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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 2h

Halifax Examiner which has blown the lid off of a lot of shady shit by Premier Houston in Nova Scotia and he does this. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Houston needs to go. 🤬

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Peter Mortimer @peterhfx.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I still use paper maps and analog compass for my wilderness hikes.

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Martin Grasdal 🍁 @mgrasdal.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This province that I grew up in is so depressing sometimes. The Alberta grievance mill works overtime to embed falsehoods into both the remain and the leave narratives. We are not harder working or more entrepreneurial than other Canadians. We are only special in our credulity to O&G propaganda.

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Waye Mason 🇨🇦 @wayemason.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Frig vision zero, 15 minute cities, complete streets, safety systems approach, 8-80, all that. Apparently we need to start small and focus on ‘how do we get these arseholes to drive the posted speed limit.'

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American Society of International Law @asilorg.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Statement of ASIL President Oona A. Hathaway Regarding the United States Sanctions on the International Criminal Court. #intlaw #internationallaw #ICC #sanctions

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 12/10/2026

This may not be a good time to bring this up but Trump once gave an address to 1500 conservative donors in front of a fake presidential seal containing the eagle from the Russian seal and a set of golf clubs.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Very interesting piece/take by the esteemed Andrew Leach. TL;DR (but you should!) version: one of her proposed constitutional amendments would make it *harder* to build pipelines, not easier. It might, in fact, give a progressive BC government a veto over them. leach.substack.com/p/is-daniell...

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Is Danielle Smith looking to hamstring the Pacific Link pipeline?

The constitutional amendment contemplated in Question 9 would do just that

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 08/10/2026

Alberta’s government paid land rent for some 480 delinquent oil and gas companies in 2025. @brettmckay.bsky.social reports for the Investigative Journalism Foundation. thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...

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Alberta Companies Owe Millions in Unpaid Land Rent | The Tyee

Taxpayers covered lease payments for hundreds of oil and gas companies in 2025.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure

The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.

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Canadian Cultural Heritage Advocacy Committee @cchac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Canadian government allocated $925.6 million for AI in its 2025 budget, while permanently cutting $22.1 million annually from Library and Archives Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

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AI agents tried to hack a Canadian government website, research firm says | CBC News

AI agents tried to hack into a Library and Archives Canada website, according to a report by artificial intelligence research firm Transluce.

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Peter Mortimer @peterhfx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Giving the Speaker a party label should be considered unparliamentary language, she should be booted out.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What booming economy? Is everyone at FT on hallucinogens? The best time to delete this was before it went up, and the second-best time is right now. Like right this very second. This is *humiliating* for FT—to confuse the AI stock bubble with a whole fucking economy. A whole-of-institution fail.

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Peter Mortimer @peterhfx.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It will also bring world peace and personal fulfillment to all.

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Francesca Bouaoun @francescabouaoun.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s been two years since Ontario Place West Island was destroyed for a planned private spa. Hundreds of trees were cut down - here’s a snapshot of the many species who lost habitat. 🧵

Side-by-side comparison of a landscape on the Toronto waterfront. In one scene, an island is covered in trees reflected in a still channel of water. The other image of the same place shows a barren stretch land with a pile of rubble in the centre.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

MAGA Americans: Canada better not interfere in our midterms! Also MAGA Americans: here's why we think you should change your laws to make them more like ours.

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Yes, it was the Liberals, not the political culture of grievances that needs a scapegoat to distract from their own failures. There certainly hasn't been this pattern going on over and over again since the early 80s, when they blamed Pierre Trudeau for the global price crash.

Carson Jerema: How the Liberals turned an alarming number of Albertans into separatists

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Americans (and most especially Democrats) would rather guilt-trip Canadians than doing something about their own fascist regime.

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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Stephen Harper has, as we've long awaited, weighed in against Alberta separatism. But man oh man, do I have to strongly quibble with him claiming sentiment was zero when he was PM. Here's a 2014 poll putting belief in separation at 23%, which is where it sits now. nationalpost.com/opinion/step...

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What if—hear me out—these provincial ministers actually funded their own mental health care, addictions and home care programmes? They're not helpless! Provinces can raise their own revenues! That's why they got the tax points in the seventies.

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Health ministers say Ottawa needs to renew mental health, home care funding

OTTAWA - Health ministers from across the country say they're worried about "profound and negative" effects on patients and health-care jobs if federal funding agreements for mental health, addictions...

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Peter Mortimer @peterhfx.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think he might have meant to say "mortality.

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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lol they have no idea how they're going to pay for it. "We're going to attract private money to the project, which means it has to generate returns. One thing I'll tell you upfront, the main mechanism to generate returns is off the table" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Quote from the provincial public works minister saying that the bridge will somehow be paid for but definitely not by tolls

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."

Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And yes I am adopting "going bikelane" as a shorthand for "premier of a Canadian province decides to reverse municipal policymaking specifically because of the irritation of noisy reactionary minority"

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Reminder: machines do not have intention or motivation or agency. If I leave bomb out on the street and it eventually blows up and kills people, did the bomb "go rogue" or am I a fucking criminal?

nytimes.com

OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites

The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

these are not “autonomous” attacks: they are failures by humans to implement appropriate controls for the computers acting on their behalf, and we must not forget it.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I return to my contention that the real benefit of Canadian federalism is that at any given moment there's always one province whose political situation can provide entertainment for everyone else.

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Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦 @kaicable.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Patriotic Calls to Support ‘Canada’s’ Oil are BullShit. Four companies dominate oilsands production - Canadian Natural Resources, Cenovus, Imperial Oil and Suncor - are close to 3/4 foreign-owned, mostly by the US. These corps account for 80% of oilsands production. #cdnpoli shorturl.at/VQgVF

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Why Patriotic Calls to Support ‘Canada’s’ Oil Ring Hollow | The Tyee

As Trump’s US rakes in oilsands profits, we’re sold a clouded narrative of energy sovereignty.

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It really pisses me off how @cdnpress.bsky.social not only doesn't call bullshit on the invented grievances, but also uses opposition framing like calling the former Bill C-69 the "No New Pipelines" bill, which was Jason Kenney's name for it, and was 100% untrue. It's just stenography at this point.

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'Why walk away?': Emotional Danielle Smith speaks against separation at online forum

CALGARY - An emotional Premier Danielle Smith held back tears Saturday as she recounted a long list of historic indignities Albertans have suffered at the hands of the federal government.

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Peter Mortimer @peterhfx.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yeah, it's all about spite for Trump ... nothing else going on.

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The CTF is an astroturf organization that refuses to be transparent about their own financing or control, and why legacy media in this country continues to treat them seriously is a problem. (It's because they are reliable quote generators, which is an indictment of media sourcing).

Taxpayer group calls for Carney to cut the cord on CBC, Senate, past GGs
In its pre-budget recommendations to the federal government, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation also includes cutting the government’s planned high-speed rail project

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Photo of Mark Carney and François-Philippe Champagne in the House of Commons on budget day

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is sinister and obscene. Move the meeting to Geneva. The US is denying visas to Palestinian officials seeking to attend next week's UN General Assembly It's in "our national interest" to hold the PLO and PA "accountable for glorifying terrorism," State Department says

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Sid Eschenbach @sid-eschenbach.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Benedict Arnold: "If Washington had agreed to accept King George as his sovereign, there would now be peace again in the colonies".

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Democrats keep trying to guilt-trip Canadians into backing down. Fuck off. Deal with your own mess. This is your problem to solve, not ours. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Gallego, the Arizona senator, said the two sides need to figure out how to mutually step down from the current trade tensions, adding that it appeared both Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney were playing politics when trade talks fell apart last month.
"I'm not asking Mr. Carney to just bend at the knee and give in, but this is the role of diplomacy," Gallego said. "You figure out how to actually start bringing the heat down little by little to a point where you can get to the negotiation table."
Likewise, Maine's governor, Mills, said there need to be "serious negotiations on both sides," and she hopes a third party can sit down with the two countries and make it clear a tariff fight damages both of them.
"The retaliatory tariffs, I can understand why that's happening," Mills said. "I can't say it's not damaging our economy, though."

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Everything this government does begins (and often ends) with one calculation: how can we help the oil and gas industry? Not workers. Not Albertans. Not even businesses. Just one industry -- one that's clearly captured this government.

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I really wish I had enough faith in the US electorate to believe this won't matter but, well

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

From the “why even try?“ school of thought. They keep talking about this like going back to the old status quo with America is an option. Since it isn’t, it means they really want Canada to surrender.

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Poilievre just released to very different statements for the "birthdays" of Saskatchewan and Alberta. Saskatchewan: First Nations, Métis, immigrants! Alberta: Farmer, ranchers, energy workers, freedom! 🤔🤔🤔

Statement from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on Alberta Day
September 1, 2026
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Ottawa, ON – The Hon. Pierre Poilievre, Leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition and the Conservative Party of Canada, released the following statement commemorating Alberta Day:
“On September 1st, 1905, Alberta became a province of Canada. In the generations since, Albertans have helped build a stronger, freer and more prosperous country for all Canadians.
“From the farmers and ranchers who turn prairie grass into food for the world, to the energy workers who power our homes and communities, to the entrepreneurs who create jobs and opportunity, Alberta is built by people who work hard, take risks and don’t wait for permission to get things done.
“It is a province defined by perseverance, freedom and courage.
“That spirit runs through Alberta’s history, from the pioneers who braved the harsh winters to build great western Canadian cities, to the Famous Five who fought for equality and changed Canadian history, to the Albertans who have served, and continue to serve, in uniform to defend our freedoms.
“It is reflected in Alberta’s motto, Fortis et Liber – Strong and Free.
“Albertans should take pride in that legacy, and in the history, culture and traditions that make this province remarkable. Today, we celebrate the people who built Alberta, their contributions to Canada and the generations carrying that work forward.
“On Alberta Day, let us celebrate all that Albertans have achieved and look forward to a future where Alberta is stronger within a united Canada.
“Happy Alberta Day!”
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Statement from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on the Anniversary of Saskatchewan Joining Confederation
September 1, 2026
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Ottawa, ON – The Hon. Pierre Poilievre, Leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition and the Conservative Party of Canada, released the following statement on the 121st Anniversary of Saskatchewan joining Confederation:
“One hundred and twenty-one years ago, the land of prairie wheat and northern white birch completed Canada’s western provinces as Saskatchewan was finally born.
“Saskatchewan was built by its people. By the Cree, Saulteaux and Métis who knew the land long before there were borders between provinces or countries. By the homesteaders who stepped off a train in Yorkton with a trunk, a team and a quarter section of grass.
“By the Ukrainians, Germans and Hungarians who arrived with nothing but their ancestral know-how and a willingness to carve homes, community and civilization out of an often harsh and unforgiving territory.
“None of this history was inherited by idle progeny. Instead, every generation – whether farmers facing the dustbowls that stripped the topsoil during the ‘Dirty Thirties’ or young men journeying from small towns to serve through two World Wars – the province earned its motto: Multis e Gentibus Vires – From many peoples, strength.
“Every day, a million and a quarter people turn vast resources – from the largest source of potash to one of the largest sources of durum, canola and lentils – into the goods that sustain our communities. When a nuclear reactor keeps the lights on in Ontario, there is a good chance the fuel came out of the Athabasca Basin.
“For one hundred and twenty-one years, Saskatchewanians from Estevan to Uranium City have built a province that can feed and fuel people across Canada and around the world. Let the inspiration of what we can build together inspire the next generation of pioneers to build an even stronger Saskatchewan within a united Canada.”
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Peter Mortimer @peterhfx.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

An amazing read about system failure. No paywall.

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Yet again, Americans fail to see us as a real country, but just a projection for their own domestic politics. Also, the notion that Carney would lead "their" resistance is yet more of the American insistence that their own leaders are some kind of external imposition rather than their reflection.

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"you see, Canada is clearly overreacting and should simply make the deal that's available, like other countries have"

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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“the province, in its “wisdom,” just made a rule saying they will help you more financially once you have a home that meets its definition of a home. But to get that home, you need more money. Which the province won’t give you because you don’t have a home.”

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