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Andrew Gregg

@andykat.bsky.social
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Documentary film maker, journalist, Toronto person. Proprietor of Red Trillium Films. Lover of basketball, New Order and The Yukon. There's more but it's a long story.

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Andrew Gregg @andykat.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Justin Ling: We need to stop being so naive about what America is becoming. Trump and his secretary of war just showed us why
America is quickly becoming a fascist state.
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Andrew Gregg @andykat.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
In my mind Kimmel’s not the problem, nor is Disney, ABC, corporate America bending the knee to fascists or even ICE. The problem is that one third of Americans think Trump is so great they elected him twice - and they still think he’s their guy. And I don’t know how you fix that.
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Andrew Gregg @andykat.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Trump is going to trade Alaska for the pee tape, isn’t he.
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Andrew Gregg @andykat.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Bye America. It's been swell. thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
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Stephen Marche Wants Every Canadian to Drop Gloves | The Tyee
The author and hot podcaster tracks America’s unravelling and threat to this country. A Tyee interview.
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Andrew Gregg @andykat.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
How @espn.com do such a good job covering the @wnba.com but screw up its coverage of the @nba.com so badly? Why run with the tedious and plodding Doris Burke when the far superior Rebecca Lobo is on staff? Or they could bring in Candace Parker or Nancy Lieberman. I don’t get it.
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Andrew Gregg @andykat.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
If he wants to take the honourable route, fine. As long as he leaves. www.policymagazine.ca/poilievre-sh...
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Poilievre Should Win his Leadership Review, then Quit - Policy Magazine
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has been in political purgatory since the Conservatives' loss in the April election, worsened by his own loss in the
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Andrew Gregg @andykat.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
A government leader 3 terms into his tenure owes the electorate at least a basic understanding of treaty & constitutional rights. Anything less makes him grossly unfit for office.
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Doug Ford apologizes to First Nations for ‘hat in hand’ comments
After a two-hour meeting with chiefs from the Anishinabek Nation, which represents 39 First Nations across Ontario, Ford was contrite.
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
“latest shooting of gazans seeking food”
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Andrew Gregg @andykat.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I hear No Kings Day was a success. Ok all is forgiven America - we know you didn’t really mean to vote him in twice. And those 38% of your fellow citizens who still think Trump is just fine? That’s only a mistake too, right?
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
It turns out that the very best No Kings Day protest yesterday was the one staged by the United States Armed Forces in Washington—because if you've seen any of the military experts on social media or cable news today you know that their poor marching was deliberate and intended as an insult to Trump
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 15/06/2025
I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played. CINEMATIC
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Andrew Gregg @andykat.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Hey America - #nokings is an impressive display - maybe next time you could turn out like this before electing a fascist twice. Because this feels a little late.
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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Still planning a vacation to the United Sates?
Book cover for Seeing Hitler's Germany: Tourism in the Third Reich, by Kristin Semmens.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
a side note: this is as frontal an assault on the US by Israel as I've ever seen, and there have been some bad ones. This is Israel blowing up the planned negotiations in Oman tomorrow between the Trump envoy and Iran. This is Netanyahu saying the US can't do diplomacy he doesn't sign off on.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 08/06/2025
After repeatedly failing fact-checks year after year after year, the Toronto Sun is copy-pasting this 3 paragraph disclaimer to the end of their annual Tax Freedom Day write-ups acknowledging all of the Fraser Institute's numbers they just reported might be "incorrect and misleading":
Toronto Sun:

"Finally, it should be noted that calculating the total tax levels Canadians pay has long been a controversial issue and critics of how the Fraser Institute calculates Tax Freedom Day say its numbers are incorrect and misleading, 

These criticisms include that the use of average family incomes instead of median incomes inflates the amount of money average Canadians pay in taxes; that it includes taxes paid by businesses as if they were being paid by families and that it fails to calculate the benefits families receive from paying taxes such as hospitals, schools and other public infrastructure they could not otherwise afford.

A more accurate calculation of Tax Freedom Day, they say, would be weeks or months earlier than the Fraser Institute claims"
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Andrew Gregg @andykat.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
This was a really stupid outburst and a bad sign for the future of development. Really, really boneheaded. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
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Fraser apologizes, says comments on Indigenous consultation eroded trust
Fraser said Tuesday that the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples requires consultation but does not amount to "a blanket veto power" over projects.
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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The line that "Easter Islanders cut down the last tree to move the giant statues" is an ugly lie — they were done in by Imperialism. But "Canadians built more pipelines so they could sell more oil while the country burned because of climate change brought on by burning oil" is the absolute truth.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
So true. Don’t forget to subscribe: www.dworkinsubstack.com/subscribe
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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Andrew Gregg @andykat.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I’m fascinated by the way @gradydick.bsky.social says ‘hair.’ @torontoraptor.bsky.social
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
CORMAC MCCARTHY: He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die. JOE ROGAN: sure. I've met guys like that
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Union Thug™️ @theunionthug.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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Erika Shaker @ershaker.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
www.canadianarchitect.com/draft-engine... ‘it seems likely that the engineers were pressured by the govt to produce a report that would support the shuttering of the Ontario Science Centre. However, such a recommendation was not supported by their research and expertise’ @opseusefpo.bsky.social
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New documents reinforce that Science Centre closure was not supported by engineers
The Ontario Science Centre was shuttered on June 21, 2024, with the Ontario government claiming that a structural roof issue made it unsafe. New documents suggest that the engineers inspecting the roo...
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
You know you’re winning when you post “We are NOT the Gestapo!”
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Carleton-area man demands voters be represented by who they voted for.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Jann Arden, national treasure, enters the #abpoli separatist chat.
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Andrew Gregg @andykat.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Listening to PP criticize the new cabinet, I just hear the same whining and snark. Personal attacks, stuck on Trudeau, blah blah blah. He can’t soften and he can’t change. He is what he’s always been. Good luck CPC.
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Andrew Gregg @andykat.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
When you look at the names appointed to cabinet today you see a list of serious people with deep experience. Now look at the front benches of the CPC. Until they can field a team of MPs who we can trust to do these jobs, they don't deserve power. open.substack.com/pub/wesleywa...
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Carney’s new Cabinet
Or, whose got the security partnership job?
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Hello. My name’s Pierre. Listen, I got voted out of my own riding 20 minutes from where I live for free because I was so busy rage farming I didn’t do anything for my own constituents but if you vote for me here 3300 kilometres away from where I live I will absolutely represent your best interests.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Scheer/Poilievre’s MPs attended the March for Forced birth today: #cdnpoli
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Andrew Gregg @andykat.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I never want to hear Americans lecture us ever again about the sanctity of their constitution and its checks and balances against tyranny. Because by any measure, it simply doesn’t work.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The most impressive thing Musk and Trump have managed to do is convince people they’re good businessmen.
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Andrew Gregg @andykat.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I’m so tired of religious people believing the rest of us should be so concerned about their religions.
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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
6. End the siege. End the weapons shipments. End the lies. Call this what it is: a genocide. And if your politics cannot confront that—then your politics are worthless. In furious solidarity, [Your Name]
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Andrew Gregg @andykat.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I just made a very big spontaneous decision. I hope my family understands. www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
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Scientists discover 18th-century Austrian mummy was embalmed through the rectum | CBC Radio
Scientists have figured out how the body of an 18th-century Austrian vicar has remained so well-preserved for nearly 300 years — and it’s unlike anything they’ve seen before.
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Andrew Gregg @andykat.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
An American who lied about being an insurance broker steps in for a failed politician. Great. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
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Andrew Scheer to lead Conservatives in Parliament as Pierre Poilievre watches from the sidelines
The decision to name Scheer as the party's parliamentary leader came Tuesday during the Conservatives' first caucus meeting on Parliament Hill since that election loss.
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Andrew Gregg @andykat.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
substack.com/@glenlan/not...
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Glen Lancaster 🇨🇦 on Substack
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Andrew Gregg @andykat.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
"Poilievre talked about the “lost Liberal decade.” But the period from 2015 to 2025 has been the lost Conservative decade, politically speaking. Zero for four." thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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Conservatives Will Blow It by Keeping Poilievre | The Tyee
Voters in his own riding rejected his style of politics. And Canada will again.
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Andrew Gregg @andykat.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Former Toronto city councillor and Liberal MP Adam Vaughn on @cbcqueenspark.bsky.social trying to justify whatever Therme Spa is paying him to set fire to everything he used to value.
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Shirley Jennings 🇨🇦 📎 🌊 @canteach.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Sign at the Toronto Marathon today.
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Andrew Gregg @andykat.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
substack.com/@northernvar...
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Northern Variables on Substack
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
In this season of Amazing Race Canada, a one-man team attempts to race from Carleton, Ontario to Battle River-Crowfoot, Alberta, to try to win his job back.
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Andrew Gregg @andykat.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
‘Poilievre is doing what every fake populist does when reality hits: run to the safest bunker he can find.’ open.substack.com/pub/dannyip/...
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The Last Refuge of a Loser: Poilievre’s Parachute to Nowhere Danny I.P. – No Retreat. No Surrender. May 2, 2025 ⸻
Pierre Poilievre just did something no so-called “strong leader” should ever do: he lost his seat — and now he’s begging for a do-over.
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Andrew Gregg @andykat.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Paul Wells, who wrote a fawning book on Harper and the infamous Maclean’s piece ‘The Resistance’ now says giving PP a break is the honourable thing to do. WTF would we do that? To hope he’s humbled? That he’ll be nice now? Ottawa punditry is so weird. open.substack.com/pub/paulwell...
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Let him have it
Mark Carney should be too busy to play games with Pierre Poilievre
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Andrew Gregg @andykat.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
There’s chatter that Carney should call a by-election for PP ASAP and not run a Lib candidate as an act of goodwill. That’s a noble idea that I’m petty enough to reject. Every indication suggests PP would show no goodwill if the situation was reversed. Be ruthless and end his political career.
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whattheactualf.bsky.social @whattheactualf.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Good one 😂😂😂😂
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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Poilievre wanted to send cops to disperse encampments and arrest anyone too poor to afford rent, but meanwhile he is perfectly content to squat in a publicly-funded mansion, even *after* he lost the election.
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