CJ Gjaltema

CJ Gjaltema

@perfecthour.bsky.social

West Coast Canadian feminist lefty.

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While our banker PM builds new pipelines, the UK is investing in green technologies. You are going the wrong way Carney.

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UK is approaching an energy milestone that would have seemed impossible during the Industrial Revolution #OffshoreWind has become one of Britain’s strongest energy advantages due to favorable coastal conditions. Massive offshore installations now generate electricity at utility scale #ActOnClimate

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Carney is selling every remaining asset that belongs to Canada, to the rentier class, so that we are paying rent and interest on them forever. This has already been done to our housing. Canadians need to stop and reverse this government, fast.

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The Liberals’ pipeline is dividing Canada—and causing some Liberal MPs to run for the hills. And while Carney doubles down on new fossil fuel projects, he’s backsliding on the rights of Indigenous peoples while lining the pockets of the billionaire class, (1/2)

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Corporations will spend billions on union-busting attorneys and union-avoidance specialists to silence workers, but at the same time say there’s no money for better working conditions. Workers deserve better. Unions are how we take back our power and win.

epi.orgU.S. employers spend more than $1.5 billion annually on union avoidanceKey takeaways Many U.S. employers hire union avoidance consultants to keep their workers from organizing and bargaining for better pay and working conditions. We estimate that employers spend roughly ...

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Today is the 115th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire: 148 workers killed, most of them young Jewish immigrant women. Survivors like Pauline Newman fought for child labor protections. The @forward.com asks what it means that those protections are eroding again. forward.com/opinion/8095...

forward.comWe're forgetting the lessons of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fireStates have been gradually rolling back the protections that activists like Pauline Newman and Clara Lemlich bravely fought for

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You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

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Jeff Bezos is worth $220 billion. After building that fortune from overworking and exploiting his own workers, Bezos is now developing a fund to acquire manufacturing companies and automate them. Why do we always hear about immigrants taking jobs when the oligarchs are actually to blame?

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Thousands across the world joined marches marking International Women's Day on March 8, calling for the defense of women's rights.

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Replying to @thedailyshow.com

Not only deranged, extremely delusional and immature as well. Quite on par for Republicans, Maga, and way too many Americans these days. Their egotism knows no boundaries. Sorry, Canada will not be your new punching bag.

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While America collapses under the weight of its own bigotry, Europe creates a better future for trans women 👍🏼

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The EU has just voted, by a VERY wide margin, for the full recognition of trans women as women…!

As a British Columbian/Canadian, I can’t tell you how much I despise Alberta politics. They are actively trying to destroy our country. I feel sorry for all the good hard working people of the province.

Alberta is “the first province to legislate two‑tier health care and private health insurance for medically necessary services,” warning it could mark “the end of Canadian medicare as we know it” if other provinces follow. @alonghurst.bsky.social @reecca.bsky.social www.hcamag.com/ca/specializ...

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Canada’s auto industry is facing huge pressures, leaving workers and businesses in a state of uncertainty. So we’re taking control — and launching a new strategy that will transform the industry to be a global leader in electric vehicles.

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Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠

levernews.comA Secret Oil Cartel Might Have Killed Our Clean-Energy FutureIn a landmark antitrust case, Michigan alleges oil companies colluded to “capture and kill” clean-energy and electric-vehicle efforts.

Congratulations to the Conservative Party of Canada. Thank you for ensuring that we can take comfort knowing that we won’t have to worry about a Conservative Government anytime in the near future.

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🍁 "To go to a foreign country (🇺🇸) and to ask for assistance in breaking up Canada, there's an old fashioned word for that: 𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣" - BC Premier youtu.be/5lWixStLO4I?... Meanwhile Danielle Smith probably thinks she can use the Notwithstanding clause to separate without a referendum. 🤡🤣

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Alberta is the front line in the fight for democracy. Canadians need to step up to help. Contact your MP and demand a parliamentary investigation into foreign interference to help the quislings threatening Canada. charlieangus.substack.com/p/if-alberta...

I am rewatching Law and Order, and for anyone shocked by what is happening in the US and wondering how did you get here, you shouldn’t be. The exact same stories were being told 20 years ago.

When are the citizens from the US going to get it, the only way to get your country back is it to SHUT IT DOWN! The only thing the GOP and its supporters care about, other than power, is money. So hit them in the pocket book. Shut down ports, airports, banks, highways. Hit them where it hurts.

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We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.

nonviolent-conflict.orgCANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNCYou may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r...

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The worker who called Trump a “pedophile protector” has been suspended. He says he has “definitely no regrets whatsoever,” adding: “I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity. And today I think I did that.” wapo.st/4sG38CD

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The bottom line is Trump is a rapist & pedophile and anyone who supports him is complicit in that including that nice lady next door that goes to church twice a week but votes Republican. #Reality

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A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Heading into 2026 hating my neighbours for the nonstop fireworks. I have two dogs that are terrified, shaking and crying and trying to crawl onto my lap and they are not lap dogs. Fireworks are prohibited in my province but that doesn’t seem to stop people from getting them.

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