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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 19h

So about this. I honestly don’t see a problem, nobody was intentionally doing anything? Just delete the tweet, post a pic of Archer with “PHRASING”. Then repost the pics with something like “The Heritage jerseys — which are white — go so hard.” The jersey is nice!

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 23h

Saw this on my Twitter feed. It is true: NHL players are overly online, and they will read what other overly online people post. In the extreme cases, it has real-world effects. The current makeup of the Maple Leafs is in large part because one star would not stop reading his social mentions.

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Got my dairy cartel jersey for the kid. Hopefully he gets his first point tonight. Probably my only “Milk” jersey ever, the ad is only on genuine ones or ones sold at the arena, and it has like a $35 surcharge (yes, it would be par for the MLSE course to charge fans extra to be a walking ad).

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

OK I saw this, clicked through, read the replies, and laughed. It really is a cultural difference. One that matters! Imperial Germany took that view of the Treaty of London of 1839. They could not believe Britain would go to war over “a scrap of paper” in 1914. Trump is very Kaiser Bill-coded.

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Know who gets fans better than Rogers? EA, the worst games publisher out there.

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don’t understand Rogers. All I’ve wanted has been a home broadcast. The modern day equivalent of Molson Leaf Hockey in the 1990s. Instead, their answer is less localism, more faux-national shit?!

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

lol. Honest answer followed by “oh shit”. www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...

McKenna says “I think people gained a bit of respect for me for that” (breaking the guy’s jaw), then immediately walks back with “obviously not the way you want to handle that.”

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Doing my duty this a.m. at the 2nd annual Kunjar Sharma Memorial Cup, a soccer tournament for kids in the Nepali-Canadian community in the Greater Toronto Area. (Named after my late father; I’m to give a speech.) And I see again that it’s at immigrant gatherings that I see the 🇨🇦 flag most often.

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I remain about 75% sure (partly from phrasing) that this anonymous American player was him, last year.

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I vaguely knew this history, relayed by @stephenmaher.bsky.social on the other site. I’m impressed that the current government knows it. (The 2015-25 regime would not have.)

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So I do feel this, and it’s one reason why I am not boycotting my second country. I ❤️ Buffalo. My other reason is that I’m not going to disrupt my family relationships, my college friendships, and my sports fandoms because Trump is an a**hole. But my counterbalancing act is EU accession. 🇪🇺

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So far my only issue with the new stadium on its official launch night is there aren’t enough men’s washrooms and the lines are ridiculous. But the Bills are clicking (four TD drives to start), One Republic was great, the Canadian anthem was touching…

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There is an electricity in the air that there wasn’t at the preseason opening. Go Bills! Looking forward to seeing the Barenaked Ladies singing O Canada to help officially open the new digs, which is a nice touch by the Bills for their Canadian season ticket holders.

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Shot, chaser. History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes.

Shot.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh writing disdainfully in 1940 about crusading against fascism abroad in her America First pamphlet, “The Wave of the Future”.

Chaser

Ike’s message to his British, American, and Canadian soldiers about “the Great Crusade”, the Normandy invasion in June 1944

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

FYI, Gretchen Whitmer is coming after Line 5 again. Build a Canadian alternative route before it’s too late. x.com/govwhitmer/s...

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I do miss the days of the Canadian dollar at or above par. (Helped my folks out, they borrowed a lot in USD for my college with the Canadian dollar at 0.64, then repaid it with the dollar at 1.05.)

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Okay so I’m not in the 41% here. I would not be attending the Bills season opener at new Highmark (or have seasons with my friends) if I felt thusly. But we are where we are. leger360.com/in-the-news-...

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The bike fall meme generator might be needed for a few things soon. My first cut is attached. imgflip.com/memegenerato...

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A self-blockade. It’s like the scene in “Blazing Saddles” where Bart takes himself hostage.

Trump threatens a self-blockade on Truth Social if the Fed refuses to cut rates.

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So about this from @scottlincicome.bsky.social on the other platform. If Trump’s policies & mindset are sticky and Canada does not give in or append itself to another large market (involuntary US annexation or voluntary EU membership), it’s possible that we could return to a pre-1940 state … (1/2)

Lincicome’s post on Twitter:

No idea how common this is, but moving to Canada gives these US manufacturers:
1. Cheaper input costs (no US tariffs)
2. Better access to foreign markets (thanks to Canada's FTAs & retaliation against US exports)
3. No consumer boycotts

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I see Hall and Oates. I will play through a Leafs season if they have it play “You Make My Dreams (Come True)”for Toronto goals.

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Oh one thing I discovered. Ken Dryden — the late Ken Dryden — wrote his own memoirs of the Summit Series a few years ago. It probably was a Covid lockdown project for him. Didn’t know it existed until tonight.

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The LCBO (Google Maps API) is treasonous at the moment. So anyway, I’m going to give it a week. If at the end of the week Google Maps is doing “Lake America” Stateside but Apple Maps is not, Google Maps is coming off my phone. Waze hasn’t moved over yet (even though it is owned by Google).

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Generally our view is “we are Canada”, so a provincial identity doesn’t come up. (Possibly the only Ontarian figure as an Ontarian was Sir Oliver Mowat?) But given the context of the last week…

Great White Trilliums are the provincial flower of Ontario.

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I wouldn’t go quite as far as this (bit unfair to the Dems, I think), but Democrat congresscritters and governors are not going to ride to Canada’s rescue. Whatever concessions we make to Trump will be pocketed by any future American government.

David Moscrop tweeted, “The Democrats are also the enemy”, with a quote-tweet of Rep Jared Golden (D-ME) backing Trump’s tariffs against Canada.

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Here’s an American-published map from sometime between 1841 and 1867.

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

And this is an example of why many Canadians have very little time for Democrats right now.

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Okay, minor fix to make the text closer to Bomber Harris’s actual quote.

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

So yeah this is more or less what’s gonna happen now. There is a lack of understanding of how spiteful Canadians get when we are crossed. We are a spiteful people.

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Okay so yeah eff that. No deal. www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...

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