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Nelson Snow

@nelsonsnow.bsky.social
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Husband, father, and grandfather. Retired. Hoping to soon have things figured out.

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Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
CleanUpYourMess.ca just launched our new website! It features stories from ordinary Albertans affected by the oil & gas cleanup crisis, and actions YOU can take right now to stop tens of billions in industry's cleanup costs from being pushed onto the public! #ABPoli #ABLeg @cuym-alberta.bsky.social
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Alberta landowners & allies fighting for an industry cleanup of oil and gas wells.
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Across Canada, unregulated pregnancy centres pose as health or counselling services while spreading abortion disinformation, often through religious pressure and emotional manipulation. Why are these centres still allowed to operate without oversight? NEW from @abortionrightscan.bsky.social:
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Unregulated pregnancy centres cause lasting harms—we need transparency
Should organizations serving pregnant people be allowed to use disinformation and pressure to prevent them from accessing abortion care? About 160 unregulated pregnancy centres (UPCs) operate across C...
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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Carney has never taken the U.S. threat seriously: "share of fed. contract dollars heading south went from one-fifth in the 16 months before Carney took office to nearly a third under his watch.... IBM & Microsoft charged Ottawa more than $1 billion each for software license fees & IT..." #CDNpoli
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 05/10/2026
Trump admin demands Canada not meddle in midterms so they can meddle in separatist referendums
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Trump admin demands Canada not meddle in midterms so they can meddle in separatist referendums
WASHINGTON D.C. - Trump Administration trade advisor Peter Navarro is accusing Canada of interfering in the upcoming U.S. midterm elections, unfairly distracting from American efforts to interfere in ...
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“We are building pipelines, & we will build this pipeline for the people of Canada." You're not building it for me. You're not building it for Canadians being endangered by wildfires and extreme weather. This government rhetoric is pure poison & should be challenged every time.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
2 key legal changes since TMX, re the new pipeline: 1 - ministers can now exempt anyone from any law, other than the criminal code 2 - "national interest" designation comes with automatic approval for all other permits - species at risk act, etc (a long term big oil wishlist item)..
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The LNG industry is an economic loser for Canada that deepens our economy’s structural problems rather than resolving them. It’s also an active front in the private equity takeover of this country that Mark Carney is orchestrating, writes @nickgottlieb.bsky.social.
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Who is Carney’s industrial policy really for?
There’s no doubt that the Carney government’s combination of foreign policy pressure, public statements, loan guarantees, direct finance, and aggressive mobilization of private investment in support o...
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
October 4th is the National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit and gender-diverse people, also known as Sisters in Spirit Day. Please read my full statement here:
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MP Gazan Statement on the National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two-Spirit and Gender-Diverse People
MP for Winnipeg Centre
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Nelson Snow @nelsonsnow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I just took action with @theactionnetwork.bsky.social: Tell decision makers fossil-fuel power is anything but prudent. Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-d...
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Tell decision makers fossil-fuel power is anything but prudent
Soon, the Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission will make its decision to approve or deny Maritime Electric's application to install two 50 megawatt diesel combustion turbines in downtown Charlotte...
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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WHO warns of ‘devastating consequences’ due to delayed aid entry into Gaza
The WHO's representative in Palestine calls on Israeli authorities to 'release the pressure on medical supplies'.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 01/10/2026
Throwing billions in public money behind a pipeline at a time of climate breakdown – while sweeping aside environmental protections, meaningful Indigenous consultation and workers’ right to strike – is absolutely not in the national interest.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As @jameswsthomson.com noted already, the sheer audacity of Carney to begin his oil pipeline announcement by mentioning a wildfire that almost levelled the town. WHAT IS EXACERBATING THE WILDFIRES MARK???? MARK???
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What a country builds with public money is a statement of what it values. We must build for those already living through fires, floods, and extreme weather—not for the balance sheets of companies unwilling to risk their own capital on a new pipeline.
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Stop the West Coast pipeline. Not even the oil companies are asking for it
Seniors for Climate Action Now! is calling on the Carney government to reject the proposed West Coast oil pipeline, arguing the project has no credible economic, moral, reconciliation, or climate case...
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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why are Indigenous people now being subjected to levels of overt hostility and racism unseen in decades? One chief recently told me he was denied entry into a store for being “Indian”.
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I feel ya🤔...
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rprobbins.bsky.social @rprobbins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Facts, plain and straightforward 💯🎯
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NDP @ndp.ca · 30/09/2026
On National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we honour the survivors of the residential school system, their families, and every child who never made it home.
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Little Marco: "Cuba poses a threat to US national security." Cuba poses no threat to anyone. It has no drones, no missiles, and no nuclear bombs. It's another lie to manufacture unilateral approval for an invasion. The world should imprison these terrorists. #cdnpoli
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On this national day of reconciliation we remember that the fundamental journey in Canada is between Indigenous and settler. We must learn to walk together for a better shared future.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 30/09/2026
Today, on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, people across Canada are gathering in remembrance and renewed determination to ensure ours is a country where every child matters.
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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today is a day for remembering the impact of Residential Schools Indigenous Communities across Canada. #NationalDayForTruthAndReconciliation
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Under Carney, Canada Is Cooling on Reconciliation | The Walrus
Three experts on the need to keep challenging denialism
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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In #Manitoba, #WabKinew reminds #Canadians to look around and see the symbolic gesture in a “sea of ORANGE” that we recognize the #Indigenous #survivors of #ResidentialSchools #OrangeShirtDay #EveryChildMatters #TruthAndReconciliation
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Orange Shirt Day creator Phyllis Webstad reflects on a life of overcoming adversity in new memoir Webstad's new memoir We Are Still Here details how a single voice inspired a national movement www.cbc.ca/books/orange...
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Orange Shirt Day creator Phyllis Webstad reflects on a life of overcoming adversity in new memoir | CBC Books
The Orange Shirt Day creator reflects on her life in new memoir, We Are Still Here.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Imagine being the worst Senator from Missouri when your only competition is Josh Hawley…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
wow -- Darline Graham cuts off Jack Smith just as Smith start explaining how her brother Lindsey in fact denounced Trump's lies about the 2020 election on the Senate floor
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Canada strong", "national interest", "sovereignty", "Orange Scary Bad Man" -- all propaganda to get Canadians to accept the erosion of climate protections, food security, labour rights, Indigenous rights, the public sector, and public ownership. And all working very well indeed.
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Residential school denialism is "part of a willful strategy to create chaos and confusion about the truth so as to block the path to healing, justice, and reconciliation." Read an excerpt from TRUTH BEFORE RECONCILIATION, out now from @umanitobapress.bsky.social.
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Residential school denialism and the backlash against reconciliation
To mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation—and following a gathering of white nationalists near Kamloops, where members of Second Sons Canada displayed a banner invoking residential school ...
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 28/09/2026
in advance of the National Day of Truth & Reconciliation I spoke to Kimberly Murray & Connie Walker about their efforts to raise awareness about this looming destruction, which survivors may not even know is happening next year. read it today at @thenarwhal.ca:
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Canada is preparing to spend tens of billions building a pipeline the oil companies themselves won’t finance. If this project made economic sense, industry would be leading it. Instead, the public is being asked to take the risk while foreign-owned oil companies collect the returns.
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Stop the West Coast pipeline. Not even the oil companies are asking for it
Seniors for Climate Action Now! is calling on the Carney government to reject the proposed West Coast oil pipeline, arguing the project has no credible economic, moral, reconciliation, or climate case...
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Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Chantal Hébert on the Building Canada Strong Act: "I am troubled by the notion that this bill basically enlarges what is called political discretion, i.e. the power of politicians in power to bypass their own laws on a variety of topics." #cdnpoli
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Canada to develop flimsy excuse for continuing to pump out oil and gas like it's 1997..
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Canada to develop carbon removal market framework under Paris agreement
Canada is working to develop policies that will allow its domestic carbon removal companies to participate in international carbon ​markets, a move advocates say will help spur investment in ‌new tech...
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"We believe there is an important conversation to be had about ensuring that investments in addiction and recovery reach the front lines, particularly culturally grounded services serving urban Indigenous populations." Alberta loses another recovery program. #abpoli #cdnpoli
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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The federal government must withdraw this bill, as it will lock us in a path of nature destruction. 75% of Canadians believe that protecting nature must be a “key consideration” when building the country. It’s time the government starts listening.” www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/pr...
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Greenpeace Canada reacts to the introduction of Bill C-39, The Bulldoze Nature Bill
TORONTO –  On the first day of the Fall Parliamentary session, the federal government released its long-awaited Bill C-39 introduced by the Minister of Transport, and Leader of the Government in the H...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Removing or failing to build safe bike-lanes can affect much more than cyclists...” It undermines the success of cities, and the safety of people, in a lot of critical ways. “Lessons on what cities lose by giving in to car culture.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/ontarios-bik...
People riding bikes in a painted bike-lane…
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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#SeanCasey is my MP, Charlottetown #PEI and am SERIOUSLY withdrawing support for #CARNEY if this is the approach. I am very very proud that he stood with the constituents and supported closing the loophole to exporting military equipment to #Israel in KHANS loophole legislation #peipoli #PEI #NDP
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Liberal MP says he was demoted for supporting NDP bill targeting arms export controls | CBC News
Charlottetown MP Sean Casey says he was removed from his position as parliamentary secretary to the minister of veterans affairs because he voted against the government and supported an NDP private me...
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I have known Sean Casey for many years. He is an honourable MP. He deserves better than to lose his parliamentary position for opposing arm sales to Israel. Dear @mark-carney.bsky.social there is a genocide going on. You know that right? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Liberal MP says he was demoted for supporting NDP bill targeting arms export controls | CBC News
Charlottetown MP Sean Casey says he was removed from his position as parliamentary secretary to the minister of veterans affairs because he voted against the government and supported an NDP private me...
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bob Rae on fighting for democracy: "I think it's really important for people to understand that this is the battle of our lifetime. And our grandparents and our parents fought that battle in the Second World War. We had it on easy street for quite a while. And now we've got to fight again." #cdnpoli
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Nelson Snow @nelsonsnow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Well done Sean Casey. This was a principled stand and one that many more MP's should have made. Opposing Genocide is not anti-semitism. Liberal MP says he was demoted... www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Liberal MP says he was demoted for supporting NDP bill targeting arms export controls | CBC News
Charlottetown MP Sean Casey says he was removed from his position as parliamentary secretary to the minister of veterans affairs because he voted against the government and supported an NDP private me...
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Nelson Snow @nelsonsnow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Islanders will pay less at the... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... What a short sited, climate destroying policy. Bring back the ev rebates. Mandate and subsidize solar panels. Make transit free. So many things could be done but let's help fossil fuel companies as they reap record profits. AAARRRGGGHHHH
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Islanders will pay less at the pump starting Saturday as P.E.I. suspends provincial fuel tax | CBC News
Prince Edward Island is suspending its provincial fuel tax on gasoline and diesel for four months, giving Islanders relief at the pump at a cost of up to $12 million in lost revenue for the province.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
No, we do not respect international law. www.narcity.com/netanyahu-cr...
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Netanyahu crosses Canadian airspace with arrest warrant in effect
Netanyahu crosses Canadian airspace on way to UN
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
SHACKLE HIM
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NDP @ndp.ca · 23/09/2026
1/ Yesterday, seniors wearing pictures of their grandchildren were arrested outside Parliament while protesting Mark Carney's climate cuts.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Zelenskyy at the UN: "Ukrainians understand that this winter could be very harsh for us, but in response we will have no choice but to make it harsh for Russia too"
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Allowing the most powerful segment of society to opt out of public services inevitably makes public services worse. This is why the existence of private schools inevitably makes public schools worse. A simple fact that seems hard for many to admit. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/private-sc...
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Private Schools Are Bad for Society
The starting point for any honest discussion.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We're arresting seniors wearing pictures of their grandchildren on behalf of the fossil fuel industry
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Not a good look: arresting seniors calling on Mark Carney to not walk back our climate obligations. In my last 2 years as MP I ran a gauntlet of threat, swarming and harassment everyday from conspiracy ragers. House security and Ottawa police just watched. Seems instructions have been issued.
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ᵀᴴᴱꀤNGᒪOᖇIOᑌᔕ¹🇨🇦 @inglorious.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Billionaires and their toys are literally slaughtering children and guess what? Canada just inked another deal with this sociopathic American firm for $7.4M a year... theijf.org/article/defe...
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Defence department to buy Palantir software for $7.4 million each year
Government says it ‘inadvertently omitted’ to announce contract with controversial American tech company
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 21/09/2026
Trump vows to punish Canada for EU alliance as soon as he finishes losing Iran war
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Trump vows to punish Canada for EU alliance as soon as he finishes losing Iran war
WASHINGTON D.C. - President Donald J. Trump has pledged to extract terrible, systematic revenge on all of Canada for daring to enter talks with the European Union, just as soon as he finishes losing the war he started in Iran.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
September 30th is truth and reconciliation day and this year we all have to be very loud considering what our government is trying to do and what is being signalled to. #cdnpoli thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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Enough with John A. Macdonald. Where Are the Indigenous Monuments? | The Tyee
We were tasked with building them by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and we haven’t.
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