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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's time to start imposing export restrictions and/or export tariffs in those items the US has deemed as "essential". Not by a little, by a lot. Canadians have to recognize the fact that we may have to completely cut all ties with the US, a new iron curtain. It's our national survival at stake.
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Just got the... "Hi, I'm Doug Ford!" text. Instant blocklist
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Respect the Polygon Environment Canada's updated t... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Environment Canada's updated tornado, severe thunderstorm warning system aims to target specific areas | CBC News
Environment and Climate Change Canada has updated its warning system for tornadoes and severe thunderstorms to allow for more precise warnings about severe weather.
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Who ever did Mitch McConnell's taxidermy deserves a Nobel Prize.
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Tropical Storm Bertha may cause a lot of infrastructure damage. Traditionally several hundred line crews from utilities across Canada come to the rescue to restore power. That relationship is in tatters, help in doubt. FEMA is gutted. You may be on your own this time around.
Tropical Storm Bertha projected path as of 10AM CDT, July 21, 2026 with location, warnings and watches.

Due to changes at any time, please refer the National Hurrine Centre for current information at:

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2026/BERTHA.shtml?
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
In this photo there is a Princeton University graduate and a Harvard Law School graduate. Michelle Obama is both.
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Erie County (NY) M.E. ruled the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam a homicide. US Border Partrol left him at a closed Tim Hortons in the Riverside area of Buffalo. His body was found 5 days later. The Erie County D.A. is investigating. NY A.G. is also reviewing. www.wkbw.com/news/local-n...
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Erie County Medical Examiner's Office rules death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam a homicide
The Erie County Medical Examiner's Office has ruled the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam a homicide. Shah Alam, a partially blind refugee, was found dead five days after he was released from custody.
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Something to brighten a dark day. youtu.be/0RLbXvUBzaY
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Cat keeps crossing the U.S.-Canada border
YouTube video by CTV News
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
How did America feel, watching 9/11 unfold on their TV screens? Shock, grief, then anger. America felt a rage that carried them through two decades, a generation of war. Iranians are at the rage stage, it will fuel them for a generation or more. Thanks America.
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
How many countries have "surrendered" or fallen by an air campaign alone? Anyone? Anyone?
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
1/11 Trump’s operation in Iran is not just reshaping the Middle East. It is dramatically altering the geopolitical calculus for Ukraine. For Kyiv, this new conflict is a massive double-edged sword. Here is a breakdown of the very real upsides and downsides 🧵
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
The cost of war is paid in blood. Iran's bill is due. The slaughter of 36,000 protesters over the past two months, and countless purges over 47 years. US's will come due: 300,000 to 400,000 per year with the ending of USAID. The blood of genocides from First Nations to complicity with Gaza.
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Here's a good explanation of when a bad GDP number is nuanced. The StatsCan report is here: www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The correct response to this non-deal, should be to string the morons along. FTA, NAFTA, CUSMA are free trade deals. Imposing tariffs breaks the deal. Best thing: kill the 16 year review go annually until CUSMA dies in another 16 years or USA becomes reasonable. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
cbc.ca
Tariffs are a must in any trade deal with Canada, says Trump's trade rep | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump's point man on trade talks says Canada needs to accept that tariffs will be a part of any deal with the administration, including renewal of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreemen...
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Paradigm Shift: The New-American Civil War is ongoing and most Americans don't realize it. The first shot, the Fort Sumter moment, was the January 6, 2021 insurrection. The rebels took the White House four years later after a shadow war. This war isn't in the shadows anymore.
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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Canada helps our allies. 280 Canadians of the Royal Canadian Navy put their lives in real danger to save 2 USA warships caught in minefields. "That’s the Canadian Armed Forces. That’s who we are." Too bad some people have forgotten how many times we saved the USA's ass.
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Do Not Go To The US. Detained because she violated her tourist visa by working. She "packed her husband's suitcase". ICE officers get a bonus for each detention. $2000 fee (bribe?) to ICE to self-deport. No hearing, no rights. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Remember the whole "Russian Hoax" claim? It's now appearing that this wasn't a hoax at all. It was a the tip of a corrupt international child sex-trafficking network, involving some of the richest, most powerful people on the planet. With Trump as a willing partner. A Putin KGB honeypot.
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The cockroaches have to hide their dirty deeds from public view. They'll sell Canada to the US without a second thought, if the price is high enough. Ontario PCs bar reporters from... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
Ontario PCs bar reporters from policy convention | CBC News
Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives will not allow reporters to attend their annual gathering in Toronto this weekend, a move critics say breaks from democratic norms.
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Bishop Bob Hirschfeld (Episcopalian Church New Hampshire), has told clergy to "get their affairs in order", it may be "no longer the time for statements" and "with our bodies, to stand between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable." apnews.com/article/bish...
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New Hampshire bishop warns clergy to prepare for 'new era of martyrdom'
A New Hampshire Episcopal bishop is drawing national attention for urging clergy to prepare for a “new era of martyrdom.”
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
So Trump is having another tantrum. My answer is: Make America Go Away Trump threatens 100% tariffs o... www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
A red baseball cap on a white background, with a white maple leaf on the side and "Make America Go Away" in white embroidery.
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
In the past 12 hours there is a subtle shift in the American zeitgeist. It's like the tiny pebbles moving that lead to an avalanche. I have seen many people publicly express feelings of quiet desperation. They are mourning what is now lost and can never be returned to. 1/2
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
In the eyes of the world: Trump is the distillation of all that comprises the cliché, stereotypical American. He is America's representation on the world stage. He is you, America, whether you voted for him or not
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
In the dark days following 9/11 the Republicans led a rush to put security over freedom. Most focused on the Patriot Act, and its surveillance state. Some voice concern that DHS wad setting up as some sort of secret police turned on Americans. Two decades later: it's not secret and it's worse.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
This explains so much. People with psychopathic traits and low cognitive ability are over-represented in online political activity. If someone is being cruel, obnoxious and ridiculous, don't try to reason with them. Chances are you won't get anywhere. Just block. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dark personalities in the digital arena: how psychopathy and narcissism shape online political participation - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Dark personalities in the digital arena: how psychopathy and narcissism shape online political participation
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
All this, everything the US has, or is going to do, is trying to distract from the glaring evidence that Trump isn't just in the Epstein files, he's a core conspirator, willing participant, and fellow frafficker. Trump is quite willing to start WW3 to do this.
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The Maduro capture to cause regime change indicates Trump's fantasy, absolute monarchist thinking. He believes that removing Maduro (the king) will renew a nation in a different vein. In reality the politics of Venezuela will not change without a lengthy war and/or costly occupation. ... /2
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Better headline... White House unable to get its lies straight.
CBC News Conflicting Headlines

1) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth authorized 2nd strike on alleged drug vessel, White House says.

2) White House denies report U.S. ordered 'second strike' on already bombed alleged cartel boats.
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
ICE protests have hit a new level. youtube.com/shorts/rVJ4L...
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SCOTLAND FOREVERRRRRRR 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦖 #dinosaurs #scotland #funny #viral
YouTube video by VM Studios
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I guess all these Trumpy trade officials saying that CUSMA/USMCA/T-MEC is not dead, are confirming the opposite. Since when has any of them told the truth or bargained in good faith? Free trade with the US . IS . DEAD . Good riddance.
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
To be or not to be, That is the question. Emphasis. youtu.be/RJXiep-yGBw
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Hamlet "to be or not to be"
YouTube video by Sergio Cano Molina
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
This needs to be seen, again and again and again. From 1940 - echoes strongly today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY...
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Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator
YouTube video by Charlie Chaplin
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I am challenging myself to post and reply using where possible a single sentence that does not run on yet still retains grammatical correctness and subject cohesion inspired by and in homage to Charles Dickens and his excellent mastery of the English language.
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I say we start from a position of "No deal". We would be shackled to a corpse anyway. Canada to launch CUSMA consult... www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
cbc.ca
Canada to launch CUSMA consultations after U.S. ambassador says bigger deal not in the cards | CBC News
Canada is expected to announce it's launching formal consultations on the North American trade pact within the next week, after the Trump administration kicked off its own review and the U.S. ambassad...
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Trump has declared Antifa a terrorist organization. This was obviously predictable. Prediction: this is a pretext to a "reveal" that Antifa is widespread and everywhere. To counter this "national security emergency" DHS will widen ICE's role to national security, usurping or paralleling FBI.
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Charlie Kirk was murdered. Strip away the political, ideological, moral, and philosophical justifications. Remove heated emotion. His life was ended in violence. It is wrong. The murderer must be delt with fairly, in accordance with law. Otherwise this will end in unimaginable bloodletting.
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
In the 1930's The Nazis also told the Jews to "self-deport." Many had nowhere else to. They ended up in concentration camps. Until the Final Solution, when they were exterminated. This IS where the USA is headed.
Image of DHS Secretary Kristie Noem with the quote beside: "The CBP Home app gives aliens the option to leave now and self-deport, so they may still have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American Dream"
From FOX News
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
AI psychosis - the dellusion that AI is conscious it's keeping Microsoft's AI head awake at night. Current AI is a dead end. Scientists are discovering that our brains seem to use room temperature quantum processes. No data centre can do that. It can't model it. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Microsoft boss troubled by rise in reports of 'AI psychosis'
Mustafa Suleyman said there was still "zero evidence of AI consciousness today".
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Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @laura-babcock.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
WTF? Ford is hiring American firm to build a Canadian hospital? What about all his outrage at Trump? He talks tough in the media about fighting back on tariffs then rewards USA? I’m so sick of his duplicity. Can’t wait for the OShow Scandal Panel tomorrow 😡 #Ontario #Onpoli #CndPoli #CanadaSky
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
A lot of fraudulent electronic pan-handlers lately purporting to be from Gaza. Giving them money supports criminal enterprises. It's best to stick with registered charities that are financially transparent. Anything else is technically illegal.
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
The pro-DST crowd are foaming at the mouth about losing $2-billion annual revemue. Do the math. The first round of US Surtax is 25% on $30-billion in trade, $7.5-billion yearly. There are two more surtax orders, a TRQ on top of that and Surtax on $100-billion+ still pending. We're way ahead.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. - Yeats - The Second Coming.
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The final nail in US democracy's coffin is in place. Elected officials delaying an election. This will be challenged all the way to a far-right SCOTUS. If it stands, a legal pathway exists to perpetually delay elections. It ends not with a bang but a whimper. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/c...
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City of Miami postpones November 2025 election to 2026, extends officials' terms
Term-limited Mayor Francis Suarez and Commissioner Joe Carollo's terms would be extended by one year.
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Ceasefire? Really? From a few minutes ago. (They go up quick and come down just as quickly.) www.tzevaadom.co.il/en/
Israel Red Alerts.
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I would have thought Trump's Reichstag excuse would consist more than five Waymos, several dumpsters, and the occasional innocent shrubbery set on fire.
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Mend fences? No fences to mend, just a big huge f%@#ing chasm. While 51st State talk continues America is not a friend, it is an enemy. A regime change won't fix this either. It took over 50-100 years to heal the rift the last time. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
cbc.ca
U.S. senators try to mend fences with Canada over Trump’s attacks
A group of Democratic and Republican U.S. senators met with Prime Minister Mark Carney in Ottawa to reaffirm support for strong diplomatic and trade ties with Canada despite the U.S.-launched trade wa...
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Mary Hart 🇨🇦 @citymice4.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Now this made me tear up. There is much to be done is this world. We’ve got lots of work ahead of us.
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Aptly Asked 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🍁 @aptlyasked.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Um... I can't even...
US senator Lindsay Graham floats idea of Trump being elected the next Pope.
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