#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@simonostler.bsky.social
Simon Ostler Consulting — Former TV news managing editor and executive producer, current journalism prof at Fanshawe College
#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 📌 50BREAKING: US judge approves $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement with authors reut.rs/3IkzUXU
25.09.2025 21:18 — 👍 101 🔁 47 💬 5 📌 9Comedian 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
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#Breaking: Air Canada begins cancelling flights this morning as flight attendants strike looms on Saturday
14.08.2025 15:10 — 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1In 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 📌 0Top 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
How can you not absolutely love this Edmonton crowd’s energy? Amazing.
07.06.2025 00:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0BREAKING: 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 📌 17Is anyone seeking a penguin 🐧 comment?
03.04.2025 15:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This 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 📌 1I think Sandy and Jan are my two favourite shortcut co-hosts.
02.04.2025 13:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1This 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 📌 19Friday'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 📌 6A 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 📌 51NEW - 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🚨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.”
This is just a wild and disturbing story www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
20.03.2025 01:36 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0An 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 📌 0Another Canadian politician leaves X
05.03.2025 11:58 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Trump 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
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 📌 6USA wines have 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 📌 2What a shot
04.03.2025 18:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Easy 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.
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 📌 63Will Canadian politicians
be next?