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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

So some Manitobans, including a professor, are in a tizzy because Prem. Wab Kinew spoke French in the legislature. MPP Sol Mamkawa spoke in his Indigenous language in the Ontario Legislature. I'm sure several MLAs in NB speak French. Sorry, but if speaking French is an issue, you're the problem.

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

I had already decided and was going to hold my nose voting because I'm not a fan of Olivia Chow. The alternative wasn't better. I watched Brad Bradford at last night's debate in Scarborough. It cemented my choice. Here's why. proximapolicy.substack.com/p/toronto-ne... #TOPoli #TOElxn26 #Toronto

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

Well I would take that as moderate rather than deep cooperation. Carney has to be measured in his approach.

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

There is a Ontario Liberal Leadership debate tonight. I can't. It just seems so boring. No one excites me in the party and I don't see them winning in 29. Sad state of affairs.

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

Left wing nut jobs at it again with their binary take.

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

You need intercity rail service but VIA needs to operate in a way that makes sense. I wouldn't agree with Eric that VIA being driven into the ground. Why would they invest in building rail cars here?

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This makes sense. Now the Canada and the EU are looking to strengthen exchange, I can see this being a problem. Pressure on Airbnb renters and to governments limiting these.

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

CAQ and Frechette are done. Sadly PQ will win! Pauvre la province!

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

Fuckin tabarnak. PQ projected to win a majority. Lord help Québec.

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026

Because I want to see who is engaging with me. Since you're questioning it, goodbye!

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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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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026

Fuck. I can hear the left-wing nuts and Liberal hacks going off about PM Harper closing the Investment Summit. I am Liberal Party supporter and will take swings at Carney when it is warranted. But at this moment, we need cohesion during these challenging times. Be open or be an idiot.

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026

Increasing isolationism from the US is allowing other countries to build alliances with Canada.

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Lucy Fisher @lucyfisher.ft.com · 15/09/2026

EXCL: UK ‘actively’ exploring joining Canada-led global defence bank British officials examining proposals for UK to join the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB) under Burnham, after proposal was rejected by Starmer W/ @pickardje.bsky.social & Ilya Gridneff www.ft.com/content/4e14...

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UK ‘actively’ exploring joining Canada-led global defence bank

The DSRB aims to provide low-cost financing for military initiatives

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

What the hell was that? How did Luiz give up on that play? Juve disappointed me as much as Toronto FC did last night. At least the Jays and Bills won today.

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026

As a Canadian-Maltese dual citizen who is situated in the middle of the country Canada, I am pro-EU. 🇪🇺 The images here were a sight to see. The whiney Brexiters are just as bad as the Alberta separatists. I can bet Québec sovereigntists would be strongly pro-EU.

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Sea of EU flags dominates BBC's Last Night of the Proms

Ten years on from the UK's historic Brexit referendum, the nation's decision to leave the European Union appears as divisive as ever. #EuropeNews

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026

Jays are done. Time to focus on Toronto FC's playoff run and Chelsea.

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

I am about to use the power of AI to publish a white paper on cultural intelligence and UX in transit agencies. I am going to have it fact checked and peer reviewed before actually publishing it, something a lot of people probably won't do.

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

Look,don't kill me here. I think JD Vance is probably a nice guy. I also think Jamieson Greer is a really nice guy. All of this is in comparison with Trump. Bassett, Lutnick and fhe rest of his whackjob crew. I could be totally wrong, but I could be right after Trump is out of office dead or alive.

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

We are sadly living in a world of extremes and there is no room for pragmatism, for now.

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

No one is perfect. Guaranteed she is far from it. Throwing stones and riling up her lefty base. Doesn't win her any points.

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

Who are these fucking far right groups? When you're obsessed you see this shit. I don't see it. This is why social media sometimes is a cesspool of garbage takes. Fuck off!

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

Gotta love the sensitive snowflakes like @rachelgilmore.bsky.social who cannot handle complex conversations hiding behind her "journalism" FFS. Hasn't she realized that extreme left positions are dead? If you can't move on from the past then you can't be helped. Get a life!

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

I remember a time when politics was serious. Now it has just become a joke. It's all about populism, shorttermism, minoritarianism and clicks. It is just becoming an utter joke.

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

I never understood why Griffintown REM station wasn't built at the same time as the first phase. Then I read the previous administration delayed it because another station needed to be built at the same time. Makes no sense to me. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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New REM stations in Griffintown, Bridge-Bonaventure could be built by 2030 | CBC News

CDPQ Infra announced the launch of the planning phase for two new stations in Montreal's Griffintown and Bridge–Bonaventure sectors, with an estimated completion date of sometime in 2030.

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

What would a fair Ontario–Toronto-region compact look like? One with democratic regional representation, reliable own-source revenue, integrated transit and housing governance, and protection from unilateral restructuring.

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

The consequences are visible in regional transit, housing, land use, revenues, and local representation: fragmented responsibilities, short-term bargaining, and decisions taken at one scale but felt at another.

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

Yet Ontario municipalities remain constitutionally subordinate to the province. Their powers can be expanded, narrowed, or overridden by provincial legislation. That is the central issue. Any provincial government has this unilateral capacity.

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

The GTA region has nearly 7 million people. The Toronto region has long been one of Canada’s core economic engines, estimated by the OECD at roughly 17% of national GDP and 45% of Ontario GDP.

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

A slightly heretical thought here. Toronto, and perhaps the GTA, needs far more than a better relationship with Queen’s Park. It needs protected metro autonomy. Not independence. Not a city-state in the literal sense. A governing settlement suited to a 21st-century urban region.

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

Europe needs governments that address legitimate insecurity with decent work, capable public services, affordable homes, orderly and humane migration policy, and democratic renewal—not scapegoating. The centre must offer a better future, not merely warn about a darker one.

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

Germany’s postwar democratic settlement was built on a hard-won understanding: nationalism untethered from human dignity, constitutional restraint, and historical memory can become catastrophic. That lesson should not be softened for electoral convenience.

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

The AfD’s possible breakthrough is consequential far beyond one German Land. It risks normalizing a politics that defines belonging by ancestry, treats pluralism as weakness, and turns migrants, minorities, and democratic institutions into targets of resentment.

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

People’s frustrations are real: regional decline, insecure work, strained services, the costs of economic transition, and a sense that political institutions no longer listen. But frustration does not make racism, exclusion, historical amnesia, or authoritarianism a solution.

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

Watching the election in Saxony-Anhalt from Canada, I feel both sadness and alarm. As a Maltese and therefore EU citizen, I have a stake in Europe’s democratic future—even if I do not live in Germany or Europe today.

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

I have not visited NY in 26 years – yes before 9/11 tragically happened . I havent visited the US in probably 12. I thought about returning to work there a few years ago. While I might agree NYC is outlier from the rest of the US, I'm not sure I feel the same way as some Montrealais(es) to visit.

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André 🇨🇦 🇹🇹 🇲🇹 🇪🇺 @andredarmanin.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

I'll be attending the #MPactTO26 conference on Wed, Sept 16. If you are attending, drop me a note.

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