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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Here in Canada we are fortunate to be subject to the supremacy of the Margarets (Atwood and Laurence), making female authors very, very hard to ignore.

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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is all just such bullshit. Years and years of studies reinforce the notion that women are not only bigger consumers of culture but also more 'omnivorous' when it comes to gender themes. We are routinely made to read/watch works generated by men, rendering our tastes more egalitarian.

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A cop warns on the price of witnessing death.

As a homicide detective, I can say with all of my being that there is no lesson learned in seeing someone die. But there is a price. And that price is your peace. Your decency. And the soul of our society.
We don't have to be this way, this fake tough but real ugly way. Stop

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Vaccines will be ineffective against competently designed pandemic weapons. Russia may not be competent yet, but future AI will democratize competence. “We should stockpile pandemic-proof PPE and install germicidal far-UV and glycol misters in public spaces.”

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Scott in Montreal🇨🇦 @scottinmontreal.ca · 06/10/2026

With a complete CAQ wipe-out, at least let it be said that Quebec voted to reject incompetence. Meanwhile, with the province's finances an utter shambles, I don't foresee an easy road ahead for the new minority PQ government. All momentum is with the PLQ and PCQ. They will eat PSPP's lunch. #qcpoli

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

these are pretty good results for Quebec because the PQ is likely going to have a lot of infighting and struggle to pass the unpopular bits of legislation easier, plus the PLQ + QS have a strong position for opposition all in all, not a bad night (especially now that the CAQ are gone)

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the PQ having a baseline party stance that Quebec should pursue independence is so little like whatever the fuck is happening in Alberta that the comparison isn't worth making even as a joke

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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Marois at least left us with subsidised daycare. I doubt PSPP will manage to contribute half as much.

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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

ROC takes on the outcome of this election are in large part.... wild(ly aggravating).

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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

See you in the 2027 Quebec spring election!

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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not digging the prevalence of USian opinion on here that casts Brazilian election results largely as a means of vindicating the US's own electoral/procedural stupidity. This (potential) calamity is more than just your gotcha.

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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm in Canada too. Just checked on this with same result. Absolutely insane and infuriating.

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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hey-hey-hey, hee-hee-hee!

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 03/10/2026

Canada is not actually 'battling for survival' in the context of secession, because in both Alberta and Quebec secession has relatively small amounts of public support. What we're battling is dipshit far-right populist politicians enabling/pushing for this destructive bullshit.

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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh, goodness. You were always allowed to judge them. I judge them and I'm (ostensibly) one of them. What I'm trying to point out is that none of this right now is purposeful. It certainly has been in the past. But at the moment this is just very unfortunate happenstance.

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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tactical voting has routinely amounted to federalist v. separatist. It is unsurprising that, in the face of increased options coupled with underwhelming performance, the population at large remains tactically at sea.

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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The difference here is an electorate accustomed, over decades, to a two-party system, now confronted with a five-party split.

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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The aspect missing in this discussion is the paucity of political alternatives in QC. The CAQ has been a disaster: inept, divisive and cruel. The public desires change, yet remarkably no single party has offered a galvanising alternative. Best-of-a-bad-lot voting = vote-splitting = potential PQ maj.

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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The PQ is only poised to win because no other provincial party seems to have anything valid or compelling to offer. Their victory will be a consolation prize, but a societal defeat for the rest of us nonetheless.

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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Now do your Québec endorsement 🤞.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

American Liberals and Leftists should not be surprised if America faces a lot of scepticism even after Trump is gone from Canadians, Europe and the rest of the world as long as Democrats and DSA preach norms of international law they refuse to implement towards their own country

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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It really warrants a second viewing, doesn't it? I knew immediately that I'd missed a significant number of references.

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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Funny, I see why Mastodon is a target. But honestly, I find it much friendlier than Bluesky. The only reason I'm here is that Bluesky is snappier for news -- which seems important in the present moment.

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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Anyway, my central point is this: it's weird to compete for primacy in the 'sacrifices-to-the-Motherland' stakes.

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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Australia came under direct attack in WWII. Canada did not. But there's a kind of supremacy that assumes ANZAC forces were secondary because they were not central to the European theatre.

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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

But that's just not true. Despite a smaller population than Canada, Australia provided a similar number of troops to the effort in WWII. Losses were more or less comparable. Both countries provided vital (but different) resources.

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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Australia and Canada entered both World Wars within days of each other. ANZAC forces fought largely in theatres that are not at the forefront of Canada's World War narratives (North Africa, the South Pacific, etc.). This does not render their contributions/sacrifices any less significant.

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Dustin Johnson 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸 @warandcoffee.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

US foreign interference serious enough for CSIS to meet with CAQ and multiple meetings between the federal government and the province should be a major diplomatic incident if the US government is at all involved.

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Dustin Johnson 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸 @warandcoffee.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026

That's two different news stories just today about the US trying to undermine Canadian sovereignty by targeting Quebec www.tvanouvelles.ca/2026/09/25/w... www.journaldemontreal.com/2026/09/25/i...

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Ingérence étrangère: Ottawa a averti Québec d’une possible tentative américaine d’influencer le vote

La Coalition Avenir Québec a été rencontré par les services secrets canadiens

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

jesus fucking christ

Ottawa has warned the Quebec government against the possibility of US interference in the current election campaign, which is aimed at favouring the election of a sovereignist government.

At the beginning of September, a senior official in the Fréchette government received a call from a counterpart in the Mark Carney government, we have learned.

He was offered the option of going to a "neutral location, where there were no cameras", and was forbidden from bringing his cell phone.

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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This exodus is already happening organically, of its own accord, and without the requirement of a PQ win.

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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

He was pretty righteous!

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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A stark contrast indeed: Lula identifying the world's most pressing problems, Trump embodying them.

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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Lula was also pretty awesome.

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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My deepest sympathies. Sending all my best thoughts to you and your family.

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Sarah Dorner @sarahdorner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Et voilà, le trio du PQ est complet : 1) anti-immigrants, 2) anti-EDI, 3) l'exploitation du corps des femmes.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

President of the EU Parliament, Roberta Metsola, says Australia and New Zealand could follow Canada in becoming “associate members” of the EU, Euronews reports.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 16/09/2026

A military base in Washington state, bird handovers at a gas station, a slew of permits, thousands of volunteer hours, nest boxes — and a whole lot of tiny, wriggling mealworms. Here’s the story of how the bluebird came back. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...

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Bluebirds Went Extinct on Vancouver Island. Now They’re Back | The Tyee

Seventy landowners and many other volunteers have helped return their gentle, chortling song to the Cowichan Valley.

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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Another film factoid of 9/11 is that it turned out to be a very bad, no good day to have as a release date for a creative, weird indie movie called Donnie Darko that featured... a plane tragedy. Donnie Darko opened & died on the first day, only to be discovered the next year on video store shelves.

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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

An instructive lesson for Canada is the CIA vs Gough Whitlam. This is how the Americans coup a country with a majority white population.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Salvador Allende's final words, recorded on September 11, while US backed right-wing forces attacked and invaded the capital.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026

You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.

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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Ha! Like a babe in the wood. /s

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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Oh, I didn't. But honestly, they are the fucking worst. And I can see Carney throwing his weight behind them in order to avoid the alternative. Just hope it's all worth the xenophobia and greed and incompetence and prejudice, 'cause the Feds aren't coming to save us from any of that.

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MelM @melmscow.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Worth mentioning that propping up the CAQ to defend Canada against an existential threat also dooms the people of Québec to a third term under the most incompetent leadership the province has ever suffered. I know it's anathema to ROC, but right now it has a lot to thank us for.

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Yup, many countries still care about science and public health! Kudos to Thailand for eliminating rubella as a public health problem! 👏

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