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Philippe J. Fournier @338canada.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
"It’s not Alberta that is split on independence—it’s conservative Albertans." My latest for 338 → www.338canada.ca/p/338-albert...
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
*tap dances across the stage* And that's rape culture, babyyyyy
theglobeandmail.com
London police detective told accused in Hockey Canada trial he had no plans to charge him in 2018
Video played in court shows now-retired sergeant telling Michael McLeod that he has no plans to arrest or charge him
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Heather the 🇨🇦 Nurse @nurseheatherns.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Excellent primer on equalization. #cdnpoli open.substack.com/pub/dougaldl...
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The Premiers Need to Stop Misleading Canadians about How our Country Works
Transfer and equalization payments are an essential part of any country with multiple jurisdictions that share a currency. If you want to break Canada, break transfer payments.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
How Pierre Poilievre Used Taxpayer Funds to Run a Permanent Campaign. While he was running this permanent campaign, we can strongly infer he was doing something else too: charging the public for it. #cdnpoli letterkenny.substack.com/p/the-dual-t...
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The Dual Track
How Pierre Poilievre Used Taxpayer Funds to Run a Permanent Campaign
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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
History and its reference is important. Dr Gabor Mate talks about #Canadian #Indigenous, #Israeli history, and #Palestinians genocide. It matter to know what’s #history has happened and not just a snapshot. This explanation is profoundly important to consider. #cdnpoli #WarOnGaza #AidToGaza
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Stephen Lautens @stephenlautens.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
The Springbank reservoir to protect Calgary from flooding received $168.5 million in federal funding. Another example of Ottawa oppressing and ignoring Alberta. #cdnpoli #ableg
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Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Fascism doesn’t start with force—it starts with silence. That’s why we need public broadcasting like CBC: to keep truth alive when power tries to bury it. #SaveTheCBC #ProtectThePress #NeverAgain #CdnPoli
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
'It’s always going to be the most significant moment in my life.' A 24-year-old from Inuvik in the Northwest Territories is the first person of Gwichya Gwich’in descent to earn a law degree.
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Julienne Chipesia says graduating with law degree ‘most significant’ moment in her life
Julienne Chipesia graduated with a Master of Laws degree from the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.
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Tobique Mike🇨🇦 @tobiquemike.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
While you couldn’t pay rent. While you couldn’t afford groceries. Or daycare. Or gas. Or medicine. Poilievre spent $8M+ of taxpayer money (more than double the PM) with $7.3M in fat salaries for his staff. Get this grifting fake out of our lives! #cdnpoli www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
ctvnews.ca
Canada’s MPs spent record-breaking $187.8 million in 2024
Canadian members of Parliament spent a record $187.8 million in 2024, including $32 million on travel.
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Dizzy ★ @tindizzy.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
These are the same kinda people who want to break up Canada. They’re predominantly white Albertans who have everything – they’ve got land, livestock, fancy vacays, toys… you name it, they got it. But it’s somehow not enough. #AbLeg #AbPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli
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Chickadee 🇨🇦 @rusty-17.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This looks incredibly similar to what the UCP & Smith are doing to Albertans. #cdnpoli #abpoli #autogenocide
BINDING CHAOS
Autogenocide
A genocide that a population is coerced to perform on itself
Lack of medical care
Toxic food and pharmaceuticals
Toxic pollution
Climate change
Plenty of guns and street drugs
Daily fear, anxiety, and desperation
Me Only
No baby formula or abortions
Secterian hatred
No elder care, no disablity aid
Poverty,
Houselessness
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Chris Glover @chrisgloverndp.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Bill 5 allows Minsters to declare any community in ON exempt from all Municipal & Provincial laws. To the Minister: "Do you realize how profoundly undemocratic Bill 5 is to allow a Minister, by fiat, to override By-laws as well as our democratically created Provincial laws?" #ONpoli #TOpoli
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So Over the Conservatives 🇨🇦🍁 @energy-girl.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Arlene has some thoughts on “Smith”. All pretty bang on. 👏👏👏 #Abpoli (Via LinkedIn)
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The Rundown @therundowntvo.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Canadians like to think our democracy works. @acoyne.bsky.social (@theglobeandmail.com), author of "The Crisis of Canadian Democracy," tells @spaikin.bsky.social why that’s a myth. Tonight at 8/11pm #cdnpoli
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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The failure to protect farmland now threatens Ontario’s food sovereignty and our $50 Billion food and farming economy that employs 875,000 people. We're losing too much farmland too quickly. It's time to establish a Foodbelt to protect Ontario's farmland. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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2 MPPs have proposed an Ontario foodbelt. Could it help tariff-proof the ag sector? | CBC News
Two MPPs have proposed Ontario create a foodbelt of protected farmland. Two former Markham councillors pitched the same idea in 2009 for their area and say it's time the province takes action.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 21/05/2025
Which stream of information is Poilievre swimming in? 🏊 #cdnpoli
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Pick a Language, Poilievre | The Tyee
He lost while trying to speak in two tongues. But it’s impossible to appear calmly sane while not insulting the far right.
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Aeide @aeide.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Day 19 of posting this every day until PP leaves his taxpayer-funded home and loses his job, as per his own suggestion #Canada #cdnpoli
A tweet from November 2023 made by Pierre Poilievre that says “in the real world if you don’t do your job you lose it”
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John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
No passport, no pension, no dice. (And no land, either! Why do we even entertain these febrile hallucinations predicated on a weird fantasy parallel universe where the Treaty holders do not exist? They exist! They are flesh-and-bone people with actual, legally binding Treaties!)
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a man wearing a red shirt and white apron has a name tag that says chris
Alt: The "no shirt, no shoes, no dice" scene from American graffiti.
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CNN @cnn.com · 20/05/2025
George Wendt, an actor and comedian who was beloved for his performance as Norm Peterson on the long-running comedy series “Cheers” has died, his family announced. Read more: cnn.it/4k7chQ9
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This is the lifetime compliance order that Pierre Poilievre is under with Elections Canada. Share it profusely. cef-cce.ca/content.asp?... #InvestigatePoilievre #PierrePoilievreIsAForeignAsset #NeverPoilievre #PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou cef-cce.ca/content.asp?
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Don Cochrane 🇨🇦 @doncochraneyow.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
He’s still finding out.
cbc.ca
Despite model prison behaviour, Coutts blockade leader denied parole over 'lack of accountability' | CBC News
One of the men serving a sentence for their actions during the Coutts pandemic-era border blockade and protest has been denied parole despite a largely glowing review of his time in prison.
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Black Panther🍁💪🦫🇨🇦 @blackpanther25.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Remove The 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗦𝗾𝘂𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗡𝗢𝗪❗ #cdnpoli #Canadasky🇨🇦
Canada's Biggest Grifter is Still
Squatting in Stornoway
WHY❓
Remove the Stornoway Squatter Now ❗
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 20/05/2025
B.C. has launched a special committee on electoral reform. Twenty years ago, the BC Citizens’ Assembly made a bold recommendation. Antony Hodgson explains. #bcpoli
thetyee.ca
A Fresh Opportunity to Get Elections Right | The Tyee
BC has launched a special committee on electoral reform. Twenty years ago, the BC Citizens’ Assembly made a bold recommendation.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Conservatives know Poilievre has ‘no right’ to continue living in Stornoway. Party wants to avoid ‘symbolism’ of exiting political stage, but no reason for former Opposition leader to continue living at ‘our expense. #cdnpoli www.saultstar.com/opinion/op-e...
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OP-ED: Conservatives know Poilievre has ‘no right’ to continue living in Stornoway
Understandable party wants to avoid ‘symbolism’ of exiting, but no reason for former Opposition leader to continue living at ‘our expense’
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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
It’s difficult for fast food workers to unionize - but staff at this Kamloops A&W beat the odds. By @thetyee.ca’s labour reporter @isaacphannay.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2025/05...
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How a Union at a Kamloops A&W Beat the Odds | The Tyee
It’s a rare win for fast-food workers, experts say. But will it last?
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
The #fascist street army in the making. www.cbsnews.com/news/combat-...
cbsnews.com
Combat sport clubs used to boost recruitment for white nationalist hate group, report says
Patriot Front and other white nationalist groups are fueling the expansion of extremist groups in the U.S., and control at least a dozen clubs nationwide.
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🇨🇦Merlin Ca🇨🇦 @merlinofcanada.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Remember Danielle Smith is out to screw all Albertans Alberta separation movement criticized by business groups, analyst Not the time for investment uncertainty, says Deborah Yedlin www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Alberta separation movement criticized by business groups, analyst | CBC News
Deborah Yedlin gets that some folks in Alberta are not thrilled with yet another federal Liberal government, but she says the separation movement the premier is flirting with could seriously hurt the ...
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Democrats Abroad Canada @demsabroadcanada.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The Canadian Association of University Teachers is warning members against travel to the US, due to the "political landscape." Those "whose research could be seen as being at odds with the position of the current US administration," or who are transgender. #DemsAbroad www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Canadian university teachers warned against travelling to the United States | CBC News
The Canadian Association of University Teachers says it released updated travel advice today due to the "political landscape" created by the Trump administration and reports of some Canadians encounte...
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Marilyn Porter 🇨🇦 @marilynp.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Wow! Spain just blocked over 65,000 Airbnb listings due to rule violations and housing concerns. Meanwhile in Canada, we’re still debating whether short-term rentals are really impacting affordability. Maybe time we took a serious look too? 🧐 #HousingCrisis #ShortTermRentals #cdnpoli
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 18/05/2025
Breaking: The centrist mayor of Bucharest won Romania’s presidential runoff on Sunday, quashing the ambitions of a far-right Donald Trump loyalist
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Romanian Centrist Leads Trump Ally in Vote, Exit Polls Show
The centrist mayor of Bucharest took a lead in Romania’s presidential election, potentially quashing the ambitions of a far-right Donald Trump loyalist as authorities recorded the biggest turnout in a quarter century, exit polls show.
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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 19/05/2025
Danielle Smith’s greatest trick? Convincing Albertans that sovereignty matters more than ER closures and dismantled public services. Time to look past the smoke and mirrors. #AlbertaPolitics #ABpoli #CDNpoli youtube.com/shorts/Fy4hi...
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Danielle Smith’s greatest trick? Convincing Albertans that sovereignty drama matters more than ER
YouTube video by Tod Maffin
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LaurenSJ @laurenshirleyj.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Saw two "Fuck Carney" flags in 5 minutes today. What is it they don't like? the cancellation of the carbon tax? The individual tax cut? Investment in our national security? Protecting our sovereignty? Perhaps, we exempt them from all of it and we send them packing to the U.S. #cdnpoli
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Canadianroots @shannonpeel.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Some times Canadian investors surprise you
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
MP expenses for 2024 are out and @PierrePoilievre spent nearly a million more than Trudeau and Singh COMBINED. #cdnpoli
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Tobique Mike🇨🇦 @tobiquemike.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The people screaming for Carney’s budget likely couldn’t make sense of the document anyway no matter when it comes out. They’re just echoing their chamber. The PMO should take notes and mail them a complete copy on paper when it does and make them pay the postage. #cdnpoli
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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Was Danielle Smith fishing for winning referendum questions with this conveniently worded survey on pensions and other Alberta-first reforms? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
ANALYSIS | Want to boost Albertans' support for leaving CPP? Ask the question differently | CBC News
Here's another question: Is Danielle Smith fishing for winning proposals to put on 2026 referendum ballot, alongside separation?
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Canadians please listen to our Prime Minister speaking about the threats that Trump, Danielle Smith & Poilievre put into the people of Alberta and Canada. From 2020, comparing to Brexit! He calls it out for what it is! #cdnpoli
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CBinVan 🇨🇦 @cbinvan.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Apparently Poilievre is totes fine with "government waste" as long as it benefits him and his family directly. This sack of shit voted against dental care for underprivileged kids. #NeverPoilievre
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
“Since I’ve rearranged my whole identity to call most people unclean and filled with vampire blood, their hugs seem less sincere. Separately, I have discovered the vampire-blooded have a new disease called Soft Hug Disease.”
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shane @mouthfulofcavities.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
local man who lost election and refuses to leave believes "voters deserve the chance to have their intentions clearly expressed with a conclusive vote." except when that conclusive vote determines he lost. #cdnpoli
Pierre Poilievre 
Follow 
@PierrePoilievre 
Conservatives believe there should be a by-election in Terrebonne., 
With a margin of one vote and numerous errors preventing some votes from counting, voters deserve the chance to have their intentions clearly expressed with a conclusive vote.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Very smrt people: "Canada Post, which delivers door to door as a not for profit service paid for by taxpayers, should stop delivering door to door because it's not profitable." www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
theglobeandmail.com
Politics Insider: Canada Post should phase out door-to-door delivery, report recommends
Also, Liberal Kristina Tesser Derksen has had her victory in a federal Ontario riding confirmed in a judicial recount
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 17/05/2025
Today is the last day for Ontarians to comment on Bill 5, which would wipe out the the Endangered Species Act and give cabinet the power to create “special economic zones” where development can be pushed through without regard for provincial or municipal rules. #onpoli
thenarwhal.ca
Bill 5: Ontario’s development and mining law, explained | The Narwhal
Public commenting on Bill 5 closes in a few days. Here’s everything you need to know about Ontario’s omnibus development bill
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Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
American hedge funds own much of Canada’s private media—including the Toronto Sun. CBC? It’s publicly owned. Accountable to us. Not MAGA donors. That’s why they want to kill it. That’s why we fight to save it. #SaveTheCBC #CBCForever #MediaMatters #CdnPoli
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Aurelia Cotta The Original @originalaurelia.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
And before Pierre Poilievre says even ONE nasty thing about Canada Post workers and their pay….ALL of them are required to have Reliability security clearance just to get the job. He still has no security clearance of any level, at all. #cdnpoli www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpo/mc/asset...
canadapost-postescanada.ca
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Doug Johnson 🇨🇦 @smikooman.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Newly elected Kelowna MP and former CF-18 fighter pilot, Stephen Fuhr, has assumed responsibility for streamlining Canada's military equipment acquisition process. A new proposed procurement agency will prioritize the use of made-in-Canada equipment and raw materials. #CdnPoli #Okanagan
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Former fighter pilot Stephen Fuhr in charge of overhauling defence contracting in new cabinet
Prime Minister Mark Carney appointed the Liberal MP representing a B.C. Interior seat as Secretary of State responsible for defence procurement on Tuesday
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Update: This trial is a train wreck. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Jann Arden, national treasure, enters the #abpoli separatist chat.
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Kikki Planet @kikkiplanet.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The Premier’s “exes” have had enough. First, it was Guthrie demanding answers on the Premier’s husband’s “lobbying” activities. Then yesterday, former UCP MLA Scott Sinclair unloaded all the cannons on Danielle Smith. What. A. Moment. #ableg #cdnpoli
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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
So many of you are asking how to sign this “Canadian Forever” petition. Elections Alberta must first validate this petition. It will take few days. We will be launching a campaign shortly. Stay tuned. It’s a lot of work, but Canada is worth every bit of it. #ableg #cdnpoli
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