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Robert Cooper

@robacooper.bsky.social
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Senate-loving, High/Red Tory, Monarchist, Academic Elitist, Geek, Veteran, Gamer, Skier, Pub Enthusiast. (cunningly disguised) - Views are my own obviously

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 13h
Damn, if only there were some sort of well-known historical comparison to make for this.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h
I guess the point is that Roger Marshall wants to keep this story in the news cycle as long as possible. Nice work.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 16h
Through 14 James Bond movies, Lois Maxwell portrayed Miss Moneypenny. In her life, she served with the Canadian Women's Army Corps, appeared with Wayne and Shuster, wrote for the Toronto Sun and starred in Adventures in Rainbow Country. This is her story. 📸 ITC 🧵 1/10
Lois Maxwell wearing a red top with white trim and a pearl necklace, set against a light blue background.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 15h
“As Canada scrambles to adopt and control AI, dozens of data centre projects have been proposed across the country — especially in small and rural areas.” @isaacphannay.bsky.social reports on the BC municipal politicians facing big changes in their communities. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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BC’s Local Governments Call for Higher Taxes for AI Data Centres | The Tyee
Currently, data centres pay the same rate as small businesses like cafés and stores.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 15h
SCOOP: The State of Washington is urging Mark Carney’s government not to fast-track the proposed West Coast pipeline. @sarahkcox.bsky.social reports. #CanPoli thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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Pump the Brakes on the West Coast Oil Pipeline, Washington Says | The Tyee
A letter obtained by The Tyee shows the state’s Ecology Department has serious concerns about spill risks and tanker traffic.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15h
(Having spent hours looking at this “Daniel Robson” character’s publishing history, this reporting from Turkiye Today editor Ilker Sezer is very good and explains a bunch of questions I had, like why he kept going after some random Canadian-Moroccan businessman)
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15h
A Turkish media outlet is reporting the fake AI journalist “Daniel Robson,” who was published by the Ottawa Citizen, Policy Options, Western Standard and The Hub, was targeting a “critic of the Moroccan ruling elite” The dissident suspects “Daniel Robson” may have links to “Moroccan intelligence”
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Exclusive—Fake AI columnist dupes Canadian press to target Moroccan dissidents, and a Turkish 'middleman' - Türkiye Today
The phantom writer communicated exclusively via email and rarely phoned Canadian publications, who were oblivious until Türkiye Today unraveled the matter
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 14h
For those keeping track, Canada now has *two* journalists with purported links to foreign intelligence agencies
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This National Post Columnist Says He Spied for a Foreign Intelligence Agency. Experts Call His Behaviour ‘Unethical’ and ‘Absurd’.
National Post columnist Adam Zivo says he was moonlighting as a foreign intelligence asset at the same time as he worked for the National Post
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 17h
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 14h
This might be the Pitchbot's best pitch ever.
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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 14h
that chatbot doing that unsafe/violative thing is not it 'going rogue' or an 'unfortunate incident of unintended consequences,' it’s the logical and devastating consequences of an unsafe product put out by irresponsible companies that have been conditioned to believe consequences dont exist for them
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Robert Cooper @robacooper.bsky.social · 16h
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Lethbridge youth charged with terrorism offences related to violent online group 764 | CBC News
RCMP have charged a 17-year-old in Lethbridge, Alta., with multiple offences related to terrorism, child sexual abuse and exploitation material, and animal cruelty. The accused’s online activity was c...
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 16h
This is like one of those German official corporate histories that leave a mysterious gap between the 1920s and ‘50s. The cars of 1958, 1965 or 1973 would spoil the notion of continuous dimensional expansion suggested by this image
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How it started/how it’s going
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Thanks @nickshirleyy for hoodie.
We're cleaning up the fraud in UtahBREAKING: Utah state Rep. Trevor Lee has been charged with mortgage and communications fraud ksl.com/article/
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Most state attorneys general released Meta from Cambridge Analytica-related claims as part of the child safety settlement. New Mexico wasn't part of that deal, and a jury there just found 26 of 29 past claims about Cambridge Analytica, hate speech and misinformation willfully deceptive.
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Eight Years On, Cambridge Analytica Scandal Catches Up With Meta in Santa Fe
A jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 17h
American Liberals and Leftists should not be surprised if America faces a lot of scepticism even after Trump is gone from Canadians, Europe and the rest of the world as long as Democrats and DSA preach norms of international law they refuse to implement towards their own country
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 17h
Stephen Miller can only be sent to the Hague once the US Congress legislates for America to finally sign on to the Rome Statute and accept jurisdiction of the ICC Yet for all their talk of respecting international law, the US Democrats aren't interested and not even the DSA views it as a priority
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 29/09/2026
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Competition watchdog’s pricing probe mostly benefits retail giants, say small grocers
Competition Bureau is investigating whether suggested limits on product discounts may prevent savings for shoppers
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All the good companies do that right
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I remember the union that represented CFIA inspectors tipped me off to the extent of the problem at the time - and I actually broke the news on the bird site. That seems so long ago - but as the Parkland Institute report reminds us, we are all still living with the consequences of forgetting.
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40 meat plant inspectors in Canada have COVID-19, union says | CBC News
Forty meat plant inspectors in Canada — 21 of them in Alberta — have contracted COVID-19, according to their union, prompting a senator to call for workers and the integrity of the food safety system ...
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This grim, gripping report on Canada’s biggest Covid-19 outbreak from the University of Alberta’s Parkland Institute should be required reading for all Albertans - and all Canadians. Especially those who’ve decided to forget how deadly and terrifying the early months of Covid truly were.
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Parkland Institute
Parkland Institute is an Alberta-wide, non-partisan research centre situated within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 29/09/2026
I’m having trouble keeping count of how many people National Post senior editor Terry Newman is currently threatening to sue into oblivion
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I think you had better apologize and retract.
Because if you're implying what I think you're implying, I will be contacting a lawyer.
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When you spend that bonus, remember to buy Canadian. x.com/terrynewman/st...David McLaughlin @DavidMcLA •11h
"paid political platforming" charge by @nationalpost no less.
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I have it on good account that he does not agree to interviews like this without editorial control. Do you have a paper trail confirming he did not demand this? ...
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Your mailbox here appears to be closed and I haven't received a response to my LinkedIn request for your mailing address for my lawyer. My mailbox is open.Dominic Cardy
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National Post editor says she knows the PM colluded w the NYT to break their editorial standards.
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I criticize her for providing no evidence.
She threatens legal action. Apparently NP editorial standard is "trust me - and if you don't trust me l'Il threaten you. Show more
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You'll get my lawyer's letter either way. It's up to you.Terry Newman &
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A few accounts are going to find out that you can't just accuse a Canadian journalist of being paid by the U.S. government simply because she is asking questions you don't like.
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And it's going to get really expensive for them, not me.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think we lucked out a bit here in that a lot of what Trump does falls into the bucket of “so jaw-droppingly vulgar or corrupt that it’s not technically illegal because it was inconceivable that someone would attempt it.” Like why restaurants rarely post “no defecating on the tables” signs.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/09/2026
You will be able to set your watch by the frequency with which Musk sets his minions on people during this case, using their usual tactics of death threats and doxxing. And media will cover none of it.
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Robert Cooper @robacooper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Which… is entirely the point I fear.
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Robert Cooper @robacooper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’d rather be stood up for federalism instead of trying to fundraise :-(
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Like everything else Trump “fixes,” the reflecting pool (along with the war in Iran, gas prices, beef prices, and mortgage rates) is in exponentially worse shape than when he started.
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Years of expensive construction, which will muck up car traffic, to make everything worse
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In which Conrad Black simultaneously a) surrenders in advance, and b) gives up the game behind US interference in Alberta's referendum. #cdnpoli
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God, I had forgotten about this, from February. Absolute brain worms, but the answer was more or less a pat on the head and a be-on-your-way www.ourcommons.ca/written-ques...
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Q-884 (45-1) - Written Questions - House of Commons of Canada
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 28/09/2026
It may not be entirely fair for me to assume that "A.i." thieves and scammers are probably also horrible creeps. But 🤷
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 28/09/2026
I'm mostly impressed by how flat after-tax income inequality is over the decades in Canada (and market income inequality since 2000) despite an insistence on importing US rhetoric about "rising inequality" by some Canadian commentators. (We do have a big wealth concentration problem tho!)
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Saved from the cancer, undone by the care. One in three patients over 70 leaves hospital less able to care for themselves than when they arrived. I watched it happen to my father, by Seema Marwaha healthydebate.ca/2026/09/topi... via @healthydebate.bsky.social
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Saved from the cancer, undone by the care. - Healthy Debate
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
he's busy, matt.
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cm 🍁 @cmcalgary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Knitty is trying to FOIP documents to prove that the UCP is paying (or has paid) a content creator to push propaganda. Getting lots of runaround and pushback. Needs written permission from the CC to release the documents.. 🙃 CC = Alberta Proud Father vt.tiktok.com/ZSbrKeFoj/ #Alberta #abpoli
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“It’s not ALL men.” 70,000 men in a Telegram group chat exchanging tips about how to drug and rape women. How did it get to 70,000 men without other men shutting it down? www.cnn.com/2026/07/03/e...
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Police uncover international networks of men using online chat groups to drug and rape women | CNN
An international police operation spanning seven countries has uncovered highly organized networks of offenders who drug and rape their partners and use online chat groups to aid and encourage their “...
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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Cornell case is starting to bring up my own history of SA, and that the line “we can’t ruin these boys live lives for one mistake” that we always hear after assaults become public keep circling in my head because what about my life? What about who I could’ve been if that hadn’t happened to me?
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Russell Brand whose interest was celebrated by the anti-vaccine Allison Inquiry? That Russell Brand?
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'this AI agent can do all your tasks for you' so now i gotta sit here and write a list of all my tasks for a robot to fuck up. why. why wouldn't i just keep to the current system where i fuck up my own tasks
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ACLU @aclu.org · 28/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow essential health care to be withheld from transgender people in federal prisons. Denying medically-necessary care to any incarcerated person is cruel and unusual punishment — period.
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Jason E. Dunlap, Valeyard @redeyedjedi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At this point, everyone sees his bigotry... Every single person in this room that said nothing are complicit
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Kyle Haynes @kylehaynes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Some would argue it’s bad for elected officials to treat tax revenue as “income” for their party
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is an important point I recently took note of — public anti-immigration sentiment was way higher in the 1970s than now, but didn’t lead to extreme-right votes. “Anti-immigration” votes don’t arise from anti-immigration attitudes or from actual immigration
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Indigenous services minister ‘disgusted and appalled’ after masked gathering on Tk’emlúps land | Story by Keelan Jacobs.
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ISC minister 'disgusted' with march in Kamloops
ISC Minister Mandy Gull-Masty is disgusted after masked men gathered near Kamloops on Tk̓emlúps land days before Sept. 30.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 28/09/2026
“This tragedy occurred in a political environment that prioritized economic growth over the health and safety of a vulnerable group of workers. The result was a large-scale, tragic outbreak, the scope of which was preventable,” reads a new Parkland Institute report. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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Alberta’s Deadly Betrayal of Meat Plant Workers During COVID | The Tyee
A shocking report finds the UCP ignored evidence of high risk.
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Jingle Jam @jinglejam.co.uk · 28/09/2026
You can now officially sign up to fundraise with us this Jingle Jam! Register on Tiltify, choose to support one (or all) of our 8 amazing charities, and unlock our Games Collection as a reward for your audience. Then get ready to go live to save lives this December!
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is all true. Tremendous work here
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