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Dan Leger

@dantheeditor.bsky.social
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Former journo, current gramps, author & editor.

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The Shallow State @ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The world has known many leaders who have been malignant and narcissistic, even some who have even been cartoonishly needy about putting forth an air of grandiosity as is Trump. What sets Trump apart is his ignorance and arrogance as he does so. "It's astounding!" - Dunning "Remarkable!" - Kruger
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Thanks to @lowcarbonkev.bsky.social for the excellent graphic. There don’t seem to be that many of us, but, you know, it’s the birding community, so manage your expectations. 🤣
Logo of a hoopoe’s top half. Inscription says Birders against Fascism
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AskLaura.ai @asklauraai.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
FACT CHECK getfact.ca: Musk slammed Trump’s bill as a “disgusting abomination”—true. But him joining Rand Paul to fight it? No proof. $3.8T debt? Within estimates. Source: Axios. This is what laura.getfact.ca does. Now you try! #cdnpoli #factcheck
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Dan Leger @dantheeditor.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Canadians! People everywhere, in fact, join our fight against disinformation. NATO Uncovers Coordination, Not Chaos open.substack.com/pub/getfactf...
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NATO Uncovers Coordination, Not Chaos
How Disinfo Campaigns Got Smarter
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AskLaura.ai @asklauraai.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
FACT CHECK getfact.ca | LA protests turned violent — Breitbart ✅ Verified: Officers clashed with demonstrators ❌ Unverified: LAPD Chief praised ICE & warned of “commercial grade fireworks” — no quotes found. This is what laura.getfact.ca does. Now you try! #cdnpoli #factcheck
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AskLaura.ai @asklauraai.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
FACT CHECK getfact.ca 🚨Kash Patel told Joe Rogan fentanyl precursors are rerouting from Mexico to B.C. ✔️Confirmed: He said it. ❓Unverified: No public reply yet from B.C. 📎https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/fentanyl-trafficking-claims this is what laura.getfact.ca can do. Now you try! #cdnpoli #bcpoli
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GET FACT
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AskLaura.ai @asklauraai.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
FACT CHECK getfact.ca from Indian Express - is Canada quietly resetting ties with China, with trade and fentanyl smuggling, human rights? bit.ly/3ZRLHCg We asked Laura for the facts. laura.getfact.ca Now you try! #cdnpoli #FentanylCrisis GetFact
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Dan Leger @dantheeditor.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Having trouble separating facts from lies? Try our disinformation-detecting bot and Get Fact! Here's today's newsletter. President or Processor open.substack.com/pub/getfactf...
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President or Processor
We fact check the facts around Biden and the autopen
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Dan Leger @dantheeditor.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Here's the latest from GetFact.ca. Start Fact-Checking With Us open.substack.com/pub/getfactf...
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Start Fact-Checking With Us
Canada’s first AI fact-checker—built by engineers, guided by editors, trained on real stories, and designed to defend against misinformation.
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Maceo 🇨🇦 @trixie76.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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Busting the Myth That Ottawa Has Hurt Alberta’s Oil Industry | The Tyee
In fact, federal governments have promoted and protected it. Especially the oilsands.
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Dan Leger @dantheeditor.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
From us today at Getfact.ca The election's over but the struggle continues. Divide and Conquer and the Quiet War on Canada open.substack.com/pub/getfactf...
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Divide and Conquer and the Quiet War on Canada
Bots, Borders, and the Battle for Canada
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Dan Leger @dantheeditor.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Why citizens need to step up and fight disinformation: because it looks like no one else is doing it. substack.com/@kevinnewman...
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Kevin Newman on Substack
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Dan Leger @dantheeditor.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
It's time for a real Canadian Digital Services Act open.substack.com/pub/getfactf...
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A Real Canadian Digital Services Act
Canada’s Moment to Lead with a Digital Services Act
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Opinion | By choosing an American Pope, the Vatican has effectively chosen to become America's 51st state. by Hugh Hewitt
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 25/04/2025
Donald Trump can’t stop trash talking Canada. That may be the reminder we need. Trump is back, reaffirming his desire to undermine Canada and turn it into an appendage of the United States. For any Canadian voters who thought that was no longer a thing, it’s a useful dash of cold water. #Opinion
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Andrew Phillips: Donald Trump can’t stop trash talking Canada. That may be the reminder we need
There was a sense the Trump factor in this election was fading because he wasn’t shoving himself in Canadians’ faces every day. But now he is back, leaving no doubt
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Dan Leger @dantheeditor.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Heyo Canadian persons and all of good heart: here's today's edition of Get Fact First! our weekday newsletter about all things factual, unfactual and anti-factual. Please share, sign up and help us in the fight against misinformation in the public sphere. getfactfirst.substack.com/p/protect-yo...
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Protect Your Vote. Outsmart the Algorithm.
Subtle Art of Scrolling Smart
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Dan Leger @dantheeditor.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Hey there Canadians! Here's the latest edition of the weekday newsletter Get Fact First! and it has exciting news about our new podcast and website getfact.ca. Please check us out, sign up and help us in the fight against mis-and #disinformation. getfactfirst.substack.com/p/get-fact-f...
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Dan Leger @dantheeditor.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Hello my Canadians and fact-loving people everywhere. Here's today's edition of Get Fact First, the weekday newsletter examining trends in #misinformation and #disinformation in Canada. Please read, share and maybe join us at Get Fact, our grassroots campaign to fight disinformation. rb.gy/j2nv1k
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Get Fact First - April 4, 2025
Vol 1, 15
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A moon shadow @ravanelliterry.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The Disinformation War Against Mark Carney Begins: A Coordinated Global Attack open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
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The Disinformation War Against Mark Carney Begins: A Coordinated Global Attack
How a US-Russian Propaganda Machine is Targeting Canada’s Leading Political Threat
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Dan Leger @dantheeditor.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Hello fellow sensible people. Here's today's edition of Get Fact First, our weekday publication from our new anti-disinformation campaign, Get Fact. Have a look, if you like what you see and want to support our common cause, subscribe. getfactfirst.substack.com/p/get-fact-f...
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Get Fact First - Friday, March 28th
Vol. 1, No. 10
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 26/03/2025
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Foreign disinformation is a looming threat in Canada’s election. Here’s where it might come from
As tariff war strains trust between Ottawa and Washington, experts sound the alarm about what digital bad actors might do next
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🇨🇦Merlin Ca🇨🇦 @merlinofcanada.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The drug trade has always been in one direction. U.S. border patrol seizes over 52 kg of cocaine bound for Canada ca.yahoo.com/news/u-borde...
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U.S. border patrol seizes over 52 kg of cocaine bound for Canada
U.S. border officials say they have seized more than 52 kilograms of cocaine bound for Canada at the Ambassador Bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ont. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) off...
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Dan Leger @dantheeditor.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Hello Bluesky friends: please join us in a new grassroots effort to fight misinformation and disinformation in our country. Government is not doing this, so we have to. Here's a sample of our newsletter, with links to join us in the fight: getfactfirst.substack.com/p/get-fact-u...
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Get Fact Up - March 24th, 2025
Vol. 1, No. 6
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Dan Leger @dantheeditor.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Trump has the unmitigated gall to suggest Canadians could keep O Canada after being absorbed into USA. If that ever would happen, (it won't) we should swear off singing that great old song because it won't mean a damn thing any more. If you're no longer strong and free, there's no point.
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Dan Leger @dantheeditor.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We need this in Canada, but also for snow.
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Dan Leger @dantheeditor.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The bone-spurs coward speaks.
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Dan Leger @dantheeditor.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Great to see Elon Musk's example is being followed at Tesla, right down to the dealership level. Parade around like free market heroes, grab every dime from the public purse that they can.
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Dan Leger @dantheeditor.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I hope that they print "Trump Tariff Charge" on every receipt for the tolls.
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Dan Leger @dantheeditor.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
It surely was news to us here in Canada!
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Dan Leger @dantheeditor.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Good diplomacy with Trump is rolling over and playing dead.
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Dan Leger @dantheeditor.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Gov. Pritzker is the last sane man in American politics.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/02/2025
Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office
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Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office
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Dan Leger @dantheeditor.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Is that allowed?
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Dan Leger @dantheeditor.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Too bad Trump's team -- Russia -- wasn't playing.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The waste is coming from the White House. 👇
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National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 19/02/2025
Pierre Poilievre Signals Plan to Extend Government Subsidies to Right-Wing Media Websites, @lukelebrun.ca reports. pressprogress.ca/pierre-poili... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
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Pierre Poilievre Signals Plan to Extend Government Subsidies to Right-Wing Media Websites
Conservative leader says he would change Canada Revenue Agency rules designating which media outlets are eligible for government funding
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Dan Leger @dantheeditor.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Respectfully, this is a bad idea. The guy named as ambassador to Cda isn't too far gone on the MAGA/crazy spectrum. Relations are too fragile rn without having a top US envoy going MIA due to some political gesture. Fight the Trump tariffs for sure, just pick more effective tactics.
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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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Dan Leger @dantheeditor.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Canada First? That sounds familiar, but I can't place it.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Trumpers: Democratic politicians are using a pizza shop to order children to drink their blood and live forever and hiring women makes planes fall from the sky. Me: Elon Musk is stealing the data of every American. Trumpers: Lolololol. You lefties and your insane conspiracy theories…
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
BREAKING: Trump will hold off on Mexican Tariffs as Mexico places 10k troops to Border. FACTS: - Mexico already has 15k troops along the border - 90% of fentanyl seizures occur at U.S. ports of entry - U.S. citizens comprise 86% of fentanyl trafficking convictions This is POINTLESS
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Dan Leger @dantheeditor.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
The first guy who complains about not being able to get his fave Kentucky bourbon bc of Canada's response to Trump's #tariffs deserves a punch in the head.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Really love this cartoon from the great Michael De Adder. The outpouring of support coming in has been truly amazing! Thanks everybody!
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Dan Leger @dantheeditor.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This is not far wrong at all and becoming more evident by the day.
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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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Dan Leger @dantheeditor.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
If you love old sailboats or sailing in general, check out this wonderful piece on CBC TV's Land & Sea about the fight to preserve wooden schooners. Also profiles Willa Creighton, a pioneer woman schooner captain. Great work reflecting our region & culture #CBC. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELxU...
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Land & Sea: Saving part of sailing history in Nova Scotia
YouTube video by CBC News Nova Scotia
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
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National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 12/01/2025
'Everything is on the table': Joly won't rule out cutting off energy exports to U.S. in face of Trump tariff threat www.ctvnews.ca/politics/eve... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
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'Everything is on the table': Joly won't rule out cutting off energy exports to U.S. in face of Trump tariff threat
Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly is not ruling out any countermeasures when it comes to dealing with U.S. president-elect Donald Trump — his threat of significant tariffs on Canadian imports, in ...
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