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Colin W. 🇨🇦 🇦🇺🇩🇪🌻

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Change is not progress; it's merely the alteration of direction. Secondary/uni. educator for 32+ years, news junkie, Twitter refugee and edu-change skeptic, perilously embracing progressive politics, research-based education & the #Canucks.

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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 19h
Roberts wrote the July 1, 2024 ruling that a president’s official acts can’t be prosecuted. That is the cover Trump has used ever since. Articles are filed. Ask your representative why their name still isn’t on them. The letter is already written.
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Tell Congress: Impeach Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
Contact Congress today!
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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 3h
Breaking news: A 30-year-old living in the United States has been arrested and charged in connection with the mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in February. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Arrest made in connection with Tumbler Ridge mass shooting | CBC
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Dave Nelson 🇨🇦 @davenlsn.bsky.social · 4h
Ottawa has given the U.S. owner of Stelco five business days to share a plan to maintain jobs at the Hamilton steelmaker or face potential legal action. #cdnpoli #CanadaSky www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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Ottawa gives Stelco's U.S. owner 5 days to share plan to keep jobs | CBC News
Ottawa has given the U.S. owner of Stelco five business days to share a plan to maintain jobs at the Hamilton steelmaker or face potential legal action.
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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 4h
Conservatives always use the 'top marginal rate' as a (false) proxy for the overall tax rate. This reveals their allegiance to those who PAY that top marginal rate (a small share of the population). BC's tax rates for low- and middle-income people are among the lowest in Canada. /3
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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 4h
This contagious claim that under the NDP BC has become 'the highest taxed province' is nonsense. Provincial own-source revenue as share of GDP is 4th lowest among the provinces, and below the Canadian weighted average. #bcpoli /2
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 6h
In June, Belgium’s diamond industry gifted Trump an 18-karat gold ring encrusted with 321 diamonds and 75 gemstones. A month later, European diamonds got an exemption from Trump’s tariffs. We don’t know where the ring is today. Where did it go? Did Trump keep it for himself?
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 5h
📈Monthly missile and drone strikes on Ukraine and Russia since the beginning of 2022, - FT The main increase has been observed since the beginning of 2026.
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Not That Rick Scott 🇨🇦 @shadowspar.bsky.social · 17h
absolutely this. there is a big difference between voting for the PQ and voting "Oui" in a referendum. les Québécois/es understand that very well; others, often not so much.
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NigelBankes @nigelb.bsky.social · 17h
This, as they used to say, beggars belief, aka ...
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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 13h
Rest in hell, grifter. A cultural taboo of speaking ill of the dead is always a way to silence victims and launder the memories (legacies) of cruel predatory men.
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Televangelist Jim Bakker, Who Fell From Grace Over Sex And Financial Scandals, Dies
Bakker and his first wife, Tammy Faye, built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful TV show “The PTL Club.”
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 10h
On this day in 1992, The Tragically Hip released their third studio album Fully Completely. One of the greatest Canadian albums ever made, it sold 200,000 copies within three months. It reached #1 in Canada, eventually selling over one million copies for Diamond Status.
The image is the album cover for "Fully Completely" by The Tragically Hip. It features a vibrant, surreal artwork with multiple figures in dynamic poses, surrounded by musical instruments and abstract elements. The background includes a mix of red, purple, and green hues, with the band name "The Tragically Hip" at the top and the album title "Fully Completely" below it.
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Sandy Lyle @sandylyle.bsky.social · 10h
A 97% survival rate if it were to sweep the US would mean roughly 10 million dead.
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🌊🧩Perpetua🪭☔️ @barrylarkin06.bsky.social · 10h
Time to LOCK UP 🇷🇺Putin'sPEDOPullToy Pretendident squatting in our People's House, grifting and robbing us blind; InsiderTrading MarketManipulating War Profiteering... Now asking Iran to BOMB LA & SD? NOT funny, Fatty. LOCK HIM UP. #ToppleTheGeriatricToddler #UntRUmptheWorld #EpsteintRUmpCoverUp
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 9h
This Is 👇 Who KegsBreath Is.......
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 7h
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
The Trump administration says none of this is happening. 

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children." 

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.
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Stephen Quinn @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social · 7h
Never forget that The Beaverton is a National Treasure.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 7h
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 6h
Big Yikes for the NDP in the new poll just put out today by Mainstreet Research: Conservatives: 45% NDP: 37% Greens: 11% OneBC: 6% CentreBC: 1% That’s the highest number we’ve seen for the Conservatives, but within the margin of error of polls last week. Anger over snap call not subsiding.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h
I thought Trump’s tariffs were specifically designed to dramatically reduce this number to zero.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6h
When a Dem politician says something unkind about GOP voters, it’s a multiday scandal that becomes an indelible cultural reference. When a republican president says everyone in places that didn’t give him their electoral votes should die in nuclear fire, it’s tuesday. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22h
BREAKING: Trump just caved — claiming online that his super PAC will now pay for those propaganda ads taxpayers had previously been funding.
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Robert Morton | Spies, Secrets & Thrillers @dukieboy2.bsky.social · 20h
You don’t need a Hollywood spy operation if sensitive fighter parts simply land in the wrong place. F-35 components ending up in Hong Kong shows why supply chains are now part of counterintelligence. Protect the jet, but protect every piece of the jet too! #F35 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Australia confirms jet parts went missing in Hong Kong, sparking China security fears
Defence Minister Richard Marles says Australia is helping the US investigate how F-35 jet fighter parts were mistakenly diverted to Hong Kong, but that no technologically "sensitive" components have b...
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 19h
Canada’s first-past-the-post electoral system at it again: Québec’s incumbent CAQ party is on track to be wiped off the map despite getting 14% of the vote Québec Solidaire on track to win 11 seats with 11% of the vote
Seat standings
Popular vote
Votes and share don't show who won the election; the number of MNAs determines who wins.

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11
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11%
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19h
An American president is encouraging an enemy to destroy American cities. This is treason, though he will claim we are not at war.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19h
Trump suggested tonight that Iran could "take out" American cities: "It's a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe. They can take out a city. Let them take— let it, let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 01/10/2026
🔴 Unable to halt Ukraine’s advance on the front line, Russia is intensifying missile and drone strikes against civilians and critical infrastructure. Ukrainian forces have reclaimed 176 square kilometers in Operation Vivaldi, prompting the Kremlin to turn to terror tactics against cities.
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Iryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is what remains of someone’s home in Kharkiv after it was hit by one of three aerial bombs russia dropped on a residential area of the city. Two people were killed and more than 30 others were injured. #Ukraine #Ukrainianview
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies… ex British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide…Simon Andriesz was previously a managing director at Wall St firm where Lutnick was CEO…” www.thebanker.com/content/0228...
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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In the wake of The Globe's investigation, a Calgary MP calls for Canada to consider overhauling laws to address the kind of freelance negotiating trips Alberta separatists made to DC: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By Grant Robertson, Nathan VanderKlippe, and friend
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Alberta separatists’ talks with GOP spark outcry, call for legislative change
Calgary Liberal MP says Canada needs to consider overhauling its laws to address the kind of freelance negotiating trips that separatist leaders have made to D.C.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Every. Single. One. Of. Them. 😎✨
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Do this, Florida. See how it goes for you. www.cbc.ca/news/world/f...
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Florida weighs ditching property taxes and sticking Canadians with the bill | CBC News
Florida voters are weighing whether to scrap residential property taxes and the state's governor has a solution to that potentially huge revenue loss: tax Canadians more.
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Colin W. 🇨🇦 🇦🇺🇩🇪🌻 @grapemanca.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Guide kids more, scaffold more, give more practice, build foundational knowledge, so the kids can become experts …When you do that, kids become much better problem-solvers." #bcedchat #edchat www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Sliding student scores spark fresh calls to revisit how we're teaching math | CBC News
With recent high-profile assessments warning of sluggish and waning math skills among Canadian students, some experts say we need to revisit how we're teaching it, and to pay numeracy the same attenti...
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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 04/10/2026
Sass Jordan has died at 65. From “Make You a Believer” and ‘Racine’ to a late-career blues renaissance, she spent four decades proving just how much soul could fit inside a rock song. Canada has lost a truly singular voice. zurl.co/rpPja
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Sass Jordan, Montreal Rocker Behind 'Racine' and "Make You a Believer," Dies at 65 - That Eric Alper
It is with profound sorrow that the family of Sass Jordan announces that the singer, songwriter, Juno Award winner and longtime Canadian Idol judge died peacefully on October 2, 2026, surrounded by those who loved her most. She was 65. Her family remembers her as “an inimitable force of nature” and “an irreplaceable being of […]
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Colin W. 🇨🇦 🇦🇺🇩🇪🌻 @grapemanca.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Here's a study of the most and least effective education policies (and their cost) . Notice that a centerpiece of #bced is 2nd to last. #bcedchat www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Every accusation is a confession.
Trump trade adviser says Canada will 'pay even more dearly' if 'you interfere' in U.S. midterms
Peter Navarro said Canadian lobbyists should 'get the hell out of our country'
-CBC, Sep 29 2026
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“He’s gotta resign. … We have to let our own people and everybody else know why it had to be done—because of what’s on the tape, because he lied.” — White House speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan to White House chief of staff Alexander M. Haig, August 2, 1974
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A whiff of treason in the air
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Lewi Whalberg @anno1540.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Putin’s battlefield “victory” is fiction. He claims Russia seized 1,301 km² in September. ISW assesses Russia actually LOST 80.81 km². When reality becomes inconvenient, the Kremlin simply invents a new one. Source: www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/rus...
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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 2, 2026
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Calm
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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dc2daylight.bsky.social @dc2daylight.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Endless corruption.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Why do conservatives think they can call all gay people pedophiles when so many pedophiles turn out to be conservative? www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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B.C. Conservative leader disagrees with candidate’s LGBT remarks, but won’t remove her as candidate
Interim B.C. Conservative Leader Lorne Doerkson says while he doesn’t share the views expressed by the party’s candidate for Chilliwack North on LGBT issues or abortion, she will be allowed to run und...
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M31🍁 @m31author.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
OTTAWA — The actor and Parkinson’s disease advocate Michael J. Fox is set to be honoured at Rideau Hall this morning www.ctvnews.ca/entertainmen...
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Michael J. Fox to be promoted within Order of Canada at Rideau Hall today
The actor and Parkinson’s disease advocate Michael J. Fox is set to be honoured at Rideau Hall this morning.
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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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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🚨🇨🇦 Border Czar 🇺🇸 said that with the southern border secure, the focus is shifting north❕
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perpetual screaming 🇺🇦 @bazub.zubko.cc · 29/09/2026
#UkrainianView On 10 February 2022, Lavrov said Russia had ‘no plans to invade Ukraine’. Five days later, he dismissed reports of an imminent invasion as ‘Western hysteria’ and claimed Russian troops were already returning to their bases. Nine days later, on February 24, Russia invaded Ukraine.
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🌊🧩Perpetua🪭☔️ @barrylarkin06.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The country really needs & wants TALARICO not just Texas. He's a spiritual, kind ethical person, but understands what #SeparationofChurchAndState means. Enough of these'GOP brained' 🇷🇺fauxChristians, NationalistChristofascists Nat-Cs, who are the OPPOSITE of Christianity. REMOVE FatSenileHairHitler.
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