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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 5h

Alberta's Danielle Smith is SEPERATIST! She will destroy Alberta while trying to destroy Canada to fit Trump's agenda. Albertan's will pay dearly. #ableg #abpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzlZ...

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SHOCKING: Danielle Smith’s Separation Push EXPOSED

YouTube video by Claus Kellerman POV

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a very bad poll. Not because Carney is ahead, because I agree that he should be. It's bad because we obviously have a very ineffective opposition. That is not healthy. NDP and Greens need to merge and get a better name, and Pollievre and his Reform buddies need to go away!

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The American justice system has too many flaws for the courts to decide who lives and dies. No system in the world has ever proven itself perfect enough for that responsibility.

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Con men everywhere. Canada deceived by Sask. company! Watch the video then make your feelings known to: email: david.mcguinty@parl.gc.ca phone: 613-992-3269 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mING...

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Canadian Defense Giant CAUGHT Selling Out to Don Jr as Outrage EXPLODES

YouTube video by Large Man Abroad

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Judging politicians on what they advocated pre-Covid and pre-Trump is not helpful. The world has changed. A politician should and must be adaptable. Our country can ill afford to be intransigent in such a fast moving world. Practice/demand reality based decisions.

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I never adjusted to retirement, so I quickly found other things to do, some paid and some volunteer. In my eight decades I'm still planning to study relaxation to see if it is everything that it is cracked up to be.

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The number of attacks, by ICE, on innocent Americans is orders of magnitude greater than this. I believe in the law but not in this US government version of Justice! Apple is supporting violence, not justice. www.cnn.com/2026/09/29/t...

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Moonset" over Shawnigan this morning . It makes my morning coffee taste better!

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

US Mortgage Rate tops 7% Canada much lower. www.cnn.com/2026/09/24/e...

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So Business people are noticing that we the customers are sick of paying more, for less service? As the saying goes, "Read The Room"

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Trump is likely breathing a sigh of relief that the judge ruled against him, and that cameras will roll again. Trump goofed! He was about to realize his worst fear, that of "being lonely at the top". Press should now ignore him voluntarily. www.cnn.com/2026/09/24/p...

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Judge orders Trump administration to reinstate White House access to CNN, MS NOW and Politico | CNN Politics

Federal Judge Timothy Kelly has ordered the Trump administration to immediately reinstate CNN, MS NOW and Politico’s access to the White House after they were banned from the premises by President Don...

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When one is good friends with the neighbours it is not hard to understand why one would play Bridge with them every Thursday night. When those same neighbours become troublesome it's good to remember there are other people around, and 6 other days in the week! www.hilltimes.com/2026/09/21/c...

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Canada-U.S. trade conflict is an old movie with new actors, but it's now on the precipice of becoming genuinely ugly - The Hill Times

The challenge facing Canada is simply the latest chapter in a debate that stretches from former prime ministers Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Wilfrid Laurier to Brian Mulroney and now Prime Minister M...

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Trump, like Putin, is a wounded animal at home and abroad. Expect increasing extreme and nonsensical actions from Trump to cling to power. With Putin, expect incursions into the Baltics and other Nato countries trying to provoke retaliation. This is a dangerous time for America to be leaderless.

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Leaves are starting to fall on Vancouver island. What fresh hell is this?

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If Trump can further screw up oil and diesel prices, he will. Here is what that means for Canada. www.cnn.com/2026/09/22/e...

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This US admin is a cruel, rogue gang of thugs. It has no decency or respect for life. It demeans every American who is decent! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As a long-time cyclist I welcome the idea of allowing other wheeled vehicles onto bike lanes. (Bike and Roll lanes) Will it slow bikes down? Yes. Does that matter? No. timescolonist.com/local-news/ubcm-delegates-back-push-to-allow-mobility-scooters-in-bike-lanes-12792792

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UBCM delegates back push to allow mobility scooters in bike lanes

Many people using mobility scooters are already travelling on bike and roll routes because they’re faster, safer and more comfortable than sidewalks, says an advocate.

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

How completely 'High School' is this? "You're friends with me . . so you can't be friends with her!" The US is so insecure and obsessed with itself that it wants to dictate who we pick as friends? Dammed! How did they sink so low? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Republican senator warns Carney: Closer ties to EU hurts chance of trade deal with U.S. | CBC News

A long-serving Republican senator from a border state is warning Prime Minister Mark Carney against strengthening Canada's economic and political ties to the European Union.

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My wife related to this in a big way, "that, and enough women's washrooms" she said.

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There may be a good idea in there somewhere but I am not a big fan of privatizing important services to the public. The devil as always would be in the details. If we can let big investors play in the sandbox without giving it away it might save the public money. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Government to open up Canada's 4 largest airports to private investment, Carney says | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government will open up Canada's four largest airports to private investment, but that Ottawa will maintain ultimate ownership.

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"The crowd chanted, drummed and waved signs that urged investments in people, health care and the environment." The crowd is not wrong. The government's job is to balance and channel those investments in industry so that more benefits go to the Canadian population. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Over 1,000 protesters demonstrate against Carney's investment summit in Toronto | CBC News

More than 1,000 demonstrators gathered in downtown Toronto on Monday to protest against an investment summit organized by Prime Minister Mark Carney.

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You may be a voice in the wilderness according to the polls.

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

How good or bad Data Centres are for BC is beyond my expertise. The laws of supply and demand suggest that electrical power for these things should be sold at higher rates to make up for their pressure on the environment. What do the citizens get out of this? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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What you need to know about AI data centres coming to B.C. | CBC News

A total of 400 megawatts over two years will be made available to data centres in B.C. The companies whose bids were successful are due to receive news by the end of this month. But surveys and organi...

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you assume religion is important, then you are right. I find religion to have been mostly destructive throughout history, so I do not participate. I find that God and religion have little to do with each other.

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It looks like most Canadians realize the government can't do its job unless it's provided with some information. Statistics Canada thanks Canadians for their exceptional participation in the 2026 Census. Thank-you, Census workers! www.canada.ca/en/statistic...

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Not every Canadian has the energy, knowledge or resources to always support 100% Canadian. That's OK. Together we can pick up some of the slack!

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yes! We care about the plight if of people in oppressed countries. Show us how we can help, but we do not want to be your battle field.

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I don't claim to have Christian values. I'm not sure what Christian values are, only that they are hijacked by a multitude of near-do-wells. I have my values! That's all that matters to me. www.oklahoman.com/story/news/r...

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Oklahoma churches push back on political use of Christian faith

Two Oklahoma churches are launching sermon series to combat political polarization and ideologies like Christian nationalism.

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Remember, it is not good enough to be Canadian by/through osmosis. Don't claim to be great. ....Be great. Do your part! www.youtube.com/watch?v=djHP...

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We Are The North: Canada's 51st State Anthem

YouTube video by We Are The North Productions | Toronto, Canada

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A population that can change its mind shows higher reasoning and intellect. It usually makes better decisions.

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Canada is, and must continue to be less "tribal" in its political leanings. Don't be afraid to switch votes from one election to the other if you are queasy about someone who is running. Tribal politics, like that in the US simply splits the country and gets it nowhere!

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm not an avid collector but it is fun to be reminded of simpler times.

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When our friends and neighbours in the US were attacked on 911, Canada stepped up to help in so many different ways. Despite the damage Trump has done to our world and our country, our US friends should know that, were it to happen again, Canada would be there again. It's who we are!

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The next show coming up is called "The Art For War and Peace" Equally worth seeing. There is all sorts of info if you Google it!

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The small (but mighty) Cowichan Public Art Gallery has a new spectacular show happening. If you are on Vancouver Island, drive up and take a look. If you are not, jump on the ferry and make a day of it. Admission is free. You are also free to make a donation!😁 www.artopenings.ca/sacred-forms...

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Sacred Forms CPAG

Sacred Forms Paintings by Dr Cathy Key & Sculptures by Louise Solecki Weir Cowichan Public Art Gallery, 126 Ingram Street, Duncan V9L 1P1 Lower Gallery Sept 25 - January 16, 2027 Hours: Tuesday...

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Al Brunet 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 @optimisticskeptic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ordering people to build or destroy a monument is the easy part of being president of the USA. Bringing prices down, ending wars and creating good jobs takes a leader. The USA should get one!

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