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AlphieMado

@alphiespeak.bsky.social
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Retired, love snow and winter sports, gardener in spring and summer, food preserver in the fall, baker of sourdough bread all year-round. Politically left leaning. I have Systemic Mastocytosis. Bilingual ( Fr/Eng)

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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What happened to Gander???
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
gander.social/profile/tree... To all guitar enthusiasts:
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@treepicks (@treepicks.gander.social)
Our first post on Gander! It would mean the world if you checked out our website and shared this post.
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
That is so great!
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
How Mark Carney’s speeches have become political earthquakes | Ted Widmer | The Guardian share.google/9HSFbhRqEJ2T... Trump is jealous.
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How Mark Carney’s speeches have become political earthquakes | Ted Widmer
The quiet-spoken Canadian prime minister has spoken unutterable truths
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Canada doesn't have the benefits of a US state....we don't have ICE agents killing our citizens...
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Trump says Canada 'wants the benefits' of being a U.S. state in his 1st comments since trade talks broke down | CBC News
In his first comments since trade talks broke down, President Donald Trump said Canada "wants the benefits" of being a U.S. state "without being one." The president's brief post on his Truth Social pl...
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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'It was like a tsunami': Massive flooding in St. Catharines, Ont., leaves residents in grief and shock | CBC News
Amid a state of emergency from the fallout of two storms within a week, people in St. Catharines say they're in shock and grief as they deal with severe flooding in their homes and elsewhere in the ci...
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
www.acadienouvelle.com/actualites/2...
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Poilievre: «Ça nous prend des Acadiens au Parti conservateur»
Le chef du Parti conservateur du Canada, Pierre Poilievre, s’est arrêté à Moncton, vendredi, pendant un voyage dans les Maritimes. Il a voulu parler de coût de la vie et de criminalité.
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Personally, I'm just sick of hearing about him. I wish he would just go away. Trump is exhausting. I really don't know how the Americans put up with seeing his face everywhere.
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I don't think that magazine cover is real. Trump would shut down the publication!
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I very much agree.
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
lithub.com/from-stalin-...
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From Stalin to Trump, How Power Unmakes the World
In her classic memoir of Soviet state terror in the 1930s, Hope Against Hope, Nadezhda Mandelstam recounts the last years of her marriage to the poet Osip Mandelstam as they flee from city to villa…
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
CBC / Radio-Canada ouvrira 5 nouveaux bureaux à l’étranger Ces bureaux seront situés à Pékin, à Jérusalem, à Los Angeles, à Mexico et dans une ville d'Europe qui n’a pas encore été déterminée. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/226... J'adore le Radio Canada (the CBC)!
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CBC / Radio-Canada ouvrira 5 nouveaux bureaux à l’étranger
Ces bureaux seront situés à Pékin, à Jérusalem, à Los Angeles, à Mexico et dans une ville d'Europe qui n’a pas encore été déterminée.
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Les Premières Nations en Alberta cherchent conseil au Québec Réunis à Ottawa, des chefs des Premières Nations de l'Alberta et du Québec ont eut des discussions sur le projet indépendantiste albertain. ici.radio-canada.ca/espaces-auto...
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Les Premières Nations en Alberta cherchent conseil au Québec
Réunis à Ottawa, des chefs des Premières Nations de l'Alberta et du Québec ont eut des discussions sur le projet indépendantiste albertain.
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It's the only progressive party right now.
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Five words: Avi Lewis of the NDP. The pollsters have seen a 15% increase in NDP support.
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Des essaims d’IA pourraient compromettre la démocratie Selon une étude dans la revue Science, ces essaims peuvent donner l’illusion d’un consensus dans les discussions en ligne et manipuler les communautés. radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/226... Ça donne la chair de poule!
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Des essaims d’IA pourraient compromettre la démocratie
Selon une étude dans la revue Science, ces essaims peuvent donner l’illusion d’un consensus dans les discussions en ligne et manipuler les communautés.
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Quesnel rolling out the red carpet to attract U.S.-trained doctors — and it's working | CBC News
The community of Quesnel in northern B.C. is pulling out all the stops to attract U.S.-trained physicians and solve previously long waits for family doctors. A health-care recruiter in the community o...
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/enterta... The Canadians are coming....The Canadians are coming.
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Canada will enter the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest | CBC News
CBC/Radio-Canada and the European Broadcasting Union have announced Canada will participate in the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest in Bulgaria.
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Leslie AJ 🇨🇦 @leslieaj.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Senator Simons nails it, as usual. “Canada needs Alberta’s brand of courage. Sadly, the hostile, xenophobic discourse emanating from this place has turned many Canadians against us. They see only the worst shadow side of Alberta, the public performance of its ugliest stereotypes.”
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Poilievre s’oppose au traité de la Première Nation K’ómoks Le chef du Parti conservateur du Canada estime que le traité signé en Colombie-Britannique ne protège pas suffisamment la propriété privée. Pierre ne nous révèle pas son intéligence.
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Poilievre s’oppose au traité de la Première Nation K’ómoks
Le chef du Parti conservateur du Canada estime que le traité signé en Colombie-Britannique ne protège pas suffisamment la propriété privée.
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Les mauricettes: a pretzel-like bun from Alsace. Instead of salt, I sprinkled them with black sesame seeds.
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Les véhicules électriques regagnent en popularité au Canada En avril dernier, les ventes de véhicules zéro émission au pays ont bondi de 21 % en un an, selon les plus récentes données de Statistique Canada. Yes!
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Les véhicules électriques regagnent en popularité au Canada
En avril dernier, les ventes de véhicules zéro émission au pays ont bondi de 21 % en un an, selon les plus récentes données de Statistique Canada.
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I think MAID is a great option...being an 'older person' I love the idea that I can MAID-out when I think the time is right.
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
www.cbc.ca/player/play/... This is so cool.
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CBC News reports from Iran in Canadian exclusive
In a Canadian exclusive, the CBC has been given rare permission to report from Iran. The government there imposes restrictions on international journalists but does not check our material. CBC News se...
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Have you checked out Gander, the Canadian Facebook equivalent? I have an account. I dropped all Meta products except for WhatsApp ( only way I can communicate with my daughter who travels a lot) when Trump imposed tariffs. I've checked out Upscroll as well. It's ok very middle east politics centric
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
@avilewis.ca should cajole Steven Guibeault into joining the NDP.
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Very hot there, I bet. Trop chaud!
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/world/c... Cuba should just become a Canadian province. We're ok with socialism.
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In Cuba, every day is a struggle for survival | CBC News
Blackouts have been common for years, but now, since U.S. President Donald Trump imposed an oil blockade on Cuba in hopes of forcing the country’s collapse, the interruptions have become more frequent...
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Pulsing wristbands, military jet and foreign dignitaries add electricity to Arctic Winter Games in Whitehorse | CBC
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/world/c... In regards to US trade, China and Canada are in the same predicament.
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ANALYSIS | With Trump visit coming up, China hedges its bets on helping Iran | CBC News
China’s latest blueprint for driving growth in its economy was largely written before the U.S. and Israel instigated the most far-reaching war in the Middle East in decades. But when the Chinese premi...
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I was told that if Iran attacks a NATO country, say Turkey, all NATO countries would be pulled into the conflict.
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... 🇩🇰🇬🇱🇨🇦and now 🇪🇦
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Canadians reach out to Spain online after Trump threatens to cut off trade | CBC News
Some Canadians are feeling kinship with Spain and reaching out on social media after the European country was the latest victim of a tirade from U.S. President Donald Trump. "We're going to cut off al...
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
And that is exactly why Con will never win in Quebec.
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I agree. But what if somehow Iran attacks the continental US? Would that necessarily engage all NATO countries? Or could NATO countries refuse because of how the war was illegally started?
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Which he will probably do. And remember, there is an escape clause that D. Trump will probably use if he gets his shorts in a knot.
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I didn't hear any nation ( except for the US and Israel) publicly say that they do not support those things. Carney has said that he supports what you mentioned. He is just not criticizing D.Trump's actions to safeguard our economy and CUSMA negotiations.
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Canada cannot take a stand now. Aluminum, steel and forrestry are suffering right now due to tariffs. People are loosing their jobs. CUSMA is presently shielding a lot of our manufacturing. CUSMA is to be renegotiated this Summer. Without a CUSMA deal many many will loose jobs.
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Exactly. President Trump is a pretty horrible guy. He runs the US like a Mafia.
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
You'd disagree if you worked in the autosector, forrestry, manufacturing, agriculture, steel, aluminum....the list goes on. With any other President of the U.S. I'd agree with you. But this is Canada's present reality.
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Sorry: hobbledehoy
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Does a hobbledyhoy grow to be a cockwomble?
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Well done Spain. Canada can't take a stance against this war because 80% of our trade is with the US. Carney is working hard to change that.
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
La Colombie-Britannique ne changera plus d’heure après le 8 mars 2026 Environ 93 % des 223 000 Britanno-Colombiens consultés en 2019 étaient en faveur de l'heure permanente. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/223... Bien fait, Eby!
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La Colombie-Britannique ne changera plus d’heure après le 8 mars 2026
Environ 93 % des 223 000 Britanno-Colombiens consultés en 2019 étaient en faveur de l'heure permanente.
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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First Nations chiefs unanimously pass non-confidence vote in Alberta government | CBC News
First Nations chiefs across Alberta unanimously passed a vote of non-confidence in the Alberta government this week, citing concerns around the separatist movement and a failure to meet their treaty r...
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
It's their calculation error. Why should immigrants pay?
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I don't think NHL or PWHL players should take part in the #Olympics. Most of the players from Canada play in American teams. How can they not be biased? How can they not fear reprisals?
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp... Well, Trump will be happy.
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2026 Olympic Games: Heartbreak for Canada after U.S. wins men's hockey gold in overtime | CBC
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Tarifs réciproques : Donald Trump a outrepassé ses pouvoirs La Cour suprême américaine estime que Donald Trump a outrepassé ses pouvoirs en invoquant l’état d’urgence pour justifier l’imposition de tarifs réciproques. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/223... Oh là!
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Tarifs réciproques : Donald Trump a outrepassé ses pouvoirs
La Cour suprême américaine estime que Donald Trump a outrepassé ses pouvoirs en invoquant l’état d’urgence pour justifier l’imposition de tarifs réciproques.
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AlphieMado @alphiespeak.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Canadian Challenge mushers race in Saskatchewan’s biggest dog sled event | CBC News
The Canadian Challenge is the biggest dog sled race in Saskatchewan. The multi-day competition based in La Ronge boils down to a musher, a team of dogs and a winter trail that has carried people throu...
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