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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈

@snolke.bsky.social
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Ex-🇨🇦 ambassador (🇳🇱 & OPCW) and Head of Mission a.i. (🇬🇭 & 🇮🇪). Mom; intl law and disarmament practitioner; foreign policy, security, and democracy wonk; bleeding heart liberal; ally; after-hours nerd; PEC fan (IYKYK); she/her. CANADIANS BOW TO NO ONE.

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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 1h
SoVeREigNtY, yo!
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 1h
I find it vaguely amusing that pretty much all those right-wing grifters now touting Alberta separatism are linked to the deeply unpleasant lot that came to Ottawa just a few years ago, on big, honking trucks festooned in Canadian flags, claiming to represent “the true Canada”.
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AL @seriouscynic.bsky.social · 11h
"We are judges, and we are being told that rather than deciding our cases on the basis of the facts and the law before us, as we are duty bound to do, we're being asked to decide the cases or not decide them in accordance with the wishes of the U.S. government," [Prost] said.
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 15h
Thrilled to be back in The Hague today, to talk about attribution and accountability for chemical weapons attacks; good to see old friends like the head of the IIIM for Syria, Robert Petit & @garethrhys.bsky.social there. Hoping to empower the OPCW to investigate CW use in Ukraine and Sudan.
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Next up: renouncing UNCAC and the OECD anti-bribery convention… Anything to protect Trump and his oligarchs.
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
But he can create (and presumably staff) an office for religious affairs… smdh
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Skipped the Nazis, huh.
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clnzjay 🌱 🐶 🇨🇦 @clnz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Great in-depth read on Alberta separatism. How did they get to a separatist referendum in one of Canada’s most prosperous provinces? 10 questions covering everything from immigration to constitutional reform, amid rampant foreign interference from 🇺🇸 and others. Did they learn nothing from Brexit? 👩🏽‍🔧
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Would that be the authoritarian police state the right wing has been warning about for years?
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith for AG in 2029. I had the privilege of meeting him in The Hague when he took over the Kosovo Specialist Chambers there. Impressive, clear-eyed, no nonsense expert in complex and politically charged criminal prosecutions.
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I do hope the Court will ask for an explicit, step-by-step explanation why renaming is a prerequisite to fixing - in addition to a reading into the record of the Centre's finances and sources of revenue/funding over the last decade or so, by year and month.
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Club Announcement Spurs 🤦‍♂️ @markscrivens.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They’re on to us.
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Weekday at Bernie's
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Well, of course, if The President does it, it can’t be communism since he’s immune against everything. Just like it isn’t corruption, or sexual assault, or fascism, or…
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I guess that’s the Trumpian equivalent for “high IQ”, which usually also doesn’t mean what he thinks it means.
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Diplomacy 101.
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Is anyone tracking where the profits/proceeds go…?
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is Trump trying hard to look as tough as Obama did when staring down Putin, except he can’t do it to Xi’s face…
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just had the most glorious day in Niagara today showing relatives from Germany around. Canada in September is hard to beat! Also a reminder how close we are physically, and may be politically again at some point, to the United States.
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Emmm… who was in charge again during the 2020 election? I forget…
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I really wish US politicians were as interested in serving the public as they are in hanging on to their jobs. Maybe if they were, those jobs wouldn't be in danger in the first place? What a concept.
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Well, he did say he’d save billions if the US bought nothing from foreign states…
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Cartoon by Dave Granlund | cagle.com/granlund.
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Counter-offer: we keep Carney. But you could send us the orange dimwit anyway. I think we can charge him with extortion and lock him up for you. No immunity here...
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fascinating list. As far as I can see it, Trump has done 1-20; on 21, the US Supreme Court has already given him a leg up with that abominable "immunity" ruling.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We're officially entering the Fuhrerbunker phase of the Trump presidency
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New cat alert!! 😍😍😍 Best news of the week!
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New cat species identified in Bolivia | CBC News
A diminutive wild cat that inhabits Bolivia's cloud forest has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking the first time a new living cat species has been formally named and described in...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
75% of truckers and 75% of farmers and ranchers voted for Trump. For this. And a ballroom and triumphal arch.
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
To all those complaining about a "lack of transparency" in what's in the association agreement between 🇨🇦 & 🇪🇺, a reminder: IT HASN'T BEEN NEGOTIATED YET! V d Leyen said she *wants to open the door* for a *new form of membership*. Open door => negotiations. At least these will be done in good faith.
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A recrafting of the transatlantic alliance has commenced in Brussels: "We...are pursuing resilience so that no one can control our open markets, impair our sovereignty, threaten our territorial integrity, or undermine our freedoms, our democracies, our rule of law." www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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FULL SPEECH | Carney calls for 'alliance for the future' in speech at European Parliament
Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered remarks about Canada-Europe ties a day after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen opened the door to Canada becoming an 'associate' member of the EU.
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Must.” I don’t think that word means what they think it means… But then again, this is an administration that does not understand the word “choice”, either.
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A true guardian of humanity and human knowledge.
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is women in sports (1992 edition).
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"We are the best credit?" What does that even mean? He really is just leaking random words today.
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"We don't need anything from Canada", he said...
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wonder how Trump’s billionaire donors feel about being cut off from champagne and Italian suits.
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He just opens his mouth and incoherent blubber comes out.
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What do these people think ambassadors do???
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My wedding cost $35 - $15 for the Justice of the Peace, $20 for the licence. (I take it that's gone up, but it's been 47 years.) We may not have had a two-day island party - what is it with these people and islands? - but we've also never been beholden to any Russian oligarchs. It can be done!
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
ICE, it would appear, learned the wrong lessons from Guantanamo Bay and Bush era CIA black sites - and dropped even the pretense of using torture for "interrogation" or "crime prevention" purposes. I can only hope that the USA will return to accountability for human rights abuses in my lifetime.
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trump: “It just seems to me that you have Northern Ireland and you have Ireland, and it would seem to me that one of the naturals of all time is put them together.” Waiting for “It just seems to me that you have North Korea and South Korea, and it would seem to me it's natural to put them together."
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Well, when you do corruption, you may as well commit to the 360 degree kind - the one that combines personal enrichment with betrayal, a spot of sanctions busting, and undermining national security.
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My fave odd discovery at our local Produce Depot was Lebanese cucumbers from...Jordan.
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Timeline cleanse! And a reminder that tomorrow is Monday.
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
All that psychopathic narcissist knows is “winning”. There is zero understanding of the concepts of “common good” or “public interest”.
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Time for a batch of green tomato salsa with the second half of my hot pepper harvest… (And no, I won’t be using all those habaneros.)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Guys, they want us to go home.” 🔥 🇫🇷 French short film about what would happen to society if all the immigrants listened to angry old racist white men and left (aka the Republican agenda)
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Sabine Nolke 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @snolke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Irish do have a way with words! 🇮🇪☘️
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