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I don't think the posted list is final yet. Otherwise there are several ridings where the incumbent is running uncontested

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I've signed up for the presale

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Maëlys @mlys.bsky.social · 19h

Great way to meet equity goals on paper but not in practice!

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Or if that's where they'll stick the candidate that is part of a minority (and never in electable ridings).

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When you live in a "safe" riding the big election question is if the other parties will even pretend they want to campaign or if they're just gonna choose someone who lives 400 km away to put on signs

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 20h

Liam Millar won me over with club play this year and I'm glad to see him performing on the national team.

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I had to go back in the broadcast to watch this and yeah, literally, just started up an instrumental as the crowd and players looked confused

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 21h

The Millar to Schaffelburg pipeline 🇨🇦

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Jean-François Téotonio @jfteotonio.bsky.social · 21h

Les Canadiens portent un brassard noir en honneur du père de Maxime Crépeau, présent ici aujourd'hui. Ismaël Koné et Moïse Bombito sont ici aussi. Samuel Piette a été honoré avant le match. Il va entrer probablement en deuxième demie.

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 21h

*goose meme* mouthpiece for who? Mouthpiece for who!?

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 21h

Also interesting to have Jebbison up top over Larin or Promise

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Anyways, more than a hundred people showed up for a walk on Wednesday where they learned about the specific history of the place I live. Some had not heard it before. And they received it with openness and humility and I think that's how this keeps working

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Not new observations, I know. But just on my mind

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People who wear shirts like "show me the evidence" have decided the entire day and movement is based on one specific thing that is still moving through process, and which they have opted to make the centrepiece of decades of work and understanding, as if refuting it refutes everything else

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If you attend events like the one I did this week, the focus is on the local history and community and relationship between First Nations and those who came later. It is not predicated on any one specific thing or moment -- it's about the broader history and relationship and local context

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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation - Wikipedia

The federal government tabled legislation to make it a national holiday first in 2019, then again in 2020. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa... all of this predates T'Kemlups

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Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada - NCTR

It overlapped with the nearly-decade long TRC Commission of Canada, which collected testimony and evidence from hundreds of survivors and documents across the country One of its recommendations was also to make a national holiday to recognize and reflect nctr.ca/about/truth-...

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About the TRC The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) was created through a legal settlement between Residential Schools Survivors, the Assembly of First Nations, Inuit representatives...

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Sept. 30 the national holidays has its roots as Orange Shirt Day, first marked in Williams Lake in 2013. It spread to other B.C. communities and then across Canada as a way to educate and recognize residential school experiences in specific communities

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And to a degree I understand why they are conflated if you weren't paying attention: the T'Kemlups announcement was in May 2021. TRC was made a holiday that summer and then marked later that fall. But the decision to mark TRC Day as a holiday started much before that...

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Re: the T'Kemlups masked gathering, the Sooke bar owner's t-shirt, etc, I notice a common theme is a belief that National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is somehow based solely on the findings in T'Kemlups and not a much larger reckoning w/ decades of Canadian history

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TW: discussion of residential school denialism

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Another pretty good example of how Canada and the United States are quite different, culturally, actually

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What it was like being in the room for Christa Pike's botched execution | CBC Radio

Aside from the obvious, the weirdest part of this whole thing for me is that there are just designated journalists who watch a person get killed against their will? Like just a part of the job? "What did you do today?" "Watched a life be taken out" www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

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Reporter Will Puckett says he may never sign up to witness another execution after what happened to Christa Pike, but he has no regrets about being there.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 01/10/2026

The West Coast oil pipeline has been designated a project of national interest, side-stepping environmental safeguards that have been in place for decades and charting a course that could irrevocably alter the Salish Sea. thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...

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Carney Fast Tracks Oil Pipeline, Promises Environmental Protection | The Tyee

Announcing funding to prepare BC for oil spills is ‘a warning sign all on its own,’ UBCIC rep says.

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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 01/10/2026

Bill C-39 doubles down on habitat offsets, in which companies can "build" new habitat elsewhere to compensate for what they destroy in building a mine, a port, a pipeline or other project. The practice is highly contested by scientists. “This is our worst fear,” said biologist Misty MacDuffee.

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Offsetting for habitat loss almost never works. Ottawa wants more of it

New policy proposed in Bill C-39 will allow developers to buy credits or pay fees to compensate for the habitats they destroy.

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 01/10/2026

I didn't want to drop $35 on a SportsNet subscription to watch the Canucks but now I kinda regret it

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I appreciate the effort but somehow I think the people who believe this is a false flag will not be swayed by simply calling the same reporting a "fact check". I guess I wonder: who is the audience for this?

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 01/10/2026

Post another cope video about how Europeans love Walmart. Live in denial that actions have consequences

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 01/10/2026

And this is WITH hosting the World Cup. Good works, folks. So much winning

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I guess all I'd say is if you are this, take some steps to reprioritize outside relationships. It's worthwhile

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‘My Husband Has No Friends’

I hate to say it but I was dangerously close to being this. A combination of focusing on work/family and the fact that many friendships were activity based rather than, like, call on the phone when people moved. Fortunately it was recognized and addressed but yeah www.thecut.com/article/my-h...

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For some wives, first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes … managing their spouse’s social life?

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It's trite, but in a world of online algorithms delivering the worst our way, it is good to be in community

People gathered in a park for National Day of Truth and Reconciliation

A walk and talk for TRC, many people in orange shirts

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Everything is Fake | merritt k

“The only viable way forward I can see is to assume that everything you see online is fake until proven otherwise. Not just ads or viral videos, either. Ragebait social media accounts? People you've never met in person interacting with you? Until you can verify it, disregard it…”

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Only a few years ago, we were all having a big laugh at boomers for thinking AI shrimp Jesus and "it my birthday but I get no wishes??" slop

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I think I've said this before but a weird new treat of 2026 in online media is if you write a news story that gets people's attention it will almost immediately start being fed back to you on Meta in the form of uncredited, AI generated slop posts that strip away all context and authorship

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