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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 21h
Interesting as a point of reference for public opinion in Canada. Support for secession is running around 31% in Quebec. Latest poll in Alberta puts support for a referendum at 23%.
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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 10h
Bombshell story www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...
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Postmedia ex-CEO alleges Doug Ford’s office used ‘leverage’ over son’s company to get newspaper chain to publish pre-election letter
Premier Ford’s office calls the claims ‘categorically untrue and completely disconnected from reality’
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IGN @ign.com · 12h
The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. bit.ly/4hMhPzG
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Roy @steezyroy.bsky.social · 2h
Seems significant
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 17h
Maritime traffic through the Strait of Magellan jumped more than 70% both in August and September from year-ago levels as ships diverted from the drought-stricken Panama Canal, data show
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Ships Take Long Way Around as Drought Snarls Panama Canal
Maritime traffic through the Strait of Magellan jumped more than 70% both in August and September from year-ago levels as ships diverted from the drought-stricken Panama Canal, Chilean Navy data requested by Bloomberg show.
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 15h
We’ve reached the “Jesus would want separation” phase of desperation apparently… #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 15h
It’s well past time for Catholic hospitals to be secularized. Medicare needs to end its uncomfortable affiliation with religious institutions that routinely deny patients essential care, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Opinion: It’s well past time for Catholic hospitals to be secularized
Religion does have a place in health care, but only when it applies to respecting rights, not denying them
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15h
“Andrew Tate allegedly had some seriously disturbing material on his devices ... including extreme porn depicting sex acts with a horse and an eel ... according to newly filed court docs obtained by TMZ”
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Andrew Tate Allegedly Had Bestiality Porn With Horse and Eel, Videos of Minors
Andrew Tate allegedly had some seriously disturbing material on his devices ... including extreme porn depicting sex acts with a horse and an eel ... according to newly filed court docs obtained by TM...
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 13h
Alberta's most recent former environment minister now works for....an oil and gas company. Mais bien sur.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 20h
People forget that J6 was successful. Everyone who participated was let out of jail and the guy who perpetrated it is President again. There were no consequences. They have plenty of incentive to do a much bigger and worse version.
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 19h
The stock market hits a record high as speculative buying continues. I’ve never read a history book so I assume this is fine. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/b...
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S&P 500 Hits Record High Amid Rising Interest Rates and Elevated Oil Prices
The S&P 500 rose 0.6 percent on Tuesday, exceeding its previous peak set in August and taking its gain this year to more than 14 percent.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I wrote about the Cornell rape case, specifically about how MAGA responses to it highlight the male supremacism on the American right. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illusion...
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The Illusion of Consent: A Rape at Cornell and the MAGA Right
For the new right, when a man is accused of rape, he is first and foremost a victim of feminism.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
this is all a joke to them because far-right conservatives think that rape is good, and that high status men should be entitled to rape any women around them who are not also already attached to other high-status men. this is their actual ideology
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23h
The Plot to Enslave America. Immigrants are a test run for the rest of us
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Roy @steezyroy.bsky.social · 22h
God damn, Eby fucked up
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Roy @steezyroy.bsky.social · 22h
Restricting munis from imposing water restrictions? So the next time a pipe bursts in Calgary, everyone can go fuck themselves when the water runs out?
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 06/10/2026
"Some people think if the Alberta independence side loses the Oct. 19 referendum vote ... then the separatists will stand down, shut the hell up, accept the verdict in the court of public opinion, move on, go away." Nobody thinks this, Rick. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
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Bell: Alberta separatist leader says fight isn't over with Oct. 19 referendum vote
Alberta separatist leader says independence movement won't stand down and pack up after Oct. 19 referendum vote, they've just begun to fight
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“A judge has ordered the Alberta government and Alberta Health Services (AHS) to disclose records they had sought to keep private, or claimed did not exist, to the agency’s former chief executive officer Athana Mentzelopoulos” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
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'Gaps and deficiencies': Government and AHS ordered to disclose records in Mentzelopoulos lawsuit
Alberta gvernment and AHS records including meeting minutes and email attachments must be disclosed to the former AHS CEO, a judge ruled
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a community note for the ages.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/10/2026
“we can fantasize about raping people on livestream but if anyone thinks anything bad should happen to us as a result we will try to get them fired” sums up the state of right wing “intellectualism” pretty well
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
See you in the 2027 Quebec spring election!
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 06/10/2026
only good news in quebec is that pspp doesn’t have an absolutely majority. but getting that close on 28% of the vote is insanity. first-past-the-post is not fit for purpose.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
incredible this will get little to no coverage
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Social media has been more of a (X) for democracy in the Canada" Bad thing: 55% Good thing: 40% Gallup / May 2026
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Please share this with every "send a message" Alberta voter in your life. #abpoli #cdnpoli www.readtheline.ca/p/jen-gerson...
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Jen Gerson: Oh, so you want to send Ottawa a message, eh?
Vote to stay and send Washington the right message. Namely, don’t fuck with us.
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Roy @steezyroy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
How has no one articulated this so well before?!
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
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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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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites
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King Darius looking down at Daniel in the pit:
Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan....
Man, what are the Lions doing?
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
MEANWHILE, in Canada, meet Brady Rogers, the reluctant politician who's fed up and thinks he can do better. His sign says "I barely want to do this." His website says, "I guess I'm running for Kelowna city council." His business? Recycling plastic into cool things.
lawn sign with a grumpy man in a "DADLIFE" sweatshirt and the sign says "I barely want to do this" with his name and campaignHi, I’m Brady.
Do I enjoy politics? No.

Do I know what I’m doing? No.

But am I qualified? Also no. 

I was born in Williams Lake and raised in Kelowna since I was 10. These are the streets I biked every day, the cars I threw crab apples at (sorry), and the parks I played in. Seeing this city grow has been cool, but with growth has come a whole new spectrum of challenges. Running for council is the last thing I saw myself doing this year. I don’t like meetings, I don’t like having to be certain places at certain times, and I’m allergic to stuffy offices. But unfortunately, I happen to like Kelowna, and think I can help do some good.I guess I’m running for Kelowna city council.
Support the campaignI graduated from UBCO in 2015ish (long story) and worked for 4 years as a robotic automation engineer. As cool as the job was, it was soulless, and I wanted to use my abilities for more than just helping huge companies save money. 

Since 2019, I’ve been building The Rogerie.
Starting as a farmers market booth beside the mall, my wife and I began turning plastic waste into new products in our laundry room. Seven painful years later, and we have a pretty awesome shop downtown by Sprout (come check it out!) where you’ll find me just about every day.
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Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
👀🇨🇦🇺🇸 The Globe and Mail dropped a bombshell story this past weekend about Alberta separatists going to Washington D.C. to offer fresh water and oil in exchange for financial support for an independent Alberta and Republican operatives providing tactical assistance to separatist organizers in Alberta.
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Republican Party connections to Alberta’s separation referendum
Another bombshell story dropped by Carrie Tait and the Globe & Mail
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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It strikes me that one separatist’s offer to sell water to US in exchange for state recognition makes vanishingly little sense in Alberta, a land that’s so water scarce, especially within several hundred km of the border.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
what an asshole
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Simon Owens @simonowens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Honestly don’t know how we continue functioning as a society with such a small number of people vacuuming up this much wealth. Basically the equivalent of the US defense budget was rerouted to 500 people in just the last nine months.
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 05/10/2026
A Star analysis reveals U.S. firms dominated federal contracts despite PM Mark Carney’s ‘Buy Canadian’ promise.
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PM Mark Carney pledged to ‘Buy Canadian.’ Since then, $7.8 billion in contracts went to American corporations
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Fascism has to be destroyed, which is a problem when you try to do it within the confines of liberal democracy. I have struggled with this idea for a while
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 05/10/2026
This shift among separatists coincides with their abandonment of all things Danielle Smith. They have something in common with federalists. Everyone should vote No to the Nine.
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 05/10/2026
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Alberta separatists’ talks with GOP spark outcry, call for legislative change
Calgary Liberal MP says Canada needs to consider overhauling its laws to address the kind of freelance negotiating trips that separatist leaders have made to D.C.
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Hazel B. 🇨🇦 @hab3261.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I love this quote. I’m going to be using it. “How small are you willing to make your world until everyone agrees with you?” Honestly, this one stopped me in my tracks. #ABPoli #ABLeg #cdnpoli Alberta separatism has a story problem open.substack.com/pub/womenofa...
A miniature figure reclines casually in a blue deck chair on top of a giant tennis ball against a bright turquoise background. The image is paired with a quotation by Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean: “How small are you willing to make your world until everyone agrees with you?” The visual humorously suggests someone retreating into a small, self-contained world where everyone agrees with them.
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Alex Boyd @alexboyd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tyler Dawson, author of a recent book on the history of separation, columnizing in the Globe about this story: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: Alberta’s separatists would sell us out to the Americans
New reporting by The Globe and Mail detail the influence of Republican-aligned interests on the referendum campaign
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David Coletto @davidcoletto.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Among those voting Option 2 on Oct 19 (start the legal process toward a separation referendum), it's a coin flip: 46% would support joining the US, 46% would oppose. Remain voters are almost unanimous, 90% opposed.
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Do this, Florida. See how it goes for you. www.cbc.ca/news/world/f...
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Florida weighs ditching property taxes and sticking Canadians with the bill | CBC News
Florida voters are weighing whether to scrap residential property taxes and the state's governor has a solution to that potentially huge revenue loss: tax Canadians more.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 03/10/2026
We're gonna set fire to everything but don't worry we are also gonna spend money to polish a few fire extinguishers.
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