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Pipeline opponents very much think “(wild)fire bad,” so there’s that.

The kids are the oil and gas industry. And they’ve arrived at that one house that has the full-size chocolate bars. Am I reading this right?

Hard to find a Chrysler these days, much less one as big as a whale

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Ma Carney: “Mark, why haven’t you done the dishes yet?” Young Mark Carney: “Dish washing is more a journey than a destination. My job is to move as far and as fast down this path as I can.”

“As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball. But today I say we must move forward, not backward. Upward, not forward. And always twirling, twirling, twirling towards reconciliation.”

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Ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about onions.

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Your comms team were certainly shovel-ready with this nose-stretcher.

Another one. Because Carney’s a belt-and-suspenders type of guy, apparently.

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Brett Pardy @brettpardy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s actually not mind-boggling that people are avoiding travel to a shithole country.

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Not the slogan I'd go with after employing Babcock, Bowman, and Formenton

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Canadian law (in the form of statutes dealing with uttering threats) tells us how to deal with Goldstein, but I doubt the powers that be have the political will.

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“There’s nothing in the rule book says a prince of the night can’t call calls and strikes.”

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Ronnie Hawkins and his band (whose name escapes me) would agree.

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The Oilers will always welcome a third-rate goalie.

Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 30/09/2026

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Some very normal stuff from the former editor in chief of the Canadian Jewish News

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Figures you’d support a team that employs both Alex Formenton AND Mike Babcock.

Davis S Pumpkins @lloyddavis.ca · 29/09/2026

Can Dan Dollars be spent in any of Toronto’s many bodegas?

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In the Toronto archives there’s a photo of my corner taken in 1966, and the low-rise apartment block had awnings over the windows. My guess is the owner decided somewhere along the line to save a few bucks on maintenance.

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Davis S Pumpkins @lloyddavis.ca · 28/09/2026

One that comes immediately to mind: During the early days of Covid, the City of Toronto “partnered” with Shopify to get locked-down businesses to start web stores.

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Davis S Pumpkins @lloyddavis.ca · 28/09/2026

He lived with an out-of-work actor named Withnail for a while.

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Davis S Pumpkins @lloyddavis.ca · 26/09/2026

Oh come on. Ford would be Marshal Pétain, premier of Vichy Ontario. And Carney wouldn’t play anything near the role of de Gaulle. He’s Neville Chamberlain promising the New York Times that we’ll have peace in our time.

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Davis S Pumpkins @lloyddavis.ca · 26/09/2026

Carney is more Chamberlain than de Gaulle. And Theo must’ve gotten high on Martin Regg Cohn’s supply, because Ford would 100 percent be Marshal Pétain.

Davis S Pumpkins @lloyddavis.ca · 25/09/2026

Four things never to do in life: 1. Google your symptoms 2. Eat in a restaurant called Mom’s 3. Read the comments 4. Watch your delivery driver try to find your location in real time

Davis S Pumpkins @lloyddavis.ca · 25/09/2026

But, but, but we’re building a nation or asserting our sovereignty or battling Trump’s tariffs or whatever the “Liberal” Party of Canada’s excuse is this week.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m just not sure I trust that his wife will protect our oceans while her husband is building yet another crude oil pipeline towards those same oceans and expanding ports that will result in the extinction of our resident orcas! The whole thing feels a bit icky. I mean this clip….

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Davis S Pumpkins @lloyddavis.ca · 24/09/2026

It’s got nothing to do with the city. The story involves a lawsuit where the plaintiff claims the defendant (the artist credited with the work) owes him money. The sculpture is not in any danger.

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In these challenging times, when Canada’s house is on fire, it does no good to complain about the man who’s emptying a Jerry can full of gasoline on the flames. Let Carney (let us) cook, and when things settle down we can talk about nice-to-haves like combatting climate change.

Gives new meaning to the term “twin bill.”

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At least the ones that don’t have those pesky orcas in them, right, Mark?

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 22/09/2026

In these challenging times? Have you lost your mind, man? There’s oil under them there’s oceans. Get drilling to build Canada Strong.™

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Stephen Harper’s biggest mistake was not running as a Liberal

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Carney is truly the Reagan of Canada. A calming, paternalistic figure in a period of apocalyptic uncertainty who galvanizes the economy with short-sighted right wing fiscal policies. And like Reagan, every disaster that Canada encounters in the future will be traceable to his administration.

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Davis S Pumpkins @lloyddavis.ca · 22/09/2026

Slogans like “Heck no, we won’t go” and “Would you like a Scotch mint?” can be very threatening to certain people, it seems.

Davis S Pumpkins @lloyddavis.ca · 22/09/2026

My arithmetic is a bit rusty, but the figures on the back of the envelope suggest it would be in the ballpark of umpteen percent.

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Toronto checking in: We’ve got a Rogers Centre and a Rogers Stadium. No sports at the latter, only concerts. They’re at opposite ends of the city. What could go wrong? Neither to be confused with Rogers Arena in Vancouver and Rogers Place in Edmonton. Or is that the other way round?

He is, however, practising the trombone just in case Lighthouse comes a-calling.

“I always say, there’s no such thing as a free lunch, and definitely no such thing as 12 CDs for a penny.”

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As a voter, it would be reassuring to know my preferred candidate didn’t have the endorsement of the police union. Or any other bastards.

The CTA Red Line Series! (That’s the L route that connects Wrigley Field with whatever the heck the new Comiskey Park is called these days.)

Davis S Pumpkins @lloyddavis.ca · 20/09/2026

Congratulations on “inventing” corporate welfare.

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Davis S Pumpkins @lloyddavis.ca · 19/09/2026

“Look, collective bargaining rights are nice to have, but as I said in my latest Forward Guidance video, we can’t Build Canada Strong™ if there’s a mechanism in place to ensure that workers get paid what they need to live on. It’s a concept I like to call Asymmetric Labour Relations.”