Ian Capstick

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Montréal this weekend: 2 major bridges closed, tunnel closed, 30K marathon runners blocking streets, and Monday impeding transit strike + trucker protests slowing traffic from 5-9am. Finally going to try that café 10 min from my house I've never been to 😂 #ClassicMontreal

Tell Carney: We don’t want Trump-style borders & surveillance state! Sign this petition to defend our human rights and privacy

We all breathed a sigh of relief when the country rejected the Maple MAGA politics of Pierre Poilievre. So why does this bill feel like it was written by him?

This divisive piece of legislation has already passed its second reading—we need to voice our concerns NOW.

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Tom Mulcair: Mark Carney’s Liberals are swinging right with no guardrail left In the Jack Layton era, the NDP saw itself as the ‘conscience of Parliament.’ Former NDP leader Tom Mulcair says that conscience is mostly a memory now; and the Liberals are having a 'grand old time ...

Says the guy who single handedly moved the Overton window in Canadian politics *to the right* in his tenure as the social democratic leader?!

That's a bit rich. Oh no wait: the rich is ... who Tom catered to as leader, business elites and Outremont snobs.

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Congratulations Alex, this is a truly important time for your message and an incredible moment in your long career as a human rights leader.

BWI has an art display that celebrates America’s earliest civil rights leaders. I found this quilt pretty amazing. It celebrates Frederick Douglass and more.

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There are 30 em dashes in this article.

You are waiting a little bit too long to pot it, you can put it i soil as soon as the roots are approximately 1"

This is a really,really big deal: and puts into snap focus how devastating the cuts to the global fight against AIDS are.

@shawndearn.bsky.social was just saying our new mantra is "More Ariel's in politics."

whoa. really, really impressive work!

screenshot of a library webpage's entry for my book

Hello Halifax! Your local library now has two copies of my book! Go check it out, literally

This is a useful provocation. Doxxing actions taking collectively should be about abuses of power and real infliction of harm in a social context, not just what's unpopular (or, let's be real, entertaining) to a bunch of folks online.

Indigenous-led data centre in Alberta slated for development amid AI infrastructure boom | CBC News Woodland Cree First Nation is in the process of acquiring an abandoned power plant site for its data centre. If successful, it would be one of the first Indigenous-led data centres in the province.

"It would generate a total of 650 megawatts of on-site natural gas power, with a grid backup, as required by the Alberta Energy Systems Operator."

It's not a great location for a sovereign data center, it sounds like just an excuse to develop more natural gas extraction 🤷 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I asked PCO about media for PM Carney's summit with First Nations. I was told: "Information regarding media access, if any, will be communicated in due course." So, no public access & no media access planned yet from the government. But chiefs? They want to talk. # Indigenous #cdnpoli.

"The majority of Canadians, the poll found, go between 10 and 15 per cent."

Pardon me!? Folks are really out there tipping this little? 😳

All great movements need mimicry. Aire commune is a great choice to implement it, awesome org.

Well that's very cool: Montreal's Aire commune helping Ottawa making better use of their urban space! Bravo! @arieltroster.com

Missouri Star Takes Controlling Interest in Robert Kaufman Fabrics - Craft Industry Alliance Corporate records show that Missouri Star Quilt Company now makes up the majority of the board of Robert Kaufman Fabrics.

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with Kona off my list, now these folks...we need a queer owned quilting cotton company

before that, see: Anglo-Norman invasion

UN AI summit accused of censoring criticism of Israel and big tech over Gaza war - Geneva Solutions A prominent AI scientist says she was pressured by the organisers of the UN’s flagship conference on AI to censor parts of her presentation that criticised Israel over its war in Gaza and the role of tech giants – hours before taking the stage.

4/Reminder: human rights are equal and indivisible. That includes freedom of speech.

The censorship of @abeba.bsky.social‬ for calling out Big Tech’s role in war and genocide, gave me the serious ick. That silenceing speaks volumes. 😒

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Oh wow, that's a really tough set of growing conditions. I think this approach will become more common as climate change continues to heat up the planet 🫠

I leave them to do this wherever they wish, don't interfere with pupating insects was a lesson I learned in horticulture school

Lush!

Early summer check in! How are your gardens coming along? Let me know if you've got questions, pests, problems or want to update me on something we worked on? 🌱 Send an image, detailed description or questions and I can lend a hand... #gardening #garden

There are folks who count every year! www.ontarioinsects.org/counts/

astilbes are lovely right about now

Scenes from Inuk artist Tarralik Duffy’s ‘Klik My Heels’ at the Remai Modern in Saskatoon: Klik

Scenes from Inuk artist Tarralik Duffy’s ‘Klik My Heels’ at the Remai Modern in Saskatoon: Jerry Cans

Scenes from Inuk artist Tarralik Duffy’s ‘Klik My Heels’ at the Remai Modern in Saskatoon: Send Message

Scenes from Inuk artist Tarralik Duffy’s ‘Klik My Heels’ at the Remai Modern in Saskatoon until Oct. 12. “We’ve been colonized by condiments.”