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Canadian, big book and game nerd, smalltime youtuber. Chilling in Δ Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground

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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Mark Carney arrested elderly people with pictures of the grandchildren they were trying to protect, anyone calling him Time’s man of the year or thinks he should be in contention for a @nobelprize.org are bad people.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 06/10/2026
Early last May, news media reported that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith had been granted “top secret” security clearance. Really? asks @djclimenhaga.bsky.social. #abpoli #canpoli
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What Separatists Offered the US, and Smith’s Strange Blinders | The Tyee
Alberta’s premier claims top-secret clearance. And that she was blindsided by the latest foreign interference bombshell.
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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 06/10/2026
NEW: Canada's Department of National Defence has already more than doubled the value of its new contracts with American tech giants this year. Mark Carney pledged to cut back on contracts with American tech giants as part of a “Buy Canadian” strategy. www.readthemaple.com/national-def...
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National Defence Has Doubled New Contracts With U.S. Tech Giants
DND has signed new contracts worth a total of $67.7 million with Microsoft, Amazon, Google and their Canadian subsidiaries.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If we had a federal government that wasn't firmly up the ass of Big AI, they'd make it a crime for an AI to put people in mortal danger by sending them into wilderness areas with fictional instructions. If a human kept doing this, they'd probably go to jail, even under existing laws.
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Natty Moher @nattymoher.com · 06/10/2026
Unless you're one of about 2000 people in BC that have wealth levels above $50 million (note: you are not), you will not be affected by the BC Greens wealth tax and it would raise $22 billion in the first year. Seems like a good deal to me (also not one of those 2000 people).
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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The walk doesn't match the talk! "In its first 16 months in power, the Carney government gave an estimated $7.8 billion in federal contracts to American-controlled corporations. Contracts with Canadian companies over the same period amounted to $14.9 billion." www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
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PM Mark Carney pledged to ‘Buy Canadian.’ Since then, $7.8 billion in contracts went to American corporations
A Star analysis reveals U.S. firms dominated federal contracts despite PM Mark Carney’s ‘Buy Canadian’ promise.
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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Foreign interference in Alberta's referendum is a serious matter impacting our sovereignty and should be debated in Canada's House of Commons. Why then is the Liberal Speaker not interested in this debate?
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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 05/10/2026
Guess I need to update this post from a couple of weeks ago. Is that $70 billion in subsidies? (30 ongoing + 40 for pipeline) So the entire value of o&g to the Canadian economy is given straight back to big oil? Absolutely corrupt behaviour & a climate crime.
Fun fact. Canada's arts & culture gdp is basically the same as oil & gas at about $70 billion.

Direct funding for the arts & culture is about $700 million annually

albertaviews.ca/arts-publicl...

It's up to $30 billion for oil & gas depending on how you count

www.theenergymix.com/canada-pours...
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Gazan said Canada is continuing to fail to live up to its agreements with Indigenous Peoples. She said the ‘harrowing demonstration’ in BC ‘underscores the threat that residential school denialism and white nationalism pose to the safety of Indigenous peoples.”
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Gazan calls for emergency debate on residential school denialism
NDP MP Leah Gazan is calling for an emergency debate in the House of Commons over residential school denialism.
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 05/10/2026
The decision means that Canadians will not recoup the $40 billion in public funds spent on the project during the 20 year lifespan of its oil shipping contracts, according to regulatory filings.
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Energy regulator hands oil giants discount worth billions to use Trans-Mountain pipeline
The decision means that Canadians will not recoup the $40 billion in public funds spent on the project during the 20 year lifespan of its oil shipping contracts, according to regulatory filings. After...
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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The share of Canadian government contract dollars going to U.S. companies increased under Carney, @fxplante.bsky.social reports: www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
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PM Mark Carney pledged to ‘Buy Canadian.’ Since then, $7.8 billion in contracts went to American corporations
A Star analysis reveals U.S. firms dominated federal contracts despite PM Mark Carney’s ‘Buy Canadian’ promise.
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This morning, I sent a letter requesting an emergency debate in response to the demonstration at Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc by a dangerous white nationalist hate group, and the UN Permanent People’s Tribunal ruling, released on Sept 30, 2026, calling on Canada to criminalize residential school denialism
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NDP MP Leah Gazan requests an Emergency Debate on White Nationalism and Anti-Indigenous Racism
MP for Winnipeg Centre
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Keith Stewart @climatekeith.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Further to this: my review of fed lobby registry indicates Canada's military is in serious talks w/ Jeff Bezos-owned Amazon Web Services. In last year, AWS has met with 73 times w senior officials re military, including 14 meetings with senior military officers + Ministers of Defence, AI and Finance
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Orlagh O’Kelly @orlaghokelly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Treason. “There is a word for this sabotage, for this reckless imposition of the tyranny of a small minority. We must not be afraid to use it, and reclaim it from the authoritarians of the far right.” Not a mistake these two pieces were in the Globe today www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/73871ad...
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We must call Alberta separation what it is
It is not a movement of grievance politics. Something far more sinister is at work
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New from me: separatist lawyer Jeffrey Rath has asked a court to withdraw additional funds frozen during a legal dispute with two First Nations former clients. The court said no, pending full disclosure of his assets. edmontonjournal.com/news/jeff_ra...
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Court shoots down Alberta separatist lawyer's bid to withdraw more frozen funds
Alberta separatist lawyer Jeffrey Rath has lost a bid to withdraw additional cash frozen by a court during his legal fight with two ex-clients.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
These traitorous goofs offered up our FRESH WATER????? Full exposé on these idiot Alberta separatists here: archive.is/rhGUj
Excerpt from the Globe article reads: “A Globe and Mail investigation has found that Republican political operatives were on the ground in Alberta this year to assist the separatist campaign in its bid to leave Canada, while harbouring their own aspirations for the province to secede.
The Globe also found that when Alberta separatist leaders went to Washington to meet with the U.S. State Department, they offered up key assets from the province's resource portfolio, including access to fresh water and royalties on crude oil, in exchange for help transitioning to independence.
Through interviews with The Globe on both sides of the border, people involved in politics, the corporate sector and Alberta's pursuit of separatism have described persistent efforts by figures in the U.S. administration and conservative political establishment to support groups seeking American expansionism and independence for Alberta.”
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Carney, the economic genius, is pumping our public money into a losing bet.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you're PO'd in BC about the new pipeline, remember: David Eby AGREED to it, in exchange for funding and approval for his pet LNG projects:
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Canada-British Columbia Cooperative Prosperity Agreement
PrefaceBritish Columbia and Canada are partners in a period of great consequence for our country. The world is changing rapidly. In response, we are focused on what we can control: building an afforda...
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Sasha the Furious Ghost @sashafury.myatproto.social · 02/10/2026
This pipeline is the first project designated as in the national interest, but I would not say a pipeline is my interest, and I think a lot of people would say it’s not in their interest either. So what does that say about who belongs to the nation Carney is “building”?
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I keep seeing Carney stans saying building fossil fuel infrastructure is a way to deal with Trump's threats. Really? Canada has to build infrastructure that'll last decades and won't even be finished for years to deal with a threat that'll be gone within 3 years? Your fear has made you very stupid.
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RichardJR @electricbluesfan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
1/9 🇨🇦 🩺 ONTARIO'S PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS BY DESIGN 🩺 🇨🇦 Half of family doctors plan to exit within 5 years. 👉 As the public system bleeds staff, the government funds private clinics accelerating the collapse. Source: Toronto Star #MedSky #CdnPoli #OnPoli #HealthCare #DougFord
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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BC: "Stanford went on to note that Shell and other oil and gas companies paid the province $672 million in royalties in the 2024-25 fiscal year. Fifteen years ago, those same companies paid nearly twice as much in royalties while producing half as much gas.”" thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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BC’s Big, and Now Secret, Natural Gas Giveaway | The Tyee
Tax credits let companies pay little for resources. What do the parties say?
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Dizzy ★ @tindizzy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Okay, supposed Liberals: If you are not completely losing your shit over this and ready to admit you were duped you can no longer be taken seriously. We circled the wagons to oust Herr Harper in ‘15 and now all of a sudden you’re all-in? Really? #CdnPoli www.hilltimes.com/2026/09/28/h...
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Harper sees Carney as his ideological heir - The Hill Times
Pierre Poilievre’s real problem isn’t that he is facing discontent from within his caucus; it’s that he’s losing support from important Conservatives from without.
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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
With the 30th anniversary of Canada’s Indigenous Peoples Day happening this weekend, let’s take a look at several ways that the Carney government is undermining the rights and well being of Canada’s indigenous peoples and undoing progress on reconciliation rather than advancing it. 🧵1/
An image of Canadian prime minister Mark Carney meeting with indigenous chiefs wearing full feathered headresses, with overlying text: Mark Carney is undoing progress on reconciliation and indigenous rights as consistently as he's undoing progress on the climate and environmental rights."
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Anything good requires removing barriers from industry: report from industry.
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Economic returns from defence spending push will require removing barriers for industry: report
Ottawa is working toward spending 5 per cent of GDP on defence by 2035, but the Canadian Chamber of Commerce says it needs to fine-tune the pathway from innovation to commercialization
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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
At the heart of a remarkable ruling in Canadian drug policy today is what the judge found to be a fundamental contradiction in the CDSA: A prohibition intended to protect public health/safety can also criminalize actions that can reduce the risk of overdose www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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B.C. Supreme Court rules drug law unconstitutional
Lawyers argued two individuals who tested illicit drugs for fentanyl before reselling them offered a safer alternative to toxic supply
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He just said that Indigenous knowledge will help the government to ensure that the ocean waters “remain safe, sustainable and healthy for future generations and for all the life that lives in them.” WHAT ABOUT THE SOUTHERN RESIDENT ORCAS YOU’RE GETTING POWERS TO DRIVE TO EXTINCTION MARK? MARK???
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This article is attempting to incite violence against @avilewis.ca . I am not being hyperbolic. Back during Covid, this “mosar“ rhetoric led to the mob beating of a Chassidic journalist. it was the rhetoric that incited the assasination of Rabin nationalpost.com/opinion/yoni...
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Yoni Goldstein: Jewish law tells us how to deal with Avi Lewis
His Yom Kippur message was indefensible
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Kelly B @kellyblack.ca · 29/09/2026
Here’s the thing about white supremacy in BC today: The Premier and opposition party have spent the last year saying “First Nations are coming for your homes. Private property is sacrosanct.” These politicians deny such statements are stoking racist backlash. But they are
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
So far the only retort from the AI boosters appears to be “2025 doesn’t matter” and I’m not kidding
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So it looks like Carney will announce approval of LNG Canada, Phase 2, tomorrow at 11am in Vancouver. It will no doubt come with massive taxpayer funded gifts of money for Big Oil, called subsidies. The locals in Kitimat call the flare stack the "eye of Sauron."
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BREAKING: New LNG Canada Deal ‘Like Betting on a Concrete Canoe’
The LNG Canada megaproject in Kitimat, British Columbia, is expected to announce a final investment decision today to double its output to up to 30 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas per year, th...
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Rishi Maharaj @rsmaharaj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One reason why the province of BC is broke that is heavy industry used to pay taxes, and now we pay them. How do balance your budget when resource industries suck up subsidies and contribute nothing?
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 28/09/2026
This morning — following two investigations into Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford's use of an app that rewards supporters for posting AI-generated comments and sharing contacts — Bradford called our reporting "inaccurate." We're now releasing the recording that proves our reporting.
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Bradford calls CNO reporting of AI app rewards ‘inaccurate.’ Here’s the recording proving our reporting.
Canada’s National Observer has decided to publish the segment of the Zoom call that corroborates its reporting.
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The act of hate and violence shown by white nationalist residential school denialists demonstrating on the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation is abhorrent, dangerous and unacceptable. Read my full statement here:
leahgazan.ca
MP Leah Gazan Statement on the Denialist Attack at Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation
MP for Winnipeg Centre
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 28/09/2026
Rising residential school denialism and anti-Indigenous racism have created an environment where white supremacists feel emboldened to target and intimidate First Nations in their communities. It’s disgusting and completely unacceptable.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026
Alberta, Canada, is planning a massive expansion of gas pipelines to power data centres. Read the leaked document that laid this all out, here: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-leak...
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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 27/09/2026
Salmon, native bees, rainforest. Study after study shows that if we just stop actively destroying habitats & let ecosystems do their thing, recovery is absolutely possible.
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 26/09/2026
Over the ten years, Premier Smith claims Alberta faced a hostile federal government, oil and gas production doubled, and Ottawa poured tens of billions into energy infrastructure. The tolerance of her big lie is almost as remarkable as the lie itself. ow.ly/Fl7950ZRRaq
On the left: a photograph of Alberta’s flag, which features the provincial shield of arms, waving in front of the Alberta Legislature building in Edmonton. On the right: text that reads “Danielle Smith has turned western grievance into a national unity crisis.”
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
California company accused of shipping pesticide laden berries to Canada. We can't trust American product we should be able to trust that our government has adequate numbers of inspectors in place to protect us. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Whistleblower alleges millions of Driscoll’s berries sent to Canada with excess chemical levels | CBC News
A whistleblower lawsuit in California is alleging millions of pounds of Driscoll's fruit containing non-compliant levels of pesticides and chemicals crossed the border into Canada, and the company tri...
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Jean Paul Satire™ @rickybrad.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He was warned before he did it, and I applaud him for doing it, and accepting the consequences . The real story here is that the Canadian Federal Government supports the genocide in Palestine. Push that.
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Markwayne Carney ☭ @barrhavenist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@markgerretsen.bsky.social You, specifically, as party whip for this tyrannical government, should be ashamed of yourself
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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sean Casey was punished for doing the right thing - standing up against Canada's arms shipments to facilitate genocide. Bravo to all 15 Liberal MPs who did so. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Liberal MP says he was demoted for supporting NDP bill targeting arms export controls | CBC News
Charlottetown MP Sean Casey says he was removed from his position as parliamentary secretary to the minister of veterans affairs because he voted against the government and supported an NDP private me...
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 24/09/2026
I thought for sure that Carney would use this case as an excuse to push Bill C-22, but this story shows that surveillance bill wouldn't have made a difference. OpenAI already had the capability to track and then report this, and just... didn't. "Cops need lawful access to keep us safe" is bullshit.
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Club Announcement Spurs 🤦‍♂️ @markscrivens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jesus. “…the Tumbler Ridge shooter’s interactions with ChatGPT show that the chatbot provided tactical advice on how to maximize carnage and counselled her on how to bypass OpenAI’s own safeguard” www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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B.C. Attorney-General, federal AI Minister alarmed by report ChatGPT coached Tumbler Ridge shooter
A media investigation found the shooter’s interactions with ChatGPT included tactical advice on carrying out a mass attack
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VƎX Werewolf @vexwerewolf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Any time a politician speaks in favour of AI, they should have this spammed at them. Under every post they make, read out live at every speech they give.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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🇨🇦MapleZero @maplezero.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Even if you think you have legitimate grievances with Canada (and I don’t think there’s anything that justifies seperatism) is this the kind of people you want pleading your case? Because all the big players are this kind of people. And the separatists don’t seem a bit concerned.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There is a warrant for his arrest for war crimes.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Canada continues to be shameful on this issue.
Screenshot shows the man in Canada's seat looking around at the other countries leaving the room all while staying seated. The country names are a bit hard to make out, but I cross-referenced this against the seating chart that's been published.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Canada had a legal duty to arrest Netanyahu as he crossed Canadian airspace www.ctvnews.ca/world/israel...
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Netanyahu crosses Canadian airspace with arrest warrant in effect
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled through Canadian airspace on Thursday, despite facing an international arrest warrant.
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