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Penny Haggarty 🇨🇦

@pethagg.bsky.social
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Proud Canadian, feminist, lifelong learner; in the next chapter of my life after working more than four decades as a librarian. “Dog mom” to a very friendly lab-pit bull cross.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Canuckstan 🇨🇦 @jonchevreau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#via Canadian cartoonist Dave Whamond #CanadaSky #USpol
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They would sell themselves, and their province, to the Trump administration for pennies on the dollar. The question I keep asking: why has the business community been so willing to go along with this charade for so long?
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Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I won’t belabour this because I’ve written about it before, but the part of Carney’s pipeline pivot that I find impossible to justify is the government taking on the demand risk.
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Ken Caine @gutstringtheory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Actually, the markets did decide - they didn't want to invest in a pipeline in Alberta.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 01/10/2026
AI agents tried to hack Canadian government website, research firm says reut.rs/3VozHJh
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AI agents tried to hack Canadian government website, research firm says
AI agents tried to hack into a Canadian ​government website, an AI ​research firm said on Wednesday.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The investigation at Kamloops began from the discovery of a child's tooth and juvenile rib bone. There was already a list of over 50 children who were confirmed to have died there from a combination of Church police hospital and government records. You can see their names: nctr.ca/residential-...
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Kamloops Residential School - NCTR
Learn more about this school in the NCTR Archives.
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Mark Gerretsen @markgerretsen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today, we honour the children who never returned home, Survivors of residential schools, and their families and communities. Today is also an opportunity for all of us to listen, learn, reflect, and continue the work of reconciliation in our communities. Every Child Matters. 🧡
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Castanet Kamloops @castanetkamloops.net · 30/09/2026
Hundreds gather to reclaim space after masked demonstration at Tk'emlups #Kamloops
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Hundreds gather to reclaim space after masked demonstration at Tk'emlups - Kamloops News
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When you're on the wrong side of an 80-20 issue, it's generally a bad idea to dig in -- and a *really* bad idea to lie about the other side's position on it. And yet. #cdnpoli
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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 24/09/2026
Canadians should be mindful that this is how Americans interpret other people standing up to their bullying Their failures are our fault #cdnpoli www.latimes.com/business/sto...
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Canada's boycott forces the sale of a California winery
As California's wine industry struggles, a family-owned vineyard spanning 3,500 acres is for sale after its exports to Canada dropped 35% in a year.
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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
If these maniacs aren't stopped, just being older than 30 will make you Suspect; being older than 40 will make you a Threat: Because you will Know Things & most importantly they don't want you to Know Things, _especially_ anything about last century, which unfortunately was a template for this one
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Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I can understand Eby's political motivation. But he should read up on Jim Prentice. Prentice (and Smith) orchestrated a mass floor crossing by the official opposition and then called an early election. Voters punished him hard for his anti-democratic behaviour.
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Over here checking sources @janis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 19/09/2026
This feels like it should be the lede: "Without the official text being released, it is unclear how exactly the deal differs from a 1951 agreement with Denmark, under which the US can send as many troops as it wants to Greenland." At least the second graf www.bbc.com/news/article...
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US and Denmark reach deal over Greenland's security after Trump threats
Trump said the agreement will give the US "permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland", though specifics haven't been confirmed by Danish officials.
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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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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Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Local newspaper suggests Canada overreacting to delightful and dependable southern neighbour’s acts of kinship and love.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Statement from the Radio Television Digital News Association:
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Pissed-Off Scientist @rockney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
VOTE !!!!!!!
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 18/09/2026
Talk about a dream 😍 In conversation with Margaret Atwood at our shared alma mater, Victoria University, on October 20
A screenshot of the event I will be doing with Margaret Atwood at our shared alma mater Victoria University on October 20.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trump thinks he can control who everyone else can trade with. He tried it with Canada, and Canada walked away. Now he’s trying it with the EU. He will completely tank the US Economy & every international alliance the US had. Sounds like exactly what Putin would want him to do. What a coincidence.
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My hot take: We are not arguing about SSRIs. Some of us are using them as prescribed by our doctors to treat mental health difficulties. This administration has decided that's a problem based on no actual research.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Statistics Canada thanks Canadians for their exceptional participation in the 2026 Census--The overall response rate for the 2026 Census of population reached 98.4% nationally. #Canada www.canada.ca/en/statistic...
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Statistics Canada thanks Canadians for their exceptional participation in the 2026 Census - Canada.ca
Thanks to outstanding participation across the country, the final response rate for the Canadian census is among the highest ever recorded.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 12/09/2026
Jocelyn and I added five more Canadian companies to our UNPLUG AMERICA directory today. If you want to switch YOUR technology to Canadian alternatives, check out unplug.todmaffin.com It's free, no ads, no trackers, and contains no affiliate links. #BuyCanadian
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Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @laura-babcock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Mr Ambassador when doing media about 911 don’t chastise Canadians when 24 🇨🇦 died on that day, we took in 7,000 stranded Americans in Gander, 40,000 of our military served in your war in Afghanistan where 158 died as well as a diplomat, journalist and 2 aid workers. Shame on you.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
International demand for Canadian maple syrup surges amid U.S. trade war #Canada 🍁 Canadian maple syrup exports are trending upward, generating $844.2 million in 2025, up 17.2 per cent over the previous year according to Statistics Canada. /1 thread www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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International demand for Canadian maple syrup surges amid U.S. trade war | CBC News
Whether it's seeking to support Canadian or people looking for alternative sweeteners to refined sugar, Canadian maple syrup is seeing a bump in exports. Hutchinson Acres in Nova Scotia is seeing an u...
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
He's 92, but Jean Chretien can still pull Canadians out of their seats and give them reason to cheer. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Jean Chrétien says 'we bow to no one' in fiery 9/11 speech in Gander, N.L. | CBC News
Former Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien drew thunderous applause on Friday during a fiery and patriotic speech in Gander, N.L, where many had gathered at a sports arena to commemorate the 25th an...
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s absolutely bananas that people are opposed to this technology.
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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 12/09/2026
This was a national travesty
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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 12/09/2026
He got the people going with this one www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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‘Never mistake our generosity for weakness’: Chrétien to Americans
Former prime minister Jean Chrétien told the U.S. not to ‘mistake our tolerance for lack of determination’ while speaking in Gander, N.L., at the 25-year commemoration of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist...
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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 10/09/2026
Our UNPLUG AMERICA directory of Canadian alternatives to American technology isn't just a basic list on the Internet. My team deeply researches each individual company that requests to be listed: 🔎 Where they store their data 🔎 Who owns the company 🔎 What money they've taken ✅ unplug.todmaffin.com
Email requesting clarification that PitchBook lists a minority investment by Astralabs (Texas) and asking whether the app’s tournament booking uses Google Firebase hosting or Google-hosted servers for user data.
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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A “Smifth Columnist”, if you will.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“We need an Ozempic for cars. They are growing at a phenomenal rate, wreaking havoc on roads, squeezing out smaller vehicles and endangering pedestrians. Like ever-hungry teenagers, cars in Europe are growing on average a centimetre wider every year.” Don’t repeat North America’s mistake, Europe.
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Britain’s cars and SUVs are growing bigger – but there is a way to stop this deadly ‘carspreading’ | Christian Wolmar
Larger vehicles crowd our roads and are far more dangerous to pedestrians. Let’s curb them before they do even more damage, says says transport commentator Christian Wolmar
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How much money are we wasting on this slop propaganda? Just more swallowing the hype.
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Free course covering basics of AI to be available to all Canadians by end of the year | CBC News
With the artificial intelligence boom sweeping across Canada and around the world, the federal government is making efforts it says will ensure Canadians understand what AI is, what it can do and how ...
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Eby announces ‘never 51st state’ signs as Canada-U.S. trade war escalates #BritishColumbia #Canada 💪🏻🇨🇦🍁 www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
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Eby announces ‘never 51st state’ signs as Canada-U.S. trade war escalates
The British Columbia government will install new signs at U.S. border crossings declaring the province “never the 51st state,” Premier David Eby announced Tuesday as Canada’s latest retaliatory tariff...
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Fixed it For You, Heather. Fun piece by @alexcoolfergus.bsky.social deconstructing the arguments of right-wing think tank opposed to oil and gas export tax. climatememes.substack.com/p/fixed-it-f...
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Fixed it For You, Heather.
Oil industry mouthpieces do not want a conversation about export taxes in Canada
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Cyndi W @cyndiw1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
More realistic 👍❤️🇨🇦
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Just gonna leave this here... for no reason at all. 🙄🇨🇦
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is how I respond now to Americans who say Canada better smarten up because America is so much more powerful. ~ Joel Shapiro
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump called for a national boycott of a Canadian company that employs hundreds of Americans at plants in Kansas and Indiana, which pays their bills and feeds their families. Which would put them all out of work if successful. On Labor Day. Because he’s mad at Mark Carney.
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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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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Study: Generative AI succumbs to conversational misinformed pressure and argument news.arizona.edu/news/study-g... "This underscores the need for careful human engagement and the danger of blind reliance."
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Study: Generative AI succumbs to conversational misinformed pressure and argument
U of A research assessed seven different generative AI language learning models. Their work reveals intrinsic limitations that might go undetected during one-off interactions.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The Conservative Party of B.C. has seen nine MLAs quit caucus in recent weeks. Niigaan Sinclair says in B.C. and the Prairies, provincial leaders cannot outright spread division involving Indigenous people and expect to form government. Truth & Politics: youtu.be/8WUJmfIpAfg
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Jenn the Queen @jennb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We’re coming for you. 😃
Women grow radical with age. One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the earth. 
GLORIA STEINEM
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Possibly the most American news of all time
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Prison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debt
Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"There is no way to know how many crimes have not been committed because the chance of escaping unpunished had shrunk in a society now more ready to listen to women & girls, who had gained more rights in the legal system." In other words, victory was often what did not happen, which is hard to see.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I wrote in March: Feminism is far from dead, but people love to write its obituary. I’ve lived through dozens of them over the decades, and there’s been a fresh flurry over the past few years....
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The one thing everyone gets wrong about feminism
People love to declare the death of the women’s movement, pointing to the ‘failure’ of #MeToo or the Epstein files, but don’t give up the fight just yet, writes Rebecca Solnit
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