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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

11.03.2026 01:44 👍 3674 🔁 1462 💬 8 📌 213
Petition e-7191 - Petitions

Please consider signing this petition by First Nations MP Leah Gazan to push the federal govt to make “denialism” a federal hate crime. 🪶😡💔🧡 #cdnpoli www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

07.03.2026 03:37 👍 30 🔁 18 💬 8 📌 2
PM Mark Carney delivers remarks in Sydney, Australia – March 4, 2026
PM Mark Carney delivers remarks in Sydney, Australia – March 4, 2026 YouTube video by cpac

PM Mark Carney 🇨🇦 delivers remarks in Sydney, Australia – March 4, 2026. #cdnpoli
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xebu...

04.03.2026 08:14 👍 32 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0

📈📊: Ontario appears to have pulled back on sharing data. That's an idea we put to the premier's office, which told us:

"To imply the government has reduced or removed process measures is factually incorrect and misleading to your readers.”

Here are the examples #OnPoli

02.03.2026 22:22 👍 49 🔁 42 💬 2 📌 3
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Moving metrics: How the Ford government pulled back reporting its successes and failures | Globalnews.ca Targets, such as opening dates for transit lines and GHG emissions, have been removed from scrutiny, while a housing tracker set up a few years ago displays data from 2024.

NEW: Who's counting anyway?

A series of tracking measures that were once regularly updated and relatively easy to access are disappearing in Ontario.

Government denies it's deliberate, critics say it makes it harder to hold to account. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1171077...

02.03.2026 13:32 👍 44 🔁 40 💬 8 📌 4
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In today’s @TheGlobeandMail.com Mr. Bozikovic nails Big Dumb Doug Ford’s Ontario Science Centre fraud.

28.02.2026 13:24 👍 34 🔁 21 💬 1 📌 2
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The Enshittificator Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…

Criminally funny, but also I'm crying inside

Norway comes for the #TechBros

www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree

vimeo.com/1168468796?f...

27.02.2026 13:52 👍 548 🔁 349 💬 15 📌 64
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AI minister 'disappointed' by OpenAI meeting held in wake of Tumbler Ridge shooting | CBC News Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon says he was "disappointed" following a Tuesday meeting with senior officials from Open AI that was arranged after it was revealed that the killer in the m...

This scandal presents Carney and Solomon the perfect opportunity to pivot away from the AI boosterism that has defined this Liberal government to recalibrate their AI policy and start taking on the harms that have come of generative AI (and other digital tech).

I do not expect them to take it.

25.02.2026 03:07 👍 471 🔁 133 💬 8 📌 14
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Ontario finance minister says rate of health-care spending is ‘unsustainable’ | Globalnews.ca In the buildup to the 2026 budget, Doug Ford's finance minister is raising concerns about the sustainability of health-care spending in Ontario.

Ontario saying it can't afford public healthcare.. WELL...STOP funding private healthcare. Our public dollars should NEVER fund private corporations!! STOP THE GAMES!

globalnews.ca/news/1166965...

21.02.2026 04:23 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1

Please read this, & help promote the push for changes with doctors in Canada - currently due to federal laws, doctors cannot receive pensions, Mary is a wonderful advocate fighting for changes for decades & we all need to work together to help her & other doctors making meaningful change in Canada.

19.02.2026 13:11 👍 41 🔁 24 💬 5 📌 0
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Did you know M&M Food Market is no longer Canadian? What this acquisition means surprising things for retail The Parkland buyout deal likely flew under the radar for many Canadians, which meant they missed an important detail

Did I miss this if it was posted here?
USA Sunoco bought the parent company of M&M, Parkland Corporation.
Now M&M is owned by a USA O&G company.
ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/did-kno...

18.02.2026 14:44 👍 63 🔁 58 💬 14 📌 9
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Standing in solidarity, Hatters join first MMIWG walk - Medicine Hat News bmiller@medicinehatnews.com Dozens of supporters gathered at Medicine Hat College’s Centennial Hall on Thursday to participate in a Memorial March to Highway 1 for missing and murdered indigenous wome...

🪶🙌🏽😡💔🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #MMIWG2S #NoMoreStolenSisters medicinehatnews.com/news/local-n...

15.02.2026 11:42 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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Petition calls for federal party leaders to get top-secret security clearance OTTAWA – An electronic petition on the parliament website calls on the House of Commons to require all federal party leaders to obtain and maintain top-secret security clearance.

OTTAWA – An electronic petition on the parliament website calls on the House of Commons to require all federal party leaders to obtain and maintain top-secret security clearance.

09.02.2026 12:41 👍 32 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 1
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A’ho! 🪶🙌🏽🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️👇🏽 #TreatyLands #MAGADaniMustResign

30.01.2026 23:24 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
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If you want to mess with Canada, know that we’re united.

#ForeverCanadian

10.01.2026 03:56 👍 469 🔁 139 💬 15 📌 9

Let's get these numbers up, sign the petition, I signed it a few weeks ago, we need to make changes.

Please remember to look for an email after you signed to verify. #Canada

08.01.2026 13:26 👍 92 🔁 52 💬 14 📌 6
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Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation moves to block Alberta separatist petition in court | Globalnews.ca The Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is challenging Alberta’s separatist petition in court, saying separation from Canada cannot proceed without First Nation consent under Treaty No. 8.

globalnews.ca/news/1159831...
#ForeverCanadian applauds and supports Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation in their effort to protect their Treaty rights.

The Forever Canadian movement, along with First Nations, will oppose any attempts to fracture Canada and undermine our Treaty and Charter Rights.

#ableg

04.01.2026 05:51 👍 260 🔁 93 💬 2 📌 3
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Truth. 🪶🙌🏽😡👇🏽 #MeToo #BelieveHer #BelieveThem

21.12.2025 10:22 👍 31 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0
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Opinion: A divisive wave of disinformation In late October, I was in a hotel in Alberta, doom-scrolling social media when a video posted by former Alberta deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk appeared on my Facebook feed. He and I have never met, bu...

“The reality is that there are those outside our borders who appear determined to harm Canada by spreading disinformation about our country and sowing division among our citizens…”

#ableg #cdnpoli

www.brandonsun.com/opinion/2025...

20.12.2025 17:04 👍 173 🔁 99 💬 4 📌 3
The Case for Boring
The Case for Boring YouTube video by Tod Maffin

In the 1930s, the U.S. tried to bully the world. Here’s the story of how Canada resisted… by simply being boring. #cdnpoli #tariffs

youtube.com/shorts/-8mOe...

18.12.2025 01:21 👍 165 🔁 61 💬 6 📌 7
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Batteries now cheap enough to make dispatchable solar economically feasible Energy think tank Ember says utility-scale battery costs have fallen to $65/MWh outside China and the United States, enabling solar power to be delivered when needed.

Fracking to extract gas is expensive. New pipelines are expensive. Supercooling gas into liquid (LNG) is expensive. LNG tankers are expensive. #Climate disasters are expensive. Solar and batteries are cheap. See the problem with Eby's #LNG schemes? www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b... #bcpoli

14.12.2025 20:32 👍 91 🔁 32 💬 2 📌 3
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Recall petition targeting Alberta Premier Danielle Smith approved | CBC News Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, along with two additional members of her cabinet, are now the latest MLAs to face a recall petition from constituents.

#abpoli #ableg

It's on. The recall petition drive to oust Danielle Smith has been approved.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

10.12.2025 18:09 👍 42 🔁 17 💬 5 📌 4
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MISSING. Shamus, a white short-haired male cat with black markings, was last seen near the Super 8 Motel at 281 Woodlawn Rd W in #Guelph on Dec 10. Neutered & microchipped. Shy - please do not chase. Any info contact his family via facebook.com/GuelphOntari... or let us know.

10.12.2025 18:13 👍 20 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1

An announcement from Tod.
youtube.com/shorts/OMo6P...

10.12.2025 04:03 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
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"Pierre Poilievre showed what he did feel about First Nations people by saying that they need to learn the value of hard work, and he continues to show his disrespect to aboriginal people by calling them “our First Nations” today in this house. Well, I don’t belong to anybody, Mr. Speaker.” #cdnpoli

10.12.2025 09:49 👍 154 🔁 55 💬 7 📌 3
A for-profit American healthcare company tried to hire me
A for-profit American healthcare company tried to hire me YouTube video by Tod Maffin

An American for-profit healthcare companied tried to hire me this week. Here's how that went. 😉
www.youtube.com/shorts/1WKAx...

08.12.2025 01:48 👍 216 🔁 78 💬 12 📌 19
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This is not your parents’ Conservative Party — And Brian Mulroney agrees.

05.12.2025 16:06 👍 68 🔁 29 💬 13 📌 11
Image of comet 3I/ATLAS posted on facebook by Gerald Rhemann

Text:
Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas 02 12 2025 UT 01h39m

Location: Farm Tivoli, Namibia
Telescope: ASA Astrograph 12" f3.6
Camera: ZWO ASI 6200 MM Pro
Exp. Time: LRGB 20/6/6/6 min.
North is up FOV: 75x110´

Gerald Rhemann and Michael Jäger

Image of comet 3I/ATLAS posted on facebook by Gerald Rhemann Text: Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas 02 12 2025 UT 01h39m Location: Farm Tivoli, Namibia Telescope: ASA Astrograph 12" f3.6 Camera: ZWO ASI 6200 MM Pro Exp. Time: LRGB 20/6/6/6 min. North is up FOV: 75x110´ Gerald Rhemann and Michael Jäger

Here is a stunning image of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS, taken on Dec. 2 by astrophotographers Gerald Rhemann and Michael Jäger, showing the comet's long wispy plasma tail in full glory and a dusty anti-tail.

www.facebook.com/groups/22700...
#Astronomy
1/n

05.12.2025 13:20 👍 1201 🔁 171 💬 18 📌 6
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The Health Minister says health workers are “cheering” and that laying off nurses is “appropriate.”
The Premier said he saved the health system.
I reminded them that an ER doctor, a nurse, and former hospital CEO are right here in my caucus, and none of us are cheering. #cdnpoli

05.12.2025 09:32 👍 61 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 2
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The Auditor General is sounding the alarm: over 2 million Ontarians still don’t have a family doctor — and Doug Ford has no plan to fix it.

Instead, the's opened the door to privatization with no safeguards to protect patients.

03.12.2025 01:04 👍 123 🔁 56 💬 9 📌 7