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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺?

@benjamin.bsky.social
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Torontonian by birth and residence. Canadian and American by nationality. Fan of history, liberal democracy, and our constitutional monarchy. Also a fan of the Leafs, Jays, Bills, and Raps. Plays video games. So, 🇨🇦->🇪🇺?

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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 3h
Finished the penultimate chapter of Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter, and it’s as good as I hoped. (And I got the highest rank, which is not easy in this game, unlike most other Trails games.) Mildly prefer the previous localization though. Feel they moved away from it only to avoid copying.
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 12h
After the last few years I would not be heartbroken to see Washington accidentally destroy Silicon Valley, just saying…
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
On another note, not hugely surprised by this, but it does still anger me. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
theglobeandmail.com
The elephant in the room
Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Something along the lines of, “nah, ceramic cutlery, my brothers tell me I need to get into ceramics.” But I guess he really does feel sore about his injuries? Also there’s a weird vibe that comes from the Team USA crowd. They’re a little brittle. Can see it with all the trade requests.
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Hughes interview is a good test of one’s bubble. My reaction was “gosh that’s a bit weak, if Biz chirped him like that he’d get a smile and a chirp back.” One friend said, “those interviews aren’t voluntary, if I were in his shoes I’d have told her to f**k off.” Seeing mixed reactions online.
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“According to industry sources with direct knowledge of the situation ... part of the reason for the show’s demise was the blunt nature of some of Bunkis and McKee’s criticism of the Leafs last season.” Leafs state media. Like WGR losing the Bills. www.thestar.com/sports/leafs...
thestar.com
Jonah Sigel: Sportsnet’s popular ‘Leafs Talk’ show was quietly cancelled this season. We tried to find out why
The popular show became a place for Leafs fans to gather after the game. This season, it’s gone.
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He has almost every credential known to man (including probably a life peerage in the UK once he retires), he doesn’t need more. That said, Churchill was very upset by his failure to get a Peace Prize and instead “only” get a Nobel Prize in Literature, which almost everyone would say is way cooler.
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I do think it will not be in the interests of Canada for Carney to win. bsky.app/profile/thes...
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If Carney wins the Peace Prize, the crashout will be legendary.
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sometimes it’s remarkable how good it is at generating text, sometimes its errors are staggering. Lots of use, lots of garbage. Hence “vibe-coding” for AI-assisted coding.
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Much to this feeling. Sick of the coasts. Broadly wish Lake Michigan well in this playoff season, but Great Lakes more generally would be OK.
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I think it’s helpful to think of AI like power tools? Very helpful sometimes, essential at other times, but not a miracle-worker.
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I get feeling unsafe on subways, and that’s a specific policy failure by the city, province, and feds that I would like elected officials to go to town on. But at home? No way.
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Lived in Toronto most of my life (except for my 20s), my only bats have been for baseball. If I truly felt I was in danger, I’d get a PAL and a bedroom wall-bolted gun safe — I wouldn’t give home invaders a sporting chance. But I mean who actually feels physically unsafe at home in Toronto?
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Anyway I’m very glad to see this pipeline get proposed and (hopefully) built. Also think providing for indigenous equity is smart.
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Smart American fuel prices analyst:
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ottawa:
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Acts of sportsmanship are good in and of themselves. Scheffler gains more in conceding that putt — self-respect, reputation, etc. — than he would have by accepting the ill-gotten advantage. (Wonder if it’s time to start explicitly teaching people the (enlightened) self-interest in honour.)
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’ll be explicit: I would nationalize Stelco and knock down the valuation from the 2024 sale price because the actions of Cleveland Cliffs specifically impaired the value of the company.
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I can’t speak to his personal morality, but the public record shows him taking personal credit for the 50% tariffs that he is now claiming makes it impossible to live up to the 2024 conditions on the Government of Canada’s approval of Stelco’s acquisition. Wonder if Canada will nationalize it now.
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Not just that: “I have been fighting for this for almost 30 years,” Goncalves said. “I am very happy with 50 percent. And without giving any details, I have my fingerprints on that 50 percent. In other words, I influenced that.” www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
politico.com
‘I influenced that’: A steel CEO takes a bow for Trump’s tariffs
The CEO of Ohio-based Cleveland-Cliffs says he pressed the president to double steel tariffs, a move that he says is going to help bring the industry back to its former glory.
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Frankly what our former party should do is create a district for non-military, non-government overseas citizens. It hives off a 70-odd percent Democrat population in their own seat and can be spun as more effective representation.
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I was a “never resided in the United States” citizen before I went to college Stateside. I was under the impression that one just uses the last American address of the US citizen parent? (Once I went to college, my voting address was my dorm room.)
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
OH. “I have been fighting for this for almost 30 years,” Goncalves said. “I am very happy with 50 percent. And without giving any details, I have my fingerprints on that 50 percent. In other words, I influenced that.” So the CEO literally did that. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
politico.com
‘I influenced that’: A steel CEO takes a bow for Trump’s tariffs
The CEO of Ohio-based Cleveland-Cliffs says he pressed the president to double steel tariffs, a move that he says is going to help bring the industry back to its former glory.
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I mean, okay fine, but that’s why you then see the Carney Liberals at 50%. Because the OLO can’t grok that soft treason is a bad look to the general electorate.
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In most common usage, yes. But I would nevertheless note that there are also ancillary tenets. Although we’re in an age of radical (over?)simplification…
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When you see a ticket price that tempts you, just buy the ticket next time.
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Standing room sold out, you missed your window and you’re not going to trick people into selling.
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh I see. Cleveland Cliffs is breaching obligations from the 2024 acquisition approval, while its CEO is cheering on Trump’s steel tariffs. Wonder if the company ends up back in Canadian hands after this.
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I support doing that!
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Looks like he wants to make an example of a CEO bowing to Trump?
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Okay moderately surprised at the fire of this. Calling out both the company and the actions of its owner’s CEO. www.youtube.com/shorts/o3_Nn...
youtube.com
Stelco ‘betrayed’ workers at Hamilton, Ont. plant: PM Carney
YouTube video by CTV News
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So I DO understand my fellow countrymen and this is the response I expected. bsky.app/profile/davi...
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I mean he clearly needs to move that lever up, if so!
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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
Some issues are complex, with much to be said about them. This one is fairly simple. If someone entertains “The Indian Question” as a thing, and a political party welcomes them, I will not vote for said political party.
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
$25 looms that large?
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Leafs’ villain era video now posted to BlueSky. Apparently written and edited by Sean Bowen (son of you know who).
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Exit, Voice, and Loyalty” Even more relevant this decade. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_V...
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Exit, Voice, and Loyalty - Wikipedia
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The last time the Leafs did anything in the playoffs, they were absolutely despised. Total heel team. And yes it was captained by Mats Sundin, so I think he knows. youtu.be/4eQkXSj0pZs
youtu.be
Watch Darcy Tucker take on the whole Senators bench
YouTube video by SPORTSNET
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We’ll see
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“They always complain, it’s about the f##king Leafs.” - William Nylander
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Toronto Maple Leafs villain arc, embraced. www.instagram.com/reel/Dd4JCjO...
instagram.com
mapleleafs on Instagram: "They’re right, it is.View all 175 comments"
They’re right, it is.
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dislikes immigration (“bad news”), therefore wants Labour, apparently opposes Parliament and supports a dictator, but loves Keir Starmer? I’m calling this response set a troll.
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Suggested attack line for the non-Auston Matthews members of Team USA: “You do realize you wouldn’t make the combined North American team, right?” (Probably doesn’t work for Quinn Hughes, either.)
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Counterintuitively, this is why we’re going to see hockey surge in popularity (whitest and most MAGA of the big four North American professional sports), and why the weird Canada stuff from the administration is only going to grow over the next two years.
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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 · 29/09/2026
It’ll happen.
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think what it would take to shut those people the eff up is a trifecta — BC Conservative majority after ditching the influencer wing to OneBC, Alberta referendum where at least 75% votes for Canada, and a federal Liberal supermajority with 250+ Liberal MPs.
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