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Don Pittis

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Reader, writer, columnist, producer, broadcaster at rthk, bbc, cbc etc.

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Canuckstan 🇨🇦 @jonchevreau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#via Canadian cartoonist Dave Whamond #CanadaSky #USpol
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 03/10/2026
Oh wow In May, I reported Alberta separatists were using an app developed by GOP operatives with ties to US ambassador Pete Hoekstra @theglobeandmail.com now reports the same operatives flew to Calgary on a private jet for a secret meeting with separatist leaders: pressprogress.ca/alberta-sepa...
The pitch began with a prayer.
On an afternoon in late January, Mitch Sylvestre, the leader of Alberta's most prominent separatist organization, gathered with three of his lieutenants in a boardroom not far from the executive hangars at the Calgary International Airport, where private jets shuttle in and out of the city away from prying eyes.
It was a few hours before thousands of Albertans would gather near the city centre at a rally to launch the separatist campaign. But this meeting, convened behind closed doors a half-hour drive away, was invite only.
The Alberta Prosperity Project chose the location to accommodate its guests, Republican political strategists from Michigan who helped Donald Trump win the state in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
The American delegation travelled to Calgary to sell them on software developed for Republicans to get out the vote - and how it could be used to wrench Alberta from Confederation.
"They were young Christians. Capable, intelligent people," Mr. Sylvestre said. "We prayed before we started the meeting.""There is no secrecy'
One of the key figures behind the Michigan software company has expressed strong views on Alberta.
On July 1, Mr. Born wrote on social media: "On this Canada Day, I hope this is the last year Alberta is part of Canada." He has also called for U.S. annexation of the province.
A hunter, outdoorsman and commercial real estate agent in Grand Rapids, Mr. Born is the stepson of J.C. Huizenga, a wealthy Republican donor and founder of National Heritage Academies, a network of conservative charter schools in the U.S.
Mr. Wierda is the nephew of Erik Prince, who founded and ran the private military contractor Blackwater before it was sold to investors in 2010, and Betsy DeVos, the education secretary during Mr. Trump's first term.
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Spicy Scorpio🪶🧡🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇪🇺 @nish57.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This 👇👇👇👇 is Canada
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General Strike @ivanasstaircam.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
How’s everyone doing on this fine day away from corporate shackles? ☕️😘
Saturday smiles
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Majority government with 30% of the vote.
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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 01/10/2026
Question for anyone who files Access to Information (ATIP) requests online in Canada... Have you ever successfully used the new "CanadaLogin" system? I did the steps to create/migrate my account but every time I actually try to login to the ATIP portal it just ends up in this endless error loop:
        CanadaLogin

    Manage CanadaLogin

Something went wrong

Sorry about that. Try one of the following options:

Manage CanadaLogin    Return
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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 01/10/2026
Here are 16 Canadian-owned brands you can buy instead of the usual grocery store picks. 🇨🇦 #BuyCanadian ✅ Get my free weekly newsletter: farandwide.news Note: A previous version of this graphic listed a Canadian-owned company which had moved its production to the U.S.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 29/09/2026
For those keeping track, Canada now has *two* journalists with purported links to foreign intelligence agencies
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This National Post Columnist Says He Spied for a Foreign Intelligence Agency. Experts Call His Behaviour ‘Unethical’ and ‘Absurd’.
National Post columnist Adam Zivo says he was moonlighting as a foreign intelligence asset at the same time as he worked for the National Post
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 25/09/2026
Although Policy Options published an article from an author with an apparently AI-generated headshot and whose articles sound like they were also generated by AI, I appreciate their transparency here and also sharing additional details about the deceptive behaviour of this "Daniel Robson" character
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 25/09/2026
It turns out "Daniel Robson" is also a prolific contributor to the Western Standard His first articles for WS were published February 2026, the morning after the Tumbler Ridge school shooting Since then, it's a lot of criticisms focused on crime, immigration and pro-Palestinian protesters
Daniel Robson is an independent Canadian journalist specializing in extremism, terrorism, and crime. His work Tocuses on nauonal ana communirv secuntv. as well as the legal. Institutional. and voicv dimensions of public safety. He writes on emerging threats, digital extremism, and accountability in Canada.
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Les Perreaux @perreaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A cautionary tale for my editor friends (and probably many others in this new world.) Why Policy Options removed an article published under the name Daniel Robson policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/09/dani...
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Why Policy Options removed an article published under the name Daniel Robson
Policy Options removed an article after concerns about the contributor’s identity could not be resolved. Here is what happened and why.
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Edge O. Erin @edgeoerin.com · 26/09/2026
"Canadian citizen detained at U.S. border crossing, questioned for hours about voting." Please, fellow Canadians, and our allies and friends around the world, DO NOT TRAVEL TO THE USA! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Canadian citizen and U.S. permanent resident detained at border crossing, questioned for hours about voting | CBC News
Paige Adamson was on her way home from a birthday dinner in Tsawwassen, B.C., on Sept. 15 when she was stopped at the Point Roberts border crossing and questioned about voting for hours. Lawyers are r...
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thinking of visiting the US? Consider it carefully, as they’re going to seize your phone and look at everything you have on it. ~ Tod Maffin
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justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The TTC is finally considering increasing streetcar stop spacing, active gap supervision on subway, and introducing mid-route timing points on surface network. Please consider filling this out to help bring TTC operations into the 21st century.
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TTC Service Standards Review - Round One Survey
We are reviewing and updating our Service Standards, and we want your feedback on the options we’re exploring. Learn about the options by taking this survey.
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Don Pittis @donpittis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"All models are wrong. Some are useful." -- statistician George Box 1976 (Ex ft comments)
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Rory Johnston @roryjohnston.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Hormuz oil flows can’t possible be above 13 MMbpd bc crude is over $100!” Brother, if you had told an oil analyst in January that Hormuz flows were still down 7 MMbpd after >200 days of war—with the East-West pipeline hobbled—and oil was ONLY $100 they’d have looked at you like
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Shia La Beouf: Are You On Drugs? (Transformers)
ALT: Shia La Beouf: Are You On Drugs? (Transformers)
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Don Pittis @donpittis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fabulous moving graph for chart lovers. Tail risk! That's where all the info is.
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Climate Watcher @pmagn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Tailing around
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Coffee Makes Everything Better @aegg527.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm crying Danielle Smith tears! 😢 FAFO 🤣 😂 👏 🇨🇦 💪
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Don Pittis @donpittis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The pumpkins are in.
A pile of pumpkins in an old fashioned pickup truck parked in front of a small grocer
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Gabe Blanc @gabeblanc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh, you thought I was finished? Stay tuned. @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Volkswagen's new EVs are so popular that it's cutting ICE shifts. What fantastic news, I wonder what major world event may have caused this massive shift 🤔 share.google/hhDE8Rfi7MR9...
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Volkswagen's new EVs are so popular that the company is now cutting ICE shifts
Volkswagen’s new family of entry-level electric cars is proving to be more popular than its internal combustion engine vehicles. Volkswagen’s...
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 22/09/2026
Funny, because the Truckers got three weeks to hang out before police lifted a finger. Interesting.
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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In the most university-dorm post ever (@nomiclairelazar.bsky.social), I am super excited to have found the description of inflation in H.G. Wells's Outline of History (1920). He is just so good at capturing the weirdness of inflation. A thread of some delicious snippets
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🇨🇦 NanaGale @nanagale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’m happy to receive answers to questions on subjects I’m not an expert in. I’m open to different points of view. But I don’t appreciate responses immediately couched in patronising & insulting terms or in name calling. That is unnecessary, uncivilised and rude and not worth engagement.
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Chris and his farmily of forever farm friends @caenhillcc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#onthisday a look back a year with our forever farm friends rush hour
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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
What’s everyone #reading this weekend? #books #BookSky
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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“A new film about Elon Musk reveals him as so awful it’s almost tragic. Almost Four hours is a long time to spend inside the mind of the world’s richest man – and that’s because his mind turns out to be a twisted, miserable nightmare” James Ball www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-a... and culture
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A new film about Elon Musk reveals him as so awful it’s almost tragic. Almost
Four hours is a long time to spend inside the mind of the world’s richest man – and that’s because his mind turns out to be a twisted, miserable nightmare
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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Professional street performer TJ-Wheels juggling clubs while balancing on roller skates at the Fulda Staunt street art festival in Fulda, Germany. He regularly appears in street festivals in Europe and is known for his high-level technical juggling skills with physical comedy. #performingart
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Heavenly Gifts Christian Morrisseau ~ Anishinaabe n.d.
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"The Canada List" is new and growing, built by everyday Canadians. Find out how Canadian various products are on a scale of 1 -10. Help defend our businesses and our country. 🇨🇦 #Canada #CanadaStrong #BuyCanadian #tariffs thecanadalist.ca
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The CANADA List – See How Canadian the Products You Buy Are
Search, sort, and filter to find products that are truly Canadian-owned, made, and sourced.
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Eleven minutes to lie about the fact that the world price of oil crashed in 2014 and permanently altered the market. Eleven. Minutes.
Andrew Scheer

Why are there more pipelines approved in conflict zones than here in Canada?

Over the last 10 years, why did energy companies pour billions worth of investments into unstable countries, while pulling out of Canada?

Bad Liberal policies. Those laws remain on the books. 

And the politicians who authored them still sit around the cabinet table.

Video clip of Scheer.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 18/09/2026
Proper sequence of greetings demonstrated by the finance minister of Canada 🐱
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 18/09/2026
"The United Nations published a terrifying report in 2019 that said we're in the middle of another mass extinction. One million species are threatened — unprecedented in human history. “The next day, Harry and Meghan had a baby. And the extinction story was gone." An interview with David Suzuki.
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David Suzuki: "We need to declare an emergency that changes everything"
An interview with Canada's legendary environmental activist David Suzuki about what has to change if humanity hopes to survive.
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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In parts of the U.K. he’s still known as St. Mark, the Bank of England martyr of Brexit.
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Don Pittis @donpittis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Both of my morning papers give him a Euro-halo
Two Canadian newspaper front pages with different photos of Prime Minister Carney surrounded by Europe's circle of stars.
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Bean @bean-of-boston.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The children yearn for the mine ponies
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Serena @bibliophile99.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#cdnpoli #tradewar
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Doug van den Ham @dvdham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If Canada is going to become an Associate Member of the EU, a great spot to start would be recognizing EU vehicle safety and emissions standards. That would open an easy pathway to increase the availability of small, fuel efficient vehicles in the Canadian market.
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The Brandon Sun @thebrandonsun.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
WINNIPEG — The family of a 21-year-old man who was fatally attacked by an animal in western Manitoba is waiting for answers after investigators ruled out a bear attack based on their preliminary findings. www.brandonsun.com/local/2026/0... #bdnmb
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Family awaits answers after fatal animal attack
WINNIPEG — The family of a 21-year-old man who was fatally attacked by an animal in western Manitoba is waiting for answers after investigators ruled out a bear attack based on their preliminary…
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Don Pittis @donpittis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Gol durn Boston Police crossed several state lines and Lake Ontario to track down criminals in our Toronto neighbourhood.
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Bob Rae ( 🇨🇦Ambassador to the UN 2020 - 2025) for the winning comment ☄️
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
my new favorite conspiracy theory about why all the AI bros are asking everyone to back off on developing AI
From threads:

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They probably asked it how to fix the world and it said the only way was to eliminate the billionaires.
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Dr. Genevieve Eastabrook, MD FRCSC (she/her) @placentadoc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Findings of new study – released as fuel prices for motor vehicles soar internationally – include fatality rates dropping, per 10 million trips, by 88% in Paris, 82% in London and 62% in New York City Meanwhile in Ontario…Doug Ford is demanding that bike lanes are removed! 😱
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Post-pandemic cycling boom in major cities, as cyclist safety improved thanks to more and better cycling infrastructure - Taylor & Francis Newsroom
Cycling in some of the world’s largest cities has continued to increase since the pandemic, thanks to safer and improved infrastructure which is also leading to a drop in fatality rates. Tracking data...
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A growing consumer push to buy Canadian and boycott U.S. products is reshaping supermarket shelves in Canada, forcing grocers to improve country-of-origin labeling and secure new sources of supply. www.reuters.com/business/ret...
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Canadian boycott of US products pushes grocers to adapt, explore new supply sources
A growing consumer push to buy Canadian and boycott U.S. products is reshaping supermarket shelves in Canada, forcing grocers to improve country-of-origin labeling and secure new sources of supply.
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Great news for Manitoba 🍁 and Canada 🇨🇦! The Port of Churchill recently shipped Canadian grain and potash, for the first time since the pandemic, to our new trustworthy trading partners in Europe and Africa. Tremendous step for Canada's new mission❕
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