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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The areas north of Montreal are filled with anti-TGV signs, even far, far away from where any train would conceivably go. Those are also PQ target ridings.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Allow me to just point out that the non-separatist parties have their own issues. No matter your personal position, this is not a simple binary election.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You've forgotten ethno-nationalism as an axis independent of separatism.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not me! I might stay, I might leave, but I have no intention of living in Belfast circa 1972.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I worry that in a PQ minority situation, QS will happily trade away minorities for increased transit funding or something. Which in most circumstances I would support, but right now..eesh.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think it's the opposite: the federal NDP doesn't have the resources to contribute much to these networks. However, they could position themselves like the Bloc: vote for us to advocate for federal cooperation for whatever Eby/Kinew/Chow want. Might help the prov/muni left be more ambitious.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Conservatives are furthest right, though much more libertarian than anything else. The QS are currently the only left party, PQ is a mix of socdem myth and whatever the leader of the day wants. Leftish under Lisée, opportunistically angry under Plamondon.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yeah, I'm not sure if this is right. If we're North American, then we're also American. It's our neighbours who have had 250 years to come up with a proper name for themselves, and failed.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My theory is that they've convinced themselves that because they get less paid/unpaid media attention, they must repeat the same message over and over. Which has a certain logic, but comes at the cost of being responsive to changing events.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I love skiing on these trails, but it drives me nuts that I have to drive to get to them. Bring back the trains, and bring back the patrimonial ski trails! Win-win, 1930s style.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In Montreal your best bet is enrolling as an independent student at Concordia - you might just make the deadline! Or possibly UdeM.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's not the size/power differential, Canadians aren't intimidated by that, it's more the frustration at how hard it is to get through to our neighbours that this isn't an adventure in a far-land, the failure of this relationship will actually affect them in material ways.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"Okay than we are not allies." This is the crux - if the Dems aren't willing to do anything different, then it doesn't ultimately matter to us in Canada what happens in November. Those median voters will still be there in 2028, and will still be used as the excuse to continue status quo policies.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

If they're actually living in them, sure.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Depends on who you are. I really enjoyed Canada playing in the 3rd place game at Copa.

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OneSoccer @onesoccer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

FT’ | FINAL SCORE 🏆 Belgium 🇧🇪 show the USMNT 🇺🇸 to the exit door down the tunnel. Traditionally, this means they’re eliminated from the tournament. You never know, though... 📞

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I spent four years trying to cross the de Maisonneuve bike path to get my child to daycare. Whether at a traffic light, stop sign or any other intersection 90% of cyclists blew through without stopping for us. Cars are bad, but Montreal cycling culture is pretty awful too.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

My Canadian university experience was, read twenty books on this topic, you will still know nothing. In the US, it was read this one chapter from the textbook, now go be proconsul of Iraq. (applies to undergrad only)

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Those US elite universities are very selective in their intake and get fantastic young people enrolled. But once you're in, it's a social club combined with a program of self-esteem inflation necessary to be part of the ruling class, either in government or business.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Well, floor-crossing can go both ways. Or sometimes MPs resign for health or career reasons. Or matters of principle. Or because of scandal. Or Carney gets exhausted with every single member of his caucus having an effective veto on everything.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

To be fair, Stephen Harper didn't close down a Parks Canada site about a War of 1812 battle.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I think what you're supposed to do is get in a car/bus/train, go to Washington and blockade the White House until all this stops. Bring food and weather appropriate clothing.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

FYI this comment is word for word on another thread

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Tried. Liberals flat-out refused.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

It was only around 2004ish that English started being taught in Franco elementary schools, so there's a generational aspect too.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Maybe part of the lesson is that Quebec has a culture of solidarity and sticking up for itself that should be adopted by others too?

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

It is a Montreal based company, a flight from Montreal, and a Francophone pilot. No one's complaining about Westjet here, this IS the company that's supposed to be the 'elsewhere."

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

If it's related to an offence committed on a public road, yes. As a matter of curiosity, what would the law have been if he had been seated on a motorcycle? My brief google search didn't turn up much.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I very much dislike the idea that vehicles are protected private spaces. Driving on a road with other people is actually the most public thing you can do. Just because there is a roof and a door does not make it a house.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I also find it odd that deepfake videos of the PM, cabinet ministers and other major figures are circulating freely on major platforms.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Thanks for posting this - inspired my own trip up and down the river the other day. Never would have thought to bring the skis to TO otherwise.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

It was a nice speech. Now, where are our Gripens and SAMP-Ts?

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Based on the young people I know, I think it's largely name recognition based on massive online CPC advertising.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I didn't agree with the politics of the Convoy, but they showed up in Ottawa in February.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Odd that Francois Legault, who is ultimately responsible for choosing to starve English universities, is not named in this piece.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I really like Rob Ashton's speaking style, he just needs some actual content. Not sure if Duolingo will be sufficient though.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

As a citizen of a democracy, I will never complain about casting my vote

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

There's also the hard-to-explain-to-outsiders cultural clash between the Plateau - the highly gentrified bourgeois neighbourhood that is the heartland of Projet - and the rest of the city.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Also, that there's an attempt to police AI.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Please do. There's a lot pf well-meaning people trying to figure out the best way forward.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

The same is true for simply walking

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

It should be a very basic principle of Canadian foreign policy that big countries don't get to bomb small countries without, at minimum, some kind of UN approval. Whatever you think of Iran, this principle protects Canada too.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Of course, a Bloc Alberta would really make things interesting.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Currently the smaller parties are on the left, so a right-leaning Liberal party would lose voters to them, while Conservative support would stay the same. In a multi-party system, the current level of Conservative support gives them government, if the Liberals even a small number of voters.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I spent 4 very stressful years trying to get my infant children safely across the de Maisonneuve bike path to their daycare. Please stop at stop signs, red lights and pedestrian crossings. Thank you.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I hate this framing so much. I found the vast majority of people tried hard to do the right thing, and instead of remembering this as a time of solidarity, we've chosen the remember the few outliers.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Lyndal Roper's Summer of Fire and Blood.

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tislo.bsky.social @tislo.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I vote for a meeting on a barge in the middle of the Niagara river.

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