ford is out of control. Defunded hospitals, a 28.9 million dollar luxury jet, and deleted phone records. It is time to rein in this super-majority. #cdnpoli
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Canada’s elbows-elevated ambition to secure digital & technological sovereignty faces a lot of practical hurdles.

But, at a minimum, it requires disentangling government and public services from at least this one company. If they continue to operate here, everything else is just hand-waving.

DON’T LOOK NOW, BUT UKRAINE IS ON A ROLL powervertical · DON'T LOOK NOW, BUT UKRAINE IS ON A ROLL Ukraine has just had a string of good news, good luck, and good moves. Viktor Orban’s crushing defeat in Hungary’s general …

Ukraine is suddenly on a roll. Find out why as I break it all down with the always insightful Serhiy Kudelia on this week’s Power Vertical Podcast www.powervertical.org/2026/04/16/d...

Alberta rejects federal nature strategy, redefines protected land | CBC News Ottawa has a plan to protect 30 per cent of Canadian land by 2030, but Alberta has rejected the federal benchmarks. The province claims it already protects 60 per cent of its land. This comes after it...

Because we live in an insane place Danielle Smith has changed the law so "protected land" means land you can mine, log and destroy

#ableg

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‘This Is Just a Plan to Cheat, Pure and Simple’ | The Tyee The UCP is spiking an independent Electoral Boundaries Commission report and rigging the next vote.

Alberta’s #UCP government served notice in the legislature Thursday it intends to toss out the entire report of the 2025-26 Electoral Boundaries Commission.

This is unprecedented as far as electoral boundary commissions go, but not a complete surprise, writes @djclimenhaga.bsky.social. #abpoli

Ontario government buys $28.9M private jet for Doug Ford's use | CBC News The provincial government has purchased a pre-owned private jet for $28.9 million to be used by Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

Private jet: funded ✅

Life-saving supervised consumption services: defunded ❌

What are we doing here folks?

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Keep pressing them!

“Ontario funds hospitals at the lowest per person rate in the country, at $1,805 per person, below the national average of $1,949 per person….This translates into a provincial health care system that is under such strain that it can no longer meet the needs of the population.”

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Hurrah!!!
There is hope!
Positive step by a public institution.

Finally! The organizations are organizing around protecting the Canada Health Act 🙌

Let’s hope @mark-carney.bsky.social listens and does something about Alberta and Ontario govts who are slowly and deliberately privatizing our healthcare!

#ONpoli #ABpoli #cdnpoli

#abpoli #cdnpoli They're coming for all of Canada.

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If it did any good for the premier to visit outside Toronto I would applaud. However, I quit holding my breath quite a while ago.

Cookies, deodorant, socks. Iran war puts military packages in limbo Thousands of boxes sent to service members in Middle East are stuck in limbo. The Postal Service has indefinitely suspended delivery amid Iran war.

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So the US navy can’t feed their sailors aboard the aircraft carrier Lincoln, and the US Postal Service can’t deliver care packages from sailors’ families.
Is the 🇺🇸 great yet?
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Canada doesn’t need a last hope #cdnpoli YouTube video by MP Mark Gerretsen

Canada doesn’t need a last hope.

It needs leaders who can work across the aisle, trust Canadians, and solve problems together — not tell Canadians to trust only them.

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News Orgs Are Placating Far-Right Forces Domestically and internationally, news orgs benefit from protecting power

NEW: @policornerca.bsky.social revealed that Tina Yazdani, a critical reporter covering Ontario politics, was fired from CityNews, two of her stories removed from their site w/o explanation. Then, a lawsuit claims Thomson Reuters fired an employee for speaking out against their ICE collab. It's bad.

“treatment and related services should be offered in the least-restrictive manner and environment possible, with the goal of having the person continue to live in the community...."
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRDP).

‘Pandora’s box’: Danielle Smith and insurance giants unleash attack on healthcare ⋆ The Breach Danielle Smith is working hand-in-glove with private insurers to push health privatization in Alberta—and it could spread across Canada

Danielle Smith has a plan to destroy public health care in Alberta—and she’s not doing it alone.

Documents and lobbying records reveal the government is consulting directly with Canada’s private insurance giants on how to implement two-tier health care, reports @nikbarryshaw.bsky.social

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C-9’s anti-hate objectives must be supported. But Senator Simons raises the valid problems of enforcement that should be echoed by every thinking Canadian.

The host really can't wrap his head around the concept of not doing whatever big energy companies want.

Incredible how Avi just runs circles around his corporate talking points

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Ford is killing decarbonization in Ontario. He’s following the path of Trump. DON’T GO THERE👎

Of course he has to put on a brave face, but it would be nice if some enterprising journo had the gumption to ask Skippy McSlogan the obvious question: "In which federal riding do you plan to contest the next election?"

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That’s my Canada!

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Walked into the library last night in the middle of a concert! Such an encouraging experience of disciplined young people.

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Thanks for the reminder from 2011. This is the political control creep that gradually erodes a democracy. We all need to be aware and vigilant.
It also tells us about the thrust of Harper’s international conservative activism. He really hasn’t changed.

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Our own media is showing signs of oligarchy and caving to political power. See like Rogers is leading the pack.

CANADIAN PALS: if you are anything like me and hate blinding headlights on cars, you still have one more week to fill out Transport Canada's survey on headlight glare!

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~ 70% of the world's Cobalt comes from the notorious DRC.

The anti-EV Brigade cries scandal!

But while Cobalt still powers phones & laptops, EV tech has moved on, to LFP (Lithium Iron Phosphate) cells.

You know what CAN'T do without Cobalt? Oil refining.

Funny how outrage only arrived with EVs.

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