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kdodd27.bsky.social

@kdodd27.bsky.social
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Retired Canadian journalist. Live in Stratford, Ontario. Anti extremist. Worried about democracy, media freedom, disinformation, misinformation. Also a big baseball fan.

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 19h
Big Yikes for the NDP in the new poll just put out today by Mainstreet Research: Conservatives: 45% NDP: 37% Greens: 11% OneBC: 6% CentreBC: 1% That’s the highest number we’ve seen for the Conservatives, but within the margin of error of polls last week. Anger over snap call not subsiding.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 19h
"Invasion." "Remigration." They're terms you'd more commonly associate with America's toxic debate around immigration policy than Canada's. But they're starting to pop up here. You can thank Danielle Smith and the UCP for that. #cdnpoli #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/10/06/o...
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America’s anti-immigration politics are coming to Canada — and Alberta invited them in
The separation question has consumed most of the attention around the province's October 19th referendum. The immigration-related questions also on the ballot might be just as dangerous and divisive.
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kdodd27.bsky.social @kdodd27.bsky.social · 15h
A Nova Scotia based energy company buying an Alberta based energy company!
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Huge issue in Ontario not getting enough attention or sparking enough outrage.
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kdodd27.bsky.social @kdodd27.bsky.social · 15h
A cranky public in Atlantic Canada.
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kdodd27.bsky.social @kdodd27.bsky.social · 15h
I think this is a fair analysis of the PQ victory. Still, to mangle a metaphor, the fox of a separatist party wanting to stir chaos is now in the Canadian henhouse.
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kdodd27.bsky.social @kdodd27.bsky.social · 15h
I love this story. Good for them.
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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 16h
If Quebec doesn’t want it Feds could start with the Toronto-Ottawa leg
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 17h
Works by Canadian authors Margaret Atwood and Ryan North among books banned in U.S. schools A record high for book bans in American schools in 2026, according to PEN America www.cbc.ca/books/works-...
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Works by Canadian authors Margaret Atwood and Ryan North among books banned in U.S. schools in 2026 | CBC Books
Nearly 12,000 bans took place in American public schools over the past year, according to a new study from PEN America, the highest total since the free expression organization began tracking removals...
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Lisa E 🇨🇦 @lisa1111can.bsky.social · 17h
#ElbowsUP🇺🇸
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 16h
If you are outraged because of vaccines, you don't know the history before vaccines, either way, before vaccines, most children died in many families, over 50% of them, this is why over 60-80 yrs ago many families had over 10 children, vaccines saves lives. Diseases come back without herd immunity.
go to a cemetery and see all the baby graves there from before the 1950's and 60's, then hardly any afterwards, that's when people started vaccinating their kids.  If you are unsure, the answer is literally written in stone
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elisi @tsitsilagi.bsky.social · 16h
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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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Healthcare-Global @healthcare-global.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Closing these research facilities will go down as one of the more foolish, short term, mind numbingly foolish decisions by Min Champage . We literally erased the future of farming adaptation research across Canada, at a time when we need it the most. thenarwhal.ca/canada-agric...
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Farmers oppose agricultural science cuts in Canada | The Narwhal
The federal government is closing farm research centres and cutting back on agriculture science, leaving farmers scratching their heads
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tollerlover05.bsky.social @tollerlover05.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Map shows countries hit by plague as Russian lab worker dies - Newsweek share.google/xAswCVniISu7...
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Map shows countries hit by plague as Russian lab worker dies
A laboratory worker in Irkutsk, Russia has died from the disease, according to reports.
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Ian Masters🇨🇦 @ianmasters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If I (being a Canadian) owned a second home in Florida, I wouldn't wait to see if this passes, I'd sell now and never go back. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/world/f...
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Florida weighs ditching property taxes and sticking Canadians with the bill | CBC News
Florida voters are weighing whether to scrap residential property taxes and the state's governor has a solution to that potentially huge revenue loss: tax Canadians more.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Do this, Florida. See how it goes for you. www.cbc.ca/news/world/f...
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Florida weighs ditching property taxes and sticking Canadians with the bill | CBC News
Florida voters are weighing whether to scrap residential property taxes and the state's governor has a solution to that potentially huge revenue loss: tax Canadians more.
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GreyBruceInfo- Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦 @brucegreyinfo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A message for both Americans & Canadians. If you are buying a new or used vechcle, check the VIN. If it starts with 1 it was made in the USA. If it starts with 2, the car was made in Canada. Buy Canadian please ! 🇨🇦
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS: 77% of Canadians still intend to avoid American products, new Abacus Data polling shows. 19 months in, this hasn't blown over. Washington can negotiate with Ottawa, but it can't negotiate away what Canadians choose to put in their shopping carts. 🇨🇦
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here’s AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak last week saying the major projects office — which Carney touted as doing sufficient consultation ahead of naming this oil pipeline in the “national interest” — “don’t know what they’re doing when it comes to First Nations.” TRC day was yesterday.
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David Coletto @davidcoletto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New Abacus Data consumer research tells a clear story: The preference for Canadian products is still there. The behaviour has strengthened. Brand origin remains confusing. And price still matters enormously. The Buy Canadian shopper has not gone home. abacusdata.ca/nineteen-mo...
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 01/10/2026
I wrote this two years ago, when the Roberts Bank terminal expansion was clearly heading toward some kind of approval — but well before another new oil pipeline was going to feed into it. This Pacific Link pipeline will add even more noise stress to the underwater recordings included in this piece:
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Critically endangered orcas in B.C. are struggling to navigate in a sea of shipping noise
Our need for transportation and shipping is causing a kind of pollution that’s invisible (and in this case, inaudible) to humans. What does all this noise mean for the 75 or so Southern Resident Kille...
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
N.L.'s new health minister says negotiating a federal pharmacare deal is a top 'priority' But the federal government says it won’t be expanding pharmacare #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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N.L.'s new health minister says negotiating a federal pharmacare deal is a top 'priority' | CBC News
Newfoundland and Labrador’s health minister says reaching a pharmacare deal with the federal government is one of his highest priorities. That comes despite the federal health minister's past statemen...
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KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁 @kbyrd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Very powerful article. I am proud of the Americans who are fighting back, but dismayed that so many seem paralyzed. It's easier to resist now than to re-take your country once it's fully under fascist control. open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...
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The Normalization of Evil: We Thought We Were Free
How ordinary Americans became numb to authoritarianism—step by chilling step
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Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I've started going to Canadian Tire for literally everything that we used to order off Amazon and it's such a huge improvement
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kdodd27.bsky.social @kdodd27.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There laws like this in place in the UK + Australia.
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DBdant @dbdant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This tidbit was in the article. 🎈💥 ? "Goldman Sachs warned Friday that AI hyperscalers, including Meta, need to generate roughly $300 billion a year in AI services revenue just to break even on their capital spending—and $1 trillion annually to earn meaningful profits—spooking investors."
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Mark Zuckerberg Loses $9 Billion In A Day As Goldman Sachs Pours Cold Water On Meta Stock Rally
Zuckerberg’s $9 billion loss was the biggest single-day drop among any billionaire Friday.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All Trump’s malevolence and psychosis will be on full display right after the midterms. We’ve been here before in Nov 2020, and here we go again. The national nightmare of Trump refusing to accept defeat and dragging the country through lies, conspiracies and drama begins again.
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CZ 🇨🇦 💙 🇺🇦 @choiceznewz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#BuyCanadian 🇨🇦
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Eric Geller @ericjgeller.com · 28/09/2026
"The sheer number of incidents, which occurred in recent months in internal testing and the real world, indicates that the problem is orders of magnitude more complex than what is publicly known." www.axios.com/2026/09/26/o...
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Scoop: Top AI companies probing tens of thousands of security incidents
The massive scale of security incidents points to control problems for AI companies.
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David Coletto @davidcoletto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Liberals lead nationally, but age remains a major dividing line. 18–29: CPC 42%, LPC 32% 30–44: CPC 39%, LPC 36% 45–59: LPC 47%, CPC 35% 60+: LPC 59%, CPC 26% abacusdata.ca/liberals-ho...
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clnzjay 🌱 🐶 🇨🇦 @clnz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Former Driscoll’s food-safety manager reported pesticide violations in shipments to Canada. CFIA confirms finding Driscoll’s berries above Canadian limits. The video examines its market dominance, contract farming that shifts the blame and weakened food-safety oversight. Avoid them. #BuyCanadian 🇨🇦
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I Tracked Down the Company Ruining Fruit
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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Shamus Brown @shamusbrown1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@justinling.ca nails it again. Great read w really good data on what Canadians are thinking! @mark-carney.bsky.social you’d be wise to heed his advice re: speaking with & listening to 🇨🇦s, especially wrt talking to the 🌎 & not us & your positions on Israel & Iran. apple.news/AX8vOltUyS1i...
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Opinion | Mark Carney may appeal to vast swathes of the country, but there are some things about Canadians he doesn't seem to get — Toronto Star
Rather than merely address global policymakers and CEOs, the prime minister needs to talk to more everyday voters.
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Norfolk Bea @norfolkbea.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Proud Canadian moment. 🇨🇦💚 Watching birds in my wildlife garden reminds me every day how much they enrich our lives. Margaret Atwood’s gift in memory of Graeme Gibson is a beautiful legacy. 🐦🌿 www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
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‘Birdwatching is close to rapture’: Margaret Atwood on why she has given C$1m to avian research
Award-winning novelist celebrates late partner’s love of birds with gift to establish the Graeme Gibson chair in avian biology
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I started this boycott about 3 - 4 years ago, I only buy from local Canadian cafe’s and from Canadian fast food, A&W, Mary Brown’s, Swiss Chalet, the quality is way better and many of our local Cafe’s are incredible! My fav cafe is Le Marché Parisien, Bedford NS
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Wendy B. 🇨🇦 Part owner of Canada. Proud Antifa. @handigirlgigi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Remember, #Canada, VIN#s starting with the number 2 are Canadian made! #FAFO #BoycottUSA #CanadaStrong💪🍁🇨🇦
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(Dr) James Fraser @jamesefraser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For 🇨🇦Conners and 🇨🇦Taylor to take down Scheffler and MAGA Burns - when they were both teased about Lake Ontario by the press - in today's foursomes must have felt very sweet. Especially when Canadians have historically been iffy in the Presidents Cup. Well done chaps!
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Proud Canadian 🍁🍁 @marniepeters.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
At the grocery store today, all shelves of Canadian Chapmans and Kawartha ice creams were all sold out, but US based Breyers had full shelves. Keep it up Canada 🇨🇦
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Canadian Affairs @cdnaffairs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Why Trump's deals with other major trade partners are a poor guide for Canada Read more: www.canadianaffairs.news/2026/09/25/w...
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Why other U.S. trade deals are a poor guide for Canada
The United States has secured trade deals with most of its top trading partners. But Canada’s situation is different, sources say
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 25/09/2026
Pope Leo XIV told reporters they were welcome to cover him, as he responded to the Trump administration’s attempt to bar U.S. media from the White House and affirmed the importance of journalists covering public figures.
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Pope Leo XIV affirms need for media when asked about Trump ban at White House
Pope Leo XIV told reporters they were welcome to cover him as he responded a question about the Trump administration’s attempt to bar U.S. media from the White House by affirming the importance of journalists covering public figures.
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kdodd27.bsky.social @kdodd27.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Totally.
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kdodd27.bsky.social @kdodd27.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interesting perspective.
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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
To put 23% support for a Leave referendum in perspective… The separatist movement is now statistically closer to Zero than it is to a 50% popular majority. The referendum is 24 days from now. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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With time running out, new poll suggests Alberta separatism support is slipping | CBC News
With a little more than three weeks to go until the Oct. 19 referendum, a new poll done for CBC News suggests support for separation has softened since spring.
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Gerald Butts @gmbutts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Great to be on @msnowreports.bsky.social with Ali Velshi. www.ms.now/11th-hour/wa...
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Trump’s decade on the world stage has been ‘rife with geopolitical gifts for China’
As President Trump hosts China’s President Xi Jinping for a state visit, Eurasia Group’s Gerry Butts says Trump’s missteps with the Iran War are gifts to China, which does well sitting back “watching ...
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck around, find out. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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CEO who posted about wearing 'Lake America' sweatshirts to Halifax is no longer CEO | CBC News
The Michigan tourist who recently went viral over a Facebook photo where she and three family members appeared to be wearing "Lake America" sweatshirts has parted ways with her employer.
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ontario's health-care, education sectors need to spend more or service levels will drop: FAO reports www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #onpoli
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Ontario's health-care, education sectors need to spend more or service levels will drop: FAO reports | CBC News
The province's health-care, university and college sectors will need to make cuts in order to sustain their current service levels, according to reports from Ontario's Financial Accountability Office ...
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I’ll also add: this is the executive mindset that I watched destroy my own industry. Layoffs cause a brief bump to a stock price. Executives do them, knowing they’ll look good for a bit to the money people — but long term, you can only expect fewer people to do more work before something breaks.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Canadians from coast to coast -- and even on the prairies -- are united in their desire to fight back against the United States and defend their sovereignty. So why do some members of the business community seem so determined to surrender? #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/22/o...
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Canada’s business elites still seem to want us to surrender
Canadians are largely united behind their federal government's decision to stand up to Donald Trump. The business community seems decidedly less enthusiastic.
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wow. The election no one asked for and no one wants (especially municipal governments) Will this backfire on the BCNDP?
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Penny Daflos @pennydaflos.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So Eby’s justification is “building a firebreak against Trump” but he hasn’t articulated why he couldn’t do that with his (slim) majority He tried tying BC’s conservative parties to the decision citing Trumpian ideas, but again: how does that justify an election now? www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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B.C. premier calls snap election, citing ‘existential threat’ of Trump presidency
British Columbians will be heading to the polls twice next month after Premier David Eby called a snap election for Oct. 24, citing the “existential threat” posed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s admi...
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