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Joan McKenzie 🍁

@joanmckenzie.bsky.social
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Home is Little Portugal in Toronto 🍁 Never vote Conservative! Feminist. Atheist. Dog(s) person. Pro-Choice. LGBTQ+ ally. Neurodivergent ally. Vaccinated, round earther, because ... science.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3h
It’s hard to grasp how badly Trump has screwed the entire world.
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G-7 Agrees to Release 100 Million Barrels of Diesel and Crude — The Wall Street Journal
Move was made to help bring down the soaring price of diesel and other fuels
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Holy hell.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
To stand-up claims of massive manufacturing investment in the US, Trump, Lutnick and top Alaskan officials announced a roughly $50bn investment by the South Korean government into an Alaska liquefied-natural-gas pipeline. When approached to confirm, the South Koreans said these claims were pure
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South Korea Contests U.S. Claims of New $50 Billion Alaska Investment
The Trump administration asserted this week that South Korea will fund an LNG pipeline, but Seoul is disputing the status of negotiations.
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Colleen @collburns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nothing to see here but more threats
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Niagara’s MRI machines go dark every night — while Ontario spends billions on private clinics #onpoli www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/news/niagara...
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Niagara's MRI machines go dark every night — while Ontario spends billions on private clinics
Three MRI machines at Niagara Health sit unused overnight and run only partially on weekends — not because of equipment shortages, but lack of staff and funding. A new report asks: why is Ontario spen...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Peter Navarro launches incendiary attack against Canada and Canadians, accusing them of "election interference" for daring to talk about the trade war Trump is waging against them. This man is a psychopath. And he has an office in the West Wing.
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Navarro warns Canada against election interference
Trump's trade adviser also told Canadians lobbying on K Street to "get the hell out of our country" during an event in Washington on Tuesday morning.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seriously 💥 😡🙄
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
PM Carney chuckles when asked about TЯ☭mp saying Canada will apologize. 😂 This is like asking a grown up to explain the nonsense coming out of a kid’s mouth. 😂😂😂
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers... and then vilify the officers. " - Jack Smith
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Peggy Blair @peggyjblair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Another great post from Down Under: ifloz.substack.com/p/remind-me-...
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REMIND ME TO NEVER FUCK WITH CANADA
He brought a sledgehammer. They brought a scalpel and a map of his own marginal seats. Guess who’s bleeding.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So Trump told reporters in the White House today that “Canada are going to come in and say, ‘Sir, we are sorry’…” Trump is managed to do something I didn’t think was possible — guarantee that Canadians will never say “sorry.”
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Local health minister says wait times for wealthy people way down since her government started focussing on bringing down wait times for wealthy people.
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Wait times for most priority surgeries in Ontario have increased since 2017, study says | CBC News
Wait times for most of the province’s publicly funded priority surgeries and procedures have increased between 2017 and 2025, according to a study released Monday.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
No matter what happens in the 2026 midterms -- or even the 2028 presidential election -- Canadians will never trust the United States the way it used to. The north remembers. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/29/o...
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America still doesn't understand how deep the rift goes
Memo to our friends (and yes, our enemies) to the south: the problem isn’t just Donald Trump. It’s you
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Amateur Renaissance Man @amrenaissanceman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Art of Dealing With Trump Trump wants to dominate our trading partners - not a partnership as much as a master/slave relationship. The organizing principle is that countries must pay for the right to sell to the United States. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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The Art of Dealing With Trump
As Canada’s international trade minister and foreign minister, I learned that the only thing that works with this president is strength.
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The Biking Lawyer LLP @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On Friday night nearly 1000 people on bikes rode west to the site of Ford's first incoming bike lane removals, Bloor just east of Islington. Strength in numbers. #criticalmass
1000 bikes take up an entire road lane in defence of bike lanes in toronto
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Ontario government is aggressively privatizing surgeries and medical imaging—core hospital services My new @policyalternatives.ca research study evaluates whether this policy direction reduces wait times and serves the public interest www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... #onpoli
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Not adding up: Surgical and diagnostic privatization in Ontario | CCPA
The Ontario government favours for-profit delivery of surgeries and medical imaging, but the evidence shows this isn't good health policy
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
defeat of white Christian nationalism at the hands of a diverse political electorate that includes millions of faithful Christians would be transformative for Democrats, democracy, and American Christianity. What a fitting rebuke to white Christian nationalism that would be.
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A Defining Moment of Religious Pluralism
🚨 36 Days to the Midterms 🚨
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I read the entire interview transcript. His ability to discuss these topics effortlessly and articulately is on another level. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/w...
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A Transcript From The Times Interview with Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada (Gift Article)
New York Times journalists pressed the Canadian prime minister about a range of topics in an hourlong interview last week. Here’s a transcript of their conversation.
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Liberal Party • Parti libéral @liberalca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Joan McKenzie 🍁 @joanmckenzie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's the old "Ontario Science Centre is dangerous" move - right out of Doug Ford's playbook. These conservatives man.
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Orlagh O’Kelly @orlaghokelly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Must read @patricklennox.bsky.social @thewalrus.ca thewalrus.ca/alberta-sepa...
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Alberta Separatism Is Built on a Big Lie | The Walrus
Danielle Smith has turned western grievance into a national unity crisis
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Anonymous - Denmark trolling Trump epically. #cdnpoli
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is a picture of c-nts who keep warning us about communism.
state dinner photo shows Melania, Musk, President of China, his wife, and other cunts.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
New in PN — The view from Canada: Make America Think Again "Canadians marvel that Americans were foolish enough to put Trump in office a second time. There is zero trust they will choose to do the right thing in 2028, or risk themselves to fix their mistakes and rein in a madman."
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The view from Canada: Make America Think Again
Rebuilding trust will take generations.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It really seems like it’s in the interests of every democracy on earth that the GOP crumbles
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A useful reminder that wildlife shouldn’t be viewed solely as a casualty of climate change. Wild animals actively shape carbon cycling, vegetation, soils, fire regimes and ecosystem resilience. oceanographicmagazine.com/news/wild-an...
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Wild animals are our climate allies, peer-reviewed study reaffirms - Oceanographic
Peer-reviewed research strengthens the case that wild animals - from dugongs to tigers - play active role in climate regulation.
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Tristan Bouchard @tristanbouchard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A playful tune from 2009's stop-motion masterpiece "Coraline" featuring some views from the garden 🌸 Stay until the end to see our neighbor's cat who I had the honor of cat-sitting 🐈 Have a nice day! Explorations- Bruno Coulais
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Old US rapist angry at Canada again, Trump's latest tantrum comes after every world leader at the UN decided to hang out and chat it up with Carney instead of him. The orange shit gibbon is fuming in jealousy that the world very clearly prefers the more popular and successful Canada.

Canada is destroying itself by allowing millions and millions of people into the Country, essentially unchecked and unvetted, and who are causing problems that will soon be too big to handle. It is a Liberal takeover that will end very badly. Already showing up in their numbers. Big unemployment. 'Oh Canada!
President DJT
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
50 percent tariffs for our beloved neighbor and historic ally, Canada. A red carpet and a military flyover for Communist China’s leader. Donald Trump is a sick man and a danger to America.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's your stupid president's constant threats to our sovereignty and attacks on our country that did this, not our decision to respond to them. www.latimes.com/business/sto...
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Canada's boycott forces the sale of a California winery
As California's wine industry struggles, a family-owned vineyard spanning 3,500 acres is for sale after its exports to Canada dropped 35% in a year.
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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Well, looks like someone got out of the wrong side of the bassinet this morning.
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Joan McKenzie 🍁 @joanmckenzie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... 🤫
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Ottawa to rename Trump Avenue | CBC News
Ottawa city council voted Wednesday to rename a street that was named after U.S. President Donald Trump more than 20 years ago.
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Joan McKenzie 🍁 @joanmckenzie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's definitely sweater weather here, but the roses are still giving 'er.
Pink and cream rose on a white rail fence.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Pretty shameless and pitiful that Republicans who have backed the Iran War every step of the way, never spoke out or criticized it, and voted against every war powers resolution, are suddenly coming out against it 6 weeks before their election while trailing in the polls.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026
Crush the arts (Kennedy Center), destroy the civil service (DOGE), control elections (gestures broadly), dismantle the press (gestures more broadly), decimate science (NIH), and demolish education (DeptEd). The authoritarian playbook.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Art of the Deal is buying fertilizer from a Putin-aligned repressive dictator and paying to ship it 6,000 miles from his landlocked and sanctioned country so you can teach Canada a lesson.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This 👇
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🤣🤣 Belarus does not have any available volumes of potash fertilizer for supply to Western markets. All of the country’s production has already been sold under contract. todaypress.tv/en/world/luk...
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Lukashenko turns to the West: “We don’t have even a single ton of goods to sell” — TodayPress.tv
Belarus does not have any available volumes of potash fertilizer for supply to Western markets. All of the country’s production has already been sold under contract. TodayPress TV
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump, keen to do business with dictators rather than democratic nations.
The United States is working on a massive Deal with respect to the purchase of Potash from Belarus. The pricing would be for substantially less than we are currently paying to Canada
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Trump's ban on MSNOW, CNN, and Politico is not only part of the autocratic playbook, but the timing is no coincidence. Trump is well in the autocratic backfire process, thus, entire media outlets he sees as threats must be banished. This is a moment of reckoning for America.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Every news story must address this. And in 6 weeks, “we can be the adults in the room. We can perform an intervention. We can state loudly & clearly there’s a psychiatric emergency and we need responsible leaders who will use their power to lessen the danger.” www.americaamerica.news/p/america-we...
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We Are Facing a Psychiatric Emergency
The media needs to step up. Donald Trump needs to be removed from office.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What does a sniper position at Memorial Circle actually defend against? Not China. Not a submarine. Not a missile. It overlooks a bridge, a traffic circle, and the front door of the National Mall. Those are places where Americans march. www.jackhopkinsnow.com
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The Republican politicians who are not deranged are even more evil than the ones who are. The sane ones know Trump is a madman who poses an existential danger to all of us and they're happy to make a few bucks off of it.
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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
¡ THIS ¡ is The Kennedy Center! 💥💯 ❤️‍🔥👑🥲😍🤩😘 #KennedyCenter
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Mark Carney is mocking Donald Trump’s accordion hands.
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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · 15/09/2026
Donald Trump is the hoax. Nothing he says, professes, or promises can ever be taken seriously. He is a toxic clown, a dangerous joke, and the great American embarrassment. He is the hoax.
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
newrepublic.com/article/2151... The Final Battle for America’s Democracy Forget November 3. It’s January 3 when Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans might bury our democracy once and for all. Here’s how. By Michael Luttig
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The Final Battle for America’s Democracy
Forget November 3. It’s January 3 when Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans might bury our democracy once and for all. Here’s how.
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