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Joan Skelton - Nasty, EU Associate-in-Waiting

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Proud Canadian. Retired after working in non-profit leadership, for politicians and as a journalist over 45 year career

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 21h
The threats are real, please read!! Canada already has deployed counter-drone systems to protect critical infrastructure, such as nuclear power plants.🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 4h
The Stelco CEO can try to save face as much as he wants, but he applauded the U.S. p€do in chief on imposing tariffs against Canada. How did that work out for ya?
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Souvlaki @greekfood.bsky.social · 8h
Carney needs a shit ton of steel for piplines, railways and port/ship building. Would not be surprised if Cleveland Cliff's breach of legal obligations makes a nice pretext for creating a new crown corporation. In the national interest...
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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 8h
In 1973, Phyllis Webstad, age 6, arrived at residential school in a new orange shirt her grandmother had bought her. To her, the shirt stood for belonging. It was taken away on her first day. Today, in part, is about what was taken from children. 🪶 READ: orangeshirtday.org/about/phylli...
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 8h
Little Marco: "Cuba poses a threat to US national security." Cuba poses no threat to anyone. It has no drones, no missiles, and no nuclear bombs. It's another lie to manufacture unilateral approval for an invasion. The world should imprison these terrorists. #cdnpoli
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a Page in your life 🍁📎 @sailorgirl2017.bsky.social · 21h
If it's from the US, just don't buy it. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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What to know about chemical levels on Driscoll's berries | CBC News
You may be having second thoughts about eating the berries in your fridge after CBC News spoke with a whistleblower who made a startling claim about the amount of chemicals on fruit that a U.S. compan...
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From 🇨🇦 Go FUCK OFF EH🇺🇸 We are so tired of the bully abuse from 🐷, Greer, Bessant, Lutnick, Navarro & Vance 🖕🏼 We will never say “Sorry Sir” ever 🇺🇸 started this and you have united 🇨🇦 like never before. This has become more than trade. It’s 🇨🇦 fighting for our sovereignty, our identity, our values ❕
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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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The Canadian Border 🇨🇦 @canadianborder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Canadian automakers have developed an EV car that can travel 500+ km on a single charge, shows snow covered lane lines on your windshield on snowy highways, and heatmaps animals on the side of the road so you have a warning about deer and moose at night. This is for us. BRING IT TO MARKET!! 😍❤️🍁
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Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🧵COVID-19 vaccines are now available in Ontario for high risk groups and available to the general public starting Oct. 26. The link below helps find the pharmacy nearest to you - please share to help others. FYI - we’re all at risk from COVID-19 see 2/ #VaccinesWork ontario.ca/vaccine-loca...
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COVID-19 pharmacy vaccine locations
Find your closest pharmacy to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
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Unapologetic Lee 🇨🇦 @ogcanada.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I want a Canada with Alberta in it. Politicians can say what they want, but everyday Canadians love Alberta. We love our country. This really is one of the most important decisions you will ever make. Do not let someone else decide your fate. If you can, vote. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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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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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Love it!! 🤣😂🤣
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump on Canada: "They have been one of the worst countries in the entire world"
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collburns.bsky.social @collburns.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 28/09/2026
If I’m reading this correctly, Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford’s campaign is asking volunteers to give them full access to their contact lists on their *personal* cell phones? www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/28/i...
'You don't need to freak out about this'
Introducing Bradford's supporters to the app on the Zoom call, Punia instructed them to give the app permission to access all of their contacts.

"Do not give it partial contact ability, give it full. And what I want to say to you guys here is, you don't need to freak out about this," said Punia. He reassured them that only contacts they marked as known or potential Bradford supporters would be given to the campaign.

One attendee hesitated as she had over 2,400 contacts on her phone. She was instructed to give the app access to all of them and mark them one by one according to their level of support for Bradford.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Vaccines work" isn't a political statement. "Immigrants do not increase crime" isn't a political statement. "Climate change is real" isn't a political statement. "Genocide is bad" isn't a political statement. Stop neutralizing the power of facts by framing them as "politics." Reality matters.
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🇨🇦 NanaGale @nanagale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'D PREFER TO PAY AN EXTRA DOLLAR FOR MILK THAN TO WATCH A DAIRY FARMER HAVE TO SELL THEIR COWS AND SHUT DOWN THEIR FARM FOR GOOD.
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Waterloo Region Health Coalition @health-wrregion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We Hold The Line: private interference in our public healthcare system – Tod Maffin on TikTok. Well said! 😉 #OnHealth #PublicHealthcare #SaveOurHealthcare #CanMed
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
US social media companies are interfering in the Brazilian elections in favour of the Far Right’s Flávio Bolsonaro. Meta is the latest. It’s just blocked the campaign account of President Lula in the final stretch of the election.
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Meta restringe la cuenta de Lula y su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjera
De cara a las elecciones en Brasil, Lula enfrenta a Meta por restringir su cuenta mientras su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjera.
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There's a reason why Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney has hit a remarkable 70% approval rating and his #tradewar adversary is at rock bottom. One is doing what is best for his country and the other is doing what is worst. Leadership matters in a war, especially when one country trusts its leader.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When you're on the wrong side of an 80-20 issue, it's generally a bad idea to dig in -- and a *really* bad idea to lie about the other side's position on it. And yet. #cdnpoli
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In which Conrad Black simultaneously a) surrenders in advance, and b) gives up the game behind US interference in Alberta's referendum. #cdnpoli
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is the political right in a nutshell. Whether Trump, Farage, Alice Weidel, #CPC #GOP #AfD. They all share a playbook: lying-as-policy. #PierrePoilievre has been repeatedly corrected on the facts re 🇨🇦’s EU talks. It means nothing. He is purposely spreading disinformation. #CdnDisinfo #cdnpoli
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How does it save money for Canadians to force waitresses and welders to pay taxes to the EU?
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Jonathan Wilkinson says Canada 'would be very selective' about areas for co-operation
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Posted: Sep 19, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated:
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Ambassador-designate to the European Union Jonathan
Wilkinson takes questions from journalists at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2026. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)
As Prime Minister Mark Carney presses toward creating a "unique alliance" with the European Union, Canada's ambassador is ruling out paying directly into the 27-nation bloc's budget.Parliament
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No, Canada isn't joining the EU.
But it may be pioneering a new kind of partnership
Deals on defense, minerals, energy and mobility are bringing Canada closer to Europe without membership. Could it point to a new model of integration?
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney meets with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Rome, May 17, 2025. (The Canadian
Press/Alamy Live News)
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Loughlin Neuert is a freelance reporter
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
U.S. manufacturing jobs are down under Trump, including in the auto industry. His strategy failed, and so will this. Lowering standards will accelerate what he has already been doing: handing the clean tech future to China and forcing Americans to pay more at the pump.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Poilievre using brain cancer survivor to prop himself up! While he votes against every single health care initiative in this country. What a disgusting piece of shit! #cdnpoli
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
John Ibbitson: "It is hypocritical for the US to say Canada should not be having relations with China, even as literally the red carpet gets rolled out for the Chinese president. But that's not what the US wants. What the US wants is subservience from Canada." #cdnpoli
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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A couple of Canadian kids created a Maga Monopoly game and called it "American Dictator." The cards include "Quiet Piggy" (only you can speak), and a redacted card (no one knows what it says). You can buy a Supreme Court Justice. They donate proceeds to local food banks. ❤️🇨🇦❤️‍
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The revelations coming out of Quebec should remind us that the US is still a member of the United Nations. Its charter explicitly forbids the use of threats against Canada's territorial integrity or interventions in our domestic jurisdiction. #Canada #cdnpoli #tariffs #CanadaStrong #UnitedNations
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I hope Canadians understand that there are now and will be more foreign-based attempts to virally influence the Alberta separatism vote. Part of this effort will be to sow division within Canada. Non-Albertans attacking "Alberta(ns)" or Albertans attacking "Ottawa/Canada" is exactly what they want.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The young people understand the world we live in ⬇️⬇️
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FF-Suze @suze-bsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Let’s make sure it is no longer profitable for this company to sell in #Canada
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Doug Ford says, “Don’t go down to the US and buy a product.” #cdnpoli So why is he forcing Ontario teachers to buy $66 MILLION worth of classroom supplies… from a U.S. company?
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
TORONTO — When MapQuest’s general manager woke up in Toronto on Thursday morning, the Texan visiting for a conference knew he couldn’t leave without visiting one place--Lake Ontario. #Ontario 🍁 www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps...
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MapQuest knew its ‘Lake America’ stance would make it an outlier. The move paid off.
When MapQuest’s general manager woke up in Toronto on Thursday morning, the Texan visiting for a conference knew he couldn’t leave without visiting one place.
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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Doyenne of the 🍁gun cult, noted expert on diplomacy and negotiation strategy tactics, thinks she’s read Prime Minister Carney’s mind on the matter of trade talks. 🤷🤭🤷
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Vanelle 🦋🇨🇦 🎹🎤 & Buy Canadian Warrior @vanellemusic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I just heard that the #TorontoMapleLeafs are going to Scottsdale ARIZONA on their pre-season retreat this year, instead of usual MUSKOKA!!!???!!!! How fucking ignorant do you have to be? Adds insult to injury that in order to watch Wednesday games you need to SUBSCRIBE TO AMAZON PRIME?? #RogersSucks
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#Canada’s former ambassador to the United States is urging Canadian business leaders to prepare for a lasting shift in the country’s economic relationship with its largest trading partner, rather than assuming things will eventually return to the way they were. www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
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Businesses should prepare for new Canada-U.S. relationship: former diplomat
Canada’s former ambassador to the United States is urging Canadian business leaders to prepare for a lasting shift in the country’s economic relationship with its largest trading partner, rather than ...
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Me discussing AI risks three weeks ago: "Likely public and private systems like water, power, banks, are at RISK, so is your personal security." Here's an article on bank risks.
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You don't get to threaten a country's sovereignty for years and then act shocked when its leader plans for it. Carney called it "extreme tail risk" prep. GOOD. As Canadians we deserve a PM who takes threats seriously instead of pretending they're jokes. #USDemocracy #RisingBlue #CanadaStrong
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Joe Walsh Is Right......
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bob Rae on fighting for democracy: "I think it's really important for people to understand that this is the battle of our lifetime. And our grandparents and our parents fought that battle in the Second World War. We had it on easy street for quite a while. And now we've got to fight again." #cdnpoli
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The US auto sector is an anchor, and Canada needs to free itself as much as possible from its clutches in order to avoid going down with it.
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Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @laura-babcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“There is no partisan goal. There is no power goal. There is no historic grievance that justifies aiding and abetting the fascist Trump regime that threatens Canada 🇨🇦 daily! NONE!“ 🚨 is under threat and anyone helping Trump regime need to check themselves NOW. 🇨🇦 The OShow youtu.be/SVp7DoR7qro?...
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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is a clarion call to MAGA North to step up their misinformation and destruction, coordinated with the Alberta referendum. All based on obvious lies. A clear incident of foreign interference. Feds should call in Hoekstra for a dressing down. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Trump says Canada is 'destroying itself' with immigration. Ministers say that's bogus | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out at Canadian immigration policies on Wednesday, saying the country is "destroying itself" by allowing "millions" of people into the country without proper securit...
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Useful context for Alberta’s anti-inmigrant referendum questions. We are not being “flooded” with newcomers. And scapegoating immigrants for longstanding structural problems with our public health care system, in particular, is gutter politics. #cdnpoli #abpoli #notothenine.
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Canada's population growth slows to lowest level in 80 years
The population is also aging with the median age now at 40.9 years
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🇨🇦 NanaGale @nanagale.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Never underestimate a woman who is in her 70's. She's been working since she was 14. She's lived at least five lives, She does NOT feel old, and she definitely doesn't give a sh*t about what other people think. Shes basically unstoppable!!
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