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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 01/07/2025
Canada has been named among the top 5 countries with the most freedom. The United States ranked 57th. #CanadaDay
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Canada named among countries with the most freedom
A report by Freedom House has named Canada among the top countries in the world with the most freedom.
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 01/07/2025
“Since 2015, Canada has enjoyed the most positive ranking in the Ipsos World Affairs report.” 🇨🇦 #CanadaDay
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Canada named most positive leader on world stage
According to a study by Ipsos, Canada remains the top country expected to have a positive influence on world affairs.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Whilst Trump kills solar and wind - China is investing billions In May 2025 alone, China added 93 gigawatts of solar capacity, or nearly 100 solar panels per second, and 26 gigawatts of wind capacity, or about 5,300 wind turbines. www.ecowatch.com/china-solar-...
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China Solar and Wind Installations Break More World Records - EcoWatch
China is leading the world in new solar and wind installations, and saw a decline in carbon emissions for the first time in May.
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 01/07/2025
Canada, Denmark and Sweden have been named among the most progressive and inclusive countries in the world.
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Canada named among top countries with social purpose
Canada has been named among the top countries with social purpose.
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Trevor Parsons @dartmouthcommon.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
They're called concentration camps.
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 03/07/2025
“Never before has a Canadian politician shared so much disinformation unchecked. As Pierre Poilievre tries to weasel his way back into Parliament, our legacy media still refuses to call out his lies or question his ties to Canada Proud, who ran disinformation campaigns targeting our prime minister.”
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Observations from Montreal
An ever-changing collection of commentary and observations by Montrealers or about Montreal politics and culture.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
They are some of the most ancient Trees on the planet That have stood for centuries Many over 800 years old But now heartless Trump will destroy millions of them And America does nothing to stop it the destruction of Tongass forest in Alaska ak.audubon.org/news/tongass...
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The Tongass and the Era of Old-Growth Protections
A beginner’s guide to old-growth forests and how the Biden administration has made historical moves in Southeast Alaska’s temperate rainforest.
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 27/06/2025
“Trump’s trade war is our opportunity to remake Canada the way we want it. There is neither need nor reason to panic. Canada can be a stronger, better, fairer country once we close our door to the United States.” An editorial by @taylornoakes.com.
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Trump’s trade war is our opportunity to remake Canada the way we want it
Trump wanted a trade war? Now he has it. Here are four things Canada must do to guarantee our future economic and political sovereignty.
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 29/06/2025
“Canadians show a clear preference for allyship with Europe rather than the U.S. under the Trump administration.”
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Canadians want closer military ties with Europe, less reliance on the United States
A new study has found that Canadians want Canada to have closer military ties with Europe through Readiness 2030, with less reliance on the United States.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and rate has doubled in 20 years Burning coal, oil gas has added more than 2 trillion tonnes of c02 and other greenhouse gases to atmosphere These trap more and more heat, preventing it from leaving theconversation.com/earth-is-tra...
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Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years
Real world measurements of how much extra heat the Earth is trapping are well beyond most climate models. That’s a real problem.
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 17/06/2025
Canada surpasses 3,000 cases of measles in 2025 as vaccination rates decline
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Canada surpasses 3,000 cases of measles in 2025 as vaccination rates decline
Public health officials in Canada are warning of measles outbreaks across the country as childhood vaccination rates decline.
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 28/04/2025
Canada is one of the most progressive and inclusive countries in the world. Let’s vote to keep it that way. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 #CanadaStrong
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Canada named among top countries with social purpose
A study by U.S. News & World Report has ranked Canada third on a list of the top countries with social purpose.
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 26/04/2025
“An analysis of 350,000 Twitter posts reveals a coordinated campaign to support Pierre Poilievre and attack Mark Carney’s reputation. This election isn’t about choosing a prime minister, or resisting Trump — it’s about fighting for democracy itself.” An editorial by @taylornoakes.com.
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Beware: Canada is having its first disinformation election
Beware: Canada is having its first disinformation election.
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Occupy Calgary 🇨🇦 @calgaryoccupy.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
~ Coincidence, not one progressive or Liberal? The top 5 people in Canada sharing the most disinformation.
As of April 2025 the top 5 individuals in Canada identified as significant contributors to the spread of disinformation are" 1/ Poilievre
2/ Leslyn Lewis
3/ Randy Hillier
4/ Danielle Smith
5/ Theoren Fleury
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Occupy Calgary 🇨🇦 @calgaryoccupy.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
~15 million a month the UCP is grifting off of vulnerable people that often can't even afford food.
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Occupy Calgary 🇨🇦 @calgaryoccupy.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
~Smith has discovered she can’t keep a lid on a brewing scandal. It is boiling over into somewhat of a political mutiny. Not enough of one at this point to capsize her leadership, but an insurrection nonetheless. In AB Con politics, small cracks have a history of becoming chasms. archive.ph/XON4b

Opinion | First cracks are appearing in Premier Smith’s support among her party
April 17, 2025
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Peter Guthrie is sworn into cabinet in Edmonton June 9, 2023. He resigned from cabinet recently because of the way the government is handling a health services scandal.
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DKGray @therealdkgray.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I think we need to call Canadian Conservatives RBANs Republicans By Another Name.
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Occupy Calgary 🇨🇦 @calgaryoccupy.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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Capitalists should never be allowed near a healthcare system. They hold sick children hostage as they force parents to bankrupt themselves in the desperate scramble to pay for medical care. The sick do not have a choice. Medical care is not a consumable good. We can choose to buy a used or new car, or shop at a boutique or a thrift store, but there is no choice between illness and health. Chris Hedges
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 11/04/2025
Majority of Canadians say Mark Carney deserves credit for Canada avoiding new U.S. tariffs “It has been evident in the data for weeks that Canadians prefer Mark Carney to Pierre Poilievre when it comes to Donald Trump and U.S. tariff negotiations.”
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Majority of Canadians say Mark Carney deserves credit for Canada avoiding new U.S. tariffs
A majority of Canadians agree that Prime Minister Mark Carney deserves credit for Canada avoiding new tariffs from the U.S.
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Occupy Calgary 🇨🇦 @calgaryoccupy.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
~UCP email to AHS staff 👉 Don’t talk to auditor general about dodgy contracts until you’ve talked to our lawyer “This is a gag order on public servants, plain & simple. Limiting the Auditor General from doing their job & speaking with govt staff is a cover-up"👇 albertapolitics.ca/2025/04/dont...
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 10/04/2025
"Pierre Poilievre is an angry teenager in the body of a grown man. He made his name on sneering, incivility, insults, over-the-top accusations and utter meanness. He’s the angriest person on Canada's political stage, and the nastiest leader of a major party in this country's history.”
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Ripper: Why Pierre Poilievre isn’t the man for the moment
We spoke with Mark Bourrie, the author of the new biography about the Conservative Party leader, Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre.
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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Look Canada, I don't want to tell you how to vote, but if we do this right, a couple months from now, Poilievre will lose his job and WE NEVER HAVE TO HEAR FROM HIM AGAIN.
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Trevor Foster @darthfos.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This will be revealed, at some point, to be the biggest insider trading market manipulation scam in history.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Imagine that. Is there any doubt in anyone’s mind they were tipped off? They are laughing at us all. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Alberta, where a former provincial Progressive Conservative deputy Premier endorses a federal Liberal because he understands perfectly well that the CPC is neither progressive, nor conservative. Be like Thomas Lukaszuk. Vote Liberal. Vote for Mark Carney. 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
“This is an insurmountable challenge if, like Pierre Poilievre, your only plan involves fiddling with the tax code, and slashing programs that work.” - Prime Minister Mark Carney 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli
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Occupy Calgary 🇨🇦 @calgaryoccupy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
~Braid calls BS! AB healthcare overlords ran like the wind Tues, formally reversing the policy that would have denied child cancer patients a simple juice box or popsicle But, as usual, they fled making excuses and accusing others of “misinterpreting” the policy calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
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Braid: Cancer kids have popsicles back but AHS boss says we just don't get it
Alberta Health Services reverses ban on food and treats for outpatients, but insists they never denied food for patients, although they did.
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Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
"The bottom-up support for Western secession – another one of those populist movements that central Canada has never anticipated or understood – is currently centred in Alberta and Saskatchewan." Its not bottom-up, it is coming from the Premier's office.
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Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Opinion: Mark Carney poses a threat to national unity /via @globeandmail www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... Will Smith appoint Manning to Chair the What's Next Panel? Remember that he chaired the Fair Deal Panel?
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Opinion: Mark Carney poses a threat to national unity
If he remains prime minister after this election, there is a very real possibility that Western Canada will move to secede
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
#AbuseOfPower But some recent examples show guards may be denying entry to foreign nationals based on political leanings discovered in their social media and messaging apps that do not align with the Trump administration and its policies. #Canada www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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Can U.S. border guards deny entry based on cellphone contents?
United States Customs and Border Protection agents have long had the authority to demand travellers provide access to their electronic devices, but what they’re looking for seems to have changed under...
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I spoke with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum this morning. In a shifting global economy, strong and reliable partners matter. Canada and Mexico are focused on deepening our trade relations and building stronger economies, together.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Premier Wab Kinew and I are both focused on supporting Manitobans through this trade crisis and building an economy that works for everybody. We can do so much more when we are united. So we’ll keep it up.
Mark Carney and Wab Kinew in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The human capital flight from the U.S. is well underway.
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
“LaGrange, as usual, deflected blame to AHS. But with Tremblay now serving as absolute ruler, there’s no longer any detectable space between the health authority and the government.”
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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
This👇 Govt will act shocked. Govt will deny - “oh not kids, we didn’t mean to harm the kids TOO” It’s been death by a thousand cuts in HC the last couple of years.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Canadian physician, Dr. Danielle Martin owns the Americans! #cdnpoli
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markcritch.bsky.social @markcritch.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Thoughts on leaving X and a requiem for Twitter. Happy to fly in the Bluesky
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Canadian Birdie 🖇️ @cdn-birdie.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
It’s also because they keep changing electoral boundaries so it is weighted in favour of conservative voters. Seats are taken away from more liberal urban ridings & given to rural ones. I believe the UCP has, or has talked about, another redistribution. This is sneaky shit no one talks about.
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nordicfolk.bsky.social @nordicfolk.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Brexit and now Trumpism is showing the extent to which these ventures are punitive for the poor saps that vote for them. Good read here in independance prospects for Alberta. scrimshawunscripted.substack.com/p/is-daniell...
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Is Danielle Smith Trying To Elect Mark Carney?
What Is Smith Doing?
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Reformed Reformer and Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🏳️‍🌈 @reformedreformer.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
She can bluster all she wants but it doesnt make it anything more than wind. If people think they can just split from canada, they need to give their heads a shake. Its not a credible threat.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Our response is to fight, to protect, and to build.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Montreal turned out for Mark Carney 🇨🇦 - #cdnpoli
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This morning I spoke with President Trump:
Readout of Prime Minister Mark Carney's call with President Trump.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Trump announces 25% auto tariffs the day before Smith heads to the US to fundraise for the US far right and chill with Ben Shapiro… Because diplomacy! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
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Trump going ahead with tariffs on autos starting next week | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump is dealing another tariff blow to Canada, signing an executive order on Wednesday that will hit all non-U.S. made autos with hefty import levies.
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Janis Irwin @janisirwin.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Danielle Smith crossed the floor. Then she crossed the border. Now she's crossed the line. Time to go. Well said, @martychan.bsky.social.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Auto parts cross the Canada-U.S. border six times on average before final assembly. In a trade crisis, that’s a vulnerability.   It’s time to build more cars right here at home with an All-In-Canada auto manufacturing network.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.
A picture of Neri Alvarado, a young man, standing next to his brother, who is a young teenager. Both are smiling for the camera and wearing matching shirts. Neri has his arm around his brother.A picture of Neri's tattoo, which is an autism ribbon in rainbow colors with his brother's name "Neryelson" written on it.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Paging Rick Hillier
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
We are in the fight for our lives and if you don’t vote or split the vote — you are handing this election to Poilievre and his band of misfits who will destroy Canada #VoteLiberal #FederalElection2025 #Canada #cdnpoli 💪🏻🍁
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