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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 7h
Here’s the monthly data with a 12-month trailing average, so we don’t “look ahead” of the time series. We can see that visits from Canada are substantially down. Like, a *lot*. And if we looked at the French series by itself we’d see something too. But it’s not on the scale of Covid. Yet.
Smoothed monthly graph shows Canada has dropped in visits substantially, but not to the extent we saw in Covid
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Wildlife Rescue Society of Saskatchewan @wrsos.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The @CanadianWildlifeHealthCooperative has also recently addressed the fear surrounding bats, noting that the stigma and perceived threat associated with bats can be exaggerated and disproportionate to the actual risk. healthywildlife.ca/coexisting-w...
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Coexisting with bats: understanding pet predation, rabies risk, exclusion from homes and more - Healthy Wildlife - The blog of the CWHC
Now that spring is upon us, bats have started to emerge from hibernation or migrate back north, and some people are bound to encounter them. Many people are afraid of bats, some due to their link to…
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Sorry Buddy @3cityyimby.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Globe's really giving both barrels here. If you're an American who thinks the Canucks are being a bit silly lately, here's the view from the editorial board of our national newspaper
theglobeandmail.com
Globe editorial: A free Canada is worth the sacrifice
Trump’s thuggishness has made clear that the stakes are no longer just trade, but Canada’s survival as an independent country
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I like the precedent, tbh. It means if we are not planning to do much business with Trump anymore, we're allowed to change his name to Pumpkin McRapist.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Americans hear "51st state" as Trump trolling. Canadians hear it as an existential threat to their sovereignty. That gap in perception is why Carney can't afford to look conciliatory, even if the economics of retaliation don't add up. This isn't just a trade war anymore.
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Carolyn 🇨🇦 @carolynp.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Meme from Lord of the Rings. Gimli: never thought I’d die fighting side by side with Doug Ford. Legolas: I’m gonna rip out all the bike lanes. Gimli: Christ alive you’re the worst.
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Matt Keevil 🇨🇦 @mattkeevil.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Get outta my garage, thumbtack face! We’ve had so much rain we’ve had mosquitoes like never have before. It’s the first year we have seen Gallinippers here (We have only found them before at the Burnt Lands Alvar). I thought I heard a mouse but it was this thing banging around in a grocery bag!
Gallinipper mosquito resting on a cardboard box.
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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 31/07/2026
Zach found this recording recently, and it's a crucial piece of evidence that thoroughly refutes a theory put forward by Alina Chan, DRASTIC, and even, according to what we read in Vanity Fair, the FBI. Check his thread! #covidorigin
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A case of Mini-me DOGE. The Carney government has been firing scientists and researchers. Now they are asking some of them to come back to help figure things out. We risk a great deal in losing research expertise in agriculture, climate, fisheries/oceans. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/31/n...
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Feds ask fired scientists to advise on Canada's future research
Officials at Canada's agriculture department are asking scientists who were abruptly fired earlier this year to help the agency decide its future research goals, Canada's National Observer has found.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026
Admirable clarity @science.org
The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 21/07/2026
Now with hilarious article!
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Canadians just so goddamn tired of this bullshit
CANADA - Canadians across the country have collectively unleashed a sigh of agonized frustration while simultaneously stating "Again with this bullshit?"
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
My "There is No Kill Switch" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 21/07/2026
Andrew Tate slowly realizing exclusive new manosphere actually jail
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Andrew Tate slowly realizing exclusive new manosphere actually jail
MIAMI - Controversial online men's influencer Andrew Tate, as well as his brother Tristan, is gradually realizing that the elite new manosphere club he has been ushered into is in fact a federal penit...
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Matt Keevil 🇨🇦 @mattkeevil.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It’s a year of abundant Southern Red-backed voles around my place it seems. I keep coming across them. The second cutest local rodent (behind flying squirrels and just edging out baby porcupines).
Vole in a nest of dry moss and grass Vole in a nest of dry moss and grass
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Saeed Khan @saeedwkhan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I don't think MOST Canadians know the history of the ICC and how instrumental Canada was in creating it. It was the LIBERALS under Chretien, & ppl like Lloyd Axworthy who pushed for and negotiated the Rome Statute and then made Canada the First country in the world to enact it in law.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 17/07/2026
Meet the Canadian civil servant responsible for sending our wildfire smoke to the U.S.
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Meet the Canadian civil servant responsible for sending our wildfire smoke to the U.S.
With wildfire smoke drifting down from Canada into Michigan, New York and other states, numerous Americans have once again taken to social media to complain about Canada ruining their summers and “sen...
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Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
A native fish species is eating some of the most damaging invasive species in the Great Lakes…AND making a significant impact! Freshwater Drum: The overlooked native fish that has been crushing trillions of Zebra & Quagga Mussels in Lake Erie www.canr.msu.edu/news/freshwa...
An angler holds a Freshwater Drum prior to release.
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Benjamin Pope @benjaminpope.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
cutting pure science to prioritize applications is fundamentally like asking farmers not to waste time producing grain, cheese, and tomatoes and focus on making pizzas
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Matt Keevil 🇨🇦 @mattkeevil.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I carved a pickaxe handle for my old Cub Scout leader who is hoping to put his grand son to work. The pickaxe originally belonged to his father or grandfather (I can’t remember which).
Pickaxe laying on stacked firewood Pickaxe laying on stacked firewood Rusty pickaxe head with split ash billet, mallet, and drawknife.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/07/2026
DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN
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kaaatdeeehaaan.bsky.social @kaaatdeeehaaan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The thing about growing up with CanCon is that I’m continually discovering, as an adult, that bangers were CanCon and not just regular “classic rock”
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
example: www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
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Canadian ICC judge says Trump’s sanctions won’t stop her from doing her job
When Kimberly Prost goes on vacation, she needs to phone hotels in advance to explain that she can’t pay for a room with a credit card — because she’s been sanctioned by the Trump administration.
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Matt Keevil 🇨🇦 @mattkeevil.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Somehow, I’d never seen a Scarlet Tanager before and of course I wanted to but, since I am not a birder, I can’t look for them. The only option available for me was hoping some day one will fly down from the canopy to confront me. Well my phone camera didn’t do it justice, but yesterday it happened
Grainy photo of a male Scarlet Tanager perched on a branch
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 12/05/2026
Tech Bro loserdom forces nation to yearn for Finance Bros
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Tech Bro loserdom forces nation to yearn for Finance Bros
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Admitting they “never thought it would come to this,” a rigorous poll of every American confirmed Monday that the sustained humiliation of living under tech bro dominance has force...
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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I’m aware this is news to CBS and this dude but we were literally shouting about this a year ago, it’s not unearthed, and it’s even stupider than you think: the cruise ships paid their salaries. It literally paid more than it cost. We gave money back rather than control disease because RFK
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Day 7 of my #Coverbirds Birdathon for @birdscanada.bsky.social How about a cookbook? Today’s coverbird is the Black-billed Magpie! Birds are part of Nature’s Clean-up Crew. So, why not a cookbook about carrion? #birds
Book cover for “Joy of Carrion, the all-purpose cookbook”. Authors are Cathartes S. Aura and Corvus Rombauer Corax. The word Joy is in large, red font. Below the main title is an image of three Black-billed Magpies eating from a deer carcass. Each has a mouthful of red.
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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Great investigative reporting here about the troubling amoral comms practices and influence Jeff Ballingall, the go-to political comms strategist of right-wing politicians and big industry.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
there was an entire infrastructure of working class education and art that is now gone; "working men's clubs" in the UK were intended for education as much as recreation.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Good god the kicker:
Loomer, reached for comment, was unmoved, insisting the women were indeed related, but that it didn’t matter either way. “I want all Islamic immigrants deported. I don’t support any of their asylum claims,” she said.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
BREAKING NYT: The FBI began investigating a New York Times reporter last month after she wrote about Kash Patel using bureau personnel to provide his girlfriend with government security and transportation, according to a person briefed on the matter.
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F.B.I. Said to Have Investigated Times Reporter After Article on Patel’s Girlfriend
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Just read the Yale report on Trust in Higher Education. You will be shocked, no doubt, to learn that it did not occur IN THE SLIGHTEST to a committee at a top American university looking at trust in American higher ed to use any other country's experiences to pose intelligent counterfactuals.
president.yale.edu
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Frank Moraes @franklycurious.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
This is amazing... Dr Ioannidis (9 April 2020): "I would say that COVID-19 will result in fewer than 40,000 deaths this season in the USA." Dr Howard: "The USA reached 40,000 COVID deaths the next week."
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Matt Keevil 🇨🇦 @mattkeevil.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The US has been even more unserious and hypocritical about this than one would think, given everything else. It seems like it’s only dumb luck it hasn’t kicked off another pandemic already.
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Matt Keevil 🇨🇦 @mattkeevil.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I for one enjoyed this episode. I have been aware of the incoherent, dedicated spitefest that is the Canadaland subreddit and it seemed obvious that it wasn’t strictly authentic but it is still surprising (and funny) how parochial, pathetic and petty the reality turned out to be.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
thehandbasket.co
Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book
Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...
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The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Oh. Holy hell please let this be the reason Melania ran to the press: the guy who imported her, Einstein visa and all, used ICE to deport the mother of his child. Zampolli was in Hungary w/JD. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...
Last June, the man credited with introducing President Trump to his wife asked the administration for a favor.

Paolo Zampolli, a former modeling agent turned presidential special envoy, had learned that his Brazilian ex-girlfriend was in a Miami jail, arrested on charges of fraud at her workplace. They had been in a custody battle over their teenage son. Now he saw an opportunity.

He reached out to a top official at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, explaining that his ex was in the country illegally, according to records obtained by The New York Times and a person familiar with the communications. Could she be put in ICE detention? That could help him get his son back.

The official, David Venturella, promptly called the agency’s Miami office to ensure that ICE agents would pick up the woman from the jail before she was released on bail, according to the records and a person with knowledge of the conversation who requested anonymity to discuss it. During the call, Mr. Venturella noted that the case was important to someone close to the White House.
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Jess Davis @jessmarindavis.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I guess the US indictment didn't go anywhere, but there's pretty compelling evidence that Roaming Millennial breached Canadian sanctions. Disappointing to see our law enforcement unable or unwilling to address this, yet again.
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Michael D’Elicio @michaeldelicio.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
It’s actually more honest than the real one
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
My god it works perfectly
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Portes is right. I have definitely come to see the value in political education, because "emotionally cathartic slopulism" has already taken over the Right and I think it could easily do so on the left too if we don't hold the line on, like, actually insisting that it matters you get things right.
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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
A Hall of Famer here:
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 02/04/2026
The ‘shoot that guy’ meme from the film Fury in which Brad Pitt, from atop a tank points and says ‘shoot that guy’
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Onisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"In the most extreme case, our model achieved the top rank on a standard chest X-ray question-answering benchmark without access to any images." Well this isn't good 😮 arxiv.org/abs/2603.21687
arxiv.org
MIRAGE: The Illusion of Visual Understanding
Multimodal AI systems have achieved remarkable performance across a broad range of real-world tasks, yet the mechanisms underlying visual-language reasoning remain surprisingly poorly understood. We r...
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 27/03/2026
They don't even require masking in NICUs. It's immoral.
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Matt Keevil 🇨🇦 @mattkeevil.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This White Ash is a victim of Emerald Ash Borer and turned out to be 100 years old when I counted the rings. I felled it with an axe whose handle is made of a Rock Elm that was a victim of Dutch Elm Disease. I am starting to dislike these invasive species.
Large standing tree with axe and chopped face cut in a snowy forest
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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The US becoming a revisionist power is insane. Like legitimately it is the stupidest fucking thing that has ever happened.
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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This is quite something from Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, in an interview with Reuters. The end of the post-war order, diagnosed in technocratic language. www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/pre...
A screenshot with a block of text:

Minister: The US is now a revisionist power. For 80 years, the US was the underwriter for a system of globalisation based on UN Charter principles, multilateralism, territorial integrity, sovereign equality. It actually heralded an unprecedented and unique period of global prosperity and peace. Of course there were exceptions. And of course, the Cold War was still in effect for at least half of the last 80 years. But generally, for those of us who were non-communists, who ran open economies, who provided first world infrastructure, together with a hardworking disciplined people, we had unprecedented opportunities. The story of Singapore, with a per capita GDP of 500 US dollars in 1965.
Now, lit is| somewhere between 80,000 to 90,000 US dollars. It would not have happened if it had not been for this unprecedented period, basically Pax Americana and then turbocharged by the reform and opening of China for decades. It has been unprecedented. It has been great for many of us. In fact, I will say, for all of us, if you look back 80 years. But now, whether you like it or not, objectively, this period has ended. There is no point trying to assign blame or pejorative adjectives. That is not helpful. Basically, the underwriter of this world order has now become a revisionist power, and some people would even say a disruptor. But the larger point is that the erosion of norms, processes, and institutions that underpinned a remarkable period of peace and prosperity; that foundation has gone. What you are seeing now, whether you watch the war in Ukraine, in the Middle East or elsewhere, including in Asia, to me these are symptoms of the underlying tectonic rupture. Big powers and even lesser powers have a more narrow definition of national interest.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 24/03/2026
A Bellingcat and @mongabay.com investigation has identified nine Facebook groups, in which coded language has helped illegal wildlife dealers evade bans on the platform for years. Facebook says it prohibits any form of animal trading on its platform. youtube.com/shorts/uwQNZ...
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How Wildlife Traffickers Use Secret Codes to Sell Animals on Facebook
YouTube video by Bellingcat
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Not good. The Carney government cannot wish-cast foreign interference away. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
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EXCLUSIVE: RCMP says no current clandestine activities in Canada linked to government of India
RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme says based on the information before him, there are no longer clandestine activities or transnational repression taking place in Canada that is linked to the government o...
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