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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 10h

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine: "The Ukrainians for the past year have taken out probably 51% of the Russian refining capacity. So a major blow to the Russians. You can see why the Russians might want to have an energy ceasefire."

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🇨🇦LarryBC @lojc.bsky.social · 9h

The Russians are very good at this. And so many people are also very gullible.

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 11h

Rachel Notley to Albertans who plan to vote for separation as a "message to Ottawa": "The message isn’t being sent to Ottawa. It’s being sent to investors around the world — and it says you cannot count on the stability of Alberta."

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Stephen Lautens @stephenlautens.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What about when we want to get to "bite me"? #cdnpoli

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026

this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Are there still straight men out there who don't comprehend how many more women we'd pull by pulling off gay standards of dress, grooming and general taste? I mean, we'd still need to overcome being relentless assholes, but that's just a given. We've worked around that one for centuries.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The US auto sector is an anchor, and Canada needs to free itself as much as possible from its clutches in order to avoid going down with it.

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🇨🇦LarryBC @lojc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Our democracy works best when we have an opposition that looks like a government in waiting. The Conservatives look like dummies, and they should smarten up, for the sake of the country and their own personal dignity.”

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Stephen Lautens @stephenlautens.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One of Canada's advantages is that we know a lot about the US. We follow their news and politics, get their TV channels, travel there. But Americans know nothing about us. They don't understand our politics, history or values. They constantly misjudge us, but we understand them completely. #cdnpoli

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Stephen Lautens @stephenlautens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Okay - this made me snort...

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🇨🇦LarryBC @lojc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Do all these women come out of the same factory?!

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

(FT) - Prime Minister Mark Carney is pitching 200 of the world’s top financial executives gathering in Toronto next week a simple plan: invest 1 per cent more in Canada as a hedge against Donald Trump’s volatility. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/4dc6...

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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 11/09/2026

The Smith government's claim that immigrants are a drain on public coffers? Bullshit. Debunked. Vote No to the Nine to stop the scapegoating. Hold the government to account. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...

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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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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 11/09/2026

LATE NIGHT CANADA: $5K, Heated Rivalry Season 2, and Poilievre youtu.be/qZXmeRBWy5A

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LATE NIGHT CANADA: $5K, Heated Rivalry Season 2, and Poilievre

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🇨🇦LarryBC @lojc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Excellent and perceptive piece, illustrating what’s happening with the Conservatives federally and their counterparts in BC.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

one thing I will add here is that I am relatively agnostic on the actual tactics needed to beat the far right, because they change across different national and temporal contexts in Hungary, the center-right beat the far right. in Canada, it was the center. in Spain, it was the left

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Taking this from LinkedIn from a UOttawa colleague. His take is that the new tariffs are obviously not great, but that it could have been much worse. There is some breathing room here.

LinkedIn post from Professor Wolfgang Alschner. The White House just released its counter-counter-tariffs to Canada's counter tariffs. Main take away: More showmanship than escalation.

1) The US response is almost value neutral. The revised 50% s338 tariffs ADD 110 new tariff lines, roughly USD 1,845M worth of 2025 trade. But, the revised lists also ELIMINATE 10 tariff lines collectively worth USD1,739M of trade. Biggies that were removed include Portland cement, switchboards and lead.

2) The US also put in place an IMPORT BAN of certain Canadian products. That sounds bad. But it covers less than USD 1 billion worth of trade or 0.25% of Canadian exports. For example, the US now bans Canadian mopeds worth USD81M.

3) The US ban includes some Canadian alcohol -- but much of it is only banned in PACKAGES, but not in BULK. So you cannot export Canadian beer cans directly to US consumers. But you can send it across in bulk and package it in the US further mitigating the impact.

4) ALL the newly banned goods used to be subject to 50% s338 tariffs. That further mitigates the trade impact of the new measure.

To be clear, I am not saying this is not bad. But it could have been much worse. It is clearly more posturing than escalation.

For Canada that means keep calm and carry on.

Graph that shows that the net effects of the tariffs are +$106M

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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

That drone was from Canada. You wouldn't know her.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 08/09/2026

🚨 BREAKING: France and Canada will join the U.K. in imposing new trade sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements today. Full story: www.politico.eu/article/fran...

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🇨🇦LarryBC @lojc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’ve taken to writing CANADIAN! on the top of my grocery lists. It’s a good reminder to seek out local and Canadian items, since I tend to go on auto-mode when shopping.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/09/2026

Carney on what he'd say to Putin at the G20: "Get out of Ukraine. Give back all of Ukraine to Ukraine. End this war."

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Very grateful & very proud to be a part of 𝐁𝐄𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐇𝐄𝐔𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐍, Siân Heder’s new film about Judy Heumann & her fellow disability activists. Select cinemas Nov 6.

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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is the perfect time in our 🇨🇦history to provide our Prime Ministers and their families with a suitable residence equipped for all the usual events. One hopes that it will reflect our values: a certain modest dignity and earnestness of purpose, and stand in stark contrast to 🇺🇸USA grandiosity.

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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

JUST IN: A man tried to scale the White House fence on Pennsylvania Avenue. Secret Service quickly caught him and returned him to his desk in the Oval Office.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

* CARNEY SAYS U.S. TERMS IN TRADE TALKS MEANT CANADIAN INDUSTRIES EITHER WOULD BECOME U.S. SUBSIDIARIES OR BE WOUND DOWN * CANADA SAYS WE CAN START HAVING TRADE DISCUSSIONS WITH THE U.S. WHEN "AMERICANS STOP DOING MEMES, STOP THROWING SHADE, STOP TRYING TO BE TOUGH AND START BEING SERIOUS"

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Canada's oil and gas industry never fails to remind us who's side they're really on: their own.

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🇨🇦LarryBC @lojc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

And if he had declared it was “Lake Trump“, they would do the same.

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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 28/08/2026

LATE NIGHT CANADA: Lake America, Most Credible Man, PQ Stays Home youtu.be/8AWMwSCh6aU

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🇨🇦LarryBC @lojc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

President Trump‘s renaming of Lake Ontario to Lake America is obviously devastating. Carney has no choice but to give in to whatever is being demanded.

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🇨🇦LarryBC @lojc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Exactly this. Rantings of the village idiot.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Y'all... the Band of the Coldstream Guards performed "9 to 5" in front of Buckingham Palace in honor of Dolly Parton.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/08/2026

"As America reverts to naked suzerainty, Canada hopes to lead the international resistance movement — yet another reason the Trump administration was so insistent on blocking the country’s power to enter into its own international trade deals."

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Trump shitposts fail to win support for Canadian trade war

Elbows up!

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Kikki Planet @kikkiplanet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Canada is giving serious consideration to changing the name of the United States of America to Epsteinland, in that we don’t expect to doing much business with the pedophile protection nation any longer. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

What's astonishing here is not the usual blustering tantrum from our president. What confounds is that clearly someone told him how much energy we import from Canada and the moron simply got it backwards. Begin this trade war with tariffs on oil and electricity and we're losing from jump.

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🇨🇦LarryBC @lojc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Say what you will about geezer-rock, given recent trade-related events, seeing legendary Canadian band The Guess Who perform last night in Vancouver (with a couple bonus BTO hits), was something special!

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