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Lula: Protect nature and climate When Lula took office, he promised zero deforestation in the Amazon and zero greenhouse gas emissions.Yet he’s caved into lobbying from oil companies, opening up the Amazon basin for drilling and allo

This is Lula's last chance to protect nature and climate: action.eko.org/a/lula-s-las...

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Amazon

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

Ensemble Montréal proposes year-round short-term rentals for residents — not companies | CBC News Ensemble Montréal’s mayoral candidate Soraya Martinez Ferrada says her party would ban companies from operating short-term rentals like Airbnbs, but allow residents to rent out their primary home for ...

montreal’s new mayor wants to rip up bike lanes and create a more permissive regulatory structure for airbnbs. grim result.

Sliders review #28 - The Dream Masters (3x05) - Fandom Entanglement Retro Review #28: “A Nightmare on Fandom Street” The Halloween season is upon us, fellow Slide-heads! And FANDOM ENTANGLEMENT is celebrating the spooky holiday with another retro review of the 90s sci...

It's a Nightmare on Fandom Street! In our spooky #RetroReview of #Sliders, we discuss "The Dream Masters", AKA Revenge of the Nerds on Elm Street.

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Co-hosts @suggie176.bsky.social & @bloxam.bsky.social welcome back @headcast.bsky.social.

Happy Hallowe'en!

I really hope something changes with the prospect of the station closing down. It's my favourite station in #LdnOnt for music!

New report shows 7,200 nurses could be cut in Ontario due to underfunding, on the heels of 13 layoffs announced in North Bay • Ontario Nurses' Association TORONTO, ON, October 28, 2025 – A sobering new report from Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office (FAO) released last week reveals that if the Ford government fails to improve health-care funding, ...

"New report shows 7,200 nurses could be cut in Ontario due to underfunding, on the heels of 13 layoffs announced in North Bay."

“The Ford government must stop gutting our public health care."

BTW, Ring of Fire ads cost up to $150,000 per spot.

#ONpoli
#Healthcare
#nurses

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Student-run radio station 106.9 The X on the chopping block by Fanshawe College | CBC News Nearly 50 years after it made history as Canada's first licensed, instructional campus radio station, London's 106.9 The X now faces an uncertain future.

Many of our grads work in newsrooms across the country and around the globe. We appreciate their support...!
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The winds of change are blowing through the halls of campus this autumn... We awoke today to find our very radio station in the crosshairs of the news headlines. It is a developing story, and we will keep you posted. In the interim, we appreciate your unwavering support at this challenging time.

🎈Happy Birthday... to US! 🎂 47 candles on our cake today!

On this day in 1978, '6X FM' (as it was branded then) launched on Hallowe'en!🎃
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This image shows gauges with the Oct 25 - Nov 7, 2025 Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories. From left to right: Canada: VERY HIGH - 10.5 Alberta: VERY HIGH - 13.0 British Columbia: VERY HIGH - 10.5 Manitoba: VERY HIGH - 10.7 New Brunswick: SEVERE - 15.1 Newfoundland & Labrador: VERY HIGH - 12.2 North: VERY HIGH - 11.7 Nova Scotia: SEVERE - 15.4 Ontario: VERY HIGH - 10.3 Prince Edward Island: VERY HIGH - 10.2 Quebec: HIGH - 9.4 Saskatchewan: SEVERE - 15.9 A text box reads: "The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red)."

Canadian COVID Forecast: Oct 25 - Nov 7, 2025

SEVERE: NB, NS, SK
VERY HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NL, North, ON, PEI
HIGH: QC
MODERATE: none

About 1 in 126 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

A graph showing the past 52 weeks of #COVID19, #Influenza, and #RSV in London, Ontario wastewater.

#COVID19 & #Influenza A are both on the rise in #LdnOnt wastewater. Make a plan to get your #vaccines ASAP & #WearAMask to help stop the spread. Tell indoor places to get an air purifier if they don't have, esp. schools and healthcare.

#MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver #CleanTheAir

Graph courtesy @young.me

I know I’ve said this more than once, and I know it’s really obvious, but taking the train between cities in Europe is just fantastic. So easy.

One of the dumbest mistakes North America ever made, and continues to make, is doing so relatively little with trains. Train networks are nation-building.

@thewaroncars.bsky.social

City buying up properties to widen Highbury at Hamilton The city of London has started the ball rolling on improvements to the increasingly busy intersection of Highbury Avenue and Hamilton Road. They include the widening of Highbury.

@ctvnewslondon.bsky.social What the fresh hell is this? Highbury and Hamilton are already 4-lane highways (stroads). Expanding roads only makes traffic worse! City council needs to put a stop to this senseless and expensive plan.

www.ctvnews.ca/london/artic...

#LdnOnt #CarCulture

Meanwhile in #ONterrible...

#ONpoli #corruption

I guess they've made commitments to Ford's friends to pay them millions even though they're not the best choice, even under the glare of media and the Opposition, even though we know it's corrupt. Ford's government works for Ford's friends, not for Ontario.

"Yeah, we're corrupt. What are you gonna do about it?"

#ONPoli

#ontario #onpoli #DougFord #conservatives #corruption

🚨 ACTION ALERT 🚨 Sign & share the petition to get as many signatures as we can before the deadline: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en.... Pls confirm the House of Commons email after signing.

#onpoli #cdnpoli #healthcare #dougford #markcarney

Electricity rates for households are increasing by nearly 30% starting next month, hidden behind increasing taxpayer-funded subsidies now covering nearly 25% of hydro bills oeb.ca/sites/defaul... #onpoli

Stephen Harper + IDU = the MAGA pipeline to Canada.

Conservative politicians are IDU members with Poilievre as 🇨🇦 chairman; Harper is global chairman.

#cdnpoli #bcpoli #abpoli #onpoli #polqc #nspoli #nbpoli #skpoli #mbpoli #nlpoli #nwt #ytpoli #nunavut #peipoli #IDUPlaybook #CPC #UCP #MeidasCanada

Should have added #OnPoli to this...

Sliders review #27 - The Guardian (3x04) - Fandom Entanglement Retro Review #27: “A Tale of Two Quinns” FANDOM ENTANGLEMENT is back with another retro review of the 90s sci-fi series SLIDERS. But this time, we’re going back to the 80s as we take a look at one of ...

In our latest #RetroReview of #Sliders, one of the best episodes in the entire series, "The Guardian".

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Co-hosts @suggie176.bsky.social & @bloxam.bsky.social welcome back Dave & @tvncoupontalk.bsky.social from @kproductions.bsky.social.

#SciFi #90s #1990s

I sure hope you're right. He somehow got re-elected twice in #ONterrible despite other bad or worse scandals... #ONpoli #FordTheFraud

Listen:
Did he or didn't he pay for the hockey tickets?

What do you think?

Ford's Minister attended Leafs game with lobbyist who then receives $7.5 million from Skills Development Slush Fund.

#ONpoli

Doug Ford's government continues to reek of corruption, and these nepo-babies just keep shoveling out goodies to their cronies and paymasters. #onpoli

Company involved in Ontario medical supply shortages received skills development funding | Globalnews.ca Government records show Bayshore Home Care Solutions received more than $18 million through multiple rounds of the Skills Development Fund, a period it was served by lobbyists.

Ford's gravy train

Company that failed to deliver medication to elderly and palliative patients received $18 million from the Skills Development Slush Fund.

When taxes and contracts are given to Conservative donors—patients are left in pain.

#ONpoli #OntHealth

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SARS2 is a Biohazard @mysteriousrona "You can die from many different things" is not a good argument to forgo Covid precautions. Yes, there are many hazards in life, and that's why safety procedures are made: to mitigate the risk of injury and death. SARS2 is a persistent hazard that require safeguards. 3:49 AM · Oct 17, 2025 · 5,918 Views

By SARS2 is a Biohazard

"You can die from many different things" is not a good argument to forgo Covid precautions. Yes, there are many hazards in life, and that's why safety procedures are made: to mitigate the risk of injury and death. SARS2 is a persistent hazard that require safeguards.

Excellent piece.

Every time this discourse rolls around they treat those of us that mask like we’re hypochondriacs.

No we’re the ghosts of infections past.

We plead with you so that you can avoid our fate. In return you mock us.

#MECFS #LongCovid

Beyond all reason Long COVID patients are constantly harangued about our requests for COVID safety. Yet what we're asking for is far less than what we're called on to do to survive.

People continue to call COVID advocates’ pleas for masking “unreasonable”.

Yet people who’ve already been disabled by COVID have no choice but to live with the “unreasonable” burdens of constant COVID safety.

My latest:
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