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I am interested in justice, including health justice, science and nature (inc funny animal photos), well-designed cities, and technology, especially security. Viewpoints from outside CDA/US very welcome.

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Contrast this to @patriquin.bsky.social's profile in the Walrus, where it was a key focus, though I will note that it didn't really talk about the fact that the CAQ's overriding focus on ethnic nationalism arguably set the stage for this move by PSPP.
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How St-Pierre Plamondon Learned to Stop Worrying and Blame Immigrants | The Walrus
The Parti Québécois leader built his comeback on the bigotry he once condemned
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Globe's profile of PSPP really soft-pedalled the racism at the centre of his campaign.
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The persistence of Paul St-Pierre Plamondon brings the PQ to a critical point
The promise of a referendum put the Parti Québécois Leader on centre stage. He might just get the chance to deliver
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well done! More of this format.
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Their entire mentality, which is the goal of all Conservatives these days, is to make people uncertain. Even if you don’t have to rush a loved one to a hospital, the idea that you could not if you needed to, because there is no hospital with capacity near you, weighs on people’s minds.
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This:
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Quislings really should be drummed out of the country.
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And Cornell also was part of the mushroom sucking university group that couldn’t wait to throw staff and students who bring other valuable perspectives to the table right under the fascist bus, no? Yes: www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/educa...
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Cornell cuts $60 million deal with Trump administration to end DEI
By accepting the terms of the agreement, Cornell University is not admitting wrongdoing related to pending claims against the school.
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Phenomenal!
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Summer Glovin' (song parody)
YouTube video by Patrick Fitzgerald
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OMG yes.
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Something to think about every time you see (or are tempted to participate in) a pile-on:
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In evidence of my long held belief in a horseshoe representation of political ideologies I today saw someone I understood to be way left of me and my equality, compassion and logic stance absolutely supportively post a TC video, someone whose base outlook is all around the other way. So strange.
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wait, is the *headline* of this video what prompted that off-the-rails rant? youtu.be/Cfg6kqq3HE4
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Behind the scenes of WestJet Furry Family - April Fool's 2013
YouTube video by WestJet
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Whether one agrees with every word, and whether one looks for self-awareness about the accusations that can equally be applied to the government he represents, the man has a point. Should a govt leader under arrest orders by int’l criminal courts be able to speak to the UN? youtu.be/1_skrhP0KPw
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‘Belongs in the Dock of a Court…’: Iran Delivers Brutal Response to Netanyahu’s UNGA Speech
YouTube video by Hook Global
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“On April 1, 2026, after a 16-hour journey to East Africa, an aircraft carrying eight deportees from the United States landed at Entebbe, a windswept peninsula in Uganda, on the northern shore of Lake Victoria.”
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How Uganda Became a Holding Ground for America’s Deportees
The secret deal that sent eight asylum-seekers halfway around the world
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@mark-carney.bsky.social
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Countries must do a mass international lawsuit and rescue their children from inevitable harm. I am guessing the U.S. is not sanitary to the UN convention on the rights of the child.
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This really is it. So Bubba and Bubbina can pull down their MAGA caps tighter on their heads and give a big fist-pump for ”freedom”.
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ugh. This simplistic question is *not* what is on the table. So we have to go through another round of misinformation from the NDP? Please present real facts and focus on the bits that are truly concerning. youtu.be/NTz8q0rKGdI
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NDP Leader Avi Lewis asks Canadians: Should our airports be privatized?
YouTube video by Avi Lewis
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How many school breakfasts is *this* court case going to cost?
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As we see Harper show up on stages as a representative of Canadian interests I am reminded of this gem. I have never seen the animated version: youtu.be/873QiQiALDc There is no reason for him to be rehabilitated. He’s doing just fine with the likes of Orban and oil execs.
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Harperman - The Animation (Harpermanimation)
YouTube video by More to the Story
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#CdnPoli USian data but still very relevant to go digging with to get the Canadian picture.
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
They are two out of tens of thousands. But bit by bit we must push back on the tyrants doing this to people. Join Amnesty in this action:
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What an excellent analysis. It is about the BBC but I think it applies more broadly.
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Watch this! It has far too few views. It’s part of a very long project out of Norway, highlighting the role that stereotypes and expectations reduce opportunity. @saih-org.bsky.social youtu.be/HpjbkQr0JAE The series is on YouTube.
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Africa Corp. Radi-Aid 2.0
YouTube video by SAIH Norway
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This. Public health, done properly, has direct correlation to many fields, including economics and technology.
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“The Norwegian Consumer Council is an independent, governmentally funded organisation that advocates for consumer’s rights. It should be easy for consumers to make sustainable choices every day.” #CdnPoli - we need to be looking to 🇳🇴, not the 🇺🇸, for ideas on sustainability youtu.be/d6SPV4GZp
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The Life of Death and the Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is valuable. No wonder there are love letters (per the blob): youtu.be/7ZOg-skBTvk
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I Spoke with Kim Jong Un - This Terrified Me (Life of North Korean Diplomat)
YouTube video by DimpleVideo
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#CdnPoli #CdnEnergyFuture
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#CdnPoli This is essential watching, especially right now.
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
At 3:43 Harper refers to Canada as reliant on the United States. Who is reliant on whom? And what did he and his party do to reduce that reliance while in office? They reinforced it, while doing everything they could to destabilize us as a society. Remember his promise. He is still working on it.
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Former prime minister Stephen Harper speaks at Canada Investment Summit – September 15, 2026
YouTube video by cpac
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
OMG no one should be dying from an ectopic pregnancy in “the greatest country in the world” (tm) in 2026. OMG. OMG. @thegodshow.com
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is very useful: youtu.be/VdE5pwwNu0A
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Canada's Ambassador-designate to the EU Jonathan Wilkinson speaks with reporters
YouTube video by cpac
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Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And now that you and your competitors have all agreed what the limit will be, you just divide the market among yourselves. If you do it right you also get non-US (ie Chinese) tech blocked. And you bribe Trump so he will work the Europeans with a rubber hose to adopt the same rules.
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So apropos: youtu.be/hkTgYiMDRHY
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Send Us Thine Asteroid, O Lord
YouTube video by Joseph Murray
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Alex Boyd @alexboyd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Everyone is (rightfully, probably) focused on Alberta's separation referendum question, but there are nine (!) other questions also being asked. This is an immensely helpful explainer on the first of the immigration questions. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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ANALYSIS | What you need to know before voting on Alberta’s pitch for more control over immigration | CBC News
Alberta's first of five immigration-related questions in the Oct. 19 referendum pitches more provincial control over immigration.
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Essential thread up and down. For me, this is the crux. Consulting Parliament is the very least aspect of ensuring that the government is acting in the interests and according to the desires of Canadians. Question Period needs to be brought back to its former utility and dignity, not avoided.
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
that amount of money could have paid for - including items that people on both sides of the aisle care about. That would be a great pre-election public service, @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @npr.org. Title it "Where Did It All Go?"
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
And yet we dont have enough money to lift people who don’t have the option of being self-sustaining out of abject poverty? This boon is far too rich.
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@lambdalegal.org @egalecanada.bsky.social
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@mark-carney.bsky.social Why are you rehabilitating the man who did so much damage to Canada, getting us into the mess that we are now facing, who also meddles in the affairs of other countries, pushing them towards leaders such as Orban? Why? bsky.app/profile/phil...
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So accurate:
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
'There has never been a war in history where 80% of the country has been destroyed, 100% of the population displaced, and 50% of the deaths children. Call it what it is, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: GENOCIDE.' @mhdksafa.bsky.social
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hmmmm….
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is a fun Thursday throwback game!
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
ONG 6:47… I’ve seen 5 year olds turn on the tears more convincingly: youtu.be/NYWsonBlNaY And this is the guy advising the guy who has now claiming to be nearly the saint of 9/11. I’m surprised he has not posted an AI altered image of that iconic photo of Fr. Mychal Judge.
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The SHOCKING story behind Trump's tariff czar Howard Lutnick | If You're Listening
YouTube video by ABC News In-depth
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Image: line-drawn cartoon of the national press gallery asking questions of the Trump spokesperson Press: What is the administration’s plan to lower grocery prices? Spokesperson: Make it so unsafe that demand craters.
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Tick, tick, tick… And do we know who the mentioned Canadian billionaire is yet?
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NigelBankes @nigelb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Nicely done @duanebratt.bsky.social "Why I am Voting No to the Nine"
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Why I am Voting No to the Nine
In previous substacks I have explained why I am voting to stay in Canada on the separation question and how the entire referendum process is government-driven and not an exercise in grassroots democra...
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willis-2.bsky.social @willis-2.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sounds like the East Mob Boss had a meeting with the West Mob Boss aka Jared Kushner. Kushner is running the USA international affairs now…in case, ppl haven’t been paying attention. He’s unelected and compromised-which is just perfect. He’s accountable to no one.
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Born @ 3B #StandUp 🇨🇦 @bornat3b.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
When do we declare IL a rogue state?
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Q&A: Commission of Inquiry says equal accountability is critical for Syria's future
YouTube video by UN Human Rights Council
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