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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

CBC leaves out important context: Stelco is owned by U.S.-based Cleveland-Cliffs. An American parent is restructuring its Canadian operations while citing American tariffs. The Canadian job losses are real. So is that context. 🔗 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Mark Levison @mlevison.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 25/09/2026

Only went to the Kent once when I was at school in Waterloo. That was plenty. I did, however, work at the Hotel Waterloo just up the street for a year. That was an education. 😂

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 22/09/2026

I'm 61. The only broadcast TV I still watch is live sports. 🤷‍♂️

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 21/09/2026

Lolita and Justin? 🤦‍♂️ I swear PP took an internet marketing course... "12 people are looking at this item right now!" "Carl in Edmonton just bought this!"

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 21/09/2026

The irony that the Arrow was rolled out the same day that the primary reason behind its cancellation - Sputnik - was launched seems to be lost on many people.

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 21/09/2026

I liked it! It's a great presentation of the realities of late 1950s defence without the nostalgia. As much as I would have loved to have seen the CF-105 produced, it wouldn't have been fully operational until the mid-60s, and we would still have had to procure aircraft for other roles anyway.

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 15/09/2026

Just a few days before the Damascus, Arkansas incident! 😬

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 07/09/2026

I had a great conversation with him at my Dad's funeral in 2003, but it didn't occur to me to ask if it had been him in the CF-104.

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 07/09/2026

We have one just sitting there in Hamilton! 😀 One of the "Team Pilots" was F/L B.R. "Bordie" Campbell. He was a good friend of my parents, growing up together in my hometown of Almonte. I believe he's also responsible for screaming over our house in a CF-104 at 500 feet & 500 knots when I was 5! 😂

A picture of the name of the RCAF Golden Hawks aerobatics team

A picture of a Canadair Sabre 6 in Golden Hawks livery at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ontario.

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 07/09/2026

And that 50 megaton bomb used a lead tamper. A uranium tamper would have made its yield approximately 100 megatons, but then the crew of the Tu-95 would have been... um, vapourized.

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 01/09/2026

We have cardinals here, but I haven't seen one drink from the fountain yet.

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 01/09/2026

We have a small fountain on our deck that not only wasps use, but also chickadees and blue jays!

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 01/09/2026

That's fascinating! I believe it could be summed up as, "With either tamper, you're f***ed!"

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 01/09/2026

FYI, the US cutting off oil to Japan in mid 1941 was the final straw that convinced the Japanese to go to war with the US. Cutting off oil supplies is effectively an act of war. I don't think we want to explore how that would go.

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 01/09/2026

"If Trump is ready to ignore CUSMA and impose unilateral tariffs on us, then maybe we should respond by announcing that the CUSMA digital chapter no longer binds us." I couldn't agree more!

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Haha, a more fitting logo for Google.

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 24/08/2026

It was never really a science fiction movie. It's a horror film that happens to be in space.

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 20/08/2026

Well, "asking the provinces" means that they can turn around and say "no"! Carney would then just shrug and tell Drumpf, "I tried!" 😀

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 19/08/2026

We had marble-sized hail and strong winds in Carp, but it only lasted about 10 minutes.

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 18/08/2026

That's really interesting that it's described as a cult. It would certainly explain Teller's behaviour with the "Super", though that might also have been just sheer ego.

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 14/08/2026

I wonder from the patterns if they were patrolling the 417 for street racers, which I've witnessed on the few occasions I've been on the highway that time of night. Doesn't explain the circles around Merivale Road, though.

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 12/08/2026

That'll be the effect, but I seriously doubt it's intentional. The same thing happened (with the same effect) in the mid-1990s with "Workforce Adjustment". It helped make the balance sheet look better, but there were long-term costs from the loss of institutional knowledge.

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 28/07/2026

One good thing to have come from the AI onslaught is that it just doesn't make sense to work in sprints anymore. Flow mode FTW!!

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 28/07/2026

I worked there 2012-2014, talking to Tobi quite a bit. Back then, it wasn't unusual for "less than desirable" merchants to be either refused or booted off the platform. Nothing about my experience then suggested to me that he'd end up being this way, but I guess money changes people.

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 28/07/2026

Part of that is the deep aversion to raising taxes in order to pay for public services. Another part is the desire by certain parties to drive public services into the ground to pave the way for privatization from which they can profit.

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 19/07/2026

To be fair, their novelty will eventually wear out, but for now they're a lot of fun and a great diversion from mainstream music.

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 19/07/2026

I saw them here in Ottawa on Friday night. They were *great*! There were a lot of people with "WTF" looks on their faces, but you can't not move to their music. Sheryl Crow came on after them, and even she said they were her new favourite band. She's 64. I'm 60.

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 19/07/2026

I'm old enough to remember smoke and factory emissions from the Ohio valley causing acid rain here in Ontario. I think we (Canada) should counter-sanction the American officials behind that. 🙄

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 16/07/2026

If that were at an airshow where everyone is an aviation freak, it would have indeed been thrill for the people. I personally would love it! But it's a public beach & not everyone want to get covered & have their things tossed everywhere.

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 16/07/2026

Cool - I had forgotten about that one! At that time, my Great-grandfather owned the building at the corner of Bridge & Mill Streets, known as the "Pool Room" corner. Google street-view shows Big Vintage in there, but I'm not sure what it is now.

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 16/07/2026

Which one? The only great fire I can think of was in 1870. That one is where the Burnt Lands got their name.

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 16/07/2026

It was a great time to be someone who installed windows and replaced aluminum siding 😀

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 16/07/2026

Ah, so you're too young to remember the great hailstorm of 1976 in Almonte. Ask an old-timer about it! 😀 But seriously, it certainly was a supercell with rotation and might have had a tornado. Everyone focused on the damage from the baseball-sized hail, though.

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 16/07/2026

Yeah, off the top of my head I can think of 3 storms that should have been tornado-warned but weren't. Two were back before we had the Doppler radar we do now. The other was in 2002 when we *did*, but no warning was issued for the F2 twister that struck Fallowfield.

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Dave Rooney 🇨🇦 supports 🇺🇦 @daverooney.dev · 13/07/2026

God forbid you were in a hurry and had to dial an 8, 9 or 0! 😂

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