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Investigative journalist llebrun[at]thewatchdog.ca | @thewatchdog.ca

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 4h
I can’t believe this was published, but I say that a lot these days
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 16h
The National Post is using language that seems wildly irresponsible and dangerous here Citing ancient “Jewish law,” it labels Avi Lewis as a “rodef” The ultranationalist extremist who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin rationalized his killing on the same basis: www.theguardian.com/world/2020/o...
None of this applies, however, when a Jewish person presents a clear and present danger to the Jewish community. When that happens, Jewish thought is much more forceful: you must prevent the perpetrator from
causing harm.

Jewish law developed two character sketches to describe such scenarios. The first is known as a "mosar" — a Jewish person who informs to oppressive
authorities, potentially leading to the imprisonment, torture or death of community members. The second, called a "rodef," refers to a Jew who is actively pursuing another with the intent to harm or kill them. In both scenarios, the law is clear that a Jew is duty-bound to step in. Protecting the community and its members is the most important thing.It was around then that Yigal Amir, an earnest law student, made up his mind to kill the prime minister. Later he would insist he was not swayed by extremist rabbis; he had reached his own decision that Rabin - through his willingness to cede territory and to allow the creation of a Palestinian Authority, with its own armed police force - was a rodef and therefore a legitimate target. He got a weapon easily enough. With his brother, Amir was working on the creation of an anti-Palestinian militia. Nor was access difficult; on at least three occasions before the rally, Amir attended public events where Rabin was present. He was waiting for the right moment: he didn't want to shoot and miss.
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
News: The victim in a fatal stabbing at the Edmonton Corn Maze was an avowed Nazi who tried to recruit the accused to join a gang shortly before the attack, a judge has heard. edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/m...
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Victim in Edmonton Corn Maze stabbing tried to recruit accused to Nazi group, trial hears
The victim in a fatal stabbing at the Edmonton Corn Maze was an avowed Nazi who tried to recruit the accused to join a gang shortly before the attack, a judge has heard.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 16h
The National Post is using language that seems wildly irresponsible and dangerous here Citing ancient “Jewish law,” it labels Avi Lewis as a “rodef” The ultranationalist extremist who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin rationalized his killing on the same basis: www.theguardian.com/world/2020/o...
None of this applies, however, when a Jewish person presents a clear and present danger to the Jewish community. When that happens, Jewish thought is much more forceful: you must prevent the perpetrator from
causing harm.

Jewish law developed two character sketches to describe such scenarios. The first is known as a "mosar" — a Jewish person who informs to oppressive
authorities, potentially leading to the imprisonment, torture or death of community members. The second, called a "rodef," refers to a Jew who is actively pursuing another with the intent to harm or kill them. In both scenarios, the law is clear that a Jew is duty-bound to step in. Protecting the community and its members is the most important thing.It was around then that Yigal Amir, an earnest law student, made up his mind to kill the prime minister. Later he would insist he was not swayed by extremist rabbis; he had reached his own decision that Rabin - through his willingness to cede territory and to allow the creation of a Palestinian Authority, with its own armed police force - was a rodef and therefore a legitimate target. He got a weapon easily enough. With his brother, Amir was working on the creation of an anti-Palestinian militia. Nor was access difficult; on at least three occasions before the rally, Amir attended public events where Rabin was present. He was waiting for the right moment: he didn't want to shoot and miss.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 17h
Wait, he signed an executive order to literally “replace the term “Artificial Intelligence” (“AI”) with “Super Intelligence” (“SI”)” ?? www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...
Fact Sheet: President
Donald J. Trump Inaugurates The Era of Super Intelligence
The White House
September 29, 2026

USHERING IN SUPER INTELLIGENCE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to replace the term "Artificial Intelligence" ("Al") with "Super Intelligence" ("SI") in the executive branch to recognize the continuously advancing technological frontier and the limitless promise it offers the American people.
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Emma Arkell @emmaarkell.bsky.social · 20h
My second article for the day is about this morning's historic BC Supreme Court ruling in favour of the founders of the Drug User Liberation Front (DULF). The judge praised DULF's work, said a safe supply is necessary to save lives, and threw out charges of drug trafficking.
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De Facto Journalism Co-op @defactomedia.ca · 21h
Canada’s drug policy violates its Charter, BC Supreme Court Justice Catherine Murray ruled on Tuesday, by making it de facto illegal to run a compassion club providing tested illicit drugs. Read the full breakdown of her decision, by @godfrey.work: www.defactomedia.ca/breaking-dul...
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BREAKING: DULF founders’ trafficking charges thrown out in BC Supreme Court ruling on constitutional challenge
Justice Catherine Murray applauds Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, declares a section of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act unconstitutional
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 22h
The idea that we are all supposed to stop calling AI “artificial intelligence” after these companies branded it as such for years and suddenly start calling it “SI” and “super intelligence” is cult-like levels of delusion
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dustin @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026
"You selflessly put yourselves to the side for this cause, and that's something most people wouldn't do. For that, I applaud you. You should be proud of yourselves," she says to Kalicum and Nyx. "You put your lives on hold for many valuable years, and I can see this process has is worn you down."
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 29/09/2026
[The judge] “said in court on Tuesday that the pair ‘selflessly’ put themselves to the side for the cause. ‘Mr. Kalicum and Ms. Nyx have borne the burden of bringing a successful constitutional challenge, thereby doing the public interest a service at considerable personal cost’
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Judge tosses drug trafficking convictions for B.C. compassion club founders after constitutional challenge | CBC News
A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 29/09/2026
This pep talk is about as reassuring as having your town's local Big Foot expert tell you to trust your instincts and just be yourself
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I have to give a ton of credit to @TerryNewman & Amy Eileen Hamm ( @preta_6) for being fearless in their columns and reporting for the @nationalpost The topics they're tackling shouldn't be difficult to talk about but in this age of wokeism, antisemitism and censorship, both have shown courage that very few of their legacy media colleagues have Keep doing what you're doing and ignore the noise l've learned to do that over the years and there's really nothing more freeing 9:06 AM • Sep 29, 2026 • 1,831 Views
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 29/09/2026
For those keeping track, Canada now has *two* journalists with purported links to foreign intelligence agencies
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This National Post Columnist Says He Spied for a Foreign Intelligence Agency. Experts Call His Behaviour ‘Unethical’ and ‘Absurd’.
National Post columnist Adam Zivo says he was moonlighting as a foreign intelligence asset at the same time as he worked for the National Post
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 29/09/2026
A Turkish media outlet is reporting the fake AI journalist “Daniel Robson,” who was published by the Ottawa Citizen, Policy Options, Western Standard and The Hub, was targeting a “critic of the Moroccan ruling elite” The dissident suspects “Daniel Robson” may have links to “Moroccan intelligence”
turkiyetoday.com
Exclusive—Fake AI columnist dupes Canadian press to target Moroccan dissidents, and a Turkish 'middleman' - Türkiye Today
The phantom writer communicated exclusively via email and rarely phoned Canadian publications, who were oblivious until Türkiye Today unraveled the matter
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 29/09/2026
I’m having trouble keeping count of how many people National Post senior editor Terry Newman is currently threatening to sue into oblivion
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I think you had better apologize and retract.
Because if you're implying what I think you're implying, I will be contacting a lawyer.
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When you spend that bonus, remember to buy Canadian. x.com/terrynewman/st...David McLaughlin @DavidMcLA •11h
"paid political platforming" charge by @nationalpost no less.
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Your mailbox here appears to be closed and I haven't received a response to my LinkedIn request for your mailing address for my lawyer. My mailbox is open.Dominic Cardy
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National Post editor says she knows the PM colluded w the NYT to break their editorial standards.
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She threatens legal action. Apparently NP editorial standard is "trust me - and if you don't trust me l'Il threaten you. Show more
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And it's going to get really expensive for them, not me.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 28/09/2026
Brad Bradford disputing @nationalobserver.com’s reporting: “There’s no rewards … there’s nothing” Audio recording from Brad Bradford’s campaign meeting: “There are going to be rewards … it’s a gamification of the system”
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Rory White @rorywh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You could also search for anyone living in Toronto by name and see their address and sometimes phone number...
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 28/09/2026
If I’m reading this correctly, Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford’s campaign is asking volunteers to give them full access to their contact lists on their *personal* cell phones? www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/28/i...
'You don't need to freak out about this'
Introducing Bradford's supporters to the app on the Zoom call, Punia instructed them to give the app permission to access all of their contacts.

"Do not give it partial contact ability, give it full. And what I want to say to you guys here is, you don't need to freak out about this," said Punia. He reassured them that only contacts they marked as known or potential Bradford supporters would be given to the campaign.

One attendee hesitated as she had over 2,400 contacts on her phone. She was instructed to give the app access to all of them and mark them one by one according to their level of support for Bradford.
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Graeme Bayliss @gbayliss.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wrote about Premier Doug Ford's apparent indifference to human life for @thestar.com: www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
thestar.com
Graeme Bayliss: His cyclist friend was killed. Why did Doug Ford’s response include ‘lmao’?
No one is expecting the premier to mash out the Bixby letter on his iPhone. Yet we might expect more than this.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
The before and after it's even more haunting.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 27/09/2026
First poll in the wake of Pierre Poilievre's AI rap video shows NDP within 4 pts of displacing Conservatives as 2nd party
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New poll finds support for Conservatives and NDP just 4 points apart
According to a new EKOS study, the Conservatives and the NDP are now polling at just four points apart, at 22% and 18%, respectively.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 27/09/2026
When Pierre Poilievre’s right, he’s right: Canadians should be paying no taxes to the EU, at least not until we obtain full EU membership
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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 27/09/2026
Pierre Poilievre tapping into what everyone is worried about in Canada: waitresses and welders paying taxes to the EU
Pierre Poilievre tweet: How does it save money for Canadians to force waitresses and welders to pay taxes to the EU?
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Ottawa is a city that celebrates its 200th birthday with bagpipers marching through the streets under Vietnamese communist flags and banners announcing that we’re GOING TO THE MOON — and it all somehow makes complete logical sense because this is Ottawa
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Today, on Ottawa’s 200th birthday, I reflect on our city’s proud heritage
WHISKEY AND WICKEDNESS
A BASTION OF TAVERNS AND BROTHELS

From the earliest days of Bytown, Lowertown had been a bustling row of taverns, inns, and brothels.
These trades catered well to the largely seasonal workforce of lumbermen and navies in Bytown.
Every spring, having spent several cold months in the woods, hundreds of lumberjacks would arrive in Bytown with half a year's wages in their pockets and eager for the diversions that Bytown had to offer.
As early as 1832, Bytown had nine licensed drinking establishments and countless illegal operations, many selling raw white whiskey known as poitín. This number ballooned to over 70 taverns and inns by 1852. Taverns such as Isaac Bérichon's City Hotel operated in Lowertown. Richmond Landing, just west of modern-day Parliament Hill, and Corktown near the canal, were home to more colourful establishments like Mother Firth's Inn. Many workers drank a gallon of whiskey a week. The streets were often filled with drunkenness, dancing, and fighting. Violence was commonplace.
In Corktown, Irish workers frequented Mother McGinty's tavern. Like Mother Firth, Mother McGinty was known as a formidable matron who could more than hold her own against unruly patrons. Said to have been armed with a winning smile and backed by an arm that she was reputed to swing with great potency, Mother McGinty ensured that the beer, rum, and poitín flowed freely. McGinty, who catered to often cash-poor labourers, kept track of her patrons' tallies on a chalkboard behind the bar; a short stroke for a half-pint, a full stroke for a quart, and an eagle's talon for a gallon!
ALCOOL ET AGRESSIVITÉ
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Periodic reminder that "Ugh, having to speak more than 1 language is hard/annoying/woke/etc." is the dumbest North American white people shit. Speaking multiple languages is standard practice in the vast majority of the world.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
8 months from now we are going to find out the premier’s office intimidated a veterinarian to shelve the autopsy report in a failed attempt to cover-up the death of this rat, aren’t we?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/09/2026
Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat
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Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat
Province’s rat patrol called in to investigate as town of Bowden announces discovery of dead vermin
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Ariel Troster @arieltroster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Last night I knocked on the door of a woman who was moving into an apartment after months of living in her car, homeless. She was setting up the place so her kid could be returned to her. We’re all one accident, layoff or crisis away from similar outcomes. What an honour to welcome her home.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 25/09/2026
Canada needs an immediate moratorium on AI-generated videos www.instagram.com/reel/Ddt78Ij...
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 25/09/2026
Ruh roh: All of the "Daniel Robson" articles on the Western Standard have suddenly 404'd!
404 page error for most recent "Daniel Robson" story on Western Standard
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💜 Cyn ✨ @obicynkenobi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Seeing my fellow millennials (and Gen Xers) breathlessly repeat this is happening for their ‘content’ reminds me of all the dumb shit written about millennials in the 2001 to 2007 era especially. I wish I could remember it all, but seriously guys - wtf we doing here? You look dumb af repeating this
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 25/09/2026
The most ridiculous thing about this entire debate is that the only evidence this is even happening comes from a flippant anecdote from some idiot on TikTok
cbc.ca
Is it unprofessional to bring iced coffee to a job interview? Gen Z is being dragged for it | CBC News
The debate has divided the internet and generations, with some saying that bringing a beverage to a job interview projects an unserious attitude, and others defending their right to remain caffeinated...
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 25/09/2026
"Ed Sheeran's shows this weekend at Gillette Stadium — home to Robert Kraft's New England Patriots — have officially been canceled ... Sources with direct knowledge confirm Friday and Saturday shows were canceled due to bad weather. There is a massive nor'easter storm bearing down on New England"
tmz.com
Ed Sheeran's Shows at Robert Kraft's Gillette Stadium Are Canceled
Ed Sheeran's shows this weekend at Gillette Stadium -- home to Robert Kraft's New England Patriots -- have officially been canceled ... TMZ has learned.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 25/09/2026
What if we created tiny artificial suns and attached them to poles above streets?
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Ximena González @ximenaka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interestingly enough, non-permanent residents are a population that pays into seniors’ benefits, while they will never get to use those benefits themselves. As millennials age, Canadians might come regret all the scapegoating.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 25/09/2026
“We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us” - Marshall McLuhan
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 25/09/2026
It turns out "Daniel Robson" is also a prolific contributor to the Western Standard His first articles for WS were published February 2026, the morning after the Tumbler Ridge school shooting Since then, it's a lot of criticisms focused on crime, immigration and pro-Palestinian protesters
Daniel Robson is an independent Canadian journalist specializing in extremism, terrorism, and crime. His work Tocuses on nauonal ana communirv secuntv. as well as the legal. Institutional. and voicv dimensions of public safety. He writes on emerging threats, digital extremism, and accountability in Canada.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 25/09/2026
Although Policy Options published an article from an author with an apparently AI-generated headshot and whose articles sound like they were also generated by AI, I appreciate their transparency here and also sharing additional details about the deceptive behaviour of this "Daniel Robson" character
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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 25/09/2026
What is more deranged: these products are provided in some schools. We are petitioning the BC Ministry of Education and Childcare to remove AI from schools. They replied to say it was not their responsibility, and that it is up to school boards. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pa...
actionnetwork.org
Pause on Generative AI in BC Schools
We demand that the Ministry of Education and Child Care enact a two-year pause (moratorium) on AI usage in classrooms in British Columbia. This means that for two years, in schools in BC: - Students...
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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Not at all surprised that ChatGPT uses this kind of language to discuss a combat shotgun because this is just how dudes post on the gun forums that the model trained on
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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Gonna do an accomplice liability crim hypo where I describe these facts as if a person said it and then reveal its ChatGPT
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 24/09/2026
This is absolutely deranged: Months before murdering 6 people and injuring 27 more, ChatGPT told the teen school shooter in Tumbler Ridge, BC that using a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun is “brutal” in a “hallway, indoors or a crowded classroom” because “close quarters” is that gun’s “playground”
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Luca Salami. @lucasalami.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Luke just did something more interesting and creative than the trek writing room has done in two years.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 24/09/2026
I feel like that episode of Star Trek: TNG where Geordi LaForge falls in love in the holodeck would be more culturally relevant in 2026 if his holo-girlfriend had also counselled him to hack into federation public healthcare databases and commit acts of murder
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 24/09/2026
This is absolutely deranged: Months before murdering 6 people and injuring 27 more, ChatGPT told the teen school shooter in Tumbler Ridge, BC that using a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun is “brutal” in a “hallway, indoors or a crowded classroom” because “close quarters” is that gun’s “playground”
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 24/09/2026
Belleville Police just played a new video at a press conference showing the gunman screamed "you are going to die for the Jews" before shooting a police officer outside a synagogue It's been reported the gunman was suing the military over its vaccine mandate and blamed Jews for COVID-19
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 24/09/2026
Love how Facebook's algorithm randomly pushes completely off-topic weekly briefings from the Russian embassy into my newsfeed alongside life updates from my elderly aunts, cousins, high school acquaintances, etc. and I'm supposed to just act like this is normal
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Address ahead of the elections
Greetings to the ninth Global Fishery Forum Birthday greetings to Prime Minister of India
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Presentation of new civil aviation facilities
Meeting of the Military-Industrial Commission Telephone conversation with President-elect of
South Ossetia Marat Kambolov
Greetings to Marat Kambolov on his election as
President of the Republic of South Ossetia
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• Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's congratulations to Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev
Press release on Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's meeting with candidate for the office of UN Secretary-General Olara Otuunnu
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks and answers to questions at an embassy roundtable discussion titled "The Ukraine Crisis: The West's Legal Aggression,"
On September 15, Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov took part in a roundtable on "The Ukrainian Crisis: The West's Legal Aggression", organised by the Diplomatic Academy of MGIMO University of the Russian MFA
Response by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria
Zakharova to a Media Question Concerning
Statements by the U.S. Secretary of the Air Force Regarding Possession of Orbital Weapons
Remarks and answers to questions by Russian
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