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Joan Cavanagh

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Here mostly to listen and learn from trusted experts on Canadian and global politics. Also for cute dogs and beautiful photos.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 23/09/2026
Nationalism is having a moment in Canada. Can that ever be a good thing? Political scientist Max makes the case for “civic patriotism.” thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...
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Trump, Elbows Up and Why Nationalism Needs Nuance | The Tyee
Ahead of a public talk, The Tyee interviews political scientist Max Cameron on resisting polarization and becoming a better citizen.
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Cat 🍁🇨🇦✊🏼 @kitkatnorthof60.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Posts like Poilievre’s are extremely misleading. No one is EVER forced into MAID. He would know this if he was educated on the program. He’s in it for rage bait. For anyone believing anything he has stated please go to Dying With Dignity Canada to answer your questions. www.dyingwithdignity.ca
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Dying With Dignity Canada | It's your life. It's your choice.
Dying With Dignity Canada is the national human-rights charity committed to improving quality of dying, protecting end-of-life rights, and helping people across Canada avoid unwanted suffering.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 02/09/2026
This is a great letter, but I will be surprised if MLI retracts this study. The MLI has adopted a far-right 'anti-DEI' (and anti-courts, etc.) agenda. This is just who they are now.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 01/09/2026
Attacks on librarians, forced storytime cancellations and book bans are threatening the stability of public libraries
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Political Attacks Are Pushing Public Libraries To ‘Breaking Point,’ New Report Shows
Attacks on librarians, forced storytime cancellations and book bans are threatening the stability of public libraries
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
On this day in 1980, Terry Fox ended his Marathon of Hope outside Thunder Bay after his cancer returned and spread to his lungs. He ran 5,373 kilometres in 143 days. 📸 David Cooper Learn more in my Deep Dive 👇 canadaehx.com/2020/06/28/t...
Terry Fox on a stretcher, smiling and answering reporters' microphones as his parents stand close, holding his arm in a supportive family moment.
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Craig 🌎 🛩️ 💙🇨🇦 @bigdaddykreativ.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Canada's largest ice cream company used to source its fruits and nuts from U.S. suppliers — some for over 30 YEARS. Then, Trump imposed a 25% tariff on Canadian products. So, what did Chapman's do? They called Italy. They called Spain. They signed multi-year contracts with European suppliers.
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Hans on the Bike @hansonthebike.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Globe and Mail 2 weeks ago and Globe and Mail today:
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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This is a must read for Albertans. It should be distributed in high school and university classrooms and reprinted in local newspapers. It dispels the grievance lie incessantly told by Premier Danielle Smith and the separatists about Alberta shipping money to Quebec and other provinces.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Trump’s humiliating Iran surrender in one chart: Obama: 98% uranium cut, enrichment capped, sanctions in place, 0 American lives lost. Trump: $25 BILLION unfrozen, sanctions lifted, Hormuz tolls for Iran, 15 dead + 543 injured Americans, $2.2 TRILLION cost. Pure weakness. #TrumpSurrendered
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Here's how the corruption works: Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it Friday: FDA changes the policy
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President’s Ballroom and New Fund Face Test in Congress
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 14/05/2026
Canada is not on track to meet any of its climate targets — not even the long-term goal of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 — thanks to “the removal or weakening of climate policies” over the last year, according to a February report by the Canadian Climate Institute.
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Feds plan to weaken clean electricity regulations
Prime Minister Mark Carney's government is taking aim at another Trudeau-era climate policy — this time, to give natural gas power plants more flexibility to operate as Canada expands its electricity ...
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 02/05/2026
Ahead of municipal elections this fall, the Mayor of Ottawa is hawking yet another "best city" ranking based largely on data sourced from a dubious Eastern European website called "Numbeo" More info on Mark Sutcliffe's favourite Serbian website here: pressprogress.ca/quality-of-l...
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• Rent affordability - NumbeoL • Youth unemployment rate - World Bank Group Z • Safety index - NumbeoL • LGBTQ+ equality - Equaldex [ • Broadband speed - BestBroadbandDeals.co.ukU • Affordability of a night out - NumbeoL • Quality of life index - NumbeoD • Average monthly net salary - Numbeo
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 23/04/2026
If you’re like, “Wait, everyone is shackled on ICE flights?! Wait, there are 50 ICE flights a day?! Wait, they’re sending people to countries they’ve never been to?!” I am begging you to please read my ICE Air FAQ. 🙏 gillianbrockell.com/what-is-ice-...
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What is ICE Air?
Learn more about ICE’s massive, secretive and cruel air operation, which companies are profiting off of it, and what you can do to stop it.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The Republican men who pretend to care about women’s sports standing in front of the actual athletes really sums their whole charade up perfectly
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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 14/04/2026
I'm seeing people defending this decision by saying things like "this is eliminating prison LIBRARIANS, not LIBRARIES" so let's take a closer look at that. 1/
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
“‘All I’m going to say is that I stand by my decision,’ she said… “Much of the audience at the board meeting broke into cheers and applause after her statement. Chants of ‘shame’ were heard as board members voted to fire her...” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
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Tenn. library director fired over refusal to move LGBTQ+ books to adult section
A county board near Nashville voted to dismiss Luanne James, who said she stands by her decision, in the latest clash in a national debate over access to books.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Of course they want you thinking empathy & self-awareness is loser behaviour! They need to justify enacting policies that cause material harm to millions of people. "I act this way because I think most humans are scum" is a hard sell. But "I willed my way to success, so why can't you?" does sell.
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 13/03/2026
The Ontario government wants to rewrite the law that compelled it to disclose documents revealing the Greenbelt land scandal, the Skills Development Fund controversy and others.
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Ford targets Ontario law that exposed his government's worst scandals
The Greenbelt scandal, the Skills Development controversy and more were all revealed through freedom of information requests.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Mark Hamilton @gmarkham.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
A must-read for Canadians.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Stephen Colbert interviewed Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico. #cdnpoli Trump’s FCC reportedly threatened CBS if the interview aired. CBS caved and pulled the segment, citing “financial reasons.” Full interview here 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...
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Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Dude wrote an entire book about how Canada wasn't white enough
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 16/02/2026
Here is Lowell Green in his own racist and bigoted words:
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Misinformation about violence by transgender people is so rife that it literally has its own Wikipedia page, which includes actual stats with actual sources. Don’t give in to the politics of disinformation and hate. It only makes things worse. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misinfo...
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Dr. Mike P. Moffatt @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
New piece: A case-study of migration to smaller communities, with a focus on Lanark, just outside of Ottawa. Families are increasingly moving out of Ontario's cities, a dynamic that policymakers still do not capture in plans and forecasts. Read here: www.missingmiddleini...
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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 07/02/2026
Signed.
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David Reevely @davidreevely.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
FYI, somebody's out there following hundreds of people with a Bluesky account pretending to be my colleague @joannasmith.bsky.social . I and others have reported the impersonation, but beware of @wesleypearson311.bsky.social .
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Brigitte Pellerin @brigittepellerin.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
What do you do when the evil you are confronting can't be reasoned with? brigittepellerin.substack.com/p/a-man-was-...
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A man was shot and killed on the street today
What to do when the evil you confront can't be reasoned with.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 19/01/2026
1️⃣ He didn't say that. 2️⃣ He said it, but you misunderstood him. 3️⃣ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling. 4️⃣ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it. 5️⃣ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented. 6️⃣ Look what you liberals made him do.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 12/01/2026
Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe is promoting a “study” that is actually a user-generated Serbian website The website includes a disclaimer that its data is unvetted and cannot guarantee its information is “accurate or reliable” The website’s data claims Sudbury, Ontario is more dangerous than Baghdad
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Hi hello, the Toronto Sun's email is torsun.editor@sunmedia.ca in case you'd like to inquire as to how they feel about their Ottawa Bureau Chief making these kinds of statements about innocent women being shot by militarized thugs in the street! Let's make his weekend extra fun :)
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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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Ariel Troster @arieltroster.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
It’s too much to bear. Who will stop this?!?
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The Wire Report @thewirereport.ca · 07/01/2026
‘Get the f**k off there’: MPs, Senators call on government to abandon X/Twitter following wave of ‘Grok porn’: #cdnpoli www.thewirereport.ca/2026/01/07/g...
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‘Get the f**k off there’: MPs, Senators call on government to abandon X/Twitter following wave of ‘Grok porn’ - The Wire Report
A proliferation of sexual deepfakes on X has prompted other countries to investigate Grok, the platform’s AI software, but, so far, Ottawa remains silent.
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Helen Shaw - Athena Media @athenamediaie.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Parody is dead. This is USA new health guideline on alcohol : “Alcohol is a social lubricant that brings people together,” the head of Medicare and Medicaid, Mehmet Oz, said at the briefing. He said that the implication of the new guidelines with respect to alcohol was “Don’t have it for breakfast.”
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 15/12/2025
Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries. Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
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Libraries say budget proposal to end shipping program would be 'catastrophic | CBC News
Libraries across Canada say a proposed change in the federal budget bill would end their ability to ship books at reduced rates, threatening interlibrary loan programs and possibly forcing the closure...
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
They died because they were women. December 6, 1989. National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. www.cbc.ca/montreal/fea...
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/11/2025
“A library is in a lot of ways a kind of civic symbol, a demonstration of a community’s commitment to itself. So what does it mean if that goes away?” said one librarian in Tieton, Washington, one of the rural small towns in the U.S. where keeping its library is untenable.
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Federal Cuts, Immigration Raids and a Slowing Economy Hit Rural Libraries
Like many rural small towns, Tieton, Wash., is facing a confluence of circumstances that has made keeping its one-room library, a “civic symbol” for the town, untenable.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Safe bike-lanes mean business.
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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 ...
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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 27/10/2025
I certainly look intrigued in the photo in this article, eh. Great article by Vivian Song ✌️❤️🇨🇦 edition.cnn.com/2025/10/27/t...
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Are American tourists easily distinguishable from Canadians? Let the debate begin | CNN
Travel pros weigh in on the differences between travelers from the United States and Canada. There are definitely distinctions, they say.
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Shawn Menard @shawnmenard.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
My comments on Lansdowne 2.0 The total cost, the so called ‘cost of doing nothing’, the engineer reports on building conditions, and the alternative are all discussed. www.betterlansdowne.ca/more_info?ac...
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More Information
Ottawa Residents Deserve Better
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
"nearly half..." ??? it's an open book test. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 17/10/2025
Though Mike Harris claimed it was done in the name of cost-cutting and efficiency, amalgamation has effectively gerrymandered municipal politics in Ottawa and Toronto and diluted the power of local residents over their cities and communities
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 04/10/2025
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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Hans on the Bike @hansonthebike.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
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Along a Narrow Third Path: How Jeff Leiper Becomes Ottawa's Next Mayor
Part 1: Do We Forget Conventional Wisdom?
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Over in the Bad Place, Conservative MPs are faking committee meetings to make people angry. I wish I were making this up.
There was no meeting scheduled today. The first meeting of this committee this week is on Thursday.
This is bullshit theatre designed to make people angry, and we used to shame MPs who engaged in it. 

Quoting MP Larry Brock:
UNBELIEVABLE.

Parliament is back, but Liberal members of the Justice Committee are MISSING IN ACTION.
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Pat Bickerton @pbickerton.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Interested in diving into Ottawa's property tax data? @strongtownsottawa.ca has got you. New article and link to data at strongtownsottawa.ca/2025/09/04/p... @strongtowns.org #dothemath
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