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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎

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A Canadian from NS who loves Wales and Denmark. Hostile to American domination, the broligarchy, the malign effects of AI, and the knuckle-draggers who deny vaccines, climate change, and the need for the Oxford comma. The Maple Leaf . . . forever.

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
CHINA 👇 #cdnpoli "The US is a war addict. Throughout its over 240-year history, it has been at war for all but 16 years. The US has 800 overseas military bases in over 80 countries and regions. The US is the main cause of international disorder, global turbulence, and regional instability."
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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎 @dhumbert.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
“The world isn’t deglobalizing. It’s reglobalizing around partners who commit to rules rather than those who wield tariffs like a club.” Excerpt From “Opinion | Everyone Else Is Trading Without Us” David Hebert The Wall Street Journal apple.news/AZmf02DGiQd-...
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Opinion | Everyone Else Is Trading Without Us — The Wall Street Journal
Tariffs have made the U.S. so unpredictable that our usual partners are looking elsewhere to make deals.
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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎 @dhumbert.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Carney told it like it is, and everyone — including the bully — heard him - Winnipeg Free Press
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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎 @dhumbert.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Oh the pipes on this young girl! The Georgian priest is no slouch either. youtube.com/watch?v=961i...
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Chant of the Georgian priest in Aramaic language, 50th psalm
YouTube video by Badri Nozadze
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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎 @dhumbert.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
George Grant said the following in 1965, concerning Canada’s relationship with the United States: “Can an ant be an ally with an elephant?” (Lament for a Nation)
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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎 @dhumbert.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Former Canadian military are speaking out against the partial cancellation of the American F35 contract with Canada. The article below pimps the F35 as best for NA defence, but does not mention a possible invasion of this country by the US. Kill switch, anyone?
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Opinion: The idea of a mixed fleet of Canadian fighter jets should not take flight — The Globe and Mail
Mixing the U.S.-built F-35 jets with a Swedish-made Gripen aircraft right now would be a mistake in operational, logistical and financial terms
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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎 @dhumbert.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
There are elements in the Canadian military that favour technological integration with American forces while the Canadian public overwhelmingly does not. Might there be a need to remove those from the military who are in thrall to the charisma of American technology? apple.news/A_nwLLfvGR3K...
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Deadline comes and goes with no release of DND F-35 report — Ottawa Citizen
Defence Minister David McGuinty silent about what comes next.
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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎 @dhumbert.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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Deadline comes and goes with no release of DND F-35 report — Ottawa Citizen
Defence Minister David McGuinty silent about what comes next.
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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎 @dhumbert.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
It appears that a stable digital currency is vitally necessary to preserve Canadian sovereignty in the digital age: apple.news/AE2yD5ryBTZm...
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Opinion: Is Canada handing the future of payments to the United States? — The Globe and Mail
We must treat stablecoins like a payment tool or risk handing the future of digital money to other countries
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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎 @dhumbert.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Canada finally faces a basic question: how do we defend ourselves? | Stephen Marche
For centuries, Canada hasn’t needed to prioritize its military. But the US transformation calls for a Finland-style approach
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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎 @dhumbert.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
From Laurel and Hardy’s Sons of the Desert: Hardy: Why did you call a veterinarian? Laurel: Well I didn’t think his religion would matter.
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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎 @dhumbert.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
What’s with all the Blue Jays fans showing up at American road games? Haven’t they heard about travel boycotts? Wake up, Blue Jays fans — our country’s at risk, for crying out loud! #BlueJays
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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
CARNEY: "Aristotle once taught that virtue is like a muscle that grows with exercise. We become just by doing just acts, brave by doing brave acts, empathetic when we show empathy, when we are kind, kindness grows. When we are Canadian, Canada grows. Pride. Is. Canadian." #cdnpoli #pride
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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎 @dhumbert.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
So let me get this straight: Trump wants Apple to move production to the US so it can pay tariffs on the materials it uses for phones. Brilliant. Why isn’t Apple jumping at this splendid offer? #Tariffs #Apple
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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎 @dhumbert.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Most definitely, yes.
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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎 @dhumbert.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
“Under this deal, it will now be cheaper to import a UK vehicle with very little U.S. content than a USMCA compliant vehicle from Mexico or Canada that is half American parts," apple.news/Amrc6VsfcQsa...
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What Trump's agreement with the U.K. suggests about trade talks with Canada — The Canadian Press
U.S. President Donald Trump's preliminary trade agreement with the United Kin
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🇨🇦Cre8ivCanuck🐸📎 @cre8ivcanuck.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🔴Bearly Newsworthy: Standing Up to Trump UK politicians could learn a lot from Canada's newly-elected Prime Minister Mark Carney about guts and grounded, grown-up leadership, argues @bearlypolitics.co.uk www.bylinesupplement.com/p/bearly-new...
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Bearly Newsworthy: Standing Up to Trump
UK politicians could learn a lot from Canada's newly-elected Prime Minister Mark Carney about guts and grounded, grown-up leadership, argues The Bear.
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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎 @dhumbert.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Happy international dance day 🍷
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My companion for tonight’s nail-biter of an election:
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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎 @dhumbert.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
There is no better symbol of the links between Poilievre and Trumpist politics than the plastic straw. We need an AI mock-up of Trump and Pp on either end of a plastic straw. Caption: For Canada — vote Liberal.
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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎 @dhumbert.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Sure it’s a relief that Trump has relented on some tariffs. But such hijinks will be replaced by others. As Francis Bacon once said, “Hope is a good breakfast, but an ill supper.”
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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎 @dhumbert.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
We forget that Russians then and now are past masters of deportations. The Americans, however, are learning fast.
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎 @dhumbert.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
In the US democratic institutions are being erased by a technique of power. Which is more or less the definition of fascism.
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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎 @dhumbert.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The infiltration of Western governments by people corrupted by Russian disinformation techniques is a serious problem. Best book on this subject: *Russia’s War against Everybody* by Keir Giles.
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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎 @dhumbert.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
“The association also criticized Poilievre’s pledge in a statement this week, saying it’s worrisome that a party leader would aim to dictate how research funds are granted. “This kind of American-style culture war has no place in Canada” Read more at: www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada/...
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‘Woke ideology’: Quebec professors denounce Poilievre’s pledge to end certain university research funding
Campaign promise is an “intrusion on university autonomy and academic freedom.”
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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎 @dhumbert.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
That’s the spirit!
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WIRED @wired.com · 31/03/2025
Guess who showed up to defend Tesla? The Proud Boys, armed militias, and at one event in Idaho, and a guy dressed as Hitler. More on the "Tesla Takedown" protests here:
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The Proud Boys and Militias Come to Tesla’s Defense
After weeks of “Tesla Takedown” protests, the Proud Boys and other far-right extremist groups are showing up to back Elon Musk's beleaguered car company.
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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎 @dhumbert.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Current reading—an outstanding and well researched study on Russian hybrid methods, and how they prey on unsuspecting targets: Found this on Indigo: www.indigo.ca/en-ca/russia...
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Russia's War On Everybody: And What It Means For You Book By Keir Giles, ('tp') | Indigo
Buy the book Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You by keir giles at Indigo
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 29/03/2025
Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, let’s steal some of their policies. In Denmark: - Health care and college are free.   - The starting wage is $22/hr. - Paid parental leave is 1 year. - Paid vacation is 6 weeks.   - All workers get pensions.
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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎 @dhumbert.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Finding it very hard to watch the Blue Jays this year. The players are not to blame for the current political climate. But . . .
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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎 @dhumbert.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Anyone from Denmark—very interested in the Mads Brügger documentary Black Swan. Is it as good as they say it is?
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Gaylordthek9 🇨🇦 💙 🌊🌊 🌊 🔔🇺🇦 ☮️ @gaylordthek9.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Nazi Barbie, Adolf not included.
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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎 @dhumbert.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This how a dignified and well-educates Danish foreign minister responds to the ridiculous accusations of J.D. Vance when in Greenland: youtu.be/5nKYms0-l4M?...
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'This is not how you speak to your close allies' Danish FM says after Vance Greenland visit
YouTube video by The Times and The Sunday Times
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Let’s not waste the opportunity Trump has given us to restore bonds between Quebec and the rest of Canada. Not to mention indigenous and immigrant citizens of this country. Enjoy the unity but without forgetting old wounds. Let’s not blow this Canadians. youtu.be/AYXYiAMQONM?...
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Trump turned Quebecers into Canadians
YouTube video by maprofdefrançais
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
NDP Premier Wab Kinew 🇨🇦 - With Canada stationing icebreakers at Churchill, Manitoba has an opportunity to be a unity symbol for all of Canada. #cdnpoli
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Danes, Greenlanders, and Canadians are natural allies against attacks by the USA. Call it Zone Red 🇩🇰🇬🇱🇨🇦.
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clnzjay 🌱 🐶 🇨🇦 @clnz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Smith can choose her friends, even a convicted felon, but she crossed a line asking Trump to interfere in 🇨🇦's elections, showing her disregard for #CanadianSovereignty. If she won’t stand up for Canada, she should step down. #TeamCanada #CanadaStrong
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Danielle Smith crossed a line and must resign
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith must resign after asking Donald Trump to interfere in Canada’s federal election.
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Marc Vangrootel @marcvangrootel.ca · 27/03/2025
"TV 2 Denmark’s correspondent in Greenland reported that U.S. representatives had spent several days ahead of the visit going door-to-door in Nuuk – literally – asking residents if they’d be willing to host or welcome the vice president’s wife. Not one person said yes." Elbows up 🇬🇱
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The real reason Trump’s Vance visit to Greenland was cancelled: “they’ve been going door-to-door”
United States second lady Usha Vance made headlines over her Arctic tour plans, but things haven’t gone quite to the planned script.
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Canada should not buy any more F-35s. Most of the objections to cancellation are outweighed by the security risks. apple.news/AVITYRTbtSxS...
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Canadian general who recommended F-35 deal now calls for purchase of other jets — Ottawa Citizen
Retired Lt.-Gen. Yvan Blondin says building Canada’s future fighter force solely on the American-made F-35 would be “irresponsible” given the hostility of the U.S. government.
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Nuuk Nuuk Nuuk. The numbskulls in Woishington caved.
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David of Nova Scotia🇨🇦🇩🇰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🍷📎 @dhumbert.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
So they caved. Looks like the Yanks are afraid of the ugly demonstrations that would erupt in Greenland. They’ll stay within the army base, where their alternate reality still holds. apple.news/APKPZSlAtRXm...
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Denmark welcomes US decision to skip Greenland dog-sled race amid Trump spat — Reuters
Denmark on Wednesday welcomed a U.S. decision to confine a planned visit to Greenland to a military base after the plans triggered a spat between Copenhagen and the White House amid President Donald T...
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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I agree 100 per cent. It is essential that Europeans don’t fall for this US/Russian stitch up, which will strengthen Russia, weaken Ukraine, and undermine the security of the rest of Europe.
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There is a weird relationship between this cartoon Christianity and American foreign policy right now. The business model of faith (which has a long history in the US), and the extorting of resources from Ukraine in return for support. Both are business relationships harvesting profit.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Maybe it’s just me, but Greenland should’ve blocked Usha Vance and her idiot group of bullies from landing and told them to head TF back especially since their citizens were furious about their arrival. By letting them in, you’re capitulating to those who want to illegally seize you.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Upset Trump admin accidently shared US secrets with journalist. Correct method is for Russian intelligence to give them to wikileaks.
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GhostWarrior ⚔️🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @ghostwarrior.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
youtube.com/watch?v=UlfS... @beyerstein.bsky.social @anniegirl.bsky.social @doloresquintana.bsky.social @maej43.bsky.social @cherylrofer.bsky.social @minibubbly.bsky.social Holy bleep! #SteveSchmidt a man I usually forget exists, is burning with rage over what is btw #Canada & the #USA
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Why Trump's Aggression Towards Canada Is "A Moral Outrage"
YouTube video by The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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