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Bill C-39 would give a single cabinet minister the power to shut down strikes at will, for any reason. Political scientist David Moscrop says it’s going to start a multi-front war with labour unions. Inside the war on the right to strike: https://t.co/EfsygsWh8n

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“Freedom and democracy are no longer compatible,” said billionaire Peter Thiel. Today, as Silicon Valley’s most powerful figures draw closer to Trump, that vision is taking on new significance. Gil Durán on what happens when tech wealth and political power converge: https://t.co/biFBJ0z34H

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Grounded in local realities, Democracy Live connects Winnipeg and Manitoba to the national democratic conversation. Join The Walrus and @dxcsummit on November 9 to address economic sovereignty, diversity, and housing security: https://t.co/bEwYMSj8Bi

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The Walrus is inviting Canadian podcast creators to consider submitting their podcast to be part of the network by Monday, November 30.

The Walrus Podcast Network will include a new flagship show from the media organization, plus a slate of carefully selected independent podcasts that align with The Walrus’s effort to spark conversation on matters vital to Canada.

Read more: https://t.co/fcOEpnzCDD

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Canadians tend to vote against parties, not for them. But what happens in a snap election where some candidates are only weeks old and others skip media interviews entirely?

Contributing writer @michellecyca investigates: https://t.co/dURSQOZQyV

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“The ability to go on strike is the only leverage workers really have,” says Bea Bruske, president of the Canadian Labour Congress. So if Bill C-39 is meant to induce labour peace, why is it aiming to undermine the constitutional right to strike? Our deep dive: https://t.co/OupH2G8SyN

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Declining voter turnout, local media deserts, and social media feeds clogged with foreign disinformation have made the perfect storm for a scandal-plagued snap election. As it approaches, are British Columbians headed to the polls completely in the dark? https://t.co/dURSQOZQyV

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Is Canada heading for a major labour showdown?

A new omnibus bill, C-39, aims to speed up projects. The catch? It would grant federal ministers unprecedented strike-breaking powers. Political scientist @David_Moscrop on the unions fighting back: https://t.co/i6HczTithQ

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25 years ago, Canadarm2 cemented Canada’s role in the International Space Station. On this episode, astronaut Scott Parazynski and Canadian Space Agency flight controller Timothy Braithwaite take us behind the scenes of this landmark mission.

🎧 Listen: https://t.co/cGkxSyLTUL

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“Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house,” said Orwell in pre-chatbot 1946.

Read Jason Guriel’s argument against AI prose: https://t.co/mMCQACj8Aj

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For every dollar in tax collected by the province, Ontario municipalities get just ten cents. Between aging infrastructure and spiralling costs, small towns across the province are struggling to stay afloat.

Here’s the story of one: https://t.co/5Oqial3bYS

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Stanley Kubrick amassed 276 books on Napoleon for a film he never shot. Elizabeth Bishop spent twenty-six years on a moose poem.

“A great work of art demands great labour,” writes Jason Guriel. “It wastes time, not water.”

A rebuke against AI chatbot optimization: https://t.co/pV5yk2BGt5

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What happens when a Northern Ontario town of fewer than 500 people faces a $2.6 million deficit and nobody wants to run for mayor? Read Kunal Chaudhary’s feature on Fauquier-Strickland and the financial pressures facing municipalities across Ontario: https://t.co/5Oqial3bYS

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Since 2016, the City of Toronto has spent about $27 million to design and install bike lanes. It’ll take an estimated $48 million to rip them up.

Here, we crunch some of the numbers for what Doug Ford’s war on bike lanes will cost Toronto’s residents: https://t.co/ppp3a2atMa

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“I bled for thirty-one days, cervix gaping / in the heat of an El Nino summer, / forbidden to swim, have sex, bathe.”

Read Amanda Merritt’s new poem, “Miscarriage.” https://t.co/LZyIkQFHbX

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Canada is shaped by multiple stories and identities. At Democracy Live, hosted by The Walrus and @dxcsummit, speakers share how our democracy grows stronger when we let these shared narratives unite rather than divide us. https://t.co/bEwYMSj8Bi

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Mark Carney can’t stop collecting feathers in his cap. Floor crossers, co-operative Conservative premiers, former leaders and ministers—and now, Saint Stephen Harper himself. How Harper is helping Carney to undermine Pierre Poilievre’s clean partisan divide: https://t.co/uOz3cv42Wm

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“This whole exercise has been a colossal failure, morally, intellectually, and constitutionally.”

In the aftermath of the Alberta vote, our editor-in-chief @cstarnino tries to make sense of what happened and the “cellular weakness” of our institutions: https://t.co/ZBuLrdsW5n

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“I don’t know why we romanticize Old MacDonald. He went bankrupt fifty years ago.”

As traditional family farms give way to corporate agriculture and “entrepreneurial” operators, what are we losing? On the steep rise and fall of a mega farm in Saskatchewan: https://t.co/j3vak3DwQ7

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At its peak, Monette Farms oversaw grain production across 492,000 acres and held 1.2 million acres of cattle grazing leases—an area larger than PEI. Now, the mega farm has entered creditor protection, owing nearly $1 billion. What happened? An investigation: https://t.co/j3vak3DwQ7