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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I have serious concerns about how the Democrats and most media are normalizing these US midterms, prioritizing issues like affordability. The elephant in the room is the emergence of an authoritarian and corrupt RW President and oligarchy working to fundamentally destroy the American democracy.
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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 02/10/2026
Canadians build great technology. Some of them are sitting in your app store right now, waiting for a turn. From email to streaming to ride apps, each of these alternatives is Canadian-owned and operated. (A check mark means I use it myself!) ✅ Our full list is at unplug.todmaffin.com #BuyCanadian
A one-page guide titled "Unplug America" recommending Canadian alternatives to U.S. tech services, listing pairs like ChatGPT → Augure/CanadaGPT, Netflix → CBC Gem/APTN+, Uber/Lyft → Poparide/R-Hero.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 24/09/2026
"A future liberal administration will need to juggle a million priorities at once… They also must work to deter future misbehavior by bringing legal consequences upon those within the government who have engaged in naked corruption, and upon the outside firms and individuals who facilitated it."
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On the Practical Case for a Book of Grudges
If we're going to set this right, a comprehensive list is needed.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Don't worry. We will remember.
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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness @cryingwilderness.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026
Look, we know for fucking sure that my dog is sapient and also unpredictable and it turns out of he mauls someone I’m liable and he can be put down.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 21/09/2026
US has deported more than 25,000 people under secretive agreements with 35 countries to take migrants with no ties to those nations, according to an investigation published Monday u.afp.com/Sj9Z
Airport staff and officials attend to a plane carrying migrants deported from the US at the Roberts International Airport in Harbel, some 56 km outside of Liberia's capital of Monrovia, on August 20, 2026
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Border agents in #Canada seize guns from Americans at northern Ont. border crossings—they seized several guns last month from Americans trying to bring them into the country illegally, along with 17 prohibited weapons and 11 ammunition cartridges. www.ctvnews.ca/northern-ont...
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Border agents seize guns from Americans at northern Ont. border crossings
Border service agents in northern Ontario seized several guns last month from Americans trying to bring them into the country illegally, along with 17 prohibited weapons and 11 ammunition cartridges.
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We are heavily dependent on our digital networks. We need to be thinking along three tracks: guardrails to minimize AI disruptions, improved network robustness, and "Plan B" if digital networks become insecure or unstable.
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 18/09/2026
“The night before I broke a pretty wild story last week, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith was at a conference in Edmonton promoting AI data centres. Then my story went live on Friday ...” @drewanderson.bsky.social writes about his scoop that’s causing a stir in Alberta. 🧵
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Ximena González @ximenaka.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Last week, Smith posted on social media that “For every $1 of taxes a guest worker generates, taxpayers are covering $10 in services.” While this figure might ring true for many, it is far from accurate. I fact-checked Smith’s claims in my latest for @thetyee.ca
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Does Alberta Provide $10 in Services for Every $1 of ‘Guest Worker’ Taxes? | The Tyee
Ahead of a divisive referendum question, we fact checked Danielle Smith’s claims.
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Between this and my car repair bill, it's going to be a truly woeful week of stress. And that's all before my other bills due next week. But, you know, one freaking problem at a time 😭 Every repost helps! 💙 Trying not to panic, but bills are Stress City these days ... ko-fi.com/rjcrunden/go...
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Become a supporter of Rebecca Crunden today!
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Kendall 🇨🇦 @kendall58.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... Canadian's please read and share everywhere stop the sale of Moneris to America! Protect our esential payment infastructure
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Petition e-7712 - Petitions
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Stevie Bennett @steviebennett.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Snowjob @snowjob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's like either a) they're full of shit and know it- which is deplorable, b) they're full of shit but believe it- which makes them insane, or c) they're right- which means we should TOS them where they stand to protect all of humanity. Which is it, AI hypebeasts?
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
True, we had to write essays often. We had no computers and it had to be written in pen & in cursive. We went to the library & used encyclopedias for historical reports. We learned about world politics/governments, world wars, geography and had to write about it all.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE, PLEASE........
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Tyler Harper @tylerharper.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If people feel hopeless about Canadian governments’ enthusiasm for data centres, I would suggest they read this story. So much can be accomplished at the local level by residents ready to do the hard work of informing themselves and questioning those in power.
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The Making of an AI Data Centre Warrior | The Tyee
Bek MacIntosh helped rally her Alberta town to kill a megaproject. The wider fight, she vows, is ‘just getting started.’
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“They will greet us as liberators” - Peter Thiel ally Marc Andreessen (a tech billionsire & former DOGE advisor) posted in November 2024 about London. Elon Musk replied “Yes.” 1/
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They will greet us as liberators.
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s. 127 Communications Act has been used to prosecute people for messages sent privately to colleagues and friends.
Let's be clear about this - ANY message which MIGHT be offensive, indecent, obscene, or menacing to ANYBODY could see you face jail, without a jury trial.
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Kathleen Westergaard 🇨🇦 MSW, RSW @kathleenwester.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
🇨🇦 We need to create a #HoneyMarketingBoard tosell our honey around the 🌎. Effectively, we're out of bus... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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'Effectively, we're out of business': U.S. tariffs cut Manitoba honey farm off from vast majority of customers | CBC News
Osee Podolsky, general manager at Podolski Honey Farms, says the vast majority of honey produced at the family-run business in Ethelbert, Man., is shipped to customers across the United States.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We should have learned from Brexit; if you treat the propaganda and troll networks as a speech issue rather than a coercive and realtime security threat then the manipulation of the population will never end. Running factchecks isn’t enough; halting propaganda mills needs action.
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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
And here is the report from @marcuskolga.bsky.social @disinfowatch.bsky.social “Foreign adversaries are exploiting the Alberta separatist debate to erode social cohesion, deepen domestic divisions, undermine trust in democratic institutions, and amplify perceptions of political instability… in 🇨🇦.”
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Decision Making and National Unity Under Threat - DisinfoWatch
Download the PDF version of the report HERE. Marcus Kolga, Jennie Phillips, Brian McQuinn, Bartel Van de Walle     EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Foreign adversaries are exploiting the Alberta separatist debate...
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/08/2026
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Dear Google Chrome: go fuck yourself. I have moved my settings and account to duckduckgo.com Signed an independent and free Canadian.
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DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.
The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The US - Canada trade war will have a winner. But it's in Asia, not North America.
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Fact: Canadian provinces have more trade barriers between them than EU countries or US states have.
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Howdy @icandie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Frank N Beans 🫘 @beansnfrank.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Boulder Voter Rob @bouldervoter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"Deregulation" is not for you "consumers." It's to let companies cut corners and pocket the savings. At the expense of YOUR health.
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lesquid.bsky.social @lesquid.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Revoking participation in DMCA 1201 would greatly weaken the hold that the tech-bros have over us by opening our economies up for competition. In Canada we adopted DMCA under a previous round of tariff threats by the USA. Maybe it’s time we review everything we’ve conceded under duress.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026
They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/
A 1960s family living room in which a mom, dad and two kids are mesmerized by a cabinet-style TV. The image has been altered. The TV has an early 1990s VCR atop it. The TV screen is displaying a cross-sectioned human head with brains and spine on display. A huge fist has materialized in the room, with bloody spiked knuckle-dusters, smashing into the VCR. The oil painting over the sofa has been replaced with a pulp image of a male head, its cranium removed and replaced by a dome. Inside the dome is a red eight-segment VCR clock, displaying 12:00. The background in the painting is a tangle of cassette tape. The whole image's colors have been boosted, giving it an overexposed look.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What an idjit. The pronouncements of the White House used to mean something. Now it's just a daily clown show of hubris, corruption and grift. But it's not just Trump. He is backed up by the political, business, media elite of America. As for Canada on the shores of Lake Ontario - we carry on.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I’m far less interested in Natalie Harp than in the massive money laundering and graft involving multiple members of the Trump family, and the expanding web of corruption and organized crime spreading through multiple levels of the U.S. government and law enforcement. It can only get worse.
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GrekD 🍁 @grekd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Trump wasn’t trying to get a trade deal , he was trying to take a country. The man is despicable.
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Spidey⁷ 🍉 @spidersmirror.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
On the note of annoying literary stuff, I HATE when people use "itch" instead of "scratch." You're not "itching" yourself, you're "scratching your itch"! 😭😅😅
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 23/08/2026
The media should not be quoting Trump’s lies or disinformation unless immediately calling them out as such, with additional context and clarity. That’s Journalism 101.
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The media needs to prioritize reporting the truth over spreading Trump's propaganda
The mainstream media forgot how to do its job and are complicit in Trump's propaganda machine.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.
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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 19/08/2026
In Montréal, what started as an emergency pandemic response has evolved into the continent’s most ambitious car-free scheme. Across 9.3 kilometres of 11 commercial arteries in seven boroughs, entire corridors have been handed back to pedestrians, helping some 2,100 businesses thrive in the process.🧵
People of all ages and abilities walk, sit, and dine along a pedestrianised street in Montreal. It is lined with trees, planter boxes, terraces, and benches.
People of all ages and abilities walk, sit, and dine along a pedestrianised street in Montreal. It is lined with trees, planter boxes, terraces, and benches.
People of all ages and abilities walk, sit, and dine along a pedestrianised street in Montreal. It is lined with trees, planter boxes, terraces, and benches.
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If you’re looking for helpful websites, bloggers, designers, editors or competitions for indies, I’ve got loads of suggestions here! If you’d like to be added to my page and do not use, condone or support generative AI, let me know! 📝 rebeccacrunden.com/resources-fo...
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Resources for Indie Authors
General/Disclaimer I thought I’d share some links and communities for indie authors looking for resources as I know it can be difficult to even know where to start. Starting off without a reader ba…
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Hoekstra saying he "absolutely" does not get why Canadians are angry at the US and that it's "totally unfair" how "11 provinces" are not buying US alcohol. 158,000 Canadians have so far signed a viral petition calling for his expulsion from our soil. #cdnpoli
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ElyD @eluvyel.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The fact that we're at a point in time now, where somebody can say stuff like this out loud and still have a career 10 minutes later is horrifying.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Being on X fucks up your worldview in a way that even smart people who understand what Musk is trying to do refuse to admit. You can't sit in the sewer all day and still be disgusted by shit. Worse yet, it encourages people to feel righteous when shame might be a more appropriate emotion.
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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
If you are a business owner and you use Moneris debt terminals, please dump them and choose a Canadian alternative. Thank you for your attention to this matter. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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A Canadian payment giant is being sold to U.S. private equity. Is your digital privacy at risk? | CBC News
Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal are selling payment processor Moneris Solutions Corp. to San Francisco-based investment firm Francisco Partners. Some analysts are raising concerns around wha...
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Benjamin Chambers @dachshuahuadad.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"Move fast and kill people" is the Silicon Valley way
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 13/08/2026
14 million souls ended in a single year by Elon Musk's cruelty and stupidity Here are some of the comparisons: Rwandan genocide: 800k dead Cambodian genocide: 3 million dead The Holocaust: 7 million dead
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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Throwback to last Thursday when I called for a moratorium on data centres for AI until guardrails are in place to protect people and communities. We can’t let tech billionaires come in and take over our communities. It’s time to take our power back.
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MTH @megt.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Amazon is investing in a large-scale natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, the company confirmed on Friday, a facility that could become the largest single source of climate pollution in the United States. 🌎 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/c...
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New Amazon Data Center Stokes Worry It Would Be the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S. (Gift Article)
The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments.
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 06/08/2026
We keep asking what social media does to voters. The wrong end of the pipe. Platforms don't just distribute politics — they teach political actors what kind of speech pays. So I measured the going rate: what X, Bluesky and Mastodon reward in public speech. 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2607.04220
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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
My painting DUNE SHACK
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
www.thenation.com/article/poli... @robbonta.bsky.social @trishjames.bsky.social Thank you.
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State Attorneys General Can Block the Paramount-Warner Merger
This is an all-hands-on-deck moment to save cultural and press freedom.
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