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Simon Ostler Consulting — Former TV news managing editor and executive producer, current journalism prof at Fanshawe College

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Postal union launches nationwide strike after Ottawa gives Canada Post the OK to end home delivery Other changes could include closing of rural post offices as Public Works minister cites "unsustainable" losses at Crown corporation.

#Breaking: Postal union launches nationwide strike after Ottawa gives Canada Post the OK to end home delivery

25.09.2025 21:36 — 👍 112    🔁 43    💬 17    📌 50
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BREAKING: US judge approves $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement with authors reut.rs/3IkzUXU

25.09.2025 21:18 — 👍 101    🔁 47    💬 5    📌 9
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Trump signs order allowing TikTok deal to proceed A deal still isn't done, but it's closer to happening than it's ever been before.

BREAKING: Trump signs order allowing TikTok deal to proceed

25.09.2025 21:18 — 👍 9    🔁 7    💬 11    📌 4
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Comedian Drew Lynch was onstage and had just begun his stand-up set when he saw a man in the audience who was in cardiac arrest.

After the man was taken to the hospital, Lynch resumed his set — but not as he had originally intended. https://wapo.st/4pLAXRA

25.09.2025 15:15 — 👍 139    🔁 23    💬 5    📌 5

Deleted the bird app… again. Really going to try to stay off it this time. Despite having over 10,000 followers I only ever hear from one troll who says vile things to me for no reason. Sad to see that platform erode from a true town square into a toxic cesspool. But there’s no bringing it back.

24.09.2025 17:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Air Canada begins cancelling flights this morning as flight attendants strike looms on Saturday Airline says it will cancel 500 flights by the end of the day Friday affecting 130,000 travellers a day, including 25,000 Canadians who may risk being stranded abroad.

#Breaking: Air Canada begins cancelling flights this morning as flight attendants strike looms on Saturday

14.08.2025 15:10 — 👍 18    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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In my Pitching in the Changing Media Landscape workshop, your team learns exactly how to cut through the noise and land coverage in 2025’s fast-moving media environment. www.linkedin.com/posts/simono...

12.08.2025 21:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In the news today: 10 candidates in Alberta byelection to debate Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed...

Top things to know for today:

1️⃣ 10 candidates in Alberta byelection to debate
2️⃣ 'Worst-case scenario of famine' is happening in Gaza, food crisis experts say
3️⃣ Businesses hoping for carveouts in potential deal
4️⃣ Motion on B.C. injection site closure deferred

29.07.2025 13:19 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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In a world of AI and algorithms, authenticity is your secret weapon People aren’t looking for perfect.

open.substack.com/pub/simonost...

28.07.2025 13:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How can you not absolutely love this Edmonton crowd’s energy? Amazing.

07.06.2025 00:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Harvard sues Trump administration to halt federal ban on enrolling international students | CNN Harvard University is opening a new front in its legal battle against the Trump administration, filing suit in federal court Friday in response to the government’s move to revoke the school’s ability ...

BREAKING: Harvard University is suing the Trump administration to halt the federal ban on the school enrolling international students

23.05.2025 12:35 — 👍 685    🔁 110    💬 49    📌 17

Is anyone seeking a penguin 🐧 comment?

03.04.2025 15:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Tariffs Hit Antarctic Islands Inhabited by Zero Humans and Many Penguins The Heard and McDonald Islands are among the dozens of targets of President Donald Trump's latest round of tariffs. But they have no exports, because no one lives there.

This is not an April Fool’s Joke and not from The Onion. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

03.04.2025 12:02 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

I think Sandy and Jan are my two favourite shortcut co-hosts.

02.04.2025 13:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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This is real. Trump appears to be suggesting his tariffs on Canada will result in fentanyl dealers getting dinged at customs.

02.04.2025 11:59 — 👍 95    🔁 37    💬 27    📌 19
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Myanmar quake death toll passes 1,600, as junta lets in foreign rescuers Myanmar's military rulers let in hundreds of foreign rescue personnel on Saturday after an earthquake killed more than 1,600 people, the deadliest natural disaster to hit the impoverished, war-torn country in years.

Friday's 7.7 magnitude quake, among the biggest to jolt the Southeast Asian nation in the last century, crippled airports, bridges and highways amid a civil war that has wrecked the economy and displaced millions reut.rs/4l8rwsN

29.03.2025 18:21 — 👍 169    🔁 40    💬 6    📌 6
A small gray dog struts across the street, wearing a pink tshirt and pink sunglasses

A small gray dog struts across the street, wearing a pink tshirt and pink sunglasses

IMPORTANT: this dog I saw

28.03.2025 19:29 — 👍 5454    🔁 565    💬 118    📌 51

NEW - Angus Reid Institute poll has the Liberals at 46%, the Conservatives at 38% and the NDP at 7%. The Conservatives are at 72% of firmly committed vote, while the Liberals are at 51%. #bcpoli

24.03.2025 22:28 — 👍 53    🔁 12    💬 8    📌 3
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

🚨This might be Story of the Year.

It should be shared everywhere.

“I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family & even politicians advocating for me. Yet, I was still detained for nearly 2 weeks. Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there.”

20.03.2025 19:15 — 👍 602    🔁 259    💬 14    📌 14
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

This is just a wild and disturbing story www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

20.03.2025 01:36 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

An idea for John Oliver’s “And Now, This” segment: News anchors wearing green standing in front of the green screen on St. Patrick’s Day ☘️

17.03.2025 20:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a roller coaster in a park with a blue sky behind it ALT: a roller coaster in a park with a blue sky behind it

U.S. tariff policies this week 🎢 www.cnn.com/2025/03/06/e...

06.03.2025 20:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Another Canadian politician leaves X

05.03.2025 11:58 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Says Tariffs Will Stop When Opioid Deaths Fall. They’ve Already Fallen. A top administration official said that, without new declines, tariffs on Canada and Mexico were appropriate. But the kind of real-time data he demanded doesn’t exist.

Trump says tariffs will stop when opioid deaths fall. They’ve already fallen, by @sangerkatz.bsky.social @joshkatz.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/u... via @nytimes.com #ToxicDrugCrisis

05.03.2025 11:37 — 👍 53    🔁 15    💬 6    📌 1

The USA does NOT subsidize Canada. This is not true and needs to be called out for the lie it is.

05.03.2025 03:03 — 👍 330    🔁 84    💬 12    📌 6
USA wines have been removed from LCBO shelves

USA wines have been removed from LCBO shelves

USA alcohol has been removed from LCBO shelves

USA alcohol has been removed from LCBO shelves

Local LCBO shelves are now cleared of American products. As one of the largest purchasers of alcohol on the planet, losing LCBO business will hurt the US. Trump can stop this by reversing course on the tariffs! #topoli #onpoli #cdnpoli

05.03.2025 01:58 — 👍 70    🔁 25    💬 6    📌 2

What a shot

04.03.2025 18:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Easy to lose this in the noise of the day, but the prime minister of Canada just said the US president, leader of the global hegemon, wants to soften us up economically so he can annex us.

That is one of the most remarkable statements, and realities, in our history.

04.03.2025 16:54 — 👍 14424    🔁 3720    💬 357    📌 199
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Warren Buffett Rebukes Trump’s Tariffs Plan in CBS Interview: ‘Act of War’ The rebuke of President Trump’s tariff plans came just days before sweeping tariffs on Canada and Mexico were expected to go into effect.

Warren Buffett, the famed investor who runs the sprawling conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, described tariffs as “an act of war” in an interview with CBS.

04.03.2025 03:41 — 👍 3717    🔁 987    💬 127    📌 63

Will Canadian politicians
be next?

04.03.2025 03:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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