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Jeanne Petras

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Retired educator, enjoy gardening, reading, skiing, spending time with my grandchildren and at the cottage.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 04/10/2026
How is Mark Carney doing? Ask yourself these three questions, Bob Rae writes www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
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Bob Rae: How is Mark Carney doing? Ask yourself these three questions
We need to ask these three questions: “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?”
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Tyler Watt @tylerwatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I asked the Health Minister about nurses and health care workers being laid off across Ontario. She didn’t answer. Throughout committee, she blamed the federal government, blamed the previous Liberal government from eight years ago, and avoided answering questions. #onpoli
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Diane Blais 🇨🇦 @dianeblais.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pierre Poilievre’s expenses are out of this world! He outspends everyone else by a long shot! www.ourcommons.ca/ProactiveDis...,
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House Officers – Summary of Expenditures | Proactive Publication of Financial Information
House Officers – Summary of Expenditures | Proactive Publication of Financial Information
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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wherein Andrew Leach hands the dumbest guy on the internet his ass in less than 20 words.
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All of Canada's active potash mines are in Saskatchewan, where the industrial carbon price is currently zero.
Quoting Scott Robertson (@sarobertson_)
Andrew Scheer on Trump buying potash from
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'... lift the industrial carbon tax ..."
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
via Angus Reid, Ford's approval has rebounded slightly in the midst of Trump's trade war against Canada but it still leaves him the least popular premier in the country. (And the rebound itself isn't particularly impressive.) angusreid.org/premiers-per...
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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
#DougFord destroyed this amazing place. So many kids - too many to even count - developed an interest in science because of the #OntarioScienceCentre. His greedy developer pals wanted the land, so Ford manufactured a lie to destroy it. Now it won’t even have *checks notes* A SCIENCE DEPARTMENT??
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Foolishly optimistic 🇨🇦 #CanadaSky#Never Poilievre @ladyjaynes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Kudos to PM Carney. Too bad Doug Ford chose a 🇺🇸Maryland company to build the driverless trains for the Ont Line & 🇺🇸 Staples for teacher's school supplies & Service Ont contracts,a Texas firm,to provide lifetime coaching to WSIB employees. He's sending jobs & $ to 🇺🇸 while Ontarioans are losing jobs.
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Tao of Stieb @taoofstieb.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
8.3% chance this morning, let’s go baby!
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Tyler Watt @tylerwatt.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Doug Ford calls himself the most fiscally responsible Premier in history. After 8 long years, Ontario’s debt is nearing HALF A TRILLION dollars. Hospitals are cutting nurses, schools are overcrowded, and 2.5 million people don’t have a family doctor. Priorities. #onpoli
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A wildfire fanned by 115 kilometre per hour winds razed homes along the west side of British Columbia's Okanagan Lake, forcing many residents to escape to safety. The collapse of our one and only livable climate is accelerating!
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Gotta love it when your comms flak makes you famous.
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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
NEW: Doug Ford railed against his own MPPs for claiming hotel stays in downtown Toronto, telling them they'd all have to pay it back. The thing is, it was actually the government that told them to use the perk in an email last year. #Onpoli globalnews.ca/news/1197496...
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Ford government advised its MPPs they could use hotel benefit for night sittings | Globalnews.ca
For more than a week, government MPPs have been facing scrutiny for charging downtown Toronto hotel stays to the taxpayer instead of commuting to and from Queen’s Park.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 15/07/2026
They didn't listen. Might get lucky. Already lucky it isn't 1-1.
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Saeed Khan @saeedwkhan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The Windor mayor warned against doing this. Carney has ZERO elbows. ZERO. www.cp24.com/news/canada/...
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‘Keep it closed’: Windsor mayor doesn’t want Canada to accept ‘bad’ trade deal just to open Gordie Howe bridge
Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens says he doesn’t want Canada to accept a bad trade deal just to open the Gordie Howe International Bridge.
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Diane Blais 🇨🇦 @dianeblais.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
It’s high time we started behaving like the grownup country that we are. It’s also noteworthy that, due to the state of 24 Sussex, for the past 11 years, the Leader of the Official Opposition has lived in a larger, more luxurious “official residence” (at taxpayer’s expense) than our Prime Minister.
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Diane Blais 🇨🇦 @dianeblais.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
IMHO, it is a nat’l embarrassment & source of shame that we’ve allowed the official residence of our head of govt to get so rundown that it’sno longer safe/livable. Can you imagine the 🇺🇸 letting this happen to the White House, the 🇬🇧 letting this to happen to 10 Downey or 🇫🇷 to the Palais Élisée?
Screenshot of a CTV News article about PM Carney announcing plans for the rehabilitation of 24 Sussex.
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Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Nelson offers full math textbooks and workbooks. Private schools have them for their students. But Calandra tells us public schools will get the online supplementary materials instead (because they are cheaper). No physical books for your child to hold in their hands. #OntEd
My math path textbook and workbooks
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 09/06/2026
Seeing some people react to this as if Jesse Brown lost in court and experiencing some understandable schadenfreude But his isn't a court verdict, it's an out-of-court settlement. What this actually shows is Jesse Brown was willing to pay $885,000 to avoid a public airing of these issues at trial
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Canadaland, Jesse Brown to Pay $885,000 and Issue Public Apology in Kielburger v. Canadaland Inc. Over False Claim That Was Foundational to Its Reporting on WE Charity and the Kielburger Family
/CNW/ - Canadaland Inc. and its founder Jesse Brown will pay a total of $885,000 in damages and costs to Theresa Kielburger, an 82-year-old retired Toronto...
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Mary Simon's farewell letter.
Farewell to Canadians
June 8, 2026
Dear Canadians,
Today, I conclude my service as your governor general, with gratitude.
From the beginning, I hoped to serve as a voice of compassion and respect—one that reflects the many cultures that shape our remarkable nation.
I believe in the importance of strengthening relationships and deepening understanding among all peoples, Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike.
Reconciliation belongs to all of us. It is not only about acknowledging the past, but also about shaping our shared future. It calls for us to share our stories, to learn from one another, and sometimes to have difficult but necessary conversations. This is how we move forward together, in dignity and equality.
Over the past five years, I have seen historians and educators working together with Indigenous Peoples in developing an inclusive history for all Canadians to discover and learn.
We have faced extraordinary moments—times of uncertainty, but also of resilience and progress. I have seen Canadians come together in innovative ways, strengthening mental health through connection and culture. I have also witnessed many constructive actions, including speaking out against the online harassment and violence that continue to hinder women’s leadership.
Throughout it all, I have carried the Inuktitut word Ajuinnata—to never give up, to persevere. That spirit lives in you—in the excellence and generosity I’ve seen in Canadians everywhere.
Let us keep building bridges of empathy and connection throughout our vast country.
With heartfelt thanks.
Mary Simon
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Pedro Marques | metromanTO @ipedro.com · 05/06/2026
Yes, this isn’t a difficult choice for the Liberals. Either Doug Ford gives Toronto its seat at the table or the conversation on the airport is over. Period. Whose team are they on?? This thing is souring me on Carney and not too long ago I was campaigning for him like I haven’t for anyone before.
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John MacKinnon 🇨🇦 @bustersmart.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I lived in Alberta from 1996-2016, worked at the Edmonton Journal for 17 years. Most of my former Alberta colleagues are as angry about the unnecessary referendum as the Central Canadian elites you have nattered about for decades. Most see the folly of building Canada’s economy around fossil fuels.
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Harry Rasmussen 🇨🇦 @harryrasmussen.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Katy E @MargTokar Notley & Trudeau, actual adults in the room who got the first major pipeline in over 50 yrs built. It wasn’t all about whining, & tantrums & grievances. We deserve adult leaders, right @WabKinew @ABDanielleSmith @UCPCaucus 5:29 PM · May 30, 2026
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
On this day in 1985, the Barrie Tornado Outbreak occurred when 14 tornadoes struck southern Ontario. The storm killed 14 people in Canada, along with 76 in the United States. The worst of the tornadoes was the F4 that hit Barrie and caused $150 million in damages. 📸 Tim Clark
A group of people stand on grass in front of heavily damaged houses and scattered debris. One small brick wall remains upright with a window opening, while furniture, wood, insulation, and household items are spread across the yard. Several cars are parked among the wreckage. Two children sit on the grass in the foreground, with broken buildings and damaged trees in the background.
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Dawn Alene @dawnalene.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto🇨🇦 @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Wab shows them how to be a leader. Marvellous. He makes her especially look so small and ill-informed.
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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Scott Reid unloads on Danielle Smith: "She acts as though she's just a cork in a raging river of democracy. She's steering the ship and she's steering it toward the shoals of separatism."
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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
So much BS. You reap what you sow, Danielle Smith.
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Alan Drummond MD @dralandrummond.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
My letter in today's Toronto Star:
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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Mr. Rae, who actually knows and cares about history, gives us a superb piece on Trump’s latest, fruitless insult to 🇨🇦Canada: open.substack.com/pub/bobrae48...
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The Permanent Joint Board on Defence and the Slide from FDR to Trump
I recently taught an intensive course to Queen’s University graduate students on the origins of the current crisis in the relationship between Canada and the United States, after teaching a similar co...
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Tossed by the Wind Emily Carr 1939
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
To be clear: the 400,000-plus people who signed the Forever Canada petition don't want a referendum. They wanted to prevent one. So no, Premier Smith, you don't get to add their names to those of the separatists. If anything, they more than cancel them out. #abpoli
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
With the greatest of respect to @kevincarmichael.bsky.social, Justin Trudeau bent over backwards for Alberta, and burned a metric tonne of political capital to build them a pipeline (to say nothing of orphan well funds, etc), all of which earned him nothing but new invented grievances in return.
The backtracking on climate policy can’t have been easy for Carney, who served the UN as a special envoy on climate action and finance not so long ago. Activists will accuse him of abandoning the cause, and they will have a point. But the shift is more a reminder that governing Canada requires compromise. It’s something the political sphere has been lacking for a couple of decades. 
The ideologically oriented governments of Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau tended to insist on doing things their way. They got away with it because the political class learned that elections could be won by efficiently mining thin veins of support, rather than trying to win in as many places as possible. The unintended consequence was polarization.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Privatization is a fetish that harms the public good and is therefore one of the only kinks it's acceptable to shame.
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Tyler Watt @tylerwatt.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I asked Ontario’s Health Minister what this government is doing to RESPECT and RETAIN #nurses. Instead of answering, she talked about recruitment and alleged nurses who tell her they appreciate her. When I called out the non-answer, she laughed out loud. Nurses deserve better. #onpoli
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Diane Blais 🇨🇦 @dianeblais.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/12/o...
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We’re in the midst of the last oil boom. Alberta is already pissing it away
Alberta should be using the windfall from the war in Iran to prepare for the future. Instead, it's busy trying to recreate the past.
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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Are you enjoying your 10c/litre holiday from the federal excise tax on gasoline (starting April 20)? The avg Cdn price fell 10c that day. But since then it's risen 20c. So the avg price now is 10 cents higher than BEFORE the 10 cent tax cut! (Data from gasbuddy.com) /2
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Former PM Justin Trudeau goes on American TV and says that Canadian aluminum WON'T be available. "when the US finally wakes up" ..... "its not your aluminum anymore" and that Trump drove Canada to China. #cdnpoli
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Marc 🍁 @marc55.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Very fitting. Shots fired! #cdnpoli
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
This is, frankly, often the divider between the native born poor and the immigrant poor. The latter value education and do not scorn it, and so often escape poverty in one generation. The former, not so much.
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
This is a well-documented pattern in medical research and reflects systemic gender bias in pain assessment and treatment.👇
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Well well. How the turntables have...
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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
From earlier today, an exchange with the Solicitor General, trying to get an answer on why the government has allowed jails to reach an average of 130 per cent capacity in Ontario. #ONpoli globalnews.ca/news/1177401...
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Fun Tom - Poilievre's notorious habit of picking and choosing which journalists can ask him questions, is not harmless. It's a dangerous sign and massive red flag. This guy must not get anywhere near the Prime Minister's Office. #cdnpoli
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 11/04/2026
Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
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Harry Rasmussen 🇨🇦 @harryrasmussen.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
On a Thursday before a long weekend, the Ford government announced another meddle in municipal affairs: www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
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Ford government giving sweeping powers to appointed regional chairs
Municipal Affairs Minister Rob Flack is giving sweeping powers to the regional chairs the government will appoint to head Ontario's eight largest regional councils.
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Diana Chan McNally @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
This is outrageous! By giving his government the power to appoint ALL regional chairs across Ontario, Premier Ford is effectively seizing control of regional governments. School boards. Killing FOIs. And now, regional councils. Ford is dismantling our democracy. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
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Ontario to build on ‘strong mayor’ system by appointing ‘strong’ regional chairs
Ontario’s municipal affairs minister is proposing to appoint a slate of regional council chairs and give them additional powers, as the government has done with so-called strong mayors.
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
RIP to a great man. He was the unnamed UN official I was alluding to in an earlier post today. As a global health scholar, Mr Lewis was a towering figure in my field. The nation should truly mourn this loss.
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