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Danielle L.

@firmaman.bsky.social
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Retired civil servant from Ottawa, Ontario. News junkie, nature lover and true crime aficionado.

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Danielle L. @firmaman.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Very bad news for the Canadian film industry.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
The election is over but the MAGA onslaught against Prime Minister Carney and Canadian unity has only just started. In the gangster world of Putin, Trump and trolls, Canada is a threat because we are a democratic nation. My reflection on the coming storm. charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-coming...
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The Coming Canadian Storm: MAGA'S Next Move
"It is with humility and appreciation that I accept Damien Kurek's offer to resign his seat…" — Pierre Poilievre, three days after losing the 2025 federal election
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Just for the record, #Canada has done a masterful job in managing inflation as we exit the pandemic's highest inflationary period. Not all countries have done as well. #cdnpoli #CanadaStrong Chart: "Inflation Rate 2024: A Global Comparison", Global Finance
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Janet 🇨🇦 @jansplanet.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, issued the following statement on World Press Freedom Day “In a sea of foreign media and disinformation, we need Canadian voices more than ever.” #DefendDemocracy #CdnPoli
World Press Freedom Day

May 3, 2025
Ottawa, Ontario
Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, issued the following statement on World Press Freedom Day:

“In this time of crisis, we must protect what it means to be Canadian. A strong, independent, and free press both defines and defends our values. My new government will protect reliable Canadian public forums, so we can tell our own stories in our own languages.

“Central to this work is strengthening our public broadcaster, CBC/Radio-Canada, which has stitched this nation together, reporting from Corner Brook to Trois-Rivières to Whitehorse to Comox, bringing Canadians together at critical moments. My new government will also protect and fund more local news, including those with Indigenous perspectives.

“In a sea of foreign media and disinformation, we need Canadian voices more than ever.”

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2025/05/03/statement-prime-minister-carney-world-press-freedom-da
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Danielle L. @firmaman.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Zelenskyy has now become a verb
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Danielle L. @firmaman.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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What’s Next for the U.S.-Canada Relationship? | The Atlantic Festival 2025
YouTube video by The Atlantic
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
🧵 Some post-election thoughts: 1. I said the race would narrow in the last week and it did. I said the battleground was Ontario and it was. The CPC did better in Ontario than many expected and the ads helped. That likely stopped a Liberal majority. #cdnpoli #canpoli
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Right on cue, I see "Rigged" is trending on X.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Dear Canada- Please accept our deepest apologies from all decent Americans embarrassed by the obnoxious trolling from our man-baby-in-chief who is lacking in both intelligence & any impulse-control whatsoever. ❤️ from your neighbors below, 🇺🇸 #MakeAmericaNormalAgain
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Canadians will vote tomorrow in the most emotional election since 1988. I have my own preference. But I note: no one doubts that the vote will be free and fair - or that the loser will peacefully accept the voters' decision. That may not sound much. It's more than others have.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
If there’s one thing I’ve taken away from reporting on the current DOGE collection of govt data, it is that the people who’ve previously spent their careers carefully handling this information believe there is almost no limit to how it could be abused (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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American Panopticon
The Trump administration is pooling data on Americans. Experts fear what comes next.
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davidakin @davidakin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Significant changes to LPC Leader Mark Carney's itinerary today as a result of Vancouver attack. Planned rallies in Calgary and Richmond BC cancelled. Smaller, low-key engagements in Saskatoon, Edmonton, proceeding. TBD for other planned events including final event in Victoria. #elxn45
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
This is a must read article on Poilievre and Trump. bruce728.substack.com/p/trump-show...
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Trump shows us what a rash narcissist can do to harm a country.
Pierre Poilievre isn't Trump. But they're alike in several ways.
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Ottawa Transit Riders 🇨🇦🍁 @otttransitriders.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Remember, BIG changes coming to transit in Ottawa today. Check your bus routes as most of them are being modified. www.octranspo.com/en/plan-your...
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New Ways to Bus | OC TranspoClose
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Ariel Troster @arieltroster.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
The Centretown Community Association’s Earth Day Fair is on at McNabb Park today! Drop by to learn about pollinators, community gardening, worm composting, and more. Later this afternoon, there will even be a drag performance by Morgan Mercury. Also: the sun is finally out! Don’t miss it.
Ariel at a table with the folks from the James St GardenKids at a table painting a banner that says Climate = Free Palestine A large sculpture made of plastic bottles called Plastisaurus RexTwo women from Seniors for the Climate Action now standing by their banner
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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
From This Hour Has 22 Minutes, season 32, episode 20 At the Rebel News merch page you can buy an "I stand with Trump" t-shirt for $38.95 That's $5.29 more than you as an individual Canadian pay yearly for the entire CBC / Radio-Canada budget. I'm gonna go with the public broadcasting, thanks
Photograph of a screen showing a still from 22 minutes. Mark Critch giving the comparison in my post
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/04/2025
Hundreds of thousands of Canadians, many of them snowbirds, visit Palm Springs, California, for months every year. But tariffs and other attacks on their country by the Trump administration are driving them away.
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Canadian Snowbirds Bought Into the American Dream in Palm Springs. Was It a Mirage?
Each year, hundreds of thousands of Canadians visit the desert city. But tariffs and other attacks on their country by the Trump administration are driving them away.
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Cathleen Crudden @cathleencrudden.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Some good news for a change–Queen's has set aside funds to assist any students who have lost their visa status in the US and are looking to continue their graduate studies. Please share widely. www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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Queen’s Special U.S. Doctoral Recruitment Initiative | School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral AffairsDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown arrowDown...
Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 27/04/2025
I went back on @thebulwark.com to break down where things are at on the campaign trail. you will be SHOCKED. youtu.be/dX8hVzz10sw?...
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Trump’s Attack On Canada Did Something SHOCKING
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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Don Cochrane 🇨🇦 @doncochraneyow.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Just... stop. You cannot defend saying that Canada is an 'artificial' country. It took shape long before you were born. It was a radical idea at the time to meld two cultures in one entity, respecting each others' institutions and histories. There is always room for improvement, of course.
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Blanchet defends calling Canada an ‘artificial country’
Bloc Québécois leader faces criticism from Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston, other federal party leaders
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Danielle L. @firmaman.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
How can anyone with an ounce of humanity support this?
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The Canadian approach to democracy has checks and balances, including our campaign finance system. We look south and see a system that is driven by money and is tilted towards corruption, oligarchy, and authoritarianism. #CanadaStrong www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
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The Campaign Finance System Americans Could Have Had
Canada shows how democracies can regulate campaign finance for the common good.
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La Presse @lapresse.ca · 26/04/2025
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| Trump et Zelensky se rencontrent en marge des funérailles du pape
Donald Trump et Volodymyr Zelensky se sont rencontrés samedi à Rome avant les funérailles du pape lors d’un échange jugé posifif par les deux parties, et vont se reparler après la cérémonie, alors que Washington met la pression pour arriver à un cessez-le-feu entre l’Ukraine et la Russie, Kyiv craignant de se faire forcer la main.
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
A Financial Times analysis of more than 350,000 posts on X related to the election… revealed a network of co-ordinated accounts pushing content to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish his counterpart, the Liberal’s Mark Carney. ($) www.ft.com/content/743c...
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Canadians bombarded with rightwing online content ahead of voting
FT analysis finds network of X accounts attacking Liberal leader Mark Carney
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This 338Canada chart maps the different poll results. The results are tight and within the margin of error as the last advertising blitz is underway. Don't assume your vote doesn't matter. Let's vote like our country depends on it. Every vote matters, every riding matters. 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli #canpoli
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Danielle L. @firmaman.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The Wikimedia Foundation headquarters is in San Francisco. Maybe they should move to Canada?
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Danielle L. @firmaman.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Here we go again www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Trump reinserts himself into Canadian politics, saying 'as a state, it works great' | CBC News
Days before the federal election and after more than a week without commenting on Canada, U.S. President Donald Trump resurfaced his 51st state rhetoric Wednesday afternoon and suggested he could furt...
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
"The main political parties except the NDP have fewer women standing compared with the 2021 general election... The Conservative Party has seen a drop of almost 10 percentage points in the number of female candidates" www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... #elxn45 #Election2025 @alg232.bsky.social
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Number of female candidates drops across parties: study
The study also showed a drop in the number of visible-minority candidates
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Danielle L. @firmaman.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Same
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Taras Grescoe 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 23/04/2025
Look what’s happening up in #Canada. Spotted in a drugstore in #Halifax. The “T” stands for products affected by the tariffs—to be avoided. But everyone knows the “T” really stands for Trump.
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Danielle L. @firmaman.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Not today Satan
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 18/04/2025
”According to ForCanada’s Third Party’s Interim Campaign Report, made available by Elections Canada, ForCanada has raised over $270,000 to date. They have paid over $150,000 to Rebel Media for services. Of that, $96,050 was for ‘consulting fees’.”
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Post-Debate Question Period Cancelled Due to “Security Concerns”
Leaders were not able to take questions from journalists after last night’s debate because of incidents involving Rebel Media and Ezra Levant.
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Danielle L. @firmaman.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
She’s not alone
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Danielle L. @firmaman.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Free public transit in Ottawa on May 3 and 4
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Danielle L. @firmaman.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I just confirmed myself this satellite image (1:48PM ET 4/11/25) of one of the yards at CECOT. I have no idea what this is, but those saying it is bodies and blood certainly are not getting that idea entirely out of nowhere. It may well be.
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Danielle L. @firmaman.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
www.ctvnews.ca/london/artic...
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Ingersoll GM plant shutdown: 500 layoffs imminent
There will be a shutdown of the GM CAMI Assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ont. with hundreds of layoffs to come.
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Danielle L. @firmaman.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Pretty accurate
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
This one is really funny, except that it is true. www.youtube.com/watch?v=617L...
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Introducing... Risk: Donald Trump Edition! | This Hour Has 22 Minutes
YouTube video by 22 Minutes
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Susanne Ure @susanne-ure-snaps.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
#HandsOff protest. Ottawa, Canada.
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Danielle L. @firmaman.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
“The parcels were a dry run for a future Russian plot to detonate similar packages in midair on cargo flights to the United States and Canada”. Yikes! www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Sex toys and exploding cosmetics: anatomy of a 'hybrid war' on the West
Fake cosmetics, massage pillows and sex toys are among the key elements of a suspected Russian-run sabotage plot that led to three parcels being detonated at courier depots in Britain, Germany and Poland last summer.
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Danielle L. @firmaman.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Seen in Ottawa, Ontario
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Danielle L. @firmaman.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
With his tariffs, Trump wants to take America back to the Gilded Age. That’s terrifying. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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Trump’s quest for a new Gilded Age
The Wall Street Journal warns that Trump’s “dumbest trade war in history” could lead to recession. But, as McGill University professor Daniel Cere explains, his policies might not be born out of ignor...
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 04/04/2025
#EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump's steep 29% tariff imposed on Norfolk Island, and tariffs on remote islands with no human habitation, appear to have been calculated based on mislabelled shipments, instead of their correct countries of origin, @australia.theguardian.com can reveal.
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Not that Norfolk! Mislabelled shipments led to Trump tariffs on uninhabited islands and remote outposts with no US trade
Exclusive: Aquarium systems, Timberland boots and recycling plant parts were mislabelled as coming from remote Norfolk Island or Heard and McDonald islands
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 02/04/2025
Barely more than one-tenth of 1 per cent of fentanyl seizures at the northern border have been positively attributed to Canada by the United States border agency, according to new data released to The Globe and Mail. tgam.ca/4jefk86
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Danielle L. @firmaman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-t...
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Snapshot: Trump Broke What Wasn't Broken
Canada's Prime Minister says the "old relationship" with America "is over" and "the U.S. is no longer a reliable partner." The road to repair will be long.
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Danielle L. @firmaman.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Today may be liberation day for Trump, but in Canada it’s the Great Awakening. plus.lapresse.ca/screens/b473...
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L'année du « grand réveil » à Ottawa - La Presse+
Le président américain, Donald Trump, affirme que le 2 avril sera le « jour de la libération » pour les États-Unis grâce aux droits de douane réciproques qui seront imposés sur les produits de tous le...
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PopehatFanClub @iamsauerkraut.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
The Truly Terrible Idea That Franklin, Washington and Trump All Share: taking over Canada. All failed spectacularly. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/o...
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Opinion | The Endless Doomed Quest to Annex Canada
It was almost as though America’s northern neighbor were an entirely different country.
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