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Jim Patterson 🇨🇦

@sheamuspatt.bsky.social
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Old folkie from Ontario. Mostly politics (lefty), heterodox economics, genealogy

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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 8h
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
LET THE CHEATING BEGIN: Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades www.ms.now/news/trump-midterms-osce…
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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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Rolling Red Roads @rollingredroads.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Judy Rebick @judreb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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I’m familiar with death threats. They show Avi Lewis is having an impact ⋆ The Breach
The National Post has suggested violence is the way “to deal” with the NDP leader for his outspoken criticism of Israel
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🇨🇦Cre8ivCanuck🐸📎 @cre8ivcanuck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🚨 🇨🇦 Very important every Canadian sees this video and reads the GIFT link in the pinned comment. PLEASE share with those in #Alberta #Quebec All hands on deck for our beautiful Canada! #cdnpoli. Bluesky you have to repost if you want info to get out to the masses. @billkellypodcast.bsky.social
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SHADY $eparatists Are Courting Trump to SELL OFF Canada's Resources, New Investigations Reveal 😳
YouTube video by The Bill Kelly Podcast 🇨🇦
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
LNG Canada export expansion project gets green light amid economic and climate warnings www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/29/n...
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LNG Canada export expansion project gets green light amid economic and climate warnings
The $33-billion project to double processing capacity at the Shell-led BC terminal would generate economic development and thousands of construction jobs. But analysts and sustainability campaigners w...
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christoaivalis.bsky.social @christoaivalis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The National Post publishes a piece suggesting people need to use "Jewish Law" to "deal" with Avi Lewis This can only really be interpreted in a threatening manner. 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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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What a country builds with public money is a statement of what it values. We must build for those already living through fires, floods, and extreme weather—not for the balance sheets of companies unwilling to risk their own capital on a new pipeline.
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Stop the West Coast pipeline. Not even the oil companies are asking for it
Seniors for Climate Action Now! is calling on the Carney government to reject the proposed West Coast oil pipeline, arguing the project has no credible economic, moral, reconciliation, or climate case...
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Canadian Curmudgeon 🍁 @cdncurmudgeon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
charlieangus.substack.com/p/national-p... The National Post has never tried to hide its hatred of social-democratic politicians. Over-the-top, incendiary language is part of this American-owned media chain’s playbook. NatPost is a Der-Sturmer-wannabe shilling for the Maple MAGA extremists...
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NATIONAL POST CROSSES LINE ON THREAT AGAINST LEWIS
A recent editorial on New Democratic Party leader Avi Lewis crossed the line into an extremist hate threat. It needs to be called out.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mark Carney is going to declare the West Coast Oil Pipeline in the national interest this week. Then the real work to get it built will have to begin -- and the oil and gas companies keep telling us they aren't prepared to do it. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/28/o...
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Carney, Smith and the oil companies all have their own plans — but they can’t all be right
The politicking around a new west coast oil pipeline is almost done. Now the real work begins — and the real challenge reveals itself.
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nothing to celebrate here. It's a sad day. Combined, LNG Canada Phases 1 & 2 will have downstream carbon emissions roughly equivalent to TOTAL annual domestic emissions for all of BC. Phases 2 will only result in about 240 more permanent jobs. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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LNG Canada to move forward with Phase 2 expansion project in Kitimat, B.C. | CBC News
LNG Canada says its multibillion-dollar Phase 2 expansion in Kitimat, B.C., is going forward, in a move that could double exports of liquefied natural gas from the northern coastal facility to oversea...
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Jim Patterson 🇨🇦 @sheamuspatt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The mindset of people who promote these PPP or fully private scenarios is clear - more "investment opportunities". It's obvious that the people of NS will pay for the bridge somehow. At least, if it's left in public hands, that will be all they pay for. Otherwise they'll be paying rent forever.
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The Slim Dude 🇨🇦 @slimdude.ca · 29/09/2026
So Houston canceled the bridge tolls and now there’s no money to fix it or replace it so now they’re talking about selling it to a private company that will put tolls back in place but we will no longer own the bridge. Are you fucking kidding me? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Fixing or replacing Halifax's MacKay bridge could cost up to $3B. Who’s paying? | CBC News
The MacKay bridge enhancement was one of three projects the province brought to the Canada Investment Summit.
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 29/09/2026
The fastest way to reduce working poverty is to raise the minimum wage to Ontario’s living wage #canlab #onpoli @policyalternatives.ca www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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Ontario’s minimum wage is falling further behind the living wage | CCPA
Every year the minimum wage in Ontario has a modest increase. And every year the actual living wage pulls further away. 2026 is no different.
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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Voting to not aid in the ongoing genocide perpetrated by Israel, got Casey demoted. Because he didn't want arms from Canada going to Israel in order to kill Palestinians. As bad as I thought the Carney administration .. it's even worse. Punishing those with a conscience.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thanks to everyone from across Canada and the world who spoke up about changing the name of Trump Avenue in Ottawa. We don't name streets after gangsters and sexual predators. Good work people. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
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Trump Avenue in Ottawa’s Central Park neighbourhood to be renamed
A street in Canada’s capital bearing the name of the current U.S. president will be renamed.
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Jim Patterson 🇨🇦 @sheamuspatt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"to deter crimes", except speeding presumably (as Doug Ford made speed enforcement cameras illegal in Ontario). There are lots of alternate routes - do they really think a savvy criminal won't know to avoid the CCTV cameras? www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti... #onpoli
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Speed enforcement cameras officially banned across Ontario
Speed enforcement cameras across the province have officially turned off after more than five years of use and millions of dollars in fines.
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Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 23/09/2026
OTTAWA – The city council in Canada’s national capital has started the process of renaming a street bearing the last name of U.S. President Donald Trump. 
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City of Ottawa to rename Trump Avenue as trade war continues
OTTAWA – The city council in Canada’s national capital has started the process of renaming a street bearing the last name of U.S. President Donald Trump. 
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Jim Patterson 🇨🇦 @sheamuspatt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'm no expert on corporate taxation, but I suspect it's mainly going to benefit big business that can afford to make those capital investments they can now write off up front. Those startup small businesses are likely already borrowing heavily - doubt they are profitable until years down the line.
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Jim Patterson 🇨🇦 @sheamuspatt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
No doubt true but not how Mark Carney is promoting it - he brags that it gives Canada the "lowest marginal tax rate in the G7". www.cbc.ca/news/busines... #cdnpoli
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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"I knew what the ideas were. I just didn't know we had a name for it." moneyontheleft.org/2026/09/01/a...
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leftwingmusicfrank.bsky.social @leftwingmusicfrank.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Jim Patterson 🇨🇦 @sheamuspatt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ontario is ready to ditch Daylight Savings Time as well, but only if Quebec and New York State go first. Currently, they're dithering though 91% of Quebecers are in favour. torontosun.com/news/provinc...
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How things stand in Ontario with U.S. planning to ditch daylight time
Despite passing the Time Amendment Act, the province included a major caveat that continues to keep the bill from taking effect. Read on.
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Jim Patterson 🇨🇦 @sheamuspatt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Poor Tamara - her Caribbean Vacation will have to wait. A judge has ruled that while she's under house arrest, international travel would "undermine the punitive and denunciatory character of the sentence". She claimed that the trip was part of her work with Rebel News. www.cp24.com/news/canada/...
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‘Freedom Convoy’ leader Tamara Lich denied permission to travel internationally
An Ontario judge says Tamara Lich, one of the key organizers of the 2022 "Freedom Convoy" protest in Ottawa, will not be allowed to travel abroad.
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Jim Patterson 🇨🇦 @sheamuspatt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's also available as an eBook in the Kobo store www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/... #TaxTheRich
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Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us ebook by Linda McQuaig - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us The Urgent Case for a Wealth Tax" by Linda McQuaig available from Rakuten Kobo. **A GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLER A jarring portrait of a deeply unequal...
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Jim Patterson 🇨🇦 @sheamuspatt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Having Canadian pension funds buy in seems more aspirational than a real constraint from what I've read - more likely it will be who makes the best offer. calgaryjournal.ca/2026/09/15/w...
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What you need to know about Carney’s pitch for private investment in airports
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he wants private investors to take over operations at Canada’s four largest airports in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver.  Speaking at a governmen…
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Jim Patterson 🇨🇦 @sheamuspatt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Call it a long term lease then but either way, Canadians will be paying more to use publicly owned infrastructure and I don't doubt workers will be squeezed and upkeep "optimized" to boost profits. Much of those profits will be to foreign investors so an outflow from Canada. #cdnpoli
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Jim Patterson 🇨🇦 @sheamuspatt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A key difference between the current airport authorities and what Carney is proposing is that at present, they are non-profits. Once the profit motive kicks in, airport fees will increase and airport workers will be squeezed for wages to boost profits. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater... #cdnpoli
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Greater Toronto Airports Authority - Wikipedia
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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 15/09/2026
Union Alleges Targeting After Ontario Science Centre Fires Entire Science Unit Nearly half of all people laid off last week were elected officials in OPSEU Local 549 pressprogress.ca/union-allege...
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Union Alleges Targeting After Ontario Science Centre Fires Entire Science Unit
Nearly half of all people laid off last week were elected officials in OPSEU Local 549
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Jim Patterson 🇨🇦 @sheamuspatt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If they pay the taxes they owe, they don't need tax rulings. This commitment seems like they want to try whatever shady tax dodges they like, and we're promising to tell them quicker if it's too shady to fly. #cdnpoli
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
But is it fascism? Do they really yearn for apocalypse? Isn't that polarizing? Shouldn't we be nice to them? We made a short video so folks can hear the end timers in their own words and judge for themselves: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK2n...
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How modern fascism works | End Times Fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
YouTube video by Naomi Klein
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Jim Patterson 🇨🇦 @sheamuspatt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
From an unlikely source (Toronto Business Journal) by Iain Mackenzie, a deep analysis of what's happened to the @ndp.ca in recent years, and why they no longer seem to be standing up for ordinary Canadians. Worth a read. tobj.ca/news/politic... #cdnpoli #ndprebuild
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Canada suffers from an NDP deficit - Carney and Poilievre are not to blame : Toronto Business Journal - Toronto Newspaper
For decades, the standard playbook of federal politics in Ottawa operated like a predictable, well-calibrated pendulum. On one side stood the proponen Read more...
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Jim Patterson 🇨🇦 @sheamuspatt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Too easy. Vincent (Don Mclean). www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxHn...
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Don McLean - Vincent ( Starry, Starry Night) With Lyrics
YouTube video by wysty67
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Jim Patterson 🇨🇦 @sheamuspatt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You'll enjoy this little ditty then. jamesgordonmusic.bandcamp.com/track/is-he-...
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Is He Dead Yet?, by JAMES GORDON
track by JAMES GORDON
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“Scientists should stop trying to be neutral and instead embrace their values,”says a group of top climate scientists, including @katharinehayhoe.com. The neutrality myth is harming the reputation of science right when we need it most.” #ClimateCrisis Science isn’t neutral. It’s science.
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Prominent climate scientist argues it's time to ditch the 'myth of neutrality' | CBC Radio
Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe talks to Bob McDonald about the polarization of science and why she thinks scientists should stop pretending to be neutral when it's our planet at risk.
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Pat @pat112.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A strong majourity of Canadians know: and accordingly have long wanted to punish Israel for illegal settlements, theft of land, illegal occupation, terrorism and ethnic cleansing . #Cdnpoli #Uspoli #IIsrael #BDS
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 06/09/2026
“The 23 [AI-generated] websites are designed to influence the answers that AI chatbots give to voters in Alberta, targeting farmers, young people, veterans, mothers and oil industry workers.”
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A US-linked network of fake websites is promoting Alberta separatism to AI chatbots
The websites present crude, AI-generated slop disguised as the voice of real Albertans. But they're made in Florida — and they're not even targeting Albertans directly.
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Jim Patterson 🇨🇦 @sheamuspatt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just watching Jenny and Thomas, when I came across Danielle Smith's poison pill for those who signed up to vote by mail. "voters are required to declare they aren’t able to vote at an in-person polling station ... penalty a fine of up to $50,000 or imprisonment," #ab[p;o www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Pat @pat112.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Some voters alarmed by self-declaration requirement on mail-in ballots for Alberta referendum Rigging the voting and threatening imprisonment is 100% a Trump and Con predilection. Same extreme right party , same crooked processes #Cdnpoli #Abpoli #RepubliCons www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Some voters alarmed by self-declaration requirement on mail-in ballots for Alberta referendum | CBC News
Some Albertans who received their mail-in ballots for the province's fall referendum say they were surprised and concerned by a self-declaration requirement on the front page of their voting package a...
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Jim Patterson 🇨🇦 @sheamuspatt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Might be good for coral, perhaps, but not healthy for fish and other aquatic life. Lots of studies have been done showing how old tires are not a great thing to be dumping in the ocean. One example... www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/t...
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Scientists make disturbing new discovery about impact of car tires being dumped into ocean: 'Essential information'
One study investigated how tire wear particles are harming marine life — and the results were alarming.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Upbuilding and constructive instead of tearing down and destructive. I like this much better. IG: @wainwrightbookbinding
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Jim Patterson 🇨🇦 @sheamuspatt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It appears that Infrastructure Ontario maintains its web site on an American-based server, so its connection to Google Maps would be served up the content for American servers. GeoTool confirms this. Lots of talk about "Digital Sovereignty", but clearly more work to do. #DigitalSovereingty
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Jim Patterson 🇨🇦 @sheamuspatt.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
To be fair, it's just the 'mericans that see it as Lake America. If you're in Canada it's still Lake Ontario.
Lake America (USA server)Lake Ontario (Canadian server)
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Dolly Parton becomes the only artist in history to occupy the entire Top 10 of US iTunes with different songs.
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Jim Patterson 🇨🇦 @sheamuspatt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Here's the full URL - it got truncated www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #cdnpoli
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Petition e-7559 - Petitions
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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A life of many colours by @deAdder Substack: deadder.substack.com/p/a-life-of-...
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A life of many colours
RIP Dolly Parton
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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 24/08/2026
Trump just unleashed a trade weapon no president has used since Herbert Hoover, and Canada’s retaliation could be the beginning of a global move away from America… hartmannreport.com/p/trump-revi...
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Trump Revives Herbert Hoover’s Nightmare and Canada Fights Back
Trump just unleashed a trade weapon no president has used since Herbert Hoover, and Canada’s retaliation could be the beginning of a global move away from America…
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 22/08/2026
1/5 The Prime Minister was right to walk away from the negotiating table last night. I believe Canadians are united in this crucial moment, on this crucial point: no deal is better than a bad deal.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“Canada has already negotiated away a lot of important power to regulate & govern digital systems. It now seems like we're to promise even more concessions to American big tech to land a deal with Donald Trump.” @digitalprivacy.ca @openmedia.org canadianshieldinstitute.ca/updates/what...
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What "Digital Trade Alignment" Would Cost | Canadian Shield Institute
So, we’ve got a last-minute reprieve on the 50 per cent tariffs that U.S. President Donald Trump was threatening. And Trump is boasting about some...
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@NancyCrouse.bsky.social @nancycrouse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Olds Residents Cheer as Alberta Regulator Blocks Gas Plant for Data Centre www.theenergymix.com/breaking-old...
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BREAKING: Olds Residents Cheer as Alberta Regulator Blocks Gas Plant for Data Centre
A billion-dollar power plant meant for an artificial intelligence (AI) data centre proposed in Olds, Alberta, is “not in the public interest,” the provincial utility regulator ruled Monday.
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