Blake Hamilton

Amen to that! Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin on the beauty of finding compromise through coalition government youtube.com/shorts/_6wr5sS… via @YouTube

A decade ago today, a massive tsunami caused 3 reactors in Japan to melt down & suffer hydrogen gas explosions. No one was killed, or even harmed, by radiation. Yet thousands did die because of an unnecessary evacuation, stoked by inflated & irrational fear of radiation.

Black History Month honour to Richard Pierpoint — Black Loyalist soldier who petitioned for an all-Black unit in 1812. Man of action. #BlackHistoryMonth

This Black History Month: Fred Hampton — brilliant young organizer whose vision scared the powerful. #BlackHistoryMonth

Spotlighting Gloria Baylis this Black History Month — Barbadian-Canadian nurse who beat racist hiring discrimination in court decades before the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. #BlackHistoryMonth

Black History Month salute to Ida B. Wells — journalist who exposed lynching with unmatched courage. #BlackHistoryMonth

Celebrating Donovan Bailey for Black History Month — one of the fastest humans ever and still Canada’s sprint king. #BlackHistoryMonth

Black History Month love to Gwendolyn Brooks — poet of Black life with a pen like lightning. #BlackHistoryMonth

Celebrating Portia White for Black History Month — contralto powerhouse who stunned Europe and carved out space for Black Canadian artists. #BlackHistoryMonth

We wish a happy birthday to Martha Hackett, who played Sub-Commander T'Rul in two episodes of Deep Space Nine but is best known as the duplicitous not-Bajoran-but-actually-Cardassian Seska on Voyager. #StarTrek

In 2015, we produced a video with York U professor Denis Pilon explaining how Mixed Member Proportional could work in Canada. Ten years later, the case is even clearer. We need consensus and collaboration, not unchecked power won in a few swing ridings. youtu.be/D3guVBhKmDc

Black History Month spotlight: Benjamin Banneker — astronomer + mathematician who mapped the early District of Columbia #BlackHistoryMonth

This Black History Month we salute Hugh Burnett — carpenter turned civil-rights legend who forced Ontario to confront segregation. #BlackHistoryMonth

Thank you to @TonyMcQuail for putting proportional representation at the centre of the NDP leadership debate. Calling out 38 to 40% false majorities takes courage. Canada deserves a voting system where seats actually reflect how people vote.

Honouring Pauli Murray this Black History Month — lawyer, priest, poet, and blueprint-writer for Brown v. Board. #BlackHistoryMonth

Black History Month spotlight on Juanita Westmoreland-Traoré — Québec’s first Black judge and first Black law dean in Canada. #BlackHistoryMonth

For Black History Month: James Reese Europe — jazz innovator who brought Harlem’s sound to WWI Europe. #BlackHistoryMonth

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Seawater uranium: abundance on standby.