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Maarten Schenk @mschenk.bsky.social · 8h
An example of FIMI (Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference) in action at the @disinfo.eu conference? Apparently someone in the U.S. did not agree with the topic of a session named "USA as a FIMI threat: acknowledge, adapt, push back" and applied pressure on the sponsors...
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 5h
It would be great to get clarity on why so many state level supporters pulled out of #Disinfo2026. There's a stink of US meddling about it. I guess US FIMI is the acceptable version of FIMI. bsky.app/profile/robi...
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 5h
Lithuania, Canada, and EEAS pulled out of #Disinfo2026 at such short notice they didn't have time to redo the signage.
Sponsor signage at Disinfo 2026 show peeling stickers covering the Lithuanian, EEAS, and Canadian logo
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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 17h
We can thank Mark Carney for (once again) selling out Canadians to American Big Pharma #cdnpoli
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Jason Curzon @impairedcronic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not just America crying remigration They get a shout out, but it is never mentioned. They are doing Americas work within our Boarders www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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'Only the beginning': Anti-immigration group says Ottawans should 'brace themselves' | CBC News
For weeks, posters and stickers across Ottawa advertising the anti-immigration group Dominion Society of Canada — which is calling for mass deportations of millions of people — have been generating co...
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Jess Davis @jessmarindavis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I guess it's as good a time as any to remind folks that some of the orgs pushing Alberta separatism are educational initiatives and are not subject to foreign funding prohibitions. 🤔 thewalrus.ca/the-russian-...
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The Russian Money Behind Alberta’s Separatist Movement | The Walrus
The Kremlin has perfected covert influence. I’ve seen how poorly equipped Canada is to stop it
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Jason Curzon @impairedcronic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
4d Chess though 🙄
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What if—hear me out—these provincial ministers actually funded their own mental health care, addictions and home care programmes? They're not helpless! Provinces can raise their own revenues! That's why they got the tax points in the seventies.
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Health ministers say Ottawa needs to renew mental health, home care funding
OTTAWA - Health ministers from across the country say they're worried about "profound and negative" effects on patients and health-care jobs if federal funding agreements for mental health, addictions...
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 01/10/2026
Bill C-39 doubles down on habitat offsets, in which companies can "build" new habitat elsewhere to compensate for what they destroy in building a mine, a port, a pipeline or other project. The practice is highly contested by scientists. “This is our worst fear,” said biologist Misty MacDuffee.
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Offsetting for habitat loss almost never works. Ottawa wants more of it
New policy proposed in Bill C-39 will allow developers to buy credits or pay fees to compensate for the habitats they destroy.
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Stephen Rouse @stephenrouse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Saying one thing & doing another is a bit of a pattern for him - analysis.commonsenseeconomics.ca/p/government...
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Government by Econometrics
Decision-based Evidence-Making
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Paul Cotter Enthusiast @webstarvancity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Waiting for @maxfawcett.bsky.social to continue to reassure everyone this is never getting built and is just some 4D chess from Carney.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 01/10/2026
“Alberta government and the federally owned Trans Mountain Corporation would each own 45% of the pipeline, with … Pembina Pipeline Corporation owning a 10% stake through the construction phase.” Mark Carney said a new pipeline had to be privately financed, but now taxpayers are on the hook again.
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West Coast oil pipeline becomes 1st project designated in national interest | CBC News
The federal and Alberta governments have announced that a proposed pipeline carrying one million barrels of oil a day from Alberta to the B.C. coast has become the first project designated in the nati...
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's just straight-up racism, and nobody is batting an eye.
Andrew Scheer:

Carney wants to bring back Trudeau-era levels of immigration. 

This is the Conservative response 👇

Quoting Michelle Rempel Garner:

Mark Carney said he will increase immigration. 

That's crazy.

Immigration needs to go down. WAY down.

[Video clip of Rempel Garner holding a press conference]
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ontario refuses to live up to their federal agreement on child care and demands a lot more money for what is ultimately their responsibility. The federal government is letting them get away with it. Cooperative federalism! *jazz hands*
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Affordable child-care program extended in Ontario, but not to $10 a day
VAUGHAN - Ontario and the federal government have agreed to extend the national affordable child-care program in the province for another four years, but it comes with no promises of
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Everyone must be better off because we’ve cut immigration, doubled- and tripled-down on trickle-down economics, we’ve cut marginalized ppl from benefits and we’ve cut workers’ wage growth. These are what we were told we had to do to have a great standard of living and an economically-prosperous life
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Jason Curzon @impairedcronic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For 10 years or so, its been happening www.newsweek.com/john-oliver-...
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John Oliver Exposes the Injustice of Immigration Courts
The HBO host revealed some shocking truths about our country's immigration court system—including the fact that children as young as 3 or 4 are required to defend themselves.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 28/09/2026
The lie that privatization will reduce wait times is already being exposed, but that won’t stop political leaders from continuing to try to destroy our public healthcare system.
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Mark Ramzy @markramzy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
OTTAWA — The RCMP has avoided a $7.5-million fee and any finding of wrongdoing after the cancellation of one of its Black Hawk helicopter contracts, potentially ending a months-long controversy over an aircraft it chartered that was not eligible to fly in Canada. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
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RCMP pays $394,000 of $7.5M contract for grounded Black Hawk helicopter
The RCMP has avoided a $7.5-million fee and any finding of wrongdoing after the cancellation of its contract to lease a Black Hawk helicopter that was not eligible to fly
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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 27/09/2026
Five years ago Pathways Alliance promised 'net zero' tar sands production by 2050, removing 68 MT of CO2 emissions each year Now, their flagship carbon capture project promises to eliminate only 6 MTA, by 2035 And Mark Carney wants you to pay for it #cdnpoli www.desmog.com/2026/09/24/p...
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Pathways Proponent Claims Carbon Capture Project Only 'Slightly Smaller' Despite Reduction by Half
Oil Sands Alliance's Kendall Dilling confirms that the proposed carbon capture project is more scaled back than oil producers originally advertised.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The national chief of CAP says Canada unilaterally ended the Canada-CAP Political Accord and cut about $3 million a year in funding with no notice | Story by Keelan Jacobs.
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CAP national chief says $3M cut came without notice
The president of CAP says the Carney government unilaterally terminated an agreement, slashed policy and MMIWG funding overnight.
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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Two things: @mark-carney.bsky.social did the right thing here, preparing for the worst-case scenario. That’s the job. But he should explain these things directly to Canadians - rather than via an American outlet. Especially in the midst of a trade war, why drive all the traffic to NYT?
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Carney prepared for risk that Trump might order military action against Canada, report says
In a New York Times interview, the Prime Minister characterized a potential U.S. invasion as a remote possibility
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 25/09/2026
Although Policy Options published an article from an author with an apparently AI-generated headshot and whose articles sound like they were also generated by AI, I appreciate their transparency here and also sharing additional details about the deceptive behaviour of this "Daniel Robson" character
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Jason Curzon @impairedcronic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.
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Jason Curzon @impairedcronic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I don't get why this would be News It would be criminal if he wasn't briefed
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John Woodside @woodsideful.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Each dot represents a project planned or under construction two years ago. Over 500, collectively worth over $630 billion, according to the federal government’s own data. Is this what not building anything looks like?
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John Woodside @woodsideful.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This government simply hasn’t justified why it needs to gut environmental assessments, weaken labour protections or abandon emissions reductions to build big things given the data shows hundreds of major projects worth hundreds of billions were already underway.
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John Woodside @woodsideful.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Carney continues to repeat this incorrect and misleading line that projects weren’t being built under the previous government to justify the sweeping environmental deregulation agenda he is pursuing. But as I reported a year ago, hundreds of billions of dollars worth of projects were happening.
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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Partisanship is a very powerful drug. This Carneystan stuff is verging on "Cult of Personality". He can do no wrong in the eyes of so many. Where if Poilievre was doing much of this, the Libs would be losing their minds.
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 23/09/2026
Political insiders have dismissed @rorywh.bsky.social's investigation of the creepy AI propaganda app being used by the Brad Bradford campaign. They say it's "inevitable." It's not.
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No, cyborg propaganda is not 'inevitable.' None of this is.
After Rory White revealed a Toronto mayoral campaign is putting AI-written comments in its supporters' mouths, political insiders were quick to dismiss it as run-of-the-mill politicking. So why does i...
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 23/09/2026
It's also important to consider the source — and whether they have ever cared about the health of the public debate.
But leaving aside Ballingall’s downplaying of the worst of the process, what’s more insidious is that he calls it “inevitable.” I’d rather not leave the decision on where our political future is headed up to the guy who’s best known for selling our political discourse out through a network of propagandistic Facebook pages like Canada Proud and Canada Crime Watch. In an earlier investigation, White showed that these torqued pages aren’t even a partisan political project, per se. 

It turns out all that rage bait, car-crash, crime-porn content is just an eyeball-farming operation for sale to the highest bidder. 

Ballingall once wrote: “Manufactured legitimacy is the new machinery of digital politics, and online ideological silos are what make it possible. Identify an ideological silo, master its language, and then you can inject whatever you want under the cover of being perceived as legitimate.” 

So, yeah. The guy who’s proudly selling out our political conversation for a quick buck wants you to think cyborg propaganda is inevitable. That should tell you a lot about how good this stuff is for the public sphere.
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The West Coast Oil Pipeline is being pitched in the national interest. Where’s the evidence? www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/22/o...
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The West Coast Oil Pipeline is being pitched in the national interest. Where’s the evidence?
Before the federal government puts its full weight behind this supposedly critical piece of oil infrastructure, Canadians deserve answers to some basic questions.
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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When we start making the people in charge personally liable and throw them behind bars when stuff like this happens, it will stop. That's all the regulation we need.
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Jason Curzon @impairedcronic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Unreal it took them this long to even look at it Was an issue being brought to light during the clownvoy
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Remember that the government was warned about this when they broke their own rules to list the IRGC as a "terrorist entity"? And they kept saying "Don't worry, we'll figure out some kind of exemption." And then apparently they didn't bother. Slow clap, everyone.
thecanadianpressnews.ca
Iranian conscripts call for immigration exemption after mandatory service
OTTAWA - Human rights advocates and members of the Iranian community in Canada are urging the government to stop automatically blocking immigrants who were forced to serve in Iran's Revolutionary
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Carney's arrogance is showing. And this whole argument is bullshit. We stopped building because big companies decided to focus on share buybacks and maximizing dividends rather than new capital investments. Justin Trudeau didn't cause that to happen. www.thestar.com/politics/mar...
He also took aim at Canada’s regulatory environment that existed before he took office, including through changes under his predecessor prime minister Justin Trudeau, arguing that there is an urgent need for change so that major “strategic infrastructure” like the St. Lawrence Seaway or trans-Canadian railroads can be constructed again. 

“We used to build in Canada. We used to build big,” Carney said. “Decade after decade, year after year, we build less.”

The prime minister said that a succession of “well-meaning” restrictions on development has hampered progress in this country, which “meant that we stopped building.
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Rishi Maharaj @rsmaharaj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mamdani gets it. Ideology and values aren’t enough. If you aren’t delivering results - real ones that don’t require rhetorical acrobatics to rationalize - you are failing, and feeding the narrative that government can’t do anything right. Listen up, NDP.
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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I think we need to have a national conversation about the meaning of the phrase "flooding the zone." I don't think it was meant to refer to simply a government doing a number of things in a short period of time or at a relatively brisk pace.
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 19/09/2026
“A conventional opponent tries to prove your ideas are wrong,” writes Linda Thornback. But Mark Carney took the Conservatives’ useful ideas, separated them from Pierre Poilievre, and left the Tories “guarding the empty box they used to come in.” ow.ly/LzU450ZPnm0
On the left: a photo of Prime Minister Mark Carney waving in front of the open door to a plane. On the right: text that reads “Mark Carney is dismantling Canada. The prime minister is taking apart the political order he inherited. What replaces it?”
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 21/09/2026
one thing that baffles me about the current canadian political dynamic is how more people haven’t become in incredibly disillusioned seeing all these liberals ministers and MPs flip on so many issues because now banker daddy carney is telling them what to do and believe instead of justin trudeau
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Jason Curzon @impairedcronic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
petition to oppose privatization of Canada’s airports: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-7453 - Petitions
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 19/09/2026
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Jay Cockburn @jaycockburn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Fwiw I don't think it's complex. They're selling a lease to run the airport to private ownership. The Globe claimed it was only food and drink, which is already privately operated. Oh look, that fits in a social video! Perhaps they need someone like @rachelgilmore.bsky.social showing them how.
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Jason Curzon @impairedcronic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Jason Curzon @impairedcronic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...
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Prime Minister Carney cancels proposed capital gains tax increase
In addition, the government will maintain the increase in the Lifetime Capital Gains Exemption limit to $1,250,000 on the sale of small business shares and farming and fishing property.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"We are committed stewards of our natural heritage." (Plans a new oil pipeline, dismantles climate action) "We believe that a strong economy is not an end in itself, but the means to a just society. We believe that our prosperity grows when it is shared." (Privatizes, cuts taxes for corporations)
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Carney to the EU: "We believe that a strong economy is not an end in itself, but the means to a just society. We are committed stewards of our natural heritage. We believe that our prosperity grows when it is shared." I wish the Carney we hear in speeches was the Carney who governs Canada.
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Jay Cockburn @jaycockburn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I don't know how you can claim to be a business journalist who has been to a lot of airports and somehow think that Canadian airports currently *don't* have privately operated restaurants. The lack of critical thinking is really quite impressive.
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The CTF is an astroturf organization that refuses to be transparent about their own financing or control, and why legacy media in this country continues to treat them seriously is a problem. (It's because they are reliable quote generators, which is an indictment of media sourcing).
Taxpayer group calls for Carney to cut the cord on CBC, Senate, past GGs
In its pre-budget recommendations to the federal government, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation also includes cutting the government’s planned high-speed rail project

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Photo of Mark Carney and François-Philippe Champagne in the House of Commons on budget day
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DT Cochrane @dtcochrane.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Carney wants us to believe that we can’t do anything without rich people’s money. Spoiler: We can.
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 15/09/2026
Airport privatization is bad policy that will make travel more expensive for Canadians, say @policyalternatives.ca's @davidmaccdn.bsky.social, @simonenoch.bsky.social. For the Star, too, it "raises plausible fears of making Canadians’ lives worse, rather than better." www.thestar.com/business/opi...
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Adam Radwanski: Mark Carney’s airport privatization pitch was a misstep, at an otherwise successful summit
Making the airport privatization announcement at his signature gathering distracted from the main message of the summit, argues Adam Radwanski.
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