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New Polaris Collaboration Session!
@TheWeatherStn’s “I Tried to Wear the World (feat. @JNFRCASTLE)"
Performance: bit.ly/2NCLajK
Interview: bit.ly/2MkCABF
Sponsored by @stingraymusic
Big thanks to @StViateurBagel for making Will Kidman’s dream come true and replacing his long lost bagel bag.
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We have some lovely new lawn signs on the way. Help us buy more, so all of our neighbours can hear about #ProRep. 🏡 makeeveryvotecount.ca/donate… #PR4BC
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Pleased to announce alongside Mayor @JohnTory that beginning today, PRESTO card users in Toronto will be able to hop on and hop off a #TTC streetcar, subway, or bus within a two-hour time period without having to pay an additional fare.
More details at prestocard.ca/en/
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When Greyhound Canada ends its bus service in the Western provinces in October, about 300 communities will be left without intercity bus service. cbc.ca/1.4761391 @robroc
Sometimes you are in no frills killing time and it takes all of your power to not buy every pickled treat there is.
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ALARMING: All-time hottest temperature records set ALL OVER THE WORLD this past week: bit.ly/2KvaiDH That's why we need URGENT climate action! Image from UMaine's Climate Reanalyzer, a GR8 resource at bit.ly/2OP6dh4 #climatechange #GlobalWarming #Sustainability
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failure to take needed #ClimateAction puts all of us in danger.. especially future generations.
inaction now is like stealing viable futures from our children and grandchildren. 💔
must embrace solar, tidal, wind, geothermal clean energy ASAP. 🌟✅ bbc.com/news/science-environ…
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My fave conservative dude: “Nobody helped me, I had to work hard, I never asked the government for anything, I worked two jobs, and I want it to stay just like that, hard and bad, no help for anyone, no improvements, just awful and shitty forever.”
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Average monthly rent on a one-bedroom apartment in this city is now over $2,000, For a house? Almost a million. Subsidized housing for the poor? If you don’t already live in it, forget about it: the wait list is over 92,000 names long, @thekeenanwire:
thestar.com/opinion/star-col…
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Making others happy is not a question of sacrificing our own happiness. Trying to make others happy, even when we do not always succeed, is a source of great satisfaction. Anger and hatred are signs of weakness, while compassion is a sure sign of strength.
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Democracy means one person one vote, not billionaires buying elections. We need to #FixDemocracyNow by overturning Citizens United, moving toward public funding of elections, and ending voter suppression.
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Chomsky commends the Swedish woman who stopped a deportation: “Here’s one young woman standing up alone to try to prevent a person from being killed in difficult and hostile conditions. Large-scale civil disobedience could achieve a great deal more.” ow.ly/HcS630l9Jvl
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Start your week off with a gorgeous song from The Weather Station (@TheWeatherStn).
#SitchSession bit.ly/2JwLF93