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archaeman.bsky.social

@archaeman.bsky.social
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I am a progressive socialist, an atheist, an egalitarian, a science-geek, and proudly Canadian. I am pro-critical thinking and anti-faith in all forms. All of life is political. 🇨🇦 🇺🇦

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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Carney's recent trade deals w/China are a great boon to Canada. Just what has been signed so far goes far in protecting us from the economy destroying chaos being exported from USA. We must also finalize the EV deal with China w/local manufacturing involvement in Ontario required. #canecon
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
SHAME on all those Conservative Members of Parliament who stood & applauded in memory of Charlie Kirk, the hate-filled American, rage-bating, far-right-wing, media figure. This is a clear indication of how the Conservative Part wants to import American division & Trumpism into Canada. #canpoli
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Thank you to PM Carney for saying "No!" to Pres. Trump's demand that Canada hand over $25 Billion to America for defending Canada. To comply with that demand would be to simply hand over our sovereignty to the Americans. We need to do as Carney intends & increase our own self-defence capabilities.
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Correction: Hyundai plant. (I had had been studying some LG data just before I made that post).
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Kudos to the South Korean Gov't for bringing home its workers who have been unjustly threatened & abused by Trump's MAGA insanity and for closing the Alabama LG plant which was clearly not appreciated by the Americans in this deep Red state.
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Kudos to President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico for greatly improving Mexico's healthcare services. They are adding hospitals, insurance, & other medical services at a great rate while Republicans in USA are busy reducing all of these for the American population. #healthcare #MexicoPoli
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
73 year old here and ditto.
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
One of my favourite actors, for decades. He truly will be missed by those who knew his work.
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Jeff's Fact Checker @thunderbayed.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Anti-Union Lobby Groups Endorsed PP's Conservatives The party received endorsements from 'open shop' groups with a long history of anti-union lobbying Both Merit Canada and Merit Ontario also lobbied to make it harder for construction workers to organize unions. vm.tiktok.com/ZMA693Reh/
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Thank you to PM Carney for taking such a strong stance with the American Ambassador over protecting Canada's sovereignty in the Arctic, including over the Northwest Passage. Canada will lose its sovereignty over these areas to USA unless we use every card we have to protect it. #CanPoli #Arctic
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Kudos to Azerbaijan for sending thousands of shells to Ukraine for use against the Russian aggressors. #SlavaUkraine
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Kudos to European nations, & Canada, who are seriously considering stationing troops in Ukraine, not to fight in the front lines but to protect Ukrainian-held communities & infrastructure against Russian aerial attacks. When we are invited in, such protection should not be limited to NATO countries.
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Kudos to Jamaica for greatly tightening up its Visa restrictions for USA tourists & for foreign purchasers of property in Jamaica (most of whom are American) & for diversifying its economy away from USA. Jamaica is correctly standing up for its own sovereignty, national pride and economic future.
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
I am a socialist, I believe that we should improve our economy through the use of socialist measures such as Medicare, Denticare, gov't support for unions, the banning of unpaid internships, basic minimum incomes, guaranteed minimum housing, etc, etc. Achieving this requires foreign investment.
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
It's like with a corporation. When people invest, that is corporations, or nations, borrowing.
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
We borrow it from other countries of course, just like we do every year. Do you not understand how the economy works? I assure you, Carney does. Stop listening to conservative economists who are motivated by dogma more than by reason.
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Trump's ending trade talks w/Canada has a very strong up-side. It strengthens the impetus to detangle our economy from the current state of over-integration w/ that of USA. It strengthens our determination to form new & stronger alliances w/other countries. In the long run it will strengthen Canada.
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
No matter which Canadian Party you voted for, let's all get behind this: we need to end the "Safe 3rd Country" agreement with the United States. They are no longer a safe 3rd country and have said they will deport Canadians to Guantanamo rather than back to Canada if they feel like it. #canpoli
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Shame on Danielle Smith (Prem. of Alberta) & Scott Moe (Prem. of Saskatchewan) for bringing American liquor back for sale. With every move they prove they are traitorous Trumpists with no loyalty to Canada at all. As an Albertan, I want everyone to know that Smith doesn't speak for all Albertans.
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
How do you purchase a house when needed? You get some from savings & borrow the rest. Canada has more than $350 Billion in US treasury Securities & we absolutely should sell much of that off. We are also successfully building a larger & stronger economy, making it very affordable to borrow.
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Kudos to PM Carney for removing Federal barriers to inter-Provincial trade & for bringing Canada's military expenditure to 2% this year instead of by 2030. This is the kind of quick & directed action Canada needs right now. Canada cannot even pretend to defend the Arctic without this. #canpoli
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Another victory against the global right-wing and the rise of fascism. 👏
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Kim-Bo @kim-bo.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
What is the point of having an election if politicians want to ignore the results ? Pierre Poilievre lost an election and his seat, So he decides to remove a legally elected MP and steal their seat then get the Canadian taxpayers to pick up the $1.7 million dollar bill for a bi-election ! Disgusting
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CatWoman @catwomanresists.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Guess who was the first world leader hosted by Pope Leo: Zelenskyy I love this pope❤️❤️❤️
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
2/2: We need to see more agreements like this between other Provinces.
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
1/2: Kudos to Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew and Ontario Premier Doug Ford for taking serious steps toward breaking down the inter-Provincial trade barriers in Canada. This is a step towards building the single, strong Canadian economy Carney has urged on the Provinces.
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
This is a strong possibility. A new, stronger leader could hold the Conservatives together but Poilievre, in my opinion, has neither the strength nor the charisma to manage that.
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The one bright spot in all the nonsense about Alberta separation is that essentially all the support lies within UCP voters. Those who most want to separate may form a new political party & split the right-wing, allowing NDP and/or Liberal voters to greatly expand their representation in gov't.
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I am a "Lefty" who has lived in Alberta for 47 years; 19 yrs in Calgary & 28 yrs in Edmonton. Believe me, I know the feeling of living immersed in a sea of right-wing idiocy. No matter how much they complain about their own government's policies, they keep re-electing them like a religious cult.
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Congratulations to Tatiana Auguste for winning another seat for the governing Liberals in a judicial recount, flipping a Bloc seat to Liberal and giving the Liberals 170 seats in Parliament, just 2 seats away from having a majority. #canpoli
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doctorwho123.bsky.social @doctorwho123.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I'm sooooo sick and tired of this endless fear mongering! taxes will drive the wealth away- ok- where? to the dystopian nightmare to the south? The rich in this country are CONSTANTLY crying poor! I say tax them at a level comparable to Northern European countries AND tax all religious orgs as well!
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
"... and then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak for me." – Martin Niemöller.
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Trump's movements toward establishing a full-on authoritarian regime in America are progressing much faster & more clumsily than was the case in Putin's Russia or other similar cases. They were smarter than Trump. Here is an interesting discussion: youtu.be/q7GDoNc93zQ?...
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Historian Warns Trump Moving Towards Dictatorship FASTER Than Putin, Orban & Erdoğan Did
YouTube video by The Humanist Report
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
In answer to Danielle Smith's unreasonable claims: here is an explanation of why Canada's Equalization payments aren't unfair to Alberta (by Trevor Tombe, Assoc. Prof. of Economics at the Univ. of Calgary & Research Fellow at the School of Public Policy). www.policyschool.ca/news/why-equ...
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Why equalization is not unfair to Alberta | The School of Public Policy
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Tara🇨🇦 @tems777.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Surprise, surprise. The UCP trying to hide things? Who would have thought globalnews.ca/news/1117303...
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Investigation finds Alberta government non-compliant with freedom of information laws | Globalnews.ca
A new report from Alberta's information and privacy commissioner has chastised the provincial government for "wrongfully" denying freedom of information requests.
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Of course she is and that should be considered grounds for refusing to vote for any party the is led by her.
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
2/2: This is utterly contemptible. I hope to h**l my fellow Albertans throw this travesty of a Premier out on her ear, for the second time, even if they re-elect the UCP in the next election.
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
1/2:Other Premiers, like (not limited to) Wab Kinew, are laying out plans for making Canada better, less divided; plans for nation-building. What is AB Premier, Danielle Smith, doing? She is laying out plans for increased divisiveness in Canada, cavorting w/ Trumpites & ripping Canada apart. #abpoli
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Danielle Smith, who is a full-on Trumpite, has lowered the requirements to hold a referendum so low that she will get her referendum. I am a leftist but I have lived in Alberta for half a century and there is simply no way that a majority of Albertans would accept leaving Canada; not even close!
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I left X when it was taken over by right-wing trolls and "Fox News" "Experts." X has become like Fox News. It is simply not a place either for unbiased truth or for rational discourse.
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The Supreme Court has already ruled that there is no unilateral right of a Province to secede.
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archaeman.bsky.social @archaeman.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Sorry, but this is nonsense. What he says is basically like claiming I am free to offer to sell my kids to my neighbour (true, although the sale would be illegal) & if he agrees to buy them then we have to negotiate with the Gov't to make that sale legal. Consult other sources other than this nut.
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Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean @womenofabpoli.ca · 07/05/2025
"Inviting (the separation referendum) experience to Alberta, and to Canada, especially now, is more than a failure of duty and leadership; it’s a failure of character." #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli
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Separation is Danielle Smith's next "Lake of Fire" moment
It's a reference most often used to apply to hateful commentary but I think it's about something else entirely; a failure of leadership.
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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sunshinydays.bsky.social @sunshinydays.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"Merci la France! This evening, the French National Assembly adopted a resolution in support of Greenland and Denmark. It calls, among other things, for a European force to be deployed in Greenland." via @ErnoeMarianne
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
“The idea that Alberta could go it alone is a complete nonstarter. It cannot be economically viable, it is not going to work” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
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Alberta separation ‘not economically’ viable, economist says
First Nations leaders say Alberta would lose access to resources on treaty territory should the province choose to break ties with the federation – it's one of several factors one economist said makes...
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CaptainCoby @captaincoby.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Its been 10 days post election. Any of those " I'm leaving Canada if the Liberals win" fucks pack up and head on out yet???
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Can Danielle Smith of this week arrange a chat with Danielle Smith of… A whole six months ago? #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Message from Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation to Danielle Smith - "Pack up your bag and go. You're not welcome here anymore" #cdnpoli
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AB Resistance @abresistance.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Let's raise some voices Alberta! Calgary - City Hall 1-4pm Edmonton - Legislature steps 1-3pm Lethbridge - City Hall Steps 1-3pm Medicine Hat - 1299 TCW Southeast 10:30-noon
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