Reposted by Frank AppleyardFlavio Volpe, C.M. @flaviovolpe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026We’ve been over this before: Every Global 7500 that Bombardier builds in 🇨🇦 has 2 GE engines built in Indiana, 🇺🇸. Every Challenger that Bombardier builds in 🇨🇦 has 2 Honeywell engines built in Arizona. 🇺🇸. Bombardier employs 3,000+ 🇺🇸s & has 2,800 🇺🇸 suppliers. Not so smart. 100791328
Reposted by Frank AppleyardDoug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 30/08/2026A good universal rule of journalism is that you don’t call people and organizations and things what they want to be called; you call them what has meaning to your readers. This is also a rule of cartography 26211
Frank Appleyard @frankappleyard.bsky.social · 22/08/2026“Churchill stands up to Hitler, despite the risks.” Get fucked. 000
Reposted by Frank AppleyardMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/08/2026And while the Trump regime punishes Canada, our ally on 9/11, it lavishes favors (military, financial, and diplomatic) on Saudi Arabia, the country that gave us most of the 9/11 terrorists. What a messed up administration. 12232491071
Frank Appleyard @frankappleyard.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Yeah, this is pretty much spot on. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/dd8e328...theglobeandmail.comThere is no appeasing Donald Trump, or deterring himTrump’s latest tariffs have liberated Canada, in a strange sort of way 023
Reposted by Frank AppleyardVince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026He wanted to make it about himself and stay on that stage longer lol #FIFAWorldCupFinal #España #Spain #Champions 207982229
Frank Appleyard @frankappleyard.bsky.social · 17/07/2026There is no distance far enough that he can fuck straight off with this. 000
Reposted by Frank AppleyardAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/07/2026to hear Trump tell it, American elections were completely corrupted while he was president and he was helpless to stop it, then they were cleaned up by Biden ahead of Trump's victory in 2024, and now that Trump is president again they are once again becoming third world caliber 20588542609
Frank Appleyard @frankappleyard.bsky.social · 05/06/2026I hate being of the age where the people who built your entire world as a child begin to pass away. Thank you, Cliff. 000
Reposted by Frank AppleyardDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Take a breath. Now read it slowly. Move your lips as you read if it helps: 1) A Republican legislator broke with his party to demand information be made public about which rich and powerful men fucked children. 2) Republican allies spent $30 million to make him stop it. 3) Voters stopped him. 14424114
Reposted by Frank AppleyardBruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 15/05/2026The most rigorous, precise, brilliant piece I have read on Albertan separatism. www.readtheline.ca/p/clarke-rie...readtheline.caClarke Ries: How two Alberta judges shot separatist delusions to death(And, not for nothing, they probably just wrecked Quebec separatism, too.) 512160
Frank Appleyard @frankappleyard.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I want to see Dems put this quote everywhere. Every single TV ad spot. Every single billboard. Project it into the goddamn sky. 000
Frank Appleyard @frankappleyard.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Make America Smart Again. Fucking please. 000
Reposted by Frank AppleyardDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 23/04/2026"As everyone knows, I am an extraordinarily brilliant person..." This hollow motherfucker. There's nothing inside but doubt, fear and rage. He lays down in the dark and knows he's a moronic, posturing shit. And every morn begins an epic battle to convince everyone otherwise. It's mental illness. 34754127
Reposted by Frank AppleyardGreg MacEachern @gregmaceachern.bsky.social · 22/04/2026CBC News : Washington demanding 'entry fee' from Ottawa before trade talks: sources www.cbc.ca/news/politic...cbc.caWashington demanding 'entry fee' from Ottawa before trade talks: sources | CBC NewsThe Trump administration is demanding what amounts to an "entry fee" from Canada to engage in trade talks toward a revised Canada-United States-Mexico Free Trade Agreement (CUSMA), four sources told R... 242
Reposted by Frank AppleyardChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/04/2026What a time to be alive www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...bbc.co.ukLargest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territoryAn intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC 3954444
Reposted by Frank AppleyardThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/03/2026In @nytopinion.nytimes.com President Trump has revealed a deep malady within the country, our columnist Lydia Polgreen writes: “America’s unshakable faith in its ability to shape the world to its liking, indifferent to what others might want and supremely confident that its plan is the right one.”nyti.msOpinion | It’s Not Trump. It’s America.The country’s faith in its ability to shape the world to its liking is a much older malady. 3813732
Reposted by Frank AppleyardChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 19/03/20261/ Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations. Elite troops and F-35 jets with live ammunition were sent, and runways were to be blown up to prevent an invasion. ⬇️ 8527991108
Reposted by Frank Appleyardspencerpress.bsky.social @spencerpress.bsky.social · 05/03/2026A lovely obit of Bruno Schlumberger, a photographer so many of us had the pleasure of working with as reporters. Thanks, Bruce Deachman. @ottawacitizen.com #ottnews ottawacitizen.com/news/local-n...ottawacitizen.comA life in pictures: Remembering Bruno SchlumbergerBruno Schlumberger's six National Newspaper Awards were the most any Canadian photographer received. 054
Reposted by Frank AppleyardWill Murray @willmurray.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Sure, it's mindlessly getting into another war in the Middle East with no clue or idea what happens next, but at least it's being run by the most ignorant, unintelligible, morons on the planet. 15216
Reposted by Frank AppleyardAlex Panetta @alexpanetta.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Aaand there you go: Trump’s sudden about-face on the most important Canada-US border crossing came after meeting with the billionaire family that owns the rival bridge. Nice scoop, confirming suspicions of everyone who has followed this file and is familiar with Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...nytimes.comBridge Owner Lobbied Administration Before Trump Blasted Competing Span to Canada 15634273
Reposted by Frank AppleyardHockeyBroad @hockeybroad.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Not only did they bring a small private army, but among the waste of taxpayer money was BRINGING A FULL PLANE OF FOOD. To *Italy*. 44336591100
Reposted by Frank AppleyardBob Pickard @pr.bobpickard.com · 04/02/2026Toxic, abusive communication – disrespectful and unbecoming. Another attempt to intimidate the media from asking legitimate questions. Sneer-and-smear trash talk might silence timid journalists, but it just doesn’t work on true professionals. 052
Reposted by Frank AppleyardMichael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 02/02/2026deadder.substack.com/p/melania-th... 381295377
Reposted by Frank AppleyardMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/01/2026The DOJ is now removing some Epstein Files documents it has just released. 811027481
Reposted by Frank AppleyardOlga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 25/01/2026Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents. 15785579813730
Frank Appleyard @frankappleyard.bsky.social · 21/01/2026We may never hear the end of his whining that he had to show up in Davos on the little plane instead of the big, beautiful 747. 000
Reposted by Frank Appleyardm @keptsimple.bsky.social · 20/01/2026trump getting his feelings hurt by european leaders is the culmination of this new type of guy that emerged in the last decade or so: guy who goes out of his way to be a huge asshole who then gets really offended when the people he's being an asshole to don't like him 10581301550
Frank Appleyard @frankappleyard.bsky.social · 20/01/2026“We need to ask ourselves, on both sides of the Atlantic, if we want to live in a world where democracy is recast as weakness, truth as opinion and justice as an option.” 000
Frank Appleyard @frankappleyard.bsky.social · 18/01/2026This is a very thought-provoking approach. 000
Reposted by Frank AppleyardDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 17/01/2026In your experience, think about how limp and simplistic the average political encounter with a fellow American is in these awful days. And realize that half of our citizens are more hollow and incapable than even that. 820237
Reposted by Frank AppleyardSenator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 16/01/2026An extraordinary story from my erstwhile Edmonton Journal colleague, Richard Warnica. #ICE #Minneapolisthestar.comRichard Warnica: In Minnesota, I witnessed Donald Trump’s American carnage made realAs confrontations between ICE and protestors and activists grow more common, the tension only rises. 04115
Frank Appleyard @frankappleyard.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Loved this analysis. I mean, I absolutely hate the potential trajectory for the world it deems plausible. But the piece is a must-read. 000
Reposted by Frank AppleyardDenise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Spiraling toward a depression. US posts record $145 billion December deficit as outlays outpace receipts. The money is going to DoD, DHS, ICE.reuters.comUS posts record $145 billion December deficit as outlays outpace receiptsThe U.S. government posted a $145 billion budget deficit for December, up 67% or $58 billion from a year earlier due to record outlays that were inflated by calendar shifts in benefit payments and re... 45840343
Reposted by Frank AppleyardLauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Gambian supreme court will hear an appeal to the country’s anti-female genital mutilation law The man leading the effort says “the benefit of the practice was to reduce women’s sexual desire, which could be a problem for men” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...theguardian.comAttempt to overturn the Gambia’s ban on FGM heard by supreme courtCase brought by Muslim leaders and MP follows failed 2024 bid and seen as part of global anti-women’s rights backlash 001
Reposted by Frank AppleyardRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 28/12/2025“The reason why Israel is suddenly recognising Somaliland, which has been a breakaway region for decades, is because they and the US are working on a plan to forcibly relocate Palestinians from Gaza to there-despite the risk to regional security” Julia McFarlane BBCNews apnews.com/article/isra...apnews.comAP Exclusive: US and Israel look to Africa for moving Palestinians uprooted from GazaThe U.S. and Israel have reached out to officials of three East African governments to discuss using their territories as potential destinations to move Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. 04637
Frank Appleyard @frankappleyard.bsky.social · 27/12/2025Now THIS is excellent reporting. And it really goes in with two feet against everything the Trump administration is playing at in the Caribbean. 000
Reposted by Frank AppleyardTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 18/12/2025[Nixon voice] My God. My reaction: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...theatlantic.comThis Is What Presidential Panic Looks LikeDonald Trump delivered a fear-drenched rant live from the White House. 1191465381
