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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 6h

Aanii. Miigwech. Hello, and thank you. On this day of Truth and Reconciliation, I honour survivors, remember those lost, and commit to the ongoing work of truth before reconciliation. 🧡🪶☕

Orange background with large, centred white text: “Aanii. Miigwech. Hello, and thank you. On this day of Truth and Reconciliation, I honour survivors, remember those lost, and commit to the ongoing work of truth before reconciliation.”

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 28/09/2026

Morning. Gorgeous out. My watch says take it easy. New U.S. bans on Canadian goods start Tuesday. A poll says 70% of Albertans want to stay in Canada. Show up. Joan Jack won her case over work for day school survivors. 🧡 I can’t control others. I can decide how I show up here. Coffee’s on. ☕

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 23/09/2026

Great read and lots of ideas in here worthy of discussion. In particular what to payments look like for content creators and systems that enable that content to be found.

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Let's Talk Money

Money money money... must be funny... in a rich man's world (Zuck, Elon & Larry). How we get to 1B Users in the Atmosphere.

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 21/09/2026

Was just about to announce some awesome new stuff on Byline.pub ... then the EuroSky blob ain't blobbing. Anyone else have an issue with blob resolution? GET eurosky.social/xrpc/com.atp.... → 500 {"error":"InternalServerError","message":"Internal Server Error"}

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 21/09/2026

Morning. Wee chilly out there. B.C. Cons lose their leader after 13 MLAs leave. Healthy. PM talks Arctic security with Norway, meets Pres. Macron in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. India talks move too. Parliament’s back. Expect opposition to oppose. 46th Terry Fox Run yesterday. Coffee’s on. ☕

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 19/09/2026

@gandersocial.ca and @eurosky.social getting closer isn’t interesting because ATProto suddenly discovered interoperability. It didn’t. What’s interesting is two distinct communities deciding how they want to use it while keeping their own infrastructure, moderation and identity.

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And Then the Networks Started Talking

Gander, Eurosky, and interoperability is coming

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 19/09/2026

Hey Aussie and Kiwi cousins? Is there like a Canadian Gander or European EuroSky Mu? But for down under? Just wondering? You know fet your data out of the BlueSky PDS and into a sovereign instance? 🇨🇦🇪🇺🇦🇺🇳🇿

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 17/09/2026

Morning, fellow potential European associates. 👋🇨🇦🇪🇺 Apparently becoming better friends is now a “hostile act.” in some mutton's minds, Meh. Happen to catch PM Carney's speech today? Defence, sovereignty, sport, art, people. Coffee’s on. Tastes bloody good this morning.☕🇨🇦

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 16/09/2026

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2048 on the AT Protocol. Your games, your data, your AT Protocol.

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The EU has delivered greater stability across the continent, greater mobility for its citizens, and a single market that gives Europe global economic weight. An honour to hear President von der Leyen address the European Parliament today as we build a deeper partnership for the future.

Prime Minister Carney visits the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France.

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 16/09/2026

Canada as the EU’s first “associate member” is one hell of a sentence to wake up to. The details aren’t there yet, but deeper ties on trade, defence, energy and technology? This is good, and odd as we figure out the relationship. I'm here for it. Very strange times. Very interesting times. ☕🇨🇦🇪🇺

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 15/09/2026

Morning. Calgary-Shaw: more of this. No to 9. Yes to stay. Bell proposes a $50B sovereign data hub. I wrote about why that matters. Trump dropped salt tariff. Needed us after all. Alert Bay’s pole came down. Its people stand. Poilievre’s misinformation isn’t opposition. It’s noise. Smarten up. ☕🇨🇦

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 14/09/2026

Morning. Canada pitches stability to global investors. "We have what the world wants.", PM Carney. Ireland saved its whiskey. Maith sibh! Russia hit the Kyiv–Warsaw train; Trump scolded Ukraine. Canada eyes an EU Ukraine loan, not membership. Sovereign-site post is up. Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 13/09/2026

Someone asked where I host my site. Fair question, given how much I write about Canadian sovereignty. The answer: it’s more Canadian than it was, less sovereign than I’d like, and still has a few foreign cables attached. So I opened the box. “Assembled in Canada.”

jasonbu.online

The Beauharnois Cutover

Assembled in Canada: How Sovereign Is My Website?

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 09/09/2026

Morning. Turnip calls our tariffs discriminatory, then bans our goods. Fair trade means Canada does as it’s told, apparently. AP: still Lake Ontario. Space Force found the Empire’s tailor. Very ’30s. Iceland summoned the ambassador. Gander, take note. Respect goes both ways. Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 08/09/2026

Morning. Canada’s $27.6B counter-tariffs are live. A non-meme response. Trump threatens Bombardier. Its 3,500 U.S. workers and 2,800 suppliers would like a word. Reste forte, Québec. Sapporo shifts some production south. Sleeman stays. Trust burns faster than it rebuilds. Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 08/09/2026

I added a new section to my site: Buy Canadian. 🇨🇦 It’s not meant to be a giant directory. Think of it as a waypoint for Canadian resources, directories and places to start when you want to spend, build and support here. Have something I should add? Drop it in the comments and I’ll check it out.

jasonbu.online

Buy Canadian

A small, maintained set of useful places to start when buying Canadian or building a Canadian business.

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 07/09/2026

Morning. Labour Day. Canadian wool is walking away from the U.S. Investors with trillions arrive here looking for stability. Turnip thinks Ottawa sets the dollar before coffee. 85% back walking from his “deal.” Putin: leave Ukraine. Pay for what you broke. Saxony-Anhalt… yikes. Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 06/09/2026

I’ve been spending a little more time on @gandersocial.ca . The feed feels different. People tell stories. Founders answer questions. Bugs get called bugs. Chapman’s posts about ice cream. I wrote about why that matters to me, and why digital sovereignty is more than where we park the servers.

jasonbu.online

A Canadian Social Network Is Not the Point

Taking a break from algorithmic sludge, and finding a small Canadian corner of the internet that still feels human (actual humans).

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 05/09/2026

Morning. Bombardier gets Mississauga wing plant. Build here. PP: stay in Canada, vote Liberal out. Almost. Albertans: vote. Hamilton: 29%. Counter-tariffs Monday. A deal isn’t caving. Turnip doesn’t need Canada? Four million oil barrels daily disagree. Gander: Hoekstra for 9/11? No. Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 04/09/2026

Morning. Long weekend. TO bound. New $20: King, Vimy, Indigenous plants. Toronto cleans up after a “100-year” storm. Once-a-century needs an asterisk. 👀 Snowbirds bow out at Grey Cup. Hamilton: NDP + Liberal > PC. Math. Be smarter. $4.7B VIA cars built here. Bye U.S. Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 03/09/2026

Pay attention to the language coming from the U.S. Canada is mocked. Belittled. Called weak, dishonest, ungrateful. We’re supposedly taking advantage of the U.S. Make us the enemy. Then whatever comes next becomes easier to justify. This language comes before the violence. Every fucking time.

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 03/09/2026

Morning. Yikes. Some storm, eh. UNEP says we’ll overshoot 1.5°C. The GTA got the field lesson. Hegseth mocks Canadian cadets. Clooney: where’s decency? Dani’s off to Tennessee. What trade war? PM invests in manufacturing. Resilience is built. Cree and Métis voices take TIFF. 🪶 Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 02/09/2026

Morning. PM Carney: talks resume when U.S. trades memes for adults. “That’s their democracy.” Expect more. Hegseth mocks cadets. Loses leaders. Apple caves on Lake Ontario. Android time. Germany says Russia sent a drone near a Ukrainian plane in Leipzig. Dani omission. No respect. Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 01/09/2026

Sorry, this one's a bit long. I meant it to be thought-provoking. What happens when AI gets good enough at pretending to be human that we start doubting the humans too? I’m calling it the Turing Collapse. The Turing Test eating its own tail. Anyhoo. Have a read.

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The Turing Collapse

When we can no longer tell who's real online

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 01/09/2026

Morning. ⚡ Liberals sweep all 3 byelections. PP? Quiet. 👀 The Falklands now. Greenland. Lake Ontario. Tariffs. It’s the Donroe Doctrine, folks. Alberta starts two-tier health. No to 9. Yes to 10. Dani, the confused Canadian is you. Iron Maiden says they flew over Lake Ontario. 🤘 Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 31/08/2026

Morning. Rain week. IT folks forcing Maps to see Canada. Digital sovereignty: an API setting. We live rent-free in what’s left of his mind. GM Sierra’s headed to Oshawa. Canada attracts doctors and scientists to reality. Fan Expo over. Hobbits say Lake Ontario. EU Sept. 16. 👀 Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 30/08/2026

Morning. Ford’s sign says Lake Ontario is Lake Ontario. We know, Dougie. Spend it fighting. Maine: what do you want us to do about the idiot you elected? Dani’s in the U.S. during a trade war. 50 seppies rallied. Alberta, take your flag back. Hamilton sent Dominion packing. Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 29/08/2026

No summary today, just a new article - “Lake America” is not legal annexation. It is annexationist language: repeat a false name long enough, put it on enough maps, and people begin assuming it belongs to you. Borders do not always move first. Sometimes the maps do.

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Armies Seize Territory. Empires Seize Language.

What renaming a lake tells us about sovereignty, and the normalization of ownership

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 28/08/2026

Morning. Whew. Turnip tried to rename Lake Ontario. Canada said “hydronym.” MAGA found Google. CIA chief skulks to Moscow. Trust Washington? Sure. Nepal is hurting. Norway lost a king. Canada recruits researchers the U.S. drives out. Their loss, our gain. Twitter, the brand, may live again. ☕🇨🇦

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 28/08/2026

Trump is renaming Canadian geography and dystopian lines have crawled out of fiction and into the news: “They didn’t rename the country. They wrote around it until it disappeared.” I wrote that as a warning. I’d really like current events to stop treating Pejorative like a fucking checklist.

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 27/08/2026

LOL. First it was “hegemons,” now it’s “hydronyms.” Damn, I love living in a country where our political discourse occasionally expects us to read above a Grade 5 level. 😂🇨🇦

Screenshot of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s post explaining that Lake Ontario’s Wendat name predates both Canada and the United States, ending: “Lake Ontario - then, now and always.”

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 27/08/2026

Morning. Moe joined. Smith worries more about soothing her extremist base than Canada. Turnip says America needs nothing from us. Refineries, farms and grid disagree. Hoekstra forwards his boss’s tantrum. Joly: Many cards. Dolly, Curry? GenX hurts. Buy Canadian. Bye U.S. Coffee’s fk’in on. ☕🇨🇦

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 26/08/2026

Morning. Sigh. Trump says late changes sound like him. Of course. BC Cons shed MLAs, racism waved away. Pierre wants parliament back for content. Let adults handle the trade war. Kenney against separatists. Hell iced over. We have icebreakers coming. It's Ontarí:io. RIP, Dolly. Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 25/08/2026

Morning. Bacon coffee at the CNE. 👀 Civilization remains under review. Turnip’s back to “Governor Carney.” Vance called us a state. Cute. Sovereignty isn’t for sale. Alberta wants AI powered by gas. Quebec’s building six icebreakers. Coffee negotiable, sort of. Country isn’t. ☕🇨🇦

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 23/08/2026

Americans: if your media is not giving you the full story on this trade mess, watch our PM’s response. I’ve seen some U.S. coverage. You are not getting the whole picture, and sometimes being outright lied to. We had progress, then Lutnick and Greer tanked it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-Wg...

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FULL SPEECH | Carney explains why Canada suspended trade talks with U.S.

YouTube video by CBC News

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 23/08/2026

Morning. Wet one. Trump wants Canada to bend on French, limit trade, accept 50% tariffs. Non. French is Canada. Va donc chier. PP: unjustified. Good. Get caucus behind Canada muzzle Jivani, or move. Turnip started a conflict he can't explain or exit. Punt Hoekstra. Fini. Le café est prêt. ☕

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 22/08/2026

Morning. Thar she blows. U.S. changed terms, slapped tariffs, then blamed Canada. We had CUSMA. They broke it and want credit for worse. Fuck that. Alberta seppies want America: president, guns, “lawful sexual orientation.” Red flag. CNE mac-and-cheese smoothies. Society’s broken. Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 20/08/2026

Morning. Fall edge? CNE has pickle coffee. A crime against coffee. mRNA treatment shows real promise against melanoma. Alberta seppies launching a teacher watchlists. Turnip is weakening South Korea to impress Kim. TACO. U.S. booze back? So what. Buy Canadian. Boot Pete: 242,177. Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 19/08/2026

Morning. Rain. Yuck. Fine, we need it. Rachel Reid gave $300K to save 5 N.S. libraries. Good human. Turnip TACO’d on the tariffs. Boot Pete hit 235K. Coincidence, surely. 😏 Alberta missed Treaty 6’s 150th. Of course. Ted Lasso made me laugh. Needed that. Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 17/08/2026

Morning. Back to work. Turnip says “mine,” screws up, and we all pay. Chud. Alberta: don’t vote yes to make a point. That's dumb. U.S. says don’t retaliate while threatening 50% tariffs. Consequences are hard. Punt Pete: 200K. 250K next? Congrats, Special Olympics athletes! Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 15/08/2026

Ugh. Chapter 11 of the Simulacrum proofread. 15 more to go. I keep squirrelling off into other things. Byline.pub (check it out.) An article I suddenly needed to write (check that out too.) And my new site. 👀 Apparently “focus” is more of a guideline. Coffee on... Back to Chapter 11. ☕📖

jasonbutterfield.offprint.app

Bluesky Is Flat. Fine. Look Under the Hood.

Monthly active users are useful. They’re just not enough to measure the Atmosphere.

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 15/08/2026

Morning. Steamy one. APP is backpedalling after racism surfaced. “All communities,” apparently, except First Nations. Kick Pete out: 168K. I want 500K. Iowa Rep. Grassley says tariffs should wake Canada up. Buddy, we’re awake. Don’t fuck with us. Apple season. Check labels. Buy Canadian.☕🇨🇦

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Byline.pub @byline.pub · 15/08/2026

What's Up! We are! You can add a whole backlist in one go. Upload markdown files, one per book, upload a CSV describing all of them, or paste a list of ISBNs and let byline look them up. Whichever you choose, you review and edit every title before anything is published. byline.pub/help/import

byline.pub

byline.pub is now live in beta

A home for indie authors on the AT Protocol. Publish your work and become easier to discover across the open social web.

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 14/08/2026

Bluesky isn’t failing. We’re just looking at it wrong. MAU is down. Fine. But AT Protocol is growing in other ways: more apps, more PDSes, more AppViews, more Lexicons, more sovereign infrastructure. Check out my new article. #offprint

jasonbutterfield.offprint.app

Bluesky Is Flat. Fine. Look Under the Hood.

Monthly active users are useful. They’re just not enough to measure the Atmosphere.

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 13/08/2026

Huge credit to @omg.jacky.wtf for getting the book lexicon conversation moving. A bunch of us have been building around books on ATProto, @bylinepub.bsky.social, @bookhive.buzz, @chris.pardy.family (cavu) and others, but mostly with our heads down in our own projects.

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 13/08/2026

Morning. Sunny out. PP looks shakier. Jivani’s touring churches now. Who's paying for this? We rejected the latest U.S. tariff offer. Good. A deadline doesn’t fix a bad deal. Hoekstra’s petition passed 100K. Awkward. Reacher’s back. Ritchson is basically a walking special effect. Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 12/08/2026

Morning. Off day. Smith’s gone full MAGA on “free speech.” Hate speech? Fine. Just don’t insult the pancakes. Partial eclipse today. Still waiting for gravity to quit so I can lose a few injury pounds. PM Carney took a vacation. The trade team didn’t. Maple MAGA, settle down. Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 09/08/2026

Morning. Sunny days. Canadarm3 lives. Good. Build Canada. 2 more tornadoes in Ontario. Climate change isn't waiting for opinions. The Loyal Opposition is attacking the government during a trade fight. Opposition is one thing. Working against Canada is another. B.C., stay safe. Coffee on. ☕🇨🇦

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online · 07/08/2026

As a Canadian, the political hunting of Dr. Fauci is an ugly attack on science. Trump was president. He could have ignored him, lifted restrictions, done whatever he wanted. Fauci wasn’t running the country. Over a million Americans died. Learn for next time. Scientists are welcome in Canada.

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