Nick de Koning

woman smiling Local woman excited about ditching the car for the unreliable bus that comes every 3.5 hours - "it's the inconvenience that really attracted me."

Local woman excited about ditching the car for the unreliable bus that comes every 3.5 hours - "it's the inconvenience that really attracted me."

New report from @ccpa: Canada’s 100 highest-paid CEOs have smashed every compensation record on the books as average workers fell behind due to inflation. #inequality #wealthtax Part 2/2

Assembly of First Nations calls for withdrawal of Canada-Alberta pipeline deal | CBC News Assembly of First Nations chiefs are demanding the withdrawal of Canada and Alberta’s recently announced new pipeline deal and expressing full support for First Nations on the British Columbia coast t...

www.cbc.ca/news/indigen.... Absolute disrespect for First Nations. Working together must start right at the beginning and continue throughout. Do better PM Carney!

A CBC investigation finds that school time lost due to reported illness is up in all districts that provided data. Experts are looking at bullying, anxiety and other mental health challenges to understand why.

Reported illnesses have tripled in some school districts. Some say mental health is a factor https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/school-absences-illness-mental-health-9.6988661

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter

Op-Ed: Ottawa's costly pursuit of the poor The government cites inefficiency as a reason to end taxes on vacant homes and yachts — yet keeps pouring money into futile litigation over pandemic-era benefits

READ THIS!
www.canadianaffairs.news/2025/11/12/o...
$200K to litigate a case against a social assistance recipient who *may* have received $10K in CERB overpayments is not an "inefficiency", but collecting unpaid taxes on luxury yachts or planes *is* a waste of bureaucratic time?
MAKE IT MAKE SENSE

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Stronger schools start with stronger community input – not less.

Add your name and tell your MPP to support smaller classes and real investment in #OntEd schools to best support students, not more top-down government control.

Say NO to #Bill33: https://www.knowmore.ca/bill33

Why do cycling bridges matter?

Cycling bridges create safe, direct routes for people on bikes, especially across busy roads, railways, or waterways. They remove conflict points with motor traffic, reducing the risk of collisions and making cycling more enjoyable for everyone.

Because this is how science works…

www.thestar.com/business/wou... ‘84% of postal operators globally offer some form of financial services. The median revenue from financial services across postal operators is 19% of total revenues…revenues from banking have been growing’ @simonenoch.bsky.social

Here’s your chance to learn about the Ford government’s latest weapon of mass distraction! Find out how parental and local voices are being silenced.

The Trump Administration Sanctions Palestinian NGOs For Documenting Israeli War Crimes. How The Zionist Trump Administration Uses Sanctions Powers To Crack Down On Critics Of Israel.

open.substack.com/pub/the307/p...

Flight attendants overwhelmingly vote against Air Canada wage offer | CBC News Air Canada flight attendants on Saturday overwhelmingly voted against the airline's latest wage offer, their union said.

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

"The federal government's intervention in the negotiations had a corrosive effect that was impossible to ignore,' the union said.

ANALYSIS | As hunger grows in Gaza, warnings that starvation hits the most vulnerable first | CBC News Despite Israel’s denials of famine and a recent uptick in food delivery, starvation in Gaza is getting worse. Before his death, a 17-year-old described to CBC News how his body and life were shutting ...

www.cbc.ca/news/world/g...

“You actually know that the targeting of your starvation will hit the poorest and most vulnerable first." Call it genocide!

This is the replica of the car in which 6-year-old Palestinian child Hind Rajab was killed while fleeing Gaza City with her family

It was displayed in Bradford, UK, on what would have been her 7th birthday

The original vehicle had been shot 335 times by Israeli forces

Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital A hospital strike in southern Gaza has killed at least eight people, including four journalists. The attack happened on Monday.

Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war.

She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.
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The Air Canada flight attendant strike was illegal. It was also profoundly Canadian Canada’s democracy depends on defiance, not obedience

"The flight attendants have reminded us of a truth as old as Canada’s wartime strikes: when the system refuses fairness, defiance is democracy."

Read the latest from @hassum.bsky.social in @ricochetmedia.bsky.social : ricochet.media/labour/the-a...

“Why Is the World Letting It Happen?”: U.K. Surgeon, Back from Gaza, on Starving Children Dr. Nick Maynard, a surgeon who has just returned from volunteering in Gaza for the past month, describes a pattern reminiscent of “target practice” visible in the injuries medical staff are treating ...

Why is thd world letting the starvation of children happen ? www.democracynow.org/2025/7/25/ni...

Israeli Military Assassinates Five Al Jazeera Journalists in Gaza The Israeli military has assassinated one of the most prominent journalists in Gaza, Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, along with four of his colleagues at the network. They were killed in an I...

Israeli military assassinates 5 Al Jazeera journalists. www.democracynow.org/2025/8/11/he...

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.

#JournalismIsNotACrime

Doonesbury cartoon by Garry Trudeau for August 26, 1982

Israel has been falsely characterizing Palestinian civilians as “terrorists” to justify killing them for decades.

Below is a Doonesbury cartoon on the subject from 1982.

via @bcfinucane.bsky.social

Province, feds need to do more to prepare for wildfire season: chiefs Chiefs in Manitoba are calling for the federal and provincial governments help them better prepare for wildfire season.

Chiefs in Manitoba take province, feds to task over handling of wildfire preparedness www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

To stop Gaza genocide, Canada must escalate pressure on Israel - CCPA Canadian companies, with the approval of the Canadian government, are supplying military equipment for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

Canada is sending hundreds of thousands bullets to Israel as it guns down children waiting in line for food. Not only should Canada cancel arms contracts, it should also cancel trade deals, punish Canadian investors in Israel, and expel Israeli diplomats.

I wrote about it for @policyalternatives.ca

"And you'd divide it up".

He means Ukraine.

Trump has been talking with Putin about dividing up Ukraine.

Why focus on eroding trust in official statistics?
2 big reasons:
For authoritarian governments: they'll tell us what we need to know. Muzzles dissent.
For big biz: most data is proprietary. They may let us pay for it (or not); use it to shape policy & procurement.
Either way, they win, we lose.

Write your MP. It might feel pointless but if we all raise our voices it is something. Condemnation without action is tacit approval.

Those in the West who preach hollow calls for calm and de-escalation must understand the region is hurtling towards the brink. Neither diplomatic platitudes nor sterile press releases will suffice to avert the catastrophe.