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Lorraine Cameron
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❤️💧🌳🦉🐝🦍🐋🦌☮️ 🍉she/her settler on treaty 29 territory Respectfully Residing on Turtle Island
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policyalternatives.ca
ICYMI: "We can see the same gap between what the minimum wage delivers versus what is actually required to afford a decent living by viewing the discrepancy between the minimum wage and the living wage in these provinces." #canlab #LivingWage @simonenoch.bsky.social www.sasktoday.ca/opinion/opin...
Opinion: Minimum wage increases can’t keep pace with rising cost of living
For low-wage workers, a few extra cents an hour won’t close the growing affordability gap.
www.sasktoday.ca
October 6, 2026 at 4:28 PM
raineycameron.bsky.social
I support Wikipedia, where information is still human-created, fact-checked, and 100% free. Join me! donate.wikimedia.org
Make your donation now - Wikimedia Foundation
Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...
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October 5, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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patrickgaley.bsky.social
We're suing the EU under the Aarhus Convention for its failure to disclose vital environmental and efficiency data around the bloc's data centre build out

Investigators spent a year trying to access the information, now we're challenging the non-disclosure
www.lighthousereports.com/methodology/...
Why we made a legal filing to the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee
Officials are holding key environmental impact figures for all AI data centres across Europe. They won’t let the public see them.
www.lighthousereports.com
October 5, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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health-wrregion.bsky.social
Nice support for evidence-based healthcare policy as outlined in your latest report, Not adding up: Surgical and diagnostic privatization in Ontario. Kudos! 😊
#CanadianHealthcare #WaitTimes #Surgery #HealthPolicy #HealthcareReform #Medicare
October 4, 2026 at 7:18 PM
raineycameron.bsky.social
"officials told CNN that the Chinese vessel incident isn't the only time the military has run into AI hallucinations."
An AI hallucination nearly started a war between the US and China
Sources connected to the US military recently told CNN that the US nearly moved to intercept a Chinese vessel in the Middle East this spring based on...
www.techspot.com
October 4, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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health-wrregion.bsky.social
Urgent: Canada’s Public Health Care is Under Attack!
#SaveOurHealthcare #PublicMedicare #CanadaHealthAct #StopPrivatization
When: Tuesday, October 6, 2026, at 7:00 PM ET
Where: Virtual via Zoom
Register here and Zoom will send you the link to the meeting: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 4, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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ricochetmedia.bsky.social
The National Post recently crossed a dangerous line by publishing call for violence against Canada's federal NDP leader.

"Avi Lewis is not the threat that needs to be dealt with, Postmedia is."

NEW from @smohyeddin.bsky.social who breaks it all down:

ricochet.media/media/nation...
National Post crosses dangerous line by publishing call for violence against NDP leader
Avi Lewis is not the threat that needs to be ‘dealt with’ — Postmedia is
ricochet.media
October 3, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Reposted by Lorraine Cameron
freedom.press
The recent release of Meta’s Muse AI agent needs far-reaching access to your data to conduct tasks on your behalf. We keep seeing stories of how that has backfired on users.

Read our newsletter to learn more, and subscribe!
Meta’s Muse AI surprises users — but not in a good way
After granting permission to access a considerable amount of your personal data, agents may behave in unexpected ways. We are not a-Muse’d
freedom.press
September 30, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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alonghurst.bsky.social
If the expansion of for-profit surgical and medical imaging was effective at reducing wait times as the provincial government claims, there would be evidence of improved timely access to care

Yet the evidence shows the opposite to be true

#onpoli
September 28, 2026 at 12:06 PM
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theprogressreport.ca
This apparently-fictional Daniel Robson character was a prolific contributor to the Western Standard, which published at least twenty articles attributed to the name. 'Robson' advocated for less immigration, a harsher justice system, and crackdowns on anti-Zionism.
September 25, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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ehekkala.bsky.social
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September 20, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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unocha.org
In #Haiti, the nutrition situation for hundreds of thousands of children is deteriorating.

Unrelenting violence is forcing families to flee their homes and disrupting children’s access to food and basic healthcare, including malnutrition treatment.

Read: https://bit.ly/4AkdbRJ
September 18, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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emmersonj.bsky.social
Local government really, really matters. My new starter pack for @nationalobserver.com is the perfect refresher as we head into municipal election season 🗳️
nationalobserver.com Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 22d
With municipal elections coming up in several provinces this fall, what is actually on the line? A new starter pack.
Starter Pack: Local Government
Municipalities are largely responsible for your health, safety and well-being.
www.nationalobserver.com
September 17, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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freegrassy.bsky.social
📍 Where to meet for River Run 📍

Join Grassy Narrows this Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 12 PM at Grange Park.

Meet at the south end of the park, where Stephanie St. and John St. intersect.

RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/river...

#FreeGrassy #RiverRun2026
September 17, 2026 at 1:52 PM
raineycameron.bsky.social
"On April 24, the Ford government’s 2026 budget received Royal Assent, passing into law sweeping changes to how freedom of information works in Ontario. The changes excluded the premier, his cabinet and all their staff from disclosing records to the public." #OnPol globalnews.ca/news/1204843...
Inside the Ford government’s pause on all freedom of information requests | Globalnews.ca
The Ford government made the unprecedented decision to pause all transparency requests for more than a week. Here's what happened behind the scenes.
globalnews.ca
September 17, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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wickdchiq.bsky.social
Jay-Z is an errand boy for other billionaires. What this Macklemore situation has shown is how the NFL billionaires colluded against Kaepernick
September 16, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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retractionwatch.com
Union members at @thelancet.com and its affiliated journals will go on strike Sept. 22 for one day with further action planned for the following week, after pay negotiations with parent publisher Elsevier fell apart.

It's the first strike in the journal's 200-year history.
Lancet union declares first-ever strike over staff wages
Union members at The Lancet and its affiliated journals will go on strike Sept. 22 for one day with further action planned for the following week, after pay negotiations with parent publisher Elsev…
retractionwatch.com
September 16, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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lukelebrun.ca
New petition sponsored by Liberal MP Arielle Kayabaga calls for a new criminal offence banning recording / publishing video of vulnerable people in public, including those who are homeless, experiencing mental health crises or impaired due to substance use

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition to the Government of Canada Whereas: • Houseless individuals and those that struggle with mental health are especially vulnerable to exploitation given their circumstances; • The law currently allows these vulnerable people to be filmed and posted on social media without their knowledge and consent often while experiencing crisis; • This practice puts at risk the safety of this community by allowing those that may mean them harm, a tool to find them. This is especially relevant considering that this population that has a high number of domestic violence survivors and is at higher risk for sexual exploitation; • This act can increase stigmatization and of these groups by showing only snapshots of people suffering or in crisis, with no additional context or education; and • This community is unlikely to have the resources to seek out civil remedies and criminal remedies against harassment and thus should be afforded extra protection. We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to create a new provision in the Criminal Code that would make it an offence to knowingly record in public, a person the recorder knows is experiencing "prescribed circumstance of significant vulnerability" for the purposes of publishing or distributing that recording to the public. "Prescribed circumstance of significant vulnerability" include: (a) experiencing homelessness; ( b) experiencing a mental-health crisis or other acute psychological crisis; (c) experiencing significant impairment resulting from alcohol, drugs, or another substance; and (d) experiencing another prescribed circumstance that substantially increases the person's vulnerability to exploitation or serious harm from public exposure.
September 16, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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freegrassy.bsky.social
One week until #RiverRun2026!

#GrassyNarrows is coming to Toronto to demand mercury justice.

Bring your people. March with Grassy Narrows.

📅 Sept 23 • 12 PM
📍 Grange Park, Toronto

RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/river...
September 16, 2026 at 3:31 PM
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d-macphee.bsky.social
From interstitium to quackery?
#Science
www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...
The Organ That “Proved” That Everything Is Connected
Science is elastic. Its findings can be stretched to sell useless gadgets and to sow mistrust. Often, this distortion of the truth is done outside of academia by merchants of doubt, spiritual influenc...
www.mcgill.ca
September 13, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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how-sen.com
So to summarize:
One of the largest private corporations in Canada that’s been found guilty of fixing prices, is using drones to pollute the night sky, to promote the use of an AI chatbot to disclose sensitive personal information, and is part of the privatization of the Ontario health care system.
September 11, 2026 at 12:11 PM
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ciel.org
🚨 Europe’s latest carbon capture project is a dangerous distraction — and a pass to keep on polluting.

The project in the Netherlands risks funneling millions in public money into speculative technologies rather than real decarbonization.
Our reaction: bit.ly/4hds290
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Opening of Europe's largest carbon capture project is a dangerous distraction - CIEL
CIEL experts warn that the opening Europe's largest carbon capture project, risks using billions in taxpayers’ money to fund a dangerous distraction that delays climate action.
bit.ly
September 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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patrickcanning.bsky.social
Carney and Cabinet tried to bury it. It's Cabinet which is supporting him and his incineration of our children's futures.
Canada's Latest Climate Report Should Be Call to Action, Instead Gov't Tried to Bury It - Environmental Defence
Statement from Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate, Environmental Defence Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin
environmentaldefence.ca
September 4, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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harshawalia.bsky.social
While life saving medical & electrical supplies cant go from US into Cuba due to the blockade, it CAN go out thru Canada.

Mariposa Brigade is the first humanitarian aid brigade from Canada to Cuba, coming up quickly next month.

Donate & share to break the blockade:

chuffed.org/project/1826...
The Mariposa Brigade - Canada2Cuba with Love
Cuba is a beacon of international solidarity. Their doctors save lives. Their scientists created five COVID vaccines. But after decades of a cruel US embargo (or bloqueo) tightened during the pandemic...
chuffed.org
September 5, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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greenpeace.org
REMINDER as the UN warns crossing 1.5°C is now unavoidable in the coming years:

1.5°C is not a casual target. It is a VITAL line between safety and chaos.

Every fraction of a degree of warming demands an immediate end to fossil fuels.
September 5, 2026 at 9:00 AM