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Fiver @fiverfines.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One thing I noticed from touring across this country for the past summer is there are too many golf courses and everyone's well is going dry.

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We might recognize that violence and death are the desired outcomes. And work from there.

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History Keeps Happening @historykeeper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Through the 'medicine chest' clause of Treaty 6, this initiative places these services outside provincial jurisdiction, directly challenging Alberta’s attack on gender diverse people and their families."

edmontonjournal.com

Saddle Lake Cree Nation asserts treaty rights over access to gender-affirming care

Saddle Lake takes steps to establish safe haven for gender-affirming care on reserved lands, invoking Treaty No. 6 'Medicine Chest' clause.

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Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) 🇨🇦 @alanranta.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This show was so good! Don't miss out, Galiano! fiverforreal.bandcamp.com/album/fiver-...

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Fiver Trois presents Cleaning House, by Fiver

8 track album

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freegrassy.bsky.social @freegrassy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

One month until River Run! Chrissy Isaacs & Clayton Thomas-Müller will be at River Run fighting for mercury justice. Will you march with them? On Sept. 23, thousands will march through Toronto with Grassy Narrows - will you? RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/river... #RiverRun2026 #GrassyNarrows

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/08/2026

People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.

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Fiver @fiverfines.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Fiver Goes West Here is an admat followed by a billion posters for shows you can purchase tickets to at www.fiverfiverfiver.com

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still a pistachio @streetlightlily.horntforgood.com · 31/01/2026

You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS

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Fiver @fiverfines.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Who in the world do I have to pay to get an album reviewed? Only real answers.

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Alan Ranta (ꜱᴏ ᴡʜᴀᴛ?) 🇨🇦 @alanranta.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Fiver reached deep on this, and they don't put their music on Spotify, so support the crap out of this one, please. fiverforreal.bandcamp.com/album/fiver-...

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Fiver Trois presents Cleaning House, by Fiver

8 track album

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Fiver @fiverfines.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Fiver Trois Spotlight : Nate Doucet on the drums. If you listen to this guy speak you understand what rhythmic latitude this musician requires of anything he emits. Grammatically circuitous, he extends time while echoing back his own interpretation with a flare. ..

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Fiver @fiverfines.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

My record is out today. It's called Cleaning House. Market logics would have me tell you what it's about, but I'm an actual songwriter, and I believe the song should be understood through itself. After all, I did sing it for you. I literally already pitched it.

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vish khanna @vishkhanna.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

1112! Fiver hear Kreative Kontrol ⬇️ 🍎: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/e... 💰: www.patreon.com/kreativekont... ☁️: overcast.fm/+AA3_nu5UWEk vk: vishkhanna.com/2026/07/09/e... 🌲: linktr.ee/vishkhanna @fiverfines.bsky.social @youvechanged.bsky.social

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Cloe Logan @cloelogan.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

This story I wrote for @nationalobserver.com won gold at the Atlantic Journalism Awards last night :,) I'm proud of this one, it was the last story I wrote in Atlantic Canada before moving to Toronto. Thank you to @jameswsthomson.com for editing it, and to the Isthmus for being beautiful. ✨

nationalobserver.com

Planned New Brunswick gas plant could threaten vital migratory bird corridor

As the province moves ahead with plans for a new gas plant, experts and residents warn it could endanger one of Canada’s most fragile and important ecological corridors.

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Fiver @fiverfines.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

As of today here are all my dates. But there will be more.

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Fiver @fiverfines.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Pour my song from a paper cup / these men they can't shut up. New one out this week in advance of the album "Cleaning House" fiverforreal.bandcamp.com/album/fiver-...

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Fiver Trois presents Cleaning House, by Fiver

8 track album

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Fiver @fiverfines.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Toronto! Coming back to play for the first time since 2022. July 24 - early show at Dina's Tavern. Yes that's the new Silver Dollar. Yes that's weird. Sliding scale $5-$5000 3common.com/event/69f171...

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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 05/06/2026

Thanks to Tim @halifaxexaminer.ca for the reprint - my first one at the fabled outlet! On the IG post for this story, I plugged in @fiverfines.bsky.social’s new track R.J.D., which I’m obsessed with. You’ll wanna check that out here while reading the story: fiverforreal.bandcamp.com/track/r-j-d

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R.J.D., by Fiver

from the album Fiver Trois presents Cleaning House

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Ardath Whynacht @ardathjean.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This is bonkers. We can’t let this happen.

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part time xyla @xyla.zip · 13/05/2026

faith in humanity restored

Cambridge Dictionary • @CambridgeWords

slopper
noun

someone who relies too much on Al chatbots to make decisions, find out information, etc.

He's become such a *slopper* that he won't even choose a restaurant without asking an Al.

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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

An Indigenous comedy troupe apparently pranked Lindsay Shepherd, a former BC Conservative staffer who was fired after she complained bitterly about having to view any symbols of Orange Shirt Day (In Canada, Orange Shirt Day commemorates experiences of residential school survivors)

"I found out recently that I was deceived by social activists in an elaborate scheme dating back to January. A production group with what I now know has a fake name and fake identities gave me a friendly interview about my book A Day with Sir John A, and about Sir John A Macdonald, back in Feb.

They connected me with a fake company called Heritage Figures Canada with a fake website and "hired" me to perform consulting work for them. We had what I now know were fake meetings, fake documents, fake commercial shoot, fake prototype of a Sir John A collectible. Then in a second filmed interview last week, they turned on me, and it was revealed to have all been a setup in order to demonize Sir John A and smear me.

It turns out this is a taxpayer-funded CBC and APTN project. There is so much more, I will make a video. They also deceived
@FrancesWiddows1"

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Subvert @subvert.fm · 12/05/2026

We’re live. Two years ago, we released a plan. Today, our collectively owned music platform is open. Explore. Support artists directly. Join the co-op. It’s only the beginning. Sincerely Ours, Subvert

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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 12/05/2026

🧵 Why are we suing the Calgary Police? It’s hard to describe what happens to you physiologically while being smeared in public by powerful people. It’s a mix of uncertainty, fear, frustration, rage, indignation, and anguish, on a thick layer of pity — for self and others you know are in it, too. 1/

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Ben Horst (bluecheck.jpg) @moriamarmalade.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

if you're lookin' for some new music, try fiver trois. genre? maybe roots music i dunno. there's a pedal steel guitar so you might get a country vibe. fiverforreal.bandcamp.com/track/tomka-...

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Tomka Ton, by Fiver

from the album Fiver Trois presents Cleaning House

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Fiver @fiverfines.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Climbing up the mound. youtu.be/iAVbpsPTK5o?...

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Michael Rancic @therewasnosound.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

a song with one uncleared sample can be a legal nightmare for an artist. a song made with AI models trained on millions of unlicensed songs? increasingly acceptable. my latest for maisonneuve on generative AI music, ownership + who actually benefits. maisonneuve.org/article/2026...

maisonneuve.org

Penny for Your Bots

Music companies and organizations are racing to work with AI tools, but they risk further marginalizing artists and creativity.

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Polaris Music Prize @polarismusicprize.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

New Fiver song "Tomka Ton." www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAVb...

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Tomka Ton

YouTube video by Fiver Fines

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Fiver @fiverfines.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I put out two new songs today, as I announce that the new Fiver album, "Cleaning House presented by the Fiver Trois, will be out on You’ve Changed Records on July 10! RJD’s a shrine. Tomka Ton is heaven. Listen to the songs here: tr.ee/2Lpl_dfrI1

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Fiver @fiverfines.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

New song out today, but I can’t call this a new song. I wrote Daybreak 14 years ago and have played it live ever since, but I’ve never released a recording of it till now. fiverforreal.bandcamp.com/album/daybreak

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Daybreak, by Fiver

1 track album

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

My latest! I'm keeping a list of the cuts that Mark Carney's government has made, and what impact they'll have on our public services. noraloreto.substack.com/p/counting-t...

noraloreto.substack.com

Counting the cuts

Mark Carney's attacks on Canada's public service should concern all Canadians.

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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 18/03/2026

I guarantee you there is a private-sector proponent behind each of these policies ready to profit off people they make vulnerable. It’s the UCP way.

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David TS Fraser @privacylawyer.ca · 16/03/2026

What Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, 2026 can do. Do Canadians want this? More here: youtu.be/tZFbTYttuN8 #lawfulaccess #cdnpoli

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Magnum, T.I.(M.) @hydrationchimp.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Day 1 of drawing dilbert until i get sued or Scott Adams rises from the grave like Jesus

A comic where dilbert shoots the pointy hair boss and then vapes on public transportation

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Fiver @fiverfines.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

See a lot of profs on here talking about papers written by AI. But has anyone here received a personal letter from a friend and wondered if AI wrote it?

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Samuel Robinson @samuelerobinson.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Tracks of the Year. 6th December Destroyer - Bologna (feat. Fiver) youtu.be/LCEqe50p8Bw?... Dan Bejar’s music as Destroyer is so intensely idiosyncratic. It’s fascinating to hear Fiver’s Simone Schmidt inhabit that same world on this nocturnal cut from the excellent ‘Dan’s Boogie’.

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Destroyer - Bologna (feat. Fiver) (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Destroyer

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Fiver @fiverfines.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Playing Montreal on January 10 with Quinton Barnes @ casa del popolo Tickets here: tickets.venuepilot.com/e/fiver-troi...

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Fiver @fiverfines.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Unwitting reciprocity, what with @drugdatadecoded.ca being the substack I read most and recommend most on and off stage.

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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 01/12/2025

In which I pay Calgary police $250 for the privilege of seeing them beat me into concussion, for them to decide months later not to hand it over. Their reason? The evidence could influence a public body’s opinion of the beating. drugdatadecoded.ca/calgary-poli...

drugdatadecoded.ca

Calgary police withhold evidence of brutality as final UofC protest charges fall

New documents reveal Calgary Police Service suppressed evidence of brutality by officers at the University of Calgary on May 9, 2024. Among this was camera footage from senior officers that should hav...

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) says it’s against the memorandum of understanding that Canada and Alberta Thursday morning. The MOU explicitly endorses the construction of a massive new bitumen pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.

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‘The answer is no and always will be’: UBCIC on Alberta-Canada MOU

The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) says it’s against the MOU signed Thursday morning to build a massive new bitumen pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.

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Michelle Gamage @michellegamage.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

DULF co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum were found guilty of possession with the intent to traffic this morning for meth, heroin and cocaine. My full story on @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

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DULF Founders Guilty of Drug Trafficking | The Tyee

Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum didn’t have permission to sell tested drugs despite good intentions, court finds.

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Ricochet Media @ricochetmedia.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Will Canada abandon environmental assessment in the Ring of Fire? Doug Ford wants Ottawa to ignore First Nations’ warnings that drinking water, treaty rights, and the land itself are on the line. The latest from @jonthompson.bsky.social: ricochet.media/indigenous/w... #cdnpoli #Budget2025

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Will Canada abandon environmental assessment in the Ring of Fire?

Doug Ford wants Ottawa to ignore First Nations’ warnings that drinking water, treaty rights, and the land itself are on the line

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Fiver @fiverfines.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I want pitches for an attack ad against Doug Ford to air during the World Series.

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