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David S. Fawcett

@hamiltoncomposer.bsky.social
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I post links to recordings of the modern classical music I write. I'm also interested in, and post about, politics, Canadian., U.S. and international, as well as writing, reading and the arts in general.

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David S. Fawcett @hamiltoncomposer.bsky.social · 21h
Strange idea? They already have this in the UK! Broadcasting Act 1996: Established the statutory framework preventing major sporting and cultural events of national resonance from being locked entirely behind paywalls. www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
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No more free Stanley Cup final? This group wants Canada to step in | CBC Radio
Next year, for the first time in decades, Canadians won't be able to watch the NHL Stanley Cup final for free on television. A lobby organization wants the government to pass a law to prevent that fro...
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David S. Fawcett @hamiltoncomposer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Will he end up in jail or in Russia?
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marg-feuille @marg-feuille.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@mark-carney.bsky.social Attach serious strings to health! All prevention programs should be funded; even for those without compassion, the $ saved should be convincing. Ford sits on federal health funding, lets nurses go. He funnels that money to for-profit clinics. NO!
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Michael Legel @mjlegel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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David S. Fawcett @hamiltoncomposer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If "God Made Trump", he made Hitler and Stalin too.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sometimes you do what you have to do 😊
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The first sixty years of childhood are always the hardest
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marg-feuille @marg-feuille.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Continuing saga of diminishing medical care: bone density tests to detect osteoporosis are only covered every 3 years now in Ontario, instead of 2. Sylvia Jones doesn't consider the enormous costs of hospitalising people for broken hips after their bone brittleness went undiagnosed!
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marg-feuille @marg-feuille.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The way forward 1. ignore everything that tRump's brain sewer says or posts 2. look at what he actually *does* and counter what influences he's under 3. stay the course extending and multiplying outside alliances, economic and otherwise, only IF it serves our sovereignty development AND environment.
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marg-feuille @marg-feuille.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ontario gov publicises that certain groups can receive flu and covid vaccines as of Sept 28. On Sept 29, we learn that vaccines will *not* be distributed until Oct 5 at the earliest. Thanks, Sylvia Jones!
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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marg-feuille @marg-feuille.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So that means that there *is* enough money, but it is funneled to private for-profits who charge the gov *multiple times* what hospitals are paid for the same treatments and surgeries. Corruption? Kick-backs? Cons on management boards, like Harris for LTCs?
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nancilizwester @nancilizwester.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Martha Acuna @marthaacuna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I would freaking out too 😭🐶♥️ Good morning everyone!
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David S. Fawcett @hamiltoncomposer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
First game features the Hamilton we-don't-know-yet-what-the-team's-calleds"
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Centuries-old Dutch shipbuilding tech launches a brand-new hybrid, ice-class cargo ship: greased wooden skids, hydraulic jacks and gravity do all the work.
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marg-feuille @marg-feuille.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When Ford and Jones are asked why wait times increase, hallway medicine grows, nurses burn out, they point to the $ they're putting in buildings. $ goes to builder cronies, but "new" hospitals won't be staffed. People who can go private, Cons say that proves "the system is broken". They broke it!
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David S. Fawcett @hamiltoncomposer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I still remember seeing how all the bins in Banff were secured against the bears. This guy has gone to the nuclear option. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmAI...
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Squamish man uses Halloween decorations to keep bears out of garbage
YouTube video by CBC British Columbia
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Bob Patin @bobpatin.com · 24/09/2026
TV ads for online gambling sites should be permanently banned.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Somebody really loves their person and bananas: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...
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David S. Fawcett @hamiltoncomposer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The American president harbours war criminals.
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David S. Fawcett @hamiltoncomposer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In cartooning, the line between funny and stupid is very thin.
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
They did it smoothly!
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marg-feuille @marg-feuille.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What a joke PP is! Johnny-come-lately tries to ride the "never be the 51st state" sentiment (which as a Maga-lover, he wouldn't have managed to oppose, cf Danielle Smith) by crying "Canada will never be the 28th state of the EU!", as if that was even remotely what Carney and Leyen are talking about!
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marg-feuille @marg-feuille.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“What good is it to gain the whole world if we lose our mind?”
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🌸𝑑𝑗𝑎𝑑𝑒77🌸 @djade77.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Feeling very Euro Canadian today! 😆❤️🍁🇨🇦 Hmmmm? 😁
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Dame Helen Mirren should receive honorary 🇨🇦citizenship. 🥹
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David S. Fawcett @hamiltoncomposer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Carney speaks at 2' 30" www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7Y9...
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LIVE: Address to the European Parliament • EN DIRECT : Allocution devant le Parlement européen
YouTube video by Mark Carney
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marg-feuille @marg-feuille.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Terrifying how cozy @mark-carney.bsky.social is with Harper, the worst of the Conservative powerful, and how thoroughly he has given up on modernising our energy by returning to the old fossil fuel dependency, to the rejoicing of those sold to Big Oil.
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marg-feuille @marg-feuille.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Meanwhile, in other Armageddon news...
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David S. Fawcett @hamiltoncomposer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Too bad the U.S. doesn't have a STRONG AND SMART (HI IQ) PRESIDENT. I'm sure things would be different, safer, for everyone.
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marg-feuille @marg-feuille.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Heard on the news, the Australian rep cited water and land as sectors they want to "invest" in, i.e. buy and privatise.
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marg-feuille @marg-feuille.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@mark-carney.bsky.social Do NOT sell our infrastructure, airports, water, land to private investors, even if they're "nicer" than the Orange Regime. Canada needs to control all our resources, and not privatise what makes our country livable.
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marg-feuille @marg-feuille.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We must retain our sovereignty! However, in trying to escape the rapacity of Murka, we should NOT just sell our infrastructure and resources to other foreign privatisers.
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David S. Fawcett @hamiltoncomposer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So I guy who actually worked for Anthropic sounds quits his job and sounds an alarm. Then a politician who knows nothing about AI than what he's "learned" from Fox News, and lies all the time, says the warning is a scam. Who to believe?
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Astronomer Jennifer Johnson (Ohio State) mapped where every element in your body actually came from: the Big Bang, dying stars, supernovae, or colliding neutron stars sinapti.ca/post/en/where-the-elemen…
Astronomer Jennifer Johnson (Ohio State) mapped where every element in your body actually came from: the Big Bang, dying stars, supernovae, or colliding neutron stars

https://sinapti.ca/post/en/where
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marg-feuille @marg-feuille.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Go back to the start of Canada giving itself away to Murka: Mulroney, Reagan worshipper, bowed down and refused to model NAFTA after the Auto Pact. Now @mark-carney.bsky.social has to diversify our int'l economic ties. Unfortunately, also degrades environmental goals, opens doors to foreign owners.
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David S. Fawcett @hamiltoncomposer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Doug Ford is Maple MAGA and Ontario voters need to understand this. He loved tRump until he went after Ontario's manufacturing. The bike lanes fiasco shows his true colours. Watch the polls, vote for anybody else who polls highest. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Why is the Trump administration calling bike lanes ‘DEI’? | Dave Schilling
The government apparently has an issue with paths for cyclists. Take it from someone who can’t ride a bike: this makes no sense
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This tiny Australian jumping spider really is named Maratus pikachu, and its yellow and black abdomen dance moves are pure Pokemon energy.
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Douglas Ogg @dougogg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I hate to sound like a Luddite, but I agree with this.
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marg-feuille @marg-feuille.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics) "all specifically unjust actions are motivated by pleonexia" (greed, covetousness, or avarice.) 1 Timothy 6:10: "For the love of money is the root of all evil." The super-rich crave power. The powerful crave $. Together they ruin the world in their abject immorality.
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marg-feuille @marg-feuille.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Maybe that's why Paramount is killing it.
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David S. Fawcett @hamiltoncomposer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Damnatio Memoriae is coming
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Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦 @pamelabanting.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I love our former PM’s comment.
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David S. Fawcett @hamiltoncomposer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Just to get this in before Labour Day is over, I am a withdrawn member of Canadian Actor's Equity and was for 25 years union member, steward and sometime strike captain with the ETFO.
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