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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 01/10/2026

And Holbein’s The Ambassadors is great!

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 29/09/2026

One my favourite gardens in Toronto. It’s a Bach spot!

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 27/09/2026

In discussions for making Canada an associate member of the EU: This is what I want in Montreal!

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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The terraces are also lovely

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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Adaptive reuse of a parking garage originally built in 1957, into 63 new apartments in Paris Includes three new storeys built of lightweight timber and steel added on top of the existing building. A thread 🧵 Before After

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just thrilled to see the re-release of Cyberselfish. It’s a hell of a book. Downright prescient. The only mistake Borsook made was in writing it a couple decades before people were willing to listen.

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 25/09/2026

Love those ceramics at Beaubien by Claude Vermette!

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 22/09/2026

On Praxis’ attempt to build a “smart” community in the +Colonia city development in Uruguay: “Thus far these haven’t gone particularly well ... I can never tell if it’s an effort to troll critics or it’s real.” – @raycraib.bsky.social

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Tech-Utopian Movement Praxis Says It Has Found a Home in Uruguay

After a sprawling world tour, Praxis, a New York-based, crypto-backed “digital nation,” has signed a deal to build a physical city in Uruguay.

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Raymond Craib @raycraib.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Is Praxis a thing? Thanks to Emma Bubola for the conversation… These Tech Utopians Want to Build a City for the Post-A.I. World www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/w...

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Tech-Utopian Movement Praxis Says It Has Found a Home in Uruguay

After a sprawling world tour, Praxis, a New York-based, crypto-backed “digital nation,” has signed a deal to build a physical city in Uruguay.

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A lot of us, including me, spent last week analyzing what output was likely to be produced from the von der Leyen and Carney speeches, what “associate member” could mean. As I explain here, it’s now apparent the speeches WERE the output. And they worked www.theglobeandmail.com/podcasts/the...

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A reality check on Canada’s future with the EU

Canada already has agreements for trade and security with the European Union. What more could they get as an ‘associate member’?

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 21/09/2026

What @dougsaunders.bsky.social argues is that Leyen's and Carney’s relationship declaration was the big thing. It wasn’t only a set of speeches; It was “the political action" that resulted from cooperation—on CETA, post-NATO defence, etc—with the ambition to bundle more in.

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A reality check on Canada’s future with the EU

Podcast Episode · The Decibel · September 21 · 22m

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 21/09/2026

With a runway of $23-million over 3 years, “TIFF: The Market” had no activities planned at the convention centre? The inaugural Semaine Design de Montréal this summer had activities at le Grand Quai: B2B networking events and a stage with regular interviews and panels.

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 21/09/2026

Burtynsky would have much to work with! But for everybody else: Not a single referral at the Major Projects Office focuses on art and culture. No new network of design museums. No new work-live studio build outs. No new IP infrastructure.

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Projects referred to the MPO - Major Projects Office - Canada.ca

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 20/09/2026

Notice the rapidly growing, multi-billion dollar Canadian “art and culture” sector is not listed as a strategic area to explore. Not art, film, journalism, design, or architecture. Only vague allusions to “cultural and linguistic” ties are made. Did you notice this too @hertzbarry.bsky.social?

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 20/09/2026

The square’s redesign was by Provencher_Roy and CIMA+. With photography by Adrien Williams. provencherroy.ca/projets/rue-...

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 20/09/2026

With Fatboy’s Toní bistro tables and chairs, and Basil Bangs’ Weekend Umbrella parasols!

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 19/09/2026

Changing a family doctor isn’t obvious either. I waited four years, but by the time she was assigned, I had moved away from her clinic. I’m grateful but it means I travel 1 hr to see her, then 1 hr to get back—and referrals go to local specialists and hospitals, which means I travel 1 hr ...

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 18/09/2026

I’m thinking of this 2015 cover for @bloomberg.com Businessweek’s The Code Issue, a special edition focused on a single 38,000 word essay by @ftrain.com. Highly recommended: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/201...

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 18/09/2026

Damian Boeselager is a pro-European Volt politcian and member of the European Parliament from Germany who since 2019 is also part of the Greens/EFA. His TikTok handle is: dboeselager.

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Damian Boeselager's Creator Profile

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 18/09/2026

The Carney Crush also features Carly Rae, black cats, and red carpets at @tiffnet.bsky.social:

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 18/09/2026

Nicolae (Nicu) Ștefănuță is one of the Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament and member from Romania who in 2023 joined the Greens/EFA as an independent. His TikTok handle is: nicustefanuta.

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Nicu Ștefănuță's Creator Profile

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 18/09/2026

The Carney Crush! A new chapter in the book on city branding:

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 17/09/2026

“Les plateformes technologiques aspirent à la souveraineté .. veulent fixer les conditions d’accès .. dicter les règles en matière de réglementation et même les contourner. Elles veulent contrôler nos données, répandre la désinformation, voler l’enfance de nos enfants.” – @mark-carney.bsky.social

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Prime Minister Mark Carney addresses European Parliament – September 17, 2026

YouTube video by cpac

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 16/09/2026

Dear @mark-carney.bsky.social, we want to bring the relationship with Canada to the highest level possible. I would like to work with you on opening the door for Canada to being the first associate member of the EU. And create a common prosperity and economic security space.

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 16/09/2026

“We will move from CETA to an alliance for the future ... We want to bring the relationship with Canada to the highest level possible. And dear Mark ... I would like to work with you on opening the door to Canada being the first associate member of the European Union.” – @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu

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Von der Leyen 'opens door' to Canada becoming associate EU member

YouTube video by Guardian News

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 16/09/2026

Love Newspaper Club! And printing single samples before the full batch is put through.

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 15/09/2026

And that first book published by Claude Garamond really is remarkable for its italics.

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 14/09/2026

Look at this small yet dramatic drop cap!

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 14/09/2026

Carney seeks a “unique alliance” and not to become “associate member” of the EU, as reported by the @wsj.com. In the end, these two could be the same thing in spirit, in the sense that “associate member” as a status had yet to be created and nobody knows what its contours would have been.

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Carney says Canada planning to discuss 'unique alliance' with EU, but not membership | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada plans to begin discussions for a "unique alliance" with the European Union — but not membership — as he gears up to address the European Parliament this week.

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 14/09/2026

If I was in Ottawa, I would go to this:

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 14/09/2026

I did! Her summer intensives were part of De La Salle’s year-round ballet program.

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 14/09/2026

Same! She was our summer dance teacher at De La Salle high school, and I’ve been chasing her down ever since. I saw La La La Human Steps in Groningen, in 2008 or 2009, but she wasn’t part of the cast.

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Michèle Champagne @michelechampagne.com · 14/09/2026

Carney’s Davos on “The Dock” in the Muskokas seems remote, but it’s got nothing on this!

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