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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 22/08/2025

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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Share widely #NOVASCOTIA NO #drones in the area of #wildfire in #Halifax. It interferes with life saving equipment and safety measures. (I’m receiving alerts notifying the area not to have drones in use anywhere near this area.) #NSWildfire #HalifaxWildfire #Halifax #SusieLakeRoad #NODRONES

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 09/05/2025

Wonderful piece! & definitely agree on the internet regulations. As someone who works in tech, the current path of tech bros in Canada & globally is disturbing. (I could go on but bsky has limits -- which is likely good!)

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 30/04/2025

It would be so sweet if PP lost the by-election as well. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I know it's Alberta so likely they'll vote for him but... it would be just *MWAH* if he lost this as well.

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 28/04/2025

So we voted today. It was quick. My wife was impressed with the whole process compared to what she's experienced her whole life in the US. A testament to what Elections Canada does. We were in & out in about 10 min in a busy polling station. Take the time & vote! It matters!

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Just Ms.Rawr @justmzrawr.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Misinformation is already circulating about missing voter cards, so PSA, you don't need one. If you're a Canadian citizen and 18+, take your photo ID (license, passport...) to a polling station in your area and they'll help you with the rest. Go vote! #cdnpoli #vote www.elections.ca/scripts/vis/...

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Voter Information Service - Find your electoral district

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 12/04/2025

Excellent research into the misinformation swirling about by @rachelgilmore.bsky.social I find it disheartening, however, that there is a lack of basic journalistic skills by well known papers like the G&M. I expect lack of fact checking in social media but regular media??

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Native Calgarian Podcast 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Please boost @🪶Calvin stevens🇨🇦 #Indigenous #Cdnpoli #StrategicVoting vm.tiktok.com/ZMBuHyw1D/

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 03/04/2025

I cannot believe this happened. When I first joined bsky, @rachelgilmore.bsky.social was one of the first CDNs I came across that provided excellent & well-researched insight into politics. @ctvnews-rss.bsky.social should be ashamed at bowing down to those that promote disinformation. #Canada

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 03/04/2025

Very important side issue going on as part of the election. Take a listen & follow the @savethecbc.bsky.social #Canada #cdnpoli

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 03/04/2025

Oh, please, please, please, let this be true!! He'll unbelievably tank the CPC campaign..

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 03/04/2025

Now that's interesting. Still ain't gonna buy American if they manage to reverse the tariffs. #canada #cdnpoli

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 02/04/2025

Have you ever had beagle lift off with those ears?

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 02/04/2025

Yup. The Meth Lab below our apartment has just blown up.

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 31/03/2025

I'm seriously wondering if we need to take healthcare from the provinces & truly make it national. Increase pay for RN/Drs (which would encourage more doctors to come here), improve the path for international doctors to become family drs. & give better benefits to those that are rural FDs.

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 31/03/2025

I was living in the US at the time that this committee was going on for ACA: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w_P... (from 11 years ago)

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Canadian doctor becomes internet sensation over universal healthcare

YouTube video by Global News

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 30/03/2025

Who would want to stay if you cannot voice your opinion?? If all you learned is silenced?

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 28/03/2025

And more importantly: remove the freakin' loopholes. Pay your rate and let's get the services we need

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 28/03/2025

Am I the only one who would have loved to be have been a fly on the wall listening to Carney vs Trump call?? #Canada #cdnpoli

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 28/03/2025

& it's 300 pages long & from **1995**!! Over 30 years ago. I don't care, even if he did 10 passages. I more care about the last 10 years & what he's done as a person in the here & now than academic theory.

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 27/03/2025

Ya, no. First, the US will need to survive the next 4 years. & they will need at least 4-5 presidential cycles before this shit will be forgotten and forgiven, if ever.

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

At a press conference on Wednesday, Winnipeg police confirmed the identity of Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe to be Ashlee Shingoose. Ashlee’s father Albert Shingoose had one request for Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew: sing a song.

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 27/03/2025

BWAHAHAAHAHAHAHA... *inhale air* ... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA..

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 27/03/2025

We should be doing this actively. If the US isn't interested in their knowledge & innovation they would bring to the US, we can certainly use them up here. #Canada #cdnpoli

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Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

On Wednesday, I interviewed @dantheeditor.bsky.social, an author, retired journalist, and one of the 120 contributors to Get Fact, a newsletter and platform working to fight dis/misinformation. You can read that interview here. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/dismantling-...

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Get Fact contributors look to set record straight on disinformation, misinformation - Halifax Examiner

An interview with Dan Leger, author, retired journalist, and one of the 120 contributors to Get Fact.

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Canadian Health Coalition/Coalition canadienne de la santé @cdnhealthcoalition.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

🚨 What if Trump made Canada the 51st state? Say goodbye to universal health care. This election, vote like your life depends on it. 👉 www.healthcoalition.ca/vote-health-... #VoteHealthCare #Elxn45 #Cdnpoli

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 27/03/2025

These are actually great ideas. Many of these ideas would help the economy & the average person (not necessarily the wealthy). #Canada #cdnpoli

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 27/03/2025

I find it funny that in one of his stump moments Pollievre called NP the "leftist MSM". 🤣

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 27/03/2025

I'm convinced they just don't want to do anything with the rest of the world. They want full isolation.

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 27/03/2025

I just can't.. wow. 😵‍💫 & she represents Americans?? They truly want to be fully isolated from the rest of the world, eh?

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 26/03/2025

I wouldn't say "impossible" but extremely less likely (nothing is 100% in security)

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 26/03/2025

Has this been sent to Elections Canada? this would be interference (blantant)

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 26/03/2025

I would love to see Renault and other vehicles here..

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 26/03/2025

& why should seniors continue working? Shouldn't they be enjoying life without working at this point?

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 26/03/2025

So, a Warcraft guildie friend of mine has decided to quit his job & start his own art shop on Etsy (www.etsy.com/shop/Artivis...). He has some great works there with a Puerto Rico twist on them. Definitely check them out!

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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 24/03/2025

The leaders of all of the federal parties in Canada accidentally added me to their group chat

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 25/03/2025

Tomorrow's community conversation in Halifax is full, but there's still room in Thursday's session in St. John's! Register: form.jotform.com/250266950759... Honoraria: $50 paid to participants More info: arquives.ca/events-calen... #Halifax #NovaScotia #Canada 🌈🎓 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🌈🗃️

A pink and orange gradient background with text that reads: We’re coming to your city! The ArQuives is hosting an intimate community conversation in Halifax on Tuesday, 25 March 2025. To participate, please visit: arquives.ca/community-ties/. A line drawing of the Town Clock appears at the bottom of the image.

Un arrière-plan en dégradé rose et orange avec le texte suivant : Nous venons dans votre ville ! Les ArQuives organisent une conversation communautaire intime à Halifax le 25 mars 2025. Pour participer, veuillez consulter le site : arquives.ca/community-ties/. Un dessin au trait du Horloge de la ville apparaît au bas de l’image.

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 25/03/2025

I admit my french is horrible (my Acadian name doesn't help) but I am disappointed that @mark-carney.bsky.social is bowing out of the french debates. #canada #francophones does it bother you?

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 25/03/2025

J'avoue que mon français est horrible (mon nom acadien n'aide pas) mais je suis déçu que @mark-carney.bsky.social se retire des débats français. #canada #francophones ça vous dérange ?

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 25/03/2025

r/canada is a rw cesspool. Even with the G&M article (amongst others verifying it) they won't believe you.

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 25/03/2025

He's not a traditional conservative (at least by CDN definitions). Way back in my stupid youth period (I've gotten smarter as I aged), I was a PC. PP is farther right than the Reformers.

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 25/03/2025

So here's an example of an account I'd mute or block. It's a bot. No verification of what they repeat. & why would I go to the cesspool called X?!?! #canada #cdnpoli #novascotia #nspoli

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 25/03/2025

This is actually superb. It highlights companies that are wholly Canadian owned vs US parents. #Canada

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VirtualBuddha in Halifax 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @linusbourque.com · 25/03/2025

Yup. & Elmsdale is a tight race so he's likely showing some support for the local candidate.

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