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Executive Director at the Arctic Energy Alliance | Lover of dogs, ice cream, Red Sox and Celtics | Life-long Northerner | Yellowknife, NWT

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons buff.ly/YJ1mAiP
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ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.
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Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @markheyck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And we're sinking billions of public funds into more pipelines...
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Northern Lake Lawren Harris 1923
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Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @markheyck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Love the cycling culture that’s flourished since I lived there in the mid to late 90s.
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Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @markheyck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We may be underestimating the Pope’s influence on these playoffs.
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 01/10/2026
Everyday Canadians keep rolling their eyes at the NDP but after they pushed Justin Trudeau into dentalcare, my dentist gave me a free cleaning and excitedly said she could get me a discount on a crown. But then in came Carney, her claims have been repeatedly rejected and it hurts when I chew 🫤
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......
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Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @markheyck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m all in.
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Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @markheyck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You can see previous quarterly reports here: www.canada.ca/en/treasury-... Highest previous quarterly total I could find was Q1 of 2021/22 at $36 million, the majority of which was earmarked for covid-19 prevention ads.
canada.ca
Allocations from the Central Advertising Fund - Canada.ca
The page lists the Treasury Board approvals for government-wide advertising.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit
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Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @markheyck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm not sure we appreciate the scale of the propaganda campaign the Carney government is waging and its impact on public opinion. $115 million allocated in Q1 alone of this year for government advertising, including $76 million (!) for an 'Emerging Needs Fund' (which sure sounds slushy to me).
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Meta and Tik Tok refusing to allow the trailer for Musk to run as a paid ad on their site—just like any other movie trailer—means users should fight tech oligarch solidarity and share it widely youtu.be/FFTf1lzcs28?...
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MUSK | Official Trailer HD
YouTube video by Elevation Pictures
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 26/09/2026
Over the ten years, Premier Smith claims Alberta faced a hostile federal government, oil and gas production doubled, and Ottawa poured tens of billions into energy infrastructure. The tolerance of her big lie is almost as remarkable as the lie itself. ow.ly/Fl7950ZRRaq
On the left: a photograph of Alberta’s flag, which features the provincial shield of arms, waving in front of the Alberta Legislature building in Edmonton. On the right: text that reads “Danielle Smith has turned western grievance into a national unity crisis.”
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Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @markheyck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This was a fun listen: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
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Our Plan to Get Rid of the AL West
Podcast Episode · The PosCast with Joe Posnanski & Michael Schur · September 25 · 1h 25m
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Jenny Kwan @jennykwan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
1/A Parl Secretary should be able to vote according to their conscience. Sean Casey supported my C-233, which sought to close a loophole in Canada’s arms export controls. If MPs face consequences for exercising independent judgment, what does a “free vote” actually mean? www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9...
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Liberal MP says he was demoted for supporting NDP bill targeting arms export controls
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm a proud member of the Writers Union of Canada & incredibly grateful for their work to challenge AI. I'm a bit iffy on petitions in general because most aren't even accepted in the House & just mine your data. But here is an official Parliamentary petition re: regulating AI :
ourcommons.ca
Petition e-7774 - Petitions
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 25/09/2026
Carney: The rules-based international order is crumbling. International Criminal Court: As a participating member you are required by the rules to arrest those with a warrant if they pass through your territory. Carney: Fuck you.
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Don Davies @donvdavies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A new PBO report confirms adding new tax brackets for the wealthiest 0.3% would raise over $1 billion a year. Instead of selling off Canada’s strategic public assets like airports, we should be asking those who have benefited most from our society to contribute their fair share.
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NTPC - Powering the North @poweringnwt.ca · 24/09/2026
When wildfire comes close to home How NTPC crews kept the power system operating through a dangerous wildfire – and what the experience is teaching us about preparing for the next emergency. Read Brendan's story: pnwt.ca/wildfires26 #PoweringtheNorth #NWT #FortSimpson
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Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @markheyck.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Struggling to recall any mention of privatizing airports either during the election campaign or since.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @markheyck.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You misspelled corporate welfare.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ravens' Chorus Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk 2002
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 18/09/2026
There's a reason previous Liberal governments looked at privatizing airports and didn't go through with it. Private investors don't want a stake in our public assets to make them better. They’re in it to make as much money as possible for themselves - while workers and passengers pay the price.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Mark Carney and the Liberals have made their choice. They've chosen the oil industry over everything else. And he and the rest of the Liberals don't want to talk about the consequences of that choice, because when the consequences are made clear, the choice becomes a crime against humanity.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Mark Carney has decided humanity's future is not as important as the oil industry's current profits. It's as simple as that. He's not a complete fool, he knows what's coming if we don't decarbonize as quickly as possible, and he's rejected that path in favour of a decade of high oil revenues.
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 04/09/2026
This kind of report should be accompanied by a press conference—not with some low-level bureaucrat, but with the prime minister. Flanked by all of his ministers. In prime time, with technical briefings. This report says we're facing unimaginable disaster, yet we didn't even get a briefing.
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Gord Johns @gordjohns.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Danielle Smith’s Bill 11 opens the door to U.S.-style two-tier health care, letting those who can pay jump the queue while everyone else waits. The Federal Liberal Government has the power to defend public health care and enforce the Canada Health Act. New Democrats are calling on them to act.
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New Democrats urge federal government to stand up against U.S. style two-tier health
New Democrats urge federal government to stand up against U.S. style two-tier health
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/09/2026
Holy shit.
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Mamdani issues AI moratorium in NYC schools
Kids "need to wrestle with tough problems on their own,” New York's mayor said Wednesday.
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Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @markheyck.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Here is my letter to the MacDonald Laurier Institute on the subject of their appalling research. Use as you will. I recommend sending something of your own, though. And if you know anyone associated with MLI - and Board directors, say - send it to them, too.
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Alex Usher email to Brian Lee Crowley
(text of an email sent to Brian Lee Crowley of the MacDonald Laurier Institute on September 2, 2026) Dear Brian, I am writing to you and your board with respect to the publication “The equity excelle...
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I’m not joking, Canada should expel American diplomats over this
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Fin de l'été Philip Surrey 1974
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Badlands Airstream Taralee Guild 2023
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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
13/ Aside from moral repugnance, why else should we be concerned about Donald Trump Jr. swanning in & out of the #Yukon with bearskins tucked under his arm? Because "The Yukon remains the only jurisdiction in 🇨🇦 Canada that allows out-of-country political donations".
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Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @markheyck.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
They’re baaaaaack. 😍
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 16/08/2026
1/ We've lost a beloved member of the NDP family. Dick Proctor was an MP, a provincial and federal secretary, and worked with many great New Democrats, from Ed Broadbent and Jack Layton to Roy Romanow and Allan Blakeney.
A black-and-white photo from the 1970s of Stephen Lewis, his children Avi and Illana, and Dick Proctor on a campaign bus.
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Canadian Hammer 🇨🇦 🔨 @canadianhammer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"Welcome to PepsiCo's Banff National Park, home of the Chic Fil-A Springs Hotel, sponsored by Anthropic. To ensure your safety, please scan all of your biometrics for our data partner, Palantir, before proceeding. That will be $600. Elbows up!" canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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Carney’s CEO summit could put public assets on the table
This September, a who’s who of global finance will descend on a luxury hotel in downtown Toronto for an invitation-only event, the first-ever Canada Investment Summit. As Bianca Mugyenyi writes, the s...
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
There are a few big fat Canadian political eye-openers in just these three paragraphs...
As first reported by the Star on Friday, the federal government clipped the wings of the premier’s vision for an expanded Billy Bishop within hours of receiving public survey results showing 87 per cent of 87,000 respondents were opposed to the idea.

The move blindsided Queen’s Park. Ford and Carney, who have enjoyed warm relations since the prime minister succeeded Justin Trudeau in March 2025, had even shaken hands to informally seal the deal at the premier’s Etobicoke home.

“It’s Billy Bishop for Alto, that was always the understanding,” said one insider, referring to the federal government’s proposed high-speed rail line linking Toronto to Quebec City.
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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Smith’s illegal push toward private, for-profit health care threatens universal medicare and appeasing her doesn’t prevent the separatist threat. As I told the Toronto Star: protecting public health care is key to showing Canada works for Albertans. www.thestar.com www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
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Private billing law for doctors threatens universal health care, critics charge
Alberta's Health Statutes Amendment Act could create a "dual-practice" framework allowing physicians to provide publicly insured care and privately paid services.
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Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @markheyck.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Nice work on the NESN broadcast!
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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
4/ ...comes this news - "The paper's former publisher said the loss reflects the cost of printing and the rise of tech competitors. The move also mirrors an issue across the country as local newsrooms are either closing or downsizing": www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Yellowknifer retires Friday print edition, moves to publishing once a week | CBC News
An announcement in the Wednesday edition of the newspaper detailed how the 54 year-old publication will reduce its print schedule from two weekly issues down to one, published on Wednesdays only.
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Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
1/ Question: What do we risk losing when we lose our #Community #Newspapers & foreign interests take over much of what is left (while abusing Canadian taxpayers' money)? Answer: 🇨🇦 #Democracy (among other things).
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Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @markheyck.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @markheyck.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I'm fond of DuckDuckGoing it.
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Red Sox @redsox.com · 17/07/2026
Shut 'em out for 10 straight! 🗒️: bit.ly/44EIOa7
TEXT: "July 17, 2026 Final Score: Rays 0, Red Sox 10"
IMAGE: Carlos Narváez smiles and wears the Wally Head as he high-fives teammates in the dugout.
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Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @markheyck.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Seriously? You accept blood money from a merchant of death?
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Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @markheyck.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Could be talking about Canada.
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