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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁

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Descendent of Barrett's Privateer 🍁 Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ottawa. Public Servant. Wedding Officiant.⛵, 🥌, 🎸 writer of stories and some are true. St.FX.

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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 3h
Do the *concessions* involve kickbacks for Lutnick and Trump? I suspected that may have been the case in the *demands* in the negotiations with Canada. Personal kickbacks hidden somewhere. www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
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Exclusive | Lutnick Throws the Future of U.S.-Mexico Trade Talks Into Further Doubt
The commerce secretary has objected to significant reductions in tariffs on Mexican steel, aluminum and automobiles.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 5h
Why? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Waymo robotaxis are coming to Toronto in 2028 | CBC News
Autonomous vehicle operator Waymo is officially coming to Canada with the driverless ride-hailing service expected to launch in Toronto in 2028, the company says.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 19h
Canadian media class was soooo sure chirping that Mexico was sooooo advanced and outpacing Canada in their trade negotiations implying that Canadian negotiators were on the wrong track! Well, there's this... www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Lutnick Throws the Future of U.S.-Mexico Trade Talks Into Further Doubt
The commerce secretary has objected to significant reductions in tariffs on Mexican steel, aluminum and automobiles.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Why haven't they been charged, arrested or something? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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CRA knew of tax ‘scheme’ before paying out millions in bogus refunds, court documents reveal | CBC News
A fifth estate investigation has found that groups of so-called “sovereigns” following debunked conspiracy theories have successfully duped the Canada Revenue Agency into repeatedly handing over milli...
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
One of the two certainties is death. The other is taxes but death is more certain! www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps...
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Trump says Canada will ‘end up being the 51st state’
Donald Trump told a crowd of supporters that Canada will "end up being the 51st state" as he expressed a series of longstanding grievances the United States has with its northern neighbour.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
His responses to questions are robotic.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"Your wonderful country" - Pierre Poilievre After all the damage the usa has inflicted upon Canada, that cow of a man has the gall to say: "Your wonderful country"
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The great news keeps coming... Canada continues to avoid the usa defense establishment. The rupture in the Canada/usa relationship will transcend trump and last generations. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Black Hawk down: Trump's trade war pauses Canadian helicopter deal | CBC News
The Carney government quietly suspended plans to purchase 16 Black Hawk helicopters for Canada's special forces amid escalating tensions with Washington. The decision reflects Ottawa's growing relucta...
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The only way to fight it is to have our own stealth smarter data centres and target them.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The primary target is Canada!
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Canada!!!
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Canada is the only country standing up to Trump. It's some other country's God Damned turn God Dammit!!!
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Municipalities are the lynchpin of Canadian federalism, the frontline without which provincial and federal policies fail and little is accomplished. Democracy is tough in an expansive country because the three levels have to cooperate, not always agree, but cooperate.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The USA Abandons Ukraine Changes Allegiance to Russia. Fixed the headline www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
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ANALYSIS | Under pressure at home, Trump is trying to force Ukraine to stop attacking Russian refineries | CBC News
With Trump's declaration of an 'energy ceasefire' between Russia and Ukraine, the U.S. president appears to be increasing pressure on Kyiv to halt its attacks on Russian refineries while simultaneousl...
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There is no bottom to their actions and it is rapidly shifting from a tail risk, as Carney characterized it, toward a more real scenario.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Huh??
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Young couples priced out of housing are choosing not to raise babies in small overpriced apartments!! www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
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Changing lifestyles may be behind Canada’s near historic low fertility rate
Canada’s fertility rate remained at a record low in 2025, while the average age of mothers at childbirth continued to climb, according to the latest figures from Statistics Canada.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The usa and russia are plotting on how they will divide up the world. The usa could buy the same amount of diesel from Canada but we are villians. The usa will simply take our oil while russia keeps Europe busy taking Ukraine, Romania, Euro oil. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
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Trump talks to Putin, then announces diesel deal with Russia, in sharp reversal of U.S. policy | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump said that he has struck a deal to obtain diesel from Russia, a stunning reversal after years of U.S. pressure on Moscow over its war with Ukraine and an attempt to address ...
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The X ring has been overplayed but the use of X predates the ring as a synonymous symbol of the university and seems like copyright infringement by Musk in my mind.
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LynnMac 🐞🇨🇦📎 @lynnmaccanada.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Exactly!! That's my husband's alma mater, also.
An X ring from St. Francis Xavier University, in Antigonish, Nova. Scotia
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I still fail to understand why my alma mater, St FX, or X, as it is broadly known, has not sued Musk for stealing the X moniker!!
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 08/10/2026
Elon Musk routinely inserts himself into Canadian politics. Despite this, Canada’s political class continues to use Twitter — legitimizing him and his far-right talking points. Canadian politicians need to make a choice: either they support Elon Musk, or their constituents. It can’t be both.
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Why are Canadian politicians still using Twitter?
Why are Canadian politicians still using Twitter?
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New Canuck @cribis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
45 years ago this province was booming. We hosted the Olympics, we were building hospitals and homes and we had a Heritage Fund. Conservatives have driven it down, down, down. They have no one to blame but themselves. Where the hell is the Heritage fund? Immigrants didn't destroy us;white trash did.
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Jeromy Farkas @jeromyyyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They preach "Alberta First" while promising the Americans our water, oil, and land. I joined Edmonton's Mayor Andrew Knack on CBC's Power & Politics to call out the hypocrisy of the Alberta separatist movement. You don’t defend Alberta by putting our province up for sale to the United States.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I am and have always been a practicing Anglican and I have never seen anyone of any belief refused entry, haven and sacraments. I recall debate at one time about the definition of marriage by some stanch folk but it fizzled out likely because many ministers identified within LGBTQ2s+.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Wayne Gretsky
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Nice.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Canada takes less than three years. How long does it take in other countries by comparison? Norway? UK? Sweden? Switzerland? usa? etc. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Canadians born abroad caught up in yearslong citizenship certificate processing delays | CBC News
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada is struggling to handle a flood of citizenship applications — many of them from a change to federal law late last year that allows anyone who can prove the...
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Preparing to Fight a War in the Arctic Will Be Arduous for Canada. Fixed the headline! www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Cold reality: Canadian troops struggle in Alaska as military relearns Arctic warfare | CBC News
Canadian troops battled frostbite, failing batteries, communications problems and gaps in basic winter skills during a major Alaska exercise, according to an internal evaluation. Despite achieving the...
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A classic exchange and I feel deep inside that the vast majority of Canadians agreed with Turner that night. We gained absolutely nothing from 38 years of free trade and lost so much.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Canada must hold fast against not only the usa, but against some of our own incompetent business leaders and avoid the same mistake of pressure for bad trade arrangements for their personal enrichment.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The rupture between Canada/usa will be intergenerational. I voted against free trade in'88 and 38 years later can point to it as an policy failure. Mulroney's legacy must at the very least footnote the failure and John Turner's legacy must highlight that he was 100% right in opposition. 1/2
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Poilievre gave away his chance through utter stupidity and the arrogance of an entitled frat boy who failed upward. His embarrassing leadership now reminds me of Napoleon's retreat from Russia as MPs just abandon the column rather than suffer further.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
*President Kennedy is dead* were the words that opened the morning radio news broadcast, CKEC New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.
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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Stephen Harper has, as we've long awaited, weighed in against Alberta separatism. But man oh man, do I have to strongly quibble with him claiming sentiment was zero when he was PM. Here's a 2014 poll putting belief in separation at 23%, which is where it sits now. nationalpost.com/opinion/step...
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 30/09/2026
Donald Trump is trying to spread as much disinformation about Canada as possible in his remaining time in office. And Canada’s mainstream media is happily giving him a platform to do it.
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CBC needs to stop livestreaming Trump’s disinformation
CBC News needs to stop livestreaming Trump’s disinformation.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The reason my parent disliked usamericans, my grand and great grand parents whom I knew, had the same dislike because of the 1890 trade war.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I was joking actually. A 20% drop is so small it doesn't merit notice.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Removal of most barriers require legislative amendments which requires a legislature sitting for a a session, something the Ford, Houston governments rarely do. Maybe a few weeks a year. I doubt they seriously looked at it much. They want the feds to do it for them because they're useless.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Ontario Minister resonsible Stephen Crawford, just last week, sluffed off an interprovincial barrier that directly affects my business. Ontario gov is not serious about lifting barriers and it's abominable.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
True. Alcohol, which is at the centre of our trade war!
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Everything stops making sense when a product that rots your gut and eats your liver is at the forefront of an international dispute???? www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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U.S. bans on Canadian booze hit producers on one of the trade war's thorniest fronts | CBC News
As of Tuesday, some Canadian products, including dairy, motorcycles and alcohol can no longer cross the border to the U.S. at all thanks to an American import ban. It's the latest escalation in the Ca...
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
usamerican exceptionalism. Canada became a great country with education, healthcare, social programs, etc., in 122 years without a free trade deal and gained nothing during 38 years with one.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ice cold silence. Ignore this ignoramus. Grey stone. www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps...
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Trump says he expects Canada trade deal within weeks as import ban looms
With just hours to go before his import bans on certain Canadian goods take effect, U.S. President Donald Trump says he thinks he can make a trade deal with Canada in the coming weeks.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Agree! It's clear that playing silly games is the reason Lewis failed in previous attempts to win a seat in the HoC. Canadians generally have little patience for game playing...ooops Singh, and Poilievre, now Lewis.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Poilievre, Harper and the CPC DO NOT understand our democratic institutions thus campaign to destroy them.
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Don Cochrane 🇨🇦 @doncochraneyow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ottawa’s greenbelt is a treasure. Wonderful for walks (or skiing) all year long.
A trail in the Mer Bleue sector of Ottawa’s greenbelt. The photo shows a boardwalk with vegetation growing on the edges.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Downside I suppose is that teslas are the most common ev in Norway. I detest anything musky.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Of course. Although AOC's Democrat agenda contributed significantly to elect Trump 2 and she would never suggest that! It is clear though that usamerica was always a vengeful bully under a thin veneer of civility. trump simply ripped off that rotten veneer and released his enablers.
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M C Wilson 🇨🇦🍁 @barrettsprivateer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
History must provide context. The old CN ferry of the 50's-70s was only successful because there was gambling on board and the road from Nova Scotia to Bangor was a two lane death trap. There are 4 lane highways to the border and beyond. A 12hr drive in the 70s is now 6-7hrs.
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