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Canada Vanguard @canadavanguard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tenant insecurity is NOT an accident. When politicians write rules that make turnover more profitable, landlords gain leverage and renters lose security. Nova Scotia is warning us what happens when housing policy protects the investment before the person living in it. #cdnpoli #Housing #Renters

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Canada Vanguard @canadavanguard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If representing your voters instead of your party can cost you a government role, that party is putting obedience ahead of representation. Government should serve people first. Period. No party should have so much power that disagreement becomes something to punish. #cdnpoli #Democracy

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Canada Vanguard @canadavanguard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If a political campaign gives supporters AI-written comments to post under their own names, are we still looking at public opinion? Or are we looking at public opinion being manufactured for us? That should set off major alarm bells for everyone, no matter who the candidate is. #cdnpoli #AI

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Canadian Health Coalition/Coalition canadienne de la santé @cdnhealthcoalition.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thanks to our donors, we raised enough money last week to put a mobile billboard truck on the streets of downtown Ottawa. It circled the city on Friday as Liberal MPs gathered for a caucus meeting, and again as Parliament resumed today. The message: let's keep U.S.-style health care out of Canada!

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Canada Vanguard @canadavanguard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Real question: what would Canada actually gain or give up in a closer partnership with Europe? Culture-war frame: “Canada will become the 28th state of the EU.” Those are not the same conversation. #cdnpoli

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Canada Vanguard @canadavanguard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Are we forgetting that democracy works better when no one party holds all the power? Minority governments make parties negotiate and find enough common ground to get things done. No party should get so comfortable that it stops needing to convince anyone outside its own ranks. #cdnpoli

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Canada Vanguard @canadavanguard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

How did some of us become so cruel that we started treating low-wage workers like they were lazy, lesser, or undeserving of a decent life?

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Canada Vanguard @canadavanguard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We don't understand how much money these people have. This page makes you scroll and scroll and scroll through Jeff Bezos’s 2020 wealth: $139 billion. In 2026 he's worth $368 billion. Open it and keep scrolling. That’s the point. eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-weal... #WealthInequality

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Wealth, shown to scale

Wealth inequality in the United States is out of control. Here we visualize the issue in a unique way.

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Canada Vanguard @canadavanguard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Canadians already own these airports. So why are we bringing in private investors who need to make a profit from them? Where does that profit come from? Travellers? Workers? Higher fees? Fewer staff? More contracting out? What exactly do Canadians get out of this? #cdnpoli #Privatization

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Canada Vanguard @canadavanguard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is what dependence costs us. When another country can threaten exports, procurement access, media ecosystem, food supply and political stability, dependence becomes leverage. Canada assumed the relationship would always be friendly. #cdnpoli #CanadianSovereignty www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Trump signs memorandum to identify and remove Canadian products from U.S. federal procurement | CBC News

U.S. President ‌Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum on Wednesday to identify Canadian-origin goods ‌in federal civil government procurement ‌and take steps to remove them, the White Hous...

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Canada Vanguard @canadavanguard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

When Canadians depend on foreign platforms for basic information infrastructure, those companies gain enormous power over Canadian policy. Meta didn't like a Canadian law, so it removed Canadian news. That is a sovereignty problem, not just another tech story. #cdnpoli #DigitalSovereignty

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The Rundown @therundowntvo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"Today it’s Lake America, but tomorrow the propaganda coming from south of the border could be both more serious and insidious, and the actions of Google, Apple and other companies show plainly that they will not be on our side." — @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social

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ANALYSIS: 'Lake America' makes one thing clear: we can’t trust U.S. tech companies | TVO Today

The president’s decree is dumb. Why is anyone going along with it?

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Canada Vanguard @canadavanguard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is the politics of public humiliation. The point is not to make a serious argument about Canada’s defence policy. The point is to turn Canada into content: strip away context, mock an ally, perform cruelty as toughness for the base, and let the backlash amplify it. #cdnpoli #CanPoli

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Canada Vanguard @canadavanguard.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is exactly why digital sovereignty matters. A U.S. political decision should not be able to rewrite how a shared Canada-U.S. landmark appears on a major platform used by billions. Maps are not neutral decoration. They help teach people what the shared reality is.

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Canada Vanguard @canadavanguard.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

When power cannot win the science, it tries to control what gets taught A West Point climate scientist says he was fired after resisting an order to stop teaching human-caused climate change Climate denial is more about doubt manufacturing than facts. #Climate www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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West Point’s only climate scientist fired after continuing to teach human causes of climate change

Adam Kalkstein compared administration’s order to trying to teach the law without mentioning the constitution

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Canadian Health Coalition/Coalition canadienne de la santé @cdnhealthcoalition.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

On Saturday, September 19, Join the Saskatchewan Health Coalition for an urgent community conversation about Alberta's threats to Canada's public health care system and what could be next for Saskatchewan.

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Town Hall: Public Health Care in Saskatchewan · Luma

Join the Saskatchewan Health Coalition for an urgent community conversation about public health care in Saskatchewan. Special Guest Speaker: Chris Gallaway,…

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Canada Vanguard @canadavanguard.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Platforms reward engagement, not truth. A post can spread because people believe it, hate it, argue with it, quote it angrily, or dunk on it. A platform does not care which reaction it gets. Before you boost the thing that made you furious, ask: Who benefits from my reaction?

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Canada Vanguard @canadavanguard.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Climate language can clarify reality. It can decorate policy. If an ad sells energy projects with green imagery while emissions are expected to rise, Canadians deserve to ask: What is being left out, and why? Who benefits from that frame, and how?

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Canada Vanguard @canadavanguard.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A problem can be real, and the framing can still mislead you. Rent, crime, deficits, immigration pressure, public-service frustration - these are real issues. But real issues are often used to aim your anger at the wrong target.

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Canada Vanguard @canadavanguard.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Canada has real problems. But powerful interests keep pushing misleading frames. Canada Vanguard asks: Who benefits? Who pays? Who gets blamed? Who gains power? The goal is not to tell people what to think. It is to make us harder to manipulate. 🇨🇦

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Canada Vanguard @canadavanguard.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Whether you agree with every part of this or not, the media-literacy point matters: none of us are immune to propaganda. We should always ask what emotion a political message is trying to trigger and what it makes us more willing to accept.

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Canada Vanguard @canadavanguard.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Worth reading and considering. Canadian sovereignty has to mean something. If foreign officials are trying to influence our politics from inside the country, Canadians should take that seriously.

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Canada Vanguard @canadavanguard.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This is 100% what Canadians need to wake up to. Foreign influence isn't always blatant propaganda. It shows up in crafted narratives being pushed over and over until people think they came up with the idea themselves...

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Canada Vanguard @canadavanguard.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Always good to see the Legion out in the community. The poppy should remind us that defending democracy didn’t end with their generation, it’s something we carry on. #LestWeForget #RemembranceDay #CanadaRemembers #DefendDemocracy

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Canada Vanguard @canadavanguard.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Ontario banned athletes in iGaming ads this year, but the volume didn’t vanish, just the spokespeople. The deeper issue is who sets the rules (and who benefits). #onpoli #abpoli #cdnpoli

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Canada Vanguard @canadavanguard.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Important to call out the transphobia, and worth noting who is amplifying it. Once again, American-owned Canadian media is being used as the megaphone.

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