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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦

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I guess I am on this site now. Ottawa, Canada.

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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 02/10/2026
Because he lacks the learned experience that would tell him this is a dumb idea.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 29/09/2026
Wonder which institution she'll be hired to ruin next?
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 24/09/2026
I was lucky to see him perform live in Vancouver in 2007.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 23/09/2026
I am unafraid to publicly admit that I live for pumpkin spice season and the first chance to put on a fire.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 23/09/2026
"Share and enjoy!"
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 22/09/2026
So the "deal" apparently is revealed as not have existed except in his mind. Paraphrasing our brothers in Ukraine: "We are lucky they are so f***ing stupid".
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 19/09/2026
The Kids in the Hall had that pegged decades ago. youtu.be/wVPn14A1msc?...
youtu.be
Kids In The Hall - Drill Sergeant (Brain Candy)
YouTube video by thejacksonshow
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 19/09/2026
Deep down, we all know it's been here the whole time and "summer" is just a fleeting, temporary state.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 16/09/2026
Paraphrasing here and someone said it first - you may not care about politics, but politics definitely cares about you.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 15/09/2026
Skydome is a masterpiece of design - a brilliant solution to the design brief and an iconic companion to the CN tower.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 11/09/2026
The man does have a unique gift for knowing exactly what to say to piss us off.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 10/09/2026
"It's not easy being green... monster of jealousy and impotent rage."
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Postmedia delenda est @olenargy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Can’t replace a leader of the free world but if we try hard enough we might be able to reconstruct one in aggregate
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 09/09/2026
Thank god I invested my time and effort in eating and drinking well.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 08/09/2026
The only reason to have pushed so hard for it was against US flooding our market. If that is off the table (seemingly more likely with the total collapse of trust in that country) then all bets are off to re-aligning relative to the EU.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 08/09/2026
Was literally going to say exactly this. Agreeing to harmonize on higher standards and generally farmer-friendly policies could be win-win for both consumers and producers.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 08/09/2026
Good topic - but needs a much deeper focus on business and politics to truly explore the depths of the adverse consequences.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 06/09/2026
Making Germany Great Again. Again. *sigh*
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 05/09/2026
Easiest way I can explain it - the last ice age was 4 degrees cooler and North America was almost entirely covered with a mile of ice. Imagine the exact opposite of that and you will know how f**ked humanity is.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 05/09/2026
Clearly worried the equal Earth projection makes their dicks look smaller.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 04/09/2026
"Stable trading relationships that don't change with the whims of an insane oligarch"
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 04/09/2026
The ads write themselves: "Remember when you sewed a Canadian flag on your backpack to tour around Europe in your twenties? Well, you can apply the same principle to your whole company! Cheap (un-tarriffed) raw materials. Educated and multi-lingual workforce. etc. etc. "
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 04/09/2026
Hoo boy this might get complicated. Anglo quebeckers would also often say cottage (at least in West Quebec). Chalet may apply near a ski hill or not near a body of water though.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 02/09/2026
Didn't they say that six months ago? And six months before that?
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 01/09/2026
Maybe I am getting to "old man yells at cloud" age - but there isn't anything here I disagree with. Maybe it also would have been a good idea to save more than a postage stamp worth of old growth forest. 🤷‍♂️
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 31/08/2026
I'm not even joking, but any video I see of Trump cabinet ministers makes me think they are all high on coke.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 30/08/2026
First time cracking 900 points. EAGLE EYES · 926 points · 10 rare words. Only 28 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 10 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/T4TEHZ
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OUTLIER · Day 102
canuckian scored 926 on Day 102. Can you beat them?
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 27/08/2026
Today's @xkcd.com
It's a stickman holding a hammer, lifting up his leg, and saying:

"Listen up, leg. I've been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off!"

It is captioned: tariffs
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 26/08/2026
A whole lotta assh*les down there.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 26/08/2026
Of course it's a foreign source reporting on this. My guess is that these stories don't get nearly the airtime as the price of eggs got in the last election despite the pandemic teaching us that toilet paper access is the key marker of civilization.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 25/08/2026
Proper retaliation would be better labelling for US products (bring a magnifying glass!) so we can avoid them with less effort.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 25/08/2026
Or why our aluminum is so inexpensive?
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 24/08/2026
Focus on what we want as a country - not just what we get as the consequence of being next to that market.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 24/08/2026
I feel the biggest opportunity in this economic warfare is the ability to start re-evaluating *cultural* choices that are tied up in commerce. Open markets to European small cars. Restrict monstrously large SUVs/trucks. Build walkable cities and prioritize quality of life over the profit of a few.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 23/08/2026
I'm going to introduce tariffs on the beer store - making it cost 50% more to buy my own beer. Take that, beer store!
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 23/08/2026
The 90's were incredible for Canadian music. Thanks for assembling this.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 23/08/2026
I'm always reminded of this when giving visiting guests tours of the Rideau canal whose entire purpose was a strategic route to the ocean in case the US blockaded the St. Lawrence.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 22/08/2026
Traitor MP talks to foreign propaganda outlet.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 22/08/2026
Walking away was the right decision. We gave two rounds of concessions and they kept extorting us for more. It's clear the demands were not going to end - so we move on from this abusive relationship.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 22/08/2026
Time will tell. Canadians don't love economic bad news but we are also aware this isn't coming out of mis-management and there is a clear malevolence behind these actions against us.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 21/08/2026
I would prefer this.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 21/08/2026
Honestly, they should have walked away. And also clearly implied that some retaliation (like selling off US bonds) around, oh, late-October might be in the cards.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 21/08/2026
what the everloving f***?!
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 20/08/2026
And I'm sure you'd find that going decades back - well before they put the guy who looks and sounds like botulism in a trenchcoat in charge of it all.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 20/08/2026
We fear the food supply policies of the US more than we fear farmers gouging us on produce. If we were on an island with no giant market next door, that attitude might be vastly different.
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 20/08/2026
😂😂😂
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 20/08/2026
Yep.
static.klipy.com
I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect
Alt: We're all trying to find the guy who did this (I Think You Should Leave "Hot Dog Suspect" meme)
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 20/08/2026
That ballroom isn't going to gild itself!
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 19/08/2026
Honestly, there is no negotiating with these extortionists. Elbows up, eh?
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Mark Demeny 🇨🇦 @markdemeny.com · 18/08/2026
Best way to more predictability is more diversification and less dealing with unstable extortionists.
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