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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁

@ihoplad.bsky.social
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In Ontario but pining for Nova Scotia and pinting for England. he/him 🇨🇦🇬🇧citizen. Antifa means you're against fascism...that's a good thing. My cat is hunting me. Making the move here from twitter where I have the same profile name.

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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 19h
Damn...beat me too. Love that we all recognise that there's hope in the next generation though
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 19h
The kids are alright
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 21h
Credit to the_goose_media Many of those Alberta separatist accounts are not based in Canada, and are not Canadians
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Americans seem to think that this is just a tariff war but from our side of the border it feels like the prelude to actual war. Your president, and your ambassador to Canada, repeatedly threaten to take us over. That's why we're fucking angry.
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
I hate this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Nova Scotia to host massive data centre to power artificial intelligence | CBC News
A massive data centre to provide computing power for artificial intelligence is under pre-construction just outside a town on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you really should watch and share this excellent news story. Ford LIES that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Remember and share this as Ford tears out Toronto bike-lanes.
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Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes removed.
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This impression is wildly accurate @nbcsnl.bsky.social
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Left years ago but didn't delete my account because I think it may be useful to still have it when your country tries to take over mine. Invaders will be dumb enough to post their movements. Think about that btw...that's where the 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 relationship is at. I know folks taking shooting lessons to prep
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Observing The City @observingthecity.ca · 14/10/2026
Construction trucks leaving Bloor and Islington area after being successfully deterred from starting work on removing bike lanes in Toronto by a large protest.
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I'm betting that a lot of people who respond to polls saying they feel more unsafe in Toronto now are conflating the feeling of "I am physically unsafe and under threat in my environment" with "there was a homeless man on the sidewalk on my way to the Eaton Centre and I don't want to see that."
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Yes, and yes.
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Ontario Greens @ontariogreens.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Doug Ford is ripping out bike lanes in Toronto starting next week. This will make our street less safe, add pollution to our cities and make congestion worse, not better. Join the thousands of people fighting to reverse Doug Ford's bike lane ban: gpo.ca/bikelanes
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Fuck ICE but while we're at it, fuck AI too. Stop feeding the machine.
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Growing up in Toronto (with its large Jamaican population), this post hit differently and I had to scroll to figure it out.
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yes, that's what it is. I was struggling to think of how to frame the latest madness, but that's it. The only thing missing was a reference to cockroaches.
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Meh
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Naheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Danielle Smith is a weak leader for the province and within her own separatist party. A proud Canadian would never allow a separatist to remain in their party.
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🇺🇸 pretended to be a stalwart against govt overreach and authoritarianism via the hallowed 2nd amendment and it was only when those fears were realised that we found out that the 2nd was just the password to a little club where boys could play militia dress-up. And kids died for this right? Pathetic.
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On its best day, the Warsaw Pact countries couldn't imagine inflicting the damage on NATO that Trump has. Trump is a threat to the democracies of the world.
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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good advice!! Make noise. It's long. Read it!
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 29/09/2026
Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do
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Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do
VEVEY, SWITZERLAND - Nestlé executives gathered from around the world to announce their grave concern regarding the impact that artificial intelligence’s water consumption will have on their own abili...
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ick
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Toronto Blue Jays @bluejaysbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Living legend. One of one. Max Scherzer 🐐👏
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I wish they would.
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nope.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The PM's statement that Canada is mapping out scenarios for US military violence is a game changer. There is no pretending that things will somehow go back to normal as long as the White House believes it can threaten violence against neighbours. charlieangus.substack.com/p/a-reminder...
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A REMINDER OF WHAT IS AT STAKE
Recent polls show that as many as 72% of Canadians believe that a military invasion from the United States is a real possibility.
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Let's see if the big boys are treated the same way as the little fish. Reading FC were nearly destroyed for doing much less. City needs to be punished hard...demotion, lost trophies, signing embargoes, fines, the lot.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Dude was like, “my time has come!” IG: @ramiosss ~ Latvia www.instagram.com/ramiosss?stk...
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This winery made one of my favourite wines and I was a regular customer but I stopped buying anything from 🇺🇸 when they elected Trump. His threats of annexation means I may never buy anything from 🇺🇸 ever again. I feel sorry for the winery but 🇨🇦 didn't cause this, 🇺🇸 did.
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The rent is $2100 a month...$2250 if you take more than two shits a day.
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 21/09/2026
Not leaving.
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And that's why I'm about to block him. F AI and the people who distribute it.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"There are decades where nothing happens and weeks where decades happen." -Lenin. Canada is living through an unprecedented transformation of our global relationships. My latest. charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-week-o...
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THE WEEK OF DECADES
Canada is not going back. No matter how rough it gets, we are going ahead.
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🇨🇦 👊🇨🇦 @sorry-iamcanadian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
At Toronto’s TIFF, Dame Helen Mirren responds to the question, “What in Canadian culture is worth defending and fighting for?” En français with English subtitles. (Video: @_rozann_/Instagram)
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 17/09/2026
Found near Caen, France, close to where Canadian forces fought during Operation Totalise in August 1944, this helmet is a powerful reminder of the Canadians who gave their lives for Europe. Today, it has began its journey back home.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Me in 2050: …and that’s how Macklemore became a civil rights icon. My son, Dale Jr.: Wow his music must’ve been incredible. Me: Dale Jr.: Like so many good songs. Me: Dale Jr.: Was he the A Change Is Gonna Come Guy? Me: Dale Jr.: Me:
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The author of this bullshit is MAGA loving asshat Sylvain Charlebois, aka the Food Professor. The article in this month's Frank Magazine gets it right.
Photo of an article from Frank Magazine.
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Great. Why not privatise the highway that takes you to Pearson too? Oh wait, Ontario did that to the 407 and it worked out brilliantly...exorbitant user fees going to a foreign company under a contract that ends in 2098. So much winning.
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Exactly. I'm tired of the posts about legal decisions that are morally and legally right but will never change anything because not enough people understand that in a fascist dictatorship, the rulers make their own laws. We're past judicial wins because the fascists are already in power.
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Well now my tv thinks it's name is "sigh...I hate this"
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If our tvs are listening to us, then mine thinks its name is c'mon guys.
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Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @laura-babcock.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“A beaver reshapes the environment. It creates stability. It builds systems that others depend on.” 🇨🇦 What a great comment from a viewer of The OShow youtu.be/jevkyswzNLk?si…
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm such a nerd that I was happy when I found out I'd been given the long-form version.
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Jon Stewart is a treasure.
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I had no idea. What an inspiring and (sadly) still timely story.
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It's one of the many things that Americans don't think about and assume is normal while the rest of the world goes "...uh, really?" ie. militarism in all aspects of day-to-day life, such as recruiting offices in shopping malls, military porn at sporting events, etc
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Re: the alt text...that's Mick Fleetwood, not Lindsay Buckingham
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Ian Hopkins 🇨🇦 🍁 @ihoplad.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Becoming?
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Novocastrum @novocastrianufc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
😀 #NUFC
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