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Shilpashree Jagannathan @shilpajn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
What happens when a Canadian citizenship application is sent to a little-known IRCC unit called Program Support? My latest for New Canadian Media, featuring @mad-adhder.bsky.social: newcanadianmedia.ca/american-fam...
newcanadianmedia.ca
American families stuck in limbo: Citizenship applicants caught in IRCC’s ‘black hole’ - New Canadian Media
Internal records show proof-of-citizenship applications from foreign nationals, particularly Americans, with existing ties to Canada being referred to “Program Support”, including files marked urgent,...
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
How bad are things that we're now getting alerts about planes landing safely?!
Google alert titled "Plane lands safely". American Airlines flight 1461 landed safely in Newark
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Been hyperfocused on the #Pirates recently. It's been radio silence on any substantive updates or rumors regarding Okamoto for about 28–36 hours... This makes me believe they are in the endgame. My guess is something gets announced in the next 3 hours (7PM ET, 4PM PT, 9AM JST).
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I love how business owners are always so concerned about the 3 - 5 parking spots in front of their stores that bring maybe a couple dozen people to the area in a day vs public transit that brings hundreds. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
New Bathurst streetcar priority lanes have commuters hopeful, businesses cautious | CBC News
Toronto is moving forward with its plan to transition lanes on some of its busiest streets into reserved lanes for TTC vehicles. Starting Wednesday, construction will begin to transition the north and...
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I've heard stories of how bad customer service is at @aircanada.bsky.social, but I thought "nah, can't be that bad." I guess it was challenge accepted. Signed up to transfer points for a trip I'm planning. They canceled my account before I could book. Guess they don't like money.
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Why is it that lighting a parking lot (for cars that have lights) is necessary and expected, but lighting a playground is "too expensive" and "excessive"?
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Trump's designation of Antifa as a terrorist org is 0% about "domestic terror" (or Charlie Kirk's assassination) and 100% about defunding the Democratic Party. Why else would he target "groups that fund Antifa"? ActBlue is in the crosshairs. "A tryant will always find a pretext for his tyranny."
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
There goes the First Amendment.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
First, and I shouldn't need to preface this, I will never condone violence of any sort. Also: free speech is dead in the USA www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Charlie Kirk death: Report those who celebrate the shooting to employers, Vance says
The vice-president's remarks come amid a wave of firings over posts deemed inappropriate about Kirk's death.
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
@margaretatwood.bsky.social wrote this book already.
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
In places with good bike infrastructure, cycling is a practical and natural way to get around, not a statement about fitness or the environment.
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Streets.mn @streets.mn · 25/08/2025
"Claire Thefaine agreed about feeling unsafe on a bike... “I have not had a single day without an incident that has left me shaken up. It can be grating to hear the people around me discussing standstill traffic on their commute when I fear for my safety and life every day on mine.”
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Detours to nowhere, bicyclist close calls: reports from a tough summer for commuters
The Minnesota Star Tribune asked readers to talk about their worst commutes amid all the road construction. Here is a sampling of what they said.
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Oh The Urbanity! @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Even in Montreal, with its large pre-war central city — where the overall density (including suburbs) is similar to many bike-friendly Dutch cities — people play the “we’re not Europe” card, especially in the anglo media.
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
@ohtheurbanity.bsky.social I guess these kind of short-sighted opinions are everywhere. Even in the most cycling-forward cities. My "favorite" argument, among so many tired tropes, is that cyclists should be required to pay for insurance... 🤦 www.montrealgazette.com/opinion/arti...
montrealgazette.com
Opinion: Double the bike paths in Montreal? No and no
Whatever the cost, one thing is clear: the money would be far better spent fixing our roads and upgrading essential infrastructure.
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Remind me again about what "socialism" is (at least in the eyes of the right-wing)?
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Canadians:
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a man in a suit and tie is smoking a cigarette and saying `` we will not go quietly into the night '' .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is smoking a cigarette and saying `` we will not go quietly into the night '' .
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
A different way of practicing politics is possible - where we vigorously fight for what’s right while inviting people into our coalition, rather than pushing them away.
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Time to boycott CBS and Paramount. www.post-gazette.com/news/politic...
post-gazette.com
Skydance pledges to Trump’s FCC it will eliminate DEI, install ‘ombudsman’ to root out ‘bias’ at CBS News
Skydance Media needs the approval of President Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission in order to take over Paramount Global. It’s...
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Canada rates as one of the LOWEST overall tax burdens in the western world if you consider the total tax paid by employee and employer, and health care premiums and expenses, so true total tax burden. 🧵 financialpost.com/personal-fin...
financialpost.com
Canada's personal tax rates need to come down. Here's how to do it
That it is acceptable to have marginal personal tax rates that exceed 50% is something that needs a rethink. Read more from Kim Moody
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Study of 6,600 episodes of kids’ TV over 60 years finds boys portrayed as ‘doers’ and girls as passive. And male characters still dominate dialogue, 50% more than female characters. @kimelsesser.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
forbes.com
Study: For 60 Years, Kids' TV Cast Boys As Doers And Girls As Passive
New research reveals that the language in kid’s TV is reinforcing harmful gender stereotypes, and that little has changed in 60 years.  In some cases, it’s getting worse.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Dean Blundell🇨🇦 @deanblundell.bsky.social John Stewart's response to CBS firing Colbert. #cdnpoli
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
So if undocumented and some documented immigrants aren't eligible for Medicaid... What exactly are they doing with all this information?? Unless they are after people with disabilities... 🤔 www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
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ICE will get access to Medicaid enrollees' personal information
The immigration agency will use Medicaid data to identify and locate people it believes are in the country unlawfully.
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 10/07/2025
“It depends if you look Hispanic.” From Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
Two weeks have passed since a Florida Highway Patrol officer arrested the Honduran immigrant client of Magdalena Cuprys of Cuprys & Associates. “He was stopped at a weigh station in Tampa because he owns a construction company, and he was required to stop for his truck to be weighed,” Cuprys told me. “The client had a valid Florida driver’s license. The patrol officer called Customs and Border Protection on him. The client called me, and the officer took the phone from him and spoke with me.”

She asked why CBP was alerted. “I was advised that the client looked Hispanic, had a Hispanic name, and now they are collaborating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and CBP, and their orders are to call CBP any time they encounter anyone they suspect is an immigrant,” said Cuprys. “I asked if they would have followed the same process if it had been me driving, and the response was it depends if you look Hispanic.”
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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a man in a black shirt is making a funny face while sitting at a table in a dark room .
ALT: a man in a black shirt is making a funny face while sitting at a table in a dark room .
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
.... Last time I checked, LA wasn't on a border... (checks map) Yep, definitely not on a border
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
"kids in the United States were 80% more likely to die [than those in European nations]" Key difference: the vast majority of kids in the US are bussed to school, Europeans walk. Our built environment is literally killing our children. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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The health of U.S. kids has declined significantly since 2007, a new study finds
A new study in the journal JAMA finds the health of America's children has worsened across several key indicators over the last two decades. That includes the number of children with chronic diseases.
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Do you really need a freaking "safety findings" report to tell you this?!? IT'S SIMPLE PHYSICS!!! If you double the size and mass of a thing, it's going to do a lot more damage to the 6 year old that it just obliterated.
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
If you watch nothing else, watch this. I'm the son of a naturalized immigrant. If you think this can't happen to you or someone you know, think again.
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
And by "good grades" they often mean C average or better. Many districts in my area won't approve IEPs unless the student is receiving Ds and Fs and/or is socially disruptive.
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Pennsylvania needs to step up. It needs to adopt a progressive tax structure that doesn't overburden lower incomes. It needs to fully fund CHIP, SNAP, and Medicaid. It needs to fund schools at the state level and end the semi-private system of educational haves and have-nots. PA needs to lead.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/07/2025
The fact we have secret police whisking people off the streets doesn’t get enough attention. It ain’t normal and we’re further down the road to authoritarianism than you think.
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
It's almost like gutting NOAA was a bad idea!
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
So glad the US broke away from the oppressive Britain to become the shining example of racism and intolerance 249 years later. 🤦
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Me guessing animal with family: Me: is it a mammel? F: Yes M: Carnivore F: Yes M: Walks on 4 legs? F: Yes M: Cat family? F: No M: Bear family? F: Yes M: Does it live in North America? F: No M: Eat bamboo? F: No M: Eat Eucalyptus? F: No ... F: Think cold Me: Polar bears live in Canada and Alaska F: 🤯
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
My fellow white folk seem to be complacent in their perceived safety. Being ND and a dual national puts me at high risk of arrest, deportation, denaturalization, etc... Mark my words, though, once they're finished with the marginalized groups, they're coming for white resisters. /
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
YES!!
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FF-Suze @suze-bsky.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Will Canada be relegated to the back burner yet again or will it finally become a grown up on the world stage? open.substack.com/pub/lenispoo...
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The Arrow Returns: A Made-in-Canada Car With a Second Chance at Sovereignty
The story of a concept vehicle that carries more than parts and panels — it carries the weight of a nation’s potential.
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Can you imagine, respect? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
Ottawa flies American flag at city hall on July 4, citing protocol | CBC News
The City of Ottawa is still flying the Stars and Stripes on Independence Day this Friday, regardless of trade tensions between the United States and Canada.
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Plain and simple truth: People on Medicaid don't fund campaigns People on SNAP don't fund campaigns Rural communities don't fund campaigns The 3.5% protesting in the streets (mostly) don't fund campaigns Until we get money out of politics, this is our growing reality
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I don't think I've ever seen someone change the subject that fast before.
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Well...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The Pirates are 21-17 since May 20. That's a pretty long stretch of good baseball and just shows how epicly bad April and May were.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
This has always been the GOP's strategy: 1) Cut taxes for the wealthy & corporations by claiming they'll pay for themselves. 2) Explode deficits 3) Use the debt as an excuse to demand cuts to vital programs that help millions. 4) Repeat.
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
At this point, we know what's going to happen with this big bloated bill. We know it will be approved. We know billionaires are going to get massive tax breaks. Instead of using it as a talking point, Dems need to rally the states to fill the gaps. We need action. We need solutions. 1/
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