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Diane Blais 🇨🇦

@dianeblais.bsky.social
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Mom, wife, foodie, wannabe artist, politics watcher. Proud to live in the best country in the world.

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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 7h
”...provinces [that] have been aggressively promoting for-profit delivery of surgeries and diagnostic imaging are also (seeing) lengthening wait times and...struggling with getting patients into services quickly.” @alonghurst.bsky.social #onpoli www.insidehalton.com/news/ontario...
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Ontario spent $280M on private health clinics but wait times got worse says new study
Ontario MRI, cancer surgery, and cataract wait times all rose from 2017–2025, despite $280M spent licensing private health clinics, a new Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives study found.
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Cam Walker @walks30.bsky.social · 12h
AI agents tried to hack a Canadian government website, research firm says
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AI agents tried to hack a Canadian government website, research firm says
An artificial intelligence research firm said on Wednesday AI agents tried to hack into a Canadian government website, casting the effort as a failed hacking attempt, while Canada said there were no i...
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Diane Blais 🇨🇦 @dianeblais.bsky.social · 11h
It’s mind-boggling that Americans just don’t understand how the rest of the world feels about them, their president, the current US administration and their policies, actions and rhetoric.
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Diane Blais 🇨🇦 @dianeblais.bsky.social · 11h
Timely reminder about this petition www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-7531 - Petitions
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 13h
🍁I’ve written about the wonders of maple syrup, and not just as something to pour over waffles and pancakes, for the @ft_weekend this month! It will be in Saturday’s paper, but it’s online now, and the first 300 readers can access it for free with this gift link as.ft.com/r/e2aeb1fc-4...
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The smoky, savoury side of maple syrup
From sticky pork ribs and chicken to a punchy nuoc cham and an autumnal Old Fashioned, Nigella Lawson reveals how the sweet stuff can transform far more than breakfast
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Holly Hoye 🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 23h
“Many of the leaders of the separatist movement are from the same cast of characters we first met during the “Freedom Convoy.” They failed to topple the federal government then but are engaged in a similar exercise now.”
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Opinion: We must call Alberta separation what it is
It is not a movement of grievance politics. Something far more sinister is at work
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good column
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 22h
NDP parliamentary leader @donvdavies.bsky.social says National Post column targeting NDP leader @avilewis.ca is "appalling, irresponsible and likely criminal" The column calls for Lewis to be dealt with by way of ancient "Jewish law" while invoking loaded language used by Yitzhak Rabin's assassin
Don Davies v @DonDavies • 1h This is appalling, irresponsible and likely criminal. Threatening and inciting others to remove a Canadian political leader for his political views is outrageous. Both the author and the National Post must retract, apologize and reverse this message at once. Samira Mohyeddin /jau Absolutely diabolical. National Post puts a bullseye on Avi Lewis through the rabid ramblings of Yoni Goldstein who invokes Halakhah and Leviticus on how to deal with Jews. Writing Lewis "presents a clear and present danger to the Jewish community" & other Jews are "duty- bound to = NATIONAL POST Yoni Goldstein: Jewish law tells us how to deal with Avi Lewis His Yom Kippur message was indefensible By Yoni Goldstein, Special to National Post Published Sep 29, 2026 Last updated 17 hours ago 4 minute read • 190 Comments

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@SMohyeddin • 10h = NATIONAL POST None of this applies, however, when a Jewish person presents a clear and present danger to the Jewish community. When that happens, Jewish thought is much more forceful: you must prevent the perpetrator from causing harm. Jewish law developed two character sketches to describe such scenarios. The first is known as a "mosar" — a Jewish person who informs to oppressive authorities, potentially leading to the imprisonment, torture or death of community members. The second, called a "rodef," refers to a Jew who is actively pursuing another with the intent to harm or kill them. In both scenarios, the law is clear that a jew is duty-bound to step in. Protecting the community and its members is the most important thing. 244
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 20h
Excellent work Canada.
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 30/09/2026
The “Cornell 7” allegations are horrifying. Silence in the face of rape is complicity. Justice for Jane Doe. ⚖️ #SheShed #BelieveWomen
Graphic featuring Mariska Hargitay with three statements she reposted about the “Cornell 7” allegations, including: “57 men were in that fraternity group chat. 57. Not one of them stopped it.”
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Stelco's U.S. owner (who is a friend of Trumps) to face 'fullest extent of the law' over layoffs: PM Carney Stelco, owned by Ohio-based Cleveland-Cliffs, directly linked its layoff plans in Hamilton to trade war www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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Stelco's U.S. owner to face 'fullest extent of the law' over layoffs: PM Carney | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney says the federal government will use "all powers" at its disposal to pursue Stelco's American owners "to the fullest extent of the law."
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Diane Blais 🇨🇦 @dianeblais.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He’s afraid that if he moves too much, his diaper will leak.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So this month the Toronto Sun published a piece about the Allison Inquiry that called vaccines "a crime against humanity at worst" and demanded arrests, and the National Post published a piece deeming Avi Lewis not just an enemy but a danger to Jewish people, with a thinly coded appeal to violence.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I 100% agree ⬇️🔥
Harrison James @itsharrijames
Women have spent generations changing their behaviour to stay safe from men. Don't walk home after dark. Cover your drink. Don't fall asleep at the party. Keep one headphone out. Carry your keys between your fingers. Text when you get home. Let him down gently. Don't be too friendly, but don't be too rude. Give him a fake number. Have an exit plan. Screenshot the threats before blocking him.
Here's a radical idea: maybe the people creating the danger should be the ones expected to change their fucking behaviour?!
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Diane Blais 🇨🇦 @dianeblais.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Now Canadian owned and led, the brand returns with a reimagined vision built specifically for the Canadian market.” financialpost.com/news/retail-...
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Bed Bath & Beyond relaunches in Canada
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. is returning to Canada after Canadian operations were wound up in early 2023. Read more
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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Midweek Treat: Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake is #RecipeOfTheDay! Sorry about the uneven layers, Paul🙈 www.nigella.com/recipes/choc...
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake
Over the years, I’ve made many different cakes for my children’s birthdays, but for some time now this has been the chosen one, the cake of cakes, elected to celebrate many special occasions, and with...
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Diane Blais 🇨🇦 @dianeblais.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This reads like a confession.
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Diane Blais 🇨🇦 @dianeblais.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Gotta love it! Making fun of Trump, asserting our sovereignty and supporting Canadian businesses - all in one swoop. Elect a 🤡 expect a 🎪 www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...
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From chocolate to coin purses, Lake Ontario merchandise proves a hit with consumers
When U.S. President Donald Trump renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America in late August, the chief executive of Peace by Chocolate felt he couldn’t ignore the antagonism.
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Diane Blais 🇨🇦 @dianeblais.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Jim Carrey's Iconic Fake Laugh
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Shamus Brown @shamusbrown1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This 👇 is bang on and pretty much the very sentiment every fellow 🇨🇦 I know holds. Me included. First time - aberration 2nd time - collective psychosis or the veneer cracked and the ugly has escaped.
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Diane Blais 🇨🇦 @dianeblais.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You can’t be on an anti-corruption panel when you’re running a corrupt administration.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Canada’s National Day of Truth & Reconciliation. 👍👏💯❤️🔥
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Jennifer 🦋🐶☕️🦋 @jenelliot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#NOMORE
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Rob Bon Vivant🌊 @77sunnyandclear.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just so we're all clear on this, it is and always will be, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Gulf of Mexico, Lake Ontario and Artificial Intelligence. Thank you for your attention to this matter.✌🏼
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Dede Bell ☮️🌎👩‍💻 @dedebell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We are missing 680,000 souls: Gaza, the hidden genocide "The real number of deaths in Gaza could exceed 680,000 people, more than ten times the officially reported figure. Of those victims, roughly half would be children and 75% women and minors." www.pressenza.com/2025/09/we-a...
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We are missing 680,000 souls: Gaza, the hidden genocide
Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, has issued one of the most severe and painful denunciations in recent
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Diane Blais 🇨🇦 @dianeblais.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Only one of the many, many reasons why the world no longer trusts the United States of America. You let a convicted felon run for and win the highest office in the land.
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Diane Blais 🇨🇦 @dianeblais.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He’s delusional. He’s also a pathological liar.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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David Reevely @davidreevely.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It was AFTER Confederation, took 10 years of stop-and-start planning first, and the 1881-1885 construction phase went HALFWAY across Canada—just Ontario to B.C.—without labour standards or consideration of Indigenous people. This mythologizing of the CPR is in itself a mark of unseriousness.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 29/09/2026
The idea that we are all supposed to stop calling AI “artificial intelligence” after these companies branded it as such for years and suddenly start calling it “SI” and “super intelligence” is cult-like levels of delusion
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New post: The lessons from Trump's lies #cdnpoli
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 28/09/2026
The Golden Age is going so well, Americans are nostalgic for 2008.
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Lawrence Herzog 🇨🇦 @lawherz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The corporate media is not coming to rescue any democracy. They were never in it for us. And I say that as somebody who worked in as a reporter and journalist for years. #journalism #socialdemocracy #media #Venezuela #oligarchs
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Diane Blais 🇨🇦 @dianeblais.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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De Nada Bingo
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“The president has repeatedly exhibited bizarre conduct in the public eye. Not only does that include taking naps during public events, but also erratic behavior, slurred speech, appearing lost or disoriented, and sporting mysterious bruises.” newrepublic.com/post/215938/...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Vaccines work" isn't a political statement. "Immigrants do not increase crime" isn't a political statement. "Climate change is real" isn't a political statement. "Genocide is bad" isn't a political statement. Stop neutralizing the power of facts by framing them as "politics." Reality matters.
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Diane Blais 🇨🇦 @dianeblais.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Unmask the cowards!
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Obviously none of this is true, but incidentally: It is wild to talk about tax revenue as “profits.”
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Steven Clark @thefwordnb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good reporting with the receipts.
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Diane Blais 🇨🇦 @dianeblais.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Quiet piggy! Keep my country’s name out of your filthy mouth.
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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think the government and military *should* be opposed to fascism globalnews.ca/news/1168850...
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Conservative MP searches for ‘antifa’ in federal government, Canadian Armed Forces - National | Globalnews.ca
Federal departments and the Canadian Armed Forces must answer by April how many members of anti-fascist groups work for the public service and the military.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:
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Diane Blais 🇨🇦 @dianeblais.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Where are all the memoires complaining about how Harper underfunded our military when he was PM? We saw our lowest point during his tenure yet we don’t seem to talk about that much.
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Diane Blais 🇨🇦 @dianeblais.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Interesting read this morning by @maxfawcett.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/28/o...
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Carney, Smith and the oil companies all have their own plans — but they can’t all be right
The politicking around a new west coast oil pipeline is almost done. Now the real work begins — and the real challenge reveals itself.
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Diane Blais 🇨🇦 @dianeblais.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Interesting read. thebeens.substack.com/p/i-read-mar...
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I Read Mark Carney's 600 Page Book, Value(s), So You Don't have To
Here's all you need to know to tell when somebody is lying or bullshitting about having read it and what’s in it.
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Diane Blais 🇨🇦 @dianeblais.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pierre Poilievre’s expenses are out of this world! He outspends everyone else by a long shot! www.ourcommons.ca/ProactiveDis...,
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House Officers – Summary of Expenditures | Proactive Publication of Financial Information
House Officers – Summary of Expenditures | Proactive Publication of Financial Information
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