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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...
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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 · 23/06/2026
It was only on a small handful of them. Most of them still have surrender letters in effect and have been issuing more.
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
This is horrible for the dozens to hundreds that received these egregious overreach letters. Also tens of thousands are stuck in PSU with no way out, no way to inquire, no redress. Our rights are being de facto denied under the guise of "in process". Oversight is absolutely necessary!
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
This is atrocious. At the same time 10s of thousands of us (including 1st gen born abroad and even Canadian born) are stuck in an indefinite processing black hole of PSU with no way out. My own app was estimated to take 3 months. It's been 15. IRCC needs major changes. Our rights are being denied.
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This isn’t the only proof-of-citizenship issue at IRCC. Many of us, including 1st gen applicants not affected by C-3, have been stuck in PSU for 15+ months with no timeline, no meaningful updates, and no aparent movement. My own Mar 2025 file was submitted when the posted wait was 3 months.
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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
This tells me #Angels are out on Okamoto: www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/12/ange...
mlbtraderumors.com
Angels Interested In Nolan Arenado
The Angels have shown interest in Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado. St. Louis has been looking to deal the veteran all offseason.
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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/...
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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 · 02/11/2025
He was called out because Vlad crossed the plate obstructing the catcher.
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
He stopped running because he was called automatically out because Vlad obstructed the catcher.
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
3-2 count on Vlad that's only had 6 Ks all post-season. It was a calculated risk that backfired. If Vlad punches it into right field, a single possibly scores a run and we're all singing a different tune.
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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 · 29/09/2025
It's the context in which these "deals" are viewed. Every statement, every deal needs to be looked at from the lens of "how does this benefit the top 0.1%? Can it benefit them more?" That is the measuring stick for everything happening.
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
But her emails
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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 · 16/09/2025
Horray for illiberalism! 🤮
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Gotta love these parties of, by, and for the wealthy. How very American of them.
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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 · 05/09/2025
Their home vs road record is a complete head scratcher
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
My money's on Shapiro or Pete
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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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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
It boggles my mind how people in the Netherlands can ride SAFELY without helmets just about anywhere. Also why isn't Jason Slaughter of NotJustBikes on here?
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Brings back "fond" memories of Goofy kicking Donald in Pennsylvania (look it up).
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Well, it can't possibly be the guns. Definitely have nothing to do with it. None what so ever.
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Driving to Toronto to get mine.
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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.”
startribune.com
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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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Something that I really struggle with, and this is a general comment, not a slight, is that we need to stop referring to them as "accidents" and start using "crash" or "collision".
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
NYC has been one of my favorite cycling experiences. Felt far safer in Manhattan than I ever did commuting in Pittsburgh. Even when I had to ride with traffic in Times Square.
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
media.tenor.com
a man with a mustache is smiling and looking at the camera .
ALT: a man with a mustache is smiling and looking at the camera .
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
I don't disagree. It gets tricky when factoring in things like income level and the value of the vehicle(s) involved. Do I have control over whether I hit a 1996 Honda Civic or a Maserati? Is someone else liable for my choice of luxury vehicle? Bodily harm, that's a different story.
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
You know where else in Europe Montréal isn't? Norway, and they seem to be just fine cycling through snow (and hills).
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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
media.tenor.com
a man standing on a beach with the words " this is the tale of captain jack sparrow "
ALT: a man standing on a beach with the words " this is the tale of captain jack sparrow "
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
"Why don't you go by 'Mike' or something?" "Why should I?! He's the one who sucks!"
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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...
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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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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Um. "Golden", but I think I'm preaching to the choir on that one. 😉
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
We gave it our hearts now it's here for our souls
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
"No age limit"... Is that an upper limit, a lower limit, or both? Who better to round up all the drug-running, rapist infants than infant patriots? 🤮
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
About 20 years ago, when Daylight Saving Time was shifted earlier in the year to where it is now, a guy called into KDKA radio freaking out that his horses were going to start molting earlier because they're changing the time. I wish I was kidding.
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Stop making sense! It's almost like if you build alternatives to driving there's less traffic! Absolute hogwash! 😉
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The US is an advanced economy that is specialized in R&D, services, tech, and finished products. Not extraction and/or refinement of raw materials.
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Mad ADHDer 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @mad-adhder.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Here's the kicker. Even if it did/does increase US manufacturing, it will still drive up the cost because of the tariffs imposed on the raw materials. Especially the ones that aren't available or are in limited supply domestically.
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