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Peter O’Neil 🇨🇦🇺🇦

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Proud dad. Retired Journalist/Speechwriter. Politic. History. Ottawa Senators. Tennis. Big Brother volunteer. Banned by Russia. Post-Nov 5 PTSD

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
We're supposed to be envious of a famous battle our allies famously lost? I. Don't. Think. So.
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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Why Canada will never be the 51st state kenmcgoogan.com/2025/05/12/w...
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Why Canada will never be the 51st state | Ken McGoogan
(Nice to see this piece turn up in today's Globe and Mail)
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Alex Adams @alexadamssn.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
What a line from Warren Buffett this morning: “Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer." [applause] 🙏🏼
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Peter O’Neil 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @poneilinottawa.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This morning in London UK
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Peter O’Neil 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @poneilinottawa.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Who wants to go to @ottawacharge.bsky.social game vs Montreal at noon today? Two tickets in great location. $300 value. Looks like full house with playoffs on the line. Make me an offer!
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 25/04/2025
Poilievre rushed to safety after actual journalist question makes it past security
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Poilievre rushed to safety after actual journalist question makes it past security
CALGARY - During an outdoor campaign rally, security rushed a shaken Pierre Poilievre to safety after he was tragically struck by a lone question from a journalist.
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Peter O’Neil 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @poneilinottawa.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Two tickets plus parking for Saturday’s game four.
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Peter O’Neil 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @poneilinottawa.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
This is by far the best game report I’ve read this morning. Gr8 to see a young reporter with the smarts and guts to highlight the positives AND the hard truths about why Sens are down two games. While sparing us the fluff. Added plus: Nice writing. Thanks Alex!
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Peter O’Neil 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @poneilinottawa.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Gallons of virtual ink spent explaining last nite’s game, but the Globe’s Cathal Kelly captured it best: “Some young teams come out overstimulated and disorganized. The Senators came out like they’d all just been released from the trunk of a car and told to run for their lives.”
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Brian O @proudcanadaveteran.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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Peter O’Neil 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @poneilinottawa.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Astounding that this freakish man who give his kids such biblical names as “X Æ A-Xii” has bought the party long thought to be in control of the Christian far right: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Harem of Elon Musk
The DOGE leader is offering the Republican Party a very different vision of fatherhood.
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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 17/04/2025
One of the things that guts me to the core about the current moment is how a (smallish) cabal of sociopathic losers can so effectively destroy the work of literally millions of people and multiple generations.
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Julio @juliohashem.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Me saying goodbye to my wife and children as I depart for the Battle of Ontario
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 14/04/2025
US campaign entices Canada tourists: “Come visit America and also maybe El Salvador!”
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US campaign entices Canada tourists: “Come visit America and also maybe El Salvador!”
OTTAWA - Following months of declining Canadian travel to the USA, Americans have launched a tourism campaign inviting Canadians to visit locations like New York, Austin, and possibly even take an all...
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Peter O’Neil 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @poneilinottawa.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
What a lede in WSJ today:
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The Canadian Border 🇨🇦 @canadianborder.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
😂😎
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Peter O’Neil 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @poneilinottawa.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
@bsky.app is starting to annoy me. Why the hell am I getting this in my feed? And it’s getting more frequent.
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Peter O’Neil 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @poneilinottawa.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
People complaining about the snow today don’t appreciate beauty. I loved what I woke up to this morning.
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Shannon Proudfoot @sproudfoot.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Great read from @markmackinnon.bsky.social on Ovechkin and Gretzky, and the ugly, complicated political realities that can't be ignored. www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hocke...
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Ovechkin can overcome Gretzky’s record, but not his own past or politics
The Russian hockey star’s ties with Putin – and the Great One’s warmth with Washington – make his goal-scoring acumen hard to celebrate
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Peter O’Neil 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @poneilinottawa.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Perfect www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/pre... @kupac1.bsky.social
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President Trump’s Tariffs Will Help America Win the War Against Birds
President Trump has announced a sweeping plan of tariffs against dozens of nations, including the Antarctic Heard and McDonald Islands, which are u...
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Hockey Samurai @hockeysamurai.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Alex Ovechkin & Wayne Gretzky have more in common than the same number of NHL career goals. They both support authoritarian mother fuckers.
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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Hegseth doesn’t want midshipmen reading an autobiography of MLK www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
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Peter O’Neil 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @poneilinottawa.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
These people are dangerously inept. Terrifying they’d be in charge during WW3: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
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Leila Molana-Allen @leilama.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Al Jazeera Correspondent Hossam Shabat was killed by Israeli forces today in a targeted strike on is car. He was 23 years old. His final social media post reported fellow journalist Mohammed Mansour’s killing an hour earlier. ≈200 of our colleagues have now been killed in Gaza.
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
In sync with authoritarianism? Yes. Yes he would be.
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Jorge Barrera @jorgebarrera.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
This is an extraordinary piece by Nahum Barnea ,with some fly-on-the-wall Woodward-style scenes. (I read this through Google translate) www.ynet.co.il/yedioth/arti...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/03/2025
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
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Peter O’Neil 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @poneilinottawa.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Truly nauseating at times being neighbours with Russian embassy staff, knowing they are here to defend a regime and imperialist culture that celebrates this evil.
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Travis Yost @travisyost.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The Ottawa Senators have (finally!) arrived and are here to disrupt the Atlantic playoff race www.tsn.ca/travis-yost-...
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.
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Peter O’Neil 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @poneilinottawa.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Great Heritage 🇨🇦 moment today in sunny ByWard market. Saw an elderly man dropped his cane while getting in car, couldn’t pick it up. I rushed out & just as I was crossing street a couple cane from 1 angle, a dude from another. “We’re nice, we’re Canadian,” woman says, laughing, as we converged. 👊👍😊
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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
"The major task [is to] change the constitution, for example, set a path for a third presidential term, because Putin's powers are limited to two terms like you have in the United States. And to achieve that goal, they want to consolidate all the media." - Yevgeny Kiselyov to PBS, July 1, 2003
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Russian Media Crackdown
Terence Smith discusses the recent closure of Russia's last independent TV broadcaster, TVS, and the Russian parliament's proposed bill to restrict press coverage of the upcoming elections with Ellen ...
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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
If the world stops buying American weaponry, what happens to the US arms industry? They’re not going to be happy with Donald Trump, are they?
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Trump’s anti-NATO turn could sink F-35 sales
Allies are questioning their reliance on U.S.-made weapons, experts and former defense officials warn.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
A new poll asked Canadians if they'd welcome being annexed by the US. For every other political affiliation, the "yes" answer was basically a rounding error. For the Tories, it was comfortably 1-in-5. Party of "real patriotic Canadians" my ass. Collaborators. Don't let them forget this.
Angus Reid Survey: https://angusreid.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2025.03.12_51_state.pdf

Suppose there was a referendum in Canada, and Canadians were to vote on whether this country should become part of the United States, would you vote… (Canadian respondents)

CPC: 21% Yes / 79% No
All other parties: somewhere between 1-3% yes
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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
My local supermarket - festooned with Canadiana. They're all like that now. I was noticing today that in pre-made fruit salads, American navel oranges are gone, and African mandarins have taken their place.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 12/03/2025
As Russia has been consistently saying for months, it will only sign a deal if: -Ukrainian democracy is destroyed -Kyiv gives up additional territory, beyond the frontlines -There are no functional security guarantees for a post-war Ukraine
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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This is extraordinarily beautiful. Thank you, @b0undless.bsky.social If you're Canadian, you might want to have some K̶l̶e̶e̶n̶e̶x̶ Scotties tissues on hand.
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🌿viktor aleksander🌿🩸devil's minion pilled🩸 @nooskadraws.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Screenshot from the film The Princess Bride. A grandpa is reading a story to his grandson and says "All right, now, let's see. Where were we? Oh, yes. In the Pit of Despair."
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
benion
Grieving a wasted life
At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to
re-elected in contrast to standing up for the
reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades
greater good?
were devoted to protecting America. Sacri
A compromised Supreme Court recently
fices were made both by myself and my fam-
trotted out a shallow token standards of
Ily in military service. The tip of the spear:
conduct for themselves. Apparently it's
Countless weeks over the years were spent
not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people?
living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since.
way?"
The purpose: if required, be airborne
Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un-
in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a
challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts
nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly:
of interest abound. The rule of law is situ-
ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet-
ational if adhered to at all. America can no
nam provided a brief interlude, but overall,
longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of
this long line of silent sentinels stood firm
power and wealth driven by unquenchable
to protect America by deterring external
greed has left service above self and Con-
threats to our freedoms and way of life
stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint
across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued
Recently the VA said exposure to Agent
with a sense of service.
Orange is the probable cause of the can-
I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered
cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause
on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than
military pilots to have significantly higher
founded on mere beli…
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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Oh great. The vehicle chooses now, of all moments, not to explode into flames.
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Peter O’Neil 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @poneilinottawa.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Whoa. Amazing shot my friend!
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Peter O’Neil 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @poneilinottawa.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Whoa. Jensen has quite the pipes on him. Kept hearing he lacks size. Nope. 👍 what a win and great speech. I think Green only expelled two f-bombs - surely a record.
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Colleen @irishcolleen.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Saddle up we ride at dawn.
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Beaufighter Mk VI @beaufighter.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This is what Americans voted for
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
A massive story in Canada is that damn near the entire country is turning on national God Wayne Gretzky because he refuses to stand up for Canadian sovereignty due to his desire to keep getting invites to Mar A Lago. An entire country choosing dignity over star-f*cking. We could take a lesson.
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Travis Yost @travisyost.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
“Unusual” lol you guys are hacks
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This.
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Beaufighter Mk VI @beaufighter.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The world was a better place when Russian suck-ups and tankies were handled like this
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