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Nick Kellett

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Canadian software developer in climate impacts, adaptation, & resilience. Personal opinions.

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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 8h
(Models Available For Subscribers) Quebec Provincial Polling: PQ: 26% (+11) PLQ: 25% (+11) PCQ: 21% (+8) CAQ: 13% (-28) QS: 13% (-2) Forum / October 4, 2026 / n=1183 / MOE 2.8% / IVR (% Change With 2022 Election) Check out QC details from @338canada.bsky.social here: 338canada.com/quebec
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Philippe J. Fournier @338canada.bsky.social · 11h
📊Intentions de vote au Québec, sondage de Research Co.: ⚜️PQ 31% 🔴PLQ 25% ⚫️PCQ 20% 🔵CAQ 13% 🟠QS 10% → qc125.com/20261003-res... [Research Co., 2-4 octobre 2026, n = 708] #polQC
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Qc125 Québec | Sondage Research Co., octobre 2026
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Nick Kellett @nickkellett.bsky.social · 20h
The autumn leaves are at their peak... Panorama of Forillon National Park's Valley, L'Anse-au-Griffon river and village, and the sea in the distance. #Gaspesie #Quebec #Canada #Nature #Landscape
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16h
Exactly. This is such a lie. Email had a purpose. The internet had a purpose. Search had a purpose. Everybody loved Silicon Valley in the 90s because they made shit that did what it promised. Now 3 guys who never made SHIT have ALL the money in SV. They're scam artists. Not engineers.
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Carole Paré Payne @paros13.bsky.social · 12h
bruce728.substack.com/p/time-to-ca... Betrayal. Treason.
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Time to call it what it is: separatists are promising to work with Trump and betray the rest of us.
Separatists have been coy about how they’d work with Trump to dismantle Canada. Now they’re facing tough questions, and so they should.
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Jinia-PTr @jinia-ptr.bsky.social · 12h
“The pitch that separatists in Alberta and Quebec are putting forward, and voters should be fully alert to, comes down to this: separatists are ready to work with Trump, to the detriment of the rest of Canada.”
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 13h
(Models Available For Subscribers) Quebec Provincial Polling: PQ: 28% (+13) PLQ: 23% (+9) PCQ: 20% (+7) CAQ: 18% (-23) QS: 10% (-5) Liaison / October 3, 2026 / n=898 / MOE 3.1% / IVR (% Change With 2022 Election) Check out QC details from @338canada.bsky.social here: 338canada.com/quebec
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martindvz.bsky.social @martindvz.bsky.social · 19h
Brexit can and must be reversed soon.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 19h
Operation Vivaldi is symbolically extremely important, as it shows that Russia capturing the Donbas is not inevitable
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 19h
The State Department held top level meeting with Alberta separatists. They discussed trading Canada's fresh water resources for support to destroy our country. The US has mapped out a strategy to break us apart internally. Canadian officials need to take this seriously. youtube.com/shorts/ClAgi...
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MAGA PLAN TO DESTROY CANADA !!!
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
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Nick Kellett @nickkellett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Used to be lots of porcupines in the Valley too, but I haven't seen any in 7/8 years, back when I filmed this video of porcupines fighting. Climate change brings deer, deer bring coyotes, I think coyotes killed the porcupines. I first saw coyotes same year the porcupines disappeared. Coincidence?
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Nick Kellett @nickkellett.bsky.social · 20h
The autumn leaves are at their peak... Panorama of Forillon National Park's Valley, L'Anse-au-Griffon river and village, and the sea in the distance. #Gaspesie #Quebec #Canada #Nature #Landscape
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
new wolfenstein looks like shit
its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic
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Nick Kellett @nickkellett.bsky.social · 20h
L'Anse-au-Griffon River heading SSW towards Forillon National Park in #Gaspesie #Quebec #Canada #Nature #Landscape
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 23h
Nice! Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, was launched 69 years ago today.
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Jess Davis @jessmarindavis.bsky.social · 23h
I guess it's as good a time as any to remind folks that some of the orgs pushing Alberta separatism are educational initiatives and are not subject to foreign funding prohibitions. 🤔 thewalrus.ca/the-russian-...
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The Russian Money Behind Alberta’s Separatist Movement | The Walrus
The Kremlin has perfected covert influence. I’ve seen how poorly equipped Canada is to stop it
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Brian McHugh @brianmchugh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Successive governments have been asleep at the wheel in preparing us for the impacts of the climate crisis,” Shrubsole said. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires
FOI request shows wildfire risk scheme scrapped, as data highlights many fire services lack proper protective gear
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Davesphotos 🇨🇦 🍁🍁🍁 @davesadventures.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When I am in the vicinity, I always stop at the Torrance Barrens Dark Sky Preserve (never been there at night though) with the hopes that I will spot a rattlesnake. I guess I will have to keep on looking! #Photography #EastCoastKin
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Lucie🐈‍⬛Catnip @luciecatnip.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jeffrey Rath is a flat-out liar. He's supposedly a lawyer. He should know a thing or two about self-incriminating statements. #abpoli #cdnpoli
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IN RESPONSE TO THE LIES TOLD BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL I OFFER THE FOLLOWING RESPONSE

It is a complete lie that we offered the US anything when we visited Washington on behalf of Albertans in favour of Alberta Independence.

We were private citizens. We had no government mandate to offer anything. We only went to Washington to express the aspirations of hundreds of thousands of Albertans for a free and independent Alberta and to gauge US support for such a project.

We were gratified by the expressions of enthusiasm by US officials and the fact that Citizens of Alberta receive a far warmer welcome in Washington than we would ever receive in Ottawa.
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Orlagh O’Kelly @orlaghokelly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Treason. “There is a word for this sabotage, for this reckless imposition of the tyranny of a small minority. We must not be afraid to use it, and reclaim it from the authoritarians of the far right.” Not a mistake these two pieces were in the Globe today www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/73871ad...
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We must call Alberta separation what it is
It is not a movement of grievance politics. Something far more sinister is at work
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Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A lot of Americans think we're just having an unnecessary trade dispute with a president occasionally making unfunny jokes, while the reality is there are elements in the US conservative movement actively trying to tear our country apart. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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The elephant in the room
Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They are offering up our water and our economic sovereignty to the US, with no mandate. This isn't about "sending Ottawa a message." This is about conspiring with foreign interests to sell us out. They are traitors. Vote. Stop this now, while we can. [story in today's Globe and Mail]
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Nick Kellett @nickkellett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I was giving a tour of Forillon Park for cruise ship tourists in Gaspé Bay and overheard a couple debating whether Canadian guides would accept tips. The debate seemed to end when the wife loudly whispered, "they're SOCIALISTS!" 😂
Cruise ship with Forillon Park in the background
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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“The question, then, is not whether #Canada should welcome #investment. Of course it should. The real question is what kind of investment Canada should welcome, where it should be directed, and under what conditions.” www.thestar.com/business/opi... #cdnecon #MarkCarney
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Canada is open for business, but Carney's investment pitch glosses over a crucial difference
Prime Minister Mark Carney's Toronto summit pitch attracted global attention, writes Gustavo Indart, but not all foreign, private investments are created equally.
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Todd Jackson @tdjacks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My camera got a workout this morning. The sky was putting on a show!
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Adam Hunt 🇨🇦 @gander22h.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@kathrynbarr.bsky.social and I did a bike picnic lunch at the Hintonburg Pumping Station in #Ottawa today. This historic site preserves the ruins of the original 1899 structure.
View east from the boat launchThe Hintonburg Pumping StationThe Hintonburg Pumping Station
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Menestune @menestune.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When you live in elk country, you learn to stop for pedestrians. (Also, it was super foggy!) #elk #deer #pnw #nature #Seattle #love #nokings #traffic #mammals
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If a neighbouring country is sending political operatives from the ruling party into Canada to advise and assist separatists on how to promote and campaign for secession from Canada and providing them with technological and logistical support for their campaign, that country is no longer an ally.
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guardineer.bsky.social @guardineer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Lettings things go on with Smith has gotten us into her crafted democratic destruction nightmare. Allowing seppies to conspire, betray, collude with MAGA cannot pass without laying serious criminal charges.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Carney, the economic genius, is pumping our public money into a losing bet.
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Andrew Gelston @agelston.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Album cover goes hard
Kids by mgmt
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 03/10/2026
“Quebecers hate Pierre Polievre — so why is our presumptive premier emulating him? Paul St-Pierre Plamondon has had no shame in using disinformation and populist anti-immigrant rhetoric to dog-whistle to the far-right. “Quebec deserves better than the PQ’s politics of division.” #polqc
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Observations from Montreal
An ever-changing collection of commentary and observations by Montrealers or about Montreal politics and culture.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 03/10/2026
Oh wow In May, I reported Alberta separatists were using an app developed by GOP operatives with ties to US ambassador Pete Hoekstra @theglobeandmail.com now reports the same operatives flew to Calgary on a private jet for a secret meeting with separatist leaders: pressprogress.ca/alberta-sepa...
The pitch began with a prayer.
On an afternoon in late January, Mitch Sylvestre, the leader of Alberta's most prominent separatist organization, gathered with three of his lieutenants in a boardroom not far from the executive hangars at the Calgary International Airport, where private jets shuttle in and out of the city away from prying eyes.
It was a few hours before thousands of Albertans would gather near the city centre at a rally to launch the separatist campaign. But this meeting, convened behind closed doors a half-hour drive away, was invite only.
The Alberta Prosperity Project chose the location to accommodate its guests, Republican political strategists from Michigan who helped Donald Trump win the state in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
The American delegation travelled to Calgary to sell them on software developed for Republicans to get out the vote - and how it could be used to wrench Alberta from Confederation.
"They were young Christians. Capable, intelligent people," Mr. Sylvestre said. "We prayed before we started the meeting.""There is no secrecy'
One of the key figures behind the Michigan software company has expressed strong views on Alberta.
On July 1, Mr. Born wrote on social media: "On this Canada Day, I hope this is the last year Alberta is part of Canada." He has also called for U.S. annexation of the province.
A hunter, outdoorsman and commercial real estate agent in Grand Rapids, Mr. Born is the stepson of J.C. Huizenga, a wealthy Republican donor and founder of National Heritage Academies, a network of conservative charter schools in the U.S.
Mr. Wierda is the nephew of Erik Prince, who founded and ran the private military contractor Blackwater before it was sold to investors in 2010, and Betsy DeVos, the education secretary during Mr. Trump's first term.
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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
-Republican operatives have on the ground in Alberta working on their campaign -The secret state department meetings last year involved the separatists offering territory and resource royalties to the US in exchange for support
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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Some big highlights: -The US is both very interested and very involved in this, demonstrating deepening knowledge of the issue. -the Trump administration provided the software behind the data leak -key leaders of the movement have been working closely with the US government.
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The elephant in the room
Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province
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Les Perreaux @perreaux.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Support for sovereignty is at long-time lows. The PQ’s mandate will be thin. I doubt they’ll actually call a referendum unless something dramatic changes. We’re still in for a ride.
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Courtney Theriault @ctheriault.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Make Alberta America again? The fantastic Globe crew unearths even deeper ties between Alberta separatists and Republican officials, including a pledge to give the U.S. some of our resources in exchange for backing sovereignty www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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The elephant in the room
Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 03/10/2026
I was told that it’s the crisp marine air and relative lack of pollution that leads to the great sunsets in the Gaspé. But whatever it is it’s magic.
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Montreal Gazette @mtlgazette.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
PQ sought meeting with U.S. officials in Washington, State Department says montrealgazette.com/quebec-elect...
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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @dbcurren.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“ #PrimeMinister #MarkCarney is taking Alberta’s push seriously, viewing it as a silly but dangerous gamble with shades of #Brexit.” #Alberta #Separatism #referendum #Canada #CanadaSky 🧵🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Alberta’s Separatists Are Showing the Limits of Trump’s Power Over Canada
As a secession vote looms at America’s doorstep, the US president is conspicuously steering clear.
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Nick Kellett @nickkellett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Grey seals on the rocks at Isle Bonaventure. They like to bask and rest but lately they are being predated by more Great White sharks. We're seeing wounded or dead seals on rocks and beaches with gouges on them.
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Okay have we ever seen a majority governing party reduced to literally zero seats before?
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Nick Kellett @nickkellett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Our most recent foster fail, Earl Grey Poupon. If "Chill Vibes" had fur and a neow, it would be this cat #Caturday
Earl Grey Poupon
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Nick Kellett @nickkellett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Approaching L'Anse-au-Griffon harbour and headland from the NNW. Around here it's all sea, sky, cliffs and forests. #Gaspesie
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'll have a final update out (Available to everyone) ahead sometime on Sunday!
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Nick Kellett @nickkellett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Was trying to film a basking shark via drone but couldn't manage. Got some nice landscape shots tho #Gaspesie #Quebec #Canada
Cliffs and water View of cliffs and water with hills in the distance
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Danielle Smith's first priority has always been Danielle Smith" While raising the alarm on the slow motion separatism of Smith's 9 questions and her expected gerrymandering, Nenshi pulled few punches today. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"What an intensely weak leader she has been, both in her caucus and in her now separatist party, and for the province of Alberta" Nenshi on Smith's refusal to address MLA's who are public separatists. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Nenshi ended his comments at today's presser with a call for Albertans to not only vote themselves, but to make sure that all Albertans who can vote, do. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Me: "OK I'll come but I'm only having one drink" Also me an hour later:
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