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Leadnow
@leadnowca
Uniting and mobilizing progressives in Canada for a just and climate-safe future for all. Also over at bsky as @leadnowca. 🦋
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Joined February 2011
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    📣 Say it with us: the rent is TOO DAMN HIGH. That’s why we are fighting for #HomesForAll — and demanding the government invest in housing solutions that work for us. Share this video, then join the Homes for All campaign 👉 leadnow.ca/HomesForAll @350Canada @smallchangefund
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    If you got $1 every 10 seconds, you’d be a millionaire within 4 months. But receiving the same amount, it would take 310 years to get your first billion. Meanwhile, the world's richest billionaires get $2.5 billion richer -- every day.
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    Check out this badass grandma's mic drop moment in court 👇 #canpoli #stopKM #defendthewater
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    Now imagine if @TorontoStar did this same breakdown for billionaires who receive massive government subsidies while paying their employees poverty wages.
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    Climate leaders don't build pipelines.
    "We’ve had a clear and consistent position supporting this project for years. Our govt is making sure that Canada’s views are heard & considered by the incoming administration at the highest levels," PM Trudeau says of reports Joe Biden plans to cancel Keystone XL permit #cdnpoli
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    Canadians' pensions will no longer be invested in US private prisons. Leadnow members are proud to have pressured the CPP to stop cashing-in on Trump’s cruel anti-immigrant agenda, from zero-tolerance policies, to child separation and migrant detention camps. #CloseTheCamps
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    There's a lot to be proud of about the way we reacted in the face of tragedy yesterday. #TOgether #TorontoTheGood #TorontoStrong
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    Justin Trudeau: “No relationship is more important to Canada than the relationship with Indigenous Peoples.”
    [ID]: A woman winking sarcastically.
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    In a country as wealthy as Canada, we have enough to ensure everyone can meet their basic needs and live a dignified life. Leadnow members are sharing their powerful personal stories about how a #BasicIncome would benefit them. #cdnpoli #GLBI #UBI #VoteForBasicIncome
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    “No country would find 173 billion barrels of oil in the ground and leave them there” 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
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    Concerned citizens have crowdfunded this ad in the @VancouverSun today calling on you to fulfill your promise to protect old-growth @jjhorgan @bcndp. Don’t stand by as they are cut down. Defer logging of all at-risk old-growth now. #bcpoli #OldGrowth @standearth @wildernews
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    This was @JustinTrudeau's answer to a concerned voter's question about his broken promise on electoral reform at a town hall yesterday. 🙄 He has exactly no one fooled, so we changed it to what he really meant.
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    Capitalists: "Capitalism fuels competition! Which is in the best interest of consumers." Actual capitalism:
    Prescription eyeglasses can range from the mid-$200s to more than $1000 a pair in Canada. They're a necessary product, so why are they so expensive? Maybe because one single company, EssilorLuxottica, owns everything from lenses to frames to retailers. cbc.ca/radio/costofli…