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Alan Bulley

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Writer and photographer 🇨🇦🍁 Former public service executive MA Documentary Photo 2025 IG @alanbulley bio.site/alanbulleyphoto

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City of Toronto @toronto.ca · 11h
Good morning, Toronto! 🌞 It’s day five of advance voting. Voting places are open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. today and daily until tomorrow, Sunday, Oct 11. Election day is Monday, October 26. Find where to vote, what ID to bring, and download your voter information card at toronto.ca/Elections
A sticker that says "Vote" in front of two TTC streetcards on King St.
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We have such a view and I just posted a video.
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Impressive display of lightning over Toronto Harbour this evening.
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Perhaps we could try changing the name. Oh, wait...
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
= "I and my family stand to gain financially from the establishment of data centers."
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
While much of the country is supportive of many of the PM's initiatives, he should engage appropriately and regularly with Parliament and citizens. As Mr. Carney has said, "we are all on the ice."
thestar.com
Justin Ling: Mark Carney may appeal to vast swathes of the country, but there are some things about Canadians he doesn’t seem to get
Rather than merely address global policymakers and CEOs, the prime minister needs to talk to more everyday voters.
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Better yet, keep talking, acting, and voting!
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Henry VanderSpek - Photographer @culturesnapca.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An elevated view of cyclists along Bloor Street West at sunset yesterday. Exercising their rights. (Video shared with me by a family member.) @cycletoronto.bsky.social #cycleTO #bikesky #bikes #Toronto
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A visit to a War of 1812 battleground at Fort York yesterday and delving into "Reclaiming Canadian Sovereignty in a Ruptured World" today. Thank you, @toronto.ca and @bobbyrae48.bsky.social! #canpoli #Canada #sovereignty
Cover page of "Reclaiming Canadian Sovereignty in a Ruptured World," edited by Bob Rae.
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Henry VanderSpek - Photographer @culturesnapca.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s a great day for an arts fair! If you’re in Toronto stop by East Lynn Park from 10-6 today and 10-5 on Sunday. #Toronto #Danforth #shoplocal
A poster describing an arts fair happening this weekend (Sept 19-20) at East Lynn park in Toronto. There are food vendors, live music, kids activities and over 60+ artists and artisans.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 16/09/2026
Dear @mark-carney.bsky.social, we want to bring the relationship with Canada to the highest level possible. I would like to work with you on opening the door for Canada to being the first associate member of the EU. And create a common prosperity and economic security space.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Great to see the Canadian Forces Snowbirds' final fly-past of the CN Tower today, in honour of the Tower's fiftieth anniversary. It'll be several years before we see the Snowbirds again with their new aircraft.
The Canadian Forces Snowbirds fly past the CN Tower in diamond formation. The Canadian Forces Snowbirds fly past the CN Tower in diamond formation.
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 08/09/2026
Two extraordinary charts from today’s PISA test results: 1) School test scores continue to collapse internationally, underscoring how this is no longer a Covid effect but sustained decline. Those falls in reading and maths are equivalent to about two years of lost schooling.
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Looks like no one is telling Witkoff and Kushner what is being written about the meetings in the Russian press. youtu.be/gqM8YcCQAGk?...
youtu.be
"Diplomacy of the Doomed": what the Russian papers are saying about US talks with Putin
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
What a beautiful phenomenon!
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
An appropriate time to repost "re:Placed," work I made years ago to explore the idea that how we experience places—directly or via photographs—is affected by the names by which we know them. The imperialist impulse to rename is not a joke; it reveals intent. www.alanbulley.com#/new-gallery...
While reading Liz Wells’ excellent book, Land matters: landscape photography, culture and identity, I was struck by this paragraph:

“The act of naming is an act of taming. In Western culture, describing space as desert, or wilderness, or planet, represents potential comprehensibility and cues scientific and philosophical enquiry. By naming I mean both the terming of a space as, for example, wilderness, and the naming of such space, for example, Antarctica. Naming turns space into place.”

This suggests that an ‘empty’ piece of land takes on a new status once we attach a label to it. With the history of colonization in what is now called Canada, we can push this further: re-naming a place erases a previous reality and creates a new identity for it, ignoring whatever peoples might already have been present. In a real sense, the land has been re-placed.
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"...the US and UK are meant to be more or less on the same side, after all..." Ask Canada what that gets you. You might be sneering at Starmer's sycophancy, but it sounds like you haven't learned the lesson yet.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 22/08/2026
Mark Carney says Canada is now ‘at war’ with US over trade ft.trib.al/PViWHCo
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Mark Carney says Canada is now ‘at war’ with US over trade
Prime Minister says Donald Trump miscalculated by escalating his tariffs attack on the country
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Ok, Canada: looks like we just moved from #elbowsup to #glovesoff
pm.gc.ca
Statement by Prime Minister Carney on Canada-U.S. trade negotiations
We have recognised from the beginning that America has changed, and that we will not return to our old relationship. Our government understood, before many, that America is altering all its trade rela...
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Enough. I'm no constitutional scholar and this will be moot.
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Definitions x) “Lawful Sexual Orientation” – is only between consenting adults as defined by the Age of Majority. Strange that orientation seems to be defined by an act.
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The Judicial and Oversight Branches will be watching each other. That could prove interesting but would certainly not give rise to potential conflicts of interest or other abuse.
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"ARTICLE III Seats of Government..." Five geographically dispersed Seats of Government suggests built-in inefficiencies in government functions, right from the beginning.
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"9.3 a) The meaning of any provision of this Constitution shall be determined solely by its text, read in its immediate structural context; [...]" Oh, good luck with that.
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"7.2 Every person has the right to access, correct, and delete any kind of personal data held by the State." ANY kind of personal data? That seems pretty broad. Good luck compiling statistical information, overseeing public health, or... collecting taxes?
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"Reservations and their nations will be invited to join an independent Alberta in nation to nation negotiations." Huh? Indigenous people will be "invited" to join an Alberta whose territory sits on land already governed by treaties?
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
If I'm reading things properly, it looks like the Toronto Public Library has advance ordered 15 copies...
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Very pleased to see my profile of @martinecote.bsky.social and her work in the latest issue of @photoeditorial.bsky.social. Writing for the magazine for the last five years has let me interview many fine photographers and keep up with new photobooks. #Canadian #photography #publication
Two-page spread of a magazine showing a red lighthouse in winter. Cover page of PhotoED Magazine, showing a white lighthouse in snow.
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
thetyee.ca
Smith Goes Full MAGA Right Wing on Hate Speech | The Tyee
The Alberta premier slaps down Edmonton police and says the UCP will order a halt to prosecutions.
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
And the prime takeaway is the potential impact on gas prices for Americans. Yup, sounds like sovereignty to me.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The top 10% of richest Americans own 87% of stocks. The top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. It's worth pointing out once again: the stock market is not the economy.
theguardian.com
US stock market hits record highs as AI profits pile and oil prices ease
S&P 500 shot up 1.8% and the main measure of Wall Street’s health topped its prior all-time high set a few months ago
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"The Carney administration is treating China as a market while the Chinese state treats Canada as a target." Building a coherent approach to relationship with yet another major power that is simultaneously an opportunity and a serious risk. #cdnpoli #trade #security
thewalrus.ca
Chinese Spies Are Recruiting Canadians on LinkedIn | The Walrus
Networking sites are the latest front in Beijing’s espionage campaign
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Reading that summary, it's almost like people like to forget how these movements and their grievances morph over time.
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
That would be great. And no need to reply, but thank you for all the good work you do.
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Lucky Regent people! Toronto/ICS is also nice (he hinted).
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Hmmm... not seeing any Canadian dates on that list... 😉
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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 05/08/2026
Modeling shows the sovereignist PQ could win a Quebec majority with just 31% of the vote. Think about that: almost 70% of voters could support a different party, yet one gets 100% of the power. Demand proportional representation across the country today.
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I hear you: Canadian corruption saves both time and money.
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Minister Sarkaria claims that the feds listened to “a small, fringe group in Toronto” (with 87,000 responses to a public consultation?) and that he has heard from "communities in the north, hospital CEOs, [and] mayors in eastern Ontario". How are the needs of these people not already met by YTZ?
torontotoday.ca
Ford government won’t return Billy Bishop Airport land to City of Toronto
‘If this is how they’re going to treat bigger projects, I don’t think you’ll get much built,’ says Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Very happy to report that, thanks to @torschtheology.bsky.social, my exhibition at this year's Contact Photography Festival can still be seen until the end of September. Take a look and let me know what you think... For details: contactphoto.com/festival/202... #cdnpoli #democracy #canada
A photograph of a souvenir snow globe showing the Centre Block on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. The picture features in Alan Bulley's photography exhibition entitled The Ottawa Bubble.
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
An excellent question, especially given the demographics of the neighbourhoods that would have been most directly affected.
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The Government of Canada makes the right call on the Ford government's high-handed plans for an unpopular, unnecessary and unhealthy expansion to Toronto's Billy Bishop Airport. #cdnpoli #billybishop
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"Sham survey." Yes, that's exactly the way to categorize a federal 'consultation' with leading questions and the complete absence of a business case or concrete proposal. Yup, a sham. #nojetsTO #BillyBishop
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David Eby @davidebybc.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
There is not a chance in hell that US alcohol is going back on the shelf in B.C.
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This is an excellent piece, in spite of its title (when the Conservatives were in power, they didn't make any attempt to amend our voting system, either). The more important point is that #FPTP grossly skews seat distribution so that it rarely represents actual voting patterns across the country.
thewalrus.ca
How Canada Keeps the Conservatives Shut Out of Power | The Walrus
First-past-the-post has failed our democracy. Here’s a way to make it truly representative
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 17/07/2026
Doug Ford vows to fight wildfires by building as many new spas as necessary
thebeaverton.com
Doug Ford vows to fight wildfires by building as many new spas as necessary
QUEEN'S PARK - As thick smoke blankets Ontario skies, Premier Doug Ford has declared that he will divert public funds to as many private spa facilities as it takes to douse the raging wildfires.
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Jörg Broschek 🇨🇦 @jbroschek.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Politics is about hard trade-offs. But the PM uses his political credit to pretend he can magically turn them into win-wins, whether it's trade or climate policy. This is not going to work forever. The limits of this approach.... www.thestar.com/business/opi...
thestar.com
I've covered climate policy for years. The haze over Toronto finally shattered my optimism
The wildfire smoke has choked my faith in Canada's climate future, writes Adam Radwanski. We used to at least be trying. Now we're betting against energy transition.
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Alan Bulley @alanbulley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"American wineries, breweries, distilleries, and other beverage producers deserve fair access to Canadian markets, not discriminatory treatment from one of our closest trading partners," Tenney said. Let's ask Canadian steel workers, automakers and lumber producers about "discriminatory treatment."
cbc.ca
Republican lawmaker takes aim at provincial booze bans | CBC News
A Republican lawmaker in Washington is firing back at Canadian provinces for retaliating against U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs by banning sales of U.S. alcohol.
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