Greg Bester 🇨🇦

Removing bike lanes…LOST Privatizing water…LOST 1000 more cops…LOST Crazy debts schemes…LOST Toronto’s right-wing influencer class…LOST Mr. Ontario Proud…LOST BRAD BRADFORD…LOST.

Well, Waterloo was a disaster, but at least Toronto elected Chow.

Bye bye Brad

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Jonathan Goldsbie

@goldsbie.bsky.social

CBC calls the mayoral election for Olivia Chow.

Please God.

Ed Tubb@edtubb.bsky.social

And Olivia Chow takes her first lead of the night with the counting still early. www.thestar.com/news/gta/cit...

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I have no words.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

paydayreport.comBrazilian Federal Police Confiscate Flavio Bolsonaro’s PassportHe faces investigation for his ties to paramilitary gangs

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Taking odds on Trump issuing him a US passport and sending a private jet to bring him to the States.

Mike Elk@mikeelk.bsky.social

Flávio Bolsonaro had his passport confiscated by the Brazilian fed police as his brother Eduardo told him to flee to the US. He is tied to paramilitary gangs, is being investigated & lost his legislative immunity when he left the Senate to run for president. paydayreport.com/brazilian-fe...

cultmtl.comMark Carney is more popular among NDP voters than Avi LewisAccording to a study by the Angus Reid Institute, Prime Minister Mark Carney is more popular among NDP voters than NDP leader Avi Lewis.

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Given that the NDP spent 15 years before Avi Lewis purging socialists from the party, this is not surprising.

Cult MTL@cultmtl.com

“A large majority of NDP voters (71%) say they approve of Mark Carney.”

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The Beaverton

@thebeaverton.com

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B.C. Conservatives celebrate election win by burning down old growth forest

thebeaverton.comB.C. Conservatives celebrate winning election by burning down old growth forest“We wanted to signal to the forestry industry that we won’t be precious about the little things, like the continued existence of 1000-year-old trees."

reut.rsEXCLUSIVE: US, Canada working on deal to ease steel, auto tariffs, sources sayThe United States and Canada are working on a deal to ease US tariffs on Canadian steel and autos, two US and ‌four Canadian sources said, as the two governments try to repair relations that soured after trade talks broke down in August.

15h

Carney can't wait to throw Trmp a lifeline.

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John Michael McGrath

@jm-mcgrath.bsky.social

17h

No concessions until the midterms!

Reuters@reuters.com

EXCLUSIVE: US, Canada working on deal to ease steel, auto tariffs, sources say reut.rs/4szXqCL

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Oliver Willis

@owillis.bsky.social

16h

Area Mayor Plays Basketball On Public Property

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social

New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academy’s gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball — scrambling some operations at the facility. w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

politico.comMamdani is using NYPD gym to host pickup basketball games with friendsThe choice of location has scrambled NYPD training operations, angering a police union and a Republican lawmaker.

16h

How deep is their wallet?

The Rundown@therundowntvo.bsky.social

How long can Waymo avoid Doug Ford’s ire? @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social and @spaikin.bsky.social consider what could happen when self-driving taxis meet Toronto traffic and provincial politics, on the #onpli podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0zk...

16h

No matter how many times I tell Liberals that I'm not interested in talking to them on here, they just can't help themselves.

17h

Yes, why the fuck are you signing then?

Scott Robertson@sarobertson.bsky.social

Reporter: You said about the U.S., "We recognize that sometimes its signature was written in pencil." I'm wondering how you know that this time the president will sign in pen? Mark Carney: I don't know that. Do you have a follow-up?

20h

I read "The Hidden Injuries of Class", years ago. That little voice is in all of us first generation university grads.

Daniel Munro@dkmunro.bsky.social

From the outside, I have all the markings and credentials of a person who should “fit” in academia (for better or worse). But there’s a little Bourdieu who sits on my shoulder and whispers “habitus” and “your Dad was a high school drop-out truck-driver” at all the wrong times.

338canada.com338Canada | Abacus Data federal poll, October 2026

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Canada seems to be a pretty happy with the march of privatization and deregulation. Conservative parties hold 80 percent of the vote. Either that, or there are a bunch of Canadians who are willing to sacrifice medicare and the environment because of Trump.

Philippe J. Fournier@338canada.bsky.social

📊Federal 🇨🇦 voting intentions from Abacus Data: 🔴LPC 48% 🔵CPC 32% 🟠NDP 9% ⚜️BQ 6% (26% in QC) 🟢GPC 3% 🟣PPC 1% → 338canada.com/20261019-aba... [Abacus Data, October 17-21, 2026, n=1,500] #canpoli

christoaivalis.bsky.social

Meanwhile, Carney wants Musk to know he's really, really mad about the whole Ukraine thing. That's it .

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

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Ben Collins

@bencollins.bsky.social

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

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@christoaivalis.bsky.social

I know the contexts are different, but Eby-ism failed, while Lula stormed to a comeback win tonight Lessons for the NDP going forward. In my humble view, Avi Lewis' vision for the party is far more Lula than Eby. That's a good thing.

The color of your skin makes you American? The god you pray to?

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."

If Lula wins, the planet wins.

Paris Marx@parismarx.com

Carney is so angry he will feel really terrible when he does nothing to penalize that (of course) unnammed person.

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Mark Carney on Elon Musk crippling Ukraine’s Starlink: “I search for the right adjective to describe whoever took this decision… against a country that is literally fighting for the lives of its citizens against naked aggression."

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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁

@fairvote.ca

BC election data shows 52% of voters stayed home. Global data shows all things being equal proportional elections have higher turnout than systems built solely on single-winner-ridings, because proportional representation means everyone feels they have a voice.

@sustainablesong.bsky.social

I hope one lesson is FPTP has got to go. Of course, I've hoped that since 1980. Next time for sure, eh?

Club Saanich@thesaanichdaily.bsky.social

Record low NDP voter turnout caused this. 275,000 fewer NDP votes. Congratulations to the #BCGreens the only party to actually gain votes. I never want to hear about "strategic voting" again. The NDP couldn't even be bothered to vote "strategically" for their own party. #bcpoli #cdnpoli

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Michael Nabert

Replying to @christyceeck.bsky.social

Carney is the Shock Doctrine in an expensive suit, & "the world's a dangerous place" is his thought terminating cliché. Therefore, according to Carneyism, we can't afford a liveable climate, or human rights, or privacy, or public goods, or anything but absolute surrender to oligarchs on all fronts.

And Carney will do nothing.

Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉@alonghurst.bsky.social

Under the CPBC, I expect BC will follow AB, QC, ON by aggressively privatizing surgeries, diagnostics, long-term care CPBC platform calls for publicly funded vouchers for surgeries and long-term care. This will expand the private for-profit health care industry #bcpoli

Preach brother!

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Given the expressions of outrage from BC, I'm not confident lessons were learned. Not about neoliberalism and certainly not about electoral reform.

thebeaverton.comBC nobly sacrifices good governance to teach one man about hubrisVICTORIA - The electorate of British Columbia – a province with a population of roughly 5.7 million – has officially and heroically voted against its own self-interest with the sole intention of teach...

David Eby was a master at hubris. He needed no lessons from anyone.

The Beaverton@thebeaverton.com

BC nobly sacrifices good governance to teach one man about hubris

cbc.caMinister gives Stelco owner 15 days to reverse layoffs before turning to the courts | CBC NewsIn a demand letter sent to Ohio-based Cleveland-Cliffs, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly says the company is violating its commitments under the Investment Canada Act and it has 15 days to resolve the i...

And this time, she really, really means it. Cross her heart. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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elcanaco.bsky.social

@elcanaco.bsky.social

BC Greens got 11% of the vote and only 2 seats. If we had proportional representation, Greens would have 10 seats in the BC legislature. Our electoral system in BC in must change. #cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanpoli

The consultants who actually run the party, beg to disagree. Everything went perfectly. Nothing needs to change. The voters are just grumpy.

Scott Forbes🇨🇦@theecologyprof.bsky.social

My take? Eby's snap election moved up what was going to happen anyway. They were going to lose the next election under Eby. A long-in-the-tooth centre-right NDP govt with a charisma-free leader was ripe for the picking. Now they have a chance to reinvent themselves as a genuine progressive party.

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Nadia

@neabraham.bsky.social

Maybe it’s because I’m disappointed in Carney (ramming Bill C-39 through & pumping up data centre development to name a few reasons) but I find this clip sinister. Naked capitalism disguised in doublespeak about “stability.”

Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social

This is Canada’s path.

Evergreen

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Richly deserved.

Aaron Wherry@aaronwherry.bsky.social

Congratulations to David Peterson, who will no longer be the first David people think of when discussing the potential peril of triggering an early election.

Carney is now pushing "values based realism" which I liken to sinning all week , confessing on Sunday and then going back to sinning on Monday.

@guygavrielkay.bsky.social

It means you can do any shitty thing you want and still think of yourself as a good person. "I have values but realism made me sell off Canada." It's a perfect philosophy for the Liberal Party of Canada.

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Guy Gavriel Kay

A lot of people don’t know this but racist shithead has a D at the end.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Somalia -- 98% of the people here now from Somalia don't work. They don't have to work because they steal so much. They all have a Mercedes Benz. Low IQ and they live better than you do."

We have much better PR.

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showbiz411.comControversial "Musk" Documentary Pulled From Almost Every One of 472 Theaters After One Week by Newly Sold Bleecker Street Films - Showbiz411Alex Gibney's "Musk" movie is pretty much gone. Released October 9th to four theaters, it expanded to 472 last Friday. And now, one week later it's gone

Billionaires must become millionaires.

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social

This seems like a big deal

cbc.caNature vs. bulldozers: The environment minister's balancing act at UN nature summit | CBC NewsCanada is showing up at this year's international nature summit in Armenia with pledges to protect swaths of land bigger than most countries. But it's also facing criticism for advancing major project...

Herself mostly, but also Bluesky Liberals.

TinkieGurl 🇨🇦 #ForeverCanadian@tinkiegurl.bsky.social

Who the fuck is she trying to fool? "There's nothing in the policies we're putting forward that reduces our environmental standards," Dabrusin said." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...