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John MacKinnon 🇨🇦 @bustersmart.bsky.social · 3h

Just being mischievous. The Oilers rock stars spent the off-season demanding not just a new coach, they wanted Mike Babcock. Gotta have Babcock. Got a fever for Babcock. They go out and lose their opener 6-5 in OT to the Canucks. They're about to get more Babcock. youtube.com/shorts/mtOXA...

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Christopher Walken needs More Cowbell to cure his fever #classic #SNL #comedy #funny #shorts

YouTube video by Conductor's Hat - Sketch Comedy

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When your entire attack line is garbage and you thought you were being clever, you’re a Schmitt-head.

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John MacKinnon 🇨🇦 @bustersmart.bsky.social · 15h

Canucks 6 Oilers 5 (OT). Canucks blew 5-2 third-period lead, but hung tough and won. 6-5. It seems Babcock’s plan for the Oilers to play without the puck is a work in progress.

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John MacKinnon 🇨🇦 @bustersmart.bsky.social · 15h

Post this chart in all NHL and CHL locker rooms.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18h

Sen. Eric Schmitt is an international laughingstock. He’s up for reelection in 2028, so we’ll have to work on him later.

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John MacKinnon 🇨🇦 @bustersmart.bsky.social · 20h

Nicest thing I can say about the HNIC intermission boys is they don’t add value to the viewing experience.

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John MacKinnon 🇨🇦 @bustersmart.bsky.social · 22h

Columbus head coach Rick Bowness blasted the Blue Jackets players last spring after the team missed the playoffs, said if he came back he was going to change the culture. Bowness is back, Marchenko is out, Knies is in. Contract issue? Culture change? Just guessing, but I imagine Bones is smiling.

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John MacKinnon 🇨🇦 @bustersmart.bsky.social · 23h

“. . . shut his dick in a car door. . . “

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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 29/09/2026

My new book, “Dark Phoenix: The Rise, Fall, and Re-emergence of Danielle Smith,” is out two weeks from today! If you like my work on Alberta politics, please consider preordering it. Preorders are important in signalling demand to booksellers and media. Link below 👇👇👇

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Steve Burgess @steveburgess53.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The MLB playoffs are underway, and Senator Eric Schmitt has a lot of money riding on the Atlanta Bravehawks.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy pub day to Patrick Lennox's ON TREASON! 🎉🎉🎉 Available now wherever you get your books!

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John MacKinnon 🇨🇦 @bustersmart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And the leaves that are green turn to brown. Or red, as the case may be.

The leaves on a line of trees bordering a lagoon in Old Montréal have turned crimson.

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The only way this could have been better is if Smith said "Fuck Trae Young."

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Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ @dreyesceron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight

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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This grim, gripping report on Canada’s biggest Covid-19 outbreak from the University of Alberta’s Parkland Institute should be required reading for all Albertans - and all Canadians. Especially those who’ve decided to forget how deadly and terrifying the early months of Covid truly were.

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Parkland Institute

Parkland Institute is an Alberta-wide, non-partisan research centre situated within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta.

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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Daily Express: New reports indicate that eight U.S. Marines were injured two weeks ago after an Iranian cruise missile attacked a ship they were on. The DOD did not share any news of any Sept. 14 attacks on U.S. forces in the region. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I would like to think this. But then I think of Sandy Hook and American schoolkids being sacrificed to the Sacred Gun altar. So... no. America, at least, hasn't.

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John MacKinnon 🇨🇦 @bustersmart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

OK, let’s go for top spot: Let’s be the worst country in the world according to Numbnuts. We can do this.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bruce MacKinnon, Halifax Chronicle Herald

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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Trump thinks that his arbitrariness and indifference to others demonstrates strength. In fact, though, it just means he alienates actual allies and rushes to lick Xi’s boots even as those boots are kicking him and his country in the face." By @nberlat.bsky.social in @atrupar.com's PN latest PN:

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Trump loves Xi because he wants to be him

Kowtowing to tyrants makes him think he’s strong.

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Alexandre Pratt @alexandrepratt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

« Ca va être l’enfer », avait annoncé la mairesse. Et bien si c’est ça, l’enfer, ouvrez-moi les portes! Les Mondiaux de cyclisme de Montréal ont été un immense succès populaire. Et si on rêvait à quelque chose d’encore plus grand? lp.ca/xrdrrK?shari...

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Championnats du monde de cyclisme | Si c’est ça, l’enfer, ouvrez-moi les portes !

La mairesse Soraya Martinez Ferrada nous avait alarmés.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In which Conrad Black simultaneously a) surrenders in advance, and b) gives up the game behind US interference in Alberta's referendum. #cdnpoli

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AgentJoeMcJoe 🇺🇸 @joemcjoe11.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Political Cartoonists are the best. deAdder rocks it every time he sits down and draws his next masterpiece.

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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Courage in action ➡️ Ireland goalkeeper Gavin Buzunu issues a statement on his decision to withdraw from Ireland squad for tomorrow's match against Israel: "My decision is based purely upon my personal belief that the killing of innocent people is wrong." www.independent.ie/sport/soccer...

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Gavin Bazunu releases statement on decision to withdraw from Ireland squad for Israel game

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

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Rose❤️🇨🇦Part owner of Canada.🇨🇦❤️ @scotfreeme.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten, on the USA's attempt to dismantle the ICC. He's right, the only people who want an agency shuttered that protects against international crimes against humanity, are those who conduct crimes against humanity. Trump and Netanyahu have made clear their position.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Barry Blitt, The New Yorker

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Kathleen Westergaard 🇨🇦 MSW, RSW @kathleenwester.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🇨🇦 This is very good. "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH #RUSSIA! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Useful context for Alberta’s anti-inmigrant referendum questions. We are not being “flooded” with newcomers. And scapegoating immigrants for longstanding structural problems with our public health care system, in particular, is gutter politics. #cdnpoli #abpoli #notothenine.

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Canada's population growth slows to lowest level in 80 years

The population is also aging with the median age now at 40.9 years

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Saying it again: Trump, his regime, & his oligarchs believe they're untouchable because they always have been. Nothing in their lives has ever suggested that defying either the law or common decency will ever carry consequences. Nothing. Ever. N O T E V E R

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Heather 🍁 @hganshorn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thanks to @albertaviews.bsky.social for this reminder of Danielle Smith's two-faced approach to immigration. The full exchange is worth reading - she was wholeheartedly recruiting immigrants not long ago.

Transcript of the interview with Danielle Smith where she's clear that she wants to double Alberta's population, including through immigration

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Kiera Butler @kieraevebutler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am a sports ignoramus and knew nothing about Tim Tebow till I started work on this investigation with @pablo.show into the Christian investment seminar events he speaks at like 10x/year. It was quite the introduction to him! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh7s...

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We Investigated the Christian "Scam" Fronted by Tim Tebow | PTFO

YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

50 percent tariffs for our beloved neighbor and historic ally, Canada. A red carpet and a military flyover for Communist China’s leader. Donald Trump is a sick man and a danger to America.

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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I love Josh Johnson. Watch video 🤣

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When all the Arab countries are telling the world that they’d support an Israeli state and secure it if only Israel would leave other territories alone. The ball is as usual in Israel’s court but Israel, I do not believe, wants a two state solution and I don’t believe Bibi ever has wanted one.

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Lory 🇨🇦 @loryanne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Alberta, we are counting on you to stand with Canada. Don't let maplemaga destroy this country like maga did down south. Take it seriously, because the separatists are very serious. Let's not learn the hard way like the UK did. #abpoli #voteno #voteoptionone #teamcanada

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Holly Hoye 🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sarah does an excellent job of explaining the impact of Danielle’s stupid temporary foreign worker charge. 👇🏼 #NoToTheNine

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Heather Campbell @thatheatherc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Systemic racism is an economic issue and its basis is depriving others of the opportunity to prosper and thrive. If Premier Smith and her office are wondering why Albertans think her referendum questions are racist (or unconstitutional) this is why. This entire referendum is undignified & ugly.

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Claire 🇨🇦 @jemmscee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The brilliant Michael de Adder, hits it, again.

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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 23/09/2026

Trump's speech at the United Nations was filled with "the kind of lies, contradictions, and unverifiable nonsense" that won't stand up to scrutiny, which is one reason why he is trying to ban the press from the White House.

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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Most breathtakingly cynical move? Kenney ran a kamikaze candidate and became UCP leader in an election that involved voter fraud. Then he was replaced by Danielle Smith who dumped the Wildrose and crossed the floor to join the Conservatives.

The guy who broke BC's economy is now breaking the law in a sneaky and cynical attack on democracy.

He's forcing an election two years ahead of the legislated date purely to exploit a pending leadership change in the main opposition party. It's the most breathtakingly cynical move I have ever seen in Canadian politics.

Hopefully BC voters will demonstrate that they refuse to be manipulated by punishing Eby and his incompetent, ideologically obsessed government.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I found watching Trump’s UN speech today deeply depressing. It is a matter of national shame and humiliation that he is our president. Every country in the world, friend and foe alike, sees we are governed by a vainglorious fool.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's not just in Denmark and Europe. It's all across the world. People take note of what's afoot inside Trump's GOP, and see something monstrous and threatening. America is no longer an ally. America is potentially an extremely dangerous, indeed depraved, threat to human life on earth.

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