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Ryan Dunch

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Professor of Chinese history at the University of Alberta, Canada

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 3h
the crowd absolutely erupts when Carney says the Pacific Link pipeline will reduce Canada's dependence on the U.S. Mark Carney: "Careful. They might think that's election interference. They're a little touchy down there. We're not. We're getting on with it."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 7h
NEW: The order to throttle Starlink (Starshield) came from the White House to the Pentagon. I still think Elon was involved, though. He’s currently a Pentagon employee as well www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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EXCLUSIVE: Order to limit Starshield for Ukraine came from inside White House, sources say
The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine ​for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefe...
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Petzie (AMW) 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦 @amwpetzie.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
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More than half of doctors surveyed would leave an independent Alberta, medical association says | CBC News
Hundreds of physicians would not practise in Alberta if the province leaves Confederation, a survey by the organization that represents doctors in the province indicates.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 16/09/2026
Dear @mark-carney.bsky.social, we want to bring the relationship with Canada to the highest level possible. I would like to work with you on opening the door for Canada to being the first associate member of the EU. And create a common prosperity and economic security space.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ahem
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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#hsmt #histmed #histsci @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social @sshmedicine.bsky.social #sts #churchhistory #history #hps @aahmhistmed.bsky.social @bshsnews.bsky.social @historyscience.bsky.social @durhamimh.bsky.social #health #religion #theology #ethics #blackhistory #Kirchengeschichte #Theologie
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
2025-26: the first year Canadian universities employed more tenured/TT professors over the age of 70 than under the age of 35.
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Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
East Asian Studies is being gutted at Sheffield - all staff at risk with 8.6 FTE proposed to go (a third of us). Biggest cuts in Chinese and Japanese Studies. We’ll be taking a few days to process. Solidarity to Materials and Chemistry colleagues who are also dealing with similarly bad news.
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Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Taiwan Travelogue wins the 2026 International Booker Prize! focustaiwan.tw/culture/2026...
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'Taiwan Travelogue' wins 2026 International Booker Prize - Focus Taiwan
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation has issued a statement on their legal action ending the separatist referendum that was just submitted. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 28/04/2026
This promises to be a fantastic event. A must-attend for all Albertans concerned about the prospect of a referendum on sovereignty. Register here: ctrforconstitutionalstudies.cmail20.com/t/d-l-gkuukl...
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
This is very well done. albertareferendumb2026.ca
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Alberta Referendum 2026 | Referendum Reality Check
Albertans aren't dumb. But this government thinks we are. Independent political commentary on Alberta’s 2026 referendum and the politics behind it.
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Jay Gamble @drjaydrno.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Washington to be born.
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Victor L. McConought @vic4alberta.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
THIS POPE IS NOTORIOUSLY SOFT ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS. JULIUS II WOULD TOTALLY HAVE HAD A NUCLEAR WEAPON. -OUTRAGE-O-TRON AI #popeleo
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/04/2026
I’m not sure it has broken through to the general public that the president is a megalomaniac crazy person. Hopefully posts like this help.
Trump TS post featuring an illustration of himself as a Christian faith healer
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The ROI for Putin on his investments in Trump and active measures around US presidential elections has been incalculable.
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Ming-Yeh Rawnsley @mytrawnsley.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Sharing this obituary on behalf of the European Association of Taiwan Studies as we remember Professor Murray Rubinstein in our own way and honour his profound contributions to Taiwan Studies and to our scholarly community: eats-taiwan.eu/news/in-memo...
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In memory of Professor Murray Rubinstein
[Obituary] Professor Murray A. Rubinstein Historian of Taiwan, Religion, and Identity Ph.D., New York University (1976) Professor Emeritus, Baruch College, City University of New York Senior Research…
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse serving veterans. He died trying to protect protestors being assaulted. A group of anonymous & masked men fired chemicals into his face, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him in broad daylight in front of witnesses. Then his government smeared him & defended his murder.
picture of Alex Pretti
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clnzjay 🇨🇦 – 🇪🇺 | An EU Associate-in-Waiting @clnz.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Cc. Award winning Canadian editorial cartoonist, @deadder.bsky.social
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
tldr: a predictable autocrat far away is preferential to an unpredictable one next door
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
wrote on why the Canadian-Chinese deal makes sense in the age of Trump (had to update *while writing* which is just how the news is nowadays) foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/20/c...
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With Trade Deal, Canada Bets on China
For all its risks, Beijing has become a more predictable partner than the United States under Trump.
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Leena Walters @leenawalters.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
"Canada could become a clean energy powerhouse that harnesses our natural advantages in renewable energy and critical minerals. Doing so could also lift our manufacturing sector to unprecedented heights, creating hundreds of thousands of new, well-paid jobs for Canadian workers." #cdnpoli #climate
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Rob Roy (he/him) @robertroy.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
If my uncle gives me his Harvard diploma, does that mean I am a Harvard graduate? Asking for a friend.
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Carla Peck, PhD @carlapeck.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Haven’t been on here in ages… but today I’m back to share my family’s story about being stuck in the emergency dept at an Alberta hospital for more than 90 hours. The UCP is fiddling while the system burns. @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Senior with influenza waited 90 hours in Edmonton emergency department, family says
Patients are languishing for days in makeshift waiting areas to receive care
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
There's a long, miserable history of the US installing leader and being shocked, shocked that this leader (the agent) does not do exactly what the US (the principal) wants. Because, well, the agent has his/her own interests (again, shocking!) and those don't match up with what the US wants. 2/
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The Joe Gross @joegross.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 07/12/2025
Danielle Smith's comments about the judiciary are among the most worrying things she's said about Alberta democracy. Conservatives need to stand up to her. Now. open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 07/12/2025
This is among the most democratically dangerous things Danielle Smith has said. She wants to remove all checks and balances on her power and projects herself as the embodiment of "the people." We have left the realm of liberal democracy in this province.
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˚*𓈒𓏸𑁍 Kaori Fujisawa ‎ꕤ @edcba1111.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Calling this a “peace plan” is like calling a bank robbery a “balance adjustment.” Or like telling a mugging victim: “Good news! I’ve negotiated a settlement. You keep the hospital bills, he keeps your wallet.”
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Bridget Stirling @bridgetstirling.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Feet on a train seat? Yeah, okay, not good behaviour. But in no way should that merit the kind of aggressive response I saw today. If you can't talk to a kid about obnoxious but non-violent behaviour without clearly being on the verge of snapping, you should not be trusted with public safety.
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 19/11/2025
This is what's at stake. The UCP is not only dodging its responsibility to explain how Bill 9 is in any way proportionate or justifiable in a free and democratic society. They are putting children at far greater risk of suicide.
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I am pretty sure that when Merv Leitch and Peter Lougheed first created the notwithstanding clause, they didn’t mean it to be deployed to bully and oppress literal school children. #ableg #abpoli #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Alberta #notwithstandingclause
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Alberta to invoke notwithstanding clause to shield 3 transgender bills from court challenges | CBC News
The Alberta government has tabled legislation that seeks to invoke the notwithstanding clause to shield a suite of bills that affects transgender youth and adults from legal challenges.
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 18/11/2025
The UCP has invoked the notwithstanding clause pre-emptively. Again. This time to strip the Charter rights of trans children and adults. This is sadly and entirely predictable from a populist government bent on removing checks on its power. 🧵 drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/populism-f...
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Populism, freedom, and democracy in Alberta (and beyond)
Lessons from my grade fiver's homework assignment
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
It’s worth remembering that the UCP aren’t just robbing Albertans of their charter rights… Amery openly conceded that these laws also violate the Alberta Human Rights Act and the Alberta Bill of Rights. That the UCP just rewrote. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Now do universities and colleges
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
An update on my column: Parliamentary committee drops most contentious parts of its demand for data on research funding. It now wants aggregated, not disaggregated data. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think. A parliamentary committee is asking for researchers' personal information in what seems like an anti-DEI crusade, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Opinion: How much are MPs entitled to know about research grants? Not as much as they think
A parliamentary committee is asking for academics’ private information on a strange anti-DEI crusade
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Troy Pavlek @troypavlek.ca · 29/10/2025
Sometimes questions are more revealing than answers. The interview yesterday by Vassy Kapelos with Demetrios Nicolaides is one of those times. Please enjoy these highlights.
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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Today, I submitted 456,365 Albertans’ signatures to Elections Alberta, petitioning the Premier to do the right thing, avoid a divisive and economically harmful referendum, and allow MLAs to vote and reaffirm that Alberta’s future is in Canada.🇨🇦 Alberta is #ForeverCanadian
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
It just got 10% dumber. Not a joke: Trump just imposed an additional 10 percent tariff on Canada because he still doesn't understand that Reagan was a vehement free trader. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
"Mate, I can't do anything but tell it to you straight. This Canada thing is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The Canadians ran an advertisement showing Ronald Reagan being against tariffs. Guess what? Ronald Reagan was against tariffs."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/10/2025
The president announces an arbitrary price hike on Americans because his feelings are hurt by an ad accurately quoting Ronald Reagan’s criticism of tariffs
Canada was caught, red handed, putting up a fraudulent advertisement on Ronald Reagan’s Speech on Tariffs. The Reagan Foundation said that they, “created an ad campaign using selective audio and video of President Ronald Reagan. The ad misrepresents the Presidential Radio Address,” and “did not seek nor receive permission to use and edit the remarks. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is reviewing its legal options in this matter.” The sole purpose of this FRAUD was Canada’s hope that the United States Supreme Court will come to their “rescue” on Tariffs that they have used for years to hurt the United States. Now the United States is able to defend itself against high and overbearing Canadian Tariffs (and those from the rest of the World as well!). Ronald Reagan LOVED Tariffs for purposes of National Security and the Economy, but Canada said he didn’t! Their Advertisement was to be taken down, IMMEDIATELY, but they let it run last night during the World Series, knowing that it was a FRAUD. Because of their serious misrepresentation of the facts, and hostile act, I am increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they are paying now. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The Reagan address was one of those (and nobody needs permission to use it).
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Also, remember the president's weekly radio address? A public communication that was regular, focused, run through staff, and generally wasn't a vehicle for crime?
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Among all the things wrong with this, maybe it is not in the U.S. national interest for the president to make dramatic foreign policy changes in response to a TV ad?
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
There was never any deal to be had anyway, so this just pulls off the façade.
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Trump says all trade negotiations between U.S. and Canada ‘terminated’ over anti-tariff ad
U.S. President Donald Trump says all trade negotiations with Canada are terminated over an anti-tariff ad using a clip of former U.S. president Ronald Reagan.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Trump is pissed about an ad that Canada recently ran in the U.S. showing Ronald Reagan talking about tariffs in 1987. “Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED.”
Trump: The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs. The ad was for $75,000. They only did this to interfere with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and other courts. TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A. Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT
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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Not interviewed by Judge Wyant in a report that’s supposed to probe political interference into AHS -Health Minister Lagrange -her chief of staff -anyone on political side other than Marshall Smith, who left premier’s office last fall
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