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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 06/10/2026

Canadians take for granted that the political parties that dominated the late 20th century / early 21st century will be around forever The death of CAQ is a reminder that no political party has a right to exist and that every party is always one election away from going extinct

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Geoffrey P Johnston😎🇨🇦🇺🇦 @geoffypjohnston.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“They are starving them to death. No country, no international organization can reach those people. Every day they run out of food, out of water, and all resources to live,” Andrii Sybiha told the UN Security Council of Russian blockaded Oleshky. www.thewhig.com/opinion/john...

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JOHNSTON: Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine

It is past time for the community of nations to clearly state the hard truth

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Iceblueaccent @iceblueaccent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Anyone still travelling to the USA for pleasure deserves the long hours in ICE interviews the USA is promising: www.thetravel.com/us-border-cz...

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U.S. Border Czar Plans Tougher Border Checks For Canadian Travelers

He said that with the southern border secure, the focus is shifting north.

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I appreciate Sliwa getting vaccinated publicly. (I'm in Florida where our surgeon general is anti-vax). #getvaxxed #flu

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2 October 1936 | Czech Jewish girl, Anita Brandeisová, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 28 October 1944. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection. --- Gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz: youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

Portrait of a young girl with curly hair and a bow, wearing a light-colored outfit. The child has a serious expression and is looking directly at the camera.

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Tyson Graber @rnaguru.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ottawa WAVE (Wastewater Analytics for Viral Epidemiology) as of Sep 20. LEFT IMAGE: 7d trendline of SARS-CoV-2 signal since spring 2020 (A); Past year (B), and 2 months (C), inferred case incidence (D), and Reff (E) determined with ern (PMID: 38905266). RIGHT IMAGE: other viral traces

Plots of SARS-CoV-2 signal across time in Ottawa, Canada;

Plots of IAV, RSV, IBV, MPOX wastewater signal across time in Ottawa, Canada;

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A reminder that this was not a question of 20/20 hindsight, or a legitimate scientific dispute. The N95 respirators that likely would have saved these workers' lives were required under the national standard (CAN/CSA-Z94.4),...

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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Public payments to for-profit facilities have increased faster than public hospital funding Post-Bill 60, public payments to: for-profit surgical facilities increased at an average annual growth rate of 22.8% medical imaging facilities at 10.7% Public hospital funding only grew at 4.9% #onpoli

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Axios @axios.com · 28/09/2026

Dario Amodei went from a MAGA smear campaign target, to SNL punching bag, to a private dinner with Trump across 72 hours this weekend. Anthropic's quirky, intellectual CEO has become the frontman for a technology that’s changing the world by the day.

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AI's man of the moment

Amodei has become the face of AI in America, like it or not.

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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 28/09/2026

My friend's office is next door, I wasn't sure where she was at the time. Just heard from her and thankfully she is unharmed. What is happening in Kyiv right now is truly horrific. Millions of people are at risk of dying at any time. I'm not quite sure this really comes across, abroad.

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Jeff Gilchrist @jeffgilchrist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*** Ontario Virus Update | Sep 27 *** Hospitalizations due to COVID increased from 39 to 44 in the last update. Influenza hospitalizations increased from 31 to 34 and RSV jumped from 1 to 18. 🧵1/ #Ontario #Virus #COVID #Hospital #Wastewater

This stacked bar chart displays weekly new hospitalizations in Ontario specifically attributed to COVID-19, Influenza, and RSV. The data tracks the fluctuating volume of patients over time, highlighting seasonal surges and the relative contribution of each respiratory virus to the overall healthcare burden.

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Lisa Fast @lisafast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh the colours will be peak then!

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Lisa Fast @lisafast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Haha you are at a hotel breakfast bar! I’ve had the same quandary of looking for something low-sugar to eat at one and discovering the same, that the little sugar bomb raisins are dusted in…sugar! I don’t think they used to be.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026

Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Oleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and water

The BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled".

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Lisa Fast @lisafast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Welcome to Canada 🇨🇦 Dr Mackay! Hopefully you’ll catch our gorgeous autumn colours too. The leaves 🍁 have just started turning here in Quebec, north of Ottawa.

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Colin Furness MISt PhD MPH @furnesscolin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is what I do when COVID surges. I studiously avoid large indoor crowds, and I minimize dining out. I mask on public transit. I snort Viraleze 1-4 times a day - safe and effective. If I feel in any way dodgy, I gargle with mouthwash containing CPC (not for daily/chronic use). 2/4

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Look how fast he folds. Look how strong our cards are. Maybe it's time we played them. #cdnpoli

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The shock doctrine is explicitly premised on governments causing the chaos/crisis in order to enact the changes they want. That obviously isn’t happening here.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 21/09/2026

The “jaw-dropping” El Niño currently heating up the planet has burst through the highest temperature ever recorded for the phenomenon, several months before its expected peak.

A line chart showing temperature anomalies in the Niño 3.4 region of the Pacific Ocean, compared to a 30-year rolling base period since 1982.

A gold line shows temperatures in 1997, a teal line in 2025, and a red line in 2026. The red line surpasses all others reaching 3.07ºC, and at an earlier point (September) than the previous El Niño that reached a comparable range in November 2015.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There is no rake these guys won't step on.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If anyone from @washingtonpost.com would like to explain or defend this terrible piece, I'm all ears, at JFallowsSubstack@gmail.com

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

19 September 1929 | A French Jewish boy, Georges Berger, was born in Saint-Ouen. He arrived at Auschwitz on 28 August 1942 in a transport of Jews deported from Drancy. After the selection he was murdered in a gas chamber. --- Development of mass murder at Auschwitz: youtu.be/tRwZ49q-9e0

Black and white photo of a young boy wearing a turtleneck sweater.

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Lisa Fast @lisafast.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If we had, all those UWaterloo & other Canadian grads who founded companies in the USA - on their TN visas - would have built that ecosystem here.

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Child sex abuse material, some created by Grok, continues to spread on X. An incredibly disturbing read. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 11/09/2026

The ebook of Mercutio is on sale in the US and Canada for $0.99, at all retailers, I think. Not sure how long that will be the case. It's a strange medieval prequel to Romeo & Juliet with bad fairies, Umberto Eco meets Susanna Clarke, going for a song at the moment www.kateheartfield.com/mercutio/

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Mercutio

Coming soon from HarperVoyager UK. May 7, 2026: UK hardcover edition and ebook. Worldwide audiobook. August 18, 2026: Canada paperback, hardcover and ebook. June 2027: US paperback edition (this will ...

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Lisa Fast @lisafast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I just got it on Apple Books, what a deal, thanks. And I’ve got a trip coming up, so lots of reading time. ✈️❤️

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Lisa Fast @lisafast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Masterful. What a man, what a Canadian!

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Flavio Volpe, C.M. @flaviovolpe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We’ve been over this before: Every Global 7500 that Bombardier builds in 🇨🇦 has 2 GE engines built in Indiana, 🇺🇸. Every Challenger that Bombardier builds in 🇨🇦 has 2 Honeywell engines built in Arizona. 🇺🇸. Bombardier employs 3,000+ 🇺🇸s & has 2,800 🇺🇸 suppliers. Not so smart.

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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Ontario govt took $60M out of public education and handed it to Staples. Tomorrow, 80K elementary teachers each get $750 of the misappropriated money to buy overpriced classroom supplies at an 🇺🇸 corporation. Please remember this the next time Captain Canada tells you to #BuyCanadian. #OntEd

A chart of school supplies showing the price difference between ordering through the school board or ordering from Staples. Staples is always more expensive.

A chart of school supplies showing the price difference between ordering through the school board or ordering from Staples.

The total for the school board is $290.38.
The total for Staples is $668.98.

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Lisa Fast @lisafast.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Cool! Doesn’t say lowest temp it works at, designed in Hawaii so unlikely to work in Canada!

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The Ferrari Lab @theferrarilab.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I have quantified measles deaths globally on behalf of the WHO since 2012. We attribute any death within 4 weeks of a measles case to measles. Measles is immunosuppressive and the proximate cause is often a secondary infection that would otherwise not have led to death.

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Lisa Fast @lisafast.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Looks like your BIG friend has been stealing from the birds.

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LakefrontDaisy1 🇨🇦❣️🇺🇦🍁 @lakefrontdaisy1.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Canada fuels American growth. Canada supplies 99% of natural gas imports, 85% of electricity imports and 60% of crude oil imports. I don't think they want us to stop sending any of that energy. -PMCarney #TrumpTariffs

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Kikki Planet @kikkiplanet.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Current status: watching Jason Kenney take Jamil Jivani to the woodshed over on the place formerly known as Twitter, and I gotta tell ya … it’s kinda making me 🔥 Of course, that could just be the menopause talking. But Kenney seriously went off on JD Vance’s bestie. #cdnpoli #ableg

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/08/2026

Mark Carney: "In recent days. the US proposed new terms that were uneconomic, unfair, and undermine the net benefits for Canada, and called into question the reliability of any deal. In short, they asked too much and they offered too little ... You're at war when you get attacked. We got attacked."

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Lisa Fast @lisafast.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Why is this joker troll getting all this media attention? Click bait trolling?

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Jennifer Robson 🇨🇦 @jrobson.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Remember folks: nothing in US trade law, not even s.338, would legally empower Trump to tariff Canada because consumers don’t want US booze. But the shelf ban is explicitly part of the 338 justification & courts might uphold it.

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