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"This separatist movement is a guerrilla faction of the global far right which is attacking open societies across the world." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

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Opinion: We must call Alberta separation what it is

It is not a movement of grievance politics. Something far more sinister is at work

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 7h

I can’t believe this was published, but I say that a lot these days

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18h

Time for this classic again.

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Tim Ford @timfordwrites.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Tla'amin First Nation has shared this letter they were copied on from Israel Powell's descendants, to Powell River Mayor and Council. The Nation and Powell River's muni gov are collaborating on a possible name change, and this letter is a great gesture of support.

September 28, 2026

To Powell River Mayor and Council:

We are the grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of Helen Marjorie (Powell) Fisher. Helen Marjorie Fisher (HMF) was the granddaughter of Walker Powell, who was the brother of Israel Wood Powell. As you know, Israel Wood Powell was a doctor and leader, who was the first
superintendent of Indian Affairs in British Columbia. Although he had never lived or visited there, the river Powell River was named in Israel's honour, in recognition of his political influence and legacy.

Israel Wood Powell no longer has any direct descendants, and we are among his closest living relatives.

We understand that Tla’amin Nation has requested the town of Powell River change its name, out of respect for the harms done to their people by Israel Powell's policies, which included the creation of Residential Schools and banning of Indigenous cultural and spiritual practices. Specific to the region of the Tla’amin People, Powell's part in the delays of reserve allocation resulted in the loss of Tla’amin’s village site at tiskwat as it was granted to Robert Patterson Rithet.

We are supportive of changing the name of Powell River, given the above request by Tla’amin Nation, and also the lack of any historic family connection to the river and the surrounding lands.

Respectfully,

Elise Durante, great-granddaughter of Helen Marjorie Fisher

Marjorie Fisher, granddaughter of HMF

Brenda Buller Focht, granddaughter of HMF

Heather Fisher, great-granddaughter of HMF

Eric Focht, great-grandson of HMF

Meghan Buller, great-granddaughter of HMF

Leslie Campbell, great-grandson of HMF

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the biggest media failures (among many) of the past year has been the failure to cover the Venezuela "operation" for what it was--a smash-and-grab mafia state theft by the U.S. that violates international law and the rights of Venezuelans while achieving very damn little for the U.S.

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M. Anton @mdotanton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Big ups to the college journalists

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Silphium🌹 @infinitejeff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Telling my kids this is hunter s thompson

Jim Lahey behind the wheel with a large bottle of brown liquor

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Simon Corston-Oliver @simonhco.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We don't get a lot of autumn colour compared to other places in Canada, but sometimes there's a splash of colour in the forest. #landscapephotography 🌿

A maple tree with yellow and orange leaves catches the light. The tree stands out in a dark, foggy forest of fir and cedar.

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Silphium🌹 @infinitejeff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I work in food security and one of the many joys is sharing meals with colleagues and partners. One of the most human things you can do is eat together. But the capitalist workplace wants to dehumanize us and impose cultural values that alienate and degrade us.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

you ever think about this

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 25/09/2026

How a web of institutes and academics — with ties to a U.S. non-profit and outsized influence on the United Conservative Party government — helped turn separatism from fringe idea to the mainstream. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...

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How the US Atlas Network Built Alberta Separatism | The Tyee

A global cabal of libertarian and right-wing organizations has fuelled the province’s independence movement.

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Silphium🌹 @infinitejeff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Meta deserves to be burned to the ground, metaphorically speaking

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

jesus fucking christ

Ottawa has warned the Quebec government against the possibility of US interference in the current election campaign, which is aimed at favouring the election of a sovereignist government.

At the beginning of September, a senior official in the Fréchette government received a call from a counterpart in the Mark Carney government, we have learned.

He was offered the option of going to a "neutral location, where there were no cameras", and was forbidden from bringing his cell phone.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Everyone who was excited about not changing their clocks will eventually come to this sort of realization. Changing clocks isn’t so bad

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.

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The Deportation Project Map

Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...

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Dr.P. in OTT @drpinott.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

She's amazing! Hope other BC voters realize this.

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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NEW: At 12:15, B.C. Premier David Eby will deliver an address and speak to media at Government House in Victoria, where he is expected to request the Lieutenant-Governor to dissolve the legislature and trigger an election.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ditto 30,000 roles in universities in the past three years.

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Mat G @gienieczko.com · 21/09/2026

DON'T BELIEVE HIS LIES

(The picture from Memento but the cat is photoshopped instead of Teddy)

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

God bless student reporters, and to hell with AI

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Don Davies @donvdavies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The real nature of this government is starting to appear. The Liberals are planning to undermine collective bargaining by eliminating workers’ constitutional right to strike. Workers build this country, and they deserve fair and safe workplaces.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 21/09/2026

What's happening in Alberta is even more batshit than I ever thought. Danielle Smith is a dangerous psychopath, and the AB separatist movement largely exists because COVID broke far-right brains, and is led by Christo-fascist religious white nationalists, relying on dark money. 2/n

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Silphium🌹 @infinitejeff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We don't talk enough about the time Saudis threatened Canada with 9/11-ing the CN Tower

An ominous image showing an Arabic saying and an air Canada jet flying toward the CN Tower.

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Silphium🌹 @infinitejeff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We don't talk enough about the time Saudis threatened Canada with 9/11-ing the CN Tower

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Spot-on. Europe is strewn with the bodies of centre-right parties who decided that the best way of countering the rise of the far right was to adopt some of their rhetoric and policies. Not that the Tories here would dream of making the same mistake, of course.

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Deutschland Wählt / Österreich Wählt @de.whln.eu · 21/09/2026

BERLIN-FRIEDRICHSHAIN-KREUZBERG | Vorläufiges Endergebnis der Bezirksverordnetenversammlungswahl LINKE: 40,1% (+19,7) GRÜNE: 25,2% (-9,5) SPD: 8,8% (-4,8) CDU: 7,7% (-5,5) AfD: 5,6% (+2,1) Volt: 3,3% (+1,5) BSW: 3,3% (NEU) … Änderungen zu 2023 Mehr: whln.eu/BVVWahlenBerlin #Berlin #BVVWahl

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Aria Winningson @aria.labeledrude.online · 21/09/2026

pretending to be a computer so tech/finance ghouls will cloyingly moralize about my human rights

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💪🏼🫎🛶🦫🌲💨🪨🌊 @grannycanuck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

MULTI-LATERALISM as NECESSITY The writers are Mark Carney and the Presidents of Brazil, the European Council & Kenya 🔚 + #Carney #cdnPoli #MarkCarney #PMMC #UN

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Silphium🌹 @infinitejeff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Currently giving moby dick a go, and this line from the first chapter is a real doozy: "The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us."

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Silphium🌹 @infinitejeff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This but for everything, online and offline

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Ian Bushfield @bushfield.ca · 20/09/2026

Incredible. Now if Eby doesn't call the election, there's a chance she wins her byelection and joins a caucus she no longer leads.

Kerry-Lynne Findlay quits as BC Con leader

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.

nytimes.com

A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees

Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Toronto police chased down and killed a Black 19 year old named Kaleym Davy. They claimed he had stolen a car. Turns out it was a legally rented car by a family member. There should be national outrage socialistproject.ca/2026/09/just...

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Justice For Kaleym Solidarity Statement

In the early hours of August 6, 2026, Toronto police shot and killed a black 19-year-old named Kaleym Davy while he was driving a vehicle. Headlines announced his death with a widely repeated statemen...

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The Super Mario Bros Super Bot! @supershowbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I must say, Mario Bros., you've done a jolly-good job of helping me get my castle back.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by private equity Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list

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Private Equity Is Coming for Authors, Dead or Alive - The Ankler

Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by investment firms and changing how Hollywood will deal with IP

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morbius @jazzpomegranate.com · 18/09/2026

apartheid!

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 17/09/2026

he's the prime minister of Spain, but graphic design is his passion

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coward @coward.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

This is why it is known as “The Sevenfold Food”

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Today alone was a whole new verse of a sequel to We Didn’t Start The Fire

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The Super Mario Bros Super Bot! @supershowbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Bad news, boss! We're bein' followed by a plumber's truck!

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Silphium🌹 @infinitejeff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Maybe I'm a naive moron, but something I think is missing from the ai data centre discourse is maybe tech companies shouldn't be collecting so much personal information and metadata. My understanding is personal info storage is tiny compared to what AI needs, but we shouldn't lose sight of privacy

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I fear that Patel’s FBI will not be able to withstand some spies

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/09/2026

I don't recall increasing costs for travellers and making airports even more unpleasant places to spend time in as something Carney campaigned on during the last election

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Park Chan-wook, and Jean-luc Godard all worked as film critics. Having faculties to critically examine existing artwork is a fundamental tool for anyone aspiring to do any kind of worthwhile creative work. Knowing what you don’t want is as important as knowing what you want.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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Matt Blair @mjmbca.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If your version of the centre is some variation on “trans people are the target of a growing campaign of genocide on the one hand, but some of them are mean to me on the Internet sometimes on the other,” then there’s not much point in declaring yourself an ally.

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